Mary Fifield’s fiction has appeared in Midway Journal, Colere, and Mediphors, among other publications. Her essay "The Road to Tena" was anthologized in Women Reinvented: True Stories of Empowerment and Change, and an excerpt from her novel has been published by The Writers Dojo. Mary received a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from San Diego State University and is working on a book about her time as an expatriate in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

Thomas Fuchs has spent much of his career writing television documentaries, some drama and some print non-fiction.  More recently he has had fiction published in a number of magazines and anthologies.  This is his second appearance in J Journal.  He can be reached at fuchsfoxxx@cs.com.

David William Hill was an assistant editor for two oral history books from Voice of Witness, Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives (McSweeney’s, 2008) and Invisible Hands: Voices from the Global Economy (McSweeney’s, 2014.) His fiction is forthcoming in Chicago Quarterly Review and has appeared previously in [PANK], Hobart, Cimarron Review, and Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, among others. A native of Northern California, he currently lives in Hong Kong.

Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, Cindy King lives in Texas, where she is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Texas Dallas. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Callaloo, the North American Review, River Styx, the American Literary Review, jubilat, Barrow Street, and elsewhere. They can be heard at http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org, rhinopoetry.org, and bhreview.org. She has received scholarships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Wesleyan Writers Conference, the Colgate Writers Workshop and others. 

Richard Krause’s writing has recently appeared in qarrtsiluni and The Long Story. In 2012 his collection of epigrams, Optical Biases, was published by Eyecorner Press in Denmark.  A selection of his epigrams has been translated into Italian at Aforisticamente.  He teaches at Somerset Community College in Kentucky.

Michael McGlade’s fiction has appeared in Green Door, r.kv.r.y, Grain, Ambit, and Downstate Story. He holds a master’s degree in English from Queen’s University in Ireland, and is the recipient of an Arts Council award. Find out more news and views from him on McGladeWriting.com.

Eddie McNamara is a Brooklyn native living in Manhattan. He used to be a police officer. Now he’s a chef and writer, splitting his time between grimy fiction and healthy food. You can check out his recipe tumblr at tossyourownsalad and his writing in PenthouseThuglitAll Due Respect and Danse Macabre.

Irene Mitchell is the author of A Study of Extremes in Six Suites (Cherry Grove Collections, 2012), and Sea Wind on the White Pillow (Axes Mundi Press, 2009).  Formerly Poetry Editor of Hudson River Art Journal, Mitchell serves as poetry contest juror, and facilitator of poetry workshops. She is also known for her collaborations with visual artists and composers, supplying the lyrics for art song cycles and the text for poetry broadsides.

Charles Rammelkamp lives in Baltimore. His latest book, Fusen Bakudan (“Balloon Bombs” in Japanese), was published in 2012 by Time Being Books. It’s a collection of monologues involving missionaries in a leper colony in Vietnam during the war. Charles edits an online literary journal called The Potomac -http://thepotomacjournal.com/.  A chapbook, Mixed Signals, will be published later this year by Finishing Line Press.

Tori Reynolds lives in Durham, North Carolina. Most recently, her poems have been published in The South Carolina Review, Jacar Press’s anthology What Matters, Eno River Press’s 27 Views of Durham and in the NC Poetry Society’s journal, Pinesong.  She is a clinical psychologist who worked for over a decade at the Durham VA Medical Center with female veterans.  She now works as a forensic trauma consultant on military rape and death penalty cases.

John Lee Scott’s short memoir "Break-Out" was published in J Journal in 2009. He is co-author of An Innocent in the House of the Dead, winner of the Brockman-Campbell Award for the best book of poetry published in North Carolina in 2012. His Facebook page is The Justice for John Lee Fund, and his blogsite is justiceforjohnlee.org.

Murzban F. Shroff’s fiction has appeared in numerous journals. One story received the John Gilgun Fiction Award, and his short story collection Breathless in Bombay was shortlisted for the 2009 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in the best debut category from Europe and South Asia. It featured fourth in the Guardian listing of Top Ten Mumbai books. Shroff has completed a post-modernist novel and an India collection. He can be contacted at murzbanfshroff@gmail.com

Dana Stamps, II, resides in Riverside, California.  He regularly performs at local open mics, especially on Monday nights at Back To The Grind.  His recent publications include:  Plainsongs, Bayou, MUSE, Blue Collar Review, THEMA, Main Street Rag, and Slant

Paul Stapleton has published short stories in AethlonDappled Things, and Ruminate Magazine, and his story “The Fall of Punicea,” which first appeared in J Journal 4.1, was awarded the Pushcart Prize(2013). Since 1988 he has taught in various grammar schools, high schools, and universities in New York and North Carolina. He also holds degrees in theology, Classics, and English, and is currently a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina.

Originally from the coast of Maine, Sarah Yasin studied Latin and Literature in New Hampshire and found her way back to vacationland where she currently teaches at a private high school.  She also moonlights as a cashier at two convenience stores.  Her work has appeared in various literary journals.  

Vaughn Wright is a Philly native and long-term prisoner who has written hundreds of songs, poems, and stories.  His work has most recently appeared in Thema, Pearl, Tales of The Talisman, PKA’s Advocate, and previous issues of J Journal.  His collection of short stories, Tales from the Inside, can be viewed at www.PrisonsFoundation.org.

Paula Anne Yup has over one hundred published poems, including those appearing in The Third Woman: Minority Women Writers of the United States, Passages North Anthology, What Book!?, Mid American Review and several Outrider Press anthologies.  Her work has also appeared in several earlier issues of J Journal. Her first book of poetry Making a Clean Space in the Sky was recently published by Evening Street Press.  She was born in Phoenix, Arizona and received her MFA from Vermont College.  She has lived in the Marshall Islands a dozen years.

 


FALL 2015

Fiction by Diya Abdo, Cara Bayles, Stephanie Dickinson, Paul Hadella, Joe Jarboe, Donald Edem Quist, Alison Ruth

Poems by Austin Alexis, Byron Case, Courtney Lamar Charleston, Jessica Greenbaum, Brad Johnson, Don Kimball, Thom Schramm, Hasanthika Sirisena, Judith Skillman, Jack Vian, Catherine Wald, JJ Amaworo Wilson, Paula Yup

Nonfiction by Lyle May




BookTalk: The Number of Missing by Adam Berlin
March 25, 2015

4:15-5:30pm
Conference Room, 9th fl.

John Jay College of Criminal Justice
524 West 59th Street
New York, NY 10019

In the months after 9/11, David and Mel meet to drink, give each other comfort and reminisce about Paul—Mel’s husband and David’s best friend. The memories are not all good for David. Before Paul died, the two friends fought, brutally questioning each other’s lives. Fueled by anger and grief and too much alcohol, David stumbles through the city while holding onto a silent promise he’s made to a dead friend: he will wait for Mel to fall so he can catch her. Like the best post-war novels, where catastrophe is not an easy catalyst for plot, where characters go on living but not really, is about New York during a time when the city seemed dead. 

*All book talks are free and open to the public. 
Refreshments will be served.

 





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New York, NY 10019