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)
Roberta Gould lives in the Hudson Valley, studies ants, and has taught Romance languages. Her work has appeared widely in poetry journals over the years, and she is the author of 11 poetry books, the last three: Pacing the Wind (Shivistan Press), Louder than Seed (Foot Hills Publishing), and To the Dogs (Flame Tree Press), favorably reviewed by XJ Kennedy, Home Planet News, Lit Mag, and Compulsive Reader. Her website is robertagould.net
The Top, Balloon Buddha, and Archaeology, Volume 3, Issue 2
Interview
Book Release, Woven Lightning
Leah Givens has provided photographs for the covers of The Colored Lens, Existere and Penduline Press, among other literary magazines. Her photography has been exhibited in Georgia, Missouri, and New Mexico. Her education is primarily in medicine; she received her M.D. from Washington University in St. Louis and has worked in medical research.
Cartwheel, Like the Sun, Viewpoint, and Letdown, Volume 3, Issue 2
Rachel Edford is currently an English faculty member at Seminole State College of Florida. She has published critical articles on American poetry and science studies and a piece of creative nonfiction in The Mayo Review. Prior to working as a faculty member, she was employed as a librarian and archivist in Michigan and Washington DC.
Tony and Ghosts, Volume 3, Issue 2
Laura Dennis has been published in various anthologies, including, Tranquility from Kind of a Hurricane Press, Home and Away from House of Blue Skies and Love Notes from Vagabond Press. She also has two self-published chapbooks entitled Wheels on the Bus and The Bookshelf. She has been published in a number of online magazines. She is one of the 2014 winners of Friends of the University Hospitals poetry contest and is a part of the Sidewalk Poetry in Callingwood Park, both in her home of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
After, Volume 3, Issue 2
Interview
Darren C. Demaree’s poems have appeared, or are scheduled to appear in numerous magazines/journals, including Diode, Meridian, New Letters, Diagram, and the Colorado Review. He is the author of eight poetry collections, most recently Two Towns Over (March 2018), which was selected as the winner of the Louise Bogan Award by Trio House Press. He is the Managing Editor of the Best of the Net Anthology and Ovenbird Poetry. Demaree currently lives and writes in Columbus, Ohio, with his wife and children.
Emily as We Ensure Our Joy with Practical Water and Emily as Wind Racing from the Corners, Volume 3, Issue 2
Review, Two Towns Over, Volume 4, Issue 1
bone requires bone #55, bone requires bone #56, and bone requires bone #57, Volume 4, Issue 2
Wendy DeGroat’s poetry has appeared in U.S. and U.K. publications, including Raleigh Review, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Cider Press Review, Rust + Moth, and Mslexia. Her chapbook Beautiful Machinery was published by Headmistress Press in 2016. Wendy is a librarian in Richmond, Virginia, where she also teaches writing and curates poetryriver.org, a resource site for documentary poetry and for diversifying the poetry taught in high schools and colleges. When she’s not writing, reading, researching, or teaching, you’ll likely find her on the river or in the woods.
Ode to Ooooo, Volume 3, Issue 2
Interview
The Magnolia Review 