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Fiction Editor: Richard Moseley Richard Moseley

Richard Moseley is professor emeritus in English at West Texas A&M University who taught literary courses in modern short fiction, film and literature, Southwestern literature, and the contemporary American novel. His degrees are from the University of Texas at Austin (B.A.) and the University of Cincinnati (M.A. and Ph.D.).

Back to Zero
   by Britt Haraway Britt Haraway

Britt Haraway writes stories, some of which have appeared in the South Dakota Review, Natural Bridge, Moon City Review, Great Weather for Media, New Madrid, and BorderSenses. His poetry has also appeared in BorderSenses. He teaches creative writing at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and is the fiction editor for RiverSedge Magazine.

The Day the War Was Almost Over
   by David Quinn David Quinn

David Quinn is an educator who lives with his wife in Macomb, Illinois. In addition to professional publications for his discipline (Spanish literature), he has published feature articles in The Philadelphia Bulletin and the San Francisco Chronicle. His short stories have appeared in Nocturne Horizons, The Fiction Primer, DownState Story, and Eureka Literary Magazine.

Devil’s Elbow, Kentucky: July 3, 1971
   by Mark Spencer Mark Spencer

Mark Spencer’s most recent novel is Ghost Walking. He is also the author of the novels The Masked Demon, The Weary Motel, and Love and Reruns in Adams County, as well as the nonfiction bestseller A Haunted Love Story: The Ghosts of the Allen House and the short story collections Wedlock and Trespassers. His work has received the Faulkner Society Faulkner Award for the Short Novel, the Omaha Prize for the Novel, the Bradshaw Book Award, the St. Andrews Press Short Fiction Prize, and four Special Mentions in Pushcart Prize: the Best of the Small Presses. He teaches in the MFA program at the University of Arkansas at Monticello, where he is also the Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities.

Creative Nonfiction Editor: Gretchen Johnson Gretchen Johnson

Gretchen Johnson lives in Beaumont, Texas, and works as an Assistant Professor of English at Lamar University. Her short stories and poems have appeared in The Blue Bear Review, The Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, Poetry Harbor, Spout Press, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, and others. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing from Southwest Minnesota State University and her MFA in Creative Writing from Texas State University. Her first book, The Joy of Deception, was published by Lamar University Literary Press in 2012, and her second book; A Trip Through Downer, Minnesota, was published by Lamar University Literary Press in 2014.

The Last Chocolate Bar:
A Requiem For My Father
   by Rosalind Kaplan Rosalind Kaplan

Rosalind Kaplan is a physician. Her primary work has been in the genre of Narrative Medicine. Her work has appeared in Pulse Magazine, the Temple Medical School Alumni Magazine, the anthology Prompted (PS Books, Philadelphia, 2010), and will be in the upcoming anthology of Pulse Magazine essays. Her book, The Patient in the White Coat, was published by Kaplan Publishing (New York 2010). She now enjoys writing literary nonfiction.

Poetry Editor: Katherine Hoerth Katherine Hoerth

Katherine Hoerth is the author of a poetry collection, The Garden Uprooted (Slough Press, 2012). Her work has been included in journals such as Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, BorderSenses, and Front Porch. She teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Texas Pan American and serves as Assistant Poetry Editor of Fifth Wednesday Journal.

Awakening
   by Jules Gates Jules Gates

Jules Gates is an Associate Professor of English in the Department of English and Modern Languages at Angelo State University, where she is the director of the English Education program, and has worked with colleagues since 2002 on the annual ASU Writers Conference in Honor of Elmer Kelton, conducting the conference interview with Terrance Hayes in 2009, and chairing the conference for 2 years when Mary Karr (2010) and Art Spiegelman (2011) were the featured writers. She is the faculty sponsor of Oasis, ASU’s student art and literary magazine. Dr. Gates has published poetry in Amarillo Bay, Blue Bonnet Review, Carcinogenic Poetry, Concho River Review, Voices de la Luna, and Visions with Voices. She has presented poetry and creative nonfiction at the South Central Modern Language Association Conference, the Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers Conference, and the Langdon Review Weekend.

Hallelujah
   by Laurence Musgrove Laurence Musgrove

Laurence Musgrove is professor of English at Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, where he teaches creative writing, literature, and comics. A native Texan, his poetry collection Local Bird is from Lamar University Literary Press. His poems have also appeared in Concho River Review, Buddhist Poetry Review, Inside Higher Ed, Texas Poetry Calendar, Red River Review, San Antonio Express-News, and New Texas. He blogs at theillustratedprofessor.com and cartoons at texosophy.com.

Homage to the Valley Palms
   by Carol Coffee Reposa Carol Coffee Reposa

The poems, reviews, and essays of Carol Coffee Reposa have appeared or are forthcoming in The Atlanta Review, The Evansville Review, The Texas Observer, Southwestern American Literature, The Valparaiso Review, and other journals and anthologies. Author of four books of poetry—At the Border: Winter Lights, The Green Room, Facts of Life, and Underground Musicians—Reposa was a finalist in The Malahat Review Long Poem Contest (1988), winner of the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center Poetry Contest (1992), and a winner of the San Antonio Public Library Arts & Letters Award (2015). She has received three Pushcart Prize nominations, along with three Fulbright-Hays Fellowships for study in Russia, Peru, Ecuador, and Mexico and twice has made the short list for Texas Poet Laureate. Named professor emerita of English at San Antonio College in 2010, she now serves as poetry editor of Voices de la Luna.

Restoration
   by Carol Coffee Reposa Carol Coffee Reposa

The poems, reviews, and essays of Carol Coffee Reposa have appeared or are forthcoming in The Atlanta Review, The Evansville Review, The Texas Observer, Southwestern American Literature, The Valparaiso Review, and other journals and anthologies. Author of four books of poetry—At the Border: Winter Lights, The Green Room, Facts of Life, and Underground Musicians—Reposa was a finalist in The Malahat Review Long Poem Contest (1988), winner of the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center Poetry Contest (1992), and a winner of the San Antonio Public Library Arts & Letters Award (2015). She has received three Pushcart Prize nominations, along with three Fulbright-Hays Fellowships for study in Russia, Peru, Ecuador, and Mexico and twice has made the short list for Texas Poet Laureate. Named professor emerita of English at San Antonio College in 2010, she now serves as poetry editor of Voices de la Luna.

Ode for a Karmann Ghia
   by David Thornbrugh David Thornbrugh

Until he was twenty-four, David Thornbrugh thought Emperor Penguins averaged six foot tall, thus enabling these royal birds to look human intruders in the eye. The resulting shame and embarrassment he felt at the mockery of his peers drove him into the arms of poetry, where he has felt only mildly aggrieved ever since. He thinks of himself as following in the tradition of Archie the Cockroach, whose best work resulted from throwing himself at the keys of a resistant machine, one bruise at a time.

The Seashore
   by James G. Piatt James G. Piatt

James G. Piatt, a retired professor and octogenarian, lives near the ocean and woods, places that coax him into writing poems. He has had poems nominated for Pushcart and Best of Web awards, and published in The 100 Best Poems Anthologies. He has published 3 poetry books “The Silent Pond” (2012), “Ancient Rhythms,” (2014), and “LIGHT” (2016), and over 870 poems, in over 100 magazines, anthologies, and books. He earned his BS and MA from California Polytechnic University and his doctorate from BYU

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