Across My Silence, Jack Cooper’s first full-length collection of
poetry, was published by World Audience, Inc. in 2007. His poetry, flash fiction,
and mini-plays have appeared in more than 60 publications, including Rattle,
Slant, Santa Fe Literary Review, The MacGuffin, and The South Dakota
Review. Most recently, one of his poems was selected as Grand Prize Winner in
Crosswinds Poetry Journal’s 2016 poetry contest. The poem will
be published in their Spring 2017 issue in addition to receiving a cash award
of a thousand dollars.
Cooper’s work has been nominated four times for a Pushcart Prize, and was
chosen as a finalist in North American Review’s 2012 James Hearst
Poetry Prize and for the 2014 Eco Arts Award in Creative Excellence. Two of his
poems also received Honorable Mention in the 2015 Crosswinds poetry
contest, and one of his micro-fictions (Options) was
selected in April 2015 as winner of the annual String-of-10 Contest, sponsored by
Flash Fiction Chronicles. His play, That Perfect Moment (with
co-writer Charles Bartlett), was a headliner at the NOHO Arts Center in North
Hollywood and The Little Victory in the 2009-10 seasons.
Author’s website: www.jcooperpoetry.com
Please see poet’s website for current info: www.lauramccullough.org/
Alexis Rhone Fancher is the author of How I Lost My Virginity To Michael Cohen and other heart-stab poems (Sybaritic Press, 2014), and two collections from KYSO Flash Press: a chapbook, State of Grace: The Joshua Elegies (2015), and the full-length, L.A.-centric collection of photography and erotic poems, Enter Here (May, 2017).
Her writing has been nominated multiple times for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, and appears in more than 100 literary magazines, journals, and anthologies, including The Best American Poetry 2016, Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond, Rattle, Slipstream, Plume, Nashville Review, Diode, Glass, Tinderbox, Verse Daily, and elsewhere.
Her photographs have been published worldwide, including spreads in River Styx, Heart Online, and Rogue Agent, and on the covers of Witness, Heyday Magazine, Chiron Review, Nerve Cowboy, and The Mas Tequila Review.
A life-long resident of Los Angeles, Rhone Fancher is poetry editor of Cultural Weekly, where she also publishes a monthly photo-essay, “The Poet’s Eye,” about her on-going love affair with the city.
www.alexisrhonefancher.com
Ron Salisbury describes himself as a writer who has integrated his poetry with his business life for decades. “Now, three wives deep, four children long, and assorted careers past,” he continues to study, publish, and write in San Diego, where he earned his Master of Fine Arts degree in 2016 at San Diego State University. His writing appears in such venues as Alaska Quarterly Review, Eclipse, Serving House Journal, and The San Diego Reader. Awards include a nomination for a Pushcart Prize, and an Honorable Mention in San Diego CityBeat’s Fiction 101 Contest. In addition, his collection of poems Miss Desert Inn won the Main Street Rag Poetry Prize in 2015.
Read more about Salisbury and his writing, his background, and his friendship with
Steve Kowit in SHJ Issue 13.