CONTRIBUTORS
Marie Anderson is a Chicago area married mother of three millennials. Her stories have appeared in dozens of publications, most recently (in 2024) including The Mersey Review, Fiction on the Web, Twenty Two Twenty Eight, Coffin Bell Journal, and After Dinner Conversation. She has two collections of stories available on Amazon: What Good Moms Do and Other Stories and Sharp Curves Ahead. Since 2009 she has led and learned from a writing critique group at a public library in La Grange, IL.
Jonathan Berzer has published fiction in Blue Lake Review, 34th Parallel Magazine, and The Citron Review. An excerpt of his novel Antidote was a winner of the 2022 Novel Slices Writing Contest and appeared in Novel Slices issue 4. He received his MFA from Antioch University Los Angeles and lives in LA.
Dennis Donoghue's work has been published in various magazines and journals, both online and in print. His first memoir, The Final One Eighty, about his last year teaching sixth grade before he retired, was published by Adelaide Books in 2020. He is presently seeking a publisher of his second memoir, We'll Do What's Best for You which covers 27 months when he was a certified nursing assistant in a nursing home during COVID.
George Freek's poem "Enigmatic Variations" was recently nominated for Best of the Net. His poem "Night Thoughts" was also nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Paul Genega is a septuagenarian queer poet living in upstate New York. His work appeared most recently in the blog Best American Poetry, Narrative Northeast and This Broken Shore. Salmon Poetry published Outtakes: New and Selected Poems in 2023.
Bruce McRae, a Canadian musician, is a multiple Pushcart nominee with poems published in hundreds of magazines such as Poetry, Rattle and the North American Review. The winner of the 2020 Libretto prize and author of four poetry collections and seven chapbooks, his next book, Boxing In The Bone Orchard is coming out in the Spring of 2025 via Frontenac House.
Mark Russ is a psychiatrist in Westchester County, New York. He was born in Cuba, the son of Holocaust survivors. He has contributed to the psychiatric literature throughout his career and has recently begun to publish short stories and nonfiction pieces. His work has appeared in The Jewish Writing Project, The Minison Project, Jewishfiction.net, The Concrete Desert Review, Literally Stories, Fig Tree Lit, Of the book, and Sortes.
Yash Seyedbagheri is a graduate of Colorado State University's MFA fiction program. His stories, “Soon,” “How To Be A Good Episcopalian,” “Tales From A Communion Line,” and “Community Time,” have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. His work has been published in SmokeLong Quarterly, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, and Ariel Chart, among others. He has been working on a short story collection centered around two siblings and their quest for the American Dream. Yash lives in Garden Valley, Idaho.
Connie Song writes short stories and bruised poetry from the edge of Brooklyn, New York. Her works include The Grimalkin, The Ghost of Stillwell Avenue, Evil Eye, Perfect Girls, and Souls for Sale.
Elizabeth Toman has published short fiction in Halfway Down the Stairs, CALYX, and Emerge 19, the anthology of the Writer's Studio at Simon Fraser University, where she completed the creative writing program in 2019. Her novella, Our Cadaver, won the Etchings Press Novella Award in 2023. She has also published nonfiction essays on medical practice in the Annals of Internal Medicine and works as a primary care physician in New Mexico.
