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Kyle Anderson is the recipient of a Fulbright. He is a 2014 and
2015 winner of VIA’s Poetry On the Move Contest. His work has
appeared in Voices De La Luna, Blue Hole, and the San Antonio
Express-News. A native New Orleanian, he currently resides in
San Antonio, TX where he teaches world geography. He plays
guitar in a rock and roll band called Levees.
Emily Densten is a recent graduate of Rowan University with a
BA in Writing Arts with a Creative Writing concentration. She has
been previously published in Spry Literary Magazine, Nib Magazine,
and Here Comes Everyone. She blogs at http://www.emilydensten.tumblr.com about trying to act like an adult and her gradual inability to watch a movie without crying.
David Fingerman lives in Minneapolis. He’s published three novels
and two books of speculative fiction short stories. He is currently
working on a mystery/suspense novel.
Andrey Gritsman, poet and essayist, writes in English and in
Russian, and lives in New York City. Author of several collections,
he works as a physician but in reality is a daydreamer.
Scott Hotaling has written several articles for Flight Training
magazine and is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers
and Illustrators. His screenplay, Five Seventeen, won the
2013 Westfield Screenwriting Award's New York Award for best
short script in upstate New York.
Victor Robert Lee has lived and traveled extensively in East
Asia, South America and the former Soviet states-territories that
serve as settings for his fiction. His current nonfiction reporting
from the Asia-Pacific region can be found in The Diplomat and
elsewhere. He is the author of the literary espionage novel Performance
Anomalies, described by The Japan Times as "a thoroughly
original work of fiction."
Mike McCormick is a Saint Paul writer whose work has appeared
in a variety of publications, including local journals North Coast
Review and Poetry Motel, and was a past winner of the Writer’s
Digest Poetry Competition. Mike and his wife Laura like to travel,
practice Tai Chi, hike the North Shore, and perplex cats.
Robbie Menge's poetry is inspired by Bob Dylan, English
Romantics, and caffeinated Fall car rides. He currently substitute
teaches in the Twin Cities. He plans on being a public sector lawyer
and free-lance writer.
Irelyn Ruby Ozment is in the first grade. She loves to compose
songs and poems with which she regales her parents (who try,
whenever there is a pen handy, to transcribe them faithfully).
Nicholas Ozment is on the board of directors of the Rural America
Arts Partnership in southeast Minnesota, and he co-edits The
Green Blade, the annual literary arts publication of the Rural
America Writers' Center. An earlier version of his story "Dead
Dog" can be heard performed as a podcast at pseudopod.org.
(This is the first time it has appeared in print.)
Patricia Faith Polak, after working on the people side of a "la-dida"
investment counsel firm went back for an M.A. in Writing and
MFA. She is now published widely in journals from the Lullwater
Review to Southern Humanities Review. Her claim to fame: surviving
on a search for archaeology countries that have now virtually
ceased to exist—Iraq, Syria.
Tony Rauch is an Architect and Urban Designer living in Minneapolis.
He has three collections of funky, jazzy, dreamy stories
published, most recently What if i got down on my knees? (Whistling
Shade Press).
Thomas R. Smith lives in River Falls, Wisconsin and teaches
poetry at the Loft Literary Center, where he also serves as a
poetry advisor in the Foreword Program. His most recent book of
poems is The Foot of the Rainbow (Red Dragonfly Press), and a
new collection is forthcoming. He posts poems and blogs at
www.thomasrsmithpoet.com.
Patti Sullivan has three books of poems, For The Day, DeerTree
Press, Not Fade Away, Finishing Line Press, and At The Boot
Memorial Home for Unwed Mothers 1966, which won the Helen
Kay Prize from Evening Street Press. She also is a visual artist
and lives in San Luis Obispo, CA.
Justin Teerlinck is an occupational therapist in the Portland, Oregon
area, where he is learning how to place his writing skills and
sense of the absurd in service to people with disabilities. His
response to most standardized test questions is, “Meow don't
know this theoretical construct. Meow try again please?”
Marc Tretin is a retired attorney who lives with two rabbits, three
cats, an old dog, two adult children and a very patient wife. His life
is far happier than his poems.
Joel Van Valin is the publisher of Whistling Shade. His second
novel, The Grand Dissolute, is due out any day now! He’d like to
thank Sten Johnson and Julian Bernick for their special help in
conceiving and shaping the Horror issue.
Joanna M. Weston is married, has two cats, multiple spiders, a
herd of deer, and two derelict hen-houses. She has a middlereader,
Those Blue Shoes, published by Clarity House Press; and
poetry, A Summer Father, published by Frontenac House of Calgary.
Her ebooks can be found at her blog:
http://www.1960willowtree.wordpress.com
Hanakia Zedek is an International Speaker and Shaman. He was
born and raised in Brooklyn NY and is now a resident of the Twin
Cities, where he deploys his "Cutting Edge" impeccability training
and extrapolations on his experience of Nothingness. His Tao-
Zen Verses was published by Whistling Shade Press.