Issue Fifty-Nine Contributors

 

Issue Fifty-Nine is coming, and bringing some new friends along.

Rose Mary Boehm

A German-born UK national, Rose Mary Boehm, short-story and novel writer, copywriter, photographer and poet, now lives and works in Lima, Peru. Two novels and a poetry collection (TANGENTS) have been published in the UK. Her latest poems have appeared – or are forthcoming – in US poetry reviews. Among others: Toe Good Poetry, Poetry Breakfast, Burning Word, Muddy River Review, Pale Horse Review, Pirene’s Fountain, Other Rooms, Requiem Magazine, Full of Crow, Poetry Quarterly, Punchnel’s, Avatar, Verse Wisconsin, Naugatuck River Review, Boston Literary.  View her photography.

Gary F. Iorio
Mr. Iorio was raised in Brooklyn and Massapequa, NY.  He has an MFA from The University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop.  Mr. Iorio works as a real estate attorney in the Metro-NY Area.  His fiction, poetry and memoirs have appeared in various publications in the United States, Canada and The United Kingdom.  His works have recently been published in Issue #18, Issue #32 and The 2012 Summer Print Anthology of Crack the Spine.  Mr. Iorio was also the Featured Writer of the Month for April, 2012 for Crack the Spine.

Brian Rodan
Brian Rodan lives in the Pacific Northwest on the wet, west side of the Cascade Mountains.  From his window he watches a mossy regrade slouch toward Puget Sound.  

J.B. Hogan
J. B. Hogan has over 235 stories and poems in such journals as: Cynic Online Magazine, Istanbul Literary Review, Bewildering Stories, Every Day Poets, Ranfurly Review, and the Dead Mule.  His work has been anthologized in Flash of Aphelion, The Best of Frontier Tales: Volume 1, The Best of Everyday Poets, Two, and Best of Tales from the South, Volume 6.

Wendy Nardi
Wendy Nardi is a writer living in Connecticut.  Her fiction, poetry, essays and journalism have appeared in Eclectica, 360 Degrees:  Art and Literary Review,  Dance and High Performance magazines, The Boston Globe and other publications.  She wrote for the Kerouac Romnibus CD-ROM, published by Penguin USA, and received a Connecticut Artist Fellowship in fiction writing.  Her current projects are a biographical novel based on the life and career of pianist Kurt Appelbaum, and continuing stories in a series, Lives of the Artists

Sam Wilkes
The author is a thirty-year old attorney, writer, and musician living on the Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay with his wife, Libba, and fat wiener dog, Gus. He attended college at the University of Alabama and law school at Cumberland in Birmingham. He has dealt with Alabama-born insecurities his entire short life, but will never leave her. He had a law school article published in Cumberland’s Journal of Trial Advocacy. His fiction stories have been published in the Steel Toe Review and Mod Mobilian Press’ print anthology Tributaries 2012.  He also recently learned that his short story “Missing the Point” will appear in the WhiskeyPaper around August of 2013.

Ethan McElhinney
Ethan McElhinny is studying fiction writing at the University of Pittsburgh.  His work has been published at One Forty Fiction.