Meet the contributors of upcoming Issue 183…
Julianne Palumbo
Julianne Palumbo’s poems, short stories, and essays have been published in Literary Mama, Coffee+Crumbs, MomBabble, Kindred Magazine, Poetry East, Mamalode, Manifest Station, and others. She is the author of Into “Your Light” (Flutter Press, 2013) and “Announcing the Thaw” (Finishing Line Press, 2014), poetry chapbooks about raising teenagers. Julianne was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2013. Her essay will be published in the upcoming HerStories Anthology, “So Glad They Told Me.” She is the Founder/Editor-in-Chief of Mothers Always Write, an online literary magazine for mothers by mother writers. You can find her on her website, facebook, twitter, and MothersAlwaysWrite.
Nancy Scott Hanway
Nancy Scott Hanway is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her work has appeared in The Florida Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Willow Review, Washington Square, WomenArts Quarterly, and Southern Indiana Review, among others. She lives in Minnesota, where she teaches Latin American literature and culture at Gustavus Adolphus College.
John P. Kristofco
John P. Kristofco’s poetry and short stories have appeared in about two hundred different publications, including: Folio, Rattle, Slant, Nerve Cowboy, Cimarron Review, Sierra Nevada Review, and The MacGuffin. He has published three collections of poetry with a fourth due out in the spring. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize five times.
Debra Burks Hori
Debra Burks Hori has been published in “This I Believe, For Reader’s Edification and Debauchery” (FRE&D), Silver Birch Press, and the Health Section of the Los Angeles Times. She has attended several writing conferences, including: Calling in Your Muse with Roger Housden, 90-Day Novel with Al Watt, and poetry workshops with Jack Grapes, Richard Jones, and Ellen Bass. After her husband was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, Debra decided to use writing to help comfort herself and others who feel the same experience of grief. Debra finds peace and self-renewal in hiking, yoga, and getting lost in books she brings home. She holds a master’s degree in special education from California State University, Los Angeles, and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Occidental College.
Michael Grant Zimmer
Michael Grant Zimmer is a writer and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. He directed the award-winning feature documentary THE ENTERTAINERS, about the World Championship Old-Time Piano Playing Contest. His fiction has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Pithead Chapel, Spelk, Linden Avenue Literary Journal, and Akashic Books’ Mondays are Murder.
Duke Donaldson
Product of the working poor from the Rust Belt. Thick-skinned bar room hero. With all his tattoos, scars, and grime he looks like his city but beneath all the dirt, something gold beats.
James Valvis
James Valvis has placed poems or stories in Arts & Letters, Barrow Street, Ploughshares, River Styx, The Sun, and many others. His poetry was featured in Verse Daily. His fiction was chosen for Sundress Best of the Net. A former US Army soldier, he lives near Seattle.