Volume 5 Issue 1

Daniel Edward Moore

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Daniel Edward Moore lives in Washington on Whidbey Island. His poems have been found at Spoon River Poetry Review, Rattle, Columbia Journal and others. His poems will soon be found at Hawaii Review, Blue Fifth Review, Plainsongs, The Museum Of Americana, West Trade Review, Frontier Poetry Journal, Flexible Persona Literary Journal, AJI Magazine, and Duende Literary Journal. His book Confessions of a Pentecostal Buddhist, can be found on Amazon. His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Visit Daniel at danieledwardmoore.com.

Narcoleptic Stallion, Glory Unremarkable, and Government Shutdown, Volume 5, Issue 1

Donají Olmedo

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Donají Olmedo was born in Mexico City, where she still lives today. English translations of her fiction have appeared in various venues, including The Bitter Oleander, Gargoyle Magazine, The McNeese Review, and xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths. She blogs at Casa de Ateh and edits the chapbook of the same name, where she publishes the work of young Mexican writers.

A Pigeon, Volume 5, Issue 1 (Translated by Toshiya Kamei)

Eric Rasmussen

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Eric Rasmussen has placed short fiction in Fugue, Sundog Lit, Gulf Stream, Black Fox Literary, and South Carolina Review, among others. He serves as editor of the regional literary journal Barstow & Grand, and fiction reader for Split Lip Magazine. He earned his MFA at Augsburg University in Minneapolis and currently resides in Eau Claire, WI.

When He Caught the Big One, Volume 5, Issue 1

Marygrace Schumann

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Marygrace Schumann is a writer, educator, editor, and Virgo with a bachelors degree in Creative Writing from Columbia College Chicago. She has worked as an editorial writer for Chicago Woman Magazine, a production editor and typesetter for Hair Trigger 39, a contributing editor for Hair Trigger 2.0, a staff writer for Shredded Magazine, and as an editorial intern for Chief Learning Officer, an offset of Human Capital Media. Her writing has been featured in Thrice Publishing, Hair Trigger 39, Chicago Woman, Chief Learning Officer, and Shredded. When she’s not writing, teaching or editing, she’s serenading everybody around her with ‘80s music and taking her role as Mom Friend way too seriously.

Give, Not Take, Volume 5, Issue 1

Ruben E. Smith

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Ruben E. Smith is a current English major student at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. He likes to write short fiction, nonfiction, and the occasional poem, while also finding time to argue about Faulkner, speak French, and read Fitzgerald. Some of his work has been published in Argus Art & Literary Magazine.

The Women on the Falling Elevator, Going Up, Volume 5, Issue 1
Interview

Ash Strange

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Ash Strange is a freshman from Bowling Green State University, majoring in creative writing. She was born in Las Vegas, Nevada, and grew up in Lima, Ohio, for most of her childhood years, going on to live in California, Oklahoma, and Florida. She lives with her aunt, uncle, her two cousins, and her two brothers. She often writes every day about almost everything she can think of, including her life experiences. Some of her hobbies include art, listening to music, and going out with friends.

Her, Volume 5, Issue 1

Sydnee Smailes

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Sydnee Smailes is currently an undergraduate student at Bowling Green State University studying Creative Writing. Outside of writing, she spends most of her time tending to her three cats, water dragon, and a boat load of fish. After school she plans on taking a year off and then going to back to school to pursue her Masters Degree in fiction.

Seams of Peppermint and Sherry, Volume 5, Issue 1

Penn Stewart

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Penn Stewart lives and writes in Wichita Falls, Texas. He has a big brown lab named Yoda and a Les Paul guitar named Betsy. Neither of them come when called. His latest flash fiction will appear in the Iron Horse Review, his longer stuff is up at Pacifica Literary Review and Literary Orphans, and he’s got a chapbook of stories coming out called The Water in Our Veins.

An American Love Story, Volume 5, Issue 1