CONTRIBUTORS
Holly Day’s writing has recently appeared in Analog SF, The Hong Kong Review, and Appalachian Journal, and her hobbies include kicking and screaming at vending machines.
Jessica Dealing is an MFA candidate at Florida International University and has been published in the MacGuffin, SmokeLong Quarterly, Meat for Tea, and others. She has lived in three corners of the US.
Lawrence F. Farrar is a former American Foreign Service officer. His 30 year diplomatic career involved multiple postings in Japan, as well as assignments in Germany, Norway, and Washington, DC. Short term assignments took him to places as diverse as Beijing and Tehran, Caracas, and Muscat. Including appearances in Blue Lake Review, Farrar's work has appeared in literary magazines more than 100 times https://www.northoakswriter.com. Many of his stories derive from events he experienced and people he encountered during 20 years living outside the United States. Farrar and his wife, Keiko, now live in Minnesota where he is a member of the Loft Literary Center.
Chana Feinstein writes and has won prizes, across genres. During a hiatus from writing, she advocated for and worked with prisoners and the homeless. She published poetry in Sojourner, fiction in Walrus, non-fiction in Bay Area Parenting, and has fiction forthcoming in Every Day Fiction, poetry in Rise Up Review, and humor in Defenestration. She is currently mentoring others on how to get over writer's block and teaches Creative Writing online.
William Heath has published four poetry books: The Walking Man, Steel Valley Elegy, Going Places, and Alms for Oblivion; three chapbooks: Night Moves in Ohio, Leaving Seville, and Inventing the Americas; three novels: The Children Bob Moses Led (winner of the Hackney Award), Devil Dancer, and Blacksnake's Path; a work of history, William Wells and the Struggle for the Old Northwest (winner of two Spur Awards and the Oliver Hazard Perry Award); and a collection of interviews, Conversations with Robert Stone. He lives in Annapolis. www.williamheathbooks.com
Phil Huffy writes early and often at his kitchen table, casting a wide net as to form and substance. His work has appeared in dozens of journals and anthologies, including Schuylkill Valley Review, Eunoia, Pangolin, Orchards Poetry, Glassworks, and several haiku publications. He has published three collections of his poems and is proud to have recorded one of them (Magic Words) as an audiobook.
Harrison Kim lives and writes out of Victoria, Canada. In addition to previous appearances in Blue Lake Review, his stories have been published in Hobart, Grain, October Hill, Spank the Carp, The Horror Zine, Bewildering Stories, Literally Stories, Coffin Bell, Island Writer Magazine, and others.
Mike Lee is a writer and editor at a trade union in New York City. His work appears in or is forthcoming in Blue Lake Review, Bright Flash Literary Review, The Disappointed Housewife, Roi Faineant, Fireworks, BULL, Drunk Monkeys, and many others. His story collection, The Northern Line, is available on Amazon.
Alan Rice teaches literature and composition at Haddam-Killingworth High School in rural Connecticut. He holds degrees in English and dramatic arts from Earlham College and the University of Connecticut, and has spent much of his career directing plays and teaching acting and stagecraft. His essays and short fiction have appeared in Celestial Timepieces, Change Seven Magazine, Night Picnic Journal and elsewhere. He is presently working on a collection of short stories and a novel. His Threads/Instagram handle is @alanrice140.
Claire Scott is an award winning poet who has received multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. Her work has appeared in the Atlanta Review, Bellevue Literary Review, New Ohio Review and Healing Muse, among others. Claire is the author of Waiting to be Called and Until I Couldn’t. She is the co-author of Unfolding in Light: A Sisters’ Journey in Photography and Poetry.
