CONTRIBUTORS
Andrea Alterman has been known to walk into parking meters, trip up stairs, forget to use a potholder. But what she's best loved for is making whipped cream, baking cookies, making garlic bread with lots of garlic, and baking the worst cake imaginable when she forgot to add the baking powder. Her brother reminds her of that often and she gets even by writing about him.
Dennis Donoghue is a retired school teacher who lives in Rowley, MA. His work has been published in various journals and magazines, including a past issue of BLR.
harley lethalm is an adventurously confirmed madman & half-idiot, but whose work notwithstanding this has been recognized as having LITERARY MERIT by such rags as THE BACON REVIEW, RADVOCATE (PRINT ISSUE #14), CLOCKWISE CAT, CLEAVER, etc, etc. he is also a communist of rare order, an historic eater of dates, figs et al.,& a musician whose records have appeared - and been favorably reviewed, asitwere - on the NOISEY subsection of VICE's online journal, as well as the print rag METAL HAMMER (UK). in his free time he makes names for himself, which the french peoples deem nomes-des-guerres or -plumes or someshit.
DS Maolalai recently returned to Ireland after four years away, now spending his days working maintenance dispatch for a bank and his nights looking out the window and wishing he had a view. His first collection, Love is Breaking Plates in the Garden, was published in 2016 by the Encircle Press. He has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
James Mathews is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University Masters in Writing Program. His short stories have appeared in numerous literary journals, including The Florida Review, The Wisconsin Review, The South Carolina Review, The Pacific Review, Carolina Quarterly, The Madison Review, The Northwest Review, the current issue of War, Literature & the Arts, and many more. His short story, “Many Dogs Have Died Here” also appeared in the Best American Mystery Stories of 2015 anthology. In addition, James is the author of a short story collection entitled, Last Known Position, which was published by the University of North Texas Press. The collection was the recipient of the 2008 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction.
Austin Morgan hails from Southern Indiana, where he grew up. In 2014, he became a contributor to Aaduna Inc., based out of Auburn New York. He has served as a contributing editor for Aaduna since 2016. As of 2018, Morgan attends Arizona State University, majoring in Art History with a minor in Creative Writing.
Mir-Yashar Seyedbagheri is a graduate of Colorado State's MFA program in fiction. His short-stories have been published in various literary journals such as Monkeybicycle and Crack The Spine.
Ben Smart is a student at the University of Kansas, with a major in English.His short story, 'Beneath the Water,' was recently published in the Spring 2018 issue of the Arkansas Review.
Andrea Alterman has been known to walk into parking meters, trip up stairs, forget to use a potholder. But what she's best loved for is making whipped cream, baking cookies, making garlic bread with lots of garlic, and baking the worst cake imaginable when she forgot to add the baking powder. Her brother reminds her of that often and she gets even by writing about him.
Dennis Donoghue is a retired school teacher who lives in Rowley, MA. His work has been published in various journals and magazines, including a past issue of BLR.
harley lethalm is an adventurously confirmed madman & half-idiot, but whose work notwithstanding this has been recognized as having LITERARY MERIT by such rags as THE BACON REVIEW, RADVOCATE (PRINT ISSUE #14), CLOCKWISE CAT, CLEAVER, etc, etc. he is also a communist of rare order, an historic eater of dates, figs et al.,& a musician whose records have appeared - and been favorably reviewed, asitwere - on the NOISEY subsection of VICE's online journal, as well as the print rag METAL HAMMER (UK). in his free time he makes names for himself, which the french peoples deem nomes-des-guerres or -plumes or someshit.
DS Maolalai recently returned to Ireland after four years away, now spending his days working maintenance dispatch for a bank and his nights looking out the window and wishing he had a view. His first collection, Love is Breaking Plates in the Garden, was published in 2016 by the Encircle Press. He has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
James Mathews is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University Masters in Writing Program. His short stories have appeared in numerous literary journals, including The Florida Review, The Wisconsin Review, The South Carolina Review, The Pacific Review, Carolina Quarterly, The Madison Review, The Northwest Review, the current issue of War, Literature & the Arts, and many more. His short story, “Many Dogs Have Died Here” also appeared in the Best American Mystery Stories of 2015 anthology. In addition, James is the author of a short story collection entitled, Last Known Position, which was published by the University of North Texas Press. The collection was the recipient of the 2008 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction.
Austin Morgan hails from Southern Indiana, where he grew up. In 2014, he became a contributor to Aaduna Inc., based out of Auburn New York. He has served as a contributing editor for Aaduna since 2016. As of 2018, Morgan attends Arizona State University, majoring in Art History with a minor in Creative Writing.
Mir-Yashar Seyedbagheri is a graduate of Colorado State's MFA program in fiction. His short-stories have been published in various literary journals such as Monkeybicycle and Crack The Spine.
Ben Smart is a student at the University of Kansas, with a major in English.His short story, 'Beneath the Water,' was recently published in the Spring 2018 issue of the Arkansas Review.
