Issue Ten Contributors

 

Want to know a secret?  Okay, it’s not really a secret.  Anymore.  Issue Ten contributors are hereby announced!

Eric Prochaska teaches, hikes, wonders, and writes among the sky islands of southeastern Arizona.  He has been writing for over 20 years, and, when life and work allow, he even manages to get a few pieces published in fine showcases such as Whistling Shade, riverbabble, and Blue Lake Review.  His first collection of short stories, This Great Divide, was published by Halo Forge Press in 2006.  He is currently compiling short stories from the past several years to present in a new anthology and steadily working on a few longer projects.

Writer, editor and teacher Jennifer Kikoler earned a BA from Hampshire College and an MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College. Her fiction was featured in The Parlor’s first annual emerging writer’s festival in Chicago. Jennifer is a born-and-bred Midwesterner (hailing from Detroit and Des Moines) now living in Brooklyn. She has taught writing at 92YTribeca, Brooklyn College and Pace University.

John Grochalski’s is the author of The Noose Doesn’t Get Any Looser After You Punch Out (Six Gallery Press 2008) and Glass City (Low Ghost Press, 2010).  Grochalski currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, where he worries about the high cost of everything.

It’s kinda strange isn’t it?  MY doesn’t like to believe in predestination, but nonetheless he almost wants to say that fate just played a trick on him. Of course you may think his intentions are obvious in coming up like this to talk to you.  You may even have relied on a repertoire of excuses to politely eject yourself from just this kind of a scene in the past. But knowing all that, somehow MY has found himself here, talking to you and you listening to him.  And he is thinking wishing to have met you at a different place and a different time is simply meaningless, because this place now is what fate, in all its wisdom and mischief, has uniquely presented to you.  He doesn’t want your number.  No, right now, he just wants to take your hand and take off running.  Won’t you come running with him?

Richard Peabody edits Gargoyle Magazine and has published a novella, two books of short stories, six books of poems, plus an e-book, and edited (or co-edited) nineteen anthologies. He teaches fiction writing for the Johns Hopkins Advanced Studies Program.

Christi R. Suzanne is a writer who grew up in the dry heat of the Arizona desert. She moved to the Pacific Northwest over ten years ago for a mistier climate and now resides in Oregon. By day she works at a university as a web and communications professional. On her off hours she spends her time writing, playing soccer, and reading. The Splinter Generation online journal will publish a creative non-fiction piece in February 2012 and her fiction has appeared in Irreverent Fish Journal. She is currently writing a novella as well as other short fiction and non-fiction pieces. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English and Creative Writing from the University of Arizona and a Master’s in Technical Writing from Portland State University.

Zack Nelson Lopiccolo is a recent graduate of California State University, Long Beach where he stole a B.A in both Creative Writing and Literature. He is one head of the    Cerberus that runs Bank-Heavy Press in Long Beach, CA. He also owns a poem farm that aims to lessen the country’s reliance on fossil fuels and to make poetry a booming alternative fuel. Some of his work can be seen in Indigo Rising Magazine, Vaya!zine, and is forthcoming in Short, Fast, and Deadly as well as in Contemporary American Voices. He also loves canned green beans!