Contributors

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

communism, hypnotism and the beatles (Issue 63)

Angele Ellis lives in Pittsburgh, if you can call that living. The author of Arab on Radar (Six Gallery) and Spared (A Main Street Rag Editors’ Choice Chapbook), she recently completed a new chapbook manuscript.

Corey Mesler has published in numerous journals and anthologies. He has published six novels, most recently Gardner Remembers (2011), Frank Comma and the Time-Slip (2012); 2 full-length poetry collections, Some Identity Problems (2008) and Before the Great Troubling (2011); and 3 books of short stories, Listen: 29 Short Conversations (2009), Notes toward the Story and Other Stories (2011) and I’ll Give You Something to Cry About (2011). He has also published a dozen chapbooks of both poetry and prose. His chapbook, The Heart Is Open, was the first print publications from RHP. 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. His fiction has received praise from John Grisham, Robert Olen Butler, Lee Smith, Frederick Barthelme, Greil Marcus, among others. With his wife, he runs Burke’s Book Store in Memphis TN, one of the country’s oldest (1875) and best independent bookstores. He can be found at www.coreymesler.wordpresscom.  

Darren C. Demaree is living in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children. He is the author of As We Refer To Our Bodies (2013) and Not For Art Nor Prayer (2014), both forthcoming from 8th House Publishing House. He is the recipient of two Pushcart Prize nominations.

Evan Turissini is a freshman at Bucknell University. He majors in Theatre, but is also the editor of the Bucknell literary magazine, Fire & Ice. He has been published in Fire & Ice and The Prompt. He doesn't have your lawnmower, so stop asking, Lenny.

Howie Good is a frequent contributor to RHP and has published more poems than there are Mormons in Utah. However, he is not a Mormon. Rather, he is a journalism professor at SUNY New Paltz, is the author of the forthcoming chapbooks The Complete Absence of Twilight (Mad Hat Press), Danger Falling Debris (Red Bird Chapbooks), and An Armed Man Lurks in Ambush (unbound CONTENT).

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.

James M. Croteau lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan with his partner of 28 years, Darryl, and their two Labrador retrievers. He recently decided that poetry is a better way of coping with mortality than is his career as a psychologist. So he is diligently pursuing such. He has had a poem published on a postcard in Hoot: a Postcard review of {mini} poetry and prose and a second poem published in New Verse News. 

Jean McLeod writes a lot of prose and poetry, submits some, is happy when her work is accepted.

Jerrold Yam is a Singaporean law undergraduate at University College London and the author of two poetry collections by Math Paper Press, Scattered Vertebrae (2013) and Chasing Curtained Suns (2012). His poems have been published in more than fifty literary journals worldwide, including Antiphon, Poetry Quarterly, Prick of the Spindle, The New Poet, Third Coast and Washington Square Review. He is the winner of the National University of Singapore's Creative Writing Competition 2011, and has been nominated for a 2013 Pushcart Prize. Visit: jerroldyam.wordpress.com/

Joe Greco is a Northern California lawyer and writer. His stories have appeared in Emprise Review, Bartleby Snopes, 34th Parallel, Still Crazy, Long Story Short, FictionDaily and others.

Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal's poetry has appeared in Blue Collar Review, Orion Headless, and a number of times previously in Right Hand Pointing.  His latest book, Peering Into The Sun, was published by Poet's Democracy (2011).

Mark Danowsky's poetry has recently appeared in Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, Red River Review, Right Hand Pointing, Snow Monkey and The Best of Every Day Poets Anthology Two. He resides in Northwest Philadelphia and works for a private detective agency.

Mary Cresswell is from Los Angeles and lives on New Zealand’s Kapiti Coast. Her third book, Trace Fossils, was published in 2011. More about her here: www.bookcouncil.org.nz/Writers/Profiles/Cresswell,%20Mary

Michele Karas is currently pursuing her MFA in creative writing at the City College of New York. Her plays have been produced in New York City and regionally, and her poems have been published online and in print, most recently in Chronogram and Bohemia. 

Rich Murphy's credits include books, The Apple in the Monkey Tree (Codhill Press) and Voyeur (2008 Gival Press Poetry Award); chapbooks, Great Grandfather (Pudding House Press), Family Secret (Finishing Line Press), Hunting and Pecking (Ahadada Books), Rescue Lines (Right Hand Pointing), Phoems for Mobile Vices (BlazeVox), and Paideia (Aldrich Press). He is writing program director at Bay Path College in Longmeadow, MA.

Richard J. Fleming is a reformed street poet from Chicago. He is a member of Woodstock Nation. He has graduated from Academia. He has had poetry published in Right Hand Pointing, The Rusty Nail, Inkwell Mag, Curio, & Danse Macabre, & forthcoming in Scarlet Literary Magazine.

Sara Biggs Chaney lives in Vermont and teaches writing at Dartmouth College. Her poetry has appeared in Counterexample Poetics and is forthcoming in Stone Highway Review and Sleet Magazine.

Tim McLafferty lives in NYC. A professional drummer, he’s played in Urinetown, Grey Gardens, and all kinds of other groovy places. timmclafferty.com

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