Contributors to Stoneboat 6.1 (Fall 2015)
JEFFREY ALFIER won the 2014 Kithara Book Prize for his poetry collection Idyll for a Vanishing River (Glass Lyre Press, 2013). He is also author of The Wolf Yearling (Silver Birch Press, 2013) and The Storm Petrel – Ireland Poems (Grayson Books, 2014). He is founder and co-editor of San Pedro River Review.
JOHN AZRAK is the former chair of Walt Whitman High School, where he taught AP English and Creative Writing. His poems and stories have been published widely in literary journals, including Poetry East, Paddlefish, Passages North, Nimrod International, and Oyez Review, among others. He was a finalist in Glimmer Train’s short fiction contest and has work forthcoming in several anthologies. He is a lifelong resident of New York City.
ROBERT ANTHONY is a writer, artist, and musician. He has published poetry in the anthology Best British Poetry 2014 (Salt Publishing), kaffeeklatsch (UK), and Edge (US); short fiction in the anthology Unthology 6 (UK), and experimental fiction in Tight (US), among others. He has also released albums of minimal electronic and experimental music in both the US and Europe. He lives in Brooklyn, New York at the top of a hill, just between the greens of cemetery and park.
ANDREW BOURELLE’s fiction has appeared in The Best American Mystery Stories 2015 as well as in journals such as Hobart, Isthmus, Kestrel, Thin Air, Weave, and Whitefish Review. His short comics, in which he collaborates with his brother Edward Bourelle, have been published in Heavy Feather Review and Writing on the Edge.
EDWARD BOURELLE has worked more than twenty years in commercial art as a graphic designer, illustrator, cartographer, and art director. He is the creative director of Privateer Press, a Seattle-based game company. His short comics, in which he collaborates with his brother Andrew Bourelle, have appeared in Heavy Feather Review and Writing on the Edge.
MARIA G. BURNS writes fiction and nonfiction. Her work has appeared in Euphony, Toasted Cheese Literary Journal, The Blackwater Review, The Troubadour, Product, and The Intentional. She teaches composition at The University of West Florida and works as a commercial pilot. She spends her free time with her handsome husband, two trouble-making sons, and a dog named Twist.
ELIZA CALLARD was born, raised, and now lives in Philadelphia. A novelist ever since she could write, she discovered six months ago that she is also a poet.
Originally from Pennsylvania, SYLVIA CAVANAUGH has an MS in Urban Planning from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She teaches high school African and Asian cultural studies and advises the poetry club. She is also a member of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets. Her poems have appeared in An Ariel Anthology, Midwest Prairie Review, Red Cedar Review, Seems, Stoneboat, Verse-Virtual, Verse Wisconsin, and elsewhere.
YUAN CHANGMING, eight-time Pushcart nominee and author of five chapbooks, grew up in rural China, began learning English at nineteen, and published monographs on translation before moving to Canada. With a PhD in English, Yuan currently edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Qing Yuan in Vancouver and has poetry appearing in Best Canadian Poetry, BestNewPoemsOnline, Threepenny Review, and 1,069 others across 36 countries.
CASSANDRA DALLETT lives in Oakland, California. She is a Pushcart nominee and often reads around the San Francisco Bay Area. She has published online and in many print magazines. A full length book of poetry, Wet Reckless, was released to good review from Manic D Press in May 2014. A new book of poems, Bad Sandy, was released in spring 2015 from Lucky Bastard Press.
BLYTHE DAVENPORT finds that her poetry often centers around place, from both “factual” history and imagined future perspectives. Her book of poetry, Second Oldest: A Poetic History of Philadelphia (PS Books, 2013), explores these ideas through stories and histories. Her work has been published in The Painted Bride Quarterly, Chronogram Magazine, Mad Poets Review, and other journals and anthologies. She lives and works in Philadelphia.
West Virginia native ED DAVIS recently retired from teaching writing at Sinclair Community College. He has also taught at the Antioch Writers’ Workshop and is the author of three novels, most recently The Psalms of Israel Jones (West Virginia University Press, 2014), which won the Hackney Award for an unpublished novel in 2010. Many of his stories and poems have also appeared in anthologies and journals. Additionally, he has released four poetry chapbooks and a full-length collection. He lives with his wife in Yellow Springs, Ohio, where he bikes, hikes, and blogs. Please visit him at www. davised.com.
THOMAS DELANO is an MFA student and composition instructor at Minnesota State University, Mankato. He serves as a co-managing editor for the Blue Earth Review. His poems have previously appeared in FLARE: The Flagler Review, Sediments Literary-Arts Journal, and Melted Wing.
NANCY DEVINE teaches high school English in Grand Forks, North Dakota, where she also lives. Her poetry, short fiction, and essays have appeared in online and print journals.
BARBARA DRAPER lives in Minneapolis. She has three snappy kids and two much kinder granddaughters. After a career in banking, she tripped over poetry and thought, I love this! Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Paper Nautilus, Grey Sparrow, Split Rock Review, a Holy Cow! Press Anthology, and others.
REBECCA EADES received her MFA from UNC Wilmington. She currently lives, writes, and works in the coastal community. Her work is forthcoming in Toad the Journal.
LARRY EBY is the author of two books of poetry, Flight of August, winner of the 2014 Louise Bogan Award from Trio House Press, and Machinist in the Snow (ELJ Publications, 2015). His work can be found in Forklift, Passages North, Fourteen Hills, Thrush Poetry Journal, and others. He is the editor in chief at Orange Monkey Publishing, a poetry press in California.
KARL ELDER is Lakeland College’s Fessler Professor of Creative Writing and Poet in Residence. Among his honors are the Christopher Latham Sholes Award from the Council for Wisconsin Writers; a Pushcart Prize; the Chad Walsh, Lorine Niedecker, and Lucien Stryk Awards; and two appearances in The Best American Poetry. His most recent books of poems are Gilgamesh at the Bellagio from The National Poetry Review Award Book Series and a chapbook, The Houdini Monologues. Elder’s novel, Earth as It Is in Heaven, is forthcoming from Pebblebrook Press.
BRIAN EVANS-JONES has a degree in Literature and Creative Writing from Warwick University (UK) and is taking his MFA at the University of New Hampshire. His poems have been published in a number of magazines. Before coming to Maine from the UK in 2014, he was Poet Laureate of Hampshire, England and taught creative writing for the Open University and Winchester University. He coordinates the MFA Writers in Schools program at the University of New Hampshire and runs community writing events in southern Maine.
J. OSCAR FRANZEN is a Seattle poet. His work has appeared in The Houston Chronicle, Vallum, and The Monarch Review.
JOHN M. GIST’s essays, fiction, and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in publications such as Academic Questions, Dr. T.J Eckleburg Review, Galway Review, Gravel, Poetry Pacific, Pithead Chapel, Prick of the Spindle, Superstition Review, New Mexico Magazine, and others. He was recently awarded runner-up in South Loop Review’s 2014 National Essay Contest and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He was named finalist in the 2015 Tucson Book Festival Literary Awards. He holds an MFA from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and teaches creative writing at Western New Mexico University.
BENJAMIN GOLUBOFF teaches English at Lake Forest College. Aside from a modest list of scholarly publications, he has placed imaginative work—poetry, fiction, and essays—in numerous small press journals, most recently Four Ties Literary Review and War Literature and the Arts. Some of his work can be read at www.lakeforest.edu/academics/faculty/goluboff/.
MELISSA HOBSON was born and raised in Anderson, Indiana. She currently pursues a Master of Arts in English at the University of Southern Indiana with a focus on creative writing.
DAWN HOGUE is a Wisconsin novelist and poet. She taught high school English for 25 years and is currently a writing tutor for Johns Hopkins University. Her poetry has appeared in Stoneboat and Making it Speak: Poets & Artists in Cahoots. Find more of her work at www.dawnhogue.com.
KEVIN KILROY is an instructor of English composition and literature at a handful of colleges in New Jersey. His favorite Ninja Turtle is Michelangelo, but the old one, not the creeper Michael Bay version. He resides in Jersey City with two cats and an equal number of feline novelty T-shirts.
LYDIA M. KOMATSU lives, works, and creates in the crafty micro-city of Duluth, Minnesota. After swearing off post-secondary education, she has taken on freelance illustration and abstract painting commissions. She hates cats, loves sci-fi, and tolerates local music. Despite being a two-time college dropout, she can read, write, and solve the occasional math problem. To see more of Lydia’s work, go to lmkomatsu.com.
MATTHEW KOMATSU is an author and currently-serving veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq. His work has appeared in The New York Times; War, Literature and the Arts; Brevity; and Foreign Policy. He is enrolled in the University of Alaska Anchorage’s MFA program. You can find more of his work online at matthewkomatsu.com and follow him on Twitter: @matthew_komatsu. “
JESSICA WISEMAN LAWRENCE studied creative writing at Longwood University. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Origins, Black Fox Literary Magazine, and The Feminine Divine’s Anthology of Female Voices, along with many others. She lives in rural central Virginia, where she is an office manager by day.
NICHOLAS LEPRE’s stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Threepenny Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Minnesota Review, upstreet, and elsewhere. He is in the process of completing his first book, a collection of linked stories. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.
WILLIAM MILLER is a poet, children’s author, and mystery novelist. His poems have recently appeared in Big Muddy, Palaver, and The South Carolina Review. He lives in the French Quarter of New Orleans.
EMILY MOUNT is a naturalist and photography instructor with Lindblad Expeditions/National Geographic, and she is also a former national park ranger. Between her work aboard ships around the world, she focuses on conservation issues through writing and photography. Her work may be found in Orion, Alaska Magazine, Wild Hope, Whitefish Review, and various newspapers.
THOMAS MUNDT is the author of the short story collection You Have Until Noon To Unlock The Secrets Of The Universe (Lady Lazarus Press, 2011). More stories and Twitter tomfoolery can be found at www.jonathantaylorthomasnathanmundtdds.com and @Jheri_Seinfeld, respectively.
RYAN NAPIER was born in Plant City, Florida. He has degrees from Stetson University and Yale Divinity School. His work has appeared most recently in the Pacifica Literary Review and Lowestoft Chronicle, and is forthcoming in Burrow Press Review and Per Contra. He lives in Massachusetts and writes on the internet at ryannapier.tumblr.com.
KACPER NIBURSKI doesn’t want you to think he has made it, even though he’s made it here and here has it made. Better than there, where he currently is: clawing through a master’s degree like an amateur and hiding creeping baldness with hats. Find his work at kacperniburski.wordpress.com.
NATHAN NIELSEN graduated from UC Santa Cruz in 2009. He worked two years of service with AmeriCorps, first in New Orleans and then in Hanford, California. He recently graduated with a degree in Wind Energy and Turbine Technology from Iowa Lakes Community College and is employed as a traveling wind turbine technician. His prints have been exhibited at both the Warehouse and Gallery Central in Fresno, California and at The Big Top in New Orleans, Louisiana.
ALEXANDRE NODOPAKA speaks San Franciscan, Parisian, Moscowite, Kievlan, and more after drinking vodka. He claims to have been immaculately conceived in Kiev, Ukraine and accidentally offloaded in Vladivostok, Russia. He studied tongue-in-cheek at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Casablanca, Morocco, then subscribed to eternal studentship after coming to the USA in 1959, where has been doodling since. His interests in literature and the visual arts are exhaustively multi-cultural.
ALEX POPPE is a teacher and creative instigator. A former actor/business consultant, she has worked in Poland, Turkey, Ukraine, Northern Iraq, the West Bank, Germany, and the United States. These places and their people inspire her work. When she is not being thrown from the back of food aid trucks or dining with pistol-packing Kurdish hit men, she writes.
JACKSON SABBAGH is an MFA candidate at the University of Florida. He is also a teacher, drag queen, and casual vegan. He co-won the Academy of American Poets College Prize at Sarah Lawrence College. His poems have appeared in such journals as Assaracus, Bop Dead City, and Word Riot.
DAVID ANTHONY SAM is the grandson of Polish and Syrian immigrants. He has written poetry for over 40 years and has two collections, Memories in Clay, Dreams of Wolves (2014) and Dark Land, While Light (1974). He lives in Culpeper, Virginia with his wife and life partner, Linda, and serves as president of Germanna Community College. www.davidanthonysam.com
JESSE SENSIBAR loves small, furry animals and assault rifles with equal abandon, and he still has a soft spot in his heart for innocent strippers and jaded children. His work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Ray’s Road Review, Fuck Fiction, Corner Club Press, Grey Sparrow, Niche, 4ink7, and The Tishman Review.
STEVEN RAY SMITH’s poetry has appeared in The Yale Review, Southwest Review, The Kenyon Review, Stoneboat, Slice, Pembroke Magazine, Grain, Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature, Puerto del Sol, and others. He is president of a culinary college and lives in Austin with his wife and children.
SARAH J. SLOAT lives in Frankfurt, Germany, a stone’s throw from Schopenhauer’s grave. Her poems and prose have appeared in West Branch, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and Beloit Poetry Journal. Sarah’s chapbook of poems on typefaces and texts, Inksuite, is available from Dancing Girl Press, which will also publish Heiress to a Small Ruin in 2015.
IRA SUKRUNGRUANG is the author of the memoirs Southside Buddhist (University of Tampa Press, 2014) and Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy (University of Missouri Press, 2011), and the poetry collection In Thailand It Is Night (University of Tampa Press, 2013). His work has appeared in many literary journals, including Post Road, The Sun, and Creative Nonfiction. He is one of the founding editors of Sweet: A Literary Confection (sweetlit.com) and teaches in the MFA program at University of South Florida. For more information about him, please visit: www.buddhistboy.com.
MARGARET SWEDISH was director of the Religious Task Force on Central America and Mexico in Washington, D.C. from 1981 to 2004. Since returning to her hometown of Milwaukee in 2006, she has been a speaker, workshop leader, and writer on issues related ecological crises. She is author of two books, Like Grains of Wheat, co-written with Marie Dennis, and Living Beyond the “End of the World”: A Spirituality of Hope, both from Orbis Books. Swedish’s work on ecological themes is sponsored by the non-profit Center for New Creation. Her work can be found at www.ecologicalhope.org, and on the Center for New Creation’s Facebook page.
Internationally-collected artist RICHARD VYSE has been featured in galleries in New York and Hawaii. He has studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York and taught at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. His art appeared in issue 19 of The Art of Man, and it also appears at the Leslie+Lohman Museum. Visit his blog for recent art: manartbyvyse.blogspot.com
STEVE WERKMEISTER is an Associate Professor of English at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas. Between family and classes, he is sometimes able to write. He has (or will have) recent work in Silver Birch Press’s All About My Name series, Wilda Morris’s Poetry Challenge, The Lake, and Pankhearst Raw.
After many years teaching college students the art of communication, JILL WHITE entered her “second life” as a poet and award-winning jewelry artist. Her poetry has appeared in The Olentangy Review, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, The Cumberland River Review, U.S. 1 Worksheets, Kentucky Review, and Poetry Quarterly. If not at the writing desk or jewelry bench, she can be found with her nose in a book on her porch overlooking the bayou.
MARILYN ZELKE-WINDAU lives in Sheboygan Falls with her husband and golden retriever. A former elementary school art teacher, she enjoys painting with words. Her poems have appeared in many print and online venues, including Midwest Prairie Review, Stoneboat, Seems, Helen, Linden Avenue Literary Journal, qarrtsiluni, Your Daily Poem, and several anthologies. Her collection Momentary Ordinary was released by Pebblebrook Press in 2014.
ROBERT ZURER was born in New York City and has lived and worked there all his life. He has been drawing and painting since childhood. He is primarily self-taught, although he studied privately with Wade Schuman for a number of years. His work may be viewed at http://www.robertzurer.com.
JOHN AZRAK is the former chair of Walt Whitman High School, where he taught AP English and Creative Writing. His poems and stories have been published widely in literary journals, including Poetry East, Paddlefish, Passages North, Nimrod International, and Oyez Review, among others. He was a finalist in Glimmer Train’s short fiction contest and has work forthcoming in several anthologies. He is a lifelong resident of New York City.
ROBERT ANTHONY is a writer, artist, and musician. He has published poetry in the anthology Best British Poetry 2014 (Salt Publishing), kaffeeklatsch (UK), and Edge (US); short fiction in the anthology Unthology 6 (UK), and experimental fiction in Tight (US), among others. He has also released albums of minimal electronic and experimental music in both the US and Europe. He lives in Brooklyn, New York at the top of a hill, just between the greens of cemetery and park.
ANDREW BOURELLE’s fiction has appeared in The Best American Mystery Stories 2015 as well as in journals such as Hobart, Isthmus, Kestrel, Thin Air, Weave, and Whitefish Review. His short comics, in which he collaborates with his brother Edward Bourelle, have been published in Heavy Feather Review and Writing on the Edge.
EDWARD BOURELLE has worked more than twenty years in commercial art as a graphic designer, illustrator, cartographer, and art director. He is the creative director of Privateer Press, a Seattle-based game company. His short comics, in which he collaborates with his brother Andrew Bourelle, have appeared in Heavy Feather Review and Writing on the Edge.
MARIA G. BURNS writes fiction and nonfiction. Her work has appeared in Euphony, Toasted Cheese Literary Journal, The Blackwater Review, The Troubadour, Product, and The Intentional. She teaches composition at The University of West Florida and works as a commercial pilot. She spends her free time with her handsome husband, two trouble-making sons, and a dog named Twist.
ELIZA CALLARD was born, raised, and now lives in Philadelphia. A novelist ever since she could write, she discovered six months ago that she is also a poet.
Originally from Pennsylvania, SYLVIA CAVANAUGH has an MS in Urban Planning from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She teaches high school African and Asian cultural studies and advises the poetry club. She is also a member of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets. Her poems have appeared in An Ariel Anthology, Midwest Prairie Review, Red Cedar Review, Seems, Stoneboat, Verse-Virtual, Verse Wisconsin, and elsewhere.
YUAN CHANGMING, eight-time Pushcart nominee and author of five chapbooks, grew up in rural China, began learning English at nineteen, and published monographs on translation before moving to Canada. With a PhD in English, Yuan currently edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Qing Yuan in Vancouver and has poetry appearing in Best Canadian Poetry, BestNewPoemsOnline, Threepenny Review, and 1,069 others across 36 countries.
CASSANDRA DALLETT lives in Oakland, California. She is a Pushcart nominee and often reads around the San Francisco Bay Area. She has published online and in many print magazines. A full length book of poetry, Wet Reckless, was released to good review from Manic D Press in May 2014. A new book of poems, Bad Sandy, was released in spring 2015 from Lucky Bastard Press.
BLYTHE DAVENPORT finds that her poetry often centers around place, from both “factual” history and imagined future perspectives. Her book of poetry, Second Oldest: A Poetic History of Philadelphia (PS Books, 2013), explores these ideas through stories and histories. Her work has been published in The Painted Bride Quarterly, Chronogram Magazine, Mad Poets Review, and other journals and anthologies. She lives and works in Philadelphia.
West Virginia native ED DAVIS recently retired from teaching writing at Sinclair Community College. He has also taught at the Antioch Writers’ Workshop and is the author of three novels, most recently The Psalms of Israel Jones (West Virginia University Press, 2014), which won the Hackney Award for an unpublished novel in 2010. Many of his stories and poems have also appeared in anthologies and journals. Additionally, he has released four poetry chapbooks and a full-length collection. He lives with his wife in Yellow Springs, Ohio, where he bikes, hikes, and blogs. Please visit him at www. davised.com.
THOMAS DELANO is an MFA student and composition instructor at Minnesota State University, Mankato. He serves as a co-managing editor for the Blue Earth Review. His poems have previously appeared in FLARE: The Flagler Review, Sediments Literary-Arts Journal, and Melted Wing.
NANCY DEVINE teaches high school English in Grand Forks, North Dakota, where she also lives. Her poetry, short fiction, and essays have appeared in online and print journals.
BARBARA DRAPER lives in Minneapolis. She has three snappy kids and two much kinder granddaughters. After a career in banking, she tripped over poetry and thought, I love this! Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Paper Nautilus, Grey Sparrow, Split Rock Review, a Holy Cow! Press Anthology, and others.
REBECCA EADES received her MFA from UNC Wilmington. She currently lives, writes, and works in the coastal community. Her work is forthcoming in Toad the Journal.
LARRY EBY is the author of two books of poetry, Flight of August, winner of the 2014 Louise Bogan Award from Trio House Press, and Machinist in the Snow (ELJ Publications, 2015). His work can be found in Forklift, Passages North, Fourteen Hills, Thrush Poetry Journal, and others. He is the editor in chief at Orange Monkey Publishing, a poetry press in California.
KARL ELDER is Lakeland College’s Fessler Professor of Creative Writing and Poet in Residence. Among his honors are the Christopher Latham Sholes Award from the Council for Wisconsin Writers; a Pushcart Prize; the Chad Walsh, Lorine Niedecker, and Lucien Stryk Awards; and two appearances in The Best American Poetry. His most recent books of poems are Gilgamesh at the Bellagio from The National Poetry Review Award Book Series and a chapbook, The Houdini Monologues. Elder’s novel, Earth as It Is in Heaven, is forthcoming from Pebblebrook Press.
BRIAN EVANS-JONES has a degree in Literature and Creative Writing from Warwick University (UK) and is taking his MFA at the University of New Hampshire. His poems have been published in a number of magazines. Before coming to Maine from the UK in 2014, he was Poet Laureate of Hampshire, England and taught creative writing for the Open University and Winchester University. He coordinates the MFA Writers in Schools program at the University of New Hampshire and runs community writing events in southern Maine.
J. OSCAR FRANZEN is a Seattle poet. His work has appeared in The Houston Chronicle, Vallum, and The Monarch Review.
JOHN M. GIST’s essays, fiction, and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in publications such as Academic Questions, Dr. T.J Eckleburg Review, Galway Review, Gravel, Poetry Pacific, Pithead Chapel, Prick of the Spindle, Superstition Review, New Mexico Magazine, and others. He was recently awarded runner-up in South Loop Review’s 2014 National Essay Contest and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He was named finalist in the 2015 Tucson Book Festival Literary Awards. He holds an MFA from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and teaches creative writing at Western New Mexico University.
BENJAMIN GOLUBOFF teaches English at Lake Forest College. Aside from a modest list of scholarly publications, he has placed imaginative work—poetry, fiction, and essays—in numerous small press journals, most recently Four Ties Literary Review and War Literature and the Arts. Some of his work can be read at www.lakeforest.edu/academics/faculty/goluboff/.
MELISSA HOBSON was born and raised in Anderson, Indiana. She currently pursues a Master of Arts in English at the University of Southern Indiana with a focus on creative writing.
DAWN HOGUE is a Wisconsin novelist and poet. She taught high school English for 25 years and is currently a writing tutor for Johns Hopkins University. Her poetry has appeared in Stoneboat and Making it Speak: Poets & Artists in Cahoots. Find more of her work at www.dawnhogue.com.
KEVIN KILROY is an instructor of English composition and literature at a handful of colleges in New Jersey. His favorite Ninja Turtle is Michelangelo, but the old one, not the creeper Michael Bay version. He resides in Jersey City with two cats and an equal number of feline novelty T-shirts.
LYDIA M. KOMATSU lives, works, and creates in the crafty micro-city of Duluth, Minnesota. After swearing off post-secondary education, she has taken on freelance illustration and abstract painting commissions. She hates cats, loves sci-fi, and tolerates local music. Despite being a two-time college dropout, she can read, write, and solve the occasional math problem. To see more of Lydia’s work, go to lmkomatsu.com.
MATTHEW KOMATSU is an author and currently-serving veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq. His work has appeared in The New York Times; War, Literature and the Arts; Brevity; and Foreign Policy. He is enrolled in the University of Alaska Anchorage’s MFA program. You can find more of his work online at matthewkomatsu.com and follow him on Twitter: @matthew_komatsu. “
JESSICA WISEMAN LAWRENCE studied creative writing at Longwood University. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Origins, Black Fox Literary Magazine, and The Feminine Divine’s Anthology of Female Voices, along with many others. She lives in rural central Virginia, where she is an office manager by day.
NICHOLAS LEPRE’s stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Threepenny Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Minnesota Review, upstreet, and elsewhere. He is in the process of completing his first book, a collection of linked stories. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.
WILLIAM MILLER is a poet, children’s author, and mystery novelist. His poems have recently appeared in Big Muddy, Palaver, and The South Carolina Review. He lives in the French Quarter of New Orleans.
EMILY MOUNT is a naturalist and photography instructor with Lindblad Expeditions/National Geographic, and she is also a former national park ranger. Between her work aboard ships around the world, she focuses on conservation issues through writing and photography. Her work may be found in Orion, Alaska Magazine, Wild Hope, Whitefish Review, and various newspapers.
THOMAS MUNDT is the author of the short story collection You Have Until Noon To Unlock The Secrets Of The Universe (Lady Lazarus Press, 2011). More stories and Twitter tomfoolery can be found at www.jonathantaylorthomasnathanmundtdds.com and @Jheri_Seinfeld, respectively.
RYAN NAPIER was born in Plant City, Florida. He has degrees from Stetson University and Yale Divinity School. His work has appeared most recently in the Pacifica Literary Review and Lowestoft Chronicle, and is forthcoming in Burrow Press Review and Per Contra. He lives in Massachusetts and writes on the internet at ryannapier.tumblr.com.
KACPER NIBURSKI doesn’t want you to think he has made it, even though he’s made it here and here has it made. Better than there, where he currently is: clawing through a master’s degree like an amateur and hiding creeping baldness with hats. Find his work at kacperniburski.wordpress.com.
NATHAN NIELSEN graduated from UC Santa Cruz in 2009. He worked two years of service with AmeriCorps, first in New Orleans and then in Hanford, California. He recently graduated with a degree in Wind Energy and Turbine Technology from Iowa Lakes Community College and is employed as a traveling wind turbine technician. His prints have been exhibited at both the Warehouse and Gallery Central in Fresno, California and at The Big Top in New Orleans, Louisiana.
ALEXANDRE NODOPAKA speaks San Franciscan, Parisian, Moscowite, Kievlan, and more after drinking vodka. He claims to have been immaculately conceived in Kiev, Ukraine and accidentally offloaded in Vladivostok, Russia. He studied tongue-in-cheek at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Casablanca, Morocco, then subscribed to eternal studentship after coming to the USA in 1959, where has been doodling since. His interests in literature and the visual arts are exhaustively multi-cultural.
ALEX POPPE is a teacher and creative instigator. A former actor/business consultant, she has worked in Poland, Turkey, Ukraine, Northern Iraq, the West Bank, Germany, and the United States. These places and their people inspire her work. When she is not being thrown from the back of food aid trucks or dining with pistol-packing Kurdish hit men, she writes.
JACKSON SABBAGH is an MFA candidate at the University of Florida. He is also a teacher, drag queen, and casual vegan. He co-won the Academy of American Poets College Prize at Sarah Lawrence College. His poems have appeared in such journals as Assaracus, Bop Dead City, and Word Riot.
DAVID ANTHONY SAM is the grandson of Polish and Syrian immigrants. He has written poetry for over 40 years and has two collections, Memories in Clay, Dreams of Wolves (2014) and Dark Land, While Light (1974). He lives in Culpeper, Virginia with his wife and life partner, Linda, and serves as president of Germanna Community College. www.davidanthonysam.com
JESSE SENSIBAR loves small, furry animals and assault rifles with equal abandon, and he still has a soft spot in his heart for innocent strippers and jaded children. His work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Ray’s Road Review, Fuck Fiction, Corner Club Press, Grey Sparrow, Niche, 4ink7, and The Tishman Review.
STEVEN RAY SMITH’s poetry has appeared in The Yale Review, Southwest Review, The Kenyon Review, Stoneboat, Slice, Pembroke Magazine, Grain, Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature, Puerto del Sol, and others. He is president of a culinary college and lives in Austin with his wife and children.
SARAH J. SLOAT lives in Frankfurt, Germany, a stone’s throw from Schopenhauer’s grave. Her poems and prose have appeared in West Branch, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and Beloit Poetry Journal. Sarah’s chapbook of poems on typefaces and texts, Inksuite, is available from Dancing Girl Press, which will also publish Heiress to a Small Ruin in 2015.
IRA SUKRUNGRUANG is the author of the memoirs Southside Buddhist (University of Tampa Press, 2014) and Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy (University of Missouri Press, 2011), and the poetry collection In Thailand It Is Night (University of Tampa Press, 2013). His work has appeared in many literary journals, including Post Road, The Sun, and Creative Nonfiction. He is one of the founding editors of Sweet: A Literary Confection (sweetlit.com) and teaches in the MFA program at University of South Florida. For more information about him, please visit: www.buddhistboy.com.
MARGARET SWEDISH was director of the Religious Task Force on Central America and Mexico in Washington, D.C. from 1981 to 2004. Since returning to her hometown of Milwaukee in 2006, she has been a speaker, workshop leader, and writer on issues related ecological crises. She is author of two books, Like Grains of Wheat, co-written with Marie Dennis, and Living Beyond the “End of the World”: A Spirituality of Hope, both from Orbis Books. Swedish’s work on ecological themes is sponsored by the non-profit Center for New Creation. Her work can be found at www.ecologicalhope.org, and on the Center for New Creation’s Facebook page.
Internationally-collected artist RICHARD VYSE has been featured in galleries in New York and Hawaii. He has studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York and taught at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. His art appeared in issue 19 of The Art of Man, and it also appears at the Leslie+Lohman Museum. Visit his blog for recent art: manartbyvyse.blogspot.com
STEVE WERKMEISTER is an Associate Professor of English at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas. Between family and classes, he is sometimes able to write. He has (or will have) recent work in Silver Birch Press’s All About My Name series, Wilda Morris’s Poetry Challenge, The Lake, and Pankhearst Raw.
After many years teaching college students the art of communication, JILL WHITE entered her “second life” as a poet and award-winning jewelry artist. Her poetry has appeared in The Olentangy Review, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, The Cumberland River Review, U.S. 1 Worksheets, Kentucky Review, and Poetry Quarterly. If not at the writing desk or jewelry bench, she can be found with her nose in a book on her porch overlooking the bayou.
MARILYN ZELKE-WINDAU lives in Sheboygan Falls with her husband and golden retriever. A former elementary school art teacher, she enjoys painting with words. Her poems have appeared in many print and online venues, including Midwest Prairie Review, Stoneboat, Seems, Helen, Linden Avenue Literary Journal, qarrtsiluni, Your Daily Poem, and several anthologies. Her collection Momentary Ordinary was released by Pebblebrook Press in 2014.
ROBERT ZURER was born in New York City and has lived and worked there all his life. He has been drawing and painting since childhood. He is primarily self-taught, although he studied privately with Wade Schuman for a number of years. His work may be viewed at http://www.robertzurer.com.
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