Sixfold Fiction Winter 2015

by Sixfold

Contributor Notes

  Martin Conte is a graduate of the University of Southern Maine. His poetry and fiction has been published in Words and Images, Glitterwolf, The Aurorean, and others. He lives in Portland, where he is currently at work on a Joycian poetry sequence about the city, mythology, and climate change.

  Valerie Cumming received her MFA from the University of Michigan in 2002, and since then her stories have appeared in over two dozen publications. Currently, she is a freelance writer, teacher, and editor based in Columbus, Ohio, where she lives with her husband and four daughters.

  A native of Rochester, New York, Heather Erin Herbert lives in Atlanta with her children and husband, where they spend their summers trying to avoid melting. Currently completing her master’s degree in English, Heather works as a freelance author and editor, as well as at a college as a writing tutor, where she is extraordinarily persnickety about commas. In her few free seconds, Heather likes to knit, read, write, and consume improbable amounts of coffee.

  Audrey Kalman has been writing since she was old enough to hold a pen. She published the novel Dance of Souls in 2011 and has had numerous short stories published in print and online journals. Her next novel is under contract with Sand Hill Review Press. She edited two volumes of Fault Zone, an annual anthology of California writers, and is at work on another novel. Find out more at www.audreykalman.com.

  Steve Lauder is a freelance writer and editor based in Central Maine, where he lives with his wife and two contrarian cats. He holds an MFA from the University of Maine’s Stonecoast MFA program. For as long as he can remember, he’s been writing—and endlessly revising—short stories. Sometimes he even works on his novel-in-progress.

  Carli Lowe is a student of the Writers Studio in San Francisco. She was born and raised in San Francisco. She works as an elementary teacher, and plays as a dancer, percussionist, traveler and cyclist.

  Kim Magowan lives in San Francisco and teaches in the English Department at Mills College. Her stories have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes and are published in Arroyo Literary Review, Atticus Review, Bird’s Thumb, Breakwater Review, Corium Magazine, Crack the Spine, Fiction Southeast, 580 Split, The Gettysburg Review, Hotel Amerika, Indiana Review, JMWW, Parcel, River City, SNReview, Squalorly, Valparaiso Fiction Review, and Word Riot. She is working on a novel and a story collection.

  Brad McElroy is an aimless graduate from the University of North Texas. Currently, he lives in Denton, Texas with his Siberian husky, Zero. This is his first published short story.

  Abby Sinnott hails from Buffalo, New York. After earning a journalism degree from Ithaca College, she hightailed it to San Francisco, where she lived for fourteen years and completed a MFA in Creative Writing. She has written a collection of short stories, Knocking on My Door, and novel, Love in the Blood. Her writing has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies around the world. Currently, she lives in London with her husband and two daughters.

  Veronica Thorson loves the convention of writing about oneself in third person. She also loves carbohydrates (much too much), but her husband and baby son are the true loves of her life. Veronica is originally from Las Caras, erm, Las Cruces, New Mexico, but currently lives in Arizona. Veronica earned both an MFA and JD from Arizona State University and a BA from New Mexico State University, where epic times were had with her fellow English majors.

  Slater Welte spends most of his time in far west Texas when he is not traveling.

  Julie Zuckerman hails from Connecticut but moved to Israel twenty years ago, where she works in high-tech marketing and lives with her husband and four children. Her stories have appeared in Sixfold, descant, 34thParallel, The MacGuffin, Red Wheelbarrow, The Dalhousie Review, and American Athenaeum, among others. “Tough Day for LBJ” is part of a novel-in-stories currently seeking a publisher. When she’s not writing, she can be found running, biking, or baking. Twitter: @jbzuckerman