Aloura Hattendorf lives in a small town just across the water from Seattle where she enjoys writing, reading, and painting.
The Mood Blue, Volume 4, Issue 2
Interview
GTimothy Gordon
GTimothy Gordon’s From Falling was published Summer 2017 (Spirit-of-the-Ram P). Work appears in journals like AGNI, Cincinnati Poetry Review, Kansas Quarterly, The Louisville Review, Mississippi Review, The New York Quarterly, RHINO, Sonora Review, Baseball Bard, among others. Everything Speaking Chinese received the SunStone Press Poetry Prize. Recognitions include NEA & NEH Fellowships and nominations for Pushcarts and The NEA’s Western States’ Book Awards. He divides personal and professional lives between Asia and the Desert/Mountain Southwest.
Dark, and Darker, Dream Wind, November in a Field, and Night Virga, Volume 4, Issue 2
Sarah A. Etlinger
Sarah A. Etlinger is an English professor who lives in Milwaukee, WI, with her family. Her work can be found on “The Poetry Professors” podcast, Episode 107. Other interests include travel, cooking, and music.
Geraniums 1, Geraniums 2, Two Fools (Pushcart Nomination), Standing in Front of the Montreal Japanese Gardens, Pears, and Ash Wednesday, Volume 4, Issue 2
Book Release, Never One For Promises
Kelcey Parker Ervick
Kelcey Parker Ervick is the author of three award-winning books: The Bitter Life of Božena Němcová (Rose Metal Press), a hybrid work of biography, memoir, and visual art; Liliane’s Balcony: A Novella of Fallingwater (Rose Metal Press); and For Sale By Owner (Kore Press). Her comics and short graphic narratives have appeared in Quarterly West, Nashville Review, Passages North, and elsewhere.
Love or Death, Volume 4, Issue 2
Adam Durso
Adam Durso received his M.F.A. in Fiction from Temple University, in Philadelphia. Like Donald Hall before him, he was born in Hamden, Connecticut; like Thornton Wilder, he prefers to spend his time in New Haven. His poetry has appeared in The Common Ground Review, Chiron Review, Bird’s Thumb, Stoneboat, The Tishman Review, and elsewhere.
Chainmail and Pharmacy Music, Volume 4, Issue 2
Joan Colby
Joan Colby has published widely in journals such as Poetry, Atlanta Review, South Dakota Review, Gargoyle, Pinyon, Little Patuxent Review, Spillway, Midwestern Gothic, and others. Awards include two Illinois Arts Council Literary Awards and an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Literature. She has published 20 books including Selected Poems from FutureCycle Press, which received the 2013 FutureCycle Prize and Ribcage from Glass Lyre Press, which has been awarded the 2015 Kithara Book Prize. Three of her poems have been featured on Verse Daily and another is among the winners of the 2016 Atlanta Review International Poetry Contest. Her newest books are Carnival from FutureCycle Press, The Seven Heavenly Virtues from Kelsay Books and Her Heartsongs just out from Presa Press. Colby is a senior editor of FutureCycle Press and an associate editor of Good Works Review. Website: www.joancolby.com. Facebook: Joan Colby. Twitter: @poetjm.
Me as Terrorist, Volume 4, Issue 2
Aria Callaham
Aria Callaham lives in Silverdale where she enjoys acting and writing.
I wish, Volume 4, Issue 2
Charles W. Brice
Pushcart Prize nominated poet, Charles W. Brice, Ph.D., is a retired psychoanalyst and is the author of Flashcuts Out of Chaos (WordTech Editions, 2016) and of Mnemosyne’s Hand (WordTech Editions, 2018). His poetry, short stories, reviews, and nonfiction pieces have appeared in over seventy publications including Literal Latte, The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Psychiatry, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Atlanta Review, Hawaii Review, The Main Street Rag, Chiron Review, Fifth Wednesday Journal, The Paterson Literary Review, Plainsongs and elsewhere. His poem, “Identification,” was anthologized along with poems by W.H. Auden, Hilda Doolittle, Philip Larkin, Stephen Dobyns, Louise Gluck, Anne Sexton, and others in, Climate of Opinion: Sigmund Freud in Poetry, Irene Willis (Ed.), (International Psychoanalytic Books, 2017).
Sis, Volume 4, Issue 2
Review, Mnemosyne’s Hand: Poems, Volume 4, Issue 2
Interview
Mela Blust
Mela Blust is a writer residing in rural Pennsylvania. She is an active member of many online publications, including medium.com. Her work has appeared in Little Rose Magazine, and is forthcoming in Califragile, as well as Abstract Magazine.
as heavy as water, how to: make a mistake, and trespass, Volume 4, Issue 2
Interview
Gershon Ben-Avraham
Gershon Ben-Avraham earned an MA in Philosophy (Aesthetics) from Temple University where he studied with the American philosopher of art Monroe Beardsley. He and his wife live in Be’er Sheva, Israel, where he writes short stories and poetry.
Stone Soup, Volume 4, Issue 2
The Magnolia Review 