Issue Fifty-Three Contributors have arrived!
Audrey Allen
Audrey Allen is a journalist living in Los Angeles. She has more than 15 years of editorial experience and began writing professionally in 1999. She has written for newspapers such as the Santa Monica Daily Press and the Pasadena Weekly. Allen has a versatile artistic background, studying fine art at Art Center College of Design, and dancing classical ballet professionally, touring with Nevada Ballet Theater in 1995.
Jennifer Mayo
A soon to be graduate from the University of Colorado Denver, Jennifer Mayo is majoring in English Creative Writing with a minor in Communication. She works as a student fiction editor for the Copper Nickel. In her spare time, Jennifer practices the Japanese sword martial art Iaido, plays too many video games, and also enjoys sampling baked goods made by friends.
Tina V. Cabrera
Tina V. Cabrera earned her MFA in Creative Writing from San Diego State University. Excerpts from her novel, short fiction, and poetry have appeared in journals such as Big Bridge Magazine, Vagabondage Press, and Outrider Press. She is a first-year PhD student in English and Creative Writing at UNT (University of North Texas).
Joe Bauman
Joe Baumann is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where he serves as the editor-in-chief of the Southwestern Review and nonfiction editor for Rougarou: an Online Literary Journal. His work has appeared in flashquake, The Hawai’i Review, SN Review, Sheepshead Review, and several others, and is forthcoming in Oblong, matchbook, and Cactus Heart.
Danny Earl Simmons
Danny Earl Simmons is an Oregonian and a proud graduate of Corvallis High School. He is a friend of the Linn-Benton Community College Poetry Club and an active member of Albany Civic Theater. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in various journals such as Naugatuck River Review, Avatar Review, Burningword, Pirene’s Fountain, and Verse Wisconsin.
L. Alexandra
L. Alexandra is a Red Rock’s Community College student and professional tutor of eclectic interests who has recently decided to pursue a creative writing degree. Her work has appeared in her school’s literary and art journal, Obscura, its interdisciplinary scholarly journal, Claro, and on VoxPoetica.com. She has been writing for almost a decade now and in that time the act has transformed into something more than a mere hobby. For her, writing ranges from a passion to a compulsion (a fact spelled out most clearly by the necessity of the four notebooks she keeps perpetually at hand). Influenced by Nabokov, Gaiman, Flaubert, and Angela Carter, she views figurative language as one of the most powerful tools at a writer’s disposal and often pairs it with repetition and alliteration to give her work a musical quality. While L. Alexandra started as a fiction writer, favoring fantasy, she has since written academic essays, creative nonfiction, poetry, blogs, flash fiction, and various short stories. Outside of writing, she spends her days talking in excess, over indulging in fiction in its many forms, and clinging to the delusion that she will be able to remain in school forever.
Katie Nichol
Katie Nichol is originally from Minnesota. Currently, she is pursuing an MFA at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.
Eric Caulfield
Eric Caulfield is a 22-year old English Major with a minor in Computer Networking; his writing began as isms, but over the years has included poetry, and recently short stories. He has just returned to the US after temporarily living in Leiden, Netherlands, and is excited to continue his writing in Pennsylvania. Eric has embraced the craft of writing as a life-long endeavor, although he’s new, and has only begun sending his work out to publications; he believes this is the beginning of something quite phenomenal. Eric’s fiction looks to express a different perspective to the reader, and to deliver a lesson through his own altered perception, and unique observations of the world around him. He tends to gravitate towards ideas of different realities, to strange entities, exploration of consciousness, and powerful truths that can be found in the most unexpected places.