Volume Twelve 2025 Contributors |
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Bob Armstrong is a novelist, playwright and speechwriter from Winnipeg. His novel Prodigies (Five Star/Gale) won the 2022 Margaret Laurence Prize for Fiction in the Manitoba Book Awards and his short fiction and CNF have been published or are forthcoming in the U.S. in Red Earth Review, Kudzu House and Roi Fainneant and in Canada in Prairie Fire, Exile, The Fiddlehead, FreeFall and anthologies of comedy, speculative fiction and travel writing. His travel misadventures and other writing can be found on Substack @wanderingwriterbobarmstrong. Sheila Fiona Black is the author of five poetry collections and three chapbooks. Her latest, For the Loneliness of Walking Out, is forthcoming from Lily Review Poetry Books in January 2025. Her poems and essays have appeared in Blackbird, Poetry, The Nation, The New York Times, and elsewhere. She lives in San Antonio, TX and Tempe, AZ where she is assistant director of the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University (ASU). Jennifer Campbell is a writing professor in Buffalo, NY, and a co-editor of Earth’s Daughters. Her most recent book, What Came First (Dancing Girl Press), contains reconstituted fairytale poems. Jennifer’s work has recently appeared in Slipstream, The Healing Muse, ArLiJo, and American Journal of Nursing. Sandra Cimadori was born in New York and grew up in South Florida in a multilingual family. She graduated from Florida State University eons ago and teaches Spanish online, dividing her time between North Carolina and Florida. Her work has appeared in Reservoir Road Literary Review, South Florida Poetry Journal, West Trestle Review, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature and elsewhere. Cats and children find her to be excellent company—others, not so much. Richard Collins lives in Sewanee, Tennessee, where he directs Stone Nest Zen Dojo. He has taught at universities in Romania, Bulgaria, and Wales, as well as Louisiana (where he was editor of the Xavier Review) and California (where he is Dean Emeritus of Arts and Humanities.) His poetry has appeared in Chiron Review, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Marrow, MockingHeart Review, Pensive, The Orchards, Southern Humanities Review, Think, The Plenitudes, Shō Poetry Journal, and Urthona: Buddhism and the Arts. His books include No Fear Zen (2015) and In Search of the Hermaphrodite (Tough Poets Press, 2024). Ralph Culver divides his time between Vermont and central Pennsylvania. His poetry is widely published, most recently or appearing soon in such journals as Queen's Quarterly (Canada), Plume, On the Seawall, The High Window (UK), and Modern Literature. His last book, A Passable Man, came out in 2021; his new collection, This to This, was published in 2024. Dave Damerow is a retired health and safety professional. He worked for thirty years at General Motors and twelve years as an assistant manager at Binder Park Golf Course in Battle Creek. Always one with an eye for beauty in natural surroundings, he loves traveling, boating, and playing golf. His photos have been featured in various local publications in mid-Michigan. Sunset on Democracy was taken on Graham Lake in Calhoun County. Jim Daniels’ latest fiction book, The Luck of the Fall, was published by Michigan State University Press. Recent poetry collections include The Human Engine at Dawn, Wolfson Press, Gun/Shy, Wayne State University Press, and Comment Card, Carnegie Mellon University Press. His first book of nonfiction, Ignorance of Trees, is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press. A native of Detroit, he currently lives in Pittsburgh and teaches in the Alma College low-residency MFA program. Michelle Donice is the author of The Other Side of Through (Balboa Press) and Following Your North Star (Atmosphere Press). Her short fiction has been featured in Midnight and Indigo Lit, Free Spirit, New Delta Review, and Flash Fiction for Flash Memory (Anchala Studios). Michelle earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Sierra Nevada College (now the University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe). She currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee with her husband and dogs and teaches yoga and writing. Michelle often incorporates themes of spirituality, African American culture, and women's empowerment in her fiction. Mary Warren Foulk is a graduate of VCFA. Her work has been published in The Hollins Critic, Palette Poetry, Fjords Review, The Gay & Lesbian Review, and North American Review, among other publications. She has two award-winning chapbooks, If I Could Write You a Happier Ending (dancing girl press) and Erasures of My Coming Out (Letter) (The Poetry Box). Her newest collection, The Show Must Go On, was a finalist for the 2021 Gival Press Poetry Award, a finalist for the Inlandia Institute’s 2022 Hillary Gravendyk Prize, and a semi-finalist for the Word Works' 2022 Washington Prize. It is forthcoming from Fernwood Press. Chase D. Fowler (he/they) is an Appalachian based actor, director, and writer with special interests in sci-fi, horror, and queer works (as well as the ways in which those genres intersect). Chase holds a BA from Lenoir-Rhyne University and both an MLitt and an MFA from Mary Baldwin University. Eleanor Fuller won The Malahat's 2023 Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction and was a finalist in The Fiddlehead's 2023 fiction contest and the 2024 Cambridge Short Prize. Her stories appear in The Moth, The Manchester Review, The New Quarterly, and The Antigonish Review. Fuller completed her MFA at the University of British Columbia, where she continues to volunteer on the Editorial Board at Prism International. She is a 2024 Edith Wharton-Straw Dog Writers Guild Writer-in-Residence and a grateful recipient of SSHRC, Ontario Arts Council, and Canada Council grants. She lives in Toronto. E.A. Greymoire is a writer and analyst who lives in New England with their biotech spouse, three dogs, three cats, and various fostered felines and canines. Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose’s writing appears in The Atlantic, McSweeney’s, Room, Mom Egg Review, Rattle, Women Studies Quarterly, and Feminist Formations, among others. She is the author of two chapbooks: Wild Things, (Main Street Rag, 2021) and Imago, Dei (Rattle Chapbook Poetry Prize, 2022). Coordinator of the Creative Writing Program at Monroe Community College and co-founder of Straw Mat Writers, she leads trauma-writing workshops for the Breast Cancer Coalition and for survivors of sexual assault. She lives in Rochester, NY with her partner, daughters, and 4 rescue animals. Find her at www.elizabethjohnstonambrose.com. Donald Levering’s 16th book, Breaking Down Familiar, placed second in the 2023 National Federation of Press Women Creative Verse Book contest. A previous book, Coltrane’s God, was Runner-Up in the 2016 New England Book Festival contest in poetry. He is a former National Endowment for the Arts Fellow and won the 2018 Carve magazine contest, the 2017 Tor House Robinson Jeffers Prize, and the 2014 Literal Latté prize. Sarah Mina Osman is a writer based in Los Angeles. Her work has been featured in Lunaris Review, Punt Volat, and many other publications. She likes sloths and tacos. Andre F. Peltier (he/him) is a Pushcart and two time Best of the Net nominated poet and a Lecturer III at Eastern Michigan University where he teaches literature and writing. He lives in Ypsilanti, MI, with his wife and children. His poetry has recently appeared in various publications both online and in print. His poetry collections Poplandia and Ambassador Bridge are available from Alien Buddha, and his collection Trouble on the Escarpment is available from Back Room Poetry, and his collection, Petoskey Stones, is available from Finishing Line Press. In his free time, he obsesses over soccer and comic books. Cassandra Powers’ short story Tiny Yellow Moon was nominated for a Pushcart. She received her MFA from the University of Oregon. Her short plays have been selected as semi-finalists for the Maine Playwrights Festival and others. When not writing, she works as a nurse practitioner in community mental health in Portland, Maine. Stephanie Pritchard received her MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts in creative writing with a concentration in poetry. She teaches in the English and Creative Writing department at the State University of New York at Oswego and is the recipient of the Provost's Award for Teaching Excellence. Her poems have appeared in publications such as Stone Canoe, The River, Ink Babies, Better Than Starbucks, Book of Matches, MASKS, and other places. Deborah Richardson is a teacher and writer from Brooklyn, New York. She holds a B.A. from Goddard College in Creative Writing and Women’s Studies. She has a Masters Degree in Special Education and has been teaching diverse populations of children for almost two decades. Deborah has a passion for storytelling and memoir and has studied both. Deborah is currently studying memoir at Sarah Lawrence College and is working on a manuscript about the impact of generational trauma on her family. Deborah lives with her husband Alek and their four ever-evolving teenage children in a blended family full of chaos, love and many, many stories. Mark S. Rosati, a Chicago-area writer, is the author of 29 full-length and one-act plays and numerous short stories, and is a member of the Dramatists Guild. His plays and stories have had productions, publications and public readings in New York (city and suburbs), Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Michigan, Philadelphia and New Jersey in the US, and internationally in Brighton, UK, Ottawa, Canada, and New Delhi, India. Recent productions include his one-act Duet in the Long Beach (NY) Short Play Festival (May 2024) and his COVID-themed play Entrenched on the Audible Theatre of New York’s podcast series. Thompson MacKenzie Scribner is a playwright from central Utah, living and working in Chicago, IL. Her work interrogates the collective anxiety of a generation, and the real, existential threats facing our society. Bridget Grace Sheaff’s primary artistic practices are directing and playwriting. Her directing work has been seen across stages in Washington DC, Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey, Illinois, and Missouri. Her writing can be found on stages and in classrooms across the US and Canada. She currently works in development for Hoyt Sherman Place in Des Moines, Iowa. Bridget is a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab 2019 and Directors Lab North 2022. BA 2014 summa cum laude, The Catholic University of America. www.bridgetgracesheaff.com John Sieber is a queer poet and fiction writer based in Indiana. His poetry has been previously published in Oakland Arts Review, Marathon Literary Review, and others. When he’s not writing, he enjoys traveling, being outdoors, daydreaming, and trying his best to understand the curious world around him. Jamie Wendt is the author of the poetry collection Fruit of the Earth (Main Street Rag, 2018), which won the 2019 National Federation of Press Women Book Award in Poetry. Her manuscript, Laughing in Yiddish, is forthcoming in 2025 by Broadstone Books and was a finalist for the 2022 Philip Levine Prize in Poetry. Her poems and essays have been published in various literary journals and anthologies, including Feminine Rising, Green Mountains Review, Lilith, Jet Fuel Review, the Forward, Poetica Magazine, Catamaran, and others. She contributes book reviews to the Jewish Book Council. She lives in Chicago. |