Issue Eight Contributors – Crack the Spine

Issue Eight is right around the corner. Meet the contributors…

Ariana D. Bleyker

Ariana D. Den Bleyker is a Pittsburgh native currently residing in a small town in New York where she is a wife and mother of two. She earned her B.A. in English at William Paterson University. Her work has appeared (or is slated to appear) in scissors and spackle, Stone Highway Review, Golden Sparrow Literary Review, Grey Sparrow Press and other fine journals. Her chapbook, Forgetting Aesop, was recently released by the publishers of scissors and spackle.

April Avalon

April has been writing for almost five years, getting inspiration from various experiences seen by the eyes of a thinker. The purpose of her creativity is urging people to see beyond the bounds, to be themselves, to speak their minds loud, not to be afraid to differ from the crowd.

Shaun Hamilton

After spending too many years wasting his time as an architect, Shaun Hamilton one day decided to go back to his first love: writing. His primary aim was to have a story published before his 30th birthday, which he managed to achieve in 2004 with only days to spare. Since then he has maintained a steady pace with stories published in print magazines and ezines both in the UK and US. 2012 will see two collections of his work published: the first with Screaming Dreams Press, and the second with Pendragon. He is currently working on a number of stories and his novel, which he is writing in conjunction with the London School of Journalism. Contributor for the Horrifically Horrifying Horror Blog, he finds it rather apt that his work has been accepted by Crack The Spine, given that his own spine has a large amount of metalwork in it

Rosemary Anderson
Rosemary C. Anderson is a published poet and a visual artist who has exhibited artwork nationwide. She was the editor at Redgreene Press, Spring Grass Press, and Anderson Books, and of an international women artists magazine. Currently, she lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and sends educational books to prisoners all over the country via Spring Grass Book’Em–including poetry books, poetry instruction and old Poet’s Markets and Writer’s Markets; inmates’ most popular request is for dictionaries. What she really needs is a large house, space for an art studio, and a space for Book’Em possibly with a church or nonprofit in Pittsburgh. If anyone wants to start a books-to-prisoners program in their state (for one or more prisons or states), email her at rcat32@gmail.com for an electronic or paper instructions–books and volunteers can be gotten for free. And everyone can read poetry!

Tess Pfeifle

Tess Pfeifle is eighteen years old and has been on the warpath of writing ever since she won third place in a script-writing contest during the third grade. She enjoys scary movies, zombies, dystopian fiction and strawberry smoothies. Tess is deathly afraid of leprechauns, despite her Irish heritage. She also has a pet snake named Golden Retriever who is currently going through an identity crisis.

Deana Prock

Deana Prock lives and writes in Brooklyn, NY, where she is currently completing her Master’s Degree in English Literature. She shares her space with one man, two narcoleptic cats and a very abused laptop. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in BloodLotus, Boston Literary Magazine and Rufous City Review, among others. She longs to fly south for the Winter.

M.Y. Pastorelli

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?