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PURCHASE ISSUE 3 (print copy)
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Gregory Ormson
has been named recipient of the
2017 Eastern Iowa Review Longform Lyric Essay Award for "Midwest Intimations"
Paula Marafino Bernett
2017 Eastern Iowa Review Longform Lyric Essay Honorable Mention
for "The Smallest Leaning Begins ..."
&
Kyle Owens
will receive the
2017 Eastern Iowa Review Odd Story Prize
for "Testament"
has been named recipient of the
2017 Eastern Iowa Review Longform Lyric Essay Award for "Midwest Intimations"
Paula Marafino Bernett
2017 Eastern Iowa Review Longform Lyric Essay Honorable Mention
for "The Smallest Leaning Begins ..."
&
Kyle Owens
will receive the
2017 Eastern Iowa Review Odd Story Prize
for "Testament"
Editor's Note
ISSUE 3 - 2017 - Out of 630 written submissions, we chose the following 20 authors for this issue:
Chelsea Ardle is a writer, Pennsylvania-native, Ohio-transplant, and explorer, by all accounts. She received her MFA degree from Chatham University and is the assistant editor of Vagabond City Literary Journal. Her work has been published in matchbook literary magazine, Public Pool, and Hippocampus. She enjoys vistas that make her feel small, exploring places in a state of recovery, and studying the science of the perfect pancakes.
Paula Marafino Bernett's poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, Clackamas Literary Review, The Louisville Review, Rattle, and Whiskey Island, among others. Her lyric essay "Digression and Memory, The Handmaiden Effect," and a companion essay, "Four Hands Improvising on a Piano" appeared in Fourth Genre. She is the recipient of the St. John’s College 2011 Essay Prize, and holds an M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and an M.A. from St. John’s College.
Jane Harrington lives in southern Appalachia, where she teaches writing and literature at Washington & Lee University. She has written bestselling books for young adults (Scholastic, Lerner) and her literary fiction and creative nonfiction have been published in a number of periodicals, including Chautauqua, Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Circa, Irish America, Copperfield Review, Claudius Speaks, and Portland Review. Her short fiction will be published in the collection Appalachian Nature (West Virginia UP, 2018). Jane has researched extensively in Ireland, and she is a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA).
Amaris Feland Ketcham earned her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the Inland Northwest Center for Writers at Eastern Washington University. She has recently been published in Creative Nonfiction, Eleven Eleven, the Los Angeles Review, the Rumpus, and the Utne Reader. Her teaching interests include creative writing, fine arts, graphic design, and print and digital production. She currently serves as the Faculty Advisor for Scribendi, the Honors College and Western Regional Honors Council literature and arts magazine.
Halee Kirkwood is an MFA student at Hamline University. Kirkwood has poems published in the online sci-fi journal Strange Horizons, and has poetry forthcoming in Cream City Review. Kirkwood has previously worked on the editorial publication Aqueous Magazine, a publication devoted to sharing the literature, visual art, and performing arts of the Lake Superior region. Kirkwood has also written for the online magazine The Body Is Not An Apology.
Sara Kirschenbaum is a writer and artist in Portland, Oregon. She received her MFA at Antioch University in 1999, and has since studied with Karen Karbo (2006), Abigail Thomas (2007), Ann Hood (2011, 2012), Jo Ann Beard (2014), Steve Almond (2014), and Ariel Gore (2011, 2015, 2016). She has been published in Calyx, Fiction International, J Journal, Kalliope, Mothering Magazine, The Oregonian, Poetica, Portland Parent, the Portland Tribune, Hip Mama, and other publications. She has been a guest commentator for NPR’s Marketplace and has published on Salon.com and the Tin House Blog. She has written a memoir about her experience with postpartum OCD. In addition to writing, Sara Kirschenbaum works with clay, photography, drawing, and performance. She can be reached through her website: sarakirschenbaum.com, or at [email protected].
Joseph Labriola teaches writing and rhetoric at Stony Brook University and manages their writing program's blog, among others.
Cindy Lamothe is a biracial Honduran-American writer with an international background in Journalism and Communications. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in various literary journals including Far Away Places, Fiction Southeast, Guernica Daily, Hunger Mountain, The Manifest-Station, The Rumpus, Tiferet Journal, The Weeklings, among others. She currently lives in Antigua, Guatemala with her loving husband and small toddler son. Find her on Twitter at @CRLamothe or at her website cindylamothe.com. Cindy's "You Will Have a Son" has been nominated by EIR for a 2018 Pushcart Prize.
Andrea Marcusa is a fiction and essay writer. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Epiphany, River Styx, Ontario Review, New South, Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times and other publications. A four-time Pushcart Prize nominee, she was a finalist in the New Letters essay and Ruminate’s fiction competitions. Learn more about Andrea Marcusa’s work at andreamarcusa.com. Andrea's "Boulevard Mohamed Bouazizi*; Sidi Bou Zid, Tunisia, 2016" has been nominated by EIR for a 2018 Pushcart Prize.
David Mohan has been published in PANK, Necessary Fiction, Word Riot, SmokeLong Quarterly, Matchbook and The Chattahoochee Review. He has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize.
Toti O’Brien is the Italian Accordionist with the Irish Last Name. She was born in Rome then moved to Los Angeles, where she makes a living as a self-employed artist, performing musician and professional dancer. Her work has most recently appeared in Biostories, Colorado Boulevard, Poeticdiversity, and Soundings East.
Gregory Ormson is a former college instructor, and alumnus of Northern Michigan University, The University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, The Chicago Theological Seminary, and Trinity Lutheran Seminary. His work has been published in Quarterly West, Cutbank, The Good Men Project, Turk’s Head Review, and others. His nonfiction writing earned recognition twice as a finalist and one Honorable Mention in three national contests. He is a member of the Author's Guild, and his agent is currently pitching his yoga book to publishers.He migrates north and south with the birds. Website www.gregoryormson.com, Twitter: @GAOrmson LONGFORM LYRIC ESSAY AWARD WINNER
Kyle Owens lives in the Appalachian Mountains and his work has appeared in Odyssa Magazine and Aberrant Literature among others. His short film script "Peter's Lens" was filmed by Missouri Media. ODD STORY WINNER
From 2011 to 2015, Billimarie Lubiano Robinson traveled around the country with her typewriter, typing Free Poetry for strangers. Well-versed in the art of reckless wandering, she has backpacked Hawaii, hitchhiked the West, lived in a Parisian bookstore, and survived a Swedish winter alone in a cabin in the woods. Billimarie currently resides in West Philly. When homesick, she crawls back to Los Angeles, California.
K. D. Rose is a poet and author. Her book, Inside Sorrow, won Readers Favorite Silver Medal for Poetry, and her poetry, essays, and short stories have been published in Word Riot, Poetry Breakfast, The Voices Project, and others, and showcased in the Tophat Raven Art and Literary Magazine. Publication is forthcoming in BlazeVOX Magazine, and elsewhere. She has a B.S. in Psychology and a Master's Degree in Social Work.
Jackie Sizemore is a writer, educator, and entrepreneur. Her business, Point of View Consulting, is the culmination of a love of writing and a desire to help people of all ages in their high-stakes writing endeavors. Her fiction and creative non-fiction have appeared in, or are forthcoming from Opossum, Eastern Iowa Review, Literary Orphans, Crixeo, and Ravishly. She received her MFA from Boise State University and BA from Carnegie Mellon University. Raised in the Rust Belt and Tokyo, she is currently wandering the Western states, dodging tumbleweeds with her car. Read more at www.jackiesizemore.com.
Alan Steinberg wrote the libretto for the opera The Falcon and the Sailor Boy, which was performed at SUNY Potsdam in 2006, starring Stephanie Blythe. He received his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University, and is a Professor in SUNY Potsdam's English department, where he also serves as the coordinator of the writing program. Steinberg has previously taught at Paul Smith's College, Marist College and Idaho State University. He also has a voice like a lullaby. By far his greatest academic achievement was when he took two young freshmen, Amanda and Virgil, under his wing and taught them all he knew about creative writing and judo. His publications include fiction (Cry of the Leopard, St. Martin's Press), poetry (Fathering, Sarasota Poetry Press), and drama (The Road to Corinth, Players Press). His work in EIR, "My Father's Fiftieth Birthday" has been nominated for a 2018 Pushcart Prize.
Curtis VanDonkelaar is most recently the winner of the 2016 Literal Latte Short Short Contest and The Gateway Review’s 2016 Flash Fiction Contest. His work has appeared with journals such as Passages North, the Vestal Review, Western Humanities Review, MAKE, Hobart, and DIAGRAM. He teaches writing and editing at Michigan State University, where he is the faculty editor/advisor of The Offbeat literary journal and a consulting editor with Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction. See curtisvandonkelaar.com for more.
Kelly Garriott Waite writes from Ohio where she's researching the second owner of her 1908 house. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Wild Culture, the Fourth River: Tributaries, and is forthcoming in the Hopper. She blogs irregularly at Kellygarriottwaite.com
Heather Gemmen Wilson is an author of children's books but is probably best known for her memoir, Startling Beauty. In this book, she describes becoming pregnant after being sexually assaulted while living and working for community development and racial reconciliation in the innercity. It describes her struggle with the decision to not only carry the baby to term but raise this little girl as her own. Gemmen is an international speaker, advocating for women's issues, racial reconciliation, and Christian spiritual growth.
ISSUE 3 - 2017 - Out of 630 written submissions, we chose the following 20 authors for this issue:
Chelsea Ardle is a writer, Pennsylvania-native, Ohio-transplant, and explorer, by all accounts. She received her MFA degree from Chatham University and is the assistant editor of Vagabond City Literary Journal. Her work has been published in matchbook literary magazine, Public Pool, and Hippocampus. She enjoys vistas that make her feel small, exploring places in a state of recovery, and studying the science of the perfect pancakes.
Paula Marafino Bernett's poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, Clackamas Literary Review, The Louisville Review, Rattle, and Whiskey Island, among others. Her lyric essay "Digression and Memory, The Handmaiden Effect," and a companion essay, "Four Hands Improvising on a Piano" appeared in Fourth Genre. She is the recipient of the St. John’s College 2011 Essay Prize, and holds an M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and an M.A. from St. John’s College.
Jane Harrington lives in southern Appalachia, where she teaches writing and literature at Washington & Lee University. She has written bestselling books for young adults (Scholastic, Lerner) and her literary fiction and creative nonfiction have been published in a number of periodicals, including Chautauqua, Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Circa, Irish America, Copperfield Review, Claudius Speaks, and Portland Review. Her short fiction will be published in the collection Appalachian Nature (West Virginia UP, 2018). Jane has researched extensively in Ireland, and she is a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA).
Amaris Feland Ketcham earned her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the Inland Northwest Center for Writers at Eastern Washington University. She has recently been published in Creative Nonfiction, Eleven Eleven, the Los Angeles Review, the Rumpus, and the Utne Reader. Her teaching interests include creative writing, fine arts, graphic design, and print and digital production. She currently serves as the Faculty Advisor for Scribendi, the Honors College and Western Regional Honors Council literature and arts magazine.
Halee Kirkwood is an MFA student at Hamline University. Kirkwood has poems published in the online sci-fi journal Strange Horizons, and has poetry forthcoming in Cream City Review. Kirkwood has previously worked on the editorial publication Aqueous Magazine, a publication devoted to sharing the literature, visual art, and performing arts of the Lake Superior region. Kirkwood has also written for the online magazine The Body Is Not An Apology.
Sara Kirschenbaum is a writer and artist in Portland, Oregon. She received her MFA at Antioch University in 1999, and has since studied with Karen Karbo (2006), Abigail Thomas (2007), Ann Hood (2011, 2012), Jo Ann Beard (2014), Steve Almond (2014), and Ariel Gore (2011, 2015, 2016). She has been published in Calyx, Fiction International, J Journal, Kalliope, Mothering Magazine, The Oregonian, Poetica, Portland Parent, the Portland Tribune, Hip Mama, and other publications. She has been a guest commentator for NPR’s Marketplace and has published on Salon.com and the Tin House Blog. She has written a memoir about her experience with postpartum OCD. In addition to writing, Sara Kirschenbaum works with clay, photography, drawing, and performance. She can be reached through her website: sarakirschenbaum.com, or at [email protected].
Joseph Labriola teaches writing and rhetoric at Stony Brook University and manages their writing program's blog, among others.
Cindy Lamothe is a biracial Honduran-American writer with an international background in Journalism and Communications. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in various literary journals including Far Away Places, Fiction Southeast, Guernica Daily, Hunger Mountain, The Manifest-Station, The Rumpus, Tiferet Journal, The Weeklings, among others. She currently lives in Antigua, Guatemala with her loving husband and small toddler son. Find her on Twitter at @CRLamothe or at her website cindylamothe.com. Cindy's "You Will Have a Son" has been nominated by EIR for a 2018 Pushcart Prize.
Andrea Marcusa is a fiction and essay writer. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Epiphany, River Styx, Ontario Review, New South, Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times and other publications. A four-time Pushcart Prize nominee, she was a finalist in the New Letters essay and Ruminate’s fiction competitions. Learn more about Andrea Marcusa’s work at andreamarcusa.com. Andrea's "Boulevard Mohamed Bouazizi*; Sidi Bou Zid, Tunisia, 2016" has been nominated by EIR for a 2018 Pushcart Prize.
David Mohan has been published in PANK, Necessary Fiction, Word Riot, SmokeLong Quarterly, Matchbook and The Chattahoochee Review. He has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize.
Toti O’Brien is the Italian Accordionist with the Irish Last Name. She was born in Rome then moved to Los Angeles, where she makes a living as a self-employed artist, performing musician and professional dancer. Her work has most recently appeared in Biostories, Colorado Boulevard, Poeticdiversity, and Soundings East.
Gregory Ormson is a former college instructor, and alumnus of Northern Michigan University, The University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, The Chicago Theological Seminary, and Trinity Lutheran Seminary. His work has been published in Quarterly West, Cutbank, The Good Men Project, Turk’s Head Review, and others. His nonfiction writing earned recognition twice as a finalist and one Honorable Mention in three national contests. He is a member of the Author's Guild, and his agent is currently pitching his yoga book to publishers.He migrates north and south with the birds. Website www.gregoryormson.com, Twitter: @GAOrmson LONGFORM LYRIC ESSAY AWARD WINNER
Kyle Owens lives in the Appalachian Mountains and his work has appeared in Odyssa Magazine and Aberrant Literature among others. His short film script "Peter's Lens" was filmed by Missouri Media. ODD STORY WINNER
From 2011 to 2015, Billimarie Lubiano Robinson traveled around the country with her typewriter, typing Free Poetry for strangers. Well-versed in the art of reckless wandering, she has backpacked Hawaii, hitchhiked the West, lived in a Parisian bookstore, and survived a Swedish winter alone in a cabin in the woods. Billimarie currently resides in West Philly. When homesick, she crawls back to Los Angeles, California.
K. D. Rose is a poet and author. Her book, Inside Sorrow, won Readers Favorite Silver Medal for Poetry, and her poetry, essays, and short stories have been published in Word Riot, Poetry Breakfast, The Voices Project, and others, and showcased in the Tophat Raven Art and Literary Magazine. Publication is forthcoming in BlazeVOX Magazine, and elsewhere. She has a B.S. in Psychology and a Master's Degree in Social Work.
Jackie Sizemore is a writer, educator, and entrepreneur. Her business, Point of View Consulting, is the culmination of a love of writing and a desire to help people of all ages in their high-stakes writing endeavors. Her fiction and creative non-fiction have appeared in, or are forthcoming from Opossum, Eastern Iowa Review, Literary Orphans, Crixeo, and Ravishly. She received her MFA from Boise State University and BA from Carnegie Mellon University. Raised in the Rust Belt and Tokyo, she is currently wandering the Western states, dodging tumbleweeds with her car. Read more at www.jackiesizemore.com.
Alan Steinberg wrote the libretto for the opera The Falcon and the Sailor Boy, which was performed at SUNY Potsdam in 2006, starring Stephanie Blythe. He received his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University, and is a Professor in SUNY Potsdam's English department, where he also serves as the coordinator of the writing program. Steinberg has previously taught at Paul Smith's College, Marist College and Idaho State University. He also has a voice like a lullaby. By far his greatest academic achievement was when he took two young freshmen, Amanda and Virgil, under his wing and taught them all he knew about creative writing and judo. His publications include fiction (Cry of the Leopard, St. Martin's Press), poetry (Fathering, Sarasota Poetry Press), and drama (The Road to Corinth, Players Press). His work in EIR, "My Father's Fiftieth Birthday" has been nominated for a 2018 Pushcart Prize.
Curtis VanDonkelaar is most recently the winner of the 2016 Literal Latte Short Short Contest and The Gateway Review’s 2016 Flash Fiction Contest. His work has appeared with journals such as Passages North, the Vestal Review, Western Humanities Review, MAKE, Hobart, and DIAGRAM. He teaches writing and editing at Michigan State University, where he is the faculty editor/advisor of The Offbeat literary journal and a consulting editor with Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction. See curtisvandonkelaar.com for more.
Kelly Garriott Waite writes from Ohio where she's researching the second owner of her 1908 house. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Wild Culture, the Fourth River: Tributaries, and is forthcoming in the Hopper. She blogs irregularly at Kellygarriottwaite.com
Heather Gemmen Wilson is an author of children's books but is probably best known for her memoir, Startling Beauty. In this book, she describes becoming pregnant after being sexually assaulted while living and working for community development and racial reconciliation in the innercity. It describes her struggle with the decision to not only carry the baby to term but raise this little girl as her own. Gemmen is an international speaker, advocating for women's issues, racial reconciliation, and Christian spiritual growth.
