CONTRIBUTORS
Brandon Allen lives and writes in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina. "Cheaches" is his first publication.
Jacob Friesenhahn teaches Religious Studies and Philosophy at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio.
Roy Gu is Professor of English in the School of English Studies at Shanghai International Studies University. He has published short stories and poems, and translated several books, including Haizi’s Poems, Love by Toni Morrison, and short stories by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Chinua Achebe, and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. He is also a singer-songwriter and has released folk music albums.
Judy Lorenzen is a poet and writer who holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Nebraska at Kearney and a PhD in Rhetoric and Composition from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her work appears in journals, anthologies, newspapers, magazines, and on websites.
Paul Luikart is the author of the short story collections Animal Heart (Hyperborea Publishing, 2016), Brief Instructions (Ghostbird Press, 2017), Metropolia (Ghostbird Press, 2021), and The Museum of Heartache (Pski’s Porch Publishing, 2021.) He serves as an adjunct professor of creative writing at Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia. He and his family live in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
DS Maolalai has been nominated eleven times for Best of the Net, eight for the Pushcart Prize. His poetry has been released in three collections, most recently "Sad Havoc Among the Birds" (Turas Press, 2019) and “Noble Rot” (Turas Press, 2022)
Crystal Murr is an avid reader and owl enthusiast from Merritt Island, Florida. She is currently working to complete both her BA in English and Spanish from the University of North Florida. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Divot: A Journal of Poetry, Listen to Her UNF, and Collision Literary Magazine.
Marc Isaac Potter (we/they/them) … is a differently-abled writer living in the SF Bay Area. Marc’s interests include blogging by email and Zen. They have been published in Fiery Scribe Review, Feral A Journal of Poetry and Art, Poetic Sun Poetry, and Provenance Journal. Twitter is @marcisaacpotter.
James Spear received a degree in English literature from somewhere. He is uncertain which direction the diploma fled. It had its reasons. The short story Zippo is his first publication.
Karen Regen Tuero's fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train Stories, North American Review, The Literary Review, and other national literary journals. She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and works in the television industry.
Gabriel Welsch's first collection of short stories, Groundscratchers, was published by Tolsun Books in October 2021. He also is the author of four collections of poems: The Four Horsepersons of a Disappointing Apocalypse, The Death of Flying Things, An Eye Fluent in Gray, and Dirt and All Its Dense Labor. His work has appeared widely, in journals including Georgia Review, Ploughshares, Southern Review, THRUSH, Harvard Review, Moon City Review, Lake Effect, Mid-American Review, and Missouri Review. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with his family, and works as vice president of marketing and communications at Duquesne University.
