Stephanie Maldonado’s writing is best described as free versed and for the soul. She writes to help others understand and express their own feelings. Her goal is to inspire and heal as many people as she possible. She works towards this by participating in many monthly writing challenges and publishing some of her work on theprose.com.
Balloons, Volume 3, Issue 2
Interview
Rosaleen Lynch, an Irish community worker and writer, lives and works in the East End of London. A keen writer of fiction, including poetry, short stories, scripts, and a novel in progress. Non-fiction writing has included essays and research for an MA and blog articles. Visual art is a developing interest with illustration and photography for blogging and online projects and as a medium of story.
The Old Man and the Balloon, Volume 3, Issue 2
With a B.A. in English from Duke University and a M.A. in Communications from USC, Sarah Key has enjoyed word-work as an art book editor, cookbook author, poet, essayist, and teacher. With numerous poems in journals from Poet Lore to Tuesday; An Art Project and inclusion in two poetry anthologies, she has studied poetry at the Frost Place, Cave Canem, and the 92nd Street Y. Also, she has eight essays on the Huffington Post. Her favorite teachers are the students she tutors at a community college in the Bronx.
Self-Portrait as Super Elastic Bubble Plastic, Volume 3, Issue 2
Interview
Ingrid Jendrzejewski started writing flash fiction in 2014 and has since found homes for around 100 pieces in places such as Passages North, The Los Angeles Review, Blue Five Notebook, The Conium Review, and Jellyfish Review. Her short collection, Things I Dream About When I’m Not Sleeping, was a runner-up for BFFA’s first Novella-in-Flash competition and will be published later this summer. She is currently a flash fiction editor at JMWW. Links to Ingrid’s work can be found at www.ingridj.com and she tweets @LunchOnTuesday.
What Goes Up, Volume 3, Issue 2
Interview
Leland James is the author of four books of poetry and a book on poetry craft. He has published over 200 poems in journals and magazines worldwide including The Lyric, Form Quarterly; Rattle, The South Carolina Review; The Spoon River Poetry Review; New Millennium Writings; HQ The Haiku Quarterly, and The London Magazine. He was the winner of The UK’s Aesthetica Creative Writing Award, The Little Red Tree International Poetry Prize, and the Writer’s Forum short poem contest. He has received honors in many others competitions and was recently nominated for a Push Cart Prize. www.lelandjamespoet.com.
Yesterday’s Balloons, Volume 3, Issue 2
Interview
Mark Hudson is an Illinois poet and artist, who spends most of his time writing and doing art. He has a degree in creative writing from Columbia College, in Chicago, and has been published many times in-print, online, and internationally. To check out his poetry on the web go to Illinoispoets.org.
Balloons, Volume 3, Issue 2
Chicago Fire and Beautiful Fire, Volume 4, Issue 1
Interview
Judith’s Skull, Volume 5, Issue 1
To laugh or cry and What is Life?, Volume 5, Issue 2
Hailey Hudson is a creative writing major who is deeply passionate about stories. She’s a proud INFJ and a prouder Ravenclaw; when she’s not writing or reading, she also enjoys playing softball and spending time with her family in the foothills of North Georgia. Check out her blog here.
The Piano, Volume 3, Issue 2
Interview
Ed Higgins’ poems and short fiction have appeared in various print and online journals including recently: Peacock Journal, Uut Poetry, Triggerfish Critical Review, and Tigershark Magazine, among others. Ed teaches literature at George Fox University, south of Portland, OR, and is Asst. Fiction Editor for Ireland-based Brilliant Flash Fiction. He and his wife live on a small organic farm in Yamhill, OR, where they raise a menagerie of animals including a pair of Bourbon Red turkeys (King Strut and Nefra-Turkey), and an alpaca named Machu-Picchu.
Floating Lightly Through, Volume 3, Issue 2
Jack D. Harvey’s poetry has appeared in Scrivener, The Comstock Review, The Magnolia Review, The Antioch Review, The Piedmont Poetry Journal and a number of other online and in print poetry magazines over the years. The author has been a Pushcart nominee and over the years has been published in a few anthologies.
Cape Horn, Volume 3, Issue 2
Interview
Book Release, Mark the Dwarf
Kicking Against the Goads, Loneliness, Birth Month, and Six Mile Pond, Volume 4, Issue 2
Review, Volume 5, Issue 1
Angelic Hearts, Clown, Little Liza, Enter the Apocalypse, and Ravishment of the Holy Wisdom, Volume 5, Issue 1
Ode to Olivia, Non Doulet, Cassandra, Riding on the Bus, and Sunny Day, Volume 6, Issue 1
Ben Groner III (Nashville, TN), recipient of Texas A&M University’s 2014 Gordone Award for undergraduate poetry, has work published in Appalachian Heritage, New Mexico Review, Third Wednesday, The Bookends Review, Fourth & Sycamore, and elsewhere. You can see more of his work at bengroner.com/creative-writing/
Overpopulation, Volume 3, Issue 2
The Burn; Sunlight, a Jubilation; and Highways Like Frozen Rivers; Volume 4, Issue 1 (Pushcart Nomination: Highways Like Frozen Rivers)
The Magnolia Review 