Black Fox Literary Magazine Issue #13

Originally from Maryland, Brendan Stephens currently resides in Florida and is an MFA candidate at the University of Central Florida. His works have been published in the Little Patuxent Review, Clash by Night Anthology, Backbone Mountain Review, and elsewhere. He has too many allergies to live with any pets.

John Stupp is the author of the 2007 Main Street Rag chapbook The Blue Pacific and the 2015 full-length collection Advice from the Bed of a Friend (also by Main Street Rag). Recent poetry has appeared or will be appearing in Wraparound South, Houseguest, The Mackinac, The Timberline Review, The New Guard, 4ink7, The Sweet Tree Review, Long Dumb Voices, Goliath, and Drunk Monkeys. He has lived and worked in various states as a jazz musician, university instructor, taxi driver, radio news writer, waiter, auto factory laborer and paralegal. He currently lives outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Elizabeth Jane Whittington is a born writer who has submitted work to anyone who could read since she was eight. Poetry is her enduring love, though she also writes fiction and memoir. She has published work in online and print journals such as Crack the Spine Literary Magazine and Black Fox Literary Magazine, and has been a finalist in several literary contests, most recently in Glimmer Train’s Fiction Open. She teaches literature and writing and received the James Moffett Award for Excellence in Teacher Research for her investigation into literacy and attrition among pregnant and parenting teens. She manages Upper Valley Writers Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/uppervalleywriters/. She is the mother of two grown children, both of whom write, and lives in Cornish, New Hampshire, home to artists and writers and the longest two-span covered bridge in the world.

Alena Zhang is a sophomore at Newark Academy in Livingston, NJ. She is a member of several regional newspapers, as well as her school's newspaper staff and literary magazine. In her 123