Contributors

C o n t r i b u t o r s

Rose Auslander is Poetry Editor of Folded Word Press and co-editor of the Twitter anthology, On A Narrow Windowsill. Rose has read her poems on NPR; her poem “For You Mothers”  received a Pushcart nomination; “Oh My” received a Best of the Net nomination and she is a Regular Contributor to Referential Magazine.  Look for her work in RHP, The Dead Mule and the Red Dirt Review.

F.J. Bergmann has given up a regular job for the irregularity of freelance work. Which does not, she was disappointed to discover, involve going around trying to stick a spear in things. Don't worry: the dragons are still unpunctured. Visit her at fibitz.com.

Ben Clark is the author of Reasons to Leave the Slaughter (Write Bloody 2011). Colin Winnette is the author of: Revelation (Mutable Sound 2011), Animal Collection (Spork Press 2012), and A Long Line of Diggers: Two Novellas (forthcoming Atticus Books 2013).These poems are from Kate Jury Denton Texas, a book written collaboratively by Clark and Winnette.They can be found online at www.benclarkpoetry.com and www.colinwinnette.com.

Mary Cresswell is from Los Angeles and lives on New Zealand’s Kapiti Coast. Read more about her here.

Mary Stone Dockery's first poetry collection, Mythology of Touch, was released by Woodley Press in 2012. She is the author of two chapbooks, Aching Buttons (Dancing Girl Press) and Blink Finch (Kattywompus Press), both forthcoming in 2012. She is a co-author of the collaborative chapbook Honey and Bandages (Folded Word Press 2013), written with Katie Longofono. Her poetry and prose has appeared in many fine journals. She currently lives in St. Joseph, MO where she co-edits the Stone Highway Review.

Richard J. Fleming attended Northern Illinois University and Loyola University's Mundelein College. He has a BA in English Literature, and also, a BA in Fine Art. He is a member of Woodstock Nation. He is a resident of Chicago.

Bridget Gage-Dixon's work has appeared in various journals including Poet Lore, The Cortland Review, and Gargoyle.

Betty Ann Gershkoff lives in the Florida panhandle. She has had a few short stories published under the name Betty Seek. All of her critters came from the animal shelter.

D. Gilson is a PhD candidate at George Washington University. His chapbook, Catch & Release, won the 2011 Robin Becker Prize from Seven Kitchens Press. His work has appeared in Moon City Review, Plain Spoke, The Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere.

Howie Good, a journalism professor at SUNY New Paltz, is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Dreaming in Red from Right Hand Pointing and Cryptic Endearments from Knives Forks & Spoons Press. He has four chapbooks forthcoming, Fog Area from Dog on a Chain Press, The Death of Me from Pig Ear Press, Living Is the Spin Cycle from Redbird Chapbooks, and Strange Roads from Puddle of Sky Press.  

Bev Harp lives and works with an animatronic parrot, Squawkers McCaw, in Lexington, KY.

John Houser was born and raised in Fort Wayne, Indiana, a city resting on the Continental Divide between the Mississippi and St. Lawrence river basins. He is a psychologist and education researcher currently residing in Indianapolis with his wonderful wife and daughter. This is his first published poem.

Jill Khoury lives in Pennsylvania with a scientist, three cats, and a chapbook, Borrowed Bodies, from Pudding House Press.

Kate LaDew is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a BA in Studio Arts.  She resides in Graham, NC, with her cat, Charlie Chaplin. Kate is currently working on her first novel.

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 at: http://bradrosepoetry.blogspot.com

Medeia Starfire is a multi-disciplined artist and writer from Oklahoma, currently living in Seattle, Washington. Her work is forthcoming or recently appeared in Gargoyle, So To Speak, Peregrine, PMS poemmemoirstory, and Dark Sky Magazine.

Ronnie K. Stephens writes poems on his refrigerator every morning. He wrangles teenagers for a living, and sometimes convinces them to turn their poems into new pennies after school. The word victim is constantly challenged in his writing. The only math he knows is balance. If it’s not equal, it’s not finished. His poems have appeared in Naugatuck River Review, The Licking River Review, Weave Magazine, DASH, and PANK, among others.

Andrew J. Stone is a pseudonym for life. Andrew J. Stone is a pseudonym for death. He hates the sun, sleeps under its shine. His work has appeared in over sixty literary journals & he recently published his debut chapbook of ekphrastic poetry, Teenage Angst & The Ekphrastic Exercise. He dwells where the graveyard is always full: http://andrewjstone.blogspot.com/

Ajay Vishwanathan, who seeks therapy in words, has work published or forthcoming in over hundred literary journals, including Smokelong Quarterly, The Baltimore Review, and The Minnesota Review.