CONTRIBUTORS
__Grace Andreacchi is an American-born novelist, poet and playwright. Works include the novels Scarabocchio and Poetry and Fear, Music for Glass Orchestra (Serpent’s Tail), Give My Heart Ease (New American Writing Award) and the chapbook Berlin Elegies. Her work appears in Horizon Review, The Literateur, Cabinet des Fées and many other fine places. Grace is also managing editor at Andromache Books and writes the literary blog AMAZING GRACE. She lives in London.
Ricardo Federico. A second generation Italian-American, Ricardo Federico is a contributing author for The Good Men Project and a Senior Project Manager at EnSafe Inc., an environmental consulting firm headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee. Ric writes short stories and creative nonfiction while learning about the gargantuan commitment inherent to writing a novel. He blogs about life and other mysteries at www.ricardo-federicoblogspot.com.
Timothy Gager is the author of eight books of short fiction and poetry. His latest Treating a Sick Animal: Flash and Micro Fictions (Cervena Barva Press) features over forty stories, many previously published in various literary magazines. He has hosted the successful Dire Literary Series in Cambridge, Massachusetts every month for the past ten years and is the co-founder of Somerville News Writers Festival. His work has appeared in Night Train, McSweeneys, Hobart, Twelve Stories, Word Riot, Skive, Dogzplot, Six Sentences, 55 Word, Monkeybicycle, The Binnacle, Thieve's Jargon, Long Short Story, Zygote in My Coffee, Fried Chicken and Coffee, Slurve, Poor Mojo's Almanac, Tuesday Shorts, The Legendary, VerbSap, The Smoking Poet, Write This Magazine, Further Fenway Fiction, The Blood Orange Review, Poems for All, Right Hand Pointing, GUD, Boston Poetry Journal (Bad Ass Edition), Edifice Wrecked, Blue Print Review, Barnstorm, Lit Up Magazine, Spare Change, Delmarva Review, Third Lung Review, Poesy and Ibbetson Street. He has had over 200 works of fiction and poetry published since 2007 of which eight have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
Susan Grimm is a native of Cleveland, Ohio. Her poems have appeared in West Branch, Poetry East, The Journal, and other publications. In 1996, she was awarded an Individual Artists Fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council. Her chapbook, Almost Home, was published by the Cleveland State University Poetry Center in 1997. Her book of poems, Lake Erie Blue, was published by BkMk Press in 2004. She also edited Ordering the Storm: How to Put Together a Book of Poems which was published by Cleveland State University Poetry Center in 2006. Recently, she won the inaugural Copper Nickel Poetry Prize. Her chapbook Roughed Up by the Sun’s Mothering Tongue is due out in July, 2011.
(Check the websites http://www.finishinglinepress.com/NewReleasesandForthcomingTitles.htm
or https://sites.google.com/site/susanjgrimm)
Karla Huston is the author of six chapbooks of poetry, most recently An Inventory of Lost Things (Centennial Press 2009). Her poems, reviews, and interviews have been published widely in journals such as Margie Review, North American Review, Pearl and Poet Lore.Her poem “Theory of Lipstick” was awarded a Pushcart Prize and will appear in The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses (2012).
Kevin P. Keating's essays and fiction have also appeared in a number of literary journals, including Brink, The Externalist, The Stickman Review, Mad Hatter’s Review, Underground Voices, Smokebox, Fringe, Perigee, Megaera, Plum Ruby Review, Fiction Warehouse, Fifth Street Review, Juked, The Oklahoma Review, Slow Trains, Numb Magazine, Exquisite Corpse, Thunder Sandwich, and many others.
Louis McKee has poems recently or forthcoming in APR, Free Lunch, Paterson Poetry Review, 5 A.M., Chiron Review, Verse Wisconsin, and Nerve Cowboy, among others. River Architecture, a collection of selected poems, was published in 1999, and a collection of newer work, Near Occasions of Sin, appeared in 2006. More recently, Adastra Press has published Marginalia, a volume of his translations from Old Irish monastic poems. Still Life, a chapbook of poems, has recently been issued from FootHills, and Jamming, a prize winner, from TLOLP. His 1987 collection, No Matter is being republished by Seven Kitchens Press late in 2011.
Jen Michalski's first collection of fiction, Close Encounters, is available from So New (2007), her second is forthcoming from Dzanc (2013), and her novella May-September (2010) was published by Press 53 as part of the Press 53 Open Awards. Her chapbook Cross Sections (2008) is available from Publishing Genius. She also is the editor of the anthology City Sages: Baltimore (CityLit Press 2010), which won a 2010 "Best of Baltimore" award from Baltimore Magazine. She is the founding editor of the literary quarterly jmww, and is co-host of the monthly reading series The 510 Readings in Baltimore.
Joseph V. Milford is a Professor of English at Georgia Military College, south of Atlanta. His first book, Cracked Altimeter, was published in 2010. He is the host of the weekly Joe Milford Poetry Show (http://joemilfordpoetryshow.com), which he maintains with his wife, Chenelle. He also edits the literary journal Scythe with his wife from their shack in rural Georgia.
Kenneth Steven lives and writes in Highland Scotland. He's first and foremost a poet; nine of his collections have appeared to date, and a volume of selected work. His short stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio and he makes many poetry programmes too, the most recent on the story behind Robert Frost's 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening'.
John Swain lives in Louisville, Kentucky. Thunderclap Press recently published his latest chapbook, Fragments of Calendars.
John Tustin writes poems about tragedy and inertia. Go to fritzware.com/johntustinpoetry and see for yourself.
Ricardo Federico. A second generation Italian-American, Ricardo Federico is a contributing author for The Good Men Project and a Senior Project Manager at EnSafe Inc., an environmental consulting firm headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee. Ric writes short stories and creative nonfiction while learning about the gargantuan commitment inherent to writing a novel. He blogs about life and other mysteries at www.ricardo-federicoblogspot.com.
Timothy Gager is the author of eight books of short fiction and poetry. His latest Treating a Sick Animal: Flash and Micro Fictions (Cervena Barva Press) features over forty stories, many previously published in various literary magazines. He has hosted the successful Dire Literary Series in Cambridge, Massachusetts every month for the past ten years and is the co-founder of Somerville News Writers Festival. His work has appeared in Night Train, McSweeneys, Hobart, Twelve Stories, Word Riot, Skive, Dogzplot, Six Sentences, 55 Word, Monkeybicycle, The Binnacle, Thieve's Jargon, Long Short Story, Zygote in My Coffee, Fried Chicken and Coffee, Slurve, Poor Mojo's Almanac, Tuesday Shorts, The Legendary, VerbSap, The Smoking Poet, Write This Magazine, Further Fenway Fiction, The Blood Orange Review, Poems for All, Right Hand Pointing, GUD, Boston Poetry Journal (Bad Ass Edition), Edifice Wrecked, Blue Print Review, Barnstorm, Lit Up Magazine, Spare Change, Delmarva Review, Third Lung Review, Poesy and Ibbetson Street. He has had over 200 works of fiction and poetry published since 2007 of which eight have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
Susan Grimm is a native of Cleveland, Ohio. Her poems have appeared in West Branch, Poetry East, The Journal, and other publications. In 1996, she was awarded an Individual Artists Fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council. Her chapbook, Almost Home, was published by the Cleveland State University Poetry Center in 1997. Her book of poems, Lake Erie Blue, was published by BkMk Press in 2004. She also edited Ordering the Storm: How to Put Together a Book of Poems which was published by Cleveland State University Poetry Center in 2006. Recently, she won the inaugural Copper Nickel Poetry Prize. Her chapbook Roughed Up by the Sun’s Mothering Tongue is due out in July, 2011.
(Check the websites http://www.finishinglinepress.com/NewReleasesandForthcomingTitles.htm
or https://sites.google.com/site/susanjgrimm)
Karla Huston is the author of six chapbooks of poetry, most recently An Inventory of Lost Things (Centennial Press 2009). Her poems, reviews, and interviews have been published widely in journals such as Margie Review, North American Review, Pearl and Poet Lore.Her poem “Theory of Lipstick” was awarded a Pushcart Prize and will appear in The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses (2012).
Kevin P. Keating's essays and fiction have also appeared in a number of literary journals, including Brink, The Externalist, The Stickman Review, Mad Hatter’s Review, Underground Voices, Smokebox, Fringe, Perigee, Megaera, Plum Ruby Review, Fiction Warehouse, Fifth Street Review, Juked, The Oklahoma Review, Slow Trains, Numb Magazine, Exquisite Corpse, Thunder Sandwich, and many others.
Louis McKee has poems recently or forthcoming in APR, Free Lunch, Paterson Poetry Review, 5 A.M., Chiron Review, Verse Wisconsin, and Nerve Cowboy, among others. River Architecture, a collection of selected poems, was published in 1999, and a collection of newer work, Near Occasions of Sin, appeared in 2006. More recently, Adastra Press has published Marginalia, a volume of his translations from Old Irish monastic poems. Still Life, a chapbook of poems, has recently been issued from FootHills, and Jamming, a prize winner, from TLOLP. His 1987 collection, No Matter is being republished by Seven Kitchens Press late in 2011.
Jen Michalski's first collection of fiction, Close Encounters, is available from So New (2007), her second is forthcoming from Dzanc (2013), and her novella May-September (2010) was published by Press 53 as part of the Press 53 Open Awards. Her chapbook Cross Sections (2008) is available from Publishing Genius. She also is the editor of the anthology City Sages: Baltimore (CityLit Press 2010), which won a 2010 "Best of Baltimore" award from Baltimore Magazine. She is the founding editor of the literary quarterly jmww, and is co-host of the monthly reading series The 510 Readings in Baltimore.
Joseph V. Milford is a Professor of English at Georgia Military College, south of Atlanta. His first book, Cracked Altimeter, was published in 2010. He is the host of the weekly Joe Milford Poetry Show (http://joemilfordpoetryshow.com), which he maintains with his wife, Chenelle. He also edits the literary journal Scythe with his wife from their shack in rural Georgia.
Kenneth Steven lives and writes in Highland Scotland. He's first and foremost a poet; nine of his collections have appeared to date, and a volume of selected work. His short stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio and he makes many poetry programmes too, the most recent on the story behind Robert Frost's 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening'.
John Swain lives in Louisville, Kentucky. Thunderclap Press recently published his latest chapbook, Fragments of Calendars.
John Tustin writes poems about tragedy and inertia. Go to fritzware.com/johntustinpoetry and see for yourself.