Issue 140 Contributors

Kevin Casey
Kevin Casey is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and received his graduate degree at the University of Connecticut. Recent works have been accepted by Grasslimb, Frostwriting, Words Dance, Turtle Island Review, decomP, and others. He currently teaches literature at a small university in Maine, where he enjoys fishing, snowshoeing and hiking.

Kevin Brown
Kevin Brown is a Professor at Lee University.  He has published three books of poetry:  Liturgical Calendar: Poems (Wipf and Stock, 2014); A Lexicon of Lost Words (winner of the Violet Reed Haas Prize for Poetry, Snake Nation Press, 2012); and Exit Lines (Plain View Press, 2009).  He also has a memoir, Another Way: Finding Faith, Then Finding It Again, and a book of scholarship, They Love to Tell the Stories:  Five Contemporary Novelists Take on the Gospels.  He received his MFA from Murray State University.  You can find out more about him and his work at http://www.kevinbrownwrites.com/

Lisa Jay
Lisa Jay is an artist and writer living in Houston Texas. She graduated from Stephen’s College with a BFA in Fine Art, and spent a semester studying at Oxford University before entering the Master’s program in Art History at University of Missouri, which she didn’t finish. She was then uniquely qualified for her long career as a cocktail waitress. During this time she developed several dubiously useful skills: private pilot, black belt in Kung Fu, world traveler, mother, and collector of small and obscure object so no real value. She hopes to someday learn to laugh without ruining her makeup, and actually make money for her art, a novel and crazy concept.

Stuart Friebert
Stuart Friebert has published 13 books of poems, 10 volumes of translations, several anthologies; and Black Mt Press in 2015 will publish “The Language of the Enemy”: stories & memoir pieces.

Melissa Ostrom
Melissa Ostrom lives in rural Western New York with her husband and children. She teaches English at a community college, serves as a public school curriculum consultant, and writes whenever and however much her four-year-old and six-year-old let her. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Monkeybicycle, Oblong, decomP, Cleaver, and Flash.

Mike Scofield
Mike Scofield lives on the great frontier of upstate New York where he tells himself stories to make sense of it all. His work has appeared in numerous literary journals.

Paige Simkins
Paige is a poet who lives with her dog, Sir Simon, in Tampa, Florida. She holds a Bachelor degree in English (Creative Writing) and a Master’s degree in Library and Information Science. She works as a Public Librarian and is very passionate about poetry, libraries, VW Beetles, and visual art.

Michael Salcman
Michal Salcman, poet, physician and art historian, was chair of neurosurgery at the University of Maryland. Recent poems appear in Alaska Quarterly Review, Hopkins Review, The Hudson Review, New Letters, Ontario Review, and Rhino. Poetry books include The Clock Made of Confetti, nominated for The Poet’s Prize, and The Enemy of Good Is Better (Orchises, 2011); Poetry in Medicine, his anthology of classic and contemporary poems on doctors and diseases is newly published (Persea Books, 2015).