Meet the contributors in upcoming Issue 196…
Kevin Richard White
Kevin Richard White is the author of the novels “Steep Drop” and “The Face Of A Monster.” His short fiction has been previously published by Akashic Books, Tahoe Writers Works and Cactus Heart Press. He is also a contributor to the indie music magazine Manifesto Of Sound and is the head editor of Viewfinder Literary Magazine. He lives in Pennsylvania.
Ryan Dilbert
Ryan Dilbert is the author of “Time Crumbling like a Wet Cracker” (No Record Press). His stories have appeared in Smokelong Quarterly, Cease Cows and Matchbook. He writes about pro wrestling for Bleacher Report. See his best work, fiction or wrestling-related, at ryandilbert.com.
Genelle Chaconas
Genelle Chaconas graduated from Naropa University with an MFA in Writing and Poetics in 2015. They identify as queer, feminist, genderfluid, an abuse survivor, post employed and proud to the core. Their first chapbook, “Fallout, Saints and Dirty Pictures” was published by little m press in 2011. Their work has been published or is forthcoming in Five 2 One, The Fem, Crab Fat Magazine, Door is a Jar, Third Wednesday, Late Peaches: An Anthology of Sacramento Poets, Primal Urge, Six Foot Swells, Medusa’s Kitchen, Brevities, WTF, and others. They hosted Red Night Poetry series in Sacramento.
Christopher Woods
Christopher Woods is a writer, teacher and photographer who lives in Houston and Chappell Hill, Texas. He has published a novel, “The Dream Patch,” a prose collection, “Under a Riverbed Sky” and a book of stage monologues for actors, “Heart Speak.” His work has appeared in “The Southern Review,” New England Review,” “New Orleans Review,” “Columbia,” and “Glimmer Train,” among others. His photographs can be seen in his gallery. He is currently compiling a book of photography prompts for writers, “From Vision to Text.”
Bethany W. Pope
Bethany W. Pope is an award-winning writer. She received her PhD from Aberystwyth University’s Creative Writing program, and her MA from the University of Wales Trinity St David. She has published several collections of poetry: “A Radiance” (Cultured Llama, 2012) “Crown of Thorns,” (Oneiros Books, 2013), “The Gospel of Flies” (Writing Knights Press 2014), and “Undisturbed Circles” (Lapwing, 2014). Her collection “The Rag and Boneyard” was published this month by Indigo Dreams and her chapbook “Among The White Roots” will be released by Three Drops Press next autumn. Her first novel, “Masque,” shall be published by Seren this June.
Tige Ashton DeCoster
Poet and musician, Tige Ashton DeCoster is a native of Seattle and received his BA in creative writing from the University of Washington. Tige’s poetry has been published in Crab Creek Review, Malpais Review, Fly South, Calliope, and others. He has been a touring and recording musician for twenty years, recipient of a 2009 Fulbright scholarship, and the 2016 Joan Grayston Poetry Prize.
Charles Kell
Charles Kell is a PhD student at The University of Rhode Island and editor of The Ocean State Review. His poetry and fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in The New Orleans Review, The Saint Ann’s Review, floor_plan_journal, The Manhattanville Review, and elsewhere. He teaches in Rhode Island and Connecticut.
Mary-Anne Nelligan
Mary-Anne Nelligan is a editor for Five on the Fifth. Most recently, her prose poems, “Living in Salt,” and “Pillow Talk,” appear in Duende.