Meet the contributors of upcoming Issue 251
Kay Rae Chomic
Kay Rae Chomic’s debut novel, A Tight Grip: a novel about golf, love affairs, and women of a certain age, was a finalist in Foreword’s Book of the Year Awards (She Writes Press, 2014). As a shortlisted winner of the 2017 Hysteria Writing Competition from the UK, her flash fiction entry, Train Ride, was published in the anthology, Hysteria 6. She’s also been published in The First Line, synapse, and won an international short story contest. Kay lives in Seattle.
Shereee Shatsky
Sheree Shatsky writes short fiction believing much can be conveyed with a few wild words. She was selected by the AWP Writer to Writer Mentorship Program as a Spring 2018 mentee for flash fiction. Recent work has appeared in X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine and KYSO Flash with work forthcoming in Sleet Magazine, Fictive Dream and the KYSO Flash Anthology Accidents of Life, among others. Read more of Ms. Shatsky’s work along with her adventures with Wild Words at www.shereeshatsky.com . Find her on Twitter @talktomememe.
Brian Sutton
Brian Sutton’s work has appeared in The Journal, Apalachee Review, Writing on the Edge, Talking Writing, Seventeen, and other periodicals, in addition to a piece sold to Playboy. Three of his plays have been produced, including the musical Searching for Romeo, which had a successful run on 42nd Street in New York, won the Stage Rights / NYMF Publishing Award, and was published by Steele Spring Stage Rights. As a student at The University of Michigan he won three Hopwood Awards for Creative Writing, two for collections of short stories and one for a collection of one-act plays. He volunteers at an animal shelter.
Linda Lowe
Linda Lowe received her M.F.A. from the University of California, Irvine. A chapbook of her poems was published by Sarasota Theatre Press. Online, her work has appeared in The Pedestal Magazine, Gone Lawn, Right Hand Pointing, Dogzplot, and others.
Elijah Allred is a 27 year-old amateur occultist working as a contractor for a billion-dollar website removing objectionable content and going to school for his certification to become a middle-grade english teacher. He graduated from the University of Texas with a degree in Film in 2015 and lives in Austin with a cat, five chickens and a tarantula.
Jesse Minkert
Jesse Minkert lives in Seattle. In 2008, Wood Works Press published his collection of flash fiction, Shortness of Breath & Other Symptoms. His work appears in over seventy journals including Confrontation, Floating Bridge Review, Poetry Northwest, and Harpur Palate. In 2017, Finishing Line Press released Minkert’s poetry chapbook, Rookland.
Edward Michael Supranowicz
Edward Michael Supranowicz has a grad background in painting and printmaking. He is also a published poet. He grew up on a small farm in Appalachia.
Andrea Rinard is a native Floridian and career English teacher who recently decided that if she wants to be a writer, she has to actually write. She is currently a graduate certificate student in the University of South Florida’s creative writing program, an extravagance she treated herself to and enjoys so much that she freaks out the other graduate students.
Dominic Laing