Meet the contributors of upcoming Issue 202
Aundria Adams
Aundria Adams is a BS graduate from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City and former marketing executive. She is currently working on a memoir regarding her eight year experience with a psychoanalyst convicted of fraud. Aundria works closely with a writing coach, critique group and attends literary craft classes. Her creative nonfiction has appeared in The Grief Diaries and The Bookends Review.
Heller Levinson
Heller Levinson lives in New York where he studies animal behavior. He has published half a dozen books and his work has appeared in over a hundred journals. His publication, “Smelling Mary” (Howling Dog Press, 2008), was nominated for both the Pulitzer Prize and the Griffin Prize. Black Widow Press published his from stone this running in 2012. “Hinge Trio” was published by La Alameda Press in 2012. “Wrack Lariat” is newly released from Black Widow Press. He is the originator of Hinge Theory.
René Breuel
René Breuel is the author of “The Paradox of Happiness” and the founding editor of wonderingfair.com.
Susan Taylor Chehak
Susan Taylor Chehak has published several books, most recently “The Minor Apocalypse of Meena Krejci” and “It’s Not About the Dog: Stories.” Her short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Adirondack Review, Blue Lake Review, The Chariton Review, Coe Review, Folio, Folly, Grey Sparrow, Guernica Magazine, Juked, L.A. Under the Influence, Limestone, Minnesota Review, Moon City Review, Pennsylvania English, Permafrost, and Word Riot. Susan is a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has taught fiction writing in the low residency MFA program at Antioch University, Los Angeles, the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program, the University of Southern California, and the Iowa Summer Writing Festival at the University of Iowa.
Shawna Ervin
Shawna Ervin is a 2017 Pushcart nominee and has taught writing workshops for both adults and children. She is a member of Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver, where she graduated from the Book Project, a two-year intensive mentoring program helping writers generate, craft, and market a book. She is working on a memoir about adopting her two children from South Korea. Recent publications include poetry in Forge, and prose in The Delmarva Review, Willow Review, Moon City Review, and Superstition Review.
Ryan J. Burden
Ryan J. Burden is a graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and the current Managing/Fiction editor of Four Way Review, an online journal from publisher Four Way Books. He is a teaching assistant and doctoral candidate at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (fall 2016). His work has appeared in American Book Review, Necessary Fiction, Foundling Review, Gulf Stream and JMWW, among others.
Matthew Norris
Matthew Norris is a recent graduate of Ball State University’s Creative Writing Program where he served as a poetry editor for The Broken Plate. A writer of mostly poetry and flash prose, Matthew is currently seeking his second publication in between shifts at his local bookstore.
Richard J. Heby
Richard J. Heby is a published poet, writer, and editor, as well as the founding editor of Beechwood Review – minimalist writing and art.
Irene Levitt
The artist was born on August 18, 1953 in Berkeley, California. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Art from California Lutheran University in 1976.
Congrats to RHeby.