Biography
Zoe Blaylock Formally educated at Harvard, and informally but more persuasively in the school of hard knocks and droll encounters, Zoë Blaylock is now a committed volunteer who works in healthcare/research ethics at several medical and academic centers in San Diego.
Jeffrey Burghauser
Marc Alexandre Marc Alexandre (b. 1987) is an artist living in Princeton, New Jersey. He creates photographic images that explore the complex relationships of Americans with their country. Marc is a current Graduate student at the Hartford Art School MFA in Photography program. You can find out more about Marc at the following: marcalexand.re/ and @marcalexand.re on Instagram.
Joshua Atlas Joshua Atlas currently lives and travels throughout the Southwest United States, focusing his time as a painter in an Albuquerque studio, and drawing and illustrating on the road. You can find out more about Joshua at the following: joshuaatlas.net/ , @inkonpaperabq on Instagram, and flickr.com/photos/atlasjoshua/ .
Andrea Avery Andrea Avery is the author of Sonata: A Memoir of Pain and the Piano (Pegasus Books, 2017). Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Real Simple, and The Oxford American. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona, where she works as a teacher. She is working on a novel. You can find out more about Andrea at the following: andreaaveryauthor.com, @and_read on Twitter, @andreaavery77 on Instagram, and facebook.com/andreaaveryauthor.
Candy Bedworth Candy Bedworth’s remote, rain soaked farmhouse clings to a steep-sided valley in rural Wales. She raises chickens and children with varying degrees of success. Art, literature and Lakrids licorice save her sanity on a daily basis. She writes regularly for ‘dailyartmagazine.com’ and can be found on Facebook and Instagram. (@candybedworth)
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Jeffrey Burghauser is a teacher in Columbus, OH. He was educated at SUNY-Buffalo and the University of Leeds. He currently studies the five-string banjo with a focus on preWWII picking styles. A former artist-in-residence at the Arad Arts Project (Israel), his poems have appeared (or are forthcoming) in Appalachian Journal, Lehrhaus, New English Review, and Iceview (Iceland). His book-length collection Real Poems is available on Amazon. amazon.com/dp /1727378768 You can find out more about Jeffrey at jeffreyburghauser.com.
Erin Cork Erin Cork lives in Missoula, MT. She writes and hikes in the mornings with her two rescue mutts. She works the swing shift as a train dispatcher, drinks a lot of coffee and uses foul language. Her work has been featured in X-R-A-Y Lit, Hypnopomp, Image OutWrite and Memoir Mixtapes. She has other pieces about to drop elsewhere. She is working on another draft of her first novel and an essay collection. You can find out more about Erin at the following: elcork17@twitter and elcork17@instagram.
RC deWinter RC deWinter’s poetry is anthologized in New York City Haiku (NY Times, 2017), Uno: A Poetry Anthology (Verian Thomas, 2002), in print in 2River View, Meat For Tea: The Valley Review, borrowed solace, Pink Panther Magazine, Down in the Dirt, Another Sun, Plum Ruby Review, forthcoming in Genre Urban Arts and in numerous online literary journals. You can find out more about RC on Twitter @RCdeWinter and at rc-dewinter.pixels.com/.
Ken Elliott Ken Elliott grew up in suburban Orange County, California and joined the Army straight out of high school in order to see the world. Instead, they sent him to a swamp in Central Louisiana. He studied journalism in college, but did not become a journalist. His work has appeared in Gemini magazine and will be published in an upcoming CC&D magazine. He has also published a children’s book entitled The Wish through Adamo Press. It made the author approximately $48.00 but can be found in libraries nationwide. Vol. 2 • Issue 1