Contributors

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

Christina Murphy is a frequent submitter to journals that reject her work but do wish her luck “with future endeavors.” She is most appreciative of journals that like her present endeavors and publish her work, including, most recently, PANK, Winamop, North Chicago Review, and Dr. Hurley’s Snake Oil Cure.

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). 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.wordpress.com.  

Eric Burke lives in Columbus, Ohio. He has an MA in Classics from The Ohio State University but has worked as a computer programmer for the past 15 years. More of his poems and short fiction can be found in previous issues of Right Hand Pointing, as well as in elimae, PANK, decomP, bluestem, qarrtsiluni, Thrush Poetry Journal, Escape Into Life, A-Minor, A cappella Zoo, Weave Magazine and A Clean, Well-Lighted Place. You can keep up with him at his blog at http://anomalocrinus.blogspot.com/.

H. Edgar Hix is an Oklahoman cum Minnesotan. He, his artist wife, seven cats and one dog live in a little white house sans white fence. He writes just about everything but specializes in (short) poetry.

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).

Karen Greenbaum-Maya, retired clinical psychologist, German major, and occasional photographer, no longer lives for Art but still thinks about it a lot. Poems appeared recently in Off the Coast, BODY, Convergence, Heron’s Tree, Women's Studies Quarterly, RiverLit, and qarrtsiluni. Centrifugal Eye recently featured her mini-chap, Floating Route. Burrowing Song, a collection of prose poems, is in press with Kattywompus. For links to work online, go to:  www.cloudslikemountains.blogspot.com/.

Katie Manning is the author of two chapbooks that are forthcoming in 2013: The Gospel of the Bleeding Woman (Point Loma Press) and Tea with Ezra (Boneset Books). She is an Assistant Professor at Azusa Pacific University. Find her online at www.katiemanningpoet.com .

Kip Knott's writing has appeared in dozens of literary magazines, including 2River, Four and Twenty, Gettysburg Review, and The Potomac. In addition, his poems have appeared in four chapbooks, the most recent being Afraid of Heaven (Mudlark).

Larry D. Thomas, a longtime contributor to Right Hand Pointing, is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters, and was privileged to serve as the 2008 Texas Poet Laureate.  He has published many full collections and chapbooks of poetry. His most recent collection is A Murder of Crows (vacpoetry.org). Colors is his 6th digital chapbook with Right Hand Pointing. 

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.

Marilyn Westfall’s prose poem “Synesthesia” was in issue 52 of RHP. Flash fiction is forthcoming at The Rusty Nail. Other recent work appears in Earth’s Daughters and Southwestern American Literature.

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. Selections from Michele's collage/found-text series "Modern Families Appear" can be viewed in issue 63 of RHP.

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 (Blaze Vox), 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. He will have a digital chapbook published by Right Hand Pointing later this year.

Robert Scotellaro has published short fiction and poetry in numerous print and online journals and anthologies. He is the author of five literary chapbooks. A full-length collection of his flash fiction, Measuring the Distance (Blue Light Press, 2012) received Honorable Mention for the Eric Hoffer Book Award, and was a finalist for the da Vinci Eye Prize. He is the recipient of Zone 3's Rainmaker Award in Poetry.  He is also the author of three books for children.  Raised in Manhattan, he currently lives in San Francisco with his wife and daughter.

Sylvia Ashby’s background is in theatre, acting and writing; she’s published 15 scripts for family audiences, with thousands of productions. If you want to learn more about her “slightly errant, mostly clueless youth,” there’s a short memoir recently published on Anderbo.com