Volume 4 Issue 1

Roger Sippl

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Roger Sippl studied creative writing at UC Irvine, UC Berkeley and Stanford Continuing Studies. He has enjoyed being published in a couple dozen online and print literary journals and anthologies over the years. While a student at Berkeley, Sippl was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and was treated for thirteen months with a mixture of surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy, seriously challenging him in many ways, but allowing him to live relapse-free to this day, forty-three years later. So, is this poem about an old love reappearing, or just the thought of her reappearing, or is it about cancer coming back, or all and none of these? Sippl has just self-published a book of poetry, Heavenly Whispers, and it is available from Amazon. He is finishing two other poetry books, Real Nature and Bridgehampton, which should be on Amazon in approximately the April timeframe. Samples of poems from those books are on his writing website, www.rogersippl.com.

Again, Volume 4, Issue 1
Interview
Review, Heavenly Whispers, Volume 4, Issue 2

Hilary Sideris

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Hilary Sideris is a Greek/Irish American poet. Sideris spent the first 21 years of life in Indiana, in a ranch-style house on the edge of a trailer park. She has published four chapbooks and two full-length poetry collections, Most Likely to Die (Poets Wear Prada 2014) and The Inclination to Make Waves (Big Wonderful 2016). Sideris lives in Brooklyn and works as a professional developer and curriculum writer for The City University of New York’s CUNY Start program. Sideris has a BA in English literature from Indiana University and an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She speaks Italian and grows tomatoes on her fire escape.

Rockaway and Yuletide, Volume 4, Issue 1
Interview

John Rodzvilla

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

John Rodzvilla teaches in the Publishing and Writing programs at Emerson College in Boston. His work has appeared in Harvard Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, gorse, DecomP, Verbatim and Bad Robot Poetry.

Recent Virgin; A Great Shout; Cursed the Sacred; From the Desk of…Joshua Norton, The First Emperor of these United States of America; His Fake Castle; and Convent of the Capuchins; Volume 4, Issue 1
Interview

Scarlett Peterson

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Scarlett Peterson is a Georgia native who received her B.A. in English and creative writing from Kennesaw State University. She is currently working on an MFA in poetry at Georgia College. Her poetry has appeared or is coming soon to Five2One, Serendipity, and Pennsylvania English. Her nonfiction has appeared in Madcap Review. For inquiries she can be reached by email at scarlettapeterson@gmail.com.

Reclaiming the Flesh and Old Flame Burning Forest, Volume 4, Issue 1

Toti O’Brien

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Toti O’Brien is the Italian Accordionist with the Irish Last Name. She was born in Rome then moved to Los Angeles, where she makes a living as a self-employed artist, performing musician, and professional dancer. Her work has most recently appeared in Apt, Aji Magazine, The Spectacle, and The Goldman Review.

Dog Days, Volume 4, Issue 1
Interview

Don Noel

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Don Noel retired after four decades’ prizewinning print and broadcast journalism in Hartford CT. Noel received his MFA in Creative Writing from Fairfield University in 2013. He has since published more than two dozen short stories and non-fiction pieces, but has two novellas and a novel still looking for publishers.

Empty Nest, Volume 4, Issue 1

Leah Mueller

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Leah Mueller is an indie writer from Tacoma, Washington. She is the author of two chapbooks, Queen of Dorksville (Crisis Chronicles Press) and Political Apnea (Locofo Chaps) and three books, Allergic to Everything, (Writing Knights Press) Beach Dweller Manifesto (Writing Knights) and The Underside of the Snake (Red Ferret Press). Her work appears in Blunderbuss, Outlook Springs, Atticus Review, and many anthologies. She was a featured poet at the 2015 New York Poetry Festival, and a runner-up in the 2012 Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry contest.

Nyctohylophobia, Volume 4, Issue 1
Interview
Review, Beach Dweller Manifesto, Volume 4, Issue 2

Anthony J. Mohr

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Anthony J. Mohr’s work has appeared in DIAGRAM, Compose, Front Porch Journal, Hippocampus Magazine, Superstition Review, Word Riot,  ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere. His work has been nominated four times for the Pushcart Prize and received honorable mention from Sequestrum’s Editor’s Reprint Award. He is an assistant editor of Fifth Wednesday Journal. Once upon a time, he was a member of the L.A. Connection, an improv theater group.

Crescent Drive, Volume 4, Issue 1 (Pushcart Nomination)
Interview

Sean J. Mahoney

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Sean J. Mahoney lives with Dianne, her mother, two Uglydolls, and three dogs in Santa Ana, California. He works in geophysics. He believes in salsa, dark chocolate, and CBD. Sean helped create and continues working with the Disability Literature Consortium (www.dislitconsortium.wordpress.com).

Energy Sources, The Fire Triangle Heat, and The Fire Triangle Fuel, Volume 4, Issue 1