Buffy Shutt lives and works in Los Angeles. She spent most of her adult life marketing movies. Now she writes full time. She’s studied creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College. She has published one novel and co-authored a book of non-fiction with her best friend and college roommate. Her short stories have appeared in Red Fez and Bird’s Thumb.
Breakthismf.com, Volume 3, Issue 2 (Pushcart Nomination)(Winner of the Magnolia Review Ink Award)
Interview
Ruth Sabath Rosenthal is a New York poet, well-published in literary journals and poetry anthologies throughout the U.S. and also in Canada, France, India, Israel, Italy, Romania, and the U.K. In 2006, Ruth’s poem “on yet another birthday” was nominated for a Pushcart prize. Ruth has authored five books of poetry: Facing Home (a chapbook), Facing Home and Beyond, little, but by no means small, Food: Nature vs Nurture, and Gone, but Not Easily Forgotten. These books can be purchased on Amazon.com. For more about Ruth, please feel free to visit her websites www.newyorkcitypoet.com, http://bigapplepoet.com, and her blog site http://poetrybyruthsabathrosenthal.com
Deflating Farce & Fancy, Volume 3, Issue 2
Interview
John Timothy Robinson is a mainstream poet of the expressive image and inwardness from the Kanawha Valley in Mason County, West Virginia. His poetics was developed in the tradition of James Wright, Rita Dove, Donald Hall, Marvin Bell, Maxine Kumin, WS Merwin, Tess Gallagher and Robert Bly among many others. John’s works have appeared in ninety journals throughout the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and India. He is also a published printmaker with sixty-four art images and photographs appearing in nineteen journals, electronic and print in the United States, Italy, and Ireland.
Kanawha, Volume 3, Issue 2
Interview
Crow Wisdom and Setting Hibiscus, Volume 5, Issue 2
Meg Reynolds is a poet, artist, and teacher living in Burlington, VT. She holds her BA in English and Arts and Visual Culture from Bates College and her MFA in poetry from Stonecoast at the University of Southern Maine. Her work has been published in Pine Street Poets and Pomeroy Street Poets Anthologies through Honeybee Press as well as Gravel Journal, Prelude Journal, Wildage Press, Prime Number Magazine, and the anthology Monster Verse: Poems Human and Inhuman. She is the co-director of writinginsideVT, an organization that offers supportive writing instruction at the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility in Burlington, VT.
Clothes, Volume 3, Issue 2
Every now and then, Tim Philippart writes some prose or poetry. Once in a while, someone likes it. He sold his business in 2015 and, now, is learning to write. Contact him at timphilippart@gmail.com.
Balloon In Two Movements, Volume 3, Issue 2
Interview
Brian Orth holds an MFA from Wichita State University and works part time as assistant editor of Tell Tell Poetry. His poems have appeared in Bayou, Broadsided Press, Cutthroat, The Midwest Quarterly, and elsewhere. He is currently at work on his first collection, The Year of the Pallbearer.
Albuquerque International Balloon Festival, 2014, Volume 3, Issue 2
Interview
Wilda Morris is an award-winning poet who leads poetry workshops for adults and children. A past president of both Illinois State Poetry Society and Workshop Chairperson of the latter, she has published widely in journals and websites. Her interests include walking in the woods or wetlands and travel. Her blog at http://wildamorris.blogspot.com/ provides a contest for other poets each month.
Early Spring in the Woods, Volume 3, Issue 2
Fall, 1950s, Volume 4, Issue 1
Jesse Minkert lives in Seattle. In 2008, Wood Works Press published his collection of microstories, Shortness of Breath & Other Symptoms. His work has appeared in about fifty journals. Finishing Line Press will release his collection, Rookland, in 2017. He is a 2016 Pushcart nominee.
October and Chain Link Fence, Volume 3, Issue 2
Interview
Review, Rookland, Volume 4, Issue 2
Joan McNerney’s poetry has been included in numerous literary magazines such as Seven Circle Press, Dinner with the Muse, Moonlight Dreamers of Yellow Haze, Blueline, and Halcyon Days, Three Bright Hills Press Anthologies, several Poppy Road Review Journals, and numerous Kind of A Hurricane Press Publications have accepted her work. Her latest title is Having Lunch with the Sky. And she has four Best of the Net nominations.
Falling Asleep, Volume 3, Issue 2
Interview
Thomas Maurstad was the pop culture critic of the Dallas Morning News for over 20 years. Since his release back into the wild in 2011, he is endeavoring to create ambitious, compelling fiction. In a frying pan/fire conundrum, Maurstad has discovered that his two-plus decades of professional writing have a current market value of zero-point-zero in the book publishing industry. Apparently, as a young man with an urgent but unshaped drive to write, he should have chosen student loans and an MFA writing program rather than odd jobs and journalism as his response to the existential challenge of how to subsidize his development as a writer. In the words of his patron saint of recovering journalist-novelists, (KV Jr.) ‘So it goes.’
A Lion or a Squirrel, Volume 3, Issue 2
Interview
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