Kate Maruyama’s novel HARROWGATE was published by 47North. Her short work has appeared in Stoneboat, Controlled Burn, and Arcadia, as well as on Entropy, The Rumpus, and Duende among others and in numerous anthologies. She writes, teaches, cooks, and eats in Los Angeles, where she lives with her family.
Traces, Volume 5, Issue 2
Courtney LeBlanc is the author of the chapbooks All in the Family (Bottlecap Press) and The Violence Within (Flutter Press), and a Pushcart Prize nominee. She has her MFA from Queens University of Charlotte and her poetry is published or forthcoming in Public Pool, Rising Phoenix Review, The Legendary, Germ Magazine, Quail Bell Magazine, Brain Mill Press, Haunted Waters Press, and others. She loves nail polish, wine, and tattoos. Follow her on twitter: @wordperv, and IG: @wordperv79.
A Choose Your Own Path Poem, Permanence, Fall Leaves, Yellow, and Original Sin, Volume 5, Issue 2
Michelle Kouzmine graduated from Lesley University with an MFA in Creative Writing. Kouzmine is currently an English professor at Miami Dade College, teaching both composition and literature.
What Cara Wants, Volume 5, Issue 2
J.D. Kotzman’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in After the Pause, The Bookends Review, The Chronos Chronicles (a project of Indie Authors Press), Crack the Spine, Drunk Monkeys, Foliate Oak, Ink Stains (a project of Dark Alley Press), Inscape, Kentucky Review, Pidgeonholes, Slink Chunk Press, The Speculative Edge, Straylight, An Unlikely Companion (a project of E&GJ Little Press), and Yellow Chair Review. Kotzman currently works in the health policy field in Washington, D.C. Previously, Kotzman served as an editor and writer for several print and online news publications.
Washes Ashore, Volume 5, Issue 2
Thomas Kearnes graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with an MA in film writing. His fiction has appeared in Hobart, Gertrude, A cappella Zoo, Split Lip Magazine, Cutthroat, Litro, Berkeley Fiction Review, PANK, BULL: Men’s Fiction, Gulf Stream Magazine, Wraparound South, Night Train, 3:AM Magazine, Word Riot, Storyglossia, Driftwood Press, Adroit Journal, The Matador Review, Pseudopod, the Best Gay Stories series, Mary: A Journal of New Writing, wigleaf, SmokeLong Quarterly, Pidgeonholes, Sundog Lit, The Citron Review, The James Franco Review, and elsewhere. He is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Originally from East Texas, he now lives near Houston and works as an English tutor at a local community college. His debut collection of short fiction, Steers and Queers will print at Lethe Press in 2019.
I Am Waiting for Him to Love Me and Caution Follows Desire, Volume 5, Issue 2
Caitlin Johnson holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Lesley University. Johnson’s work has appeared in Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, Narrative Northeast, Pembroke Magazine, and Vagina: The Zine, among other outlets. A chapbook, Boomerang Girl, was published in 2015 by Tiger’s Eye Press, and a full-length collection, Gods in the Wilderness, was published in 2016 by Pink. Girl. Ink. Press.
La Pucelle and Saint Joan, Volume 5, Issue 2
Maranda Huffort studied Creative Writing at Rosemont College. She currently teaches English Composition at McCann School of Business and Technology, Allentown PA. In her spare time she enjoys camping, reading books, and walking with her two basset hounds.
Barren and How Long Do You Plan on Staying, Volume 5, Issue 2
A. Elizabeth Herting is an aspiring freelance writer and busy mother of three living in colorful Colorado. She has had over 50 short stories published and also has a collection of short stories called Whistling Past the Veil that will be published by Adelaide Books in April 2019.
South Granby Way, Volume 5, Issue 2
Jacob Greb is a pragmatic introvert, living a quiet life with his wife and a twelve-year-old feline named Pretzel. He writes mostly to amuse himself. Jacob and Simon, his collaborative partner and friend of over twenty years, run a Tumblr page and a WordPress blog, sharing personal anecdotes from their youth and struggles with mental illness. Their work spans from dark thoughts on death, self-harm, and anger to loving and happy moments that engage the rest of their time.
thoughts, Volume 5, Issue 2
Kara Goughnour is a queer writer and documentarian living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Creative and Professional Writing from The University of Pittsburgh. She is the recipient of the 2018 Gerald Stern Poetry Award, and has work published or forthcoming in Third Point Press, the Southampton Review, and over twenty others. Follow her on Twitter @kara_goughnour or read her collected and exclusive works at karagoughnour.com.
Pigeon Brain, Hearing the Silence, Housing Plans, Jackfruit, and Fish-Freezer Algor Mortis, Volume 5, Issue 2
The Magnolia Review 