Fractal Magazine, Volume 2, Issue 2

MICHAEL PRIHODA is a poet and artist born and living in the Midwest. He is the founding editor of After the Pause, an experimental literary magazine. He is also the author of the chapbook, In Another Life, Maybe (Weasel Press). Find him at michaelprihoda.wordpress.com.

JOSIAH ROSELL is a candidate for a Master’s in English at Truman State University. His poems have been published in Pif Magazine and The Rockhurst Review, with forthcoming work in Literary Juice and PARAGRAPHITI. MEGGIE ROYER is a writer and photographer from the Midwest.

Her poems have previously appeared in Words Dance Magazine, The Harpoon Review, Melancholy Hyperbole, and more. She has won national medals for her writing in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards and was the Macalester Honorable Mention recipient of the 2015 Academy of American Poets Student Poetry Prize (writingsforwinter.tumblr.com).

TAYLOR SACCO’s work has been published or is forthcoming in HOOT Review and Gargoyle Magazine. He is founder and member of The Innkeepers Collective with whom he writes, workshops and grows. He is 28 years old and lives on a farm with his wife and dog.

MICHAEL SALCMAN, poet, physician and art historian, was chair of neurosurgery at the University of Maryland. Recent poems appear in Alaska Quarterly Review, Hopkins Review, The Hudson Review, New Letters, Ontario Review, and Rhino. Poetry books include The Clock Made of Confetti, nominated for The Poet’s Prize, and The Enemy of Good Is Better (Orchises, 2011); Poetry in Medicine, his anthology of classic and contemporary poems on doctors and diseases has just been published (Persea Books, 2015).

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