The Magnolia Review

Jeanpaul Ferro

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Jeanpaul Ferro is a novelist, poet, and short fiction author from Scituate, Rhode Island. A 9-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Jeanpaul’s work has been featured on National Public Radio, Columbia Review, Asia Literary Review, Tampa Review, Contemporary American Voices, Istanbul Review, Danforth Review, Portland Monthly, Salzburg Review, and others. His books, Essendo Morti – Being Dead (Goldfish Press) and Jazz (Honest Publishing), have both been nominated for the Griffin Prize in Poetry with the latter also nominated the 2012 Kingsley Tufts Prize in Poetry. Jeanpaul is represented by the Jennifer Lyons Literary Agency.

Winter in Rhode Island and Throw Like a Girl, Volume 1, Issue 1

Richard Fein

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Richard Fein was a finalist in The 2004 New York Center for Book Arts Chapbook Competition. A chapbook of his poems The Required Accompanying Cover Letter (Parallel Press, 2011). He has been published in many web and print journals such as Cordite, Cortland Review, Reed, Southern Review, Roanoke Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, and Mississippi Review.

These Avatars I Hold In My Hands and 99 Word Immortality, Volume 1, Issue 2

Daniel von der Embse

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Daniel von der Embse was born and raised in Mansfield, Ohio, and graduated from Ashland University with a B.A. degree in Theatre. He began writing poetry after a four-decade career as a copywriter for advertising agencies in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, and Salt Lake City. His poems appear in The Missing Slate, Penny Ante Feud, Across The Margin, Harpoon Review, Decanto, Poetry Pacific, and Poetry Quarterly.

Requests and Below is lost, Volume 1, Issue 1

Carolyn D. Elias

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Carolyn D. Elias is a poet who lives with her husband in Hancock, Minnesota. Carolyn’s work has appeared in Sassafras Literary Magazine and East Jasmine Review. Her poems will soon be published by Lunch Ticket and Apeiron Review. You can learn more about her at http://www.carolyndeliasauthor.squarespace.com or follow her on Twitter @CarolynDElias.

Black Boy Running, Volume 1, Issue 1

George Drew

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

George Drew is the author of The View from Jackass Hill (Texas Review Press, 2011), 2010 winner of the X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize, Texas Review Press, which also published his chapbook, Down & Dirty (Texas Review Press, 2015), and forthcoming New & Selected, Pastoral Habits, in 2016. His sixth collection, Fancy’s Orphan, is forthcoming in 2017 from Tiger Bark Press. He is the winner of the 2014 St. Petersburg Review poetry contest.

Don’t Blame Me (A Country Tune), Volume 1, Issue 2

Sally Deskins

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Sally Deskins is an artist and writer focusing on the perspectives of women in art including her own. She has exhibited nationally and published her art and writing internationally. She is founding editor of Les Femmes Folles and illustrated the 2014 book, Intimates and Fools, with poetry by Laura Madeline Wiseman. sallydeskins.tumblr.com

Leafless, Red Fruit, Does Giving Nourish, Volume 1, Issue 2

Christine Degenaars

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Christine Degenaars has had work published in several Boston College affiliated magazines, including Stylus, Laughing Medusa, and The Medical Humanities Journal of Boston College. Outside of Boston College, she has had work published in Hermeneutic Chaos. She also has work forthcoming in Plain China: Best Undergraduate Writing and Red Paint Hill Publishing. She has also been the recipient of two Bishop-Kelleher Awards and was an honorable mention for the Bennington Award.

Blue Train, Volume 1, Issue 2

Dylan Debelis

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Dylan Debelis is a publisher, poet, performer, chaplain, and minister based out of New York City. A candidate for Unitarian Universalist Ministry, Dylan embodies his faith in praxis through his pastoral care and social justice activism. In sermons, writings, and worship, Dylan weaves grotesque worlds, loving embraces, and an off-kilter wit to lead the audience or congregation in a very unorthodox prayer.

Car Crash, Volume 1, Issue 2