Contributors' Notes
Rae Bryant is the author of the short story collection, The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals (Patasola Press, 2011). Her stories, essays poetry and intermedia have appeared in print and online at The Paris Review, The Missouri Review, McSweeney’s and Redivider, among other publications. Her intermedia has exhibited in New York, DC, Baltimore and Florence, Italy. She has won prizes and fellowships from Johns Hopkins, Aspen Writers Foundation, VCCA and Whidbey Writers and has been nominated for the Pen/Hemingway, Pen Emerging Writers, The &NOW Award, Lorian Hemingway, and multiple times for the Pushcart award. Rae earned a Masters in Writing from Hopkins where she continues to teach creative writing and is the founding editor of The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review. She also teaches and lectures in the International Writing Program at The University of Iowa and The Eckleburg Workshops.
It has taken almost twenty years of living in New Orleans for Julia Carey to be able to write about the small town in New Mexico where she grew up. "Heart on a Sleeve," is part of a growing collection of short stories all set in Carlsbad. When not dredging childhood fodder for those tales, she writes poetry, reworks a novel, teaches in the Bard Early College and Xavier University English Departments, and cultivates her toddler's love of books. Her work can be found at Mason's Road, Tiferet Journal, the anthologies New Orleans: What Can't Be Lost and Louisiana In Words, as well as her website, juliacarey.com.
Adam McAlpine Clark is a writer, artist, and social and environmental policy researcher. He currently lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where he builds terrariums in his free time.
M. Brett Gaffney, born in Houston, Texas, works as an associate editor for Gingerbread House literary magazine. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Medulla Review, Newfound, Ruminate, Psaltery & Lyre, Stone Highway Review, Slipstream, Wind, Penduline, Cactus Heart, Exit 7, REAL, Still: The Journal, Licking River Review, Sanitarium, Zone 3, and Permafrost.
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