Mojave River Review - spring 2017

George Howell lives in Wonder Valley, a rural Mojave Desert community, where he writes poetry, as well as prose about contemporary art. One of the first live poetry readings he attended was a “Human Be-in” in Delaware Park, where poets like Robert Creeley and Robert Duncan entranced a gathering of hippies and students in 1967.

J. Bradley is the author of The Adventures of Jesus Christ, Boy Detective (Pelekinesis, 2016) and the Yelp review prose poem collection Pick How You Will Revise A Memory (Robocup Press, 2016). He lives at jbradleywrites.com.

Jeff Handy’s poetry has previously appeared in Anthropoid, The Boiler, Cartridge Lit, Gandy Dancer, SOFTBLOW, Southern Humanities Review, and elsewhere. He is an Academic Advisor at the University of Texas at Austin. Find him on Twitter @j3ffhandy.

Joan Colby has published in journals such as Poetry, Atlanta Review, and South Dakota Review. Awards include two Illinois Arts Council Literary Awards. She has published 16 books, including Selected Poems from FutureCycle Press, which received the 2013 FutureCycle Prize, and Ribcage from Glass Lyre Press, which was awarded the 2015 Kithara Book Prize. She is associate editor of Kentucky Review.

Katie Cortese is the author of Girl Power and Other ShortShort Stories (ELJ, 2015) and Make Way for Her and Other Stories (University Press of Kentucky, 2018). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Indiana Review, Blackbird, Gulf Coast, 148