L. M. Brown’s short story collections Treading The Uneven Road (Fomite 2019) and Were We Awake (Fomite 2019) were both featured on World Literature Today. She has two novels published. Her latest novel Hinterland (Fomite 2020) was an honorable mention finalist in the Eric Hoffer Award (2021).
Thomas Mampalam is a board certified neurosurgeon who has practiced in Northern California for over thirty years. He writes poetry and short stories informed by his medical practice, immigration, and family experiences. He has published poems in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Neurology, the Healing Muse, Intima Journal of Narrative Medicine, Ailment: Chronicles of Illness Narratives, the Avalon Literary Review, California Quarterly, the Cortland Review, Metonym, Good Works Review, and Iris Literary Journal.
Terese Coe’s poems, translations, and prose appear in many international journals including Able Muse, Agenda, Alaska Quarterly, American Arts Quarterly, Cincinnati Review, Classical Outlook, Crannog, Cyphers, Hopkins Review, Metamorphoses, the Moth, New American Writing, New Scotland Writing, Ploughshares, Poetry, Poetry Review, Stinging Fly, Threepenny Review, and the TLS.
R. S. Powers’s stories and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Sou’wester, Juked, JMWW, Entropy, Speculative Nonfiction, Glimmer Train, X-R-A-Y, World Literature Today, the Hunger, and other journals. He teaches at West Chester University in Pennsylvania.
Silvia DiPierdomenico is an Italian teacher and private tutor. Her previous publications include a work of literary nonfiction in McSweeney’s Quarterly and an essay in Elle Magazine. Raised bilingually in Central Massachusetts, she completed a BA in English at Yale University, where she continued her studies and received an MA and MPhil in Italian literature. While living in New York City, she taught Italian at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Currently settled in Los Angeles, she lives with her husband and their Swiss White Shepherd dog, Fia.
