Phil Huffy practiced law long enough. Trained to think on his feet, he continues that custom and then writes things down at his kitchen table. Placements in 2018 number nearly 100 pieces, found in such publications as The Lyric, Better Than Starbucks, Fourth & Sycamore, Bindweed and Eunoia.
Futurama, Volume 4, Issue 2
Snap and Aviatrix?, Volume 5, Issue 2
Diane Hoffman graduated from Bowling Green State University with a Bachelor in Arts in May 2018. She majored in Film Production and minored in Creative Writing. Her most notable project during her time in college was the short film she wrote and directed, No One’s Little Girl, which ended up receiving Best in Show at the 2018 BGSU Film & Media Festival. Her interests include writing fiction, editing, painting, and directing. She plans to move to Manhattan to continue pursuing opportunities in film and writing.
Punk 4 a Day, Volume 4, Issue 2
Interview
Henry Hitz taught pre-school for 30 years in San Francisco and recently retired from 15 years of organizing parents in the Oakland public schools. He lives in Oakland with his wife, his son, and two sisters. He is treasurer of the California Writers Club Berkeley Branch. He has published stories in Cube Literary Magazine, Instructor Magazine, and Moonfish. His first novel, Tales of Monkeyman, won the Walter Van Tilburg Clark Prize. His novel White Knight was published in January 2016 by Wordrunner Press.
Turtle Bay, Volume 4, Issue 2 (Pushcart Nomination)
Aloura Hattendorf lives in a small town just across the water from Seattle where she enjoys writing, reading, and painting.
The Mood Blue, Volume 4, Issue 2
Interview
GTimothy Gordon’s From Falling was published Summer 2017 (Spirit-of-the-Ram P). Work appears in journals like AGNI, Cincinnati Poetry Review, Kansas Quarterly, The Louisville Review, Mississippi Review, The New York Quarterly, RHINO, Sonora Review, Baseball Bard, among others. Everything Speaking Chinese received the SunStone Press Poetry Prize. Recognitions include NEA & NEH Fellowships and nominations for Pushcarts and The NEA’s Western States’ Book Awards. He divides personal and professional lives between Asia and the Desert/Mountain Southwest.
Dark, and Darker, Dream Wind, November in a Field, and Night Virga, Volume 4, Issue 2
Sarah A. Etlinger is an English professor who lives in Milwaukee, WI, with her family. Her work can be found on “The Poetry Professors” podcast, Episode 107. Other interests include travel, cooking, and music.
Geraniums 1, Geraniums 2, Two Fools (Pushcart Nomination), Standing in Front of the Montreal Japanese Gardens, Pears, and Ash Wednesday, Volume 4, Issue 2
Book Release, Never One For Promises
Kelcey Parker Ervick is the author of three award-winning books: The Bitter Life of Božena Němcová (Rose Metal Press), a hybrid work of biography, memoir, and visual art; Liliane’s Balcony: A Novella of Fallingwater (Rose Metal Press); and For Sale By Owner (Kore Press). Her comics and short graphic narratives have appeared in Quarterly West, Nashville Review, Passages North, and elsewhere.
Love or Death, Volume 4, Issue 2
Joan Colby has published widely in journals such as Poetry, Atlanta Review, South Dakota Review, Gargoyle, Pinyon, Little Patuxent Review, Spillway, Midwestern Gothic, and others. Awards include two Illinois Arts Council Literary Awards and an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Literature. She has published 20 books including Selected Poems from FutureCycle Press, which received the 2013 FutureCycle Prize and Ribcage from Glass Lyre Press, which has been awarded the 2015 Kithara Book Prize. Three of her poems have been featured on Verse Daily and another is among the winners of the 2016 Atlanta Review International Poetry Contest. Her newest books are Carnival from FutureCycle Press, The Seven Heavenly Virtues from Kelsay Books and Her Heartsongs just out from Presa Press. Colby is a senior editor of FutureCycle Press and an associate editor of Good Works Review. Website: www.joancolby.com. Facebook: Joan Colby. Twitter: @poetjm.
Me as Terrorist, Volume 4, Issue 2
Aria Callaham lives in Silverdale where she enjoys acting and writing.
I wish, Volume 4, Issue 2
Pushcart Prize nominated poet, Charles W. Brice, Ph.D., is a retired psychoanalyst and is the author of Flashcuts Out of Chaos (WordTech Editions, 2016) and of Mnemosyne’s Hand (WordTech Editions, 2018). His poetry, short stories, reviews, and nonfiction pieces have appeared in over seventy publications including Literal Latte, The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Psychiatry, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Atlanta Review, Hawaii Review, The Main Street Rag, Chiron Review, Fifth Wednesday Journal, The Paterson Literary Review, Plainsongs and elsewhere. His poem, “Identification,” was anthologized along with poems by W.H. Auden, Hilda Doolittle, Philip Larkin, Stephen Dobyns, Louise Gluck, Anne Sexton, and others in, Climate of Opinion: Sigmund Freud in Poetry, Irene Willis (Ed.), (International Psychoanalytic Books, 2017).
Sis, Volume 4, Issue 2
Review, Mnemosyne’s Hand: Poems, Volume 4, Issue 2
Interview
The Magnolia Review 