Category: Contributor

Cheryl Pearson lives and writes in the suburbs of Manchester in the NorthWest of England. Her poems have appeared in publications including 14 Magazine, The Journal, and all three “Best of Manchester Poets” anthologies (Puppywolf Press).

Sara Rauch lives in Western Massachusetts. Her work has appeared in Hobart, So to Speak, Rock & Sling, Bartleby Snopes, Luna Luna, and more.

Matthew Di Paoli received his BA at Boston College where he won the Dever Fellowship and the Cardinal Cushing Award for Creative Writing. He has also been nominated for the 2015 and 2016 Pushcart Prize and won the Prism Review Short Story Contest. Matthew earned his MFA in Fiction at Columbia University. He has been…

Claire Falkenberg

Jessica Smith grew up just outside of Buffalo, New York (which explains her eternal love for chicken wings and bleu cheese), and has lived and taught in Minnesota and Maine. She currently teaches writing and literature at Central Maine Community College and has had work published in Ruminate, The Louisville Review, Berkeley Fiction Review,The Portland Review, and Not Somewhere…

Tom Coash is a New Haven, Ct. playwright and director. Prior to New Haven, he taught playwriting at The American University in Cairo, Egypt. Coash has won numerous playwriting awards, and his plays have been produced worldwide. His new full-length play VEILS is the Winner of the 2015 M. Elizabeth Osborn Award from the American Theatre…

Jon Pineda is the author of the novels Let’s No One Get Hurt, winner of the 2019 Library of Virginia Literary Award for Fiction and the Emyl Jenkins Sexton Literary Award, and Apology, winner of the 2013 Milkweed National Fiction Prize.   His poetry collections include Little Anodynes, winner of the 2016 Library of Virginia Literary Award, The Translator’s Diary, which received the 2007 Green Rose Prize from New Issues…

Jacqueline Balderrama is an MFA candidate in poetry at Arizona State University where she teaches and serves as Poetry Editor for Hayden’s Ferry Review and Iron City Magazine. Her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and are forthcoming in Blackbird and Cream City Review.