writing

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

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

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

Paul Lamb

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Paul Lamb lives near Kansas City but escapes to the Missouri Ozarks whenever he can steal the chance. His stories have appeared in Aethlon, The Nassau Review, The Little Patuxent Review, Penduline Press, Bartleby Snopes, and others. He rarely strays far from his laptop, unless he is running, which he’s been doing a lot lately.

Fire Sermon, Volume 4, Issue 1 (Pushcart Nomination)
Interview

Brian K. Kerley

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Brian K. Kerley is a full-time writer and seasonal Alaskan bush pilot with degrees in English and aviation, and he will complete his MFA in creative writing in 2018. He teaches writing and flight and enjoys the outdoors, playing with his cat, and making his wife laugh at least once a day.

Dustoff Under Fire, Volume 4, Issue 1
Interview

Steven R. Jakobi

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Steven R. Jakobi is a retired college biology professor. A native of Hungary, he lives and writes in rural Allegany County, New York. He has published numerous scientific and non-fiction articles, and he is the author of two self-published books of essays, Giorgio the Possum and Other Stories from Nature, and Birds, Bats, Bugs, Beavers, Bacteria: Lessons from Nature.

My Mother’s Things, Volume 4, Issue 1
Interview

Jamie Houghton

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Jamie Houghton is a poet and teaching artist living in Oregon. Her work has appeared most recently in Thief Magazine and Picaroon Poetry, and her chapbook, Burn Site in Bloom, was released by Musehick Publications in 2017.

At Home and Hero, Volume 4, Issue 1
Interview
Review, Burn Site In Bloom, Volume 4, Issue 2

K.B. Holzman

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

K.B. Holzman has been a poet, an administrator, and a parent, wandering from the West Coast to the East, and finally settling in New England where the sun filters through towering pines regardless of the season. https://picaflorpress.weebly.com/

Burning, Volume 4, Issue 1
Interview