fiction

C.A. Schaefer is a writer and teacher of writing in Salt Lake City. She holds a PhD from the University of Utah, where she was a managing editor of Quarterly West. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Indiana Review, Phantom Drift, Passages North, and elsewhere. 

Jonathan Louis Duckworth received his MFA from Florida International University. His fiction, poetry, and non-fiction appears in or is forthcoming in New Ohio Review, Fourteen Hills, PANK Magazine, Tupelo Quarterly, Jabberwock Review, Superstition Review, and elsewhere.

Josef Kuhn is the fiction editor for Phoebe, an editor for Rough Beast, and an MFA candidate at George Mason University, where he also teaches. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Columbia Review, Blinders Journal, and elsewhere. Prior to graduate school, he worked in journalism and media at National Journal, NPR, and Religion News Service.

K. R. Rosman’s stories have been published Foxing Quarterly, Adirondack Review, Platte Valley Review, Raven Chronicles, Corium, and others. She is an educator, and a graduate of the University of Montana. She holds an MFA from Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University.

Kaylee Duff is a senior at Bowling Green State University, where she is currently pursuing a BFA in Creative Writing. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in several journals, including Pamplemousse, Gertrude, and Catfish Creek.

Kim Magowan teaches in the Department of Literatures and Languages at Mills College. She is the author of How Far I've Come, forthcoming in 2022 from Gold Wake Press; the novel The Light Source (2019), published by 7.13 Books; and the short story collection Undoing (2018), which won the 2017 Moon City Press Fiction Award. Her fiction has been published in Booth, Craft Literary, The Gettysburg Review, Smokelong Quarterly, Wigleaf, and many other journals. Her stories have been selected for Best Small Fictions and Wigleaf's Top 50. She is the Editor-in-Chief and Fiction Editor of Pithead Chapel. 

Leslie Johnson’s fiction has been broadcast on NPR and published in literary journals such as Threepenny Review, Glimmer Train, december, Cimarron Review, Third Coast, and Colorado Review. Her work was selected for the 2017 Pushcart Prize and will appear in the Pushcart Press anthology Love Stories for Turbulent Times. She teaches at the University of Hartford and leads workshops for the CT Office of the Arts. 

Michelle Ross is the author of There’s So Much They Haven’t Told You, which won the 2016 Moon City Press Short Fiction Award (MCP 2017). Her work has recently appeared in Cream City Review, The Forge, Monkeybicycle, TriQuarterly, and other venues. She is fiction editor of Atticus Review and a consulting editor for the 2018 Best Small Fictions anthology. She lives in Tucson, Arizona. "Counterbalances" is a collaborative work with Kim Magowan.

Molly Giles is the author of four prize winning collections of stories and a novel. She recently retired from teaching in the MFA Program at the University of Arkansas and lives in West Marin.

Peter Makuck’s fourth collection of short stories, Wins and Losses, was published in 2016 by Syracuse University Press. An earlier collection, Costly Habits, was nominated for the Pen/Faulkner Award. He has three times received honorable mention in Best American Short Stories. One of his stories, "Filling The Igloo," was included for The Best of the Southern Review. His poems and stories, essays and reviews have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, The Hudson Review, Cimmaron Review, Yale Review, and others. He is Distinguished Professor emeritus from East Carolina University where he founded and edited Tar River Poetry from 1978 to 2006.

Zach Lisabeth is a graduate of the 2014 Clarion Writers Workshop at UCSD and a current MFA candidate at Iowa State University where he teaches composition and rhetoric. He is a former media strategist and the current managing editor of Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Defenestration, Liquid Imagination, Freeze Frame Fiction, Fantasy Scroll Magazine, Mirror Dance, Pantheon Magazine, Burningword Literary Journal and others.