Let’s take a peep at Issue Thirty, shall we?
Kina Viola
Kina is an undergraduate at Hamilton College pursuing a B.A. in Creative Writing. She is a full-time student, part-time barista and caffeine enthusiast with an undying love for poetry and words. She is originally from White Plains, New York. Her work has appeared in Welter.
M. N. O’Brien
M. N. O’Brien received his B.A. from Roanoke College, where his work was published in On Concept’s Edge and received the Charles C. Wise Poetry Award. His work was most recently published in SOFTBLOW and Counterexample Poetics. He currently lives in Lexington, Kentucky. He does not like writing about himself in the third person.
Davy Carren
Davy Carren was born in barn, raised in a circus, and currently resides at the top of a good-sized hill in San Francisco, California.
Dianne Post
Dianne Post is an international human rights attorney who works primarily on gender-based violence against women and children. She lives in Arizona with the sun.
Dan Birker
Dan is 22 and an undergraduate English double major at Cal State University, Long Beach. He is the co-owner of Al’s Pal’s Pet Services, a self-owned and operated pet walking and sitting service as well as the drummer for a math rock duo called The Fox and Bear Band. He is also apart of the art collective, the White Lotus Collective, a collective of artists, musicians, actors, and more that help strengthen and enlighten the Long Beach community through art and inspiration. He has been published in Surrounded, Riprap and Bankheavy Press.
Hannah Allen
Hannah Allen is currently attending college in Littleton, CO where she lives with her cross-eyed cat named Magnolia. The time spent away from her is time tucked in books and glued to a pen. Daily, she produces some absolutely awful material, but on rare gorgeous days, the words shape-shift on the page to become a thing she believes without having known its resonance as she penned it. Such a piece surfaced in her high school literary magazine and again in her college’s literary magazine, The Progenitor. A prose poem of hers has been published in Rufous City Review. She intends to go forth into the larger world of journalism and publishing, to expand herself until she has as much detail, insight, and compassion as is necessary to have anything of value to say to the world, so the awful material she daily produces may somehow cleanse into truth and take on a life of its own.
Bernard M. Cox
Bernard M. Cox is a graduate of Roosevelt University’s MFA Creative Writing program and Assistant Artistic Director at The Tamale Hut Café Reading Series in North Riverside, IL. His work has appeared in Up the Staircase Quarterly, Red Lightbulbs, Blood and Lullabies, A cappella Zoo and is forthcoming in Collective Fallout. His story “The Memory of Salt Shaker” was nominated by Up the Staircase Quarterly for the Million Writers Award. When he is not writing, making music, or reading, he is often wandering the remnant prairies of Illinois, looking for insects, and dreaming about the soils of Philadelphia.