The Magnolia Review

Erin Darby Gesell

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Erin Darby Gesell is a writer, personal trainer, triathlete, yogi, and lover of chocolate, dogs, and all things fictional from Omaha, Nebraska. She obtained her Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Antioch University in 2014. Gesell has written for a few women’s blogs and non-fiction magazines including Nebraska Entrepreneur Magazine and Mav Daily Deal. Twitter: @ErinDarbyGesell

Good Boy, Volume 1, Issue 2

Trina Gaynon

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Trina Gaynon has poems in the anthologies Saint Peter’s B-list: Contemporary Poems Inspired by the Saints; Obsession: Sestinas for the 21st Century; A Ritual to Read Together: Poems in Conversation with William Stafford; Phoenix Rising from the Ashes: Anthology of Sonnets of the Early Third Millennium; Bombshells; and Knocking at the Door, as well as numerous journals including Natural Bridge, Reed, and the final issue of Runes. Her chapbook An Alphabet of Romance is available from
Finishing Line Press. Her website is at: http://tdgaynon.webs.com/

Rehearsing and Archeology, Volume 1, Issue 1

C.S. Fuqua

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

C.S. Fuqua’s published books include White Trash & Southern: Collected Poems, Vol. I (Cooperative Ink); Hush, Puppy!: A Southern Fried Tale (Cooperative Ink); Rise Up (Mundania Press); The Native American Flute: Myth, History, Craft (Awe-Struck Books); The Swing: Poems of Fatherhood (Uncial Press); Divorced Dads: Real Stories of Facing the Challenge (Fairview Press); and Notes to My Becca (Fairview Press), among others. His work has appeared in publications such as Main Street Rag, Pudding, Dark Regions, Iodine, Christian Science Monitor, Cemetery Dance, Bogg, Year’s Best Horror Stories XIX, XX and XXI, Amelia, Slipstream, The Old Farmer’s Almanac, The Writer, and Honolulu Magazine.

To Do-Do-Do, Volume 1, Issue 1

Ruth Foley

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Ruth Foley lives in Massachusetts, where she teaches English at Wheaton College. Her work appears in numerous web and print journals, including Antiphon, The Bellingham Review, The Louisville Review, and Sou’wester. She is the author of two chapbooks, Dear Turquoise (Dancing Girl Press, 2013) and Creature Feature (ELJ Publications, 2015). She serves as Managing Editor for Cider Press Review.

First Aid, Rip, and Petrichor, Volume 1, Issue 2

Jeanpaul Ferro

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Jeanpaul Ferro is a novelist, poet, and short fiction author from Scituate, Rhode Island. A 9-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Jeanpaul’s work has been featured on National Public Radio, Columbia Review, Asia Literary Review, Tampa Review, Contemporary American Voices, Istanbul Review, Danforth Review, Portland Monthly, Salzburg Review, and others. His books, Essendo Morti – Being Dead (Goldfish Press) and Jazz (Honest Publishing), have both been nominated for the Griffin Prize in Poetry with the latter also nominated the 2012 Kingsley Tufts Prize in Poetry. Jeanpaul is represented by the Jennifer Lyons Literary Agency.

Winter in Rhode Island and Throw Like a Girl, Volume 1, Issue 1

Richard Fein

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Richard Fein was a finalist in The 2004 New York Center for Book Arts Chapbook Competition. A chapbook of his poems The Required Accompanying Cover Letter (Parallel Press, 2011). He has been published in many web and print journals such as Cordite, Cortland Review, Reed, Southern Review, Roanoke Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, and Mississippi Review.

These Avatars I Hold In My Hands and 99 Word Immortality, Volume 1, Issue 2

Daniel von der Embse

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Daniel von der Embse was born and raised in Mansfield, Ohio, and graduated from Ashland University with a B.A. degree in Theatre. He began writing poetry after a four-decade career as a copywriter for advertising agencies in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, and Salt Lake City. His poems appear in The Missing Slate, Penny Ante Feud, Across The Margin, Harpoon Review, Decanto, Poetry Pacific, and Poetry Quarterly.

Requests and Below is lost, Volume 1, Issue 1

Carolyn D. Elias

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Carolyn D. Elias is a poet who lives with her husband in Hancock, Minnesota. Carolyn’s work has appeared in Sassafras Literary Magazine and East Jasmine Review. Her poems will soon be published by Lunch Ticket and Apeiron Review. You can learn more about her at http://www.carolyndeliasauthor.squarespace.com or follow her on Twitter @CarolynDElias.

Black Boy Running, Volume 1, Issue 1