Meet the contributors of upcoming Issue 253
Martin van Velsen
Martin is a scientist, sculptor, researcher, code monkey, and a writer. His mad science adventures include: neurosurgery simulations, language technologies, artificial intelligence, robots and virtual humans.
Lisa Shirley
Lisa Shirley’s poetry has been published in Sidewalks and Mascara Literary Review. She has an MLS from the University of Arizona and an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. She has studied with esteemed writers like Vijay Seshadri, Billy Collins, Tom Lux, and Jack Driscoll. To pay for her poetry habit, Lisa works as a librarian.
Brian Rosten
Brian Rosten is a middle school science teacher in Champaign, IL. This is his first publication. He lives in Urbana with his wife, and are both awaiting twins. This is his first publication.
Mason Binkley
Mason Binkley lives with his wife and identical twin boys in Tampa, Florida, and works as an attorney. His flash fiction collection, “Familial Disturbances”, is forthcoming from Ellipsis Zine. His writing has appeared in Pithead Chapel, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Necessary Fiction, Barely South Review, Jellyfish Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and other places. You can find him online: @Mason_Binkley.
Chloe Yelena Miller
Chloe Yelena Miller lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and their child. Her poetry chapbook “Unrest” was published by Finishing Line Press. Chloe teaches writing at the University of Maryland University College and Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C., as well as privately. Follow her: chloeyelenamiller.com & @ChloeYMiller
Mubanga Kalimamukwento
Mubanga won the 2019 Dinaane Debut Fiction Award for her novel, “The Mourning Bird.” Her short stories have been published or are forthcoming in The Eunoia Review, The Best of Africa, Dreamers Creative Writing, The Airgonaut, The Mark Literary, Two Sisters Writing and Publishing and The Advocates for Human Rights. She’s a 2018/2019 Hubert Humphrey (Fulbright) Fellow and a Young African Leadership Initiative Fellow. The Mourning Bird will be available in stores on June 1st 2019.
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.
Patricia Bidar
Patricia Bidar is a lifelong Californian with family roots in New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Litro Online, ellipsis…literature and art, Wigleaf, The Citron Review, Jellyfish Review, Barren Literary Magazine, Blue Five Notebook, Train Literary Magazine, and Soft Cartel.
Shannon Tsonis
Shannon Tsonis resides in York Pennsylvania with her husband and daughter, and is currently working on her first memoir. She has been published in Little Patuxent Review, Memoir Magazine, and Buddy: A lit zine. She can be reached on social media, as well as shannontsonis.com
Way to go Shannon! So proud of you!