Authors

Paul Beckman’s a Connecticut writer whose latest flash collection, Kiss Kiss (Truth Serum Press) was a finalist for the 2019 Indie Book Awards. Some of his stories have appeared in Spelk, Anti-Heroin Chic, Necessary Fiction, Bending Genres, Fictive Dream, Pank, Playboy, WINK, and The Lost Balloon. He had a story selected for the 2020 National Flash...

Paul Ilechko is a Poet and songwriter. He is also the author of three chapbooks, most recently “Pain Sections” (Alien Buddha Press). His work has appeared in a variety of journals, including The Night Heron Barks, Rogue Agent, Ethel, San Pedro River Review, Lullwater Review, and Book of Matches. He lives with his partner in Lambertville, NJ.

Paula Bernett's poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, Clackamas Literary Review, The Louisville Review, Rattle, and Whiskey Island, among others. Her lyric essay "Digression and Memory, The Handmaiden Effect," and a companion essay, "Four Hands Improvising on a Piano" appeared in Fourth Genre. She is the recipient of the...

Peter Augerot is a graduate from UNCW. He lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Quenton Baker is a poet, educator, and Cave Canem fellow. His current focus is black interiority and the afterlife of slavery. His work has appeared in The Offing, Jubilat, Vinyl, The Rumpus and elsewhere.

Rachel Aydt is a part-time Assistant Professor of writing at the New School University. She's published essays and short stories in The White Review, HCE Review, Broad Street Journal, Post Road, Green Mountains Journal, and many other publications, and has completed a memoir. She lives in New York City and is co-founder of the Crystal Radio...

Rachel Kramer Bussel writes the Lusty Lady column for The Village Voice and hosts the monthly In The Flesh Reading Series. She's the editor or co-editor of nine erotic anthologies, including Caught Looking: Erotic Tales of Voyeurs and Exhibitionists and Naughty Spanking Stories from A to Z 1 and 2, and her stories have been published in over 80...

Randi Dickson has been an English educator, writing teacher, and writer for over forty-five years. Her publications include many articles for professional journals in her field as well as pieces for the The New York Times, East Hampton Star and other national magazines. She has just completed a memoir of Maritza Farkas Shelley entitled In the Very...

Randy Rosenthal has a BA from UCLA and a MFA in Creative Writing from the City College of New York. His work has been published in the Brooklyn Rail, fourpaperletters, and Promethean. He teaches at Kingsborough College and lives in Brooklyn.

Rebecca Brown is the author of thirteen books published in the U.S. and abroad, most recently Not Heaven, Somewhere Else (Tarpaulin Sky,  2018). Her other books (novels, short stories, essays, prose poems) include American Romances, The Haunted House, The Dogs: A Modern Bestiary, The Terrible Girls (all with City Lights Press) and The Gifts of the...

Rebecca Donner is the author of the novel Sunset Terrace, and the editor of the story collection On The Rocks: The KGB Bar Fiction Anthology. Her book reviews and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including Bookforum, The Believer, People Magazine, and Post Road. She has taught creative writing at Wesleyan, Barnard and Cooper Union...

Rebecca Suzuki’s work has appeared at The Bookends Review, Blue Earth Review, and Communion arts journal. She is a recent graduate of the CUNY Queens College MFA in creative writing and literary translation and teaches English and Writing Composition at Queens College and at Montclair State University. 

Richard Helmling is a teacher and writer living and working in El Paso, Texas. You can find links to his other publications at www.helmling.com. 

Richard Jackson is a PhD candidate and freelance writer from the UK. He enjoys writing about Central and Eastern Europe and has submitted articles to journals such as Transitions Online and Literature Across Frontiers. He manages and writes for the website ‘Lemberik' – www.lemberik.org – which concerns contemporary Jewish life in Europe today. For...

Richard Leise recently accepted The Perry Morgan Fellowship in Creative Writing and the David Scott Sutelan Memorial Scholarship from Old Dominion University.  While completing a MFA, he has a novel out on submission, and is finishing a collection of short stories.  His fiction and poetry may be found in numerous publications, and he was recently...