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. Latest articles appear monthly in the aptly-named online journal The Satirist. [See LA. Times Obituary]

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 six books of essay and journalism and the Substack newsletter "The Revolution Starts Here.”

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).

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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).

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

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.

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.

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!"

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.”

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………

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Flavian Mark Lupinetti, a writer and cardiac surgeon in eastern Maine, obtained his MFA in Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. His stories and poems have appeared in Barrelhouse, Bellevue Literary Review, Cutthroat, The Examined Life, Neon, Red Rock Review, and ZYZZYVA.

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.

Ross West earned an MFA in fiction from the University of Oregon, where he edited the research magazine Inquiry and was senior managing editor at Oregon Quarterly. His writing has appeared in print publications (from Orion to the Journal of Recreational Linguistic); on the websites Embark, Spank the Carp, and Brevity (“Make a Splash! Career Advantages of Taking a Dump on Joan Didion”); and in the anthologies Best Essays Northwest and Best of Dark Horse Presents. He served as text editor of the Atlas of Oregon and Atlas of Yellowstone.

Deborah J. Cohan's first book is Welcome to Wherever We Are: A Memoir of Family, Caregiving, and Redemption. Cohan is a professor of sociology at the University of South Carolina-Beaufort, a contributing writer for Psychology Today online, a frequent contributor to Inside Higher Ed, and is regularly featured as an expert for national media on a range of social issues. She has been cited in: CNN, MSN, Real Simple, Good Housekeeping, USA Today, US News & World Report, Cosmopolitan, Martha Stewart Weddings, Brides, Elite Daily, Utne Reader, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, TODAY, Bankrate, Vox, Slate, Vice News, Huffington Post, Bustle, Romper, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and The Christian Science Monitor.

Ethan Goffman’s first volume of poetry, Words for Things Left Unsaid, was published by Kelsay Books in March of 2020. Dreamscapes, his book of prose poems and flash fiction, is due out in 2021 from UnCollected Press, as is a short book of poetry, I Garden Weeds, from Cyberwit. His poems and flash fiction have appeared in Alien Buddha, Ariel Chart, BlazeVox, Bradlaugh’s Finger, Burgeon, EarthTalk, The Loch Raven Review, Mad Swirl, Madness Muse, Ramingo’s Blog, The Raw Art Review, Setu, Verse Virtual and elsewhere. Ethan is co-founder of It Takes a Community, a Montgomery College initiative bringing poetry to students and local residents. He is also founder and producer of the Poetry & Planet podcast on EarthTalk.org.

Jesse Cramer is a published, produced, and award-winning writer of fiction, film, and drama. His most recent short film CIRCLES premiered at the MAXXI Museum in Rome, Italy and features a cast of autistic actors. His most recent play CROSS had successful runs in New York City, Los Angeles, and Atlanta. You can read his fiction online at WordRiot and Oblong. He is represented by Paul Young at Principato-Young Entertainment. He is also one hell of a tall guy.

Hannah Meyer is a college senior double majoring in Theater and English. Aside from satire, she enjoys writing poetry, non-fiction, and political articles. She is a director, dramaturg, and actor who is spending the summer interning in the Bay Area. As both a writer and a theater maker, she believes that the absurd and the satirical are essential elements in critical commentary and provocation.

Martin Siegel, an associate professor emeritus of marketing at the University of Akron, does the single panel satirical cartoon, “Martino.” Subsequent to the University of Akron, and for more than a decade, Martin has been a graphic design, writing and editing consultant for an educational services provider. In a fun manner, the president of this company would use the moniker Martino in email correspondence. Thus the title. Before entering academe, Martin was a creative director in NYC advertising. Having an MA degree and what was termed “real world experience” qualified him for the post. Martin lives in Silver Lake, Ohio, near both Akron and Cleveland. He has two grown daughters and two grandchildren. His biggest thrill was seeing the New York Yankees play at the original Yankee Stadium as a child. In those days you could walk on the field after the game. Each step, whether first or third base, or the pitcher's rubber or home plate, was sacred.

Ever since childhood, I have been writing. However, it took me about a quarter-century to dare to show others what was born first on a typewriter, now on a keyboard. Meanwhile I earned degrees in history/geography teaching and journalism; since my early twenties I have been working in communications. Yet I'd rather call myself a dubious freelance welder of letters. Who has been publishing literature on his blog since 2010. Now and then, he enters competitions, with varying degrees of success. So far, two volumes of his stories have been published. And the thing he dreads most is hitting the last character before he can tell all his ideas.

Mike Mesterton-Gibbons is an Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Florida State University. He still works with colleagues on game-theoretic models of animal behavior, but the time he once devoted to teaching is now instead available for writing, especially acrostic sonnets, one of which placed first in the Adult Category of the Southern Shakespeare Company's 2020 Sonnet Contest. Other acrostic sonnets have appeared in Light and Lighten Up Online. He also regularly writes limericks, several of which have appeared in Britain's Daily Mail.

Abena Ntoso is a full-time high school English teacher and mother of two, originally from New York City, and currently based in Houston, Texas. She returned to writing after a 20-year hiatus, during which she worked as an educational technologist at Columbia University and later served as a dentist in the U.S. Army. Her writing has been published in The Wrath-Bearing Tree and Adelaide Literary Magazine.

Andrew Genser is a TV comedy writer/producer who has written for numerous shows, some of which you've even heard of.

Martin Azevedo's work has been published on McSweeney's Internet Tendency and RollingStone.com as well as in numerous print magazines.

Thomas Locicero’s poems have appeared on six continents in numerous literary magazines, including Roanoke Review, Boston Literary Magazine, Bindweed Magazine, Antarctica Journal, Poetry Pacific, The Ghazal Page, Birmingham Arts Journal, Hobart, and vox poetica. Originally from East Islip, NY, he resides in Broken Arrow, OK, USA.

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.

Anna B. Wilkes is a current MFA student in poetry at Rutgers-Newark University, where she teaches composition and co-hosts the MFA student reading series. Her work has been featured in Regardless of Authority and Apogee.

Jack C. Doppelt is a journalism professor at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications, founder and publisher of Immigrant Connect and SJNN (Social Justice News Nexus) and author of this failed attempt to appeal to the Republican conscience - If Trump Makes It One Year Without Impeachment, Then Let’s Talk Supreme Court Nominees

Writer in the quaint seaside village of Gloucester, MA.

Born in Chicago in 1946 and raised in Los Angeles, Allan Appel is a novelist, poet, and playwright whose books include Club Revelation, High Holiday Sutra, winner of a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, and The Rabbi of Casino Boulevard, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. His most recent novel, The Hebrew Tutor of Bel Air, is being optioned for TV. His writing has appeared in The National Jewish Monthly, The Progressive, and National Lampoon, and his plays have been produced in New York, Chicago, New Haven, and Provincetown. He has published a total of 14 books, including eight novels, a biography, two collections of poetry, a book on botany, and A Portable Apocalypse, a handy anthology of erudite and humorous quotations about the end of the world. Among his plays, Dear Heartsey, a staged adaptation of the letters of a colonial New Yorker, Abigail Franks, was commissioned by the American Jewish Historical Society, and was presented, starring Anne Jackson and Eli Wallach. Stealing Home, a play about Major Leaguer and early atomic spy Moe Berg, has been developed at the Actors Studio in NYC. His new novel, The Book of Norman , a comedy set in Beach Boys L.A., is about angels, the after-life, and Mormon-Jewish relations. It will be published in 2017 by MandelVilar Press. Allan Appel holds degrees in writing and comparative literature from Columbia University and City University of New York, and he attended the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He has taught writing and literature in the New York City schools, at the City University of New York, and at Upsala College in New Jersey. He has worked extensively as a writer for non-profit cultural institutions, including The New York Public Library, The American School for Classical Studies at Athens, The American Museum of Natural History. He has been the Director of Institutional & Foundation Giving at the Museum of Jewish Heritage--A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York City. For the past decade he has been a reporter for the online New Haven Independent. He lives in New Haven where he has received two state arts fellowships in fiction and his play, The Excommunication of Mrs. Eaton, a bio drama about an early female religious hero in early theocratic Puritan New England, won the first Connecticut Heritage Productions play award.

Jack Belck is a retired university publications editor who recently started writing for fun again. His work has appeared in The Atlantic and Manhunt.

Roderick Vincent’s work has appeared in Writer’s Digest, Ploughshares, The Nervous Breakdown, The Baltimore Post Examiner, StrayLight and Offshoots. His debut novel, The Cause was published by Roundfire Books, December 2014.

Kimberly Lee is a former attorney who happily left the practice of law to focus on motherhood, community work, and creative pursuits. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Literary Mama, Toasted Cheese, Calliope, and Thread, amongst others. She lives in Southern California with her husband and three children, and is currently at work on her first novel.

Wendy Fontaine is a writer in southern California. She teaches workshops about using the science of memory to write memoir. Her work has appeared in Full Grown People, Hippocampus Magazine, River Teeth, Readers Digest and elsewhere.

Foerthe (pronounced forté) is a keyboard coward hiding behind a pseudonym and a VPN. He’s paranoid that his friends, family, and employer will learn that he’s not a radical. He grew up in a red state, lives in a blue state, and sleeps in upper-middle-class-real-estate. His content has appeared in such places as the front page of Reddit and the dust bin of The New Yorker.

Raj Tawney is an American BIPOC poet, essayist and journalist. His work has appeared in New York Magazine, Miami Herald, The Saturday Evening Post and many other publications. He is a featured poet in The Iowa Review’s 2020 National Poetry Month series.

Leita Walker is a free speech lawyer in Minneapolis who sometimes branches out and tries to be funny.

Jules Barrueco is a lawyer, writer, wife, mother, and New Yorker. She writes the Family Jules column for the Observer. She also really needs a nap.

Thomas Hill is a substitute teacher and public-library employee in the Portland, Oregon area. He is married and is the faithful servant of one cat. His satirical short story, “A Day We All Aspire To,” was published at acrossthemargin.com in February 2018.

Molly Kirschner is a poet and playwright. Kirschner’s first book of poems, Hard Proof, was released in July of 2015 from Red Mountain Press. It was the #1 bestseller from Small Press Distribution in June 2015. Her second collection, Notes For Further Research, was released in December 2017 from Anaphora Literary Press. Kirschner’s poems have appeared in numerous journals including the New Ohio Review, and in Italian translation.

Evander Lang is a film editor based in Austin, TX. Films he’s worked on have screened here and there. This is his first published story.

Eric D. Lehman is the author of 22 books of fiction, travel, and history, including 9 Lupine Road, New England Nature, Homegrown Terror: Benedict Arnold and the Burning of New London, and Becoming Tom Thumb: Charles Stratton, P.T. Barnum, and the Dawn of American Celebrity, which won the Henry Russell Hitchcock Award from the Victorian Society of America and was chosen as one of the American Library Association’s outstanding university press books of the year. His novella, Shadows of Paris was a finalist for the 2016 Connecticut Book Award, a silver medalist in the Foreword Review’s Independent Book Awards, and won the novella of the year from the Next Generation Indie Book Awards.

David Eisenbach teaches presidential history at Columbia University. His latest book One Nation Under Sex: How the Private Lives of Presidents, First Ladies and Their Lovers Changed the Course of American History was co-authored with Larry Flynt. He lives in New York City.

Melinda Rooney writes, curates and edits Recycled Fiction (https://recycledfiction.com), a site for 'found' fiction, poetry, essays and art. Her work has appeared in various publications including North American Review, Washington Square and Quarterly West. She lives in Chicago where she writes and teaches philosophy and literature.

Mallika Kiran Karra’s daytime job is to sit in a cubicle and solve Business-IT related problems. She currently lives in Oregon with her family- a husband whom she has known for 18 years and an adorable six-year-old daughter. Originally from India, she has a Master’s in engineering science. However, writing has and always will remain her first love. Having lived in India, United States, and Canada she has developed a unique perspective and loves writing about humor in everyday life. One of her articles titled “Bittersweet Memories” was published in ‘Rediff India Abroad’ magazine. She writes not so regularly at her blog - http://mallikakirankarra.blogspot.com. She goes by Mallika Kiran on Facebook and Twitter. Mallika has been pursuing MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina. She absolutely loves the program and has enjoyed working with the program director Fred Lebron and the faculty. She has worked as an Editor and Social Media Manager for Qu, Queens’ prestigious literary magazine.

Natalie Harris-Spencer is an English writer, digital editor, and blogger living in America. Her work has appeared in the Archipelago Fiction Anthology, CultureCult, The Dark City, The Satirist, the Stonecoast Review, and more. She was selected by Oyster River Pages as one of their Emerging Fiction Voices, and she is the winner of the 2021 Hummingbird Flash Fiction Prize. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing at Stonecoast, and she is the Editor-in-Chief of Aspiring Author. She is currently working on her second novel. Natalie enjoys surprise in fiction. And tea.

Jason Bentsman commiserates with everyone who has not trodden the asphalt of the boulevards with varnished shoes. Humor writing in The American Bystander, Litro Magazine UK, The Weekly Humorist, Slackjaw, Robot Butt, Two Fifty One, MuddyUm. Other literary writings worldwide. His poetic environmental book The Orgastic Future has been called "A 21st century HOWL" by A. Shoumatoff of The New Yorker & Vanity Fair. More info: https://www.linktr.ee/Jason_Bentsman

Colleen Craig has a career once known as a freelance writer, and is now called a content producer. She has created marketing material for companies as diverse as Oracle, BMW, the LA Philharmonic, and Canine Companions for Independence. Additionally, she spent ten years in advertising and public relations in the LA fashion industry. After her daughter enjoyed four years at Yale doing improv and studying a bit in between, Colleen thought 'why should she have all the fun?' And has since begun testing her humor muscles.

Bill Katz: “By day, I am an art dealer of African American art and I own a picture framing business. I have always scribbled thoughts and stories down. I sensed from my early teens, an adventure with observing the absurdities of life and turning them into stories. I have also completed a manuscript on cats written mostly in rhyme and now expanded to include memoirs of my life-long encounters with animals as well as my father, who I also consider to be one of the animals. I now write and perform songs about animal rights and at the tender age of 63, I know that this is my own "Hero's Journey.””

Elizabeth Johnston's poetry and prose--which tend to focus on issues of gender-- appear widely, including in The Atlantic, McSweeney's, Room Magazine, ​and New Verse News, among others. has appeared in a variety of print and online journals and edited collections. Nominated for two Pushcart Prizes, she is a founding member of Straw Mat Writers and teaches writing and gender studies in Rochester, NY.

Kenneth (K.) Myers’ short bio. Occasionally K. writes, mostly junk, but K. tries. K.’s profession, before he retired had absolutely nothing to do with writing, especially satirical and or otherwise. Too, his education is completely superfluous. But, if you must know K. was a computational scientist and has degrees, BA (magna cum laude) and MS in mathematics and mathematical physics. K.’s not snooty about it though. But, it did happen to him so it might be worth mentioning. Otherwise, there’s not much to say about K. He’s just a simple, humble, married and retired man with a dog enjoying the middle to latter years of his life.

Evert Jan van Leeuwen is a lecturer in English-language literature and culture at Leiden University, the Netherlands. His interests lie in the history and development of the popular-culture genres Gothic, Horror and Science Fiction, on which he has published numerous articles. He is currently researching the first history of Dutch-language Science Fiction.

Patrick Kabanda is the author of The Creative Wealth of Nations (Cambridge 2018), with a foreword by Amartya Sen. He has consulted for the United Nations Development Programme as well as the Office of the Senior Vice President and Chief Economist at the World Bank. He received a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy degree from The Fletcher School at Tufts University, and Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from The Juilliard School. A frequent speaker and performer, he continues to lecture and perform across the world. @Arts4Dev

Sean Kenealy co-wrote, co-directed, and co-starred in the award-winning independent feature film, In Action, distributed by Gravitas Ventures. He has fiction published with Clockhouse and AURORE Mag. Sean has an MFA in Creative Writing from The City College of New York, and he lives in Brooklyn, NY with his partner and their three year old.

Bob Ross is the author of Billy Above the Roofs, Karla or The Weight Liftress, and Those We Can No Longer See, all of which are pretty depressing. He grew up in Nebraska in a small town where his father was one of the few remaining Democrats. He is not related to the dead TV painter of the same name. He is older than a lot of people but still relatively cognizant. He writes fiction, poems, and (rarely) essays.

Jacob Buckenmeyer is a writer, educator and former journalist in Washington state. He holds degrees in journalism and creative writing. His fiction has been published in Vine Leaves Literary Journal.

Adrian Chap­man teaches Eng­lish lit­er­a­ture for Uni­ver­sity of Notre Dame and Florida State Uni­ver­sity at their cen­tres in Lon­don, Eng­land. In ad­di­tion to his aca­d­e­mic work, he has pub­lished fic­tion in Ars Med­ica, has a short story up­com­ing in The Jour­nal of Med­ical Hu­man­i­ties, and has had verse pub­lished by Uni­ver­sity of Glas­gow.

Charles Skold is a graduate student at Harvard, working towards a Master of Theological Studies and a Master in Public Administration. He is from Freeport, Maine, and believes in the audacious claim that every person is a human being.

Christine Stevens teaches, performs and writes in Western Massachusetts. Her work can be found on McSweeney’s Internet Tendency.

Jennie Young writes, teaches writing, and directs the Writing Foundations program at University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Her work can be seen in McSweeney's, Slackjaw, HuffPost, InsiderHigherEd, and elsewhere. Follow her on Medium at https://medium.com/@jennieyoung.

Thalia Ostendorf is a Dutch-Surinamese writer and cultural critic, and co-founder of Chaos Press (Uitgeverij Chaos), the only intersectional feminist publishing house in the Netherlands. She is currently conducting her PhD research at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. Her research focuses on war literature and its influence on contemporary peace activism and remembrance practices in the UK and the US. Ties Dams is an essayist and political theorist based in the Netherlands. He teaches, writes and consults on geopolitical strategy. He authored a book on the life and rule of Xi Jinping, titled De Nieuwe Keizer (Prometheus, 2018). He was educated in Utrecht, Xiamen, London and Hong Kong.

Brian Huba teaches 12th-Grade English in Upstate New York. His Op-Eds & essays have appeared on Yahoo.com, in the Sports Column, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, the Democrat & Chronicle, the NY Journal News, the Syracuse-Post Standard, the NY Daily News, and the Utica Observer-Dispatch. Brian’s fiction has been published on 101 Words, in Reed Magazine, The Griffin, Down in the Dirt, Literary Juice, and The Storyteller.

Akash Pandey is a creative person currently pursuing his Retail Analyst job, alongside continuing Humour Article writing. His work has been published in different platforms including "Youth Ki AWAZ", and he takes part in the rising Hip Hop culture (innovating new steps in Breaking and Cap Tricks) in the streets of Trivandrum, India.

Michael Chaney has been published in Michigan Quarterly Review, Fourth Genre, Los Angeles Review, Minnesota Review, and Prairie Schooner. He lives in Vermont. His latest book on comics is Reading Lessons in Seeing (Mississippi, 2017).

Armed with degrees from Duke University and the University of Michigan Law School, Bob Waldner moved to New York City many years ago to seek his fortune. Not being an adept fortune-seeker, he started writing fiction. His short stories have appeared, or are scheduled to appear, in The Saturday Evening Post, Pinball, theEEEL and Mulberry Fork Review. He continues to practice corporate law in Manhattan, where he lives with his wife, Erinn, and his two daughters, Maureen and Madeleine. You can find him on the web at www.bobwaldnerbooks.com.

Stacey Woods is a reg­u­lar con­trib­u­tor to Es­quire, where she wrote the monthly Sex/​Hu­mor col­umn for over a decade. For­merly, she was a cor­re­spon­dent on The Daily Show with Jon Stew­art, she has pub­lished a mem­oir (I, Cal­i­for­nia, Scrib­ner), and has nu­mer­ous tele­vi­sion and jour­nal­ism cred­its. She also plays the char­ac­ter Tri­cia Thoon on Ar­rested De­vel­op­ment.