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CONTRIBUTORS
Kevin Casey
is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and received his graduate degree at the University of Connecticut. He currently teaches literature at a small university in Maine, where he enjoys fishing, snowshoeing and hiking.
Colin Dodds
grew up in Massachusetts and completed his education in New York City. He’s the author of several novels, including WINDFALL and The Last Bad Job, which the late Norman Mailer touted as showing “something that very few writers have; a species of inner talent that owes very little to other people.” Dodds’ screenplay, Refreshment, was named a semi-finalist in 2010 American Zoetrope Contest. His poetry has appeared in more than a hundred publications, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife Samantha. You can find more of his work at thecolindodds.com.
John Oliver Hodges
has published about 70 short stories, and has a collection that won the Tartt First Fiction Award and saw print in 2013; its title is The Love Box. He lives in Brooklyn and teaches writing at Montclair State University and the Gotham Writers' Workshop.
Tim Kahl
is the author of Possessing Yourself (CW Books, 2009) and The Century of Travel (CW Books, 2012). His work has been published in Prairie Schooner, Indiana Review, Ninth Letter, Notre Dame Review, The Journal, Parthenon West Review, and many other journals in the U.S. He appears as Victor Schnickelfritz at the poetry and poetics blog The Great American Pinup and the poetry video blog Linebreak Studios. He is also editor of Bald Trickster Press and Clade Song. He is the vice president and events coordinator of The Sacramento Poetry Center. He also has public installations in Nevada City and in Sacramento. He currently houses his father's literary estate—one volume: Robert Gerstmann's book of photos of Chile, 1932).
Barbara Ryder-Levinson
won an honorable mention in the Writer’s Digest 76th Annual Writing Competition. She has been published in Shofar, a monthly newsletter, and her poetry is forthcoming in Willow Review.
Naomi Ruth Lowinsky
work has been widely published and has appeared or is forthcoming in Argestes, Backwards City Review, Barely South Review, Blue Lake Review, Bogg, Cadillac Cicatrix, California Quarterly, The Cape Rock, The Chaffin Journal, Compass Rose, Comstock Review, Darkling, decomP, Dogwood Review, Earth’s Daughters, Eclipse, ellipsis…literature and art, Emprise Review, Euphony, Fourth River, Freshwater, G.W. Review, Ibbetson Street Press, Into the Teeth of the Wind, Jewish Women’s Literary Annual, Left Curve, Lindenwood Review, Meridian Anthology Of Contemporary Poetry, Minetta Review, Monkeybicycle, Nassau Review, The Pinch, Poem, Prick of the Spindle, Quiddity, Rattle, Reed Magazine, Runes, Sanskrit, Schuylkill Valley Journal Of The Arts, Ship of Fools, Sierra Nevada Review, Soundings East, South Dakota Review, Southern Humanities Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Stand, The Texas Review, Tightrope, Verdad, Visions International, Weber Studies, Westview, Whistling Shade, Wild Violet, Willow Review, and in the anthologies Child Of My Child, When the Muse Calls, and The Book of Now. My fourth poetry collection is called The Faust Woman Poems.
Beth Escott Newcomer
grew up on Normal Avenue in Normal, Illinois, but now lives in Fallbrook, California. She is a 2013 Pushcart Prize nominee; her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in many quality literary journals, including The Alembic, Bluestem, Diverse Voices Quarterly, Patterson Literary Review, Rougarou, Sand Hill Review, and Tulane Review. To support her writing habit, she owns and operates a Southern California-based graphic design firm, and helps promote her family’s cacti and succulent nursery. Two little white dogs follow her everywhere.
Thomas Piekarski
is a former editor of the California State Poetry Quarterly. His poetry and interviews have appeared in Nimrod, Portland Review, Kestrel, Cream City Review, Poetry Salzburg, Boston Poetry Magazine, Gertrude, The Bacon Review, and many others. He has published a travel guide, Best Choices In Northern California, and Time Lines, a book of poems. He lives in Marina, California.
Roger Soffer
has been featured in many journals including Paintbrush, Southern Poetry Review, Briar Cliff Review, Mangrove, New Laurel Review, Yellow Silk, and most recently Spillway A screenwriter and producer, he has written and sometimes produced miniseries and feature films for Disney/ABC, Warner Brothers, FOX Family, New Line Cinema, and Paramount. Some of his credits include Merlin’s Apprentice, Star Trek: DS9, Kazaam, and Category 7.
James Valvis
is the author of HOW TO SAY GOODBYE (Aortic Books, 2011). His poems or stories have appeared in journals such as Arts & Letters, Barrow Street, Confrontation, Natural Bridge, Rattle, River Styx, South Carolina Review, The Sun, and many others. His poetry has been featured in Verse Daily and the Best American Poetry website. His fiction was chosen for the 2013 Sundress Best of the Net. A former U.S. Army soldier, he lives near Seattle.
Abigail Warren
has appeared or is forthcoming in Blue Lake Review, Bluestem, Chronogram, Clarion, Compass Rose, Crack the Spine, decomP magazinE, Dos Passos Review, DUCTS, The Emerson Review, Forge, Gemini Magazine, Grey Sparrow Journal, Hawai’i Pacific Review, Into The Teeth Of The Wind, The Legendary, The Monarch Review, Oxford Magazine, Progenitor, Pearl, Brink Magazine, Sakura Review, Sanskrit, the Smith College Poetry Center Alumnae Poets, Sonora Review, and the anthology 30 Poems in November.
D. Jeanne Wilson
has poems included in Wild Sweet Notes: Fifty Years of West Virginia Poetry. She attended the WV Annual Writers Conference and the Appalachian Writers Workshop in Hindman, Kentucky.
