Fiction

Christopher Kuhl

Christopher Kuhl

Christopher Kuhl was born and raised in northern New York State, and holds a Ph.D in interdisciplinary arts from Ohio University. He taught writing and world literature for seventeen years at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy. By nature a poet, he has published extensively; this piece of satire is one of his few prose pieces, and his first short fiction to be published. In addition to writing, he also makes visual art (he has, however, no plans to illustrate his written work), reads voraciously and widely, and studies philosophy and Hebrew. He has never been bored.

Christopher Kuhl

Christopher Kuhl

Christopher Kuhl was born and raised in northern New York State, and holds a Ph.D in interdisciplinary arts from Ohio University. He taught writing and world literature for seventeen years at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy. By nature a poet, he has published extensively; this piece of satire is one of his few prose pieces, and his first short fiction to be published. In addition to writing, he also makes visual art (he has, however, no plans to illustrate his written work), reads voraciously and widely, and studies philosophy and Hebrew. He has never been bored.

Christopher
Kuhl

Darrin Doyle

Darrin Doyle

Darrin Doyle’s most recent book is the story collection, The Dark Will End the Dark (Tortoise Books). He is the author of the novels The Girl Who Ate Kalamazoo (St. Martin’s Press) and Revenge of the Teacher’s Pet: A Love Story (LSU Press). He lives in Mount Pleasant, Michigan and teaches at Central Michigan University.

Darrin Doyle

Darrin Doyle

Darrin Doyle’s most recent book is the story collection, The Dark Will End the Dark (Tortoise Books). He is the author of the novels The Girl Who Ate Kalamazoo (St. Martin’s Press) and Revenge of the Teacher’s Pet: A Love Story (LSU Press). He lives in Mount Pleasant, Michigan and teaches at Central Michigan University.

Darrin
Doyle

Edmund Sandoval

Edmund Sandoval

Edmund Sandoval lives and writes in Portland, Oregon. His work has appeared in the minnesota reviewThe CommonFourteen Hills, and Mud Season Review, among others. He earned his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Edmund Sandoval

Edmund Sandoval

Edmund Sandoval lives and writes in Portland, Oregon. His work has appeared in the minnesota reviewThe CommonFourteen Hills, and Mud Season Review, among others. He earned his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Edmund
Sandoval

Elaine Ford

Elaine Ford

Elaine Ford has published five novels, including Missed Connections and Monkey Bay. Her story collection The American Wife won the 2007 Michigan Literary Fiction Award. For her writing, she has received two National Endowment for the Arts grants and a Guggenheim Fellowship. New work appears in Chariton Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, Family Chronicle, and The Flexible Persona. A performance of Ford’s story, The Power Cord, can be heard here. Her novel-in-manuscript, God’s Red Clay, has been excerpted in Arkansas Review and here at Wordrunner eChapbooks.

 

Elaine Ford

Elaine Ford

Elaine Ford has published five novels, including Missed Connections and Monkey Bay. Her story collection The American Wife won the 2007 Michigan Literary Fiction Award. For her writing, she has received two National Endowment for the Arts grants and a Guggenheim Fellowship. New work appears in Chariton Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, Family Chronicle, and The Flexible Persona. A performance of Ford’s story, The Power Cord, can be heard here. Her novel-in-manuscript, God’s Red Clay, has been excerpted in Arkansas Review and here at Wordrunner eChapbooks.

 

Elaine
Ford

James McAdams

James McAdams

James McAdams has published fiction in decomP, Literary Orphans, One Throne Magazine, TINGE Magazine, Carbon Culture Review, per contra, and B.O.A.A.T. Press, among others. Before attending college, he worked as a social worker in the mental health industry near Philadelphia. Currently, he is a Ph.D. candidate in English at Lehigh University, where he also teaches and edits the university's literary journal, Amaranth.

James McAdams

James McAdams

James McAdams has published fiction in decomP, Literary Orphans, One Throne Magazine, TINGE Magazine, Carbon Culture Review, per contra, and B.O.A.A.T. Press, among others. Before attending college, he worked as a social worker in the mental health industry near Philadelphia. Currently, he is a Ph.D. candidate in English at Lehigh University, where he also teaches and edits the university's literary journal, Amaranth.

James
McAdams

Jon Pearson

Jon Pearson

Jon Pearson is a writer, speaker, artist, and creative thinking consultant. He was nominated for a 2014 Pushcart Prize and a 2014 Million Writers Award and his work has appeared in Barely South Review, Barnstorm, Carve, The Citron Review, Crack the Spine, Critical Pass Review, Cultural Weekly, Existere, Faultline, Fiction Fix, Lake Effect, Penmen Review, Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Reed Magazine, Shark Reef, Sou’wester, Tower Journal, West Wind Review, and Wild Violet. Jon writes now for the same reason he played with his food as a kid: to make the world a better place.

 

Jon Pearson

Jon Pearson

Jon Pearson is a writer, speaker, artist, and creative thinking consultant. He was nominated for a 2014 Pushcart Prize and a 2014 Million Writers Award and his work has appeared in Barely South Review, Barnstorm, Carve, The Citron Review, Crack the Spine, Critical Pass Review, Cultural Weekly, Existere, Faultline, Fiction Fix, Lake Effect, Penmen Review, Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Reed Magazine, Shark Reef, Sou’wester, Tower Journal, West Wind Review, and Wild Violet. Jon writes now for the same reason he played with his food as a kid: to make the world a better place.

 

Jon
Pearson

Luke Muyskens

Luke Muyskens

Luke Muyskens’ fiction, poetry, and humor has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Digital Americana, and One Throne Magazine. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, though he now resides in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is pursuing an MFA through Queens University of Charlotte, and earned a bachelor’s degree from St. John's University.

Luke Muyskens

Luke Muyskens

Luke Muyskens’ fiction, poetry, and humor has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Digital Americana, and One Throne Magazine. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, though he now resides in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is pursuing an MFA through Queens University of Charlotte, and earned a bachelor’s degree from St. John's University.

Luke
Muyskens

Michelle Bracken

Michelle Bracken

Michelle Bracken is assistant fiction editor at The Great American Literary Magazine. She studied creative writing at the University of Redlands, and holds an MFA in Fiction from CSU San Bernardino. In her nine years of teaching elementary school, she is most proud of leading Beyoncé flash mob performances on the playground. She likes lemons in her water, the works of Joan Didion, and Motown R&B. Her fiction and creative non-fiction have appeared in Litro MagazineThe Baltimore ReviewDewpointThe Redlands Review and RipRap. Follow her on Twitter @MBracken4.

Michelle Bracken

Michelle Bracken

Michelle Bracken is assistant fiction editor at The Great American Literary Magazine. She studied creative writing at the University of Redlands, and holds an MFA in Fiction from CSU San Bernardino. In her nine years of teaching elementary school, she is most proud of leading Beyoncé flash mob performances on the playground. She likes lemons in her water, the works of Joan Didion, and Motown R&B. Her fiction and creative non-fiction have appeared in Litro MagazineThe Baltimore ReviewDewpointThe Redlands Review and RipRap. Follow her on Twitter @MBracken4.

Michelle
Bracken

Telisha Moore Leigg

Telisha Moore Leigg

Telisha Moore Leigg, a wife and mother of twin boys, teaches magazine journalism and Japanese. She has an M.F.A. from Warren Wilson College, has published in the anthology, Long Story Short: Flash Fiction by Sixty-Five of North Carolina’s Finest Writers, Stickman Review, Gulf Stream, Primavera, and Crate. She received honorable mention in Glimmer Train’s July 2012 Very Short Fiction contest, and she writes flash fiction stories for Evince Magazine. Currently, she is working on a collection of interconnected short stories set in the South that deal with death, loss, secrets, and spirituality, titled The Fire for Lucky Horseshoes

Telisha Moore Leigg

Telisha Moore Leigg

Telisha Moore Leigg, a wife and mother of twin boys, teaches magazine journalism and Japanese. She has an M.F.A. from Warren Wilson College, has published in the anthology, Long Story Short: Flash Fiction by Sixty-Five of North Carolina’s Finest Writers, Stickman Review, Gulf Stream, Primavera, and Crate. She received honorable mention in Glimmer Train’s July 2012 Very Short Fiction contest, and she writes flash fiction stories for Evince Magazine. Currently, she is working on a collection of interconnected short stories set in the South that deal with death, loss, secrets, and spirituality, titled The Fire for Lucky Horseshoes

Telisha
Moore Leigg

Timothy Reilly

Timothy Reilly

Timothy Reilly was a professional tuba player in both the United States and Europe during the 1970s (in 1978, he was a member of the orchestra of the Teatro Regio in Turin, Italy). He is currently a retired substitute teacher, living in Southern California with his wife, Jo-Anne Cappeluti: a published poet and scholar. He has published widely, most recently in Grey Sparrow, Florida English, and Relief. His stories have also appeared in Flash Fiction (UK), Slow Trains Literary JournalAmarillo Bay, and Seattle Review, as well as other print and online journals.

Timothy Reilly

Timothy Reilly

Timothy Reilly was a professional tuba player in both the United States and Europe during the 1970s (in 1978, he was a member of the orchestra of the Teatro Regio in Turin, Italy). He is currently a retired substitute teacher, living in Southern California with his wife, Jo-Anne Cappeluti: a published poet and scholar. He has published widely, most recently in Grey Sparrow, Florida English, and Relief. His stories have also appeared in Flash Fiction (UK), Slow Trains Literary JournalAmarillo Bay, and Seattle Review, as well as other print and online journals.

Timothy
Reilly