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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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!"

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.

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.”

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Scott Levy teaches in the Writing Program at Chicago's famed Second City Training Center. He was a founding member of the acclaimed satire, The Best Church Of God, named Best Comedy Revue by The Chicago Reader, 2010. His story Trading Jackets was recently published in the May edition of Five On The Fifth. A collection of his short audio plays can be found at www.nightmedicine.com

Danny Neary is a Chicago based comedian and writer. He’s the creator of the web series “Long Term” and can be seen Saturday nights at 10 PM in the De Maat Theater as part of the Chicago Comedy Hour.

A just retired high school English teacher and Principal who has also taught at the collegiate level, Ken Hogarty has had two short stories published since. He has also had over ten satires published during the last five months as he's been sheltered in place.

Lily Fitzpatrick is a student and award-winning flash fiction writer in Rochester, NY. Her hair has caught fire twice, but only once at The Four Seasons.

Steven F. Forleo is a professor of English at the Community College of Rhode Island, and adviser to the student newspaper, The Unfiltered Lens.

Jonathan Hester is a polymer scientist living in Wisconsin. He is concerned about global climate change because he has kids and wishes them not to inherit an Earth irreparably harmed even as we possess the technologies to avoid the harm. He maintains a science-based website and blog about climate change at rescuethatfrog.com.

Arthur Carey is a former newspaper reporter and journalism instructor who lives in the San Francisco Bay area. He is a member of the California Writers Club. His fiction has appeared in print and Internet publications, including Pedestal, Funny Times, Clever Magazine, Suspense, Abstract Quill, and Still Crazy. He is the author of “The Gender War,” a humor novel about a contest to determine which sex is superior.

Pamela Jane is the author of thirty children’s books, and a memoir. Her essays have been published in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The New York Daily News, Writer’s Digest, and The Writer. @austencats

Steven Wexler is Professor of English at California State University, Northridge, where he teaches courses in rhetoric, writing studies, critical theory, and popular culture.

Louis Greenstein is the author of the novels The Song of Life (Sunbury Press, 2021) and Mr. Boardwalk (New Door Books, 2014). For television, Louis has written for Nickelodeon's EMMY-winning show Rugrats. A recipient of a Sunny Award for fiction and a Pennsylvania Council of the Arts playwriting fellowship, three of his one-act plays were commissioned by Theatre Ariel, published by Dramatic Publishing, and produced many times in the U.S. and abroad

Peter Fenton is the author of three books: Eyeing the Flash: The Making of a Carnival Con Artist (Simon & Schuster); Truth or Tabloid? You Decide! (Three Rivers Press); I Forgot to Wear Underwear on a Glass-Bottom Boat (St. Martin's Press). He lives in Eugene, Oregon.

Si­mon Apfel was born into ob­scu­rity, the son of a frozen peas im­porter and a wash­ing ma­chine. Even from a young age, he seemed des­tined for great­ness, uri­nat­ing on an elec­tric wall panel, and short-cir­cuit­ing an en­tire block of flats. His fame soon spread ex­cre­men­tally. As a teenager, Apfel was in­tro­duced to Joyce, Dos­toyevsky and Michel Houlle­beq, and his self-con­fi­dence took a knock from which it never quite re­cov­ered. Nev­er­the­less, he grad­u­ally pro­gressed from be­ing a rough and raw tal­ent to be­come the pol­ished piece of cos­tume jew­ellery cur­rently on dis­play. Apfel de­scribes his writ­ing style as “cin­e­matic”. His favourite pas­times in­clude scratch­cards, pi­geon-kick­ing and pro­cre­ation. He also en­joys star-gaz­ing, hair-rais­ing, head-scratch­ing and chin-wag­ging. Apfel is se­nior writer at Mama Cre­ative.

Sara Wren is a Canadian stand-up comedian who recently won the 2018 'Notable Stand-up Comedian Award' at The Notable Awards held in Toronto. She was featured in NYC's Vulture and Splitsider as a comic to follow on social media for her daily jokes. She can be seen on stages across North America, such as: The Comedy Store in Los Angeles, Gotham Comedy Club in New York City, Laughing Skull Lounge in Atlanta and Yuk Yuk's clubs in Canada. When she's not busy touring she loves to spend time with her Puggle Bentley.

Michael Guevarra lives in Southern California with his dog, Wrex. When not stressing about literature midterms or the existential dread of being a space-time tourist on a giant rock flying through the cosmos, he writes political satire and enjoys making low-quality leftist memes. His short fiction has been featured in The Satirist.

By day T. K. Marnell is an IT Manager for a consortium of academic libraries in the Pacific Northwest. By night she’s a writer of contemporary fiction and an aficionado of cakes, cats, and East Asian dramas.

Sarah Totton is a humorist, short story author, and accidental poet. Her work has appeared at McSweeney's, The Walrus, The Rumpus, and The American Bystander. She is a two-time finalist in the Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest and a first-place winner in The New Yorker's Caption Contest.

Scott Gordon is a fiction writer and independent filmmaker. Most recently Scott was a finalist in Glimmer Train‘s short story award for New Writers and has stories that appeared or will shortly appear in the Green Hills Literary Lantern (GHLL), Pennsylvania Literary Journal, and Mobius Magazine. In addition to writing fiction, he has written and directed numerous films and television series, including ‘Til Death Do Us Part, Searching for Haizmann, and American Authors of the Twentieth Century.

Julie Homi is an avocational satirist who devoured every dystopian novel she could lay her hands on as a child, never realizing she would one day be living in one. In addition to a Master’s degree in Music Composition, Julie earned a Masters of Library and Information Science, which gave her mad Googling skills for stalking old boyfriends. She makes her living as a musician, currently touring the U.S. and Canada with elitist musical theatre types.

Stand-up comedian Shaun Eli has rightfully been called one of America’s smartest comics. Whether it’s a story about dining with a vegetarian or successfully fighting a parking ticket, master storyteller Shaun Eli shows you that there’s hilarity in the ordinary if you approach life with a comedic warp. Job interviews? Serving on a NYC criminal jury? How about the Ten Commandments? For just about anything he’s experienced Shaun has a hilarious story at the ready. You can watch his videos and read some of his writings, including satirical political essays and hundreds of jokes he’s written for late-night television, on his web site BrainChampagne.com where his slogan “Brain Champagne: Clever Comedy for Smart Mindssm” rings true. (please make sure the sm in the last sentence is in superscript or subscript.)

Dawn Corrigan's poetry and prose have appeared widely in print and online. Her masthead credits include Western Humanities Review, Girls with Insurance, and Otis Nebula, where she currently serves as assistant editor. She works in the affordable housing industry and lives in Myrtle Grove, FL.

James Fable is a journalist from the UK who enjoys satirising himself. This is best seen in his surrealist short story 'Turbine Tim' , which is due to be published in The Dark Lane Anthology Vol. 12 in summer 2022.

Kelly is a freelance writer from Montréal, QC. She's aesthetically, mentally and spiritually a lot like an Oddbody Furby. Check out more of her stuff here https://medium.com/@heathsheehankelly and https://www.robotbutt.com/author/kelly-sheehan-heath/

Justin O’Brien is a now-retired survivor of the ad industry and a free-lance writer with scores of published fiction, non-fiction and op-ed articles on diverse subjects in such publications as The Chicago Sun-Times, The Minneapolis Review of Baseball, Elysian Fields Quarterly, Chicago Parent, Sing Out!, Living Blues, The UIC Alumni magazine, The Typographer, and Southern Graphics. In addition he has contributed to The Encyclopedia of the Blues (Routledge Press), Armitage Avenue Transcendentalists (Charles H. Kerr) and Base Paths (William C. Brown). He is currently working on a memoir of the 1968 Democratic Convention riots.

Kathleen Kraft's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in many journals, including Five Points, Sugar House Review, and Gargoyle. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize three times, and her chapbook, Fairview Road, was published in 2015 by Finishing Line Press. She lives in Jersey City, NJ, where she is a freelance writer and yoga teacher.

Matt Nagin is a writer, educator, filmmaker, and standup comedian. His humorous writings have been published in numerous journals, among them The Humor Times, Points In Case, and The Higgs-Weldon. His first comedic short film, "Inside Job," has won acting and directing awards on the festival circuit. Matt resides in NYC where he performs standup regularly and works hard to avert an onslaught of incoming tomatoes.

Elke Coenders is an up and coming writer from Kentucky. She is an opinionated junior and is a part of the SCAPA Literary Arts Program. The bulk of her writing can be found in the Young Women Writers Anthology and the HolyMoly blog. She enjoys traveling the world and has learned that satire can be found anywhere.

Freelance journalist and editor Dana Cook has been mining autobiographies and memoirs for 25 years. His collections of encounters with the well-known--literary, political, show biz--have appeared in a wide range of publications including Salon, The Globe and Mail, The Hemingway Review, Nerve and Finest Hour, the journal of the International Churchill Society. A native of Burlington, Vermont, he now resides in Toronto, Canada. Contact: cooks.encounters(at)gmail.com

M.J. Coreil is an anthropologist currently living in Portland, Oregon who writes satires, essays and commentaries about contemporary society and culture. Some of these are found on her website tropicofcandor.com. Her essay “Soul Repair” recently appeared in Oregon Humanities.

Asoka Mendis is an Emeritus Professor of Space Physics at the University of California, San Diego. This is his first effort at writing a short story and he hopes that it is not his last!

Keith is a consumer protection attorney for the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. Before graduating from the University of Michigan Law School, he toured with a professional comedy troupe, writing and performing sketch comedy. He published his debut novel, Life Indigo (formerly titled Kasper Mützenmacher’s Cursed Hat) with Curiosity Quills Press in 2017. His forthcoming novel, Fate Accompli: The Water Nymph Gospels, Book 1, will be published by Ellysian Press in 2021.

I have been published in The Lindenwood Review, Tales to Terrify, and in the anthologies Shattered Space (Tacitus Publishing), Muffled Scream, Vol.1: Corner of the Eye (DAOwen Publishing) and Emerging Writers: An Anthology of Fiction (Z Publishing). My short film work has won several awards, including The Spotlight Award at The Stephenville Fright Fest (Buy In, 2019).

Sona Lea Dombourian teaches Ancient and Modern World Literature, as well as the Hebrew and Christian Bibles as Literature at Moorpark College, in Southern California.

Alison Stellner is a professional content writer and mother of two adult children. By day, she is an Orthopedic Exercise Specialist who brings health and wellness to NASA employees. With muscles pumped and stretched, she retreats to her computer and daily feeds her soul through creative writing via her inspirational blog Daily Perspectives on Facebook and YouTube.

Zeke Sadie lives in a scenic coastal town with his wife and daugh­ters. He was once a Guggen­heim Fel­low. His hob­bies in­clude doo­dling, com­puter-as­sisted draw­ing, Java pro­gram­ming lis­ten­ing to mu­sic, walk­ing on the beach, cy­cling, and work­ing out at the gym.

Candy Shue holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of San Francisco. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Washington Square, Drunken Boat,sparkle + blink, Works & Days Quarterly, Versal, Flock, Storyscape, Paragraph and other journals. A Kundiman Fellow, she has received support from the Provincetown Fine Arts Workshop and the Vermont Studio Center. Her photography and poetry were featured in the 92nd Street Y’s #wordswelivein project and she has also collaborated with the composer Jerry Gerber on a musical poem, “Lucid: Dream For” for his recent CD release, Virtual Harmonics. Candy has read at LitCrawl, Quiet Lightning, Naropa, Under the Influence, Beast Crawl, and other venues, and has performed her poetry at Beyond Words: Jazz and Poetry.

Evan O’Sullivan is a video producer and comic performer best known for his creation Evan O’Television (http://www.evanotv.com/comedy) and as one half of the electronic music group the Bad Mancinis (http://www.badmancinis.com).

Ali-Asghar is a British-American comedy writer based in New York City and is a fellow at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. His work has appeared in The Independent and BuzzFeed. He tweets at @AbediAA.

T.H. Cee has had numerous stories published in the following literary magazines: New Praxis, Oddville Press, Black Fox, Humor Times, Breaking Rules Publishing, and Horror, Sleaze, Trash. He currently lives in Clearwater, Fl and is in the final stages of completing his first novel, an end of days sci-fi thriller, which takes place in three different time periods and on two different continents. It incorporates the occasional alien threesome and a brief re-writing of the New Testament that will probably get him excommunicated.

Aidan Anthony is a senior majoring in Spanish and Economics at Tufts University. He has published several short stories. David Anthony is a Professor of American Literature at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He is the author of various works of literary criticism, and the novel Something for Nothing (Algonquin).

D.J. Rosenthal is an English professor at a midwestern university and is not always serially monogamous with her manuscripts.

Chris Fitzpatrick’s first collection of poetry Poetic License in a Time of Corona (21st Century Renaissance) was published in May 2022. Richard M. Berlin is the author of five collections of poetry. His most recent collection is Tender Fences (Dos Madres Press).

SaraKay Smullens (www.sarakaysmullens.com) is a Philadelphia psychotherapist, activist and best-selling author of Whoever Said Life Is Fair?: A Guide to Growing Through Life’s Injustices and Setting Yourself Free: Breaking the Cycle of Emotional Abuse in Family, Friendships, Work, and Love. Thought of as serious, SaraKay is hard at work on her book on BurnOut and SelfCare, to be published by NASW Press in 2015. Once, however, when she wore a scopolamine patch to combat severe sea-sickness, she got on a dining table in an outdoor Caribbean restaurant, told jokes, and sang “True Love.” She remembers none of it. Due to her contacts, she may be reporting further.

Dave Cowen is the author of the timely comedic history book, FAKE HISTORY!, as well as the Amazon Best Seller in political humor, The Trump Passover Haggadah. He has also written humor for The New Yorker and McSweeney's Internet Tendency.

Katherine Bergeron's writings have been published by Queen Mob’s Teahouse and Circlet Press. She is also a regular contributor to Storytime at the Ape's Nest, Boston's monthly showcase of weird tales with live noise music accompaniment. Updates on Ms. Bergeron can be found on her website DameCore.com. She lives in the Greater Boston area.

Ash Kaul is a Kashmiri writer and poet. He contributes a political satire column in LITRO and enjoys writing historical fiction. He is giving final touches to a historical epic and to a literary historical set in the conflict zone of Kashmir. He lives in India with his wife and daughter. He can be contacted at laughing ashes(at)gmail(dot)com.

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.