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Contributors' Notes
C. Alexander. C. Alexander is a small-town Southern born poet who now lives in New England. He has his MEA from Lindenwood University, and dabbles in print and spoken-word poetry. He has a spoken word EP called "Cosmic Aging" that you can find on Spotify and Apple Music. He has been published in Cathexis Northwest, The Paragon Journal, The Stray Branch and Wizards in Space Magazine, among others. He released a collection called The Cosmic Hello in 2018 and it is now available on Amazon, He also has an upcoming collection, Islands and Men, being published by Finishing Line Press, available for pre-order from Feb.-Apr. 2020.
Glen Armstrong. Glen Armstrong holds an MFA in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and teaches writing at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. He edits a poetry journal called Cruel Garters and has a forthcoming book of prose poems: Invisible Histories. His work has appeared in Poetry Northwest, Conduit, and Cream City Review.
Ellen Aubry. Ellen Aubry is the author of "Rough Water" California Writers' Club Literary Review Magazine, "A Suitable Place" and "Hardship Duty" in the anthology Beyond the Window, and "My Soul's Gone Away" ', RumbleFish Press.com's story of the day on November 18, 2017. Her story "Hardship Duty" won honorable mention. She has a story "Loud and Clear" in the anthology, Voices of the Valley: Journeys, published November 2018, and an essay "Moving On" to be published next year in a new anthology from Ageless Authors. She is an MA candidate at the University of Denver Protessional Fiction Writing Program.
Bethany Barlow. I am an aspiring creative writer and currently do not have any pieces published. I am pursuing my Bachelor's degree in Special Education at Brigham Young University.
John Barrie. I am an emerging writer from Boise, Idaho, and an undergraduate at Boise State. Last year, I served as an undergraduate reader for the Idaho Review, and was one of the group that first got to experience "the cat story."
Alex Bisker. Originally from the midwest, Alex now lives in Brooklyn, NY. She spends her days helping improve government services as part of the growing civic tech community. In her spare time she writes short fiction, runs, and tries to get her two cats to take her seriously.
Kateryna Bortsova. I think that art means confrontation between life and aesthetics. It is a hard struggle for both of them. And the understanding of art is one of the main artist's working specialties". At present time Kateryna Bortsova is a painter-graphic artist with BFA in graphic arts and MFA. Works of Kateryna took Part in many international exhibitions (Taiwan, Moscow, Munich, Spain, Macedonia, Budapest etc.). Also she win silver medal in the category "realism" in participation in "Factory of visual art", New York, USA and 2015 Emirates Skywards Art of Travel competition, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Kateryna is always open for commission and you can view her work on instagram: @katerynabortsova, or on her website: http://bortsova6.wix.com/bortsova
Jill Carpenter. Jill Carpenter has worked as a science writer, college instructor, and bookseller. Her work appears in Creative Nonfiction, ISLE, Utah English Journal, Thoreau's Legacy, Tiny Seed, story South, and other publications. After more than 25 years in Sewanee, Tennessee, she has recently moved back to Tucson, Arizona. "Ailments" is from her unpublished book-length manuscript titled Hoorah's Nest.
Brian D. Cohen. Brian D. Cohen is an educator, artist, and writer. In 1989 he founded Bridge Press to further the association and integration of visual image, original text, and book structure. Artist's books and prints by Brian D. Cohen have been shown in over forty individual exhibitions and in over 200 group shows. Cohen's books and etchings are held by major private and public collections throughout the country. He was first-place winner of major international print competitions in San Diego, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC. His essays and reviews on the arts and education appear in the Huffington Post and other online and print publications. He lives in Westmoreland, New Hampshire.
Lianne Collins. I live in Boise, Idaho, with my husband and kiddo. 1 am a recent graduate of Boise State University where I studied creative writing and was also a reader for The Idaho Review. Currently, I tutor writing at College of Western Idaho and work as an editor for Procyon Creatives.
Brooke Daly. Brooke Daly is a sophomore at Emory University studying Creative Writing and German. She comes from Orlando, FL but now finds herself living comfortably in Atlanta, GA. Brooke is a performer in Emory's Rathskellar Improv Comedy Troupe and a staff editor for the Lullwater Review. As a food and wellness blogger for Spoon University, she had an article acquired by Business Insider. Brooke also co-wrote a play with Pamela McDonald entitled 'Out With A Bang,' which was performed by Infinity Theatre Troupe in 2017. When Brooke isn't found hanging with friends, drinking coffee, or making puns, she is most likely Face Timing her two cats back home.
Nam Das. Filipino visual artist Nam Das is fascinated with open-ended themes that revolves around the collective unconscious and mythologems. He paints scenes inhabited by obscure figures and enigmatic objects that exudes a very stirring and mysterious aura. Intertwining a personal mythos and symbolism in a dreamlike state emerging from the darkness, illustrating a deeply personal world that is also universal at the same time. Nam practices with a Zorn palette in his paintings consisting of a limited four colors. He currently lives and works in Baguio, Philippines.
Chris Dempsey. Chris Dempsey has taught H.S. English for more than 30 years and is the author of a chapbook, Winter Horses. His work has appeared in English Journal, Grey's Sporting Journal, High Desert Journal, Talking River Review, Voices West and Willow Springs. He lives with his wife and two wire-haired pointers on 8 acres near Middleton, Idaho where they have planted more than a 100 trees and native shrubs. He is also an inveterate cyclist who has crashed his mountain bike on many of the notable biking trails in Idaho.
Connor Drexler. Connor Drexler pursues his passions through reading, writing, singing, adventuring, and learning anything new. He's been a community organizer, a farm-hand, and many other things in his lifetime, but will always remain a writer. His love of writing reflects his deep curiosity for life.
Michael Eaton. I graduated from San Francisco State University, during the experimental years of the 60's, while living in a commune, with a MA in Creative Writing. I write to stay sane in an insane world. Currently living in Austin, TX. helping to keep it weird.
Gabriel Embeha. Through a continual, mixed media interweaving of acrylic, graphite, digital imagery, performance, film, and writing Gabriel Embeha engages a diverse range of persons, places, and things involved in different forms of disability and violence. His process involves an ongoing series of interrelated sacrificial acts and quasi-ethnographic confrontations with scientific representation, the state, conscience, and futility. He lives and works in Berlin.
Jodie Filan. Jodie Filan is an artist here in Saskatoon, born and raised. She has been published in RAR, Dark Ink press, Buddy Lit Zone, *82 Review, Aesthetica (Europe, Pithead Chapel, Nunum, Riza Press, Penultimate Peanut, The Raw Art Review (Spring 2019), High Shelf Press, Please See Me, among others. Recently Ms. Filan also placed 6th in Fusion arts 4th annual B+W competition (May 2019) and a painting of hers was accepted at Art Lark in Albany, New York (Garibaldi Maritime Museum); and another at Greenway Art Festival (Murfreesboro).
Lainey Guddat. I'm a writer and editor living in Seattle. Thank you for reading my poems.
Vishwas Gaitonde. Examples of publications where my writings have appeared or are forthcoming include Mid-American Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Santa Monica Review, The Iowa Review, The Millions, Chariton Review, and Fifth Wednesday Journal. One of my short stories was mentioned as a 'Distinguished Story' in 'Best American Short Stories 2016' (guest edited by Junot Diaz). My awards include residency fellowships in fiction at the Anderson Center, MN, and Hawthornden, Scotland; and scholarships to the Sewanee (2017) and the Tin House Summer (2012) writers conferences; and a fellowship to the Summer Literary Seminar (Montreal, Canada).
Michael Glassman. Michael Glassman is a former high school teacher. He writes short stories and poems, and has been published in print and on line.
Michael Hill. Michael Hill's poems have appeared in Midwestern Gothic, Concho River Review, Third Wednesday, Gray's Sporting Journal, Dunes Review, Barstow & Grand, The Flyfish Journal, Sheepshead Review and other fine publications. He grew up in Western Wisconsin and currently lives in Northern Colorado.
Rachel Kellner. I am a student at New York University studying math and computer science. I spend her mornings in math classes writing poetry in my notebook margins and my afternoons in coffee shops figuring out the theorems I missed during class.
Frances Koziar. FRANCES KOZIAR has publications in 30+ literary magazines, and is seeking an agent for a diverse NA/YA fantasy novel. One of her poems shortlisted for the 2019 Molotov Cocktail Shadow Award Contest, and her poetry has appeared in Acta Victoriana, Snapdragon, and Shot Glass Journal. She is a young retired (disabled) academic and a social justice advocate, and she lives in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Author website: https://franceskoziar.wixsite.com/author
Molly Lynde. Molly Lynde is originally from Sonoma County, California. She teaches modern and medieval French in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and serves as editor-in-chief of Transference, a literary journal featuring poetry in translation (https:// scholarworks.wmich.edu/transference/).
Allan Manson. Allan J. Manson is a poet and fiction writer based in Wellingtons, who writes on memories and loss. Influenced by Seamus Heaney and Richard Siken, Manson's work features a combination of classical themes tied to detailed, modernist language.
Carolyn Martin. Carolyn Martin's poems and book reviews have appeared in publications throughout North America, Australia, and the UK, and her fourth collection, A Penchant for Masquerades, was released in 2019 by Unsolicited Press. She is currently the poetry editor of Kosmos Quarterly: journal for global transformation. Find out more about Carolyn at www.carolynmartinpoet.com.
Tius McCowin. I am from Idaho Falls, Idaho, and currently reside in Seoul, South Korea with my wife and two dogs. I graduated from Boise State University in 2017 where I was lucky enough to study under Christian Winn and Brady Udall in the creative writing program.
Leah Mensch. Leah Mensch is an undergraduate student studying Nonfiction Writing, English Literature, and Spanish at the University of Pittsburgh.
Bob Meszaros. Bob Meszaros taught English at Hamden High School in Hamden, Connecticut, for thirty-two years. He retired from high school teaching in June of 1999. During the 70s and 80s his poems appeared in a number of literary journals, such as En Passant and Voices International. In the year 2000 he began teaching part time at Quinnipiac University, and he began once again to submit his work for publication. His poems have subsequently appeared in The Connecticut Review, Main Street Rag, Red Wheelbarrow, Tar River Poetry, Concho River Review, and many other literary journals.
Hannah Morris. Hannah Grace Morris is a 19-year-old, English Literature student in Oxford. Her writing interests span from; mental health, feminism, death, creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. From her international experiences, she has lived in both Scotland and Germany, and studied in an International School, along with students from all over the world. She spends her free time; creating music, experimenting with photography and singing all genres of music.
Cameron Morse. Cameron Morse was diagnosed with a glioblastoma in 2014. With a 14.6 month life expectancy, he entered the Creative Writing Program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and, in 2018, graduated with an M.F.A. His poems have been published in numerous magazines, including New Letters, Bridge Eight, Portland Review and South Dakota Review. His first poetry collection, Fall Risk, won Glass Lyre Press's 2018 Best Book Award. His latest is Terminal Destination (Spartan Press, 2019). He lives with his wife Lili and son Theodore in Blue Springs, Missouri, where he serves as poetry editor for Harbor Review. For more information, check out his Facebook page or website.
Anita Ngai. Anita Ngai was born in Hong Kong, grew up in Vancouver, Canada, and went to school on the east coast of the US. Her writing has appeared in Figroot Press, Talking River, Junto Magazine, Temenos, and Lit Crawl, as well as various architecture magazines. She was trained as a structural engineer, has worked in business for McKinsey and Expedia, among other companies, and is currently an executive in a technology start-up.
Brad Nickell. Bradley Nickell was born in Illinois and raised in the suburbs north of Denver: Colorado. Bradley joined the United States Air Force, during which time he graduated from Yuba College in Marysville, California with an A.S. in Criminal Justice. Bradley began work for the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department in 1992 and, in 1999, was promoted to detective. For nearly seventeen years, Bradley was assigned to the elite Repeat Offender Program and specialized in covertly identifying, investigating and catching career criminals who prey on the citizens of Southern Nevada. Bradley resides in the Las Vegas, Nevada area, with his wife of 31 years. They share four children and five grandchildren.
Dani Parmeter. Dani Parmenter is a writer and mixed-media artist. She studied Art and Literature at Idaho State University, where she graduated in 2012. She lives for the alchemy of making art and has no plans to leave the Gem State. This is her second publication.
Jan Price. Jan's poetry continues to be published in Australia and the United States, through Universities, in hard copy and on line. She loves poetry competitions, open readings and sells her paintings at art shows. Jan is sometimes asked to provide art for Literary covers. She studies Thought Distraction in re to Depression. She lives in Victoria Australia.
Lauren Reed. Lauren McKenzie Reed received her MFA in Greative Writing from West Virginia University, where she taught for six years. She also has an MA in World Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics and, in addition to teaching and publishing, she has studied and worked in several countries, including Australia, Hong Kong, China, Ukraine, Mali, and Germany.
David Rubenstein. David S. Rubenstein is an American writer, photographer, poet, and painter. His short stories have appeared in Crack the Spine, Still Point Arts Quarterly, Blood and Thunder, Yellow Medicine Review, Chrysalis Reader (five stories), The MacGuffin (two stories), Owen Wister Review, DeathRealm, The Monocacy Valley Review, Half Tones to Jubilee, The Rampant Guinea Pig, The Mythic Circle, Alpha Adventures, and others, and have been nominated twice for the Pushcart prize. His photographs appear in Writing Disorder where he was featured artist, Brushfire Literature and Arts Review, The Penn Review, The Dallas Review, Sheepshead Review, Cargo Literary, Chrysalis Reader, Midwest Gothic, Blue Mesa Review, Drunk Monkeys, From Sac, Fishfood, and others. D-M Farm is on permanent display in the Village of Montgomery town hall. Three photo prints on metal were displayed at the "Exposure" show at the SCJF.
Benjamin Shahon. Benjamin Shahon is a student in Emerson College's MFA Program in Fiction, and has graduated with dual BA's in Creative Writing and Philosophy from ASU. He currently lives in Boston.
Brad Shurmantine. Brad Shurmantine lives in Napa, Ca. He spends time writing, reading, tending three gardens (sand, water, vegetable), keeping bees, taking care of chickens and cats, and working on that husband thing. He backpacks in the Sierras and travels when he can, and has a serious passion for George Eliot.
Ursula Szmulowicz. I am a colon and rectal surgeon, currently not in active practice, living in Northeast Ohio. In addition to an MD, I have undergraduate degrees in English Literature, French Language and Literature, and Biology. This would be my first non-fiction publication (other than my surgical writing). My fiction has appeared in The Examined Life Journal, Coffin Bell, and Please See Me. I participated in the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop in Fiction in 2018 and 2019.
Jane Zich. Jane Zich is a self-taught San Francisco Bay area artist who is focused on exploring the spiritual dimension of nature. She uses imagery from the unconscious as her primary source material. Her creative process is similar to a conversation between seen and unseen worlds with the end result never known in advance of the conversation. Her award-winning paintings have been juried into numerous national exhibitions and published in Agave Magazine, Catamaran Literary Reader, Fiction Fix, Gambling the Aisle, Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche, Permafrost Magazine, Trickster, West Marin Review, Winter Tangerine Review, and in Shadow: Touching the Darkness Within, a collection of archetypal art and literature published by Tarcher-Putnam (2003). More of her artwork can be viewed at www.zichpaintings.com.
Karl Zuchlke. Karl Zuehlke is an artist, writer, and translator. His visual art has recently appeared, or is forthcoming, in The Penn Review, The Adroit Journal, Cream City Review, Tint, Camas, and New Plains Review.