Category: Contributor

Brittney Scott’s rst poetry collection, The Derelict Daughter, won the 2015 New American Poetry Prize. She is also a recipient of the Joy Harjo Prize for Poetry, as well as the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in Best New Poets, Prairie Schooner, The New Republic, Narrative Magazine, Cincinnati Review, Alaska Quarterly…

Bridget Grace Sheaff is a theatre artist in Washington, DC. A graduate of The Catholic University of America (BA in Drama 2014 summa cum laude), she has published many written works, including Perfect, Forgive and Forget, love letter to my home town, A Chance of Rain, The Days of Peanut Butter and Honey Sandwiches, Idle…

Terril Shorb has been a rancher, journalist, radio advertising copywriter, and now teaches Sustainable Community Development at Prescott College where he founded the program by that name. He and his wife, the poet, Yvette A. Schnoeker-Shorb, co-founded Native West Press, whose books honor non-charismatic wild creatures of the American West. His publications include Whole Life…

Willie VerSteeg is a poet living in Columbus, OH with his wife and two sons. He has been published widely. Find him online @ Willie_VerSteeg

Elizabeth Vignali is an optician and writer in Bellingham, Washington. Her poems have appeared in various publications, including Willow Springs, Crab Creek Review, Natural Bridge, Nimrod, and Menacing Hedge. Her chapbook, Object Permanence, is available from Finishing Line Press.

Loren Walker has a Master of Arts in Literature and Creative Writing from Rhode Island College. Her poems have appeared in the anthologies Routes and Frequency Writers’ City and Sea. Her debut novel, the fantasy epic EKO, was shortlisted for the Half the World Global Literari Award, chosen as a Library Journal SELF-e Select Pick,…

Grace Epstein is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Cincinnati where she teaches and serves as Assistant Head of the Department. She has published scholarly and creative work in a variety of journals including Genders and The Great Lakes Review. Four of her plays have been staged and produced.

Rod McFadden began writing plays in 2009.    Since then, his plays have been well-received by audiences of theatres in San Francisco and throughout the country.   He has received awards in national playwriting competitions for his plays, Love Birds, Getting the Message, Counting on Love (which was also a Heideman award finalist).  His work was chosen for the…

Tom Conlan lives, writes, and tends his grape vines in the highlands of Northern Michigan. He has captained a Coast Guard Cutter, sailed the world’s lakes and oceans, and now searches for the elusive brook trout in backwater streams where they love to hide. Tom’s work has appeared in print in Vine Leaves Literary Journal, Issue…