Speaking in Tongues
Mary Jo Balistreri has two full books of poetry, Joy in the Morning and Gathering The Harvest, published by Bellowing Ark Press, and a chapbook, Best Brothers, published by Tiger’s Eye Press. She has recent work in Parabola, The Hurricane Press, Plainsongs, The Tiger’s Eye, Avocet, Crab Creek Review, Quill and Parchment, The Heron’s Nest, Acorn, and A Hundred Gourds. Poetrystorehouse has offered videos and a soundscape of two of her poems. She has six Pushcart nominations, one of which is for “What is it About Snow,” published by Grist in 2014, and two Best of the Net nominations. Mary Jo is one of the founders of Grace River Poets, an outreach for women’s shelters, churches, and schools. Please visit her at maryjobalistreripoet.com.
Interview Questions for Death
Heather Altfeld’s first book, “The Disappearing Theatre” won the Poets at Work Book Prize, selected by Stephen Dunn. Her poems appear in Narrative Magazine, Pleiades, ZYZZYVA, and others. She is the recipient of the 2017 Robert H. Winner Award with the Poetry Society of America and the 2015 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry. She lives in Chico, CA and has just completed two new poetry collections.
No one needs another poem about the Second World War
Kimberly Quiogue Andrews is a poet and literary critic. She is also the author of BETWEEN, winner of the 2017 New Women’s Voices Chapbook Prize from Finishing Line Press. A two-time Academy of American Poets prize winner and a Pushcart nominee, her recent work in various genres appears in Rambutan Literary, The Shallow Ends, The Recluse, the Los Angeles Review of Books, ASAP/J, and other venues. She lives in Maryland and teaches at Washington College, and you can find her on Twitter @kqandrews.
Vegas Baby
Jessica Walker’s short stories are published or forthcoming in Indiana Review, Booth, Bayou, Ninth Letter Online, and elsewhere. She is the winner of Bayou’s James Knudsen Prize for Short Fiction and an MFA candidate in Fiction at the University of Virginia. She recently received her first nomination for the Pushcart Prize.
Need
Nina Schuyler is the author of The Translator, which won the 2014 Next Generation Indie Award for General Fiction and was shortlisted for the Saroyan International Writing Award. Her first novel, The Painting, was nominated for the Northern California Book Award and named a Best Book by the San Francisco Chronicle. Her short stories have been published in ZYZZYVA, Your Impossible Voice, Fugue, Santa Clara Review and elsewhere. She writes a column for Fiction Advocate about style and teaches creative writing at the University of San Francisco.
Keep ’Em in The Cart
Nickalus Rupert spent most of his life near the Gulf Coast of Florida. In 2015, he completed an MFA fellowship at the University of Central Florida. Currently, he is a PhD student at the University of Southern Mississippi, where he works as an associate editor for Mississippi Review. His fiction has appeared in or is forthcoming in Slice Magazine, The Literary Review, Pleiades, Passages North, Sonora Review Online, and other journals.
Automat
Sarah Marie Kosch recently earned her MFA in fiction from Oregon State University. Originally from the Midwest, she now lives in Corvallis. She is a former fiction editor of OSU’s new lit mag 45th Parallel and is involved with Anomalous Press. Other stories of hers can be found in Rappahannock Review, Gemini Magazine, Knee-Jerk Magazine, Print-Oriented Bastards, The Quotable, and Blinders Journal.
Exquisite Desolation: Emily Fridlund’s Catapult
Review by Sarah Appleton // January 18, 2018Sarabande Books, 2017ISBN: 978-1946448057240 pp. / $15.95 Emily Fridlund has had an eventful year: her novel The History of Wolves was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and her short story collection, Catapult, won Sarabande Books’s Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, selected by Ben Marcus. Fridlund’s short stories are riveting; […]
Grief by David Carlin
David Carlin is a writer and creative artist based in Melbourne, Australia. David’s books include 100 Atmospheres: Studies in Scale and Wonder, Our Father Who Wasn’t There, The Abyssinian Contortionist, and the edited anthology of new Asian and Australian writing, The Near and the Far. His award-winning work includes essays, plays, radio features, exhibitions, documentary and short films; recent projects include the Circus Oz Living Archive and WrICE. He is a Professor of Creative Writing at RMIT University where he co-directs the non/fictionLab.