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Whatever Makes You Happy, Gina Willner-Pardo
Whatever Makes You Happy, Gina Willner-Pardo
Mad River Review
Gina Willner-Pardo has written short stories published in Berkeley Fiction Review, Bluestem, Pleiades, Five on the Fifth, Origins Journal, The South Carolina Review,Streetlight Magazine, Summerset Review, and Whetstone, which awarded her story “Accident” the John Patrick McGrath Memorial Award (1999). She has also written seventeen books for children, all published by Clarion or Albert Whitman. Gina’s book Figuring Out Frances won the 1999 Josette Frank Award, presented by the Bank Street College of Education, to honor a book of “outstanding literary merit in which children or young people deal in a positive and realistic way with …
4 Flashes, Mitchell Krockmalnik Grabois
4 Flashes, Mitchell Krockmalnik Grabois
Mad River Review
MITCHELL KROCKMALNIK GRABOIS‘ poems and fictions have appeared in hundreds of literary magazines in the U.S. and abroad. He is a regular contributor to The Prague Revue, and has been thrice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His novel, Two-Headed Dog, based on his work as a clinical psychologist in a state hospital, is available for 99 cents from Kindle and Nook, or as a print edition.
Airing Out The Dogs, Jim Daniels
Airing Out The Dogs, Jim Daniels
Mad River Review
Jim Daniels' recent poetry books include Rowing Inland and Street Calligraphy, 2017, and The Middle Ages, 2018. He is the author of five collections of fiction, four produced screenplays, and has edited five anthologies, including Challenges to the Dream: The Best of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Writing Awards. His next book of short fiction, The Perp Walk, will be published by Michigan State University Press in 2019. He is the Thomas S. Baker University Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon.
Untitled Haiku, Andrew S. Ellis
Untitled Haiku, Andrew S. Ellis
Mad River Review
Andrew S. Ellis is annoying, infuriating, agitating, provoking, engaging, encouraging, and all the things that make a person interesting. His poetry and short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Teen Ink, the Ohio Poetry Association Common Threads, and Ink, Sweat & Tears. He is a graduate of Wright State University, earning a BA in Religion. He lives in Ohio and survives primarily off of peanut M&Ms and mountain Dew.
Two Poems By Bernard Horn, Bernard Horn
Two Poems By Bernard Horn, Bernard Horn
Mad River Review
Bernard Horn’s Our Daily Words, winner of the Old Seventy Creek Poetry Prize, was a finalist for the 2011 Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry. His translations from the Hebrew of Yehuda Amichai’s poetry have appeared in The New Yorker and other magazines. His poems have been featured in the Dime Show Review, the New York Times, Home(less)ness: Geographies of Identity: a zine, and the 2015 anthology, Devouring the Green: Anthology of New Writing. One poem was used to commemorate 9/11 on huffingtonpost.com, and he was a finalist for the 2016 Mississippi Review Poetry Prize, the …
Cliff Path, Anne Britting Oleson
Cliff Path, Anne Britting Oleson
Mad River Review
Anne Britting Oleson lives and writes from the side of a mountain in Central Maine. She has published three chapbooks (The Church of St. Materiana, The Beauty of It, and Alley of Dreams) and two novels (The Book of the Mandolin Player and Dovecote). Her work has appeared in literary magazines worldwide.
Doing His Time With Fire, John Grey
Doing His Time With Fire, John Grey
Mad River Review
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident. Recently published in the Homestead Review, Poetry East and Columbia Review with work upcoming in Harpur Palate, the Hawaii Review and North Dakota Quarterly.
Two Apples Too Heavy, Colleen S. Harris
Two Apples Too Heavy, Colleen S. Harris
Mad River Review
Colleen S. Harris serves as a librarian on the faculty at California State University Channel Islands, where she also teaches in the Freedom and Justice Studies minor. She is the author of God in My Troat: The Lilith Poems (Bellowing Ark 2009), These Terrible Sacraments (Bellowing Ark, 2010), and The Kentucky Vein (Punkin House, 2011), as well as the chapbooks That Reckless Sound and Some Assembly Required out of Porkbelly Press (2014). She is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee for her poetry and fiction, holds the MFA in Writing from Spalding University, and is the co-editor of Women and Poetry: …