The Magnolia Review

Chloe Cherubin

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Chloe Cherubin is a recent graduate of Bowling Green State University with a Bachelor’s in Digital Art. Chloe is a freelance illustrator, digital painter, and character designer working to gain exposure in the film and animation industry. In the past she did some illustration work for a website designing company in California called Zurb and a small website project for Kentucky.gov. Recently Chloe offered her local library a series of character designs and illustrations of their stuffed animal lions to decorate the children’s corner. The library featured Chloe on the front page of the community newspaper. The majority of Chloe’s work is posted on Deviant Art and Tumblr.

Through the Clock Tower: Scene 3 and Swamp, Volume 1, Issue 1

Yuan Changming

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Yuan Changming, eight-time Pushcart nominee and author of five chapbooks including Kingship (Goldfish Press, 2015), is the world’s most widely published poetry creator who speaks Mandarin but writes English. Growing up in a remote Chinese village, Changming began to learn the English alphabet in Shanghai at 19 and published several monographs on translation before moving to Canada as an international student. With a PhD in English from the University of Saskatchewan, Changming currently co-edits Poetry Pacific and runs PP Press with Allen Qing Yuan in Vancouver. Since mid-2005, Changming has had poetry appearing in 1029 literary publications across 35 countries, including Barrow Street, Best Canadian Poetry, BestNewPoemsOnline, Cincinnati Review, and Threepenny Review.

Advertising Slogans: A Poem about Word Power, Volume 1, Issue 2

Matt Chamberlain

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Matt Chamberlain grew up in Wigan, Lancashire, and now lives in southern England. He has been fascinated by the English language all his life, dabbling in poetry since childhood but remained reluctant to keep, let alone share, his linguistic doodles. In 2014 he self-published his first collection: Love, misery and fruit crumble. He is working on his second collection and regularly performs his work in and around London. See www.mattchamberlainpoe.wix.com/poetry

Elastic bands, Volume 1, Issue 1

Audrey T. Carroll

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Queens, NYC native Audrey T. Carroll is an MFA candidate with the Arkansas Writer’s Program and graduated with a BA in Creative Writing from Susquehanna University. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Fiction International, Hermeneutic Chaos, Foliate Oak, Writing Maps’ A3 Review, The Cynic Online Magazine, and others. She can be found at http://audreytcarrollwrites.weebly.com and @AudreyTCarroll on Twitter.

Miles, Volume 1, Issue 2

Gary Beck

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Gary Beck has spent most of his adult life as a theater director. He has 14 published chapbooks. His poetry collections include: Days of Destruction (Skive Press), Expectations (Rogue Scholars Press). Dawn in Cities, Assault on Nature, Songs of a Clerk, Civilized Ways, Displays, Perceptions, Fault Lines, Tremors, Perturbations and Rude Awakenings (Winter Goose Publishing) The Remission of Order, Contusions and Desperate Seeker will be published by Winter Goose Publishing. Conditioned Response (Nazar Look). Resonance (Dreaming Big Publications). Virtual Living (Thurston Howl Publications). Blossoms of Decay, Expectations and Blunt Force (Wordcatcher Publishing). His novels include: Extreme Change (Cogwheel Press), Flawed Connections (Black Rose Writing), Call to Valor and Crumbling Ramparts (Gnome on Pigs Productions). As part of the continuing series, ‘Stand to Arms Marines’, Gnome on Pigs Productions will publish the third book in the series, Raise High the Walls. Sudden Conflicts (Lillicat Publishers). Acts of Defiance and Flare Up will be published by Wordcatcher Publishing. Extreme Change will be published by Winter Goose Publishing. His short story collections include, A Glimpse of Youth (Sweatshoppe Publications). Now I Accuse and other stories (Winter Goose Publishing). Dogs Don’t Send Flowers and other stories will be published by Wordcatcher Publishing. The Republic of Dreams and other essays will be published by Gnome on Pigs Productions. His original plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes and Sophocles have been produced Off Broadway. His poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in hundreds of literary magazines. He lives in New York City.

Check out his website here.

Sightings, Volume 1, Issue 1
Visitations II, Volume 2, Issue 1
Book Release, Tremors, Virtual Living, Perturbations, Blossoms of Decay, Now I Accuse, Sudden Conflicts, Expectations: A Collection of Poetry, Rude Awakenings, Internet Yearnings, Voices of War, Blunt Force: A Collection of Poetry, The Remission of Order, The Republic of Dreams: And Other Essays, Acts of Defiance, Flare Up, Transitions, Contusions, Earth Links, Mortal Coil, The Big Match, Still Defiant, and Desperate Seeker.
Purchase Power II, Volume 3, Issue 2
Interview
Clown Show play announcement
Review, Internet Yearnings, Volume 4, Issue 2
Homeless VII, Volume 5, Issue 1
Review, Blunt Force: A Collection of Poetry, The Remission of Order, Volume 5, Issue 1

Hurricane V and Cold Spell, Volume 5, Issue 2

Book Release: Raise High the Walls, Too Harsh For Pastels, State of Rage, Temporal Dreams: A Collection of Poetry, Severance, Extreme Change: A Novel, and Redemption Value

Daniel Barbare

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Danny P. Barbare likes to write poetry about his environment. He lives in the Upstate of the Carolinas. He says he never fails to have a subject to write about. He says he just likes to write one at a time. His poetry has appeared locally and abroad over 700 times.

Daniel Barbare has recently been published in Doxa, Blood and Thunder, The Santa Clara Review, and Lost Coast Review. He attended Greenville Technical College.

The Cloud in My Mind, Volume 1, Issue 2
The Red Wheelbarrow, Volume 2, Issue 1
Nature’s Gift on Mother’s Day, Volume 3, Issue 2
Interview

Valentina Cano

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Valentina Cano is a student of classical singing who spends whatever free time she has either reading or writing. Her works have appeared in numerous publications and her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Web. Her debut novel, The Rose Master, was published in 2014.

Definitions, At the Store, The Beginning, and Of Them, Volume 1, Issue 1

Janet Butler

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Janet Butler lives in Alameda with Fulmi, a lovely Spaniel mix she rescued while living in central Italy. Upheaval was one of three winning selections in Red Ochre Lit’s 2012 Chapbook Contest. She has recently taken up the Japanese Tanka, and will have one as Editor’s Choice in the January issue of Cattails as well as upcoming tanka publications in Atlas Poetica, and Undertow. She is a moderator of the monthly Poetry and Prose at the Blue Danube in Alameda, and is a watercolor painter.

Ferris Wheel, Volume 1, Issue 1