Anthony J. Mohr’s work has appeared in DIAGRAM, Compose, Front Porch Journal, Hippocampus Magazine, Superstition Review, Word Riot, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere. His work has been nominated four times for the Pushcart Prize and received honorable mention from Sequestrum’s Editor’s Reprint Award. He is an assistant editor of Fifth Wednesday Journal. Once upon a time, he was a member of the L.A. Connection, an improv theater group.
Crescent Drive, Volume 4, Issue 1 (Pushcart Nomination)
Interview
Sean J. Mahoney lives with Dianne, her mother, two Uglydolls, and three dogs in Santa Ana, California. He works in geophysics. He believes in salsa, dark chocolate, and CBD. Sean helped create and continues working with the Disability Literature Consortium (www.dislitconsortium.wordpress.com).
Energy Sources, The Fire Triangle Heat, and The Fire Triangle Fuel, Volume 4, Issue 1
Paul Lamb lives near Kansas City but escapes to the Missouri Ozarks whenever he can steal the chance. His stories have appeared in Aethlon, The Nassau Review, The Little Patuxent Review, Penduline Press, Bartleby Snopes, and others. He rarely strays far from his laptop, unless he is running, which he’s been doing a lot lately.
Fire Sermon, Volume 4, Issue 1 (Pushcart Nomination)
Interview
Lauren Klocinski is in her final year as a creative writing student Miami University. She also manages her own personal blog, “Enchantments of 22,” where Klocinski documents important events and ideas for the fun of it. This past spring, she was the editorial intern at Cincinnati Magazine and currently writes for the on-campus fashion magazine, Up.
Thorns, and You and Me, Volume 4, Issue 1
Brian K. Kerley is a full-time writer and seasonal Alaskan bush pilot with degrees in English and aviation, and he will complete his MFA in creative writing in 2018. He teaches writing and flight and enjoys the outdoors, playing with his cat, and making his wife laugh at least once a day.
Dustoff Under Fire, Volume 4, Issue 1
Interview
Steven R. Jakobi is a retired college biology professor. A native of Hungary, he lives and writes in rural Allegany County, New York. He has published numerous scientific and non-fiction articles, and he is the author of two self-published books of essays, Giorgio the Possum and Other Stories from Nature, and Birds, Bats, Bugs, Beavers, Bacteria: Lessons from Nature.
My Mother’s Things, Volume 4, Issue 1
Interview
Jamie Houghton is a poet and teaching artist living in Oregon. Her work has appeared most recently in Thief Magazine and Picaroon Poetry, and her chapbook, Burn Site in Bloom, was released by Musehick Publications in 2017.
At Home and Hero, Volume 4, Issue 1
Interview
Review, Burn Site In Bloom, Volume 4, Issue 2
K.B. Holzman has been a poet, an administrator, and a parent, wandering from the West Coast to the East, and finally settling in New England where the sun filters through towering pines regardless of the season. https://picaflorpress.weebly.com/
Burning, Volume 4, Issue 1
Interview
Mary Hanrahan is an artist and poet living in East Lansing, Michigan. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in counseling. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Modern Haiku, Frogpond,The Merrimack Review, Bottle Rockets Press, Sonic Boom,Hedgerow: a journal of small poems, The Cherita, The Ghazal Page and elsewhere.
Residual Value, Volume 4, Issue 1
Interview
Jessica Gigot is a poet, teacher and farmer in the Skagit Valley of Washington and her family runs a small farm called Harmony Fields that grows organic herbs and raises sheep. Her first book of poetry, Flood Patterns, was published in November 2015 with Antrim House Books. Her poems have also been published in Poetry Northwest, Floating Bridge Press, The Ekphrastic Review, About Place, and Pilgrimage. She has a PhD in Horticulture from Washington State University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Seattle Pacific University.
Night Fire, Volume 4, Issue 1
The Magnolia Review 