CONTRIBUTORS
Paul David Adkins grew up in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He received an MFAW in Poetry from Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri). He has pieces published in Crab Creek Review, Artful Dodge, Rattle and Chattahoochee Review, among others. He has received two Pushcart Prize nominations as well.
Fausto Barrionuevo was born and raised in Miami, Florida. He has graduated from FIU with a BA in Literature and is currently applying to creative writing programs in the United States. Other than writing, he enjoys surreal art in the local museums and is an avid jazz enthusiast.
Gary Beck. Recent essays by Gary Beck about foreign affairs, political issues, literary topics and homelessness have appeared in AIM Magazine, Elimae, Outcry, Purple Dream, CC & D Magazine, Bergen Street Review, Campbell Corners, Language Exchange, Let Up Magazine, The Oracular Tree, Bedfor-St. Martins Press, Penniless Press, Fine Lines, 63 Channels, Writing Raw, Greensburg Magazine, Slurve Magazine, Poor Mojo Almanack, Wolf Moon Journal, Shelf Life, The Recusant, International Zeitschrift, Straitjacket Magazine, The Fear of Monkeys, Poetic Matrix Press and Gently Read. Gary Beck has spent most of his adult life as a theater director and worked as an art dealer when he couldn't earn a living in the theater. He has also been a tennis pro, a ditch digger and a salvage diver. His chapbook Remembrance was published by Origami Condom Press, The Conquest of Somalia' was published by Cervena Barva Press, The Dance of Hate was published by Calliope Nerve Media and was published by Silkworms Ink, Mutilated Girls is being published by Bedouin Press and Dispossessed is being published by Medulla Press. A collection of his poetry Days of Destruction was published in by Skive Press. Another collection Expectations'was published by Rogue Scholars press. His original plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes and Sophocles have been produced Off Broadway and toured colleges and outdoor performance venues. His poetry has appeared in hundreds of literary magazines. He currently lives in New York City.
A. Frank Bower took early retirement from mental health work in 2006 to write and spend time with his wife Carol. His fiction appeared in"Down in the Dirt, Mature Years, Lady Jane's Miscellany,Sangam, Bewildering Stories, Glossolalia"and the Whispering Angel Books anthology Living Lessons. Pocket Smut, Write This, and " will publish stories in months to come. His New Farm is available for download at bookstogonow.com.
Matthew Dexter is an American writer living in Mexico. He survives in Cabo San Lucas. He's the Lil Wayne of literature.
WIlliam Doreski's work has appeared in various e and print journals and in several collections, most recently Waiting for the Angel (Pygmy Forest Press, 2009).
Laury A. Egan’s work has received nominations for a Pushcart Prize, “Best of the Web,” and “Best of the Net.” Two of her stories were selected for “story of the week” by Short Story America, where they were read in 56 countries and will be included in their 2010 anthology. Her fiction has appeared in Tryst, The Battered Suitcase, Grasslimb, In the Mist, Paradigm, Leaf Garden, The Maynard, Broomstick Books, Conte, Rose & Thorn Journal, Up the Staircase, Greensilk Journal, and is forthcoming in Punkin House Digest, Blue Moon Literary & Art Review, and anthologies published by Static Movement Press and Rebel Books (UK). Her full-length poetry collection, Snow, Shadows, a Stranger, was issued by FootHills Publishing in 2009. In addition to writing prose and poetry, she is a fine arts photographer. Web site: www.lauryaegan.com
Donal Mahoney, a native of Chicago, lives in St. Louis, MO. He has worked as an editor for The Chicago Sun-Times, Loyola University Press and Washington University in St. Louis. One of many Pushcart Prize nominees, he has had poems published in The Wisconsin Review, The Kansas Quarterly, The South Carolina Review, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Commonweal, Revival (Ireland), The Istanbul Literary Review (Turkey), Public Republic (Bulgaria), Whisper, Calliope Nerve and other publications.
Tim Mayo’s poems and reviews have appeared, or will appear, in Atlanta Review, Poetry International, Poet Lore, Verse Wisconsin, Verse Daily, and The Writer’s Almanac . His full length collection The Kingdom of Possibilities (Mayapple Press, 2009) was a semi finalist for the 2009 Brittingham and Pollock Awards and a finalist for 2009 May Swenson Award. He was chosen as a top finalist for the 2009 Paumanok Award.
Corey Mesler has published in numerous journals and anthologies. He has published four novels, Talk: A Novel in Dialogue (2002), We Are Billion-Year-Old Carbon (2006), The Ballad of the Two Tom Mores (2010) and Following Richard Brautigan (2010), a full length poetry collection, Some Identity Problems (2008), and a book of short stories, Listen: 29 Short Conversations (2009). He has also published a dozen chapbooks of both poetry and prose. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize numerous times, and two of his poems have been chosen for Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac. He also claims to have written, "Your Auntie Grizelda." With his wife, he runs Burke's Book Store, one of the country's oldest (1875) and best independent bookstores. He can be found at www.coreymesler.com.
Dorene O’Brien is a fiction writer and a teacher of creative writing at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. She has won numerous awards for her fiction, including the international Bridport Prize, Red Rock Review’s Mark Twain Award for Short Fiction, the New Millennium Writings Fiction Award and the Chicago Tribune Nelson Algren Award. She was also awarded a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her short stories have appeared in the Connecticut Review, the Chicago Tribune, Carve Magazine, Passages North, New Millennium Writings, Cimarron Review, Detroit Noir and others. Her short story collection, Voices of the Lost and Found, won the 2008 National Best Book Award in short fiction.
Sergio Ortiz is a retired educator, poet, and photographer. He has a B.A. in English literature, and a M.A. in philosophy. Flutter Press released his debut chapbook, At the Tail End of Dusk, October 2009. Ronin Press released his second chapbook, topography of a desire, May 2010. Avantacular Press released his first photographic chapbook: The Sugarcane Harvest, May 2010. His third chapbook: Wet Stones and Bedbugs in My Mattress, will be released by Flutter Press, November 2010. He was recently published, or is forthcoming in: Fried Eye, Shot Glass Journal, Cavalier Literary Couture, and Touch: The Journal of Healing. He is a three-time nominee to the 2010 Sundress Best of the Web Anthology, and a 2010 Pushcart Nominee.
Tom Sheehan has 13 books, 14 Pushcart nominations, Georges Simenon Fiction Award, included in Dzanc Best of the Web Anthology for 2009, nominated for 2010 and 2011. He has 165 cowboy short stories on Rope and Wire Magazine and has appeared in Rosebud Magazine (3), Ocean Magazine (7), Succour, Neon, and Lady Jane’s Miscellany, among others.
Paul David Adkins grew up in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He received an MFAW in Poetry from Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri). He has pieces published in Crab Creek Review, Artful Dodge, Rattle and Chattahoochee Review, among others. He has received two Pushcart Prize nominations as well.
Fausto Barrionuevo was born and raised in Miami, Florida. He has graduated from FIU with a BA in Literature and is currently applying to creative writing programs in the United States. Other than writing, he enjoys surreal art in the local museums and is an avid jazz enthusiast.
Gary Beck. Recent essays by Gary Beck about foreign affairs, political issues, literary topics and homelessness have appeared in AIM Magazine, Elimae, Outcry, Purple Dream, CC & D Magazine, Bergen Street Review, Campbell Corners, Language Exchange, Let Up Magazine, The Oracular Tree, Bedfor-St. Martins Press, Penniless Press, Fine Lines, 63 Channels, Writing Raw, Greensburg Magazine, Slurve Magazine, Poor Mojo Almanack, Wolf Moon Journal, Shelf Life, The Recusant, International Zeitschrift, Straitjacket Magazine, The Fear of Monkeys, Poetic Matrix Press and Gently Read. Gary Beck has spent most of his adult life as a theater director and worked as an art dealer when he couldn't earn a living in the theater. He has also been a tennis pro, a ditch digger and a salvage diver. His chapbook Remembrance was published by Origami Condom Press, The Conquest of Somalia' was published by Cervena Barva Press, The Dance of Hate was published by Calliope Nerve Media and was published by Silkworms Ink, Mutilated Girls is being published by Bedouin Press and Dispossessed is being published by Medulla Press. A collection of his poetry Days of Destruction was published in by Skive Press. Another collection Expectations'was published by Rogue Scholars press. His original plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes and Sophocles have been produced Off Broadway and toured colleges and outdoor performance venues. His poetry has appeared in hundreds of literary magazines. He currently lives in New York City.
A. Frank Bower took early retirement from mental health work in 2006 to write and spend time with his wife Carol. His fiction appeared in"Down in the Dirt, Mature Years, Lady Jane's Miscellany,Sangam, Bewildering Stories, Glossolalia"and the Whispering Angel Books anthology Living Lessons. Pocket Smut, Write This, and " will publish stories in months to come. His New Farm is available for download at bookstogonow.com.
Matthew Dexter is an American writer living in Mexico. He survives in Cabo San Lucas. He's the Lil Wayne of literature.
WIlliam Doreski's work has appeared in various e and print journals and in several collections, most recently Waiting for the Angel (Pygmy Forest Press, 2009).
Laury A. Egan’s work has received nominations for a Pushcart Prize, “Best of the Web,” and “Best of the Net.” Two of her stories were selected for “story of the week” by Short Story America, where they were read in 56 countries and will be included in their 2010 anthology. Her fiction has appeared in Tryst, The Battered Suitcase, Grasslimb, In the Mist, Paradigm, Leaf Garden, The Maynard, Broomstick Books, Conte, Rose & Thorn Journal, Up the Staircase, Greensilk Journal, and is forthcoming in Punkin House Digest, Blue Moon Literary & Art Review, and anthologies published by Static Movement Press and Rebel Books (UK). Her full-length poetry collection, Snow, Shadows, a Stranger, was issued by FootHills Publishing in 2009. In addition to writing prose and poetry, she is a fine arts photographer. Web site: www.lauryaegan.com
Donal Mahoney, a native of Chicago, lives in St. Louis, MO. He has worked as an editor for The Chicago Sun-Times, Loyola University Press and Washington University in St. Louis. One of many Pushcart Prize nominees, he has had poems published in The Wisconsin Review, The Kansas Quarterly, The South Carolina Review, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Commonweal, Revival (Ireland), The Istanbul Literary Review (Turkey), Public Republic (Bulgaria), Whisper, Calliope Nerve and other publications.
Tim Mayo’s poems and reviews have appeared, or will appear, in Atlanta Review, Poetry International, Poet Lore, Verse Wisconsin, Verse Daily, and The Writer’s Almanac . His full length collection The Kingdom of Possibilities (Mayapple Press, 2009) was a semi finalist for the 2009 Brittingham and Pollock Awards and a finalist for 2009 May Swenson Award. He was chosen as a top finalist for the 2009 Paumanok Award.
Corey Mesler has published in numerous journals and anthologies. He has published four novels, Talk: A Novel in Dialogue (2002), We Are Billion-Year-Old Carbon (2006), The Ballad of the Two Tom Mores (2010) and Following Richard Brautigan (2010), a full length poetry collection, Some Identity Problems (2008), and a book of short stories, Listen: 29 Short Conversations (2009). He has also published a dozen chapbooks of both poetry and prose. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize numerous times, and two of his poems have been chosen for Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac. He also claims to have written, "Your Auntie Grizelda." With his wife, he runs Burke's Book Store, one of the country's oldest (1875) and best independent bookstores. He can be found at www.coreymesler.com.
Dorene O’Brien is a fiction writer and a teacher of creative writing at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. She has won numerous awards for her fiction, including the international Bridport Prize, Red Rock Review’s Mark Twain Award for Short Fiction, the New Millennium Writings Fiction Award and the Chicago Tribune Nelson Algren Award. She was also awarded a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her short stories have appeared in the Connecticut Review, the Chicago Tribune, Carve Magazine, Passages North, New Millennium Writings, Cimarron Review, Detroit Noir and others. Her short story collection, Voices of the Lost and Found, won the 2008 National Best Book Award in short fiction.
Sergio Ortiz is a retired educator, poet, and photographer. He has a B.A. in English literature, and a M.A. in philosophy. Flutter Press released his debut chapbook, At the Tail End of Dusk, October 2009. Ronin Press released his second chapbook, topography of a desire, May 2010. Avantacular Press released his first photographic chapbook: The Sugarcane Harvest, May 2010. His third chapbook: Wet Stones and Bedbugs in My Mattress, will be released by Flutter Press, November 2010. He was recently published, or is forthcoming in: Fried Eye, Shot Glass Journal, Cavalier Literary Couture, and Touch: The Journal of Healing. He is a three-time nominee to the 2010 Sundress Best of the Web Anthology, and a 2010 Pushcart Nominee.
Tom Sheehan has 13 books, 14 Pushcart nominations, Georges Simenon Fiction Award, included in Dzanc Best of the Web Anthology for 2009, nominated for 2010 and 2011. He has 165 cowboy short stories on Rope and Wire Magazine and has appeared in Rosebud Magazine (3), Ocean Magazine (7), Succour, Neon, and Lady Jane’s Miscellany, among others.
