Author Bios

ISSUE FIVE, Winter 2015

Featured Poetry

Clare Holman-Hobbs

Frank Praeger

Theo Martin is a musician from the UK and a philosophy graduate.

Fiona Sinclair ‘s first full collection Ladies who Lunch was published last year by Lapwing Press, Belfast. She is the editor of the on line poetry magazine Message in a Bottle.

Holly Day is a housewife and mother of two living in Minneapolis, Minnesota who teaches needlepoint classes for the Minneapolis school district and writing classes at The Loft Literary Center. Her poetry has recently appeared in Hawai’i Pacific Review, Slant, and The Tampa Review, and she is the 2011 recipient of the Sam Ragan Poetry Prize from Barton College. Her most recent published books are “Walking Twin Cities” and “Notenlesen für Dummies Das Pocketbuch.”

Peter Buckley is a writer and painter from Leicester, England. His work has appeared online, in the journals Madelaine and Pomegranate, and in print in Canada’s The Feathertale Review. His first self-published collection of poems and stories is called “Peter And The Hare’s Fireside Companion” and is available now from Amazon. He is the author of the weblog, Peter And The Hare (http://peterandthehare.wordpress.com) and has contributed non-fiction articles to Layabozi and others. He has completed a post-graduate degree in Film Studies. He enjoys travelling, and delights in strange music, cute animals, adventure, magic and cappuccino.

Kevin Heaton is originally from Kansas and Oklahoma, and now lives and writes in South Carolina. His work has appeared in a number of publications including: Guernica, Raleigh Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Vinyl Poetry, The Adroit Journal, and The Monarch Review. He is a Best of the Net, Best New Poets, and three-time Pushcart Prize nominee.

John Grey is an Australian born poet. He has been recently published in Slant, Southern California Review and Natural Bridge with work upcoming in the Kerf, Leading Edge and Louisiana Literature.

 

Featured Fiction

Jacob Richardson

M.E. McMullen

Allen Kopp lives in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He has over a hundred short stories appearing in such diverse publications as The Penmen Review, Belle Reve Literary Journal, A Twist of Noir, Burial Day Books, Dew on the Kudzu, Short Story America, Offbeat Christmas Story Anthology, Skive Magazine, Creaky Door Magazine, Gothic City Press, Churn Thy Butter, Wordhaus, Grey Wolfe Publishing, Back Hair Advocate, Typehouse Magazine, Gaia’s Misfits Fantasy Anthology, Through the Gaps, and many others. His Internet home is: www.literaryfictions.com