Issue 176 Contributors

Meet the writers who will be featured in upcoming Issue 176.

Thom Young
Thom Young is a writer from Texas. His work has been in 3am magazine, Thieves Jargon, Word Riot, The Legendary, 48th Street Press, The Zombie Logic Review, Commonline Journal, and many other places.

Arthur Maurer
Arthur Maurer currently lives in St. Louis and holds a B.A. in English from the University of Missouri–St. Louis, with plans to teach abroad. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Boston Literary Magazine and Petrichor Machine.

Bill Yarrow
Bill Yarrow is the author of “Blasphemer,” “Pointed Sentences,” and four chapbooks. His poems have appeared in many print and online magazines including Poetry International, RHINO, FRiGG, Contrary, Altered Scale, Gargoyle and PANK. He is a Professor of English at Joliet Junior College where he teaches creative writing, Shakespeare, and film.

J. A. Bernstein
J. A. Bernstein’s stories and essays have appeared in The Boston Review, Kenyon Review, Tin House, Tampa Review, and other journals. He is an assistant professor of English at the University of Minnesota Duluth and the fiction editor of Tikkun.

Christian Heinze
Christian Heinze is a writer from Baltimore, Maryland. He’s optioned two screenplays, and won or been a finalist in numerous screenwriting contests. He has a short story appearing in the forthcoming issue of The Rusty Toque.

Margi Desmond
Margi Desmond graduated from East Carolina University with a B.S. in Communications and an English minor. More than 100 nonfiction articles and sixteen of her short stories have been published. She also serves as a judge for the annual Colorado Book Awards and the Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence. She’s a member of the Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime. A United States Army wife, Margi and her husband are stationed in Germany. For more information visit her website, Facebook Author Page, and Twitter.