Fiction Fix Seventeen

Suzanne Strempek Shea, Brad Barkley,
and Jack Driscoll. In addition to teaching,
she is also involved in land conservation. In
2012, the Surdna Foundation awarded her a
teaching artist fellowship. She lives in eastern
Connecticut with her husband, three dogs
and often returning children.
Her poetry and short stories have been
published or are forthcoming in Eclectica,
Hawaii Pacific Review, The Alembic, Forge, Hog
River Review, Inscape, Verdad, Pearl, Willow
Review, Underwood Review, The Dos Passos
Review, Prick of the Spindle, MacGuffin, Noctua
Review, Penmen Review, Massachusetts Review and
Louisville Review.
Currently working on her first novel, she
writes using the pen name B.P. Greenbaum.
Melissa Hammond lives in Madison,
Wisconsin, where she writes about the
software surgeons use when they cut out
your appendix or amputate your leg. She likes
strawberry jam on her pizza and doesn’t know
how to whistle. If you like her story, you can
read more of her short fiction in New South
and Crack the Spine.
Victor Robert Lee has lived and traveled
extensively in East Asia, South America, and
the former Soviet states—territories that serve
as settings for his fiction. His current reporting
from the Asia-Pacific region can be found in
The Diplomat and elsewhere. He is the author
of the literary espionage novel Performance
Anomalies, described by The Japan Times as
“a thoroughly original work of fiction.”
Rory Meagher earned his B.A. in Creative
Writing at Susquehanna University, class of
2012. He has also studied writing at The
Second City in Chicago and The Peoples
Improv Theater in Manhattan. His short stories
have appeared in Cigale Literary, Oatmeal
Magazine, and The Blue Route. He currently
lives in Pittsburgh, PA, where he works in the
culinary arts and spends his free time writing,
reading, and dreaming.
Dianne Nelson Oberhansly’s book of
short stories, A Brief History of Male Nudes in
America, won the Flannery O’Connor Award
and her co-written novel, Downwinders: An
Atomic Tale, was chosen as a Utah Book of
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