The Round, Fall 2016: Issue XV

C o n t r i b u tor s Ann Minoff graduated from New York University with a degree in philosophy and received her Doctorate of Chiropractic in 1982 from the National College of Chiropractic in Illinois. She currently teaches classes on Qigong and Kabbalah. Her work has appeared in many journals, including California Quarterly, The Literary Review, and Spoon River Poetry Review.

Lauro Palomba has taught English as a second language and has had stints as a freelance journalist and speechwriter.

Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, Forge, Poetry, Osiris, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. His most recent collection is Almost Rain (River Otter Press, 2013).

Fabrice Poussin teaches French and English at Shorter University. A novelist and poet, his work has appeared in Kestrel, Symposium, Chimes, and more than a dozen other magazines.

His photography has been published in Front Porch Review, San Pedro River Review and more than sixty other publications.

Joseph Rathgeber is an author, poet, high school English teacher, and adjunct professor from New Jersey. He is a recipient of a 2016 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship and a 2014 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship. His story collection is The Abridged Autobiography of Yousef R. and Other Stories (ELJ Publications, 2014). His work of hybrid poetry is MJ (Another New Calligraphy, 2015).

Laurie Lessen Reiche was born in Detroit, Michigan and has been a writer and artist all her life. She is also an archivist of her life and has written approximately 400 journals spanning 1972 to the present. She is also a photographer and mixed-media artist as well as a blatant bibliomaniac. She lives and works in