We’d like you to meet some new friends of ours…
Alissa M. Fehlbaum
Alissa M. Fehlbaum is working on her MFA at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she also teaches creative writing. She was raised in Mabank, Texas, and received her BA from the University of North Texas. Her work has been featured in Collective Fallout, Postcard Shorts and Thunderdome Magazine.
Baltimore native Jeffrey Park currently lives in Munich, Germany, where he works at a private secondary school and teaches business English to adults. His latest poems have appeared in Requiem, Deep Tissue, Danse Macabre, Mad Swirl, Right Hand Pointing and elsewhere, and his digital chapbook, Inorganic, has just been published online by White Knuckle Press.
Omar Azam
Omar Azam has lived his entire life in or near Chicago. His lineage includes Pakistani and Indian roots, and he looks to the American beat and modernist poets for inspiration in dealing with identity problems that most are too distracted to address. His poetry, fiction, criticism, and artwork have appeared in anastomoo, Breadcrumb Scabs, The Camel Saloon, Clockwise Cat, Ditch, Damazine, Four and Twenty, Hobo Pancakes, The Houston Literary Review, The Missing Slate, Unlikely Stories, vox poetica, and wtfpwm. He was nominated by metazen for a Pushcart Prize in 2012. He was founder and editor of Subjective Substance, journal of spiritual poetry.
Mike Berger
Mike Berger is an MFA, PhD. He writes poetry and short stories full time. He has been writing poetry for less than four years. His work appears in seventy-one journals. He has published two books of short stories and eight poetry chapbooks .The winner of several poetry contests, he has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He is a member of The Academy of American Poets.
Patricia Bruce
Patricia is a retired actor and turned to Bow Valley College for writing classes and a new career. She feels it is an advantage to becoming a writer in later life — you can rely on life’s teachings and experiences to provide a broader vision.
David S. Atkinson received his MFA from the University of Nebraska. His writing appears in Grey Sparrow Journal, Interrobang?! Magazine, Atticus Review, and others. His novel in short story form, “Bones Buried in the Dirt,“ will be published in March 2013 by River Otter Press. He spends his non-literary time working as a patent attorney in Denver.
Paula Sophia Schonauer
Paula Sophia Schonauer is a graduate from the MFA in Creative Writing program at the University of Central Oklahoma and a twenty year veteran with the Oklahoma City Police Department, the agency’s first openly transgender officer. Her work has appeared in The Molotov Cocktail, Red Fez, scissors and spackly, and many others. Etopia Press published her first novel “Shadowboxer” in December 2011.
Eleanor Leonne Bennett (Cover Artist)
Eleanor Leonne Bennett is a 16 year old internationally award winning photographer and artist who has won first places with National Geographic,The World Photography Organisation, Nature’s Best Photography, Papworth Trust, Mencap, The Woodland trust and Postal Heritage. Her photography has been published in the Telegraph , The Guardian, BBC News Website and on the cover of books and magazines in the United states and Canada. Her art is globally exhibited , having shown work in London, Paris, Indonesia, Los Angeles,Florida, Washington, Scotland,Wales, Ireland,Canada,Spain,Germany, Japan, Australia and The Environmental Photographer of the year Exhibition (2011) amongst many other locations. She was also the only person from the UK to have her work displayed in the National Geographic and Airbus run See The Bigger Picture global exhibition tour with the United Nations International Year Of Biodiversity 2010.