fiction

Amber Burke

Amber Burke

Amber Burke lives and writes on a small horse ranch in Coyote, New Mexico. Her stories and essays have been published in the The Sun, The Michigan Quarterly Review, The Raleigh Review, Essays and Fictions, Devilfish Review, Escapeintolife, Apt, Spelk, and The Pinch, among others. A yoga teacher since 2006, she regularly contributes to Yoga International. She is a graduate of Yale and the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars MFA program, and was for a time an actress in New York and L.A.

Amber Burke

Amber Burke

Amber Burke lives and writes on a small horse ranch in Coyote, New Mexico. Her stories and essays have been published in the The Sun, The Michigan Quarterly Review, The Raleigh Review, Essays and Fictions, Devilfish Review, Escapeintolife, Apt, Spelk, and The Pinch, among others. A yoga teacher since 2006, she regularly contributes to Yoga International. She is a graduate of Yale and the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars MFA program, and was for a time an actress in New York and L.A.

Amber
Burke

Bill Sommer

Bill Sommer

Bill Sommer is the co-author, with Natalie Tilghman, of the novel A 52-Hertz Whale (2015, Lerner Publishing). His short fiction has appeared in The Whitefish Review and the New Libri Coffee Shorts series. He is also the screenwriter of the feature film Tony Tango, winner of the Chairman's Award at the 2012 San Diego Film Festival.

Bill Sommer

Bill Sommer

Bill Sommer is the co-author, with Natalie Tilghman, of the novel A 52-Hertz Whale (2015, Lerner Publishing). His short fiction has appeared in The Whitefish Review and the New Libri Coffee Shorts series. He is also the screenwriter of the feature film Tony Tango, winner of the Chairman's Award at the 2012 San Diego Film Festival.

Bill
Sommer

Christine Ma-Kellams

When she is not writing, Christine Ma-Kellams is a social psychologist and college professor. Her recent fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in the Kenyon Review, Gargoyle, Hypertext, Straylight, Blue Earth Review, and Flapper House.

Christine Ma-Kellams

When she is not writing, Christine Ma-Kellams is a social psychologist and college professor. Her recent fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in the Kenyon Review, Gargoyle, Hypertext, Straylight, Blue Earth Review, and Flapper House.

Christine
Ma-Kellams

Courtney Santo

Courtney Santo

Courtney Miller Santo is the author of two novels, The Roots of the Olive Tree and Three Story House, published by HarperCollins. Her works have been translated into German, Italian, Hungarian, Korean, Dutch, Spanish, Polish, Turkey, and Slovenian. She teaches writing at the University of Memphis, where she is the Editor-in-Chief of The Pinch and director of the River City Writers Series. She is also chair of the MidSouth Book Festival. Her essays, fiction and poetry have been published in Shark Reef, Belief and Literature, the Los Angeles Review, Green Briar Review, Memphis Magazine and Mason’s Road among others.

Courtney Santo

Courtney Santo

Courtney Miller Santo is the author of two novels, The Roots of the Olive Tree and Three Story House, published by HarperCollins. Her works have been translated into German, Italian, Hungarian, Korean, Dutch, Spanish, Polish, Turkey, and Slovenian. She teaches writing at the University of Memphis, where she is the Editor-in-Chief of The Pinch and director of the River City Writers Series. She is also chair of the MidSouth Book Festival. Her essays, fiction and poetry have been published in Shark Reef, Belief and Literature, the Los Angeles Review, Green Briar Review, Memphis Magazine and Mason’s Road among others.

Courtney
Santo

Jack Garrett

Jack Garrett

Jack Garrett has worked in radio in Colorado and New Mexico and performed onstage in New York where he helped found a theatre company with other writers producing their original work. His fiction has appeared in The Literary Review, The New Orleans Review, Fugue, Natural Bridge, The Portland Review, The Santa Monica Review, Quarter After Eight, The Los Angeles Review, Monkey Bicycle and Witness. He is also a voice actor and audiobook narrator.

Jack Garrett

Jack Garrett

Jack Garrett has worked in radio in Colorado and New Mexico and performed onstage in New York where he helped found a theatre company with other writers producing their original work. His fiction has appeared in The Literary Review, The New Orleans Review, Fugue, Natural Bridge, The Portland Review, The Santa Monica Review, Quarter After Eight, The Los Angeles Review, Monkey Bicycle and Witness. He is also a voice actor and audiobook narrator.

Jack
Garrett

John Milas

John Milas

John Milas spent four years in the Marine Corps before studying creative writing at the University of Illinois. He currently studies creative writing at Purdue University as an MFA candidate in fiction. His other jobs have included working as a lifeguard, composition instructor, alcohol awareness discussion facilitator, local arts journalist, film/TV production assistant, and live television newscast director. His work has appeared in O-Dark-Thirty, Chicago Quarterly Review, Hypertext Magazine, and elsewhere. 

John Milas

John Milas

John Milas spent four years in the Marine Corps before studying creative writing at the University of Illinois. He currently studies creative writing at Purdue University as an MFA candidate in fiction. His other jobs have included working as a lifeguard, composition instructor, alcohol awareness discussion facilitator, local arts journalist, film/TV production assistant, and live television newscast director. His work has appeared in O-Dark-Thirty, Chicago Quarterly Review, Hypertext Magazine, and elsewhere. 

John
Milas

Jonathan Cardew

Jonathan Cardew

Jonathan Cardew's writing appears or is forthcoming in Atticus Review, [b]OINK, Digging Through The Fat, Jellyfish Review, JMWW, People Holding, Smokelong Quarterly, and Segue, among others. He is the Fiction Editor at Connotation Press. 

Jonathan Cardew

Jonathan Cardew

Jonathan Cardew's writing appears or is forthcoming in Atticus Review, [b]OINK, Digging Through The Fat, Jellyfish Review, JMWW, People Holding, Smokelong Quarterly, and Segue, among others. He is the Fiction Editor at Connotation Press. 

Jonathan
Cardew

Kalani Pickhart

Kalani Pickhart

Kalani Pickhart is an MFA fiction candidate at Arizona State University. She was a finalist for the Yemassee Journal's 2017 Fiction Writing Prizes, and her short fiction has also appeared in The Harpoon Review and the Spillers No. 6 chapbook and podcast. 

Kalani Pickhart

Kalani Pickhart

Kalani Pickhart is an MFA fiction candidate at Arizona State University. She was a finalist for the Yemassee Journal's 2017 Fiction Writing Prizes, and her short fiction has also appeared in The Harpoon Review and the Spillers No. 6 chapbook and podcast. 

Kalani
Pickhart

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

William Auten

William Auten

William Auten is the author of the novel Pepper’s Ghost, and his recent work has appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Oxford Magazine, Sequestrum, Solstice, and elsewhere.

William Auten

William Auten

William Auten is the author of the novel Pepper’s Ghost, and his recent work has appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Oxford Magazine, Sequestrum, Solstice, and elsewhere.

William
Auten