Issue Fifty-Two Contributors

Issue Fifty-Two Contributors – you’ll really meet them tomorrow, but they’d like to introduce themselves now…

Molly Fuller
Molly Fuller is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College’s MFA program and currently teaches English at Marshall University in West Virginia.  Her work has appeared in Hot Metal Bridge, Quickly, and Buried Letter Press.

Robert Scotellaro
Robert Scotellaro has published short fiction and poetry in numerous print and online journals and anthologies. He is the author of five literary chapbooks. His most recent collections are Rhapsody of Fallen Objects(Flutter Press 2010) and The Night Sings A Cappella(Big Table Publishing 2011). A full length collection of his flash fiction, Measuring the Distance, has recently been published by Blue Light Press. He is the recipient of Zone 3’s Rainmaker Award in Poetry. He is also the author of three books for children. Raised in Manhattan, he currently lives in San Francisco with his wife and daughter.

Chelsea Johnson
Chelsea is a soon-to-be graduate English major from Azusa Pacific University. Until now, she was previously unpublished. Chelsea is working on completing her short fiction collection and dabbles in the world of non-fiction and editorial journalism. She enjoys poetry that isn’t about love, Harry Potter, and is convinced that one day she will become a Jedi Master. Her spare time is spent petting her cat and acquiring useless information — for example, a ragamuffin is a type of cat.

Leanne Gregg
Leanne Gregg’s most recent work has been featured in Bartleby Snopes, Used Furniture Review, and Linguistic Erosion. When she’s not writing, she spends her time working as the fiction editor for Literary Orphans or teaching her two cats to do her chores.

Janae Green
Janae Green is the non-fiction reader at The Boiler Journal and poetry editor of the Salmon Creek Journal (2012-13 edition). Her poems and short stories have appeared in Poetry Quarterly, scissors and spackle, and various online literary journals. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her partner, artist Shea Bordo.

Shelbie Neff
Shelbie Neff is a dreadfully boring college student at the University of Northern Colorado set to graduate this spring with a degree in history. When not using her major as a means to discover new implementations to torture characters, or how to smuggle dragons into George Washington’s stockings, she is drawing, writing, and fighting with photoshop. Shelbie has additional work forthcoming in RiverLit.

Michael Welch
Michael Welch is a recent graduate of the Pacific University Writing Program. His recent publications include “New Room” in Soundings,“Papatoto” in Midwifery Today, and“Letters from the Front” in The Mankind Project Reader, an essay about his work in Folsom Prison; his story “Calcium” and flash “The Rental” were finalists in New Millennium writing contests this past year. “Whatever Helps Gravity” is upcoming in Stealing Time, and “Torso, Front and Back” in Prime Mincer. He grew up in the Bronx and now lives with his family in Eugene, OR.

Robert Laughlin
Robert Laughlin lives in Chico, California. He has published 100 short stories, 200 poems and one novel, Vow of Silence.