18 January, 2022
Brent Ameneyro’s poetry has been published in The Fourth River, Hispanic Culture Review, and elsewhere. He was the recipient of the following awards: 2019 Sarah B. Marsh Rebelo Excellence in Poetry Scholarship, 2020 San Miguel Poetry Week Fellowship, and the 2021 SRS Research Award for Diversity, Inclusion and Social Justice.
18 January, 2022
Seif-Eldeine is a Syrian-American poet with a degree in Middle Eastern Studies from Tufts University and an MFA from Lesley University. He received a fellowship from the Writer’s Colony at Dairy Hollow and was a finalist for the Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship, the Etel Adnan Poetry Prizer, the Frontier Digital Chapbook contest, and the MarshHawk Poetry Prize. He has been published in The Massachusetts Review, Poetry Daily, and Star 82 Review.
18 January, 2022
Nathan Alling Long grew up in a log cabin in rural Appalachia, worked for a few years on a queer commune in Tennessee, and now lives in Philadelphia. Their work appears on NPR and in over a hundred publications, including Tin House, Glimmer Train, Witness, and Story Quarterly. Their collection, The Origin of Doubt, was a 2019 Lambda Literary Award finalist, and their current manuscript, The Empty Garden, was a semi-finalist for the Iowa Fiction Award. Other awards include a Truman Capote Literary Scholarship, a Mellon Foundation grant, and four Pushcart nominations, and scholarships to Bread Loaf and Sewanee writers’ conferences.
18 January, 2022
G.G. Silverman is an author of short fiction lives just north of Seattle. She is also disabled and the daughter of immigrants. Her work has appeared in the Bram Stoker Award-nominated Women in Horror anthology Not All Monsters from StrangeHouse Books, and was a finalist for the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Award for feminist writing, among other honors. Her writing has appeared in Psychopomp, Speculative City, Corvid Queen, So To Speak, The Iron Horse Literary Review, The Seventh Wave, Molotov Cocktail, and more. She is currently at work on her first collection of short fiction. For more info visit www.ggsilverman.com.
18 January, 2022
Jake Alexander is an NYC-based playwright and actor, who has worked professionally with SpeakEasy Stage Co., Marblehead Little Theatre, Footlight Club Playhouse, NYC International Fringe Festival, and Gallery Players of Brooklyn. He has participated in the BOOST Mentorship Program with Off the Lane Co., Foster’s Artistic Residency, and the Script Share program with The Playwright’s Realm. Jake was a finalist in Equity Library Theatre’s Winter Festival 2021, and has self-produced a number of virtual plays which can found on YouTube. He is a 2014 graduate of Boston College with a BA in Applied Psychology/English with a minor in Theatre, and currently lives in Washington Heights with his girlfriend and cat, who he is training to speak (unsuccessful at this point).
18 January, 2022
Neal Adelman was born and raised in Fort Worth, TX. He writes plays, screenplays, and short stories. Some of his work has been published, produced, or otherwise received some very cool recognition. His full length play PONTIACS received the KCACTF Mark Twain Award, and his short film, TARRANT COUNTY, was invited to the 2019 Sedona International Film Festival and the 2019 Grove Film Festival in Jersey City. Recently, his brand new full length play LARRY’S HOME FOR WAYWARD MEN had a staged reading with Tantrum East Theatre Co. in NYC. When he’s not writing, he’s either fishing or playing in yet another shitty rock band. He lives and plays in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
24 June, 2021
Madeline Puccioni is a “re-entry” playwright, happy to be back at her real work after grading English 1A papers for 30 years. Her first full-length, TWO O’CLOCK FEEDING, was produced at The Magic Theatre in San Francisco some years ago, and published in West Coast Plays, IV. Since retiring, she’s had over 40 short plays produced, locally, nationally and abroad. Her one-act, PLAYLAND FOREVER, won a spot in the William Inge Festival in 2018. Now she’s a member of PlayGround Theatre Company SF, Towne Street Theatre L.A., Musical Cafe and Play Cafe, Association of Los Angeles Playwrights and Dramatists Guild. She is working on three full-length plays: a musical, FINDING MEDUSA, with composer Jeff Dunn, a drama, TIME AFTER TIME AGAIN, and a history drama MONTICELLO 2020, which is
scheduled for production in PlayHouse Creatures Emerging Playwrights Festival in NYC in March 2021. She lives in Oakland, CA, with her handsome Monroe, and their insane Rat Terrier, KiKi.
24 June, 2021
Ron Riekki’s books include My Ancestors are Reindeer Herders and I Am Melting in Extinction (Apprentice House Press), Posttraumatic (Hoot ‘n’ Waddle), and U.P. (Ghost Road Press). Riekki co-edited Undocumented (Michigan State University Press) and The Many Lives of The Evil Dead (McFarland), and edited The Many Lives of It (McFarland), And Here (MSU Press), Here (MSU Press, Independent Publisher Book Award), and The Way North (Wayne State University Press, Michigan Notable Book). Right now, he’s listening to Sonic Youth’s “Incinerate.”
24 June, 2021
Darius Atefat-Peckham is an Iranian-American poet and essayist. His work has appeared in Indiana Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Texas Review, The Chattahoochee Review, Brevity, Crab Orchard Review and elsewhere. His work has appeared in numerous anthologies, including My Shadow is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora (University of Texas Press). Atefat-Peckham lives in Huntington, West Virginia and studies Creative Writing at Harvard College.
24 June, 2021
Sydney Haas (she/they) is a writer and theatre artist based in Seattle, Washington. They spend as much time as possible next to a body of water or behind an espresso machine. She recently graduated from Seattle University with a degree in English and Theatre, and is excited to see where life takes her next. You can find their work in Horse Egg Literary and more at their website, www.sydneymhaas.com.