Fiction Fix Eight

Mathias B. Freese Author of The i Tetralogy, a Holocaust
novel, winner of the Allbooks Review Editor's Choice Award, and Down to
a Sunless Sea, a collection of short fiction, finalist for the Indie Excellence
Book Awards, I am a psychotherapist and teacher. "Cantor Matyas Balogh"
is from my new collection of stories now in progress, "Working Through the
Holocaust." A book of essays, "The Parable of the Seawall," will be published
in Spring 2011. My writer's blog is at www.mathiasbfreese.com
Originally from Brazil, where she grew up in an orphanage, Naná
Howton’s short stories in English have appeared in Cipactli and The
Rio Grande Review. She’s a graduate of Stanford University and MFA candidate
at Columbia University where she finished her novel Burning Seasons.
Thomas Karst lives in Jacksonville, Florida with his wife and
eighteen month old son. He is a graduate of the University of North Florida
and is patiently waiting his return for graduate studies in Literature. Recently,
he has been reading, reading, reading, in hopes that doing so will make
writing less daunting.
Joshua Learn is living on top of a mountain in Taiwan in an
ageless state due to the confusion of three calendars. He would rely on the
passing of the cosmos to gauge time if it weren't for the perpetual cloud dissembling
his earthly attachments.
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