CONTRIBUTORS
Tyler Bigney lives in Nova Scotia, Canada. He has a website where he shares his true, embarrassing stories: www.tylerbigney.com
Brian Conlon has a J.D. from Harvard Law School (’11) and a B.A. from the University of Rochester (’08). At Rochester, he studied creative writing with Joanna Scott and continued to study creative writing at HLS (oddly enough) with Amy Hempel and Rose Moss. He won a short story writing competition at the University of Rochester for the short story “Telephone Bill.” Recently, he has had stories published in the following literary magazines: The Montreal Review; Knee-Jerk; Write From Wrong; The Fiction Week Literary Review; The Write Room; Storychord ; Precipitate ; EST; Hobo Pancakes; The Green Bag ; Lowestoft Chronicle; Prime Number; and SN Review.
Lawrence F. Farrar -- As a career Foreign Service officer, Lawrence Farrar served in Japan (multiple tours), Germany, Norway, and Washington,DC. Short term assignments took him to nearly 40 countries. In addition to his prior appearance in Blue Lake Review, his stories have appeared in The MacGuffin, Red Cedar Review, Colere, G.W. Review, Red Wheelbarrow, The Worcester Review, Straylight, Green Hills Literary Lantern, New Plains Review, Evening Street Review, and 34th Parallel. He also provided credited assistance to the author of a Hiroshima memoir published in New Madrid, and has contributed to the Loft Literary Center's "A View from the Loft."
Bryan Fox is a teacher, a student, a writer, and a reader. In the past 16 years, he's called 7 countries "home," though currently Bogota, Colombia, is where he finds himself waking up in the mornings. His fiction has been published in Underground Voices and Mudluscious, and he has done freelance travel writing in Asia and the US. A book of original verse, Emotional Holocaust, will be available in electronic format via amazon.com in May 2013.
Alex M. Frankel is a poet and fiction writer currently living in Los Angeles, after spending much of his life in Spain. He earned his MFA in poetry at New England College under the guidance of Alicia Ostriker. His work has appeared in The Antioch Review, Beyond the Valley of the Contemporary Poets, Bloom, Cider Press Review, The Comstock Review, Cottonwood, The Gay and Lesbian Review, The North Dakota Quarterly, The Pinch, The Temple, and Wordriver, among others, and has also been featured on KPCC radio and at Beyond Baroque. He hosts the Second Sunday Poetry Series in Pasadena, California. He has studied with Kenneth Koch, D.M. Thomas, Judith Hall, and Jane Mead, among others, He works as an ESL instructor for the Los Angeles Unified School District and California State University, Los Angeles.
Joe Giordano was born in Brooklyn. He and his wife, Jane, have lived in Greece, Brazil, Belgium and Netherlands. They now live in Texas with their little Shih Tzu, Sophia. In 2012, Joe's stories appeared in Black Heart Magazine, Crack the Spine, The Summerset Review, Forge, River Poets Journal, Marco Polo Arts Magazine, Writers Abroad, Bong is Bard, The Stone Hobo, Johnny America, and Orion Headless.
Lori Lamothe's recent poems have appeared in Avatar Review, Goblin Fruit, The Nervous Breakdown, Psychic Meatloaf and other magazines. She is a mentor for the Afghan Women's Writing Program and teaches part-time at Quinsigamond Community College.
Richard Luftig is a recipient of the Cincinnati Post-Corbett Foundation Award for Literature and was a semi-finalist for the Emily Dickinson Society Award. His poems have appeared in numerous literary journals in the United States, and in Japan, Canada, Australia, Europe, Thailand, Hong Kong and India, and have been translated into Japanese, Polish, German and Finnish. One of his published poems was nominated for the 2012 Pushcart Poetry Prize.
Amelia Nierenberg is a Junior at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in the Bronx, New York. She is a Fiction Reader for the Adroit Journal, and spends much of her free time painting and writing. She has been published in the December issue of Amazing Kids! Magazine, and Tap Magazine Issue 25: Bare. Her work is forthcoming in Prick of the Spindle.
Barry W. North is a sixty-eight-year-old retired refrigeration mechanic. Since his retirement in 2007, he has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize, won the 2010 A. E. Coppard Prize for Fiction, and, more recently, won Honorable Mention in the 2011 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Paterson Literary Review, Slipstream, The Dos Passos Review, Hawaii Pacific Review, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Amoskeag, and others. He has published two chapbooks. Along the Highway, a fiction chapbook, was published by White Eagle Coffee Store Press in 2010, and his first chapbook of poems, Terminally Human, was just published by Finishing Line Press. For more information visit his website www.barrynorth.org.
Stephen A. Rozwenc lives in Pichit, Thailand and Haydenville, MA. He has published 4 collections of poetry and been the recipient of 2 Massachusetts Arts Lottery Grants for Poetry. In the last 3 years over 50 of his individual works have been published in various poetry print journals and ezines.
Christine Tsen is a cellist and chamber musician performing throughout New England. She attended Eastman School and the New England Conservatory of Music. She is a published musician and poet. Her poems are or will be in THRUSH Poetry Journal and The Bark among others. In her experience so much of poetry feels like music, and music like poetry ~ and to her one lights up the other! More: www.ChristineThomasTsen.com
Kristin Walters works and writes in Chicago, IL. Her guilty pleasures are watching movie trailers, eating all the strawberries and wearing flip-flops in the rain.
Brian Conlon has a J.D. from Harvard Law School (’11) and a B.A. from the University of Rochester (’08). At Rochester, he studied creative writing with Joanna Scott and continued to study creative writing at HLS (oddly enough) with Amy Hempel and Rose Moss. He won a short story writing competition at the University of Rochester for the short story “Telephone Bill.” Recently, he has had stories published in the following literary magazines: The Montreal Review; Knee-Jerk; Write From Wrong; The Fiction Week Literary Review; The Write Room; Storychord ; Precipitate ; EST; Hobo Pancakes; The Green Bag ; Lowestoft Chronicle; Prime Number; and SN Review.
Lawrence F. Farrar -- As a career Foreign Service officer, Lawrence Farrar served in Japan (multiple tours), Germany, Norway, and Washington,DC. Short term assignments took him to nearly 40 countries. In addition to his prior appearance in Blue Lake Review, his stories have appeared in The MacGuffin, Red Cedar Review, Colere, G.W. Review, Red Wheelbarrow, The Worcester Review, Straylight, Green Hills Literary Lantern, New Plains Review, Evening Street Review, and 34th Parallel. He also provided credited assistance to the author of a Hiroshima memoir published in New Madrid, and has contributed to the Loft Literary Center's "A View from the Loft."
Bryan Fox is a teacher, a student, a writer, and a reader. In the past 16 years, he's called 7 countries "home," though currently Bogota, Colombia, is where he finds himself waking up in the mornings. His fiction has been published in Underground Voices and Mudluscious, and he has done freelance travel writing in Asia and the US. A book of original verse, Emotional Holocaust, will be available in electronic format via amazon.com in May 2013.
Alex M. Frankel is a poet and fiction writer currently living in Los Angeles, after spending much of his life in Spain. He earned his MFA in poetry at New England College under the guidance of Alicia Ostriker. His work has appeared in The Antioch Review, Beyond the Valley of the Contemporary Poets, Bloom, Cider Press Review, The Comstock Review, Cottonwood, The Gay and Lesbian Review, The North Dakota Quarterly, The Pinch, The Temple, and Wordriver, among others, and has also been featured on KPCC radio and at Beyond Baroque. He hosts the Second Sunday Poetry Series in Pasadena, California. He has studied with Kenneth Koch, D.M. Thomas, Judith Hall, and Jane Mead, among others, He works as an ESL instructor for the Los Angeles Unified School District and California State University, Los Angeles.
Joe Giordano was born in Brooklyn. He and his wife, Jane, have lived in Greece, Brazil, Belgium and Netherlands. They now live in Texas with their little Shih Tzu, Sophia. In 2012, Joe's stories appeared in Black Heart Magazine, Crack the Spine, The Summerset Review, Forge, River Poets Journal, Marco Polo Arts Magazine, Writers Abroad, Bong is Bard, The Stone Hobo, Johnny America, and Orion Headless.
Lori Lamothe's recent poems have appeared in Avatar Review, Goblin Fruit, The Nervous Breakdown, Psychic Meatloaf and other magazines. She is a mentor for the Afghan Women's Writing Program and teaches part-time at Quinsigamond Community College.
Richard Luftig is a recipient of the Cincinnati Post-Corbett Foundation Award for Literature and was a semi-finalist for the Emily Dickinson Society Award. His poems have appeared in numerous literary journals in the United States, and in Japan, Canada, Australia, Europe, Thailand, Hong Kong and India, and have been translated into Japanese, Polish, German and Finnish. One of his published poems was nominated for the 2012 Pushcart Poetry Prize.
Amelia Nierenberg is a Junior at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in the Bronx, New York. She is a Fiction Reader for the Adroit Journal, and spends much of her free time painting and writing. She has been published in the December issue of Amazing Kids! Magazine, and Tap Magazine Issue 25: Bare. Her work is forthcoming in Prick of the Spindle.
Barry W. North is a sixty-eight-year-old retired refrigeration mechanic. Since his retirement in 2007, he has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize, won the 2010 A. E. Coppard Prize for Fiction, and, more recently, won Honorable Mention in the 2011 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Paterson Literary Review, Slipstream, The Dos Passos Review, Hawaii Pacific Review, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Amoskeag, and others. He has published two chapbooks. Along the Highway, a fiction chapbook, was published by White Eagle Coffee Store Press in 2010, and his first chapbook of poems, Terminally Human, was just published by Finishing Line Press. For more information visit his website www.barrynorth.org.
Stephen A. Rozwenc lives in Pichit, Thailand and Haydenville, MA. He has published 4 collections of poetry and been the recipient of 2 Massachusetts Arts Lottery Grants for Poetry. In the last 3 years over 50 of his individual works have been published in various poetry print journals and ezines.
Christine Tsen is a cellist and chamber musician performing throughout New England. She attended Eastman School and the New England Conservatory of Music. She is a published musician and poet. Her poems are or will be in THRUSH Poetry Journal and The Bark among others. In her experience so much of poetry feels like music, and music like poetry ~ and to her one lights up the other! More: www.ChristineThomasTsen.com
Kristin Walters works and writes in Chicago, IL. Her guilty pleasures are watching movie trailers, eating all the strawberries and wearing flip-flops in the rain.