Issue 246 Contributors

Meet the contributors of upcoming Issue 246

Wendy Gist
Wendy Gist’s poetry, fiction and essays have been featured or are forthcoming in Amsterdam Quarterly, Empty Mirror Arts and Literary Magazine, Foliate Oak, Fourth River, Grey Sparrow Journal, New Plains Review, Rio Grande Review, RipRap, Soundings Review, St. Austin Review, The Lake (UK), and many other fine journals. Gist co-edits Red Savina Review. She’s the author of the chapbook “Moods of the Dream Fog” from Finishing Line Press. Gist is a Pushcart Prize nominee and semifinalist for Best Small Fictions 2017.

Mick Ó Seasnáin
Mick Ó Seasnáin has continually attempted to farm his quarter acre lot in the small town of Wooster, Ohio while catering to the diverse and often unanticipated needs of his tripod-ish dog and three rowdy children. His wife tolerates his creative habits and occasionally enables his binges of writing and photography. Find more of his work in his digital portfolio.

Mark Halpern
Mark Halpern has lived since 1993 in Tokyo, where he runs his own law firm and writes stories about foreigners in Japan. He was born in America, grew up mostly in Canada, and has spent substantial time in the UK and France. As for Japan, Mark has, like some of his characters, found a way to be both an outsider and an insider.

Maryann Aita
Maryann Aita is a Brooklyn-based writer and performer. Her work has appeared in The Exposition Review, The Collapsar, Big Muddy, Breadcrumbs Magazine, and others. Her teleplay, “The Matchbreaker” won the 2016 Broad Humor Film Festival Best Original Comedy Pilot. She was a featured storyteller in The PIT’s 2017 StoryFest and has participated in the Brooklyn Sisters Reading Series. Maryann has an MFA in writing from Sarah Lawrence College and a BA in psychology from NYU.

Darren Cormier
Darren Cormier is the author of” A Little Soul: 140 Twitterstories.” His work has previously been published in Opium Magazine, Thrice Fiction, Black Heart Magazine, and NAP, among many others. He lives in the Boston area with his wife, their cat, and their growing book collection.

Henry Presente
Henry Presente has published a short story collection called “Personal Earthquakes” (with Czykmate Productions), and tall tales with Harpur Palate, The Columbia Review, The MacGuffin, Prime Number Magazine, SmokeLong Quarterly, and others. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, helped save enough energy to power 1 million homes for 1 year, and once led a spontaneously formed conga line–fearlessly and with no regard for tomorrow. Kick up your heels with him at HenryPresente.com.

Alanna Weissman
Alanna Weissman is a writer, reporter and copy editor from New York City. An alumna of Colgate University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, she is currently an MFA candidate at New York University.

Brian Morse
Brian Morse is the author of “Migration” (Pski’s Porch, 2016). His work has appeared in Pulp Metal Magazine, and has fiction forthcoming at Akashic Books and Visitant. He can be found online at brian1morse.wordpress.com

Steve Denehan
Steve Denehan lives in Kildare, Ireland with his wife Eimear and daughter Robin.  Recent publication credits include Better Than Starbucks, Fowl Feathered Review, a “microchapbook” as part of the Origami Poems Project, Terror House Magazine, Dual Coast, The Opiate, Sky Island Journal, Poetry Quarterly, Evening Street Review, The Folded Word, Ink In Thirds and Third Wednesday. One of his poems was recently shortlisted for the Ireland Poetry Day Competition. His chapbook, “Of Thunder, Pearls and Birdsong” is available from Fowlpox Press.