Issue Sixty-Five Contributors

 

It’s a good morning to meet some good people…

Gregory Wm. Gunn
Born in Windsor, Ontario in 1960, Gregory Wm. Gunn was raised in a few small towns throughout the province until finally settling in London. A graduate of Fanshawe College as an Electronics Technician in 1982, Mr. Gunn began writing earnestly during this academic tenure there, and has continued doing so ever since. He is mainly passionate about poetry. He has compiled seven full collections and has had several poems published in:  Subterranean Blue Poetry, Blue Hour Magazine, Yes Poetry, The Toronto Quarterly,  Ascent Aspirations, Covalence, Shangri-La Shack, Tea With George, 20 X 20 Magazine, Exercise Bowler, Corium, Lines and Stars, Blue Lake Review, Forty Ounce Bachelors, The Light Ekphrastic, Side B Magazine, Burning Wood, Crack the Spine, and others.  Various other interests include: photography, music, philosophy, languages, outdoor activities, astronomy, and gardening.

Jason Lee Miller
Jason Lee Miller, MFA, is a curriculum developer and composition instructor at Eastern Kentucky University. His work –poetry, fiction, essays, and book reviews–have appeared or will appear in 94 Creations, Blood Lotus, the Bluegrass Accolade, the Copperfield Review, Danse Macabre Du Jour, Dew on the Kudzu, Eunoia, Gloom Cupboard, The Legendary, Milk Sugar, Numinous, Ontologica, Scarlet, State of Imagination, and Subliminal Interiors.

Donna Emerson
Donna Emerson is a Santa Rosa Jr. College instructor, a licensed clinical social worker, photographer, and writer of poetry and prose. She is also the Events Chair at Marin Poetry Center. Recent poetry publications include  The Paterson Literary Review, The Place That Inhabits Us, Poems of the Bay Area Watershed, Praxis (SUNY), The New Ohio Review, Sow’s Ear,  Sanskrit, Eclipse, and So To Speak, among many others. Recent prose and photography publications include Passager, Stone Canoe, and Tiny Lights, where she was awarded first prize in the 2010 Flash competition. Her first chapbook, This Water, was published in 2007. Her second chapbook, Body Rhymes, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2009 and was nominated for the California Book Award. Finishing Line Press published her third chapbook, Wild Mercy, October, 2011 and will release Following Hay in late 2013. She lives with her husband and daughter in Sonoma Country, California winter months, and her family homestead above Bath, New York, summers.

A.J. Huffman
A.J. Huffman is a poet and freelance writer in Daytona Beach, Florida.  She has previously published six collections of poetry all available on Amazon.comShe has also published her work in numerous national and international literary journals.  She has is the editor for six online poetry journals for Kind of a Hurricane Press.  Find more about A.J. Huffman, including additional information and links to her work at on Facebookand Twitter.

David Larson
David Larson grew up in on a farm in western Minnesota, attended a one room country grade school, and eventually earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of Minnesota.  He has taught American literature at Cleveland State University for almost 38 years and plans to retire in June.  After publishing scholarly works on colonial American literature, he turned his energies to helping form a faculty AAUP collective bargaining chapter at Cleveland State and to writing fiction.  He has had stories published in The Long Story and Reed.  He lives in Cleveland with his partner of fifteen years.  

Mark Oet
Mark Oet is a rising junior at Phillips Exeter Academy, a boarding school in New Hampshire. He loves spring, dislikes the cold and hopes for the sun to stay sunny. Mark enjoys playing chess, acting in musical theater, running track, and of course, taking photographs.

Elizabeth Ballou
Elizabeth Ballou has lived almost her entire life in the delicious and history-laden city of Richmond, VA, which taught her to write.  She is now a first-year student at the University of Virginia.  Her stories, essays, and poetry have appeared in {tap}, Crashtest, Scholars and Rogues, the Virginia Literary Review, and the Adroit Journal, among others.  After being shortlisted for the 2012 Adroit Prizes for her fiction, she was invited to join the staff, where she currently works as a fiction editor.

Stephen V. Ramey
Stephen V. Ramey lives in beautiful New Castle, Pennsylvania with his novelist wife and three cats. His work has appeared in many places, most recently Zest Literary Magazine, Pure Slush, and The Doctor TJ Eckleburg  Review. He edits the annual Triangulation anthology series from Parsec Ink, and the twitterzine, trapeeze. “Glass Animals,” his first collection of short fiction, is available from Pure Slush Books.