Meet the contributors of upcoming Issue 205
Jean Wolff
Born in Detroit, Michigan, Jean Wolff studied fine arts at the Center for Creative Studies in Detroit and at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, receiving a BFA in studio arts. She then attended Hunter College, CUNY in New York, graduating with an MFA in painting and printmaking. She’s since had group and solo exhibits in various galleries in New York City and internationally, her art appears in numerous magazines, and she is part of the artistic community of Westbeth in Manhattan.
Morgan Shaver
Morgan Shaver is a writer, photographer, and musician. She currently works as Greenlit Content‘s Senior Editor and the Editor-in-Chief of IndieObscura.com. Her photography has been featured in Limestone and Diverse Voices Quarterly, while her short fiction has been published in Penmen Review and Bete Noire.
Denise H. Long
Denise H. Long’s fiction has appeared in Blue Monday Review, Gravel, Kentucky Review, Burrow Press Review, and elsewhere. In addition to working as a copy editor and fact checker, she also serves as production editor for Carve magazine. Denise lives in Nebraska, with her husband and two young sons. You can visit her online at www.denisehlong.com.
Kawika Guillermo
Kawika Guillermo’s stories can be found in Feminist Studies, The Hawai’i Pacific Review, Tayo, Smokelong Quarterly, and many others. He is an Assistant Professor of Humanities and Creative Writing at Hong Kong Baptist University, where he works on prose fiction, Asian diasporic literature, and cultural studies. His non-fiction writing has appeared in journals such as American Quarterly, MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States), and Games and Culture, and he writes monthly blogs for Drunken Boat and decomP Magazine, where he serves as the Prose Editor.
Andrew C. Brown
Andrew C. Brown performs spoken word under the title of The Grandad from Knowle West (an area within the top 100 of areas of deprivation within the UK). He is a recovering addict, an ex-prisoner, won Koerstler Award as a serving prisoner and has won a community regeneration award. He has been published in the USA and the UK.
Michael Sandler
Michael Sandler’s poems have appeared in numerous journals, most recently in Zone 3, Willow Review, Caveat Lector, Off the Coast, Fourteen Hills, Forge, The Tower Journal, Valparaiso Poetry Review and Fogged Clarity. He lives near Seattle.
James Croal Jackson
James Croal Jackson’s poetry has appeared in The Bitter Oleander, Lines+Stars, Whale Road Review, and other publications. He is the winner of the 2016 William Redding Memorial Poetry Prize sponsored by The Poetry Forum. He currently lives in Columbus, Ohio. Visit him at jimjakk.com.
Dan Malakin
Writer by day. Editor at The Forge literary magazine (also by day). Sleeper by night. Sometimes. Collection of short stories called “Smiling Exercises” is out now. Debut novel, “The Vaccine Slaves,” out late 2016. Say no to the tyranny of pronouns.
Z.Z. Boone
Z.Z. Boone is the author of “Off Somewhere,” a 2015 finalist for the INDIFAB Award for Short Stories. His fiction has appeared in New Ohio Review, Berkeley Fiction Review, Smokelong Quarterly, The MacGuffin, and other terrific places.