Sixfold Fiction Summer 2016
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Contributor Notes
Eileen Arthurs’ short stories have appeared in The Madwomen in the Attic Anthology, Carlow University’s Ten anthology, and three times in the reader-voted Sixfold Journal. “Reading Between the Adelines” was a finalist for the 2016 Van Dyke Short Story Award. Her novel, Lorelei’s Family, is available through Amazon. She has participated in the Madwomen in the Attic workshops, and is a charter member of the The Liars’ Club writing group. She lives with her husband and cats near the confluence of Pittsburgh’s three rivers.
Educated at University of North Texas, Tony Burnett is an award winning author, poet, journalist, activist and songwriter. His work has been published in over 50 national literary magazines and anthologies. He serves as Board President of the Writers’ League of Texas and is Editor-in-Chief of Scribe. He makes his home in rural central Texas near Temple with his trophy wife, Robin.
Max Evans (MFA, CSULB) is the author of Where’s Pops?—the only short story collection to focus exclusively on fathers as central characters. In Long Beach, he sets up community events to celebrate dads. Visit www.wherespops.com
G J Johnson is a librarian living in Denver.
Kim Magowan lives in San Francisco and teaches in the English Department at Mills College. Her stories are published in Arroyo Literary Review, Atticus Review, Bird’s Thumb, Breakwater Review, Broad!, Cleaver, Corium Magazine, Crack the Spine, descant, Fiction Southeast, 580 Split, The Gettysburg Review, Gravel, Hobart, Hotel Amerika, Indiana Review, JMWW, Literary Orphans, Parcel, Sixfold, SNReview, Squalorly, Valparaiso Fiction Review, and Word Riot. She is working on a novel and a story collection.
Constant reading inspired Mac McCaskill to write his own stories, but he came to it late. Instead of practicing law after graduating law school, he enlisted in the US Army as a bomb tech. Then, he joined the FBI and has been a Special Agent for almost 18 years. This is his first publication.
Wendy S. Palmer lives on an island where there are no Ferris Wheels except the metal sculpture in her back yard. Her short fiction has appeared in Rosebud, New Millennium, Nimrod, Confluence and other magazines. Her non-fiction has appeared in Women’s Running and Martha’s Vineyard Magazine. Her current project is historical fiction.
Bill Pippin’s story “Century” placed first in the Summer 2014 edition of Sixfold. His short stories, articles, and essays have appeared in the literary anthology Tattoos, The MacGuffin, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Newsweek, Field & Stream, Writer’s Digest, Philadelphia Magazine, Delaware Today, New Mexico Magazine, and many other publications. He lives in the mountains of southwestern New Mexico with his wife Zona.
Deborah Spera was recently nominated for The Montana Prize in Fiction for her story, “Alligator,” and was a finalist for the Kirkwood Literary Prize through UCLA for her story, “Ohrail Sex.” She was chosen to be a writer in residence at Hedgebrook for a book of essays entitled Mamalogues. She has had short stories published in The Wascana Review, Pennsylvania English, and the LA Yoga Times. Actors Theater of Louisville produced a musical she co-wrote a entitled On The Road To Kitty Hawk, and Samuel French has published two books of monologues she co- wrote. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and three children. She is working on her first novel.
Scott Tucker was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico and raised in Helena and Great Falls, Montana. His stories have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Blood Orange Review, Main Street Rag, Mayday, The Meadow, Narrative Magazine, Pif, The Portland Review, and Prick of the Spindle. He has a journalism degree from Northwestern University and a law degree from the University of Michigan. He lives in Seattle with his wife.
Slater Welte is traveling.
Jeseca Wendel majored in English at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. She currently lives in New Hampshire with her dog, Rowdy, where she is working on a young adult novel.