CONTRIBUTORS
Elizabeth Blandon was raised in Miami, Florida.
She attended Boston University (journalism and French literature) and the University of Pennsylvania (law), and she is now an attorney living in Weston, Florida. She has published four short stories in the past two years.
Charlie Boodman's fiction has appeared in Fresh Boiled Peanuts, Pointed Circle, The Writers Post Journal, Lullwater Review, The Griffin, The Madison Review, Wisconsin Review, Straylight, Talking River, and First Class. He lives with his dog, Buford, in Boca Raton, Florida.
Colin Clancy lives in Michigan's Upper Peninsula on the shore of Lake Superior. He spends his free time playing outside and screen printing shirts for his website, bigwaterapparel.com. His work has been published or is forthcoming in Border Crossing, The Summerset Review, Word Riot, and others.
Bob Daniels is constantly writing, raising two young boys and holding down a full time job coordinating a literacy council.
Tawnysha Greene is currently a Ph.D. candidate in fiction writing at the University of Tennessee. Her work has appeared in various literary journals including Bellingham Review and Raleigh Review and is forthcoming in PANK Magazine.
Yvonne Higgins Leach earned her Bachelor of Arts in English from Washington State University and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Poetry from Eastern Washington University. She lives near Seattle, Washington, with her husband and two daughters, and works as a director of communications for The Boeing Company. .Her literary work has appeared or is forthcoming in Arnazella Literary Arts Magazine, The Cape Rock, Carquinez Poetry Review, Chaffin Journal, Cimarron Review, Clackamas Literary Review, Compass Rose, CQ (California Quarterly), The Distillery, Eureka Literary Magazine, Evansville Review, The Griffin, Hazmat Review, Hiram Poetry Review, The Louisville Review, Lullwater Review, Meridian Anthology Of Contemporary Poetry, Nassau Review, Owen Wister Review, Pearl, Pennsylvania English, Phantasmagoria, Phi Kappa Phi Forum, Phoebe, Pig Iron Press, Poem, Quercus Review, RiverSedge, Sanskrit, The South Carolina Review, South Dakota Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Verdad, Westview, Willow Review, Wisconsin Review, and Zillah.
Barry W. North is a sixty-eight-year-old retired refrigeration mechanic. Since his retirement in 2007, he has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize, won the 2010 A. E. Coppard Prize for Fiction, and, more recently, won Honorable Mention in the 2011 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Paterson Literary Review, Slipstream, The Dos Passos Review, Hawaii Pacific Review, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Amoskeag, and others. He has published two chapbooks. Along the Highway, a fiction chapbook, was published by White Eagle Coffee Store Press in 2010, and his first chapbook of poems, Terminally Human, was just published by Finishing Line Press. For more information visit his website www.barrynorth.org.
Fred Ostrander is a poetry editor of Blue Unicorn. His work has been published variously in literary magazines and reviews, including Drumvoices Revue, Eclipse, Hawaii Pacific Review, Hawaii Review, Nimrod, Permafrost, Poetry International, Porcupine, Rattle, The Texas Review, Willow Review, Wisconsin Review, and Zone 3, among many others. He was the featured poet in Volume XXII of Sulphur River Literary Review.
Brian Rodan is a native of Pennsylvania. He has lived many years in the Pacific Northwest. He lives there with his wife in two children engulfed in moss and rain.
Danny Earl Simmons is an Oregonian and a proud graduate of Corvallis High School. He is a friend of the Linn-Benton Community College Poetry Club and an active member of Albany Civic Theater. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in various journals such as Naugatuck River Review, Avatar Review, Summerset Review, Burningword, and Pirene’s Fountain.
Ken Wheatcroft-Pardue is an essayist, poet, short story writer, and high school English-as-a-Second Language teacher, living in obscurity in beautiful Fort Worth, Texas.
When not teaching, he's usually writing. Most recently he has had poems in redriverreview.com, Illya's Honey and Amarillo Bay. Besides that, his essays have appeared in The Texas Observer, The San Antonio Express-News, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, The Dallas Peace Times, and The Fort Worth Weekly. His stories have been published in Lynx Eye, Hardboiled, and the on-line literary journals Scrivener's Pen, SouthLit.com, Verdad.com, and The Write Room.
She attended Boston University (journalism and French literature) and the University of Pennsylvania (law), and she is now an attorney living in Weston, Florida. She has published four short stories in the past two years.
Charlie Boodman's fiction has appeared in Fresh Boiled Peanuts, Pointed Circle, The Writers Post Journal, Lullwater Review, The Griffin, The Madison Review, Wisconsin Review, Straylight, Talking River, and First Class. He lives with his dog, Buford, in Boca Raton, Florida.
Colin Clancy lives in Michigan's Upper Peninsula on the shore of Lake Superior. He spends his free time playing outside and screen printing shirts for his website, bigwaterapparel.com. His work has been published or is forthcoming in Border Crossing, The Summerset Review, Word Riot, and others.
Bob Daniels is constantly writing, raising two young boys and holding down a full time job coordinating a literacy council.
Tawnysha Greene is currently a Ph.D. candidate in fiction writing at the University of Tennessee. Her work has appeared in various literary journals including Bellingham Review and Raleigh Review and is forthcoming in PANK Magazine.
Yvonne Higgins Leach earned her Bachelor of Arts in English from Washington State University and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Poetry from Eastern Washington University. She lives near Seattle, Washington, with her husband and two daughters, and works as a director of communications for The Boeing Company. .Her literary work has appeared or is forthcoming in Arnazella Literary Arts Magazine, The Cape Rock, Carquinez Poetry Review, Chaffin Journal, Cimarron Review, Clackamas Literary Review, Compass Rose, CQ (California Quarterly), The Distillery, Eureka Literary Magazine, Evansville Review, The Griffin, Hazmat Review, Hiram Poetry Review, The Louisville Review, Lullwater Review, Meridian Anthology Of Contemporary Poetry, Nassau Review, Owen Wister Review, Pearl, Pennsylvania English, Phantasmagoria, Phi Kappa Phi Forum, Phoebe, Pig Iron Press, Poem, Quercus Review, RiverSedge, Sanskrit, The South Carolina Review, South Dakota Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Verdad, Westview, Willow Review, Wisconsin Review, and Zillah.
Barry W. North is a sixty-eight-year-old retired refrigeration mechanic. Since his retirement in 2007, he has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize, won the 2010 A. E. Coppard Prize for Fiction, and, more recently, won Honorable Mention in the 2011 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Paterson Literary Review, Slipstream, The Dos Passos Review, Hawaii Pacific Review, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Amoskeag, and others. He has published two chapbooks. Along the Highway, a fiction chapbook, was published by White Eagle Coffee Store Press in 2010, and his first chapbook of poems, Terminally Human, was just published by Finishing Line Press. For more information visit his website www.barrynorth.org.
Fred Ostrander is a poetry editor of Blue Unicorn. His work has been published variously in literary magazines and reviews, including Drumvoices Revue, Eclipse, Hawaii Pacific Review, Hawaii Review, Nimrod, Permafrost, Poetry International, Porcupine, Rattle, The Texas Review, Willow Review, Wisconsin Review, and Zone 3, among many others. He was the featured poet in Volume XXII of Sulphur River Literary Review.
Brian Rodan is a native of Pennsylvania. He has lived many years in the Pacific Northwest. He lives there with his wife in two children engulfed in moss and rain.
Danny Earl Simmons is an Oregonian and a proud graduate of Corvallis High School. He is a friend of the Linn-Benton Community College Poetry Club and an active member of Albany Civic Theater. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in various journals such as Naugatuck River Review, Avatar Review, Summerset Review, Burningword, and Pirene’s Fountain.
Ken Wheatcroft-Pardue is an essayist, poet, short story writer, and high school English-as-a-Second Language teacher, living in obscurity in beautiful Fort Worth, Texas.
When not teaching, he's usually writing. Most recently he has had poems in redriverreview.com, Illya's Honey and Amarillo Bay. Besides that, his essays have appeared in The Texas Observer, The San Antonio Express-News, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, The Dallas Peace Times, and The Fort Worth Weekly. His stories have been published in Lynx Eye, Hardboiled, and the on-line literary journals Scrivener's Pen, SouthLit.com, Verdad.com, and The Write Room.