#21
      "The Sorry-Making Machines" Issue


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#21 Contributors

Jewel Beth Davis is a writer and theater artist who lives in Rollinsford, NH. She is a Professor of Writing and Theater at NHTI–Concord Community College. She earned an MFA in Writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her creative nonfiction and fiction has been published in 29 literary magazines including Entelechy International and Diverse Voices Quarterly, which nominated her story for Dzanc's Best of the Web 2011. She is published in This Guild Itself, the anthology of the Writers Guild of Iowa State University. She has just completed her first novel, Sadie and Irving Fix the World.
www.jewelbethdavis.com

Alethea Eason is a writer, artist, and educator who lives in rural Northern California.

Jaq Evans is a marketing writer by day and a hopeless horror/science fiction nerd by night. (Other hobbies include rock scrambling, campfires, and experimental cocktails.) More short stories and poetry live at www.jaqevans.com.

Nick Castellano is a recent graduate of Suffolk University with a Bachelor's Degree in Theater Arts. He has produced and staged two of his plays in a black box theater and has performed in numerous productions and independent films. You can find more information about him at Nickycast.net

Emmet O'Cuana is a freelance critic and writer. His published material — reviews, features, comics and fiction — has featured in Hopscotch Friday, FilmInk, Sequart, Film International, Outre Press, Decay Magazine and Aurealis. He also contributed an essay to Darragh Greene and Kate Hoddy's Grant Morrison and the Superhero Renaissance. He was the host of the Australian comics podcast Beardy and the Geek.

Arthur Plotnik is the author of eight books, including Spunk & Bite: A Writer's Guide to Bold, Contemporary Style and two Book-of-the-Month Club selections: The Elements of Expression and The Elements of Editing. Among his many publications are award–winning fiction, essays, poetry, and biography. He studied under Philip Roth at the Iowa Writers Workshop and worked as editorial director for the American Library Association. A former columnist for The Writer magazine, he lives in Chicago.

Paul Smith lives near Chicago with his wife Flavia. He writes fiction & poetry and is a proud member of the Rockford Writers' Guild. He likes walking along the canal, public transportation & Milwaukee Avenue.

Max Talley was born in New York City and currently teaches music and writes fiction in Southern California. His writing has appeared, or is forthcoming, in The Rogue Voice Journal, Iconoclast, Back Issue Magazine, and the Two Cities Review. He won a best fiction award in the science fiction/horror/fantasy category at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference in both 2006 and 2007. His near future novel, Yesterday We Forget Tomorrow, was published in 2014.

Lisa Timpf is a freelance writer who lives in Simcoe, Ontario. Her writing has appeared in a variety of venues, including The Martian Wave, New Myths, Third Flatiron, Scifaikuest, More of Our Canada, and Chicken Soup for the Soul: My Very Good, Very Bad Dog.

Richard K. Weems' most recently published Stark Raving Blue, a collection of flash fiction and essays. Other zombie works appear in Passages North, Festival Writer and Dead Inside, an anthology of zombie essays. He lives and teaches in New Jersey. www.weemsnet.net



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