Issue 6 Contributors

  • Steve Brightman lives in a one-story, moatless castle in Kent, Ohio. His flank is guarded by his pet parrot and he realizes that sooner or later the night will win. But not tonight…
  • Mike Cluff is a full-time instructor at Norco (Community) College in Southern California. He has taught English and Creative Writing there full-time since 1996. He published his latest book of poetry Casino Evil in 2009. He is also an on-line reporter covering the fine arts for the Riverside Examiner.
  • Leslie Cohen has published dozens of articles and poems, and a Holocaust biography: Trapped Inside the Story (2007, Level 4 Press). She has lived on Kibbutz Ein Hashofet (Israel) since 1980 and she teaches English at Ruppin Academic Center. Her hobbies include reading, Tai Chi, and meditation (not to mention chocolate chip ice cream!)
  • Daniel W. Davis was born and raised in Central Illinois, and recently received his M.A. from Eastern Illinois University.  His work has appeared in various online and print journals.
  • Ashley Fisher was born in South Cumbria in 1976 and currently lives in East Yorkshire where he runs the Fresh Ink open mic nights and co-edits the poetry magazine Turbulence and edits the ezine Travelling Light.
  • Howie Good, a journalism professor at SUNY New Paltz, is the author of the full-length poetry collections Lovesick (Press Americana, 2009), Heart With a Dirty Windshield (BeWrite Books, 2010), and Everything Reminds Me of Me (Desperanto, 2011), as well as 27 print and digital poetry chapbooks. He is a contributing editor to the online literary journal Common-Line, co-editor of the online nonfiction journal Left Hand Waving, and co-founder and -editor (with Dale Wisely) of the digital chapbook publisher White Knuckle Press.
  • Carys Goodwin is from New Zealand. Although she is young, and has only just begun her first year at university, she wants to be a published author. Like many budding writers, she dreams of the day her book will appear on a shelf, fully bound and shiny. As well as writing, Carys loves chocolate, cats, soccer, and long walks in the park.
  • T.R. Healy was born in the Pacific Northwest in the United States and is a graduate of the London School of Economics.  His stories have appeared in such publications as The Delinquent, The Gloom Cupboard, and Pen Pusher.
  • A.J. Huffman is a poet and freelance writer in Daytona Beach, Florida.  She has previously published her work in national and international literary journals such as Avon Literary Intelligencer, Eastern Rainbow, Icon, Writer’s Gazette, and The Penwood Review. Her first full-length collection of poetry The Difference Between Shadows And Stars is available on Amazon.
  • Beth Jellicoe is an 18-year old writer and performer, currently studying Philosophy, History and English A-levels. Strongly influenced by Sylvia Plath, Hans Christian Andersen, Tove Jansson and too much time spent daydreaming and observing the crazy world around her. She has been highly commended in Foyle Young Poets and Poets on the Underground, and published in Cadaverine. Her work has also been displayed at the South Bank Centre.
  • Andrea Jane Kato was born in the great state of California and was raised Buddhist by a gypsy-like artist mother (deceased) and a Japanese farmer who currently grows pineapples in Hawaii. She is a Capricorn, Dragon, INTJ, HSP, Atheist, singer/songwriter, abstract painter/artist, iPhone photographer who likes yoga, fasting, and smoking. She has been published in magazines such as The Blue Jew Yorker, My Favorite Bullet, Ink Sweat & Tears, The Beat, Ditch, Pomegranate, ReadThis Magazine, and Alternativereel.
  • Since returning to  writing  after a  a fifty year hiatus, Charles Langley has published over one hundred and seventy short stories, poems, or articles in magazines or books. He is ninety four years old. Gannett newspapers gave full page, nationwide coverage to his time as cub reporter at the trial of  Richard Bruno Hauptmann for the kidnap/murder of the infant son of Colonel Charles Lindbergh.
  • Dave Lewis is an IT & Photography lecturer from Pontypridd, South Wales. He has always lived in Wales except for a year in Kenya. He has written newspaper columns, poetry for magazines, sports stories for the BBC and is organizer of the international Welsh Poetry Competition. His first poetry collection, Layer Cake, spans 24 years, his second book, Urban Birdsong is a collection of short stories, prose and poetry. His story ‘Onions’ was a runner up in the Rhys Davies competition.
  • Sarah Lucille Marchant is a Missouri resident and university student, studying journalism and literature. In addition to her studies, she serves as the vice president of her school’s art club, writes articles for the student newspaper, and organizes a literary magazine of her own.
  • Nichola May works part-time, home educates her three children and always writes with one hand in the cookie jar. She has had short fiction and poetry published, and would love to try her hand – if it can be extricated from the cookie jar – at screenwriting.
  • Stephen Mead is a published artist, writer and maker of short collage-films living in NY.  He recorded the poem, “Sad Backs” for the CD, “Love Lullabies”, he released through Createspace in 2009, http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002G9U9CM
  • 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, “Ode to Billy Joe.”  With his wife, he runs Burke’s Book Store, one of the country’s oldest (1875) and best independent bookstores.
  • Sergio Ortiz is a retired educator, painter, poet, and photographer. He has a B.A. in English literature, and a M.A. in philosophy.  His third chapbook: Bedbugs in My Mattress, was released by Flutter Press, November 2010.  He is a 2010 Pushcart nominee.
  • Charles Pitter lives in Jersey, Channel Islands and has a degree in English and French literature from Middlesex and Paris 8 Universities. He has been published in numerous magazines and journals worldwide.
  • Born in Ireland, now living in Scotland, Jon Plunkett has had a long-standing interest in literature. This interest led to the publication of a number of non-fiction articles, booklets and a book. Poetry was a relatively recent discovery, and with the opportunity it offers for raising questions and exploring the subtleties of life, moved quickly from interest to obsession! To date Jon has had a number of poems published in various on-line and in print poetry and literature magazines.
  • Frank Praeger
  • Francis Raven’s books include Provisions (Interbirth, 2009), 5-Haifun: Of Being Divisible (Blue Lion Books, 2008), Shifting the Question More Complicated (Otoliths, 2007), Taste: Gastronomic Poems (Blazevox 2005) and the novel, Inverted Curvatures (Spuyten Duyvil, 2005).  Francis lives in Washington DC.
  • Paul Schulmann is a graduate student at the University of Ottawa, in Ontario, Canada.  A native of San Diego, California, Paul has been living in Ontario since September 2010.
  • Robert Van Egghen
  • Anthony Ward is an AutoCAD operative from the North of England who studied at Northumbria University and has been writing in his spare time for a number of years. He has been published in a number of literary magazines including South, Neon Highway, Borderlines and Burning Houses amongst others.
  • Janet Yung lives and writes in St. Louis.  Short fiction has appeared in several on-line publications including, Ineffective Ink, Write From Wrong Lit, Flash Party and Littlerature.