Meet the contributors of upcoming Issue 265
Amy Ballard
Amy Ballard writes and teaches in southern Idaho, where her husband, three kids, a naughty corgi puppy, and too many cats keep her company. Find her online at www.amyballard.com.
Finley J. MacDonald
Finley J. MacDonald grew up in Sun River, Montana. For the last decade, he has lived in China, currently in Zhuhai with his partner Yang Meiting and his daughter, Molly, where he teaches English writing and contemporary issues at Sun Yat-sen University. He is founding editor of Imagazine, for university students. He is the author of a self-published collection of poems entitled “House of Violence” and a novella entitled “Angels, Delirium, Liberty.” His fiction and nonfiction have been published by Anomaly, Menacing Hedge, Queen Mob’s Tea House, Nude Bruce Review, Hungry Chimera, Slippage Lit, Near to the Knuckle, Embodied Effigies, and Shanghai Literary Review.
Michael Guillebeau
Michael Guillebeau’s book “MAD Librarian” (Madison Press, 2017) won the Foreword Review’s Gold Medal for Humor Book of the Year. Guillebeau has published five novels and over twenty-five short stories, including three in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine.
Alison Thompson
Alison Thompson is an Australian poet and story writer whose stories and poems have been published internationally. She won the Verandah Literary Prize in 2010, was a runner up in the WOW! Women on Writing Spring Flash Fiction competition 2017(US) and was a finalist in the First Annual Hypertext Magazine Short Story Contest in 2019. Most recently she was selected for an Art Omi for a Writers Residency which she attended in May 2019. Alison is currently working on her first full-length story collection. She is a longstanding member of the Kitchen Table Poets, based in the Shoalhaven region of NSW. Examples of her work may be found at her website – https://alisonthompsonpoetry.wordpress.com.
Fabrice Poussin
Fabrice Poussin teaches French and English at Shorter University. Author of novels and poetry, his work has appeared in Kestrel, Symposium, The Chimes, and many other magazines. His photography has been published in The Front Porch Review, the San Pedro River Review, as well as other publications.
Morgan Stevens
Morgan Stevens is currently working on her Bachelors of Biology at Regis University. Creative writing has always been her first love. She has been published in the literary magazine Loophole in 2018 as well as her university’s yearbook in 2019.
Phebe Jewell
Phebe Jewell’s recent work appears or is forthcoming in Monkeybicycle, Spelk, Ellipsis Zine,Maudlin House, The Bitchin’ Kitsch, and Sky Island Journal. A teacher at Seattle Central College, she also volunteers for the Freedom Education Project Puget Sound, a nonprofit providing college courses for women in prison.
Betsy Martin
Betsy Martin’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Atlanta Review, The Briar Cliff Review, Cloudbank, Delmarva Review, Diverse Voices Quarterly (Best of the Net nomination), Green Hills Literary Lantern, Juked, Litbreak Magazine, Louisville Review, The Penmen Review, Pennsylvania English, Pisgah Review, Slab, Straight Forward, Weber—The Contemporary West, and many others. Her chapbook, “Whale’s Eye,” was published by Presa Press in June 2019. Martin worked for many years at Skinner House Books in Boston. She has advanced degrees in Russian language and literature and lived in Moscow studying at the Pushkin Institute during the exciting transitional period of glasnost. She enjoys birdwatching and is learning to sing.