Prose Laura Allnutt earned an MFA in creative writing from Fairfield University. She currently lives in the Greater Cincinnati area with her friend Sarah and dachshund, Dudley. She runs the blog ThinkingWithMyMindFull.wordpress.com, which helps others understand and cope with mental illness. Jeannette Brown’s writing has been published in Bellevue Literary Review, Southwestern American Literature, New Millennium Writings, Steel Toe Review, Red Truck Review, Descant, and other publications. She is the co-editor of Literary Lunch, a food anthology. Her MFA is from the University of New Orleans. She has enjoyed residencies at the Sewanee Writer’s Conference, Rivendell Writers’ Colony, and Hedgebrook/India. Paul Beckman has published four story collections, a novella, and a new collection, Kiss Kiss, which came out in March 2018. He’s had over 400 of his stories published in print, online, and via audio in the following mags among others:. Red Fez, Necessary Fiction, Spelk, Connotation Press, and Jellyfish Review. He had a micro story selected for the 2018 Norton Microfiction Anthology, and was one of the winners in the 2016 Best of Small Fictions. Arthur Davis is a management consultant who has been quoted in The New York Times and in Crain’s New York Business, taught at The New School, and interviewed on New York TV News Channel 1. He has advised The New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission, the Department of Homeland Security, Senator John McCain's investigating committee on boxing reform, and testified as an expert witness before the New York State Commission on Corruption in Boxing. Over eighty tales of original fiction, and several dozen as reprints, have been published in sixtyfive journals. He was featured in a single author anthology, nominated for a Pushcart Prize, the Write Well Award and, twice nominated, received Honorable Mention in The Best American Mystery Stories 2017. More at www.talesofourtime.com. Ken Drexler is a writer living in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. His most recent stories have appeared in the Chicago Quarterly Review and Bethesda Magazine. He has also won awards in short story contests sponsored by Potomac Review and the Bethesda Literary Festival. By day he is a reference librarian at the Library of Congress.
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