Our Authors

Bertha Isabel Crombet is poet and lyric essayist living in lush and beautiful Knoxville, TN by way of Miami, FL. She was born in a tiny town on a hill about 15 miles from Santiago, Cuba, but lived in Miami for twenty-one years, where she received her MFA in Poetry from Florida International University. She has been published in Jai-Alai Magazine, Grimoire, and has forthcoming work in Black Warrior Review. She also received the Academy of American Poets Prize in 2018. Currently, she’s teaching English at Pellissippi State Community College and enjoying the cicada’s song. Check out her chapbook here!

Bradley Bazzle is the author of the novel Trash Mountain. His short stories appear in The Missouri Review, The Iowa Review, New England Review, Epoch, Copper Nickel, Beloit Fiction Journal, and elsewhere, and some can be found at bradleybazzle.com. A long time ago he wrote and performed sketch comedy at the UCB Theatre in New York City. Today he lives with his wife and daughter in Athens, Georgia.

Brenna Womer is an essayist, poet, and fiction writer living in Michigan’s snowy Upper Peninsula. She received her BA and MA in English from Missouri State University and is an MFA candidate at Northern Michigan University, where she teaches and serves as an associate editor of Passages North. Her work has been published by The Normal School, Indiana Review, DIAGRAM, The Pinch, New South, and elsewhere. Her essay “Wüsthof Silverpoint II 10-Piece Set” was named a Notable of the year in The Best American Essays 2017. This is her debut collection.

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Brian Leung, author of World Famous Love Acts, Lost men, and Take me Home, is a past recipient of the Lambda Literary outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize. Other honors include the Asian-American Literary Award, Willa Award, and the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction. Brian’s fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in Story, Ocean State Review, Numero Cinq, Crazyhorse, Grain, Gulf Coast, Kinesis, The Barcelona Review, Mid-American Review, Salt Hill, Gulf Stream, River City, Runes, The Bellingham Review, Hyphen, Velocity, The Connecticut Review, Blithe House Quarterly, Indiana Review, Crab Orchard Review, and Crowd. He is the current Director of Creative Writing at Purdue University.

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Brian Simoneau grew up in Lowell, Massachusetts, and graduated from Amherst College and the University of Oregon. His poems have appeared in Boulevard, Crab Orchard Review, The Georgia Review, Mid-American Review, and other journals. He lives in Connecticut with his wife and two daughters.

Bruce McEver received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and an M.T.S. (Religion and Literature) from Harvard Divinity School. An investment banker and the Chairman of Berkshire Capital Securities LLC, a firm he founded in 1983, he is a founding supporter of POETRY at TECH in Atlanta and on the board of The Poet’s House in New York. His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Atlanta Review, and The Cortland Review. His last collection, Like Lesser Gods released September 15, 2017. His newest work is a poignant memoir encompassing his coming of age, poetry, and career as a businessman. Check out Many Paths: A Poet’s Journey Through Love, Death, and Wall Street.

Bruce’s website contains interviews and articles about his latest work and philanthropy.

  For the past decade, Caleb Ludwick has worked as a senior brand writer with design agencies around the country, serving clients in the US, UK, Europe and Central America. His work has been honored by the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the International Interior Design Association, New York Type Director’s Club, One Show, PRINT, Meacham Writers’ Workshop, School of Southern Literature, Yale Writers’ Conference, the Lyndhurst Foundation, and with permanent inclusion in the Smithsonian Institution’s National Design Museum. He holds a MA in theology from a seminary that prefers to remain nameless, and a MA in literature from the Universite d’Orleans, France and the University of Nottingham, UK. He lives with his wife and three daughters in the mountains outside of Chattanooga, TN.

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CB Anderson is a cross-genre writer whose work has appeared in The Iowa Review, North American Review, Literal Latte, Flash Fiction Forward (W.W. Norton & Co.), The Christian Science Monitor, Redbook, Boston Magazine, and elsewhere. A collection of stories, River Talk is forthcoming from C&R Press in 2014. Winner of numerous prizes, including the New Millennium Award, the Crazyhorse Prize, and the Mark Twain Award for short fiction, Anderson has also received two Pushcart nominations. A sixth-generation native of Maine, she was born in Bangor and raised in a village on the Androscoggin River. She lives with her family in Maine and Massachusetts and teaches writing at Boston University.

Find her at cbanderson.net

Chris Campanioni is a first-generation American and the son of immigrants from Cuba and Poland. He has worked as a journalist, model, and actor, and he teaches Latino literature and creative writing at Baruch College and Pace University. His “Billboards” poem that responded to Latino stereotypes and mutable—and often muted—identity in the fashion world was awarded an Academy of American Poets College Prize in 2013, his novel Going Down was selected as Best First Book at the 2014 International Latino Book Awards, and his hybrid piece “This body’s long (& I’m still loading)” was adapted as an official selection of the Canadian International Film Festival in 2017. A year earlier, he adapted his award-winning course, “Identity, Image, & Intimacy in the Age of the Internet,” for his first TEDx Talk. He edits PANK, At Large, and Tupelo Quarterly and lives in Brooklyn, where he wrote Death of Art, also available from C&R Press. www.chriscampanioni.com

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Christian Anton Gerard is the author of Holdfast (C&R Press, 2017) and Wilmot Here, Collect For Stella (WordTech, 2014). He’s received Pushcart Prize nominations, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference scholarships, the Iron Horse Literary Review’s Discovered Voices Award and an Academy of American Poets Prize. His work appears widely in magazines such as The Rumpus, Post Road, The Adroit Journal, Diode, Orion, Smartish Pace, and Thrush. Gerard holds an MFA from Old Dominion University and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Tennessee. He is an Assistant Professor of English, Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith. Gerard’s Website