Bios

Nageen Rather is a short story writer and aspiring novelist. Born and brought up in Kashmir (India Occupied), he teaches fiction at Islamic University of Science and Technology, Awantipora, Pulwama. His stories have appeared in various literary journals and magazines of international repute. His debut novel Handcuffed to History is upcoming soon. He loves gardening and bird-watching.

A former teacher and librarian, Travis Biddick is now a CPA in Oklahoma City, where he lives with his wife and four children. His poetry and criticism have appeared in Able Muse, Ruminate Magazine, Dappled Things, and the Rotary Dial.

Luke Hathaway was born Amanda Jernigan in 1978 and lived as a woman for forty-one years before dying and becoming a man. Under his former name he published three collections of poetry, including Years, Months, and Days, named a Best Book of 2018 in the New York Times. Under his current name, he teaches creative writing and English literature at Saint Mary’s University in Mi’kma’ki.

Matthew Buckley Smith’s book Dirge for an Imaginary World won the 2011 Able Muse Book Award. He is the associate editor of Literary Matters.

Christopher Rivas is an award-winning storyteller, essayist (New York Times, Modern Love, SwipeLife, Level), actor (GLOW, Grey’s Anatomy, For the People, SEAL Team, Shameless, Rizzoli & Isles, 2 Broke Girls, Rosewood), Rothschild Social Impact fellow, teacher, filmmaker, speaker, and creator of The Real James Bond was Dominican. His mission is to share powerful stories that move us forward, blend boundaries, and encourage dialogue.

N.S. Thompson is the nonfiction editor for Able Muse and lives near Oxford, UK. A poet, critic and translator of Italian fiction, with Andy Croft he edited A Modern Don Juan: Cantos for These Times by Divers Hands (Five Leaves). His poetry publications include Letter to Auden (Smokestack Books), Mr Larkin on Photography (Red Squirrel), and two recent pamphlets After War (New Walk Editions) and Ghost Hands (Melos Press).

Alexander Pepple founded and edits Able Muse and Able Muse Press, and also founded and directs the Eratosphere online worskshop. His poetry and prose have been or will be published in Barrow Street, River Styx, American Arts Quarterly, Light, Think Journal, Euphony, Per Contra, Eclectica, Measure and elsewhere.

Alexander Pepple founded and edits Able Muse and Able Muse Press, and also founded and directs the Eratosphere online worskshop. His poetry and prose have been or will be published in Barrow Street, River Styx, Measure, American Arts Quarterly, Light, Think Journal, Euphony, Per Contra, La Petite Zine, San Pedro River Review and elsewhere.

John Philip Drury is the author of Sea Level Rising (Able Muse Press, 2015) and three earlier books of poetry: The Disappearing Town, Burning the Aspern Papers, andThe Refugee Camp. The first part of “The Ruined Aristocrat” reconstructs a conversation broadcast in the 1980s on Sally Jessy Raphael’s radio show, when his mother phoned John Waters from the garden apartment she shared with her lover and secret wife, Carolyn Long, a former opera singer.

Terese Coe’s poems and translations have appeared in Able Muse, Alaska Quarterly Review, Agenda, the Cincinnati Review, the Moth, New American Writing, New Writing Scotland, Ploughshares, Poetry, Poetry Review, Threepenny Review, and the TLS, among other international journals. Her collection, Shot Silk, was short-listed for the 2017 Poets Prize, and copies of her poem “More” were heli-dropped across London as part of the 2012 Olympics Rain of Poems.