Issue Sixty-Four Contributors

David Vardeman
David Vardeman’s fiction has appeared in Crack the Spine, Glint Literary Journal, Life As An [insert label here] and will soon appear in Little Patuxent Review and Menacing Hedge.  He currently resides in Portland, Maine. 

Gay Baines
Gay Baines lives in East Aurora, New York, and is a member of the Roycroft Wordsmiths. She has been writing since age eight. Her poetry has appeared in Poet Lore, Rattapallax, Cimarron Review, Slipstream, and other journals. She is co-founder and poetry editor of July Literary Press in Buffalo. In 2002 she published her first novel, “Dear M.K. A.” A book of her selected poems, “Don’t Let Go”, was published in 2010. She is working desultorily on a chapbook, “The Book of Lies,” and a short story collection, “Ancestor Worship,” is under construction.

Allison Grayhurst
Allison Grayhurst has had over 200 poems in more than 140 journals, magazines, and anthologies throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, and in the United Kingdom, including Parabola (summer 2012), South Florida Arts Journal, The Antigonish Review, Dalhousie Review, The New Quarterly, Wascana Review, Poetry Nottingham International, The Cape Rock, Journal of Contemporary Anglo-Scandinavian Poetry, poetrymagazine.com; Fogged Clarity, Out of Our, Quantum Poetry Magazine, Decanto, and White Wall Review.  Her book “Somewhere Falling” was published by Beach Holme Publishers, a Porcepic Book, in Vancouver in 1995. Since then she has published nine other books of poetry and two collections with Edge Unlimited Publishing. Prior to the publication of “Somewhere Falling,” she had a poetry book published, “Common Dream,” and four chapbooks published by The Plowman.  Her poetry chapbook “The River is Blind” was recently published by Ottawa publisher above/ground press (December 2012.)  She lives in Toronto with her husband, two children, two cats, and a dog. She also sculpts, working with clay. 

Kris Price
Kris Price has an A.A. in Behavioral and Social Sciences from Modesto Junior College. He is currently attending University of Montana, Missoula where he is studying Creative Writing and Film Studies. Kris was an assistant editor for Quercus Review, and Snail Mail Review. He is working on his first chap book. His work has appeared in Penumbra, Emerge, The Fine Line, theNewerYork Press, Diversion Press, PressboardPress, and the Modesto Poetry Anthology, More than Soil, More than Sky. He was awarded second place in Kay Ryan’s Community College Poetry Project contest that she held during her term as the United States Poet Laureate. 

Mark Burr
Mark Burris a current creative writing student at the historic Mississippi University for Women under the poet Kendall Dunkelberg, author of Time Capsules and Landscapes and Architecture. His interests include J.D. Salinger, Squirells, Sylvia Plath, and movies about weird people. He loves his mom a lot and thanks her for supporting him despite having no intentions of going to medical school. His real dream is to be a rapper but realized stage fright was something too difficult to overcome, at least at this moment. He loves poetry and hanging out with all the great writers and artists in his community of Columbus, MS. 

A. Anupama
A. Anupama is a U.S.-born, Indian-American poet and translator whose work has appeared in several literary publications, including The Bitter Oleander, Monkeybicycle, The Alembic, and Numéro Cinq Magazine. She received her MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2012. She currently lives in the Hudson Valley of New York, and she blogs about poetic inspiration at seranam.com. 

Shelby Stephenson
Shelby Stephenson’s “Family Matters:  Homage to July, the Slave Girl” won the 2008 Bellday Poetry Prize, Allen Grossman, judge, and the 2009 Oscar Arnold Young Award from the Poetry Council of North Carolina, Jared Carter, judge.  From 1979 until his retirement from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Shelby Stephenson edited Pembroke Magazine, an international literary journal.His most recent publication is “Play My Music Anyhow” a chapbook from Finishing Line Press, 2013.