Meet the contributors of upcoming Issue 240
Ryan Curcio
Ryan Curcio is a student at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain Connecticut. He studies English with a minor in Writing. He is a contributing writer for Trill! Mag, an alternative pop-culture magazine, and his work has appeared in The Helix, Central Connecticut State University’s literary magazine, along with Blue Muse, Central Connecticut State University’s online, general interest and literary magazine. He is spending the summer interning for the New Britain Herald.
Laura-Gray Lovelace
Laura-Gray Lovelace is a senior creative writing major at Winthrop University who spends the majority of her time reading, playing Dungeons and Dragons, and singing musicals off-key.
A.R. Robins
A.R. Robins received her M.A. at Southeast Missouri State University. She lives in Missouri with her husband and new son. Her fiction and poetry is published or forthcoming in Moon City Review, Opossum, The Swamp, The Cape Rock, Atlas and Alice, and others.
Bobby Steve Baker
Bobby Steve Baker grew-up on an Indian Reservation on the Canadian side of Lake Huron. He now lives in Lexington Kentucky but still craves the Big Water. His work has appeared in, The Tule Review, Cold Mountain Review, Prick of the Spindle, Into the Void, Cloudbank, and Picaroon. His latest book is “This Crazy Urge to Live”, Linnet’s Wings Press.
Tyler Wildeck
Tyler is a writer originally from Colorado. His work has been featured in Kaaterskill Basin Literary Journal, Chicago Literati, Gravel Magazine, and the Clackamas Literary Review. Tyler currently resides in Portland, OR.
Irene McGarrity
Irene McGarrity’s fiction has appeared in PANK, Hobart, DOGZPLOT Flash Fiction, freeze frame fiction, and other publications. She is an academic librarian at Keene State College and has an MFA in creative writing from the New Hampshire Institute of Art. Irene lives in the Pioneer Valley with her wife, her daughter, and their three cats.
J.B. Stone
J.B. Stone is an emerging poet/fiction writer from Brooklyn, now residing in Buffalo. Stone’s poetry is featured and/or forthcoming in The Occulum, Vending Machine Press, Steel Bellow, Ghost City Review, Peach Mag, and Riggwelter Press, along with flash fiction on 121words.com. Stone also has a forthcoming self-published Short Fiction Mystery Noir entitled, “Serve the Servants,” (Amazon Kindle 2018).
Holly Day
Holly Day’s published books include the nonfiction books “Music Theory for Dummies,” “Music Composition for Dummies,” “Guitar All-in-One for Dummies,” and “Piano All-in-One for Dummies,” and the poetry books “Ugly Girl” (Shoemusic Press) and “The Smell of Snow” (ELJ Publications). Her needlepoints and beadwork have recently appeared on the covers of Your Impossible Voice, Sinister Wisdom, and QWERTY Magazine.
Stephen Poleskie
Stephen Poleskie’s writing has appeared in numerous journals in the USA, England, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Australia, Czech Republic, the Philippines, Luxembourg, and India, and been three times nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He has work in five anthologies and also published five novels and two story collections.