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Review, and Southword. He earned an MFA at the University of
Alabama and lives in Indiana and northern Ontario.
Kate Peper’s chapbook, Dipped In Black Water, won the New
Women’s Voices Award from Finishing Line Press, 2016. Her
poems have been nominated five times for a Pushcart and have
appeared in The Baltimore Review, Cimarron Review, Gargoyle, Rattle,
Tar River Review and others. She lives just north of San Francisco
with her husband and semi-feral dog, Hannah.
Kenneth Pobo had a book out in 2017 from Circling Rivers
called Loplop in a Red City. In addition to West Texas Literary Review,
his work has appeared in: Mudfish, Colorado Review, Nimrod,
Hawaii Review, and elsewhere.
Tanyo Ravicz lived for many years in Alaska, where much of his
writing is set. His indie book Alaskans: Stories is a selection of his
short fiction from literary magazines. His novel A Man of His Village
relates the odyssey of a migrant farm worker from Mexico to
Alaska. He is currently at work on companion books, fiction and
nonfiction, that emerge from his years on Alaska’s Kodiak Island.
Erin Schalk is a visual artist and emerging poet. She has published
poetry and non-fiction, as well as exhibited art throughout
the United States and Japan. More work may be found at
www.erinschalk.com.
Harvey Silverman is a retired physician and writes primarily for
his own enjoyment.
Ron Stottlemyer lives in Helena, Montana. After a career of
teaching/scholarship in college and universities across the country,
he is returning to his life-long love of writing poetry. Along
with writing, he has a passion for amateur astronomy, Mid-Eastern
cooking, and for living with the moment. He believes that
real poetry has its sole origin in corner-of-the-eye surprise, lives
only in metaphor, and has graceful syntax, the stone of its
memory. After starting to send poems this past spring, he has
recently published in The Alabama Literary Review, The Sow’s Ear,
Streetlight, and The American Journal of Poetry.
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