CONTRIBUTORS
Barbara Brooks, the author of the chapbooks The Catbird Sang, A Shell to Return to the Sea, and Water Colors is a retired physical therapist. Her work has appeared in Knee Brace Press and Remington Review, among others. She lives in Hillsborough, NC with her dog.
Malcolm Graham Cooper holds an MFA in Fiction from Concordia University, St. Paul. His short stories have appeared in Crack the Spine, Variant, and Chapter House, among others. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2022. Aside from his work in literary fiction, he is a musician and recording artist. He lives in Tucson, AZ.
Norman Danzig has published his stories in several magazines, including a prior appearance in BLR. His story "The Brownstein Vanish," won an Honorable Mention in Glimmer Train (March 2013).
Timothy Dodd is from Mink Shoals, WV. He is the author of short story collections Small Town Mastodons (Cowboy Jamboree Press, forthcoming), Fissures, and Other Stories (Bottom Dog Press), and Men in Midnight Bloom (Cowboy Jamboree Press), as well as poetry collections Orbits 52 (Broadstone Books, forthcoming), Galaxy Drip (Luchador Press, forthcoming), Modern Ancient (High Window Press), and Vital Decay (Cajun Mutt Press). Tim is also co-editor at Southernmost Books and is a visual artist who primarily exhibits in the Philippines. His website is timothybdodd.wordpress.com.
James W. Fried graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a political science degree and a love of writing. He currently has four novel manuscripts in various stages of completion and over fifty completed short stories. His latest stories—"Suffering and Playing Handball Off a Curb—were published in 2023. The fiction he’s written is drawn from his forty-five years of experience as an investment banker, legislator, and lobbyist. Previously, he co-authored The Winning Edge (with Jack Fried), a nonfiction book that chronicles a college football team’s season-long journey to a national championship. To learn more about James and his writing, please go to jameswfried.com.
Bruce Gunther is a former journalist and writer who lives in Bay City, MI. He's a graduate of Central Michigan University. His poems have appeared in the Dunes Review, the Remington Review, Arc Poetry, Modern Haiku, and others.
Gary Moshimer has stories in Frigg, Smokelong Quarterly, Wigleaf, Eclectica, Necessary Fiction, Flash Frog, and many other places.
James B. Nicola is the author of eight collections of poetry, the latest three being Fires of Heaven: Poems of Faith and Sense, Turns & Twists, and Natural Tendencies. His nonfiction book Playing the Audience: The Practical Actor’s Guide to Live Performance won a Choice magazine award. A graduate of Yale, he has received a Dana Literary Award, two Willow Review awards, Storyteller's People's Choice award, one Best of Net, one Rhysling, and eleven Pushcart nominations—for which he feels stunned and grateful.
Amanda Smith-Hatch lives and writes on the "North Coast"-- the shore of Lake Ontario. Her poems are informed by the flora, fauna, and changing landscape of the region.
