Contributor Notes
Eileen Arthurs’ novel, Lorelei’s Family, is available for Kindle and Nook. Her story, “The Two Madonnas of Positano,” won honorable mention in the Spring 2013 Writers Weekly 24-hour Short Story Contest. “Just Enough,” placed second in fiction, and will appear in Carlow University’s “Ten” anthology. Eileen teaches writing at the Community College of Allegheny County. A member of the Madwomen in the Attic and the Liars’ Club, Eileen earned her MFA from Carlow University.
Jessica Bagwell is a Senior Creative Writing student at Texas Tech University. Born and raised in Lubbock, she harbors a special love for the unique people and culture of West Texas. In addition to reading too much, she enjoys spending time with her three dogs and watching the same movies over and over.
Jodi Barnes’ flash fiction can be found on 100 Word Story, Prime Number, Wigleaf’s Top 50, Camroc Press Review and Fictionaut’s Editor’s Eye. She’s a short-short story finalist on Glimmer Train and Press 53 Open Awards. Her chapbook, unsettled (Main Street Rag), was runner-up for best poetry book in North Carolina. Other poems are in Iodine Journal, Blue Collar Review, and in several anthologies. She founded 14 Words for Love, literary experiments in social activism.
Steven Lee Beeber is the author of The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB’s: A Secret History of Jewish Punk (Chicago Review Press), the editor of AWAKE! A Reader for the Sleepless (Soft Skull Press) and the associate editor of the literary journal Conduit. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, Harpers, Fiction, Post Road, Memorious, The New York Times and elsewhere. He has an MFA in Fiction from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and teaches creative writing and creative nonfiction at Lesley University.
Catherine Bell has published work in Peregrine, Red Wheelbarrow, Inkwell, Coal City Review, Midway Journal, Saranac Review, and other journals. Recently, her story “Witness” appeared in the anthology Amazing Graces. “House on the Rocks” received a New Millenium honorable mention. Rush of Shadows, a novel, was a finalist in a Whidbey Writers Association contest. “Gull” appears in the current issue of Green Hills Literary Lantern. “Incident at Cohasset” is forthcoming in South Carolina Review.
Bronwyn Berg is a Canadian poet, writer, student and single mother to two grown children. She was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta and had her first poem published at the age of ten. Although she has had poetry published, this will be her short story debut. She currently resides in Peachland, British Columbia where she is pursuing a degree in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia.
Barry Bergman fled New York for the Southwest at a tender age, and now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. His checkered career includes stints as a smelter worker, warehouseman, courier, newspaper reporter, magazine writer and editor, and communications professional. Hobbies include reading, yelling at cable news, and tweeting. He hopes to finish writing a novel before he dies.
Daniel Bryant, a Maine physician, is delighted to have his work published again in Sixfold. His stories have previously appeared in Nimrod, Bellevue Literary Review, Hospital Drive, Madison Review, and Crab Orchard Review, and the first chapter of his novel May We Waken One by One was published in Silk Road.
Marc Burgett began writing short fiction when he retired from a career in special education. His stories have appeared in The MacGuffin, The Iconoclast, and The Talking Stick. He owes his development as a writer to the teaching artists at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis and to his circle of writer friends. When not writing, he explores the many paths of retirement with his wife, plays with his grandsons, and walks his black lab, Rowdie.
Tony Burnett is a director of the Writer’s League of Texas and an award winning songwriter. His short fiction and poetry have appeared in national literary journals including, most recently, Tidal Basin Review, Fringe, Fiction 365, Red Dirt Review, The Vein, Toucan Magazine and Connotation Press. He lives rural Texas with his trophy wife where his hobbies include having philosophical conversations with melons, poking wasp nests with a short stick and wandering aimlessly about.
After earning her Master’s degree at the tender age of zero, Liz Cook moved to Korea for a year, where she was most definitely not a member of an elite spy team’s unsuccessful attempt to take down the North Korean empire. She is currently working on her MFA in fiction from New Mexico State, where she eats green chiles with every meal.
Katherine Enggass is a freelance writer and editor living in New Mexico.
Jessie Foley is a Chicago Public Schools English teacher and holds an MFA in fiction writing from Columbia College. Her work has appeared in the Madison Review, Chicago Reader, McSweeney’s, Word Riot, Hypertext, Writer’s Digest, Hair Trigger, the Great Lakes Cultural Review, and several other local publications. She grew up on the Northwest Side of Chicago, where she still lives with her husband. She writes a blog for ChicagoNow.com called Dispatches from the Northwest Side.
Heather Frese received her master’s degree in English from Ohio University and her MFA in fiction from West Virginia University. Her work is forthcoming in The New York Quarterly, Creative Nonfiction, and Rougarou, and has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, The Los Angeles Review, Front Porch, Switchback, and The Southeast Review, among others. Her essay, “Fatigue,” received notable mention in the Pushcart Prize Anthology and Best American Essays.
Maria Hummer is from Toledo, Ohio, and lives in London. She has a BFA in Creative Writing and an MA in Screenwriting. She has worked for an English school in Seoul, a refugee resettlement agency in St. Louis, a taste-testing panel in London, and a youth hostel in Budapest. She is currently writing her first novel.
E. Ce Miller is a writer of both fiction and nonfiction, and her writing life has taken her to Los Angeles, Mexico, Honduras, Brazil, Kenya, Morocco and more. She holds a Masters of Arts in Writing & Publishing from DePaul University in Chicago, where she was previously awarded a Bachelors of Arts in Peace, Justice & Conflict Studies. When she isn’t backpacking around the world she lives in Savannah, Georgia. Writer, activist, artist, fighter, lover.
Gibson Monk was born in China and raised in Libya and the American South. He received his Master’s degree from Boston University after studying abroad in Vienna and Jerusalem. His short stories have appeared in Zahir and The Arkansas Literary Forum.
Karen Pullen’s first novel Cold Feet was published by Five Star Cengage in January, 2013. She’s written short stories for Spinetingler, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, bosque, and Every Day Fiction. She is an innkeeper in Pittsboro, NC. “Something to Tell Henry” was inspired by her long-ago experiences as a babysitter in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Lucy Tan lives and writes in New York City. She can be reached at
[email protected] Slater Welte was born and raised in Texas, graduated from Hampshire College and New York University, lived in New Orleans and New York and Texas, and is now currently something of a vagabond.
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