Contributors
Tomas Baiza
Tomas Baiza is the author of the novel Deliver Me: A Pocho's Accidental Guide to College, Love, and Pizza Delivery, and the short-fiction collection A Purpose to Our Savagery. Originally from San José, California, he is a Pushcart-nominated author whose work has appeared in Parhelion, Writers In The Attic, Obelus, 101 Proof Horror, The Meadow, Peatsmoke, The Goodlife Review, and elsewhere.
J.D. Evans
J. D. Evans lives in Washington, DC. He teaches at NYU’s DC campus and George Mason University. He is working on a collection of too-long short stories; “The Rain Diary” is the first third of one. Some of his writing can be found at The Point Magazine and Typishly.
Mary Fifield, co-editor and contributor, has published fiction in J Journal, Midway Journal, The Write Launch, and Fiction Southeast, and her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Having lived in Ecuador and Portland, Oregon, she is now in San Diego working on a darkly comic, deadly serious, cautiously hopeful novel about an unlikely band of champions attempting to reverse climate chaos. Find out more at earthinhere.com.
Bishop Garrison
Bishop Garrison is a national security professional and Army veteran with nearly 20 years of experience. He's written non-fiction on a variety of issues and challenges facing the United States and the world. He writes science fiction focused on character-driven situations in both the near and distant future.
JoeAnn Hart is the author of Stamford ’76: A True Story of Murder, Corruption, Race, and Feminism in the 1970s, a memoir, the novel Float, a dark comedy about plastics in the ocean, and Addled, a social satire. Her work also includes short fiction, essays, and drama.
Anthony S. James
Anthony S. James was born in Wales and graduated in English and philosophy at Swansea University. After he traveled Europe, Turkey, North Africa, and Russia and lived in Spain, he published three books on contemporary culture, including Orwell’s Faded Lion: The Moral Atmosphere of Britain 1945–2015.
Stefan Kiesbye
Stefan Kiesbye is the author of six books of fiction, including the novel Your House Is on Fire, Your Children All Gone. Born on the Baltic Coast, he lives with his wife Sanaz in the North San Francisco Bay Area, California, and teaches creative writing at Sonoma State University.
Jack Kirne is based in Melbourne, Australia. His work has appeared in publications including Necessary Fiction, the Meanjin blog, Subbed In and the anthologies Growing up Queer in Australia and New Australian Fiction. He co-produces the podcast, Spooky Speaks! with his partner, Aaron Billings.
Carlos Labbé
Carlos Labbé was born in Santiago, Chile. He is the author of two short story collections and nine novels; Navidad & Matanza, Loquela, and Spiritual Choreographies have been translated into English. He has published essays, poems, screenplays, and music albums. He has been part of the collective Sangría since 2008.
Shaun Levin is the author of Seven Sweet Things, A Year of Two Summers, and Snapshots of The Boy, amongst other works. He is a South African writer based in Madrid, after living for many years in London and Tel Aviv. (Photo credit: Ajamu X.)
Jessica Meeker
Jessica Meeker was born and raised in the heart of Montana where she came to love and learn from her wild surroundings to create fiction. She graduated from Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana, with a degree in environmental science and creative writing. "Glacier Bear" is her first publication.
Jennifer Morales is a queer Latinx poet, fiction writer, and performance artist based in rural Wisconsin. Her short story collection, Meet Me Halfway: Milwaukee Stories, was Wisconsin Center for the Book’s 2016 “Book of the Year.” She’s president of the Driftless Writing Center in Viroqua, Wisconsin.
Etan Nechin
Etan Nechin is a Brooklyn-based Israeli writer and editor of The Bare Life Review: a Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Literature. His writing has appeared in Zyzzyva, The Washington Post, Boston Review, World Literature Today, The Independent, Jacobin, Jewish Currents, and more.
Vivian Faith Prescott
Vivian Faith Prescott lives at her fish camp in Wrangell, Alaska. She’s authored seven poetry books and a collection of linked stories, The Dead Go to Seattle (Boreal Books/Red Hen Press). She writes the column Planet Alaska for the Juneau Empire, and she’s a member of the Pacific Sámi Searvi.
Kristin Thiel, co-editor and contributor, is based in Portland, Oregon, and she has been a professional in the world of words for nearly twenty years. After the Christian Science Monitor published her nonfiction in 2004, she went on to write book reviews and nonfiction titles for young people. As an editor, Kristin works for individuals, publishing houses (Simon & Schuster, Coffee House Press, and Outskirts Press), and organizations (United Nations, Lewis & Clark College, and Portland State University).
Jan Underwood is the author of an academic satire, Utterly Heartless, and a forthcoming novel called Fault Lines. She has also written two short story collections: Day Shift Werewolf and The Bell Lap. She lives in Portland, Oregon and teaches at Portland Community College.
Tara M. Williams earned her MFA and EdD at Fresno State University in California. She has published in Southwest Review, Entropy’s Black Cackle, and Apparition Literary Magazine, among others. She divides her time between Portland, Oregon, and Arizona, where she teaches English, literature, and creative writing.
Will Vanderhyden
Will Vanderhyden is a freelance translator. He has translated the work of Carlos Labbé, Rodrigo Fresán, and Fernanda García Lao, among others. He has received fellowships from the NEA and the Lannan Foundation. His translation of The Invented Part by Rodrigo Fresán won the 2018 Best Translated Book Award.