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
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
The Magnolia Review 