CONTRIBUTORS
Paul Beckman’s latest flash collections, “Becoming Mirsky, (Cervena Barva Press) and “Kiss Kiss” (Truth Serum Press) were finalists for the 2019 and 2024 Indie Book Awards. Some of his stories have appeared in Fiction, Litro, Pank, WINK, Jellyfish Review, The Wax Paper, Monkey, and Fictive Dream. He had a story in the 2020 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology and was nominated for 2021 Best of the Web and was a winner in the 2022 Best Micro Fiction Anthology. Paul started the Fbomb Flash Fiction Reading series at New Yorks KGB Bar and ran it until the pandemic hit and then switched to Zoom which has a global audience of readers and listeners. After 9 years Paul turned the Fbomb over to Francine Witte, who is doing a great job.
Barbara Daniels’ most recent book, Talk to the Lioness, was published by Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press. Her poetry has appeared in Main Street Rag, Free State Review, Philadelphia Stories, and many other journals. She received four fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Jim Ray Daniels’ first book of nonfiction, Ignorance of Trees, is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press later this year. His latest fiction book, The Luck of the Fall, was published by Michigan State University Press. His new chapbook of poems, Ars Poetica Chemistra, was just published by WPA Press. A native of Detroit, he currently lives in Pittsburgh and teaches in the Alma College low-residency MFA program.
Diane Kendig‘s latest books are Woman with a Fan and Prison Terms, and she co-edited the tribute anthology, In the Company of Russell Atkins. Kendig led a prison writing workshop for 18 years and now curates Cuyahoga County Public Library’s weblog “Read + Write” and writes on the streets for “Free Poetry Cleveland.”
Michael De Rosa is a writer from Wallingford, PA, who recently retired as a professor (emeritus) of chemistry at Penn State Brandywine. Interests are travel, photography, and birding. The writer’s work has appeared in Chicago Story Press Literary Journal, Bright Flash Literary Review, and Academy of the Heart and Mind.
Martina Reisz Newberry has been writing poetry for 50+ years. Her most recent book is SADIE: QUEEN OF THE SWOLLEN NOSE SALOON (Alien Buddha Press 4/15/25). She is also the author of BEYOND TEMPLES (Deerbrook Edition, 5/24),GLYPHS (Deerbrook Editions, April 2022). Others are BLUES FOR FRENCH ROAST WITH CHICORY (Deerbrook Editions, 2020), NEVER COMPLETELY AWAKE (Deerbrook Editions, 2017), WHERE IT GOES (Deerbrook Editions, 2014), LEARNING BY ROTE (Deerbrook Editions, 2012), and RUNNING LIKE A WOMAN WITH HER HAIR ON FIRE (Red Hen Press, 2005). Martina currently lives in Hollywood, CA with her husband, Brian, a Media Creative.
Bill Oliver is a professor of writing and American literature at Washington and Lee University. His WOMEN & CHILDREN FIRST won Mid-List Press's First Series Award in Short Fiction, and he also the author (with Bonnie Lyons) of PASSION AND CRAFT: CONVERSATIONS WITH NOTABLE WRITERS (University of Illinois Press). Bill's stories have appeared or are forthcoming in VIRGINIA QUARTERLY REVIEW, NEW LETTERS, INDIANA REVIEW, CAROLINA QUARTERLY, LAUREL REVIEW, LOUISIANA LITERATURE, FLORIDA REVIEW, CIMARRON REVIEW, and others. He has twice had stories nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Robert Pegel writes mostly about the fragility of life and the search for transformation. Robert holds a BA in English from Columbia. He is a Best of the Net nominee. Robert recently had his debut poetry chapbook published by Bottlecap Press. He has also been published in North Dakota Quarterly, Door is a Jar, The Hooghly Review, The Corvus Review, MockingHeart Review and others.
Steven M. Smith is the author of the poetry collection Strongman Contest (Kelsay Books, 2021). His poems have appeared in Blue Lake Review, The American Journal of Poetry, Aji, The Worcester Review, Rattle, The Big Windows Review, Book of Matches, Offcourse, Hole in the Head Review, and Third Wednesday. He lives in North Syracuse, New York.
Pryor Stroud is a writer from Arkansas who now resides in Los Angeles. His fiction has appeared in Litbreak Magazine, while his music journalism has been featured in Slant and PopMatters.
Michael James Tapscott is a San Francisco Bay Area-based writer, musician, and songwriter. Since 2004, he has been recording and performing under various names. His works of journalism and criticism were previously published in Freedom Fiction Journal, Stirring, Dusted Magazine, and Nuvo. He was the publisher and editor of the Bloomington, Indiana-based magazine Revolution Blues for one brief, beautiful moment.
Elle Vivian is a writer and painter living in Chicago, Illinois.
