CONTRIBUTORS
Elison Alcovendaz's work has appeared in Gargoyle, under the gum tree, Calliope, and other publications. He is a five-time winner of the Bazzanella Literary Award and once read ten pages of Atlas Shrugged. In one sitting.
Anne Goodwin writes fiction, short and long, and a blog that hovers somewhat closer to reality. She often juggles her sentences on long walks in the English countryside only to lose them again when battling the slugs in her vegetable plot. She loves fiction for the freedom to contradict and continually reinvent herself, and hopes that eventually someone will want to publish her novel. Read the full story via her website http://annegoodwin.weebly.com/ or tweet her at @Annecdotist.
Sandy Hiortdahl is a recipient of the Sophie Kerr Prize. She has an M.F.A. from George Mason University and a Ph.D. from The Catholic University of America. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming this year in THEMA, Punchnel’s, Barely South Review, and other fine journals. Sandy lives with her best friend, Kismo Blue, an Australian Cattle Dog, in a tiny brick house in suburban East Tennessee. More may be found on her website: www.sandyhiortdahl.com
Scott Archer Jones is currently living and working on his fifth novel in northern New Mexico, after stints in the Netherlands, Scotland and Norway plus less exotic locations. He’s worked for a power company, grocers, a lumberyard, an energy company (for a very long time), and a winery. A new writer, he has received an honorable mention in the E. M. Koeppel Short Fiction Contest, and been a finalist in the Glimmer Train 2008 Fiction Open and the SouthWest Writers Annual Contest (twice). He's been published at Copperfield, Faircloth, Foliate Oak, The Rusty Nail, the Prague Review, Stepping Stones, Whistling Fire and shortly at Bookends, Circa, and Life As An [insert label here]. He is on the masthead at the Prague Review. Scott cuts all his own firewood, lives a mile from his nearest neighbor and writes grant applications for the community. He is the Treasurer of Shuter Library of Angel Fire, a private 501.C3, and desperately needs your money to keep the doors open.
Mikel K is a poet and memoirist living in Mableton, Ga., a suburb of Atlanta, with his photographer-artist partner Just Joan, and their three dogs, two cats, two turtles, and bird. K was voting best Atlanta Poet, the last two years in a row, by readers of Creative Loafing, Atlanta's weekly newspaper. Poetry by Mikel K has appeared in: Subtle Tea, drown in my own fears, poetic diversity, Zygote In My Coffee, The Georgia Review, The Reeve Report, Lowlife Magazine, The Political Dogma, World Wide Hippies.com, Open Salon, and Beagle Bugle. You can buy a book by K at http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/mikelkpoet
Richard Luftig is a former professor of educational psychology and special education at Miami University in Ohio now residing in Pomona, CA. He is a recipient of the Cincinnati Post-Corbett Foundation Award for Literature and a semi finalist for the Emily Dickinson Society Award. His poems have appeared in numerous literary journals in the United States and internationally in Japan, Canada, Australia, Europe, Thailand, Hong Kong and India. One of his published poems was nominated for the 2012 Pushcart Poetry Prize.
Jonas Rolett first went to Albania in 1993 to open an office for an American non-profit called the National Democratic Institute (NDI). His job was to help a group of civic activists develop an election monitoring organization. He spent about a year based in Tirana, the capital, mostly in the company of rambunctious young volunteers, whose interest in democracy was often eclipsed by their appetite for play. Together they built a national network of activists, traveling Albania’s busted roads in a boxy and uncomfortable Russian Lada. He fell for the place instantly.
Since then he has made 2-3 trips to Albania every year - about 50 altogether - at first for NDI and since 1998 on behalf of the Open Society Foundations. In these
roles he has closely followed political, economic and social events, meeting
with both high officials and ordinary citizens to design programs and make
grants to foster the country’s development. Over the years he has given
interviews on Albania (and the Balkans more generally) to NPR and CNN, testified
at a number of Congressional hearings and think tank panels, and written for
the Huffington Post. Besides maintaining close professional engagement
with the country and its people, he is married to an Albanian (who came with
the standard clan attached to any Balkan family). His two children faithfully
attend language classes once a week and spend part of their summers in Tirana,
as does he.
Lois Greene Stone, writer and poet, has been syndicated worldwide. Poetry and personal essays have been included in hard & softcover book anthologies. Collections of her personal items/ photos/ memorabilia are in major museums including twelve different divisions of The Smithsonian.
Kenneth Trimble lives in South Eastern Australia, in the Yarra Valley. He is published by www.littlefoxpublishing.com Soon will be releasing 'The ghost to his green'/a tribute to Dylan Thomas. Work has appeared in India, Europe, America, Australia. He is influenced by the Beats, Charles Bukowski, Dylan Thomas. He lives on a mountain.
Kovina Wright is a California native, a writer and an artist.
Anne Goodwin writes fiction, short and long, and a blog that hovers somewhat closer to reality. She often juggles her sentences on long walks in the English countryside only to lose them again when battling the slugs in her vegetable plot. She loves fiction for the freedom to contradict and continually reinvent herself, and hopes that eventually someone will want to publish her novel. Read the full story via her website http://annegoodwin.weebly.com/ or tweet her at @Annecdotist.
Sandy Hiortdahl is a recipient of the Sophie Kerr Prize. She has an M.F.A. from George Mason University and a Ph.D. from The Catholic University of America. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming this year in THEMA, Punchnel’s, Barely South Review, and other fine journals. Sandy lives with her best friend, Kismo Blue, an Australian Cattle Dog, in a tiny brick house in suburban East Tennessee. More may be found on her website: www.sandyhiortdahl.com
Scott Archer Jones is currently living and working on his fifth novel in northern New Mexico, after stints in the Netherlands, Scotland and Norway plus less exotic locations. He’s worked for a power company, grocers, a lumberyard, an energy company (for a very long time), and a winery. A new writer, he has received an honorable mention in the E. M. Koeppel Short Fiction Contest, and been a finalist in the Glimmer Train 2008 Fiction Open and the SouthWest Writers Annual Contest (twice). He's been published at Copperfield, Faircloth, Foliate Oak, The Rusty Nail, the Prague Review, Stepping Stones, Whistling Fire and shortly at Bookends, Circa, and Life As An [insert label here]. He is on the masthead at the Prague Review. Scott cuts all his own firewood, lives a mile from his nearest neighbor and writes grant applications for the community. He is the Treasurer of Shuter Library of Angel Fire, a private 501.C3, and desperately needs your money to keep the doors open.
Mikel K is a poet and memoirist living in Mableton, Ga., a suburb of Atlanta, with his photographer-artist partner Just Joan, and their three dogs, two cats, two turtles, and bird. K was voting best Atlanta Poet, the last two years in a row, by readers of Creative Loafing, Atlanta's weekly newspaper. Poetry by Mikel K has appeared in: Subtle Tea, drown in my own fears, poetic diversity, Zygote In My Coffee, The Georgia Review, The Reeve Report, Lowlife Magazine, The Political Dogma, World Wide Hippies.com, Open Salon, and Beagle Bugle. You can buy a book by K at http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/mikelkpoet
Richard Luftig is a former professor of educational psychology and special education at Miami University in Ohio now residing in Pomona, CA. He is a recipient of the Cincinnati Post-Corbett Foundation Award for Literature and a semi finalist for the Emily Dickinson Society Award. His poems have appeared in numerous literary journals in the United States and internationally in Japan, Canada, Australia, Europe, Thailand, Hong Kong and India. One of his published poems was nominated for the 2012 Pushcart Poetry Prize.
Jonas Rolett first went to Albania in 1993 to open an office for an American non-profit called the National Democratic Institute (NDI). His job was to help a group of civic activists develop an election monitoring organization. He spent about a year based in Tirana, the capital, mostly in the company of rambunctious young volunteers, whose interest in democracy was often eclipsed by their appetite for play. Together they built a national network of activists, traveling Albania’s busted roads in a boxy and uncomfortable Russian Lada. He fell for the place instantly.
Since then he has made 2-3 trips to Albania every year - about 50 altogether - at first for NDI and since 1998 on behalf of the Open Society Foundations. In these
roles he has closely followed political, economic and social events, meeting
with both high officials and ordinary citizens to design programs and make
grants to foster the country’s development. Over the years he has given
interviews on Albania (and the Balkans more generally) to NPR and CNN, testified
at a number of Congressional hearings and think tank panels, and written for
the Huffington Post. Besides maintaining close professional engagement
with the country and its people, he is married to an Albanian (who came with
the standard clan attached to any Balkan family). His two children faithfully
attend language classes once a week and spend part of their summers in Tirana,
as does he.
Lois Greene Stone, writer and poet, has been syndicated worldwide. Poetry and personal essays have been included in hard & softcover book anthologies. Collections of her personal items/ photos/ memorabilia are in major museums including twelve different divisions of The Smithsonian.
Kenneth Trimble lives in South Eastern Australia, in the Yarra Valley. He is published by www.littlefoxpublishing.com Soon will be releasing 'The ghost to his green'/a tribute to Dylan Thomas. Work has appeared in India, Europe, America, Australia. He is influenced by the Beats, Charles Bukowski, Dylan Thomas. He lives on a mountain.
Kovina Wright is a California native, a writer and an artist.
