A little preview of our upcoming contributors…
Ryan Mohr
Ryan Mohr lives in Ohio. His interests include Postmodern theory, Howard Stern, the NBA, and Social Constructionism. His fiction or poetry has appeared in PANK, Word Riot, Mobius, Rubbertop Review, and elsewhere. He sometimes shares things here: http://ryanmohr.tumblr.com/
Anthony Ward
Anthony tends to fidget with his thoughts in the hope of laying them to rest. He has managed to lay them in a number of literary magazines including The Faircloth Review, The Pygmy Giant, Shot Glass Journal, Turbulence, Underground, The Bohemyth, Torrid Literature Journal and Crack the Spine, amongst others.
Tobi Cogswell
Tobi Cogswell is a three-time Pushcart nominee and a Best of the Net nominee. Credits include or are forthcoming in various journals in the US, UK, Sweden and Australia. In 2012 she was short-listed for the Fermoy International Poetry Festival. Her fifth and latest chapbook is “Lit Up”, (Kindred Spirit Press). She is the co-editor of San Pedro River Review (www.sprreview.com).
Eleanore Lee
A graduate of in English from Barnard College in New York, Eleanore Lee worked for many years as a legislative policy analyst for the University of California system, writing reports, speeches, legislation. Now she is retired and is writing what she wants to write. Her poetry and fiction has been published in such journals as The Atlanta Review, CQ (California Quarterly), Clackamas Literary Review, Compass Rose, The Distillery, Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, The Portland Review, The Rambler, and River Oak Review. She was selected as an International Merit Award Winner in Atlanta Review’s 2008 International Poetry Competition and won first place in the November 2009 California State Poetry Society contest. She has a particular interest in writing about the workplace, social class and the invisible people in our society. She is currently finishing a novel, an academic satire.
Hilary Sideris
Hilary Sideris’s Keith Richards poems have appeared in Acoustic Levitation, Houseboat, Manila Envelope, Spinozablue, Wild Violet, and Yes, Poetry. Her new chapbook, Sweet Flag, is available from Finishing Line Press. She lives in Brooklyn and works for The City University of New York.
Holly Combs
Holly Combs is a queer feminist writer and artist living in New Orleans. Her poetry and fiction have been/are to be featured in From the Depths, The Diverse Arts Project, Skin to Skin, maglit, Calla Lilies (an anthology by Write-on Publishing), 1718: A New Orleans Reading Series, and The New Orleans Queer Writers Showcase. She is currently working on her first novel. More of her art and writing can be found at: www.yougotthewronggirl.
Anya Lichtenstein
Anya Lichtenstein recently graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where she received the Rittenberg Prize for Best Undergraduate Student in English. Her essay, Beating Ploughshares into iPods, was recently published in Cleaver Magazine.
Helen Wickes
Helen Wickes’ first book of poems, In Search of Landscape, was published in 2007 by Sixteen Rivers Press. The two poems in Crack the Spine are from her unpublished manuscript, Single Thread. She lives in Oakland, California and is a retired psychotherapist.