CONTRIBUTORS
joel fishbane's debut novel, The Thunder of Giants is now available from St. Martin’s Press. His short fiction has been published in a variety of magazines, including the Massachusetts Review, the Saturday Evening Post, nerve.com, Witness, New England Review, and Fifth Wednesday Journal. For more information, visit www.joelfishbane.net.
Rebecca Hanley lives in the country. She tends to her dogs, her four acres of dirt and the writing of short stories. Currently, her writing project is a novel-in-stories or a linked collection. "The Town You Came From" is one she has slated for this project as was a story published in The MacGuffin. A story independent of this project was published by the literary journal Soundings East.
Toby Tucker Hecht's publication credits also include fiction that has appeared in The Baltimore Review, Epiphany, Summerset Review, Jelly Bucket, New Plains Review, and other print and online literary journals. When not writing, she can be found at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland where she works to turn molecules into medicines for the benefit of patients.
Linda Heller received a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, had an honor story in The Best American Short Stories 1991, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, won a Literal Latte Fiction Award and has had stories published in Boulevard, New Letters, The Alaska Quarterly Journal, The Writers’ Rock Quarterly and other literary magazines. She has also written and illustrated fourteen children’s books. The Castle on Hester Street become a classic and is part of the nationwide third grade curriculum.
Christopher Johnson is a writer based in the Chicago area. He’s done a lot of different stuff in his life. He has been a merchant seaman, a high school English teacher, a corporate communications writer, a textbook editor, an educational consultant, and a free-lance writer. He’s published short stories, articles, and essays in The Progressive, Snowy Egret, Earth Island Journal, Chicago Wilderness, American Forests, Chicago Life, Across the Margin, Adelaide Literary Magazine, The Literary Yard, Scarlet Leaf Review, Spillwords Press, Fiction on the Web, Sweet Tree Review, and other journals and magazines. In 2006, the University of New Hampshire Press published his first book, This Grand and Magnificent Place: The Wilderness Heritage of the White Mountains. His second book, which he co-authored with a prominent New Hampshire forester named David Govatski, was Forests for the People: The Story of America’s Eastern National Forests, published by Island Press in 2013.
R. H. Nicholson was born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana into a small, close-knit family. Seriously ill as a child, he began inventing, telling, acting out, and then writing poetry and stories to entertain himself while bedridden. He earned a bachelors and masters degree in English with the intent to follow his passion, writing. But family obligations sidelined him into a long career of teaching. This is his time. This is moment to reclaim that passion. Winner of the 2015 Cincinnati Library Poetry Prize, he has published a few pieces over the years, but is now poised for his breakthrough.
Leslie Philibert is a London born poet resident in Bavaria. His work has been published in both the UK and US.
Dan Raphael's poetry collection Moving with Every was published this June by Flowstone Press. More recent poems appear in Caliban, Otoliths, Projected Letters, Unlikely Stories and Rabid Oak. Most Wednesdays Dan writes and records a current events poem for the KBOO Evening News.
Leonard Tao is currently a graduate student of English language and literature at Hunan University. He also serves as an editor of Mint Reading, where he writes about social background and cultural knowledge in literary works, including places, customs, and myths. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Theory and Practice in Language Studies, Advances in Language and Literary Studies, and elsewhere.
clay waters has had poems published in The Santa Clara Review, River Oak Review, Literal Latte, Roanoke Review, and Poet Lore. He lives near Orlando, Florida.
joel fishbane's debut novel, The Thunder of Giants is now available from St. Martin’s Press. His short fiction has been published in a variety of magazines, including the Massachusetts Review, the Saturday Evening Post, nerve.com, Witness, New England Review, and Fifth Wednesday Journal. For more information, visit www.joelfishbane.net.
Rebecca Hanley lives in the country. She tends to her dogs, her four acres of dirt and the writing of short stories. Currently, her writing project is a novel-in-stories or a linked collection. "The Town You Came From" is one she has slated for this project as was a story published in The MacGuffin. A story independent of this project was published by the literary journal Soundings East.
Toby Tucker Hecht's publication credits also include fiction that has appeared in The Baltimore Review, Epiphany, Summerset Review, Jelly Bucket, New Plains Review, and other print and online literary journals. When not writing, she can be found at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland where she works to turn molecules into medicines for the benefit of patients.
Linda Heller received a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, had an honor story in The Best American Short Stories 1991, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, won a Literal Latte Fiction Award and has had stories published in Boulevard, New Letters, The Alaska Quarterly Journal, The Writers’ Rock Quarterly and other literary magazines. She has also written and illustrated fourteen children’s books. The Castle on Hester Street become a classic and is part of the nationwide third grade curriculum.
Christopher Johnson is a writer based in the Chicago area. He’s done a lot of different stuff in his life. He has been a merchant seaman, a high school English teacher, a corporate communications writer, a textbook editor, an educational consultant, and a free-lance writer. He’s published short stories, articles, and essays in The Progressive, Snowy Egret, Earth Island Journal, Chicago Wilderness, American Forests, Chicago Life, Across the Margin, Adelaide Literary Magazine, The Literary Yard, Scarlet Leaf Review, Spillwords Press, Fiction on the Web, Sweet Tree Review, and other journals and magazines. In 2006, the University of New Hampshire Press published his first book, This Grand and Magnificent Place: The Wilderness Heritage of the White Mountains. His second book, which he co-authored with a prominent New Hampshire forester named David Govatski, was Forests for the People: The Story of America’s Eastern National Forests, published by Island Press in 2013.
R. H. Nicholson was born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana into a small, close-knit family. Seriously ill as a child, he began inventing, telling, acting out, and then writing poetry and stories to entertain himself while bedridden. He earned a bachelors and masters degree in English with the intent to follow his passion, writing. But family obligations sidelined him into a long career of teaching. This is his time. This is moment to reclaim that passion. Winner of the 2015 Cincinnati Library Poetry Prize, he has published a few pieces over the years, but is now poised for his breakthrough.
Leslie Philibert is a London born poet resident in Bavaria. His work has been published in both the UK and US.
Dan Raphael's poetry collection Moving with Every was published this June by Flowstone Press. More recent poems appear in Caliban, Otoliths, Projected Letters, Unlikely Stories and Rabid Oak. Most Wednesdays Dan writes and records a current events poem for the KBOO Evening News.
Leonard Tao is currently a graduate student of English language and literature at Hunan University. He also serves as an editor of Mint Reading, where he writes about social background and cultural knowledge in literary works, including places, customs, and myths. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Theory and Practice in Language Studies, Advances in Language and Literary Studies, and elsewhere.
clay waters has had poems published in The Santa Clara Review, River Oak Review, Literal Latte, Roanoke Review, and Poet Lore. He lives near Orlando, Florida.