Issue One Hundred and Nine
Dargie Anderson's writing has appeared in Lily Poetry Review, Split Lip Review, Boston Review, and Michigan Quarterly Review, among other publications. Originally from Ohio, she is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Michigan. She currently operates a solo law practice and explores the front- and backcountry of eastern Idaho with her husband and kids.
Steve Barbaro's writing appears in such venues as Nat. Brut, The Yale Review, Denver Quarterly, DIAGRAM, New American Writing, and The Common. He is also the founder and editor of new sinews.
Scott Beal is the author of Wait 'Til You Have Real Problems (Dzanc Books, 2014) and The Octopus (Gertrude Press, 2016). He teaches in the Sweetland Center for Writing at the University of Michigan, serves as Dzanc Writer-in-Residence at Ann Arbor Open School, and co-hosts the Skazat! poetry series in Ann Arbor.
Jessica Berger is a Chicago-based fiction writer and an editor with both Grimoire and Always Crashing Magazine. Her work has been featured in Ninth Letter, Suspira, Nat. Brut, Barrelhouse, The Spectacle, Maudlin House, and elsewhere.
Jeffrey Condran is the author of three works of fiction, most recently the story collection, Claire, Wading Into the Danube By Night. He is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and the cofounder/publisher of the independent literary press, Braddock Avenue Books.
Caleb Curtiss is the author of A Taxonomy of the Space Between Us (Black Lawrence Press). His poems appear in journals such as the Gettysburg Review, New England Review, and the Southern Review.
Gary Fincke's latest collection of stories is The Sorrows (Stephen F. Austin, 2020). A new story, "The Corridors of Longing," will appear in Best Small Fictions 2020. An essay, "After the Three-Moon Era," will appear in Best American Essays 2020. He is co-editor of the anthology series Best Microfictions.
Greg Gerke's work has appeared in Tin House, Film Quarterly, Kenyon Review, LA Review of Books, and other publications. See What I See, a book of essays, and Especially the Bad Things, a book of stories, were both published by Splice in the autumn of 2019.
Anne Graue is the author of Fig Tree in Winter (Dancing Girl Press, 2017), and has poetry appearing in SWWIM Every Day, Rivet Journal, Mom Egg Review, Into the Void and in numerous print anthologies. Her reviews of poetry collections have been published in Glass: A Journal of Poetry, The Rupture, Whale Road Review, and The Rumpus. She is currently a poetry editor for The Westchester Review, and her poetry collection Full and PLum-Colored Velvet is forthcoming in 2020 from Woodley Press.
Genese Grill is a writer, artist, and translator living in Plainfield, Vermont. She is the author of The World as Metaphor in Robert Musil's The Man without Qualities (Camden House, 2012), and the translator of a book of Musil's short prose, Thought Flights (Contra Mundum, 2015) Musil's Unions (Contra Mundum, 2019), and Theater Symptoms , a collection of Musil's plays and writings on theater (Contra Mundum, forthcoming 2020). Her literary essays have appeared in The Georgia Review, The Missouri Review, Hyperion, Numero Cinq, Lapsus Lima, and other fine publications.
John Haskell is the author of Out of My Skin, American Purgatorio, and of the short-story collection I Am Not Jackson Pollock. A contributor to the radio program The Next Big Thing, he lives in Brooklyn, New York.
John Kazanjian is a writer and book critic living in New York. His work has been published in Entropy Magazine, PANK, Heavy Feather Review, JMWW, and elsewhere. He holds a BA in English and Textual Studies from Syracuse University and is an MFA candidate at The New School in Manhattan. Currently, he is writing a novel.
Hari Bhajan Khalsa’s poems have recently been published in Sand Hills Literary Journal, Birdcoat Quarterly, Potomac Review, Schuylkill Valley Journal, and Panoplyzine, among others, as well as forth coming in The Halcyone, The Blue Earth, Gasher, and Zone 3. She is the author of a chapbook, Life in Two Parts (Main Street Rag, 2010) and a book of poems, Talk of Snow (Walrus, 2015).
Jennifer Lang’s essays have appeared in The Baltimore Review, The New Haven Review, Under the Sun, Ascent, and on Brevity's and NPR's podcasts, among others. A Pushcart Prize and Best American Essays nominee, she earned an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and she serves as Assistant Editor for Brevity. Born and bred in the San Francisco Bay Area, she lives in Tel Aviv, where she runs Israel Writers Studio and is attempting to write her first memoir. Find her @JenLangWrites.
Michael Jeffrey Lee is an American writer and musician living in Berlin. He's the author of Something in My Eye, a story collection, and is the vocalist for Budokan Boys. His fiction has appeared in n+1, BOMB, and The Southern Review, as well as other issues of The Rupture.
Ian Munnelly is a Boston-based freelance writer whose work has been featured in the Amherst Wire, WMUA 91.1FM, and the Easthampton Book Festival. He was the Secretary and Editorial Director for TEDxAmherst 2015, where he gathered speakers and helped edit their experiences and expertise into TED Talks. Currently he is hard at work combining his ardent love of speculative fiction and poetry into what will be the hopeful first of many novels to come.
Z. L. Nickels is an MFA candidate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His current project is a collection of short stories consisting of retellings, reshapings and reimaginings of canonical characters and works. His writing seeks to interrogate the question of meaning via classic tropes, including death, God, and the experiences of childhood.
JoAnna Novak is the author of the novel I Must Have You and two books of poetry: Noirmania and Abeyance, North America. Her short story collection Meaningful Work won the 2020 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest and will be published by FC2. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, The New York Times, The Atlantic, BOMB, and other publications. She is a co-founder of the literary journal and chapbook publisher Tammy.
Ben Segal is the author of Pool Party Trap Loop, co-author of The Wes Letters, and co-editor of The Official Catalog of the Library of Potential Literature. His short fiction has been published by The Georgia Review, Tin House, Tarpaulin Sky, and Puerto del Sol, among others. He currently lives in Los Angeles.
Alexander Theroux has taught at Harvard, MIT, Yale, and the University of Virginia where he took his doctorate in 1968. A Fulbright, Guggenheim, and National Endowment of the Arts fellow, he is the author of four highly regarded novels, Three Wogs (1972), Darconville's Cat (1982), An Adultery (1987), and Laura Warholic (2009)—and of several books of essays, fables, and poetry. He was a Woodrow Wilson Scholar in graduate school and has twice been nominated for the National Book Award. He lives on Cape Cod in West Barnstable, Massachusetts with his wife, the artist Sarah Son, and their two daughters, Shenandoah and Shiloh.
Seth Brady Tucker is executive director of the Longleaf Writers’ Conference and teaches at the Lighthouse Writers' Workshop and the Colorado School of Mines near Denver. He is senior prose editor for the Tupelo Quarterly Review, is originally from Wyoming, and once served as an Army Paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne in Iraq. His second poetry collection, We Deserve the Gods We Ask For, won the Gival Press and Eric Hoffer Book Award, and Mormon Boy, won the Elixir Press Editor’s Poetry Prize. His work is forthcoming from the Los Angeles Review, Driftwood, Copper Nickel, others.
Kellie Wells has published four books, God, the Moon, and Other Megafauna, winner of the Sullivan Prize for Fiction; Compression Scars, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Prize; and two novels: Skin and Fat Girl, Terrestrial. She teaches in the MFA programs at the University of Alabama and Pacific University.
Curtis White is a novelist and critic. His most recent books are a novel, Lacking Character, and a book of social criticism, Living in a World That Can't Be Fixed: Reimagining Counterculture Today, both published by Melville House Press.