Turn : Turn : Turn : Summer Solstice 2015

Mickey J. Corrigan

Originally from Boston, Mickey J. Corrigan lives and writes and gets into trouble in South Florida, where the men run guns and the women run after them. The tropics provide a lush, steamy setting for hot Florida pulp. Recent books include the edgy novellas in The Hard Stuff series from the Wild Rose Press (Whiskey Sour Noir, Vodka Warrior, and Tequila Dirty); the spoofy Geekus Interruptus and F*ck Normal from Australia’s Bottom Drawer Publications; and the thriller Sugar Babies from Champagne Books.

Joyce Goldenstern

Joyce Goldenstern, a Chicago resident, has been adapting folktales and writing fiction and “living by fiction” for many years. She also writes educational material and indexes books for a living and teaches part-time. Venues for her work include Western Humanities Review, North American Review, Hurricane Alice, Phantom Drift, Exquisite Corpse, and many others. Her website is jkayindexing.net

Nathan Alling Long

Nathan Alling Long grew up in a log cabin in rural Maryland and studied English at the University of Maryland. After traveling in Southeast Asia, where he briely entered a Buddhist monastery, and living on a commune in central Tennessee for four years, he completed an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. Nathan Long’s work has appeared in various journals such as Tin House, Glimmer Train, Indiana Review, Story Quarterly, Crab Orchard Review, in anthologies, and on NPR. He now lives in Philadelphia and teaches creative writing at Richard Stockton College in NJ. For select work and more information, please visit here.

Barbara Schweitzer

Barbara Schweitzer started out as a poet and now writes fiction, essays, and plays as well. Her poems have won prizes and two fellowships from her home state of RI. Her poetry collection, 33 1/3: Soap Opera Sonnets, was cited as a Best Book for 2008 by the Providence Journal. Her radio essays have been featured on RI’s NPR station in the popular series This I Believe. Her plays have been produced regionally in RI, MA, and ME. Two plays, Leavetaking and Sub-Zero, have been published in anthologies. For three years, Barbara facilitated a dynamic group of poets out of which grew RI’s Origami Poem Project. She currently is at work on a series of murder mysteries for the fast-talking, fashion-conscious, Nobel Peace prize-winning Cyjoe Barker. Some of these mini mysteries have been published at Cortland Review and have been adapted for the stage. The Wool War, Cyjoe Barker in Amish Country, and Cyjoe Barker at the Theatre were produced at the Artists’ Exchange Black Box New Plays Festival. ELJ Publications will publish the first series Cyjoe Barker Mini Mysteries as part of their Turn : Turn : Turn series.