Kelsey Charles writes poetry and fiction whenever he can. But, of course, time is finite and always seems to be escaping him. He currently teaches English Writing and Public Speaking at Beijing Language and Culture University in China where he lives with his wife and daughter. Despite living in China for four years, he is still learning Chinese.
Joey DeSantis is working towards an M. Ed. at Boston College and will soon be a high school English teacher, somewhere. Maybe one day he’ll get that dream job writing for Nintendo. From substitute teaching to serving as a teaching assistant with KEYS Service Corps, AmeriCorps, working with youth makes his child at heart happy, as does writing poetry and listening to Bob Dylan.
Lane Falcon’s poems have been published in The Cortland Review, Rhino, Brain, Child Magazine, Pank, Word Riot, 2 River View and more. In 2012, she was awarded the Rona Jaffe Fellowship from The Vermont Studio Center. She lives in New York City.
Michael Fleming was born in San Francisco, raised in Wyoming, and has lived and learned and worked all around the world, from Thailand and England and Swaziland to Berkeley, New York City, and now Brattleboro, Vermont. He’s been a teacher, a grad student, a carpenter, and always a writer; for the past decade he has edited literary anthologies for W. W. Norton. (You can see some of Fleming’s own writing at: www.dutchgirl.com/foxpaws.)
David Livingstone Fore is a designer and writer living in Oakland.
Lisa Beth Fulgham is a recent graduate of Mississippi State University’s M.A. program in creative writing and is the Managing/Founding Editor of Blinders Literary Journal. Currently, she is a wanderer and is working on submitting her chapbook, A Voice Raised From the Dirt. She is the former Associate Editor of The Jabberwock Review.
John Glowney has practiced commercial litigation with a large Pacific Northwest law firm, Stoel Rives LLP, for over 30 years. He is a past winner of several Hopwood Awards at the University of Michigan, a Pushcart Prize, Poetry Northwest’s Richard Hugo Prize, and the Poetry Society of America’s Robert H. Winner Memorial Award. He lives in Seattle and drinks a lot of coffee.
Raised on a vegetable and cattle farm in North Carolina, Sara Graybeal is a writer, spoken word performer and teaching artist living in Philadelphia. She is a founding member of the Poeticians, a spoken-word collective based in South Philly, and a member of the Backyard Writers’ Fiction Workshop of West Philadelphia. Her work is published or forthcoming in Tempered Magazine, Apiary Magazine, the Head & the Hand Press, and Floating Bridge Review.
Greg Grummer has been published in many small presses and periodicals, including Hunger, Rhino, APR, Ploughshares, Indiana Review, and more. He is a paper artist and teacher also.
Tim Hawkins has lived and traveled widely, working as a journalist and teacher in international schools, among other positions. He currently lives in his hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan. His writing has appeared in more than two dozen print and online publications, including the Summer 2013 issue of Sixfold. In 2012, he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and published his first collection, Wanderings at Deadline (Aldrich Press). Find out more at: www.timhawkinspoetry.com
Tee Iseminger is a recovering advertising copywriter returning to roots in fiction, with two novels and a short story collection in progress, and is experimenting with poetry—particularly narrative style. She’s an alumni of Squaw Valley Writer’s Workshops, Fishtrap Writer’s Conference, Fine Arts Work Center’s online workshops, and one day will finally finish her BA, 10 years in the making, at the University of Nevada’s creative writing program. She lives with her husband and daughter in Reno.
Lee Kisling is a senior at Hamline University in St Paul, Minnesota. In December 2013, his poetry chapbook The Lemon Bars of Parnassus was published by Parallel Press in Madison, Wisconsin.
Originally from California, J. K. Kitchen is Associate Professor of Medieval History at the University of Alberta (Canada).
James Leveque lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he is both a teacher and student at the University of Edinburgh, and where the city’s energetic support of poetry has provoked much of his writing in this issue of Sixfold. He is originally from Fresno, California.
Jessica M. Lockhart is from Selma, Alabama. She recently completed her MA studies at Mississippi State University, where she currently teaches English Composition.
Rande Mack lives in Manhattan, MT. Sacajawea walked through his backyard long ago. Writing poetry is a way he makes sense of things, a way he prays. Some of his poems have appeared in a few small publications. He won a fellowship for his poetry from the Montana Arts Council.
Mary Mills is a recent graduate of King University in Bristol, TN. She lives in Virginia, in a small town in the Appalachian Mountains, with her husband and their four birds. Her work has appeared in Shot Glass Journal, Four and Twenty, and The Clinch Mountain Review.
Helen R. Peterson, from Eaton Rapids, Michigan, writes poetry and fiction and is coeditor of The Waterhouse Review. Melons and Memory, her first full-length book of poetry, was published in November 2011 from Little Red Tree Press. Her work has appeared in over 100 publications, both nationally and abroad, and she has read at the Bowery Poetry Club, the Out of the Blue Gallery in Cambridge, the Walt Whitman Homestead, and Rio’s in Glasgow, Scotland, amongst others.
Cameron Price is a poet living in Ann Arbor, MI. His poetry and experimental film work has appeared in Humble Pie and Small Po[r]tions, respectively. He is the design and visual art editor at Duende, a new online journal of art and literature.
Anne Rankin-Kotchek is a freelance editor and writer. Her nonfiction has appeared in The Sun, The Mount Desert Islander, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. She graduated summa cum laude from Ohio State with a BA in English. Current projects include a book of poems, short stories, and a memoir. She cannot say enough good things about dogs, and, although an extreme introvert, she continues to build the tender, delicate bridges (she’s certain) connect us all.
Ricky Ray was born in Florida and educated at Columbia University. A non-dualist, he was once a garbage man, a functional bum, and a record label owner. In 2013, he received the Ron McFarland Poetry Prize, second-prize in the Whisper River Poetry Contest, and was a runner-up in the Georgetown Review Magazine Contest. He lives in NYC with his wife and three cats, where they dream of farm life in an undiscovered village.
Phoebe Reeves earned her MFA at Sarah Lawrence College, and now teaches English at the University of Cincinnati’s Clermont College, in Southern Ohio. Her poems have recently appeared in Versal, Third Coast, Quarterly West, and Memorious. Her manuscript, Helen of Bikini, was recently named as a finalist in the Sarabande Books Kathryn A. Morton Prize, and a semi-finalist in the Waywiser Press Anthony Hecht Prize.
Daniel Stewart is the author of a collection of poems, The Imaginary World. Since 1999 he has been a teaching-writer for the Writers in the Schools. A variety of print and online publications have featured his poems, including Educe, Puerto Del Sol, Prairie Schooner, and Rattle. Recent work may be found in the anthologies REduce, and Thrush Poetry Journal: an anthology of the first two years.
Abigail F. Taylor is a student of theology and history. She has had the honour of being previously published in Illya’s Honey and Red River Review. She also served as Script Editor and Assistant to the Director to the gore black-comedy, The Dinosaur Experience (previously known as Raptor Ranch). She is currently working on her second novel and a chapbook.
David Walker teaches English at both the high school and college level. He is the founding editor of Golden Walkman Magazine, and has poetry and fiction appearing in several literary magazines including Drunk Monkeys, Words Dance, and others. He has a chapbook forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. Living in Westfield with a hyperactive cat that puts holes in all his window screens, he is married to the love of his life, Caitlin.
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