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Maryfrances Wagner

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Maryfrances Wagner’s books include Salvatore’s Daughter, Light Subtracts Itself, Red Silk (Thorpe Menn Book Award for Literary Excellence), Dioramas, Pouf, and The Silence of Red Glass. Her poems have appeared in many literary magazines and anthologies. She co-edits the I-70 Review, served as Co-president of The Writers Place, and for fun and relaxation, she enjoys creating collages and jewelry. Check out her latest book of poems, The Silence of Red Glass, and check out her website here.

The Sophomores Study Julius Caesar: A Found Poem and The Sophomores Study Grammar: A Found Poem, Volume 4, Issue 2
Interview

Dennis Trujillo

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Dennis Trujillo is a former US Army soldier and middle/high school math teacher from Pueblo, Colorado. In 2010 he spontaneously began writing poetry, not knowing where the spark came from—since then he has published more than seventy poems in various magazines, journals, and anthologies. He enjoys running and yoga and currently lives in Dongducheon, South Korea.

Do We Need Superheroes, Really?, Volume 4, Issue 2

Chuck Thompson

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Chuck Thompson has a MA in English from the University of Massachusetts, and his published works include Busy and Blessed: 10 Simple Steps for Parents Seeking Peace (Insight Press, 2014). He’s also a secondary school administrator and avid reader here in Chicago, Illinois.

Morning Swim Camping, Midwives, Spirited Away, Baby Tunes, and Bare Hands, Volume 4, Issue 2

David Spicer

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

David Spicer has poems in Tipton Poetry Journal, Reed Magazine, Chiron Review, Alcatraz, Gargoyle, unbroken, Raw, Third Wednesday, Ploughshares, The American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. He has been nominated for a Best of the Net three times and a Pushcart, and is the author of one full-length collection of poems, Everybody Has a Story (St. Luke’s Press, 1987), and five chapbooks, with the latest, From the Wings of a Pear Tree, available from Flutter Press.

In My Younger Years I Loved the Oboe, Volume 4, Issue 2

Jennifer Davis Michael

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Jennifer Davis Michael is professor and chair of English at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, specializing in British Romanticism. Her poems have appeared in 3 Elements Review, Switchgrass Review, Cumberland River Review, Literary Mama, and Mezzo Cammin. She has also published a book of criticism, Blake and the City (Bucknell, 2006).

Remembering How to Build a Fire and Brush Fire, Roadside, North Alabama, Volume 4, Issue 2

Matthew J. Kreglow

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Matthew J. Kreglow is a 2013 graduate of Bowling Green State University’s Creative Writing Program. Currently, he resides in his hometown of Medina, Ohio. In addition to writing poetry and short fiction, Matthew enjoys hiking the local nature trails and photographing wildlife and nature, as well as playing music with the local community band.

Fatal Error, Volume 4, Issue 2

Phil Huffy

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Phil Huffy practiced law long enough. Trained to think on his feet, he continues that custom and then writes things down at his kitchen table. Placements in 2018 number nearly 100 pieces, found in such publications as The Lyric, Better Than Starbucks, Fourth & Sycamore, Bindweed and Eunoia. 

Futurama, Volume 4, Issue 2

Snap and Aviatrix?, Volume 5, Issue 2

GTimothy Gordon

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

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

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

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