Meet the talented writers who will be featured in upcoming Issue 175.
Shannon McPherson
Still mourning the day she never received her Hogwarts acceptance letter, Shannon eventually decided to pursue a graduate degree in Creative Writing and puts her writing skills to good use at a video game company in the mountains of California. She has been published on Flash Fiction Magazine and 101 Words. She spends her days at her workplace, being a dishwasher tyrant, grammar Nazi, and all around bossy pants. She spends her nights drinking wine while watching My Little Pony with her small child. She’s not sure which is worse.
Taylor Brake
Taylor Brake is a young poet and producer hailing from Denver, Colorado. He has previously been published online and in print anthologies by Lines With Rhymes. His verse is characterized by amorality and a particularly musical, synesthetic voice.
Linda Ardison
Linda Ardison’s work has appeared in Hawaii Pacific Review, Poet Lore, The Laurel Review, Louisiana Literature, Anglican Theological Review, and Vox Poetica, among others; as well as in the books “Essential Love: Poems About Mothers and Fathers, Daughters and Sons,” later reprinted in The Well-Versed Parent: Poetic Prescriptions for Parenthood. She is a first-place poetry award winner at the Christopher Newport University Writers Conference, as well as a first-place Short Fiction Award recipient from New Millennium Writings and a former winner of an Atlantic Monthly writing scholarship to the Bread Loaf School of English, where she subsequently attended the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Linda also received a fellowship grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Before retirement, she worked as a consultant for twenty years in the Writing Center at York College of Pennsylvania. In addition to attending a number of writers conferences, she has studied with two past Poets Laureate, John Ciardi and William Meredith, as well as with Bill Brown and Robert Gorham Davis. She is a member of the Virginia Poetry Society and Hampton Roads Writers.
Holly Day
Holly Day has taught writing classes at the Loft Literary Center in Minnesota, since 2000. Her poetry has recently appeared in Oyez Review, SLAB, and Gargoyle, while her recently published books include “Music Theory for Dummies” (3rd edition), “Piano All-in-One for Dummies,” “The Book Of,” and “Nordeast Minneapolis: A History.”
J. T. Townley
J. T. Townley has published in Collier’s, Harvard Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Prairie Schooner, The Threepenny Review, and other magazines and journals. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and an MPhil in English from Oxford University, and he teaches at the University of Virginia. To learn more, visit his website.
Jason Half-Pillow
Jason Half-Pillow’s writing has appeared in numerous journals: The Iowa Review, The Bicycle Review, Hobo Pancakes, Driftwood Press, Gadfly Online, Dirty Chai, Crab Fat Magazine, the eel, Remarkable Doorways Literary Journal, Points in Case, The Satirist and in an anthology, “Bully”, published by KY Story. Work of his will appear soon also in The Intentional and Fiction Southeast.
Alexander Sammartino
Alexander Sammartino is a MFA student at Syracuse University. His work has appeared in the Atticus Review, Siren Literary Journal, and the Collegiate Scholar, among others.