MANAGING EDITOR
Katey Schultz is Associate Editor of TRACHODON Magazine. Her work has appeared in River Styx, Writers' Dojo, Perigee, The Outlet, Calyx, Fiction Daily, War Literature & the Arts and more. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Linda Flowers Literary Prize and fellowships from Wrangell Mountains Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Jentel Foundation.
CONTRIBUTING EDITOR
Cameron Scott graduated from Whitman College and the University of Arizona. He is the poetry editor for Rise Forms and the sometimes editor for Sugar Mule. His work has appeared in various magazines and literary journals, and most recently in Apercus, Projector, The Mountain Gazette, The Fly Fish Journal, and The Drake.
COLUMNISTS
Ester Bloom’s writing has appeared in Salon, The Hairpin, The Awl, Nerve, The Morning News, Thought Catalog, The Film Experience, PANK, Bluestem, Zone 3, Conte: A Journal of Narrative Poetry, and other venues. Her collection of lighthearted essays about serious topics, entitled Never Marry a Short Woman, is represented by Michele Rubin at Writers House. She blogs at Full of Pith and Vinegar and tweets at Shorter Story.
Mary Emerick has been a wildland
firefighter, a kayak ranger, and a tree planter, among other things. Her nonfiction has appeared in several anthologies and magazines and was recently nominated for a Pushcart prize. Currently,
she lives in the Wallowa Mountains of Northeast Oregon where she works
for the Forest Service. Her blog can be found at www.mountainsskin.blogspot.com. RECENT GUEST BLOGGERS:
Alissa Nielsen is a fiction writer, editor and teacher. Her work has appeared in Voice Catcher, Prick of the Spindle and The Raven Chronicles. She earned her MFA in Writing from Pacific University. She has worked as a zine curator/librarian for Richard Hugo House literary arts center, editor-in-chief of Silk Road literary journal, and much more. Currently, she lives in Portland, Oregon, where she is working on a collection of short stories.
Abby E. Murray currently teaches English and creative writing at Pikes Peak Community College in Colorado Springs. Recently, her poetry has been published in War Literature & the Arts, RHINO, Salt Hill, and Court Green. Her first chapbook, Me and Coyote, was selected for publication by Marvin Bell in the 2010 Lost Horse Press New Poets / Short Books series.
Courtney Dodd is an artistic nomad meandering between graphic design, glassblowing, photography, and sculpture. She has a BFA from Missouri State University and an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and a vintage shop called MODERNfiction. Courtney is currently the artist-in-residence at Oregon College of Art & Craft.
Damon McLaughlin is a poet and musician from Tucson, AZ. His chapbook Olduvai Theory (Toad Hall Press, July 2011) won the 2011 Toad Hall Press Chapbook Contest; Exchanging Lives (Backwaters Press, 2008) is his first full-length collection. His blog on poetry, as well as his songs with and without the rock band Red Star Rebellion, can be found at www.damonmclaughlin.com.
John Carr Walker grew up on a raisin farm in California’s San Joaquin Valley and now lives in Saint Helens, Oregon, where there’s not a vineyard for miles. His writing has appeared in StringTown, Slow Trains, Prick of the Spindle, The Writer's Dojo, Eclectica, and elsewhere. He founded TRACHODON Magazine and TRACHODON Publishing LLC in 2010.
Kyle Lang writes from Oregon City, Oregon, where he lives with his wife and daughter. He is currently working on fiction, but has written and published nonfiction and poetry as well. He is a "freeway flyer," teaching writing and literature at Pacific University and Portland Community College. He has published in Story Quarterly, Going Down Swinging and M Review.
Taylor Altman lives in northern California and works for the Quest Scholars Program, a non-profit that connects talented low-income students with college opportunities. Her poems have been published in journals including The New Formalist, Salamander, and TRACHODON. Her first book, Swimming Back, was published by sunnyoutside press. She is a graduate of Stanford University and the Creative Writing Program at Boston University.
Tom Weller lives and writes in Greencastle, Indiana, and teaches at Indiana State University, where he is the Student Support Services writing specialist. His fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in a number of journals and collections including Plain Spoke, Silk Road, TRACHODON, Grasslands Review, Booth, Americans Do Their Business Abroad, and One Hand Does Not Catch a Buffalo.
Wesley Middleton’s plays for young audiences, Tomato Plant Girl and Degas’ Little Dancer, have been produced by Metro Theater Company (St. Louis, MO), Geva Theatre (Rochester, NY), The Alliance (Atlanta, GA), and other theatres around the United States. She has written articles on arts and culture for WNC Magazine (Asheville, NC) and the NY Times Fort Greene Local blog. Here essay on artisan culture was published in TRACHODON 1. She lives in Brooklyn.
PAST GUEST BLOGGERS
Alexis E. Santà is a multi-lingual writer, editor, and social activist. He earned his MFA in Fiction from George Mason University and holds an MSW from Washington University in Saint Louis. He is the founder and editor in chief at Our Stories literary journal. He lives in Saint Louis with his wife, the singer songwriter Leslie Sanazaro.
Britt Kaufmann lives in North Carolina with her husband and three children. Her work has appeared in Binnacle, Main Street Rag, Now & Then, and WNC Magazine among others. In 2011, her first chapbook of poems, Belonging, was published by Finishing Line Press and her play, An Uncivil Union, was produced at the the Parkway Playhouse.
Jeannine Hall Gailey is the author of Becoming the Villainess (Steel Toe Books, 2006) and She Returns to the Floating World (Kitsune Books, 2011.) Her work has been featured on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily, and in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Her poems have appeared in journals like The Iowa Review, The Seattle Review, and Prairie Schooner. She volunteers as an editorial consultant for Crab Creek Review and currently teaches at the MFA program at National University.
Jesse S. Fourmy was born in Berkeley, CA in 1972. He was raised in the southwest but grew up on the big island of Hawaii. His first book of poetry, Last Night's Fire and the Dwindling Embers of Evolution was selected by Marvin Bell for the Lost Horse Press new poets series. He has work forthcoming in Kaimana.
Jo Ann Heydron’s work has appeared in Puerto del Sol, So to Speak, TRACHODON and elsewhere. She taught English in California, earned an MFA from Pacific University, and now lives in Bellingham, Washington, where she writes about families coming together, families falling apart, and the grace that can be felt either way, which she doesn’t for a moment understand. Visit her blog, "Talking to Strangers: An Introvert Hits the Streets," for more info.
Lesley Alicia Tye holds a BFA in Screenwriting from the University of Southern California and a MFA from National University, and teaches screenwriting and film in Michigan. She has a variety of credits in film and television, and was co-writer for the television pilot Devin’s Chronicles for Caspian Sea Entertainment. While at USC she received the Stephen C. Gentry Award for Excellence in Screenwriting.
Maranda recently relocated to the snow-covered streets of Omaha, Nebraska where she lives in a tiny attic apartment, hibernating until the fierce midwestern snow storms take their leave. A printmaker and book artist, Maranda just completed a residency at the Jentel Foundation in Banner, Wyoming and is currently working on a new body of work to be exhibited September 2011.
Marisa McClellan is a food writer, canning teacher, and dedicated blogger. She lives in Philadelphia, PA with her husband and an obscenely large collection of canning jars. Her cookbook, Food in Jars, will be published by Running Press in Spring 2012. She blogs at Apartment 2024.
Rocky Cole has been a military officer, counselor, college instructor and intelligence analyst. His non-fiction and freelance writing has been published widely, and his first novel, Talismans, is currently being edited for publication.
Tammy Strobel is a writer, tiny house enthusiast, cat-lover, coffee addict, and author of Simply Car-free and Smalltopia. Get all the goodness on letter.ly.