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Larry Smith - 1 post
’s novella, Patrick Fitzmike and Mike Fitzpatrick, was published in spring, 2016, by Outpost 19. His story “Tight Like That” appeared in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern (print edition), #27. “The Shield of Paris,” published in Low Rent, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. “Woman, My Come Is Time” won Judge’s Choice as highest-rated short story for Issue One of Heart and Mind Zine. Other stories were published in Exquisite Corpse, Juked, Curbside Splendor, FictionNow, PANK and numerous others. His poetry was in Descant (Canada) and Elimae, among others, and his articles and essays in Modern Fiction Studies, Social Text, The Boston Phoenix, and others. Visit Larrysmithfiction.com.
Laura Merleau - 2 posts
's novella Little Fugue was published by Woodley Memorial Press in 1993. She received a doctoral degree in American Literature from the University of Kansas in 2000, but soon had to go on disability due to fibromyalgia. In 2008, she experienced a kundalini awakening which enabled her to return to work and eventually go off disability. By 2015, she found her first full-time job teaching AP English to Chinese students at The Affiliated High School of South China Normal University, and is currently the Head of the English Department there. After a trip to Tibet last summer, she started writing again. Her poetry has appeared in Mixed Fruit, The Apple Valley Review, and Wordgathering.
Laura Madeline Wiseman - 1 post
has a doctorate from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she teaches English and creative writing. She is the author of seven collections of poetry, including Sprung (San Francisco Bay Press, 2012) and Unclose the Door (Gold Quoin Press, 2012). She is also the editor of Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2013). Her writings have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Margie, Arts & Letters, Poet Lore, and Feminist Studies. She has received awards from the Academy of American Poets and Mari Sandoz/Prairie Schooner, and grants from the Center for the Great Plains Studies and the Wurlitzer Foundation. www.lauramadelinewiseman.com
Laurel Nakanishi - 2 posts
is a first-year MFA student in poetry. Last year she was honored to receive the Richard Hugo Memorial Scholarship and a teaching fellowship at the University of Montana. In addition to being a poet, she has worked in various non-profit organizations around the world and has also taught English in Japan, Ecuador and Cambodia.
Laurel O'Gorman - 1 post
has been involved with art since a very early age. She has been a student, a teacher, a curator, a director, a mentor and a consultant, and spent 15 years designing art books and catalogues at a publishing company. Currently, she lives in Roseville, Minnesota, and is happy to spend time in her studio working in a variety of media. Her recent work in water color emerged from a lingering focus on studies into nature and the inspiration from daily Tao readings.
Laurie Junkins - 3 posts
has lived with her husband and three children on Orcas Island for nine years, raising alpacas and writing poetry. She is currently working on her MFA in poetry at Whidbey Writers Workshop.
Laurie Parker - 1 post
grew up in Baltimore and moved to San Francisco when she was seventeen. She studied dance, theater, and film there and directed and acted in plays before moving to Los Angeles where she became a movie producer. She lives on Lopez Island with her sons Kaj and Eski Benson.
Lena Fultz - 1 post
is a writer and storyteller currently based in Nebraska. Her work appears in Blackbird, Allegory Ridge, The Loch Raven Review, and Tuscarora Review. Her professional journey began with a BA in English from Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland and continued with a MFA in Creative Writing from Hollins University, nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Roanoke, Virginia, where she was Hollins’ finalist for the AWP Intro Journals Project.
Leonie Mikele Fogle - 2 posts
is a Seattle native. Her poetry has appeared in several journals, including Cordite Review, Cirque Journal, and Soundings Review. Her collection “Tempo Rubato/Stolen Time” was selected as a 2016 semi-finalist for Fordham University’s POL prize. She earned her MA in creative writing from Northwest Institute of Literary Arts (2015) where she studied poetry with David Wagoner and Carolyne Wright. More recently she attended the Colraine Writers Workshop--with Martha Rhodes, Joan H. and Rusty Morrison--and Vermont School of the Arts summer workshop with Patricia Smith and David Wojahn. She earned a BA in acting from New York University and before that was a scholarship student at the Joffrey Ballet School. She presented a reading of David Wagoner’s play about Theodore Roethke, First Class, during the AWP Conference in Seattle (2013)
Leslie Entsminger - 1 post
graduated from Purdue University in 1979 in Interdisciplinary Engineering. She worked for Mobil Oil as a geophysicist before retiring in 1986 to raise three children. While in Houston from 2000 to 2011, she worked as an artist in oil painting and printmaking.