by Sixfold
Contributor Notes
Charles Alden received a doctorate in biophysics from Purdue University and lives in Durham, North Carolina. His work has appeared in The Pedestal, Writer’s Digest, The MacGuffin, The Urban Hiker, and The World and I. Once national junior chess champion, he also runs with the Carolina Godiva Track Club.
Afia Atakora has a BFA in Dramatic Writing from New York University. She was a 2010 finalist for the Hurston Wright Award for College Writers. Her other interests include filmmaking, knitting, and watching whole seasons of television shows in unhealthy doses. She lives and writes in Avenel, New Jersey.
Chris Belden is the author of the novels Shriver (2013) and Carry-on (2012), both published by Rain Mountain Press, and of the story collection The Floating Lady of Lake Tawaba, winner of the Fairfield/New Rivers Book Prize (2014, New Rivers Press). He received his MFA from and has taught writing at Fairfield University, as well as at less traditional venues, including, currently, a maximum security prison. Author photo by Marion Ettlinger.
Daniel C. Bryant, a Maine physician, is delighted to have his work appear again in Sixfold. His stories have previously appeared in Nimrod, Bellevue Literary Review, Hospital Drive, Madison Review, and Crab Orchard Review, and the first chapter of his (so far unpublished) novel May We Waken One by One was published in Silk Road.
Lainey Bolen Burdge is a former English teacher who now owns a small business and works from home. She lives in Barnwell, SC, with her husband, two children, dog, and two fish. Though her grandmother died in a nursing home from Alzheimer’s Disease, “Paper Thin” is a work of fiction.
Susannah Carlson’s poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in a number of literary journals, including Sequoia, the SFSU Review, Pebble Lake Review, Red River Review, and Quiet Lightning. Susannah lives in Sunnyvale, California, even though she can’t afford to.
Tristen Chang grew up in Woodland, California, and received her MA in English from UC Davis. She appeared in The Best of Pif Magazine: Offline and was recently awarded the Chip Northrup Fellowship for fiction. She now lives in San Francisco and teaches creative writing.
Chip Houser’s stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Daily Science Fiction, Kansas City Voices, Spark: A Creative Anthology, and Gemini Magazine. He’s currently in the MFA in Creative Writing Program at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. He continues to work in architecture and interior design when he’s not reading, writing, or spending time with his wife and their herd of smallish four-leggeds.
Andy Jameson has worked a variety of jobs: bookstore clerk, construction worker, delivery driver, mover, and the person who rolls up rugs in a rug factory. He currently lives in bucolic Greenwood, South Carolina, with his wife Misty and teaches writing at Lander University. His stories have appeared in many literary magazines, including Harpur Palate and The Chaffin Journal, with one forthcoming in Blue Lake Review.
Thea Johnson is a writer and lawyer living in California. She is currently a fellow at Stanford Law School, where she writes on issues of criminal justice. Her non-fiction work has appeared in The World Policy Journal, North Dakota Quarterly, Columbia Human Rights Law Review, and Moment Magazine. This is her first published short story.
Rick Kast lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, with his wife Cary and miscellaneous quadrupeds. His three children are grown and have fled in various directions, one as far as Japan. Rick is a lawyer and works in the General Counsel’s Office at the University of Virginia. He graduated from UVA in an earlier era with a degree in English. He enjoys writing fiction in his spare time.
Naima Lynch has been writing stories for as long as she could hold a pen. She grew up in Monterey, California where she cultivated a love for morning fog, coffee shops, and paperback copies of Flannery O’Connor’s short stories. As a grown-up, she lived and worked throughout the Middle East, primarily in Yemen, Afghanistan, and Dubai. It was in these vivid countries where she learned to seek the stillness at the heart of chaos—and to try to write about it. She holds a Master’s Degree in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Chicago, and has written extensively on politics and culture of the region. Prior to that she studied Anthropology and Religious Studies at the University of North Florida. She is currently residing in Sydney, Australia, where she is working on a series of polaroid-inspired paintings, a collection of short stories, and an unruly spate of long naps.
Erin Rodoni is a recovering nomad and new mom. She is the recipient of a 2013 Intro Journals Award in Poetry from the Association of Writing Programs. Her poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Verse Wisconsin, Word Riot, Midwestern Gothic, Antiphon, Serving House Journal, and others. She holds an MFA in poetry from San Diego State University. Crossing the Street in Hanoi is her first published short story.
Kathryn Shaver, a Kentucky native, spent several decades at the helm of the advertising agency she founded, then developed an international consulting practice in former Communist bloc countries. After retiring from the business community, she completed an MFA in Fiction from Spalding University. Her first published story was awarded Inkwell Journal’s 2008 Fiction Prize. Since then, more than a dozen of her stories have appeared in anthologies and literary publications.
John Shortino’s stories and essays have appeared in Barrelhouse, The Collagist, and Opium. He lives in Pittsburgh.
Mackenzie E. Smith studied Creative Writing and Arabic at Carnegie Mellon University. Her work has appeared in TriQuarterly Online, Main Street Rag, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and has been a finalist for awards from Glimmer Train and New Letters. A former Gilman Scholar in Morocco and Luce Scholar in India, she now lives and writes in San Francisco.
Sabra Waldfogel grew up in Minneapolis. She studied history at Harvard University and received her PhD in American History from the University of Minnesota. She has worked as a technical writer and has written about historic architecture for Old House Journal and Arts and Crafts Homes. She has just finished a novel, Slave and Sister, about a Jewish slaveowner in Georgia who owns her sister, and how the Civil War transforms their relationship.
Tim Weed is a lecturer in the MFA Creative Writing program at Western Connecticut State University and a featured expert for National Geographic in Cuba, Spain, and Patagonia. His fiction has appeared in Colorado Review, Gulf Coast, and other literary journals, and his nonfiction has appeared in The Morning News, Backcountry, Writer’s Chronicle, and elsewhere. Tim’s first novel comes out in Spring 2014. Read more at www.timweed.net
Julie Zuckerman hails from Connecticut but moved to Israel eighteen years ago, where she works in high-tech marketing and lives with her husband and four children. Her stories have appeared in New Orphic Review, descant, 34thParallel, The MacGuffin, Red Wheelbarrow, The Dalhousie Review, and American Athenaeum, among others. “Birthday Bash” is part of a story collection she hopes to publish. When she’s not working or writing, she can be found running, biking, or baking.