by Sixfold
Contributor Notes
Brandon Barrett is a practicing physician who was raised on the Oregon coast and now lives in Virginia with his wife and son. His work has appeared with Passages North, The Carolina Quarterly, The Literary Review, Hobart, FLAPPERHOUSE, The Cossack Review, Tahoma Literary Review, and elsewhere. His website is www.brandonbarrett.net.
Mike Beasley In my youth I worked as a Teamster, ditch digger, ranch hand, and rag salesman. I published in some now-defunct literary magazines and The Atlantic. I quit writing for many years and started again after I retired from teaching. Recently, I published fiction in On the Premises. I have a novel and several short stories in the works. Hope I’m getting the hang of it.
Shannon L. Bowring is 26 years old and lives in Maine. Her work has appeared in The Maine Review, the Hawaii Pacific Review, and the Joy of the Pen literary journal. She is the author of a blog published by the Bangor Daily News. The blog, Twice Sold Tales, focuses on her adventures to bookshops throughout Maine, as well as her love of reading, writing, and all other things literary.
Matthew Callan’s short fiction has appeared in the Newtown Literary Journal and Nimrod International Journal, and his essays have appeared at The Awl, Vice, The Onion AV Club, and elsewhere. He is the author of the novel Hang A Crooked Number, contributed to Excelsior, You Fathead, a biography of radio monologist Jean Shepherd, and is a former writer for the New York Mets-centric blog Amazin’ Avenue.
Kim Catanzarite is a professional writer and editor, and an instructor for Writer’s Digest University. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and daughter. Her work has appeared in The Evansville Review, moonShine review, The Petigru Review, and others.
Originally from Modesto, California, John Etcheverry has spent 20+ years immersed—in one capacity or another—in the cultures and stories of the former Soviet Union. He lives with his family in Tbilisi, where he enjoys the wine, tries to stay clear of Georgian drivers, and is polishing his novel If God Were a Woman.
Martine Fournier Watson’s stories have been published in journals such as Beloit Fiction Journal, Roanoke Review, Scrivener Creative Review and The Best of Foliate Oak Online. Her poetry chapbook, Michelangelo and Me, was published in 2005 by Finishing Line Press. Recently, she obtained representation for her first novel, and is working on a second. She lives in Michigan with her husband and two children.
Shoshana Razel Gordon-Guedalia is mother-of-five, writer, poet, teacher, activist, and aspiring-rabbi. Her work has been published in Charles River Review, Worcester Review, Harvard Summer Review, The Wick, Inventory, Poetica, and JewishFiction.net. Her poem, “A Hike,” was a Pushcart nominee. Her first poetry book, A Voice is Heard in Ramah, is forthcoming this Summer. She holds a Masters in creative-writing and literature, and is a doctoral candidate in comparative theology and law. She resides in Massachusetts.
Louise Hawes is the author of two short fiction collections and over a dozen novels. Her work for readers of all ages has won awards at both the state and national levels. She is a contributor to numerous anthologies, and has served as a John Grisholm Visiting Author at the University of Mississippi, a Read in Common Author at the Mississippi University for Women, and a Writer in Residence at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Louise helped found and continues to teach at, the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults program. www.louisehawes.com
Mike Karpa is a San Francisco writer and translator of Japanese and Chinese. His short fiction has appeared in literary magazines such as Faultline, The Santa Clara Review, and Red Wheelbarrow. “The Link” is an adaptation of the first chapter of “Between Countries,” an unpublished novel of seven expats, misfits, and third-country kids in 1960s Bombay loving, spying and building—or trying to stop—India’s first atomic bomb.
Abby Sinnott hails from Buffalo, New York. After earning a journalism degree from Ithaca College, she hightailed it to San Francisco, where she lived for fourteen years and completed a MFA in Creative Writing. She has written a collection of short stories, Knocking On My Door and novel, Love In The Blood. Her writing has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies around the world. Currently, she lives in London with her husband and two daughters.
Dan Timoskevich is a graduate of Trinity University. He is a freelance writer, playwright, and musician. In 2012 he received the fiction award in The Thing Itself. He lives with his wife in San Antonio, Texas.
Melanie Unruh’s work has appeared in New Ohio Review, Post Road, Philadelphia Stories, and Cutthroat, among others. Her nonfiction received notable mention in Best American Essays 2013. At present, she is working on a cycle of essays and her second YA novel. Melanie lives in New Mexico with her husband, son, and their two cats.
Casey Whitworth is an MFA candidate in fiction at Florida State University and the assistant programs manager of The Southeast Review. Recently, he was a finalist in Salamander’s Fiction Contest and the winner of the Green Briar Review 2016 Fiction Prize and the Blue River Editors’ Award for Fiction. Based in Tallahassee, he is currently at work on a novel.
Sandra Wiley lives in the historic town of Hyde Park, NY. Working for NYS Parks has fostered her love of the outdoors and hiking. In her spare time, she can often be found walking in the woods with her dogs or sitting along the trail on a stone bench, journal in hand. This is her first published short story. Her work is entirely fiction.
