Contributors
- Contributors
Prose
Michael Harris is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He is author of the novel The Chieu Hoi Saloon (PM Press). He was a reporter and editor for West Coast newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, for which he reviewed books for more than twenty years. He lives in Long Beach.
Glenna Luschei has published Solo Press magazines for fifty years. Luschei is the author of many chapbooks, special editions, and trade books. In 2016 she released Singing and Dying, published by Penciled In, which received the Nebraska Award Book Prize in 2017. Three of her artist books have received prizes from the Rounce & Coffin Best Western books from Occidental College. Recently, she was named a "Literary Treasure of the Mid-Coast" by the Ventura County Arts Council. She has received a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship and many individual California Arts Council grants. Luschei is Vice President of InterlitQ, an international literary journal published online.
James Magruder is the author of three books of fiction (Sugarless, Let Me See It, and Love Slaves of Helen Hadley Hall) and a prize-winning volume of translations (Three French Comedies). He also wrote the libretti for the Broadway musicals Triumph of Love and Head Over Heels. He teaches theater at Swarthmore College and French drama at the Yale School of Drama.
Thomas Maltman's essays, poetry, and fiction have been published in many literary journals. He has an mfa from Minnesota State University, Mankato. His first novel, The Night Birds, won an Alex Award, a Spur Award, and the Friends of American Writers Literary Award. He teaches at Normandale Community College and lives in the Twin Cities area with his family. Little Wolves, his second novel, was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award an All Iowa Reads selection.
Ray Murphy graduated from Georgetown University and has worked on daily newspapers in Portland, OR, Everett, WA, and Long Beach, CA, and in a wild variety of sales positions. TriQuarterly and Poet Lore have published his poetry.
Rida Segri is a student and writer from Ontario, Canada. This is her first publication.
George Singleton has published seven collections of stories, two novels, and a book of writing advice. He's received a Pushcart Prize, the Corrington Award for Literary Excellence, the Hillsdale Award for Fiction, and a Guggenheim fellowship. His stories have appeared in such magazines and journals as the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Playboy, One Story, and the Georgia Review. A member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, Singleton holds the John C. Cobb Endowed Chair in the Humanities at Wofford College. His latest collection, Staff Picks, is forthcoming from LSU Press.
Marianne Villanueva's writing has appeared in a wide variety of magazines, including Bellingham Review, Quarterly West, Monkeybicycle, Juked, Crab Orchard Review, and Café Irreal. She has published three short story collections: Ginseng and Other Tales from Manila, Mayor of the Roses, and The Lost Language. Her novella was a finalist for England's Saboteur Award.
Poetry
John Amen is the author of several collections of poetry, including strange theater (New York Quarterly Books), a finalist for the Brockman-Campbell Award. His is co-author, with Daniel Y. Harris, of The New Arcana. His latest collection, Illusion of an Overwhelm, work from which was chosen as a finalist for the Dana Award, was released by New York Quarterly Books last year. His poetry, fiction, reviews, and essays have appeared in journals nationally and internationally, and his poetry has been translated into Spanish, French, Hungarian, Korean, and Hebrew. He is a staff reviewer for No Depression. He founded and continues to edit the Pedestal Magazine.
Christopher Todd Anderson is Associate Professor of English at Pittsburg State University in Kansas, where he teaches courses in American literature, poetry, environmental literature and film, and popular culture. Anderson's poems have appeared in numerous national literary magazines, including River Styx, Crab Orchard Review, Wisconsin Review, Tar River Poetry, Chicago Quarterly Review, and Ellipsis, among others. A 2018 Pushcart Prize recipient for poetry, Anderson has also published scholarly articles on images of garbage and waste in American poetry and on the film WALL-E.
Catherine Arnold received her master's...
