Mary Alexandra Agner writes of dead women, telescopes, and secrets. Her poems, stories, and nonfiction have appeared, respectively, in The Cascadia Subduction Zone, Shenandoah, and Sky and Telescope, among others. She can be found online at pantoum.org
Agner’s “Hungry” first appeared in Illumen (Spring 2015)
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Joseph Ahearne is a writer and custom bicycle maker living in Portland, Oregon. He’s currently writing on a memoir about work and family, and keeps a sporadic bicycle blog. His website is ahearnecycles.com
Joseph sent off to US Treasury tax archives to see how many jobs he’s had and learned that in a 12 year period he had and lost 59 jobs.He was fired from almost half of these. For everyone’s sake it’s good that he’s self employed.
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Mikki Aronoff’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in 3Elements Literary Review, The Lake, EastLit, Virga, Love’s Executive Order, bosque, and Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, SurVision and elsewhere. She is active in the NM State Poetry Society and is also involved in animal advocacy.
Mikki and her mother once witnessed Sun Dogs, all the more spectacular for their not knowing what was happening.
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May Chong is a Malaysian writer of spec fic and poetry, born and raised in the state of Selangor. Her work has been most recently published in Rambutan Literary, Micro Malaysians! (Fixi Novo) and Malaysian literary journal Little Basket 2017 (also Fixi Novo), with upcoming features in Strange Horizons, Apparition Lit and Undead: A Poetry Anthology of Ghouls, Ghosts and More (Apex Publications). She tweets at @maysays and Facebooks at facebook.com/maychongwrites.
May’s weaknesses include cool bugs, good cheese, great earrings and bad puns. Possibly not in that order.
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Deborah L. Davitt was raised in Reno, Nevada, but received her MA in English from Penn State. She currently lives in Houston, Texas, with her husband and son. Her poetry has received Rhysling and Pushcart nominations and has appeared in over twenty journals; her short fiction has appeared in InterGalactic Medicine Show, Compelling Science Fiction, Altered Europa, Silver Blade, and The Fantasist. For more about her work, please see www.edda-earth.com.
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Erik Fuhrer is a PhD and MFA poetry candidate in English at the University of Notre Dame. His work has been published, or is forthcoming, in Unbroken, Riggwelter, Blazevox, Noble/Gas Qrtrly, Third Wednesday, and various other venues. He lives in Indiana, sometimes unfortunately so, but his dog Moops always brightens up his existence.
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H.L. Fullerton writes fiction—mostly speculative, occasionally about wolves and cheeseburgers—which is sometimes published in places like Lackington’s, Tales to Terrify, Typhon Vol. 2, and Daily Science Fiction.
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Robbie Gamble‘s poems have appeared in The American Journal of Poetry, The Wax Paper, DISTRICT LIT, Naugatuck River Review, What Rough Beast, and Poet Lore. He works as a nurse practitioner caring for homeless people in Boston, Massachusetts.
Robbie has an occasional affinity for jelly donuts. He was once interviewed in The National Enquirer, right next to an article revealing that Barbara Bush and her dog were taking the same medication for treatment of similar ailments.
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Samara Golabuk is a Pushcart nominee whose work has appeared most recently or is forthcoming in Bird’s Thumb, Eunoia Review, The Christian Century, Inflectionist Reviewand others. She has two children, works in marketing and design, and has returned to university to complete her BA in Poetry. More at samarawords.com.
Samara’s poem “Woman of an Era” was inspired by an ability she has developed over the years to write what she calls “6-minute poems.” Because when you have kids and the pasta is on to boil for dinner but you are determined to write, that’s about what you’ve got to work with.
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Karen Greenbaum-Maya, retired clinical psychologist, German major, two-time Pushcart nominee and occasional photographer, no longer lives for Art but still thinks about it a lot. Since she returned to poetry in 2008, her work has appeared in journals and anthologies including Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Comstock Poetry Review, Off the Coast, Otoliths, Naugatuck Poetry Review, and, Measure. Kattywompus Press publishes her two chapbooks, Burrowing Song and Eggs Satori. Kelsay Books publishes her book-length collection, The Book of Knots and their Untying. She co-hosts Fourth Sundays, a poetry series in Claremont, California. For links to work on-line, go to:cloudslikemountains.blogspot.com
Last night, Karen dreamt of crap she’s already dreamt about again.
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Chris Kuriata lives in St. Catharine, Ontario. His short fiction about elderly poisoners, whale hunting clowns, and translating the dead has appeared in many fine publications such as Taddle Creek, The New Quarterly, and Weirdbook. You can read more about his work at chriskuriata.wordpress.com
Chris flatters himself an excellent cook, with his best dish eggplant lasagna.
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At weekends Winston Plowes aspires to be a hare chasing bicycles and winning by miles, obviously still wearing a cravat and comfortable shoes. In the week he might become a ray of light after a thunderstorm solving the final clue in everyone’s crosswords. But for the time being he is more than happy to have his found poems published in such places as Heron Tree, The Mondegreen, Shuff, Streetcake, Verbatim, Monkey Kettle, Ink Sweat and Tears, The Hebden Bridge Times, The Found Poetry Review, The Best of Manchester Poets Vol 3 (Puppywolf Press) and now excitingly in Riddled with Arrows. www.winstonplowes@co.uk
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Decades ago, autodidact & bloody-minded optimist kerry rawlinson gravitated from sunny Zambian skies to solid Canadian soil. She now pursues Art & Literature’s Muses barefoot, her patient husband ensuring she’s fed. Recent pieces appear in Polar Expressions; Arc Poetry; Bones; Pedestal; Speculative66; ReflexFiction; pioneertown; Anti-HerionChic; Minola Review; Geist; AdHocFiction; FiveOnTheFith; amongst others. Visit kerryrawlinson.tumblr.com for published work.
kerry has a 6 year-old heart, wrapped in a 120-year-old brain, trapped in a 60+-year-old body. She’s been a lifetime devotee of “the arts”; and helped develop photographs in her father’s darkroom. She never photoshops. She loves her stunning Okanagan Valley in beautiful British Columbia, Canada; but pines for Zambian avocados.
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John Reinhart is an arsonist, father of three, and poet. He was the recipient of the 2016 Horror Writers Association Dark Poetry Scholarship, and he has been a Pushcart, Rhysling, and Dwarf Stars award nominee. To date, he has penned five collections of poetry, with a sixth (arson – NightBallet Press) out in early 2018. Find his work at home.hampshire.edu/~jcr00/reinhart.html and @JReinhartPoet
John is the 2004 northeast regional 16 and over beginner division yo-yo champion, Colorado young adult state fiddle champion, and expert garbage picker.
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Alexis Rhone Fancher is the author of How I Lost My Virginity To Michael Cohen and other heart stab poems, (2014), State of Grace: The Joshua Elegies, (2015), and Enter Here (2017). She is published in Best American Poetry 2016, Rattle, Hobart, Slipstream, Plume, Nashville Review, Diode, Glass, Tinderbox, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. Her photos are published world wide, including River Styx, and the covers of Witness, Heyday, The Chiron Review, and Nerve Cowboy. A multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, Alexis is poetry editor of Cultural Weekly. She lives in Los Angeles.
Alexis shoots both street and studio photography, and has shot over 100 Southern California poets, including a show at Beyond Baroque in Venice, CA for Poetry Month in 2015. She shot her 10th book cover last month. Check out her work at alexisrhonefancher.com
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Karlo Sevilla writes from Quezon City, Philippines. His poems have appeared in Philippines Graphic and in the following international political literary magazines: I am not a silent poet, Radius, Matter, Tuck Magazine, Outcast Poetry, and Razorhouse. He also coaches wrestling, trains in Brazilian Luta Livre, and does volunteer work for the labor group Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino (Solidarity of Filipino Workers). He tweets @KarloSevilla.
Karlo’s mother, a human rights activist who hails from his country’s Bicol region, really cooks a mean Bicol Express. And he really has two (late) maternal uncles who were incarcerated as political prisoners — before one suffered enforced disappearance and remains missing since 1977, and the other assassinated in 2001.
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Pat Tompkins is an editor in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her poems and short fiction have appeared in Mslexia, Nanoism, KYSO Flash, and other publications.
A favorite escape from Pat’s desk is swimming outdoors, including in a Norwegian fjord and a Copenhagen canal.
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Will Wells‘ latest book of poems, Odd Lots, Scraps & Second-hand, Like New, won the the 2016 Grayson Books Poetry Prize and was published in April 2017. His previous collection, Unsettled Accounts, won the Hollis Summers’ Poetry Prize and was published in 2010 by Ohio Univ./Swallow Press. Anhinga Press published an earlier collection. Will teaches English at an Ohio College and has published individual poems and translations widely.
While he can recall hardly anything about any other meals from his childhood, meals at the table of Will’s Grandmother, Emma Selzer, had an electric quality and they remain vividly imprinted in his memory. Sometimes he can still smell the food.
Wells poem “A Family Recipe” first appeared in his book, Odd Lots, Scraps & Second-hand, Like New (Grayson Books)
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Thomas R. Winward is an engineer and an avid pursuer of all things sci-fi, fantasy and weird. When not juggling his many hobbies, he spends his time trying to warp his children into gamers. His first published story “Light” was recently released in Gathering Storm Magazine.
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Jim Zola is a poet and photographer living in North Carolina.
Jim Zola has worked in a warehouse, as a security guard, in a bookstore, as a teacher for Deaf children, as a toy designer for Fisher Price, and currently as a children’s librarian.