Sam Slaughter received his B.A. from Elon University and his M.A. from Stetson University. He has had fiction and nonfiction published in Four Chambers, Touchstone, Drafthorse, and The Review Review, among others. He was a member of the 2014 Key West Literary Seminar Writers Workshop and was awarded the 2010 New Jersey Press Award for […]
Shaun Turner
May 13, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Shaun Turner writes in West Virginia, where he is the Assistant Fiction Editor for the Cheat River Review. His fiction can or will be found in Cleaver Magazine; Word Riot; JONATHAN; and A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, among others.
Dixon Hearne
May 5, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Dixon Hearne is the author of three short fiction collections and editor of several anthologies. His stories have been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Spur Awards. His book, Plantatia: High-toned and Lowdown Stories of the South was nominated for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN award and received another for best general fiction book. His fiction, poetry and […]
Claire Matturro
April 1, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Claire Hamner Matturro was raised on tales of errant kith and kin, whiskey making, and ghosts. Inspired by such stories, she wanted to be a novelist, but pursued more gainful and steady employment first. She’s been a newspaper reporter, a lawyer, and taught at Florida State University College of Law and as a visiting professor of […]
Miles Smith IV
February 5, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Miles Smith, IV, is native of Salisbury, North Carolina. He took his B.A. in History from the College of Charleston in 2006 and his M.A. from the College and the Citadel in 2008. He earned his Ph.D. from Texas Christian University in 2013, where he currently teaches history. He has published several articles in academic […]
Michael Pitts
January 15, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Michael Pitts is a graduate of Samford University where he earned a Bachelor of Science and a Master’s degree in Secondary Education. He also earned a Master’s degree in American Literature at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and currently teaches secondary English with his wife in Daejeon, South Korea.