Contributors

C o n t r i b u t o r s 

Delaware native Nina Bennett is the author of Forgotten Tears: A Grandmother’s Journey Through Grief. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. Nina’s poem “Déjà Vu” won third place in the Out & About magazine contest. Healthcare provider by day, Nina is a classic rock band chick by night.

Jen Coleman dropped out of high school. She holds a MFA from Hollins University, where she was awarded a full fellowship. Her work has recently appeared in Mêlée Live, Four and Twenty, and The Jackson Hole Review, and is forthcoming in The Innisfree Poetry Journal and The Buddhist Poetry Review. She currently teaches English at Lynchburg College and lives in Roanoke, Virginia, with her two Manx cats.

William Cullen, Jr., is a veteran and works at a non-profit in Brooklyn, NY. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Camroc Press Review, Gulf Stream, Pirene's Fountain, Red Poppy Review, Red River Review, Spillway, Wild Goose Poetry Review and Word Riot.

Trina Gaynon currently volunteers with WriteGirl, an organization providing workshops and mentors in Los Angeles for young women in high school who are interested in writing. Her deeply divided personality moves back and forth between writing sonnets, a way of exploring what she has to say, and more experimental work, a way of exploding into what she needs to say.

Howie Good, a journalism professor at SUNY New Paltz, is the author of the poetry collection, Dreaming in Red, from Right Hand Pointing. All proceeds from the sale of the book go to a crisis center, which you can read about here. He is also the author of numerous chapbooks, including most recently The Devil’s Fuzzy Slippers from Flutter Press and Personal Myths from Writing Knights Press. He has two other chapbooks forthcoming, Fog Area from Dog on a Chain Press and The Death of Me from Pig Ear Press.

Karen Greenbaum-Maya is a retired psychologist in SoCal. Her poems and photos appear in many publications, most recently Poemeleon, The Prose Poem Project, Convergence and The Literary Bohemian. Her second chapbook, The Burrowing Song, will be published by Kattywompus Press in early 2013. www.cloudslikemountains.blogspot.com

Michael Jones teaches at Oakland High School in Oakland, CA. His poetry appears in Atlanta Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and elsewhere.

Linda Lowe received her M.F.A. in poetry from the University of California, Irvine.  A chapbook of her poems, Karmic Negotiations was published by Sarasota Theatre Press. Online, her stories have appeared in The Pedestal Magazine, LITSNACK, and Long Story Short. 

Corey Mesler has published in numerous journals and anthologies, including a number of appearances in RHP, along with a print chapbook from RHP.  He has published five novels, three books of short stories, numerous chapbooks and two full-length poetry collections. He has been nominated for a Pushcart numerous times, and two of his poems have been chosen for Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. He runs a bookstore in Memphis.

Ian Mullins was whelped in Liverpool, England, and has been a dog all of his life. Proof can be found in his chapbook The Dog Outside The Palace Gates.

Brad Rose was born and raised in southern California where he learned to worship the Devil's music. He lives in Boston. His poetry and fiction have appeared in print and on-line at: San Pedro River Review, Off the Coast, Third Wednesday, The Potomac, Imagination and Place, Monkeybicycle, Right Hand Pointing, Boston Literary Magazine, and other publications. Links to his poetry and fiction can be found here. 

Alex Stolis lives in Minneapolis.

David Tomaloff builds things out of ampersands and light. His work has appeared in several anthologies, and in fine publications such as Mud Luscious, A-Minor, >kill author, PANK, and elimae. He is also coauthor of the collaborative poetry collection YOU ARE JAGUAR, with Ryan W. Bradley (Artistically Declined Press, 2012). Send him threats: davidtomaloff.com

Neal Whitman lives with his wife, Elaine, in Pacific Grove, California, and, in nearby Carmel, both are docents at poet Robinson Jeffers Tor House. They combine his poetry and her Native American flute in recitals to raise funds for non-profits.