The Passed Note Issue 4 June 2017 | Page 51

Contributor Biographies

CARLINA HIRSCH is a bartender from Montana. She likes rivers and trees, dogs and other people's babies. Most of Carlina's time is spent mixing drinks and CD's (still) for both strangers and friends or playing ice hockey. She has never seen the ocean, but there is still time in life for many things. Possibly.

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AMANDA KABAK has had stories published in Midwestern Gothic, The Quotable, Perceptions Magazine, and other periodicals. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and her first novel is forthcoming from Brain Mill Press this year. // T: @amandakabak

SERGIO A. ORTIZ is a gay Puerto Rican poet and the founding editor of Undertow Tanka Review. He writes in English and Spanish. He is a two-time Pushcart nominee, a four-time Best of the Web nominee and a 2017 Bets of the Net nominee. His poems have appeared in The Acentos Review, Ink Sweat and Tears, and a great number of other literary journals. //T: @Saore