Sandy Coomer is a poet, artist, and endurance athlete. She is the author of three poetry chapbooks, including the forthcoming Rivers Within Us (Unsolicited Press). Her art has been featured in local art shows and exhibits and has been published in literary art journals. She lives in Brentwood, TN.
Interior, Phoenix Rising, and Spiral Galaxy, Volume 4, Issue 1
Interview
Tony Concannon grew up in Massachusetts. After graduating from college with a degree in English and American Literature, he taught for 18 years in Japan, where much of his fiction is set. Since returning to the United States, he has been working in human services. Stories of his have appeared in Columbia Journal, Litro, On the Premises, Thema, The Taproot Literary Review, Origins Journal, and HCE Review.
A Fire in the Neighborhood, Volume 4, Issue 1
Interview
Ann Colcord writes in the Boulder county area of Colorado, where she has lived since 1978. Colcord has kept her poetry a well-guarded compulsion, separate from her more professional pursuits in the world of business. Her poetry seeks connection between commonalities in nature, human and non-human, land and culture at a deeper existential level.
Feeling the Fire Nearby, Volume 4, Issue 1
Mara Cohen, Ph.D. is a writer, public speaker, civic activist and mother working on a memoir about family and resilience. Her personal essays have appeared in an eclectic mix of publications, from The Nervous Breakdown (2017) to Chicken Soup for the Soul (forthcoming), from Jewrotica (2015) to Mothers Always Write (2015) and a dozen others. She has also written articles in peer-reviewed scholarly journals and general news outlets. Her greatest joy is spending time with friends and family. Read more of her work at maracohen.com.
Fire Pit, Volume 4, Issue 1
Interview
Antonia Clark has published a chapbook, Smoke and Mirrors, and a full-length poetry collection, Chameleon Moon. Her poems have appeared in numerous print and online journals, including 2River View, The Cortland Review, Eclectica, The Pedestal Magazine, and Rattle. A medical writer and editor, she has also taught poetry and fiction writing and manages an online poetry forum, The Waters. Toni lives in Vermont, loves French picnics, and plays French café music on a sparkly purple accordion.
Winter Haiku, Volume 4, Issue 1
Sally Bunch lives in Boston with her daughter, works as a grant writer, and plays guitar in the rock band Thrust Club. Her short fiction has appeared in Litro Online, The Binnacle, Bird’s Thumb, and elsewhere. She has also contributed to The Review Review, a website devoted to literary journals.
Regifted, Volume 4, Issue 1
Adam Levon Brown is an internationally published poet and author in 14 countries. He has had his work translated in Spanish, Albanian, Arabic, and Afrikaans. Boasting over 300 published pieces, you can find his writing at such publications as Burningword Literary Journal, Firefly Magazine, Zany Zygote Review, Epigraph, Angel City Review, and Ariel Chart. He was long-listed in the 2016 Erbacce Prize poetry competition and received a special mention in the Pangolin Prize 2018 competition. He has recently taken up painting for fun.
Perforated Stars Speak of Serendipity, Volume 4, Issue 1
Interview
Book Release, Embedded Memories of a Shooting Star
Anxiety, Volume 5, Issue 2
Susan P. Blevins was born in England, lived 26 years in Italy, and has now resided in the USA for the past 25 years, first in Taos, NM, and currently in Houston, TX. While living in Rome, she had a weekly column in an international, English-language newspaper, writing about food and restaurant reviews primarily, though not exclusively. Since living in the USA, she has written pieces on gardens and gardening for N. American and European publications, and she is now writing stories of her life and travels, and poetry, and gaining traction in various literary publications such as New Verse News, Feminine Collective, Mused Bellaonline, Write Place at the Write Time, Scarlet Leaf, to mention just a few. She loves reading, writing, cats, classical music, and stimulating conversation.
Murphy’s Law, Volume 4, Issue 1
Beware, The Handyman Cometh, Heavenly Bites, The Joy of Fishing, The Extraction, and Mother’s Toast, Volume 4, Issue 2
Interview
A Marriage of Convenience, Reverie, Decisions, A Wing and a Prayer, and Yellow does not have a season, Volume 5, Issue 1
The Smallness of It and My Refrigerator, Volume 6, Issue 1
Meredith Bailey completed an MFA at Goddard College several years ago. Currently, she is a freelance writer and editor based in the Seattle, Washington area. Right now, the focus of her creative work is a series of connected short stories. Bailey’s fiction has previously appeared in several journals such as Shark Reef, Em Dash Literary Magazine, and Autumn Sound Review (the latter two now defunct, unfortunately.) She was also a contributor to the anthology Secret Histories: Stories of Courage, Risk, and Revelation.
Runaways, Volume 4, Issue 1
We are currently reading submissions for our eighth issue! The theme for the eighth issue is: comics, be it drawn in sequential images or just plain funny. See the Submit tab for details on how to submit. We accept photography, art, comics, creative nonfiction, fiction, flash fiction, experimental work, and poetry.
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