Meet the contributors of upcoming Issue 181…
Anne Anthony
Anne Anthony is a full-time writer living in Chapel Hill, NC. Her flash fiction has been published online in Brilliant Flash Fiction, A Story in 100 Words, and Nailpolish Stories. She recently won A3 Review’s themed competition with her story, “The Chase,” which will be published in the October 2015 edition. Her interview of author Marjorie Hudson is slated for publication in the 2016 issue of the North Carolina Literary Review.
Bruce Robinson
Work by Bruce Robinson has appeared in Poetry Australia, Fiction, ONTHEBUS, Works & Days, and Right Hand Pointing. He has done time at the Johns Hopkins University and the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and pays his library fines.
Caitlyn McPherson
Caitlyn is a graduate of Utah Valley University and has recently found a love for poetry and the beauty of the word and sentence. She is a wife to a wonderful husband and mother to a beautiful child. She plans on writing for as long as possible as much as possible.
Lydia Armstrong
Lydia Armstrong lives and writes in Richmond, Virginia, where she is active in the spoken word community and helps facilitate Slam Richmond. Lydia collects bugs, drinks copious amounts of white tea, and has a cat named Birdie. She’s currently working on a novel.
Alec Cizak
Alec Cizak is a writer and filmmaker from Indianapolis. His work has recently appeared in (or is scheduled to appear in) Wayne Literary Review, Profane Journal, and Beat to a Pulp. His third feature film, “Kato Therapy,” was an official selection for the 2015 fREEDOM fILM fESTIVAL. He is also the editor of the literary journal Pulp Modern.
Wayne Scheer
Wayne Scheer has been nominated for four Pushcart Prizes and a Best of the Net. He’s published hundred of stories, poems and essays in print and online, including Revealing Moments, a collection of flash stories, available at http://issuu.com/pearnoir/docs/revealing_moments. A short film has also been produced based on his short story, “Zen and the Art of House Painting.”
Laura Kiselevach
After twenty years of working as a visual designer and photo stylist for such clients as Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger, DKNY, and The New York Times, Laura Kiselevach decided to pursue her passion for photography. Using only her well trained eye and a smart phone camera, she captures both the grandeur and minutia of her everyday life.Laura’s work has been published in Rip/Torn, Roadside Fiction, Temenos, Short, Fast and Deadly, Wilde Magazine, Quickest Flipest, The Casserole, Muzzle Magazine, among others, and exhibited at galleries in New York City, Florida and Los Angeles.
Emily Vander Ark
Emily Vander Ark is a librarian and English instructor, and is nearly finished with her MFA in writing from Spalding University. She is a student editor for The Louisville Review, proofreader for Best New Writing, and founder/managing editor of Forest for the Trees. Her own writing has been published in Garbanzo Literary Journal and others, and an article she wrote for The Honeybee Conservancy recently reached over 15,000 readers. Look her up at emilyvanderark.com.