Meet the contributors of upcoming Issue 186…
Bobbi Nicotera
Bobbi Nicotera lives and works in Baltimore, MD. In 2009, she received a Master of Arts in Writing from Johns Hopkins University and has published fiction in Echo Ink Review, Grasslands Review, and the Journal of War, Literature and the Arts. She has also worked with Los Angeles-based composer/conductor, Jenni Brandon, on several projects. Their first collaboration, “Dog Tales,” a six-movement piece about (wo)man’s best friend, was commissioned by the chamber music ensemble, Conundrum, and will appear on their forthcoming CD, A Feast for the Ears. She joined the editorial staff of the Baltimore Review in 2013.
Torrin A. Greathouse
Torrin A. Greathouse is a Literary Journalism student and governing member of the Uncultivated Rabbits spoken word collective at UC Irvine. They were the 2015 winner of the Orange County Poetry Slam. Torrin’s work has been published in several magazines including Rust + Moth, Cultured Vultures, and The Metaworker, and one chapbook “Cosmic Taxi Driver Blues.” They are currently employed as the executive assistant of a sustainable lighting firm. Their previous jobs include security guard, farm hand, antique store clerk and tattoo artist. Visit Torrin on Facebook.
Kailey Tedesco
Kailey Tedesco will soon hold an MFA in Poetry from Arcadia University. She is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Rag Queen Periodical. You can find her work in FLAPPERHOUSE, Jersey Devil Press, Hermeneutic Chaos, and more. She is a recent Pushcart Prize nominee. Feel free to follow her on Twitter @kaileytedesco for chats about 90’s television and macarons.
Susan M. Botich
Susan M. Botich has published her poems in Margie, The American Journal of Poetry, Rattlesnake Review, The Meadow, The Danse Macabre, Illya’s Honey, Wildflower Magazine, The Tonopah Review, Avocet, The Inflectionist Review, About Place Journal, Edgar Allan Poet Annual Journal 2013, Edgar Allan Poet Journal #2, PIM Publishing, The Seismic Thread, and The Bleeding Lion. Ms. Botich has been the recipient of two Nevada Arts Council (NAC) Artist Fellowship awards, two NAC Jackpot grants, and one NAC Professional Development grant. Since 2005, she has been working as a freelance writer for regional and national magazines, news publications and businesses. Ms. Botich resides in Bend, OR. Visit her website.
Corie Adjmi
Corie’s work has appeared in Crucible, The Distillery, Diverse Voices Quarterly, Evansville Review, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Indiana Review, Licking River Review, The North American Review, Out Of Line, Pangolin Papers, RE:AL, Red Rock Review, Red Wheelbarrow, RiverSedge, South Dakota Review, The TalonMag, Verdad, and Whetstone. Corie’s story “The Devil Makes Three” received the first-place prize for excellence in prose by Whetstone in 2004. Her short story “Dinner Conversation” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. You can read more of Corie’s writing, humorous and personal stories about family, friends and relationships, on her blog, From The Core, at fromthecore.net.
Katherine Forbes Riley
Katherine Forbes Riley is a computational linguist, writer, wife and mother in Vermont. A graduate of Dartmouth College with a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, her professional writing appears in many places. Her creative writing appears in Storyscape, Lunch Ticket, Whiskey Island, Eunoia Review, Literary Orphans, Eclectica, BlazeVOX, McNeese Review, Akashic Books, and Buffalo Almanack, from whom she received the Inkslinger’s Award.
Doug Van Hooser
Doug Van Hooser lives and writes in southern Wisconsin and Chicago where he is a network playwright at Chicago Dramatists Theatre. His fiction recently appeared in The Riding Light Review and his poetry in Stoneboat Literary Journal, Black Fox Literary Magazine, Poetry Quarterly, Star 82 Review and Foliate Oak Literary Magazine.