Contributors

Dan Geddes is the author of The Satirist: America's Most Critical Book (Vol. 1) and the founding editor of the online journal The Satirist: America's Most Critical Journal, an astonishing collection of satires, reviews, reviews of imaginary works, fiction, essays, poems, and satirical news. Geddes' satires and critical essays in The Satirist have been widely cited in books and academic journals and assigned in Literature courses in the US and countries abroad. He lives in Amsterdam.

Tom Deisboeck is a published cartoonist and children's book illustrator. He is largely self-taught yet propelled by great mentors like Charles Zembillas (The Animation Academy in Burbank, CA) and John Byrne (The London Art College, UK). Tom's cartoons focus on current events, including political and scientific topics. When he is not drawing for The Satirist, Tom enjoys illustrating children's books. He lives with his wife, son and dog in Massachusetts. For more info, visit: http://tom-deisboeck.squarespace.com/

Martin H. Levinson, PhD, New York University, is a past president of the Institute of General Semantics, book editor for ETC: A Review of General Semantics, and a contributing editor to The Satirist: America's Critical Most Journal. He has published 14 books and scores of articles on topics ranging from self-help fairy tales to social and historical analyses. He is currently a faculty member with the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Stony Brook University, a teacher for the United Federation of Teachers’ Si Beagle Learning Program, which is located in New York City, and a lecturer on contemporary and historical topics for schools and public libraries.

Paul Lander is a TV comedy writer, award-winning columnist and producer. His humor pieces have appeared in MAD, American Bystander, Weekly Humorist, McSweeneys, National Lampoon, Robot Butt, Little Old Lady Blog, Humor Times, Humor Outcasts, Politipod, and more. He's written stand-up material that's been performed on The Daily Show, Real Time, Conan, David Letterman: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize and The DL Hughley Show. Dan McConnell, NCS cartoonist since 2012, published in MAD, Reader's Digest, and others. Online with The Satirist, American Bystander, Weekly Humorist, Humor Outcasts and others. cartoonydan[at]gmail.com

A journalist and playwright, Elaine’s books of American cultural history were published by Little, Brown, Putnam and Capra; her plays by Samuel French, Smith & Kraus and Art Age. Musical plays are An American Cantata; The Would-be Diva; Isadora! and COLE and WILL: Together Again! Non-musical dramas are The Chameleon; Two Margarets; The Trial of Mata Hari and The Nominee. The “I” Word; Gun Show Follies and Secrets of the Showroom are short comedies. She has written for many national magazines; The New York Times and the LA Times. Current articles appear monthly in the aptly-named online journal The Satirist.

Various pseudonymous writers and other contributors.

Michael J. Mangano is an award-winning creative director and former member of Directors Guild of America, who has written for such talents as Jack Klugman, Judd Hirsch, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. His humor essays are currently being published online, and he is working on his first novel (and his golf swing).

Jeffrey Meyers, FRSL, has had thirty-three books translated into fourteen languages and seven alphabets, and published on six continents. He’s published Robert Lowell in Love and The Mystery of the Real: Correspondence with Alex Colville in 2016, Resurrections: Authors, Heroes—and a Spy in 2018.

Don Unger was born at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital and has spent more than fifty years now touring medical facilities across Europe and the Americas. He has published about thirty short stories, a handful of poems, hundreds of journalistic pieces, and done a few dozen radio commentaries for local NPR affiliates. He writes the occasional unpublishable novel as well—one of which was his MFA thesis. He was disappointed to discover that his PhD did not earn him a prescription pad. He accepts that writing is clear evidence of mental illness; he also understands that any relief writing provides is symptomatic and temporary. He has had a headache since 1990.

Stephen J. Lyons is the author of four books of essays and journalism. His most recent book is "Going Driftless: Life Lessons from the Heartland for Unraveling Times.”

Mollie Fermaglich is a satirical essayist who has written for Glamour, New York Times, London Times, Mademoiselle, Village Voice, King Features Syndicate and several other magazines and newspapers. She is the author of Mollie's Rules for the Socially Inept, and two blogs, www.molliesrulesforyou.com and her political satire column for The Times of Israel.

DAVID COMFORT is the author of popular nonfiction titles from Simon and Schuster, Citadel/Kensington and Writer’s Digest Books. His short fiction appears in Evergreen Review, 3AM magazine, Morning News, and Eclectica. He is a Pushcart Fiction Prize nominee, and finalist for Chicago Tribune Nelson Algren, Narrative, and Glimmer Train Awards. His literary essays appear in Pleiades, The Montreal Review, Stanford Arts Review, Free Inquiry, Johns Hopkins' Dr. T.J. Eckleburg Review, and The Philosopher (UK).

Kevin Higgins is co-organiser of Over The Edge literary events in Galway. He has published five full collections of poems: The Boy With No Face (2005), Time Gentlemen, Please (2008), Frightening New Furniture (2010), The Ghost In The Lobby (2014), & Sex and Death at Merlin Park Hospital (2019). His poems also feature in Identity Parade – New British and Irish Poets (Bloodaxe, 2010) and in The Hundred Years’ War: modern war poems (Ed Neil Astley, Bloodaxe May 2014). Kevin was satirist-in-residence with the alternative literature website The Bogman’s Cannon 2015-16. 2016 – The Selected Satires of Kevin Higgins was published by NuaScéalta in 2016. Song of Songs 2:0 – New & Selected Poems was published by Salmon in Spring 2017. Kevin is a highly experienced workshop facilitator and several of his students have gone on to achieve publication success. He has facilitated poetry workshops at Galway Arts Centre and taught Creative Writing at Galway Technical Institute for the past fifteen years. Kevin is the Creative Writing Director for the NUI Galway International Summer School and also teaches on the NUIG BA Creative Writing Connect programme. His poems have been praised by, among others, Tony Blair’s biographer John Rentoul, Observer columnist Nick Cohen, writer and activist Eamonn McCann, historian Ruth Dudley Edwards, and Sunday Independent columnist Gene Kerrigan; and have been quoted in The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, The Times (London), Hot Press magazine, The Daily Mirror and on The Vincent Browne Show. The Stinging Fly magazine has described Kevin as “likely the most widely read living poet in Ireland”. Kevin’s most recent poetry collection Sex and Death at Merlin Park Hospital was published by Salmon Poetry in June; one of the poems from which will feature in A Galway Epiphany, the final instalment of Ken Bruen’s Jack Taylor series of novels. His work has been broadcast on RTE Radio, Lyric FM, and BBC Radio 4.

ANDY COWAN is an award-winning writer whose credits include Cheers, Seinfeld and 3rd Rock from the Sun, and hundreds of cartoon panels for the King Features strip, Bizarro, Rhymes with Orange, Harry Bliss's for The New Yorker and Bliss, Reader's Digest, and Prospect, among others. His memoir from Black Rose Writing, Banging My Head Against the Wall: A Comedy Writer’s Guide to Seeing Stars, was acquired in 2019 by The National Comedy Center in Jamestown, New York, deemed one of Time Magazine’s 100 best places in the world. He can be reached through his website, http://www.andycowan. net/ DAN MCCONNELL, Dan McConnell, NCS cartoonist since 2012, published in MAD, Reader’s Digest, and others. Online with The Satirist, American Bystander, Weekly Humorist, Humor Outcasts and others. cartoonydan[at]gmail.com

Casey Alexander is an English professor living in Barcelona. She has a BS from Georgetown University and an MFA from Emerson College. Her work has appeared in The Satirist and The Normal School.

Fred Russell is the pen name of an American-born writer living in Israel. His novels Rafi's World (Fomite Press), dealing with Israel's emerging criminal class, and The Links in the Chain (CCLaP), a thriller set in New York with an Arab-Israel background, were both published in 2014. A collection of his opinion pieces called Short Takes: American Notes (Scars) appeared as a chapbook in 2015 and his longer stories and essays may be read in Third Coast, Polluto, Fiction on the Web, Wilderness House Literary Review, Ontologica, and Unlikely Stories: Episode 4.

Jennifer Moses is the author of four books — two fiction and two non-fiction. Her short work has appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Southern Review, New Letters, Pushcart Prizes, Best New Stories from the South, Glimmer Train, Commentary, and numerous other publications.

During his day job, Walter Bowne teaches AP Lang and Composition, American literature, and journalism in New Jersey. But at night, under the flicker of candlelight, Walter Bowne attempts to write comedy, first person essays of utter humiliation, and a novel of satire about education that grows by 1K each day. He has been published in numerous newspapers and magazines. Follow him on YouTube at Walter Bowne and "Down with Bowne" on Spotify.

A se­nior lec­turer in film and jour­nal­ism at Penn State Uni­ver­sity, Boaz Dvir is an award-win­ning film­maker (Jessie’s Dad, A Wing and a Prayer).

Edward Stanton’s novel Wide as the Wind won the 2017 Next Generation Indie Award for Young Adult Fiction.

Jonathan Zimmerman teaches education and history at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author (with Emily Robertson) of “The Case for Contention: Teaching Controversial Issues in American Schools” (University of Chicago Press)

K.D. Tay­lor is the au­thor of The Cos­mic Odd­ball, a book of po­etic satires.

Marleen S. Barr’s When Trump Changed: The Feminist Science Fiction Justice League Quashes the Orange Outrage Pussy Grabber (B Cubed Press, 2018) is the first single authored Trump short story collection. Barr is known for her pioneering work in feminist science fiction and teaches English at the City University of New York. She has won the Science Fiction Research Association Pilgrim Award for lifetime achievement in science fiction criticism. Barr is the author of Alien to Femininity: Speculative Fiction and Feminist Theory, Lost in Space: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond, Feminist Fabulation: Space/Postmodern Fiction, and Genre Fission: A New Discourse Practice for Cultural Studies. She has edited many anthologies and co-edited the science fiction issue of PMLA. Her novels are Oy Pioneer! and Oy Feminist Planets: A Fake Memoir.

Tim Koechlin is the Director of the International Studies Program at Vassar College, where he has an appointment in International Studies and Urban Studies. Professor Koechlin has taught and written about a variety of subjects including economic, political and racial inequality; globalization; and urban political economy. He has also published several “less scholarly” essays on politics, baseball, aging, healthcare, Chris Christie, Barry Manilow, and doughnuts.

Jon Reiner is the James Beard Award-win­ning au­thor of the mem­oir The Man Who Could­n’t Eat and the di­rec­tor of the award-win­ning doc­u­men­tary film Tree Man. His work has ap­peared in Es­quire, The At­lantic, The New York Times, The Daily Beast, The Huff­in­g­ton Post, been nom­i­nated for a Na­tional Mag­a­zine Award and recorded for NPR.

Matthew M. Ployhart is a writer of poetry, short stories, and satires. He published his first book, On the Repetition of Human Habits, in 2019. Before then, he began his writing career with the publication of several individual poems through various contests. In his free time, Matthew Ployhart enjoys writing war novels and historical fiction pieces. He hopes readers will be inspired by his work to write their own, and he often turns to popular topics for inspiration.

Lauren LoGiudice is an actor, comedian, and character chameleon originally from Queens. Lauren’s work has been featured by The New York Times, McSweeney’s, BBC, Roma C’e’, Bust Magazine, and NY1, among others. MothStorySLAM Champ. Her 15+ characters make her followers laugh-cry on Instagram @laurenlogi.

David Galef has published humor in places ranging from the old British Punch to Spy and The New York Times Book Review. For over a decade, he’s written a humor column for Inside Higher Ed about a school called U of All People. He’s also the author of over a dozen books. His latest work of fiction is My Date with Neanderthal Woman, which won Dzanc Books’ short story collection award. His day job is professor of English and creative writing program director at Montclair State University. For a little self-aggrandizement, see www.davidgalef.com and @dgalef.

William's humor writing has appeared in Weekly Humorist, Robot Butt and Points in Case, among other places. Coincidentally, it has not appeared in other places as well.

Tim Doyle is an award-winning political illustrator/humorist. “Tyranny, Treachery, the 6th of January: Humor in the Darkest of Times” is his latest effort to bring humor into a dark period of political upheaval. Tim’s previous books were the acclaimed “Welcome to the Swamp: An Illustrated Journey into the Deplorable World of Donald J. Trump” and “2021 A Year in Review: THE AFTERMATH”. His acute eye for detail and resolve to present images truthfully have been developed by working as a commercial photographer/film-maker in a previous career. During this time, Tim received numerous awards both nationally and internationally. By turning his creativity to political satire, Tim has been able to distill the broad range of political misfortune into an accurate portrayal of wrongs within the system. Tim's plans are to keep making the public aware so that change can happen, if only we are actively involved. As the late U.S. Representative and activist John Lewis said, "When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, say something! Do something! Get in trouble! Good trouble! Necessary trouble!"

I'm an award-almost-winning humor writer. Read more on karapanzer.com.

Rfreed is the pseu­do­nym for the Ghostrid­er­writer which is the pseu­do­nym for the Lap­top fin­ger lap­dancer which is the pseu­do­nym for Pa­per­waster which is the pseu­do­nym for Mark Twain which is the alias for Mitch Mc­Connell. Some­times I won­der if I ex­ist at all. In my al­ter ego I have to go out and work a real job. What a drag………

Tony Powers is a born and dragged-up New Yorker. He has written hit songs, acted in hit movies (Jimmy Two-Times in Goodfellas), produced, directed, written and acted in award winning music videos, released an acclaimed CD, and currently blogs at http://barkinginthedark.com. For a complete overview of his bio see Wikipedia. He greatly appreciates any and all who read and/or listen to any of his works.

David Alpaugh’s work has previously appeared in The Satirist, as well as in more than 100 other literary journals from Able Muse to Zyzzyva. He recently completed a musical play with his composer brother, Lewis, entitled: “Yesteryear: The Life and Times of François Villon.”

Chris Iovenko is a writer and filmmaker in Los Angeles with many documentary and narrative film credits. Iovenko’s writing has been published in such places as The Atlantic, The American Prospect, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Details, Spin and The New Republic.

David Sheskin is a writer and artist whose work has appeared in The Dalhousie Review, Puerto del Sol, the Journal of Irreproducible Results, Permafrost, Gargoyle and Notre Dame Review. Among his recent books are Plaid Cats, Art That Speaks and David Sheskin’s Cabinet of Curiosities. A former university professor, he is also the author of The Handbook of Parametric and Nonparametric Statistical Procedures.

Jason Half-Pillow lives in Vicenza, Italy, where the people speak Italian in what sounds to be a Swedish accent. His writing has appeared in many places, including his computer and on unemployment application forms and at the Santa Cruz, California DMV. His writing has also appeared in the Iowa Review, Hobo Pancakes, The Driftwood Press, the Bicycle Review, and The Paris Review, though in the last case, it was his handwriting: he used the inside cover to practice forging his mother's signature. He is left-handed but plays tetherball with his right.

In the course of be­com­ing a poet and psy­chol­o­gist, An­drew Kuhn has sold fire­wood, re­built apart­ments, done aid work, and worked as a jour­nal­ist. His po­ems have ap­peared in Able Muse Re­view, Chi­maera, The Mailer Re­view, and Vend­ing Ma­chine Press; work is sched­uled for pub­li­ca­tion in The Heron’s Nest and Com­mon Ground Re­view. Kuhn also con­ducts in­ter­views with dis­tin­guished po­ets in sup­port of the Ka­tonah Po­etry Se­ries, an or­ga­ni­za­tion that has brought live po­etry read­ings to Ka­tonah, NY for al­most fifty years. Some­times when he’s thor­oughly drenched him­self in a po­et’s work, he shakes him­self like a dog, and af­fec­tion­ate par­o­dies ap­pear on the wall, which he copies down be­fore they dry and dis­ap­pear.

Rebekah Iliff is the founder of WriteVest, a writer's collective specializing in publisher-ready content for enterprise brands and startups. In addition to her client work, she is a contributing writer for Inc. Magazine, Entrepreneur, Forbes, and Business2Community and a guest columnist for The Satirist. Her writing has also appeared in Mashable, HuffPost, Bloomberg Businessweek, FastCompany, and The New York Times. She has advised on books such as Everyone's a Critic, written by NYT bestselling author Bill Tancer, and The Fuzzy and the Techie, recently released by venture capitalist and Presidential Innovation Fellow, Scott Hartley. Currently, she is the lead writer and producer for "Food Roots," a travel-food documentary series set to air on PBS. For her creative work, Rebekah is currently represented by ICM Partners in New York.

Clark Zlotchew is the author of 19 books, among them two thriller novels, the poetry collection A Presence of Absence: Poetry (2021), and three collections of short stories, one of which was an award winner. His fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction have appeared in Crossways Literary Magazine, The American Poetry Review, and many other literary journals in the U.S. as well as abroad. Earlier fiction of his had appeared in his Spanish versions in three Latin American countries and the state of Colorado. Dr. Zlotchew is SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Spanish, Emeritus.

Daniel Goodwin is an award-winning poet and novelist. His writing has appeared in several Canadian journals and newspapers. Catullus's Soldiers, his first poetry collection, won a 2016 Vine Award for Canadian Jewish Literature. His second novel, The Art of Being Lewis, will be published in March 2019.

Chrissy Benson is a lawyer and writer living in New York City. Chrissy is a regular freelance legal writer for The Maryland Daily Record, and her short stories and articles have been published in Romantic Shorts, AltVariety, The Binnacle, and Audio Arcadia. She is currently finishing up her first novel, which she aims to release….soon! A two-time marathon runner, Chrissy starts her days by the East River, where she runs every morning. She lives in Manhattan's East Village with her vegan cat, Sammy.

A scientist by training and a writer by inclination, David R. Bowne, Ph.D. is an associate professor of biology at Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. When not mucking around in wetlands with students studying turtles and salamanders, teaching courses merging ecological science and creative writing, or enjoying quality time with his wife and two teenage children, he can be found tapping away in the dark of his basement office. His fiction and creative nonfiction works are published in Hippocampus, The Write Launch, and The Showbear Family Circus. His scientific articles are widely published in journals with less creative names.

Helga Hewston is a New York born writer, blogger and poet who currently lives in Amsterdam. Her well-received blogsite was created in 2009 and can be accessed at: www.hewdge.com

Mary Louisa Cappelli is a high school, college instructor, and researcher who has written for numerous academic publications.

Tariq Mehmood is a novelist and documentary film-maker, who lives and works between Manchester and Beirut. An award-winning writer, his first novel, Hand On the Sun, was published in 1983 by Penguin (London). His latest, You're Not Proper, a story of two girls struggling in a town seething with Islamophobia, was published in March 2015 by Hope Road (London). He is the co-director of the multiple award-winning documentary Injustice, a story about people who have died in British police custody. He teaches at the American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon.

E. A. Bourland lives in Washington, DC with his wife, their children, and her cat. His web site is https://www.hwaet.com/.

Janet Eve Josselyn is a graduate of Colby College, Harvard Graduate School of Design and Boston College Law School. She is a blogger for The Huffington Post and has published one novel, Thin Rich Bitches. She enjoys collecting advanced degrees and not using the knowledge for monetary gain. To her credit, she is remarkably optimistic despite her obvious shortcomings and lack of talent.

ERIC LICHTBLAU is a two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and the best-selling author of The Nazis Next Door and Bush’s Law: The Remaking of American Justice. His latest book, Return to the Reich: A Holocaust Refugee's Secret Mission to Defeat the Nazis, was released in October of 2019. He was a Washington reporter for the New York Times for fifteen years and for the Los Angeles Times for fifteen years before that. He has also written during his career for the New Yorker, TIME, the Intercept, and other publications. He has been a frequent guest on NPR, MSNBC, C-SPAN, and other networks, as well as a speaker at many universities and institutions. He lives outside Washington, D.C.

Josh Schultz is a ghostwriter, editor, and professional intuitive. You can learn more about his work at his website: www.theliterature.org.

Matt Kolbet teaches and writes near Portland, Oregon. Recently, his work has appeared in Inklette, Inwood Indiana, and 3 Elements Review. His second novel, Lunar Year, will be out in Autumn, 2016.

David Toussaint (Why Jake Gyllenhaal is Too Pretty for Oscar; Our Mainstream Media Love Affair with Hillary Clinton!) is a contributor to the Huffington Post, and the author of four books, most recently DJ: The Dog Who Rescued Me.

Emily Parzybok is an essayist and political consultant living in Seattle, Washington. She currently serves as the Executive Director of Balance Our Tax Code advocating for progressive revenue solutions at a state level. She has been published in The Satirist, The Syndrome Mag and Points in Case. She has work forthcoming in the Uncertain Girls, Uncertain Times anthology, a collection of inspiration and encouragement for young women. She is currently an MFA candidate in creative writing at New York University.

Becky Gar­rison’s seven books in­clude Roger Williams’ Lit­tle Book of Virtues, and Red and Blue God, Black and Blue Church (Pub­lish­ers Weekly Starred Re­view). Fol­low her cur­rent pro­jects via twit­ter @Beck­y_­Gar­ri­son

Melissa Balmain edits Light, America's only journal of comic verse, and teaches humor writing, poetry writing, and journalism in upstate New York. Her work has appeared in The American Bystander, The New Yorker, The New York Times, McSweeney's, The Satirist, and other magazines and newspapers. Her comic poetry collection Walking In On People (winner of the Able Muse Book Award) is often mistaken by online shoppers for some kind of porn. Twitter handle: @MelissaBalmain

Cynthia Gralla is the author of The Floating World, a novel published by Ballantine, and The Demimonde in Japanese Literature, an academic monograph from Cambria Press. She has written for Salon, Electric Literature, The Mississippi Review, The Coil, Entropy, B O D Y, and other publications. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia, and teaches at Royal Roads University.

Lewis R. Tucker holds a PhD in marketing and a BS in management from the Pennsylvania State University and an MBA from Columbia University. He taught at St. Mary’s University, University of Connecticut, Clark University and the University of Hartford, Sultan Qaboos University, the American University of Sharjah and Capella University. His primary interests are in Marketing Management, Global Marketing and Marketing Social Responsibility and Ethics. His work experience includes product management for First National City Bank and service as an officer in the US Army. Finally, he has consulted for a number of companies and obtained numerous research grants.

Anna Murray is CEO of emedia, llc., a technology consulting company, and a writer. Her essays have appeared in Vox, Luna Luna, The Reject Pile, The Daily Mail, Soundings Review, Piker Press, Adanna, and The Guardian Witness. Her recently completed new novel is represented by David Black Agency. Her non-fiction title, The Complete Software Project Manager, was published in January 2016 by John Wiley & Sons. One reviewer commented, “This is a technical book that reads like a novel.”

Basta is the pen name of an academic working in Washington DC. She teaches and writes about Congress and the Executive Branch.

Steven Michaels was a hopeless and optimistic fool until the recent election. He is the author of Sweet Life of Mystery: The Misadventures of a Panicky Private Eye, a parody of the genre in case the title didn’t give it away! He is currently working on an anthology with other local authors in Western Massachusetts, along with independent work on his grandmother’s memoir, which he has vowed not to publish until at least three or four family members forget he exists.

Sam Weller is a two-time Bram Stoker Award-winning writer and the authorized biographer of author Ray Bradbury. Weller new collection of Gothic short stories, Dark Black, will be released this May. Weller is a professor in the English and Creative writing Department at Columbia College Chicago. He can be found on Twitter @Sam__Weller

Grethel Ramos Fiad is a Cuban-American journalist, accountant, poet, writer and photographer. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in a handful of publications, which include South Florida Poetry Journal, Burningword Literary Journal, South Florida News Services and Fat Crab Magazine. As an undergraduate student, she was awarded the John Wolin SJMC Scholarship, the Abel Mestre Scholarship and the Janet Chusmir Memorial Scholarship. She lives in Miami with her husband and her cat.

Max Henry is a New York City-based actor and writer. Yep. He’s one of those. Max began his time in New York at Late Show with David Letterman, worked on the Drama Desk Award-winning Queen of the Night, and recently served as part of the originating cast/devising team for the hit immersive experience ZeroSpace. He also once had a three-way slow dance with Emma Stone and Alan Cumming.

Bruce Lader’s work has ap­peared in The Lit­er­ary Jour­nal of the Kurt Von­negut Memo­r­ial Li­brary: So It Goes, Po­etry, New York Quar­terly, The Blooms­bury An­thol­ogy of Con­tem­po­rary Jew­ish Amer­i­can Po­etry, Harpur Palate, Against Agamem­non: War Po­ems an­thol­ogy, and other mag­a­zines. Cer­vená Barva Press pub­lished Fugi­tive Hope and nom­i­nated “Win­ter Night Fugue” for a 2015 Push­cart Prize. His other books in­clude, Em­brace (Big Table Pub­lish­ing, 2010), Land­scapes of Long­ing (Main Street Rag Pub­lish­ing, 2009), and Dis­cov­er­ing Mor­tal­ity (March Street Press, 2005), a fi­nal­ist for the Brock­man-Camp­bell Book Award. Win­ner of the 2010 Left Coast Eisteddfod Po­etry Com­pe­ti­tion. He has re­ceived a writer-in-res­i­dence fel­low­ship from The Wurl­itzer Foun­da­tion, and is the Di­rec­tor of Bridges Tu­tor­ing, an or­ga­ni­za­tion that ed­u­cates mul­ti­cul­tural stu­dents. Au­thor site: http://​www.bruce­lader.com.

Frank Palmeri taught literature at the University of Miami. He is the author of several articles on satire and two books, including Satire in Narrative: Petronius, Swift, Gibbon, Melville, Pynchon. Ted Wendelin taught Spanish for Translation and Business at the University of Colorado at Denver. He wrote, with Frank Palmeri, "The Long and Despicable History of Voter Suppression," (April 22, 2018), which was republished on newsweek.com and several other sites and is forthcoming from University of Georgia Press in History in the Headlines: Voter Suppression.

Dave Nor­ton en­joys long walks on the beach, din­ner by can­dle­light, and qual­ity satire about the world around us. Fol­low him on Twit­ter @TESOL_­Dave

Michael Gessner has authored 11 books of poetry and prose. He has been a finalist in several competitions including 'Discovery/The Nation,' 'The Pablo Neruda Award,' and North American Review's James Hearst Poetry Prize. His work appears in The American Journal of Poetry, American Letters & Commentary, American Literary Review, The French Literary Review, Kenyon Review, North American Review, Oxford Review, Rue des Beaux-Arts (Paris,) Sycamore Review, Verse Daily, The Yale Journal of Humanities and others. He is a voting member of the National Book Critics Circle. Other publications and information may be found at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/michael-gessner or https://www.michaelgessner.com/

Edward Giron is a produced playwright whose works have been produced in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Ventura and San Diego Counties. He is also a voice over artist, having done work for The Discovery Channel, Magic the Gathering, Cessna, So Ca Lexus Dealers, Chinet, and several theatrical films. His passions include acting on the stage and directing for the stage. He is based in Santa Barbara and Santa Monica, Ca and is in the process of getting a dog.

Alexander Carver is a produced playwright and screenwriter, as well as a published author. His short stories have appeared in ZYZZYVA, Dark Matter Journal, and Foliate Oak Literary Magazine. He writes and resides in Santa Monica, California, where he is recently completed his first novel: O Jackie.

Michael Opest holds a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is an Adjunct Instructor at Fairleigh Dickinson University. His scholarly work focuses on play and games in literary modernism, and has appeared in Joyce Studies Annual,The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual, and elsewhere. He lives in New York City.

Corey Pajka is a Brooklyn, NY-based writer. His satirical work has been published by Points in Case, The Weekly Humorist, Flexx Mag, Robot Butt and The Satirist. His theatrical work has been produced regionally at theatres across the U.S. and in New York at Off and Off-Off Broadway venues. His radio plays are available to stream on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other outlets. He is also a climate change activist, working with 350Brooklyn. He co-edits their bi-weekly newsletter and contributes to their e-magazine Parts Per Million. He is married to another playwright, and they have a Pembroke Welsh Corgi named Sancho Panza. www.coreypajka.com

Alan Lord is a part-time human being, and Karlos Bedoya is an architectural hat designer from Detroit. Alan Lord's book, ATM SEX, is available on Amazon.

I am a graduate of Gettysburg College, Yale University Divinity School, and the Hartford Seminary Foundation, where I earned a Ph.D. I am the editor of The Essential Luther (Baker) and the author of Carevision (Judson) and Provocables (C.S.S.). I have published several articles and over 100 book reviews. I received the Joseph Sittler Award for Writing. Since retiring to Florida in 2001, I have turned my attention to novelty writing projects. Military, Rapid River, Humor Times, Senior Outlook Today , and The Short Humor Site have published my work.

William Craig Rice has worked as a schoolteacher, auto mechanic, college teacher and president, and federal official. His verse has recently appeared in The Caribbean Writer, The New Criterion, and The Road Not Taken. He lives in Washington, DC.

Poet, essayist, and recovering engineer Lisa Rosenberg is the author of A Different Physics (Red Mountain Press). The recipient of a Djerassi Residency and Wallace Stegner Fellowship, she served as a regional Poet Laureate in California, and is a frequent speaker on the confluence of arts and sciences. She in no way confesses to having written confessional poetry.

Wal­lace Run­nymede, a for­mer bog-dwelling sav­age, is a cur­rently iron­i­cally-slick denizen of the An­glo-Me­trop­o­lis. Hail­ing from the dark and dis­rep­utable Celtic-cav­ernous tra­di­tion of dark gal­lows hu­mour, he is ‘deeply of­fend­ed’ by the ig­no­ble main­stream tra­di­tion of phi­los­o­phiz­ing with a ham­mer…he prefers to hu­morize with a bat­tleaxe!

Brandon Cole is a critically-acclaimed New York playwright and screenwriter. Brandon co-wrote MAC (winner of the Camera d'Or at Cannes in 1992) with actor/director John Turturro as well as ILLUMINATA (1998), both screenplays based on his plays. He wrote and directed OK GARAGE (1998), starring Lili Taylor, John Turturro and Will Patton. Brandon's collaboration with Alexandre Rockwell produced SONS (1989), starring Samuel Fuller, William Forsythe and William Hickey, 13 MOONS (2001) and PETE SMALLS IS DEAD (2010). He is the recipient of a New York Foundation of the Arts fellowship in screenwriting/playwriting.

When he is not writing cranky humor pieces, Stuart Green is a Professor of Law at Rutgers University, and the author of several impenetrably highbrow books of legal theory, as well as op-eds that have appeared in various fancy schmancy publications, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Atlantic.

E. Wohn is a female attorney who spends most of her time trying to get the last word. She is the product of a very large and dysfunctional family and is nailing her 19th year of therapy.

Blechner is a writer living in Brooklyn.

Mark Spitzer (So You Want to Be the President) is the author of 25 books, mostly about fish, but he also writes short stories as a way to deal with the nightmare of reality TV taking over reality. He is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of Central Arkansas. More info at www.sptzr.net.

Brian K. Pinaire is a writer, researcher, editor, and former tenured professor of political science at Lehigh University. He holds a BA in politics from Whitman College and a PhD in political science from Rutgers University. Pinaire is the author of THIS IS NOT YOUR FATHER'S FATHERHOOD: a comic memoir, THE CONSTITUTION OF ELECTORAL SPEECH LAW, and over seventy articles in both academic journals and commercial outlets. You can review his published works at www.brianpinaire.com.

Steve Salerno is a widely published essayist and professor of journalism. His 2005 book, SHAM: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless, explored the self-improvement industry’s wider footprint in society. You can follow him on Twitter @iwrotesham

I have taught at the University of Colorado for years and although the attached essay is satirical it is also true. I have many publications of poetry, eco essays and humor. I teach Creative Writing and despair for the future of higher education.

JORDAN WALKER is a journalist in Washington, D.C and Cleveland, Ohio. Her work has also appeared in McSweeney’s, The Smart Set, Refresh Magazine, and Offscreen. She enjoys running for absurdly long distances and exploring the endless frontiers of her Instant Pot.

Jen is a writer, podcaster, educator, mother, and total jackass living in Olympia, WA. There is no greater glory to Jen than making you laugh. You can find her work in McSweeney's, The Offing, The Belladonna, Points in Case, The Rumpus, and many more. Find her complete list of work at jenfreymond.com, and check out her podcast, called I Never Saw That.

Bill Curtis is a Professor of Political Science & Global Affairs and teaches political theory and constitutional law at the University of Portland in Portland, Oregon.

Har­vey Lieber­man, Ph.D. is a clin­i­cal psy­chol­o­gist and health­care ad­min­is­tra­tor, who re­sides in New York City’s sub­urbs. His es­says and cul­tural com­men­tary have been pub­lished in the New York Times, News­day, and other pop­u­lar jour­nals. Af­ter decades of avoid­ing foot­ball in all venues, he has re­cently be­gun en­joy­ing games on TV and feels guilty about it.

Dr. Raymond is a Family and Emergency Physician that practiced in eight countries in four languages. Currently living in Austria with a wife and an old stray dog. When not volunteering his practice skills with refugees, he is writing or lecturing. He has multiple medical citations, and also published stories and poetry in Flash Fiction Magazine, The Grief Diaries, The Examined Life Journal, and RumbleFish Press.

David L. Updike is an editor at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where he works on Big Art Books that very few people read. His fiction and satire have been published in Exquisite Corpse, the Philadelphia City Paper, and Side Show. His features and reviews on contemporary American studio craft appear regularly in Ornament Magazine. He resides in a sleepy railroad suburb with his wife, daughter, and several lifetimes’ worth of unread books.

Timothy Braatz is a novelist, playwright, and professor of history and nonviolence at Saddleback College. His nonfiction includes Peace Lessons and From Ghetto to Death Camp: A Memoir of Privilege and Luck.

Kevin Kiely., Poet, Critic, Author; PhD (UCD) in the Patronage of Poetry at the Edward Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University; W. J. Fulbright Scholar in Poetry, Washington (DC); M. Phil., in Poetry, Trinity College (Dublin); Hon. Fellow in Writing., University of Iowa; Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship Award in Poetry; Bisto Award Winner. https://www.amazon.co.uk › Kevin-Kiely › e › B001JOTTOY https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Kiely_(poet) http://www.kevinkiely.net/

Ken Levy is the Holt B. Harrison Associate Prof. of Law at LSU Law School (http://www.law.lsu.edu/directory/profiles/ken-levy/). After finishing his Ph.D in philosophy at Rutgers in 1999, Prof. Levy attended Columbia Law School, then became a miserable lawyer, eventually escaped to Cambridge, Massachusetts to do a two-year fellowship at Harvard Law School, and finally carpetbagged to the Deep South, where he has been living with his two Chihuahuas and an ever-increasing number of rescue dogs. He writes academic articles, chapters, and – soon – books in the areas of philosophy and criminal theory and non-academic articles that are usually leftist and always angry.

Peter Gregg Slater has taught and/or held senior administrative positions at the University of California - Berkeley, Dartmouth College, Cornell University, Mercy College, and TCI College in Manhattan. His publications in American intellectual and cultural history are widely referenced in both scholarly and popular works, including Children in the New England Mind: In Death and in Life. He also writes short fiction. Email him at revuemasters[at]gmail.com

Carol Poster has pub­lished two hu­mor­ous non­fic­tion books, Ski­ing! and Un­nat­ural Fauna, with Globe Pe­quot and trans­lated Aristo­phanes’ Clouds (Uni­ver­sity of Penn­syl­va­nia Press Com­plete Greek Drama Se­ries) and Plau­tus’ Stichus (Johns Hop­kins Uni­ver­sity Press Com­plete Ro­man Drama). Af­ter many years of uni­ver­sity teach­ing, she has re­cently re­turned to full time free­lance writ­ing. Her most re­cent chap­book of po­etry, Re­turn­ing to Dust, is forth­com­ing from Fin­ish­ing Line Press.

Matthew and Jared were born and raised in Garland, Texas and became friends in middle school. Although we attended different Universities, we have remained besties and continue to work together to make sure we produce the best content we have to offer. Matthew currently resides in California to pursue a graduate degree in an unrelated field with Jared back in Garland for the time being. Matthew has written multiple screenplays, one of which has been produced with others currently in production. Flight Short Film - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bG7U8TFCIQ Other Screenplays - https://www.scriptrevolution.com/profiles/matthew-portman Jared’s poetry has been published in a variety of outlets, and he has worked as a content writer for the past two and a half years. This is our first collaboration with more to follow.

Mick Ó Seasnáin attempts to farm his quarter-acre lot in the small town of Wooster, Ohio while catering to the often unanticipated needs of his non-dog and three rowdy children. His wife tolerates and occasionally enables his creative binges. See more of his work at https://tinyurl.com/OSeasnain.

John Long is a creative director in New York. He has written for McSweeney's, The New Republic, and The Columbia Journalism Review.

Steve Schneider lives in Florida where he follows the exploits of Sunshine State pols with national ambitions. His articles have appeared in The Satirist, Humor Times, Democracy Chronicles and OpEd News.

Josh Rank graduated from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee and has since had stories published in The Missing Slate, The Feathertale Review, Hypertext Magazine, The Oddville Press, and elsewhere. More ramblings can be found at joshrank.com.

Katie Bockino received her MFA from NYU's Creative Writing Program. Her writing has appeared in Barely South Review, Underwood Press, Prometheus Dreaming, and Gandy Dancer Literary Magazine. Katie also is a professor who is obsessed with the Byzantine Empire and most TV show love triangles.

James Klein has been writing since he was an angry zygote in his mother's womb, but he doesn't know what to say in bios. He's referring to himself in the third person now for some reason, which is weird. His satire/humor has been published in Robot Butt, The Haven, MuddyUm, and Greener Pastures.

Karen Rizzo is the author of the novel FAMOUS BABY (Prospect Park Books)—a Los Angeles Times and Zoe Report Summer Reading pick—and THINGS TO BRING, SH#!T TO DO... (Abrams/STC), a memoir of personal lists and the essays and stories inspired by them—a BookSense/IndieBound pick for Best of The Year. Her stories and essays have been featured on NPR and in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Salon, Runner’s World, Beatrice, Publishers Weekly, Fresh Yarn, Brevity, the New York Times anthology TINY LOVE STORIES and LIFE’S A STITCH: The Best of Contemporary Women’s Humor. Her plays have been produced/workshopped at Ensemble Studio Theatre L.A. and EST NYC, Playwrights Horizons Theatre School and New Jersey Repertory Theatre.

Tal Abbady's work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Daily News, gonomad.com and other publications. She teaches at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Madrid.

Allyson Larcom is a writer based out of Boston, Massachusetts. Her previous work has appeared in Counterpoint Magazine. In her free time, she enjoys watching cheesy science fiction shows, playing with dogs, and haunting the green line like a grimy vengeful spirit. Find her on Twitter @ogrewitch

Sari Friedman's writing has been nominated for Pushcarts and she's recently placed stories in The Beloit Fiction Journal, Woven Tale Press Arts and Literary Journal, Blue Lake Review, So It Goes (literary magazine of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library), Ilanot Review and The Satirist. She's won several small awards and grants, taught writing in inner cities, written two (not yet published) novels, earned a MFA in Fiction from Columbia University, begun extended travel in Israel and gotten egregiously attached to several completely uncaring wild cats.

Lawrence Millman has written 17 books, including such titles as Last Places, Our Like Will Not Be There Again, Hiking to Siberia, An Evening Among Headhunters, At the End of the World, and — forthcoming in September from Princeton — Fungipedia.

Ana Worrel and Amy Frances Wright’s lifelong creative partnership was cemented at age eleven after they filmed a documentary entitled “Cheese: The Documentary.” Since then, their satirical articles have been featured in McSweeney’s and Points In Case and their comedy screenplays have semi-finaled and finaled in national screenwriting competitions including the Austin Film Fest, Nashville Film Fest, and Atlanta Film Fest.

Mark Budman is a first-generation immigrant. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Catapult, Witness, Five Points, Guernica/PEN, American Scholar, Huffington Post, Mississippi Review, Virginia Quarterly, and elsewhere. His novel My Life at First Try was published by Counterpoint Press.

Rick Dewhurst is the author of Joe LaFlam mysteries Bye Bye Bertie and My Fear Lady, and the Jane Sunday mystery, The Good Book Club. And he has been known to write imaginary interviews.

Man­hat­tan born M.G. Crisci is the crit­i­cally-ac­claimed au­thor of ten books based on true sto­ries or real events in the gen­res of lit­er­ary fic­tion, mys­tery, love and drama. He is also an in­ter­na­tion­ally-rec­og­nized ex­pert on con­sumer mo­ti­va­tion and be­hav­ior, and a thought-pro­vok­ing East-West so­cial ac­tivist. He has been elected to Who’s Who in the World 21 times. For more in­for­ma­tion, visit www.mgcrisci.com

James Pa­pout­sis is a Toronto-based writer and play­wright whose work has re­ceived nu­mer­ous arts grants in­clud­ing grants from the Canada Coun­cil, the On­tario Arts Coun­cil, and the Toronto Arts Coun­cil. His work has ap­peared in North Amer­i­can and In­ter­na­tional pub­li­ca­tions.

Kristen Van Nest is a writer/actor/director/comedian/ugly cryer based in Los Angeles. Her writing has appeared in Forbes, VentureBeat, McSweeney's, Slackjaw, and the Museum of Americana literary review to name a few. She is a comedian on BuzzFeed, at The Upright Citizens Brigade, runs the writers' room for the Nightpantz Youtube channel, and has a following on Instagram for her original comedic characters. Follow her @KristenVanNest on Instagram, Twitter, and Medium for regular laughs (or to join her troll army).

Tim Daly is a Brooklyn-based writer, who has contributed to Slackjaw, Weekly Humorist, Points in Case, and more. He studied sketch at UCB and currently works as a lowly assistant at NBC. Follow him on Twitter @tim_daly_

Diana Senechal is the 2011 winner of the Hiett Prize in the Humanities and the author of two books, Republic of Noise (2012) and Mind over Memes (2018), as well as numerous stories, poems, essays, and translations. She lives and teaches in Szolnok, Hungary.

The author of four poetry collections, including Bel Canto (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2022), and Hallelujah Time (Véhicule Press, 2021), and a collection of short stories, Anatomical Gift, well as coeditor of the craft anthology Marbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems (University of Akron Press, 2023), my work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Atlantic, and The Believer.

Paul Mortenson is a semi-retired jack of all trades including singer/actor, editor, public school and college teacher, ambulance driver and hospital orderly, human services bureaucrat, radio announcer, historical re-enactor/lecturer, school counselor and poet. He has worked part-time as a professional voice instructor for over thirty years as a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS). While new to the realm of political commentary and satire, he feels fortunate to begin with this particularly anomalous presidential election supplying fertile ground for commentary. An advocate of the “Vacuous” school of thought, he relies on his personally time-tested method of staring vacantly into space for protracted periods of time for his material.

Stephen Faulkner is a native New Yorker transplanted to the Atlanta, Georgia area. Since arriving in Georgia Steve has worked in a variety of industries that include manufacturing, publishing, healthcare, education and entertainment (behind the scenes). Steve is now semi-retired and writing fiction. He has had the good fortune to get stories published in such online publications as Aphelion Webzine, Unhinged Magazine, Hellfire Crossroads, Temptation Magazine, Hobo Pancakes, Serendipity, Liquid Imagination, Dreams Eternal and Sanitarium Magazine. He and his wife, Joyce, have five cats and a busy life working, volunteering at different non-profit organizations and going to the theater as often as they can find the time.

Leyton Cassidy is a comedian and writer based in New York City. She grew up in New Mexico and recently bought a hairless cat off of CraigsList named Darwin. She works for Full Frontal with Samantha Bee and The Rundown with Robin Thede. Check out her literary comedy podcast Classic(s) Bitch on iTunes.

Lisa Fox is a pharmaceutical market research consultant by day and fiction writer by night. Her short fiction has appeared in the following publications: Devil’s Party Press anthology “Suspicious Activity,” Theme of Absence, Credo Espoir, Unlikely Stories Mark V, Ellipsis Zine, and Foliate Oak Literary Magazine among others. She recently won first place in the NYC Midnight 2018 Short Screenplay contest and placed third out of over 3000 writers in NYC Midnight’s 2018 Flash Fiction Challenge. Lisa resides in northern New Jersey with her husband, two sons, and their oversized dog, and relishes the chaos of everyday suburban life.

Jessie Seigel is an associate editor at the Potomac Review and writes book reviews for the Washington Independent Review of Books. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Ontario Review; Gargoyle; Élan; Response, A Contemporary Jewish Review; Daily Science Fiction, Peacock Journal, Every Day Fiction, and the anthology Electric Grace. Seigel has twice received a fellowship from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, was a finalist for a grant from the Speculative Literature Foundation, and a semi-finalist for the William Faulkner Creative Writing Award for the Novel. She lives in Washington, D.C. More on her background and views on writing can be found at The Adventurous Writer, www.jessieseigel.com.

Anthony Manganaro teaches writing at the University of Florida in Gainesville. He received his PhD and MFA from the University of Washington in Seattle. Manganaro has also been published in the J.J. Outre Review.

Jon Michael Kelley is an internationally published author and novelist of literary speculative fiction and has been anthologized with such genre luminaries as David Morrell, Ramsey Campbell, Stephen King, Jack Ketchum, John Skipp, and Thomas F. Monteleone. His short fiction has appeared in a variety of publications, to include the multiple award-winning anthologies Chiral Mad, Chiral Mad 2, and Qualia Nous (2014 Bram Stoker Award Finalist for Best Anthology) by Written Backwards Press. He currently lives in a small gold mining town in the mountains of Colorado.

David Weinraub is a former high school principal who used to spray water on kids smoking cigarettes from the auditorium roof. You can get his new novel "Resistance," a WW II story published by Black Rose Writing, at www.davidweinraub.com or at www.blackrosewriting.com.

Lisa Badner's writing has appeared in many publications, including Mudlark, TriQuarterly, PANK, Fourteen Hills and New World Writing and is forthcoming in New Ohio Review.

Heather Startup earned her MFA from Queens University of Charlotte and teaches English at Adventist University of Health Sciences in Central Florida. Her work has appeared in The Copperfield Review.

Sarah Terez Rosenblum’s debut novel, "Herself When She's Missing,” was called “poetic and heartrending" by Booklist. She has written for publications and sites including Salon, The Chicago Sun Times, XOJane, afterellen.com, Curve Magazine and Pop Matters. Her fiction has appeared in literary magazines such as “Third Coast," “Underground Voices,” and "The Boiler. She was a 2011 recipient of Carve Magazine's Esoteric Fiction Award and the 2015 first runner up for Midwestern Gothic's Lake Prize, as well as a finalist for Washington Square Review’s 2016 Flash Fiction Award. In addition, she was shortlisted for Zoetrope All Story’s 2016 Short Fiction Contest, receiving an honorable mention. Sarah holds an MFA in Creative Writing from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is a creative coach and teaches Creative Writing at The University of Chicago Writer’s Studio.

Marcia Bundy Seabury is Professor and Chair of English in Hillyer College of the University of Hartford, where a part of the fun has been reading her students’ modest proposals and satirical op eds. She has published on literary dystopias, contemporary fiction, the teaching of literature and composition, and interdisciplinary studies, including the book Interdisciplinary General Education: Questioning Outside the Lines. Recent poems have appeared in The Healing Muse, Big Muddy, Naugatuck River Review, Samsara, English Journal, and Teaching English in the Two-Year College.

My name is Chris Jetko, a writer and photographer living in the charming sea-side town of Allenhurst, NJ. My photographs have been shown at The Center for Photography at Woodstock, The Photography Center North West, and at the World Trade Gallery in New York City. I've also been published in McSweeny's Internet Tendency and elsewhere.

Michael Grow is a retired history professor and former director of the Contemporary History Institute at Ohio University, Athens. Retirement has convinced him that not working for a living is much more fun than working for a living.

Catherine Harnett is a poet and fiction writer from Northern Virginia. She worked for the federal government for over 30 years as a Congressional staffer, a Special Assistant at the Department of State and senior executive in the Department of Justice. Her poetry has appeared in numerous literary magazines, and she is the author of two books of poetry. Catherine's fiction has been included in anthologies and journals, and was nominated for a Pushcart prize. She is currently completing a collection of short stories, and has a volume of poetry in the works.

Leonard A. Jason is a professor of clinical and community psychology at DePaul University, director of the Center for Community Research, and the author of Principles of Social Change and co-editor of the Handbook of Methodological Approaches to Community-Based Research: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods. His dad, Jay Jason, was a professional comedian who performed for over 65 years in the Midwest and Catskills.