Sixfold Fiction Summer 2015
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Contributor Notes
L. L. Babb has been writing since shortly after she learned to read. Her fiction and personal essays have appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle, Rosebud, Dos Passos Review, Kalliope, The MacGuffin and elsewhere. She has been a teacher at the Writers Studio San Francisco and online since 2008 and a student since 2007. She lives in Forestville, CA, along with her husband, her toy poodle, and two crazy cats.
Jenny Belardi has been longlisted for the Fish Poetry Prize and was a semi-finalist in Concordia University’s Summer Literary Series contest. She earned her M. Litt. in fiction writing from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. Jenny lives with her husband and two daughters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She writes at 5 a.m. before her day job as a university fundraiser.
Chris Belden is the author of the novel Carry-on and the story collection The Floating Lady of Lake Tawaba (winner of the Fairfield Book Prize). His novel Shriver will be reissued by Touchstone/Simon & Schuster in September 2015. Chris is a graduate of the Fairfield University MFA program and teaches at the Westport Writers Workshop and at a maximum-security prison.
Valerie Cumming received her MFA in fiction writing from the University of Michigan in 2002; since then, her stories have appeared in over two dozen publications and received several awards. She works as a freelance writer, teacher, and editor based in Columbus, Ohio, where she lives with her husband and four daughters. She is currently at work on a novel, Grief and Other Dangers.
Luke de Castro started in Michigan and worked his way across four continents, filling his passport with as many stamps as possible while writing creative fiction along the way. His work has appeared in print and online, including spoken word in Litro, and short stories in Red Weather, Alloy, and 50 Square. He is currently working on a Master’s degree in Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh.
Katherine Enggass is a freelance writer and editor in New Mexico. She recently completed writing a memoir.
Absolom Hagg received his MFA from Boise State University, where he won the Glenn Balch Award in Fiction. He was a finalist in Glimmer Train’s Fiction Open and has been a two-time attendee of the Tin House Writer’s Workshop. He works as a science editor and recently read about the fluid mechanics of bird flocks. He lives in Portland, OR, a city that made him a soccer fan. Please feel free to contact him on Twitter @ajnumber17.
Paul Heinz is a writer and musician in the Greater Chicago Area. A two-time winner of the James Jones Short Story Award in Illinois, his stories have also been published in Sucker Literary Magazine and Prairie Light Review. His personal essays appear regularly online and occasionally on Milwaukee Public Radio, and he performs keyboards in multiple rock bands in and around Chicago.
Graduating in 2012, Lora Hilty earned a Master of Fine Arts in writing from Spalding University in Kentucky. Her work appears in various print and online journals, including Literal Translations, The Battered Suitcase, Newfound Journal, and 94 Creations Literary Journal. Her short-story collection placed in The Blotter Magazine’s Laine Cunnigham Novel [and book-length manuscript] Competition in July, 2014. When she’s not writing fiction, she critiques manuscripts, edits, and teaches writing at Ohio University.
Lee Houck was born in Chattanooga, TN, and, in 2015, celebrates seventeen years of living and working in New York City. His writing includes poetry, essays, short fiction and interviews that appear online at The Nervous Breakdown, Chelsea Station, and The Billfold; in print anthologies including The Outrider Review, Where the Boys Are, and the Australian art book Hair; and in his own old-school b&w zine, Crying Frodo. His novel, Yield, was published by Kensington Books in 2010. More at LeeHouck.com.
Raised in Montana, Idaho, and Oregon, Lindsay R. Mohlere has been at various times a poet, a journalist, railroad gandy dancer and conductor, able bodied seaman, husband a few times, restaurant chef, house painter, advertising entrepreneur, boxing referee, photographer, fisherman and hunter. His short stories have appeared in various magazines, including Gun Dog Magazine, The Upland Almanac, Sportsmen’s News and Timber West. His latest novel, The Grow, is available online.
Benjamin Schachtman is an ex-patriot of New York City, currently hiding out in an anonymous town on the Carolina coast. He’s a fiction editor and contributor at Anobium Literary; his work has appeared in print in Anobium, The Conium Review, the Dig Boston, Confingo (UK), and the Bad Version, and online at Slush Pile Magazine, Pif Magazine, Eckleburg Review, Foundling Review, and others. Visit him at BenjaminSchachtman.com.
Kelsey Tressler is a creative and freelance writer in Tampa, FL. She graduated from Florida Southern College in 2012 and has been writing ever since, passionately and about things that matter to her. Her work has won awards from Creative Loafing, Cantilevers Journal of the Arts and the Florida Press Association. Once, she even participated in a literary death match. For what it’s worth, she won.
Julie Zuckerman hails from Connecticut but moved to Israel twenty years ago, where she works in high-tech marketing and lives with her husband and four children. Her stories have appeared in Sixfold, descant, 34thParallel, The MacGuffin, Red Wheelbarrow, The Dalhousie Review, and American Athenaeum, among others. “The Book of Jeremiah” is the title story of a collection she hopes to publish. When she’s not writing, she can be found running, biking, or baking.