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Maryanne Chrisant - 1 post
, MD, has been published in 34th Parallel Magazine, Apricity Magazine, Connecticut River Review, JONAHmagazine, Platform Review, Spotlong Review, and on the podcast Anamnesis: Medical Storytellers. She has attended writing workshops with Jericho Writers, The New School, Tufts University, and in Shaker Square, Ohio. She studied poetry with Galway Kinnell and Denise Levertov. Maryanne is a physician and has held leadership roles at many prominent health-care institutions in the U.S. An advocate for children’s health, she currently directs the Pediatric Heart Transplant, Heart Failure & Cardiomyopathy Program at Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital in South Florida. Maryanne enjoys traveling with her twin sons, who are now seventeen and teaching her to box.
Matthew Bruce Harrison - 1 post
's writing has been published or will be soon in journals such as The Cincinnati Review, Sixth Finch, West Branch, Crab Creek Review, The Carolina Quarterly, The Texas Review, Yemassee, and The Adroit Journal. He grew up in Georgia, lived on the West Coast for a long while, then moved to Massachusetts to do an MFA. Now he lives in Minnesota.
Matthew Felix Sun - 1 post
reaches toward historical and social commentary in depicting life frankly and critically as visual surfaces and interior qualities. Art ought to be both from life, and above life, revealing what is behind. Sun has exhibited in several national competitions and his work is collected in the US, Canada, and China. He has been building an Apocalypse Series of paintings and drawings since 2003. Growing up in China's repressive culture and atmosphere formed the foundation of his world view and his work. His portfolio can be viewed at matthewfelixsun.com.
Maya Borhani - 4 posts
grew up among eucalyptus, wild nasturtiums, and sour grass blossoms in Berkeley, California, before migrating to the great central valley, and later the Sierra Nevada foothills of northern California. A former resident of Lopez Island, her work has appeared in previous issues of Shark Reef, as well as in an upcoming special UNESCO issue of Multi-Disciplinary Research in the Arts. Maya has recently completed a Master of Arts degree in Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, on the topic of poetic inquiry and a/r/tography (the conflagration of artist/researcher/teacher). When not studying or writing, Maya spends her time hiking, playing in the dirt, and reveling in sunshine and beachcombing.
Megan Leahy - 1 post
attended the Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop in 2016 and wrote this poem while there. She is a junior at Colorado Rocky Mountain School, which is a 9-12 day/boarding school in Carbondale, Colorado. She has also participated in creative writing workshops at The Putney School Summer Arts Program and the Aspen Summer Words program for young writers.
Mel Flannery - 1 post
grew up in Chicago with a distinctive voice and strong imagination. She earned a Bachelors degree from Indiana University and Masters degree from Vanderbilt University. Mel worked as a nurse, teacher and researcher in the Midwest before moving to Seattle, where she earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Northwest Institute of Literary Arts on Whidbey Island. She loves the written word, art, and intelligent thought and currently enjoys life as a poet and writer in the Pacific Northwest. Her professor once said she had gifts for drama, poetry and fiction but may have difficulty choosing which one to use. Mel sees no reason to choose. They all find a home in her writing. Her poems appear in anthologies by Pacific Review and Harvardwood Publishing. Fish On A Line is her first deliberate attempt at a good story.
Melissa Parietti - 1 post
is a native of Long Island originally from Melville, New York. She attended business classes and writing workshops at SUNY Geneseo. At 24 years old, her poetry has received several acceptances to print and online journals. An example of her work can be found here: http://pdxxcollective.com/2015/04/16/the-haze-guest/. Reach her at LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/melissa-parietti/34/970/2b2. Her Twitter handle is @MelissaParie.
Mer Monson - 1 post
fell in love with writing during an adventure with cancer. She is the author of Reality Bathed in Hope: A Cancer Blog, and five of Mer’s pieces were recently published in Stories from the Muses. She has also been a guest contributor on the Exponent II Blog. She lives with her husband and three sons in the Rocky Mountains of Springville, Utah. Find her at www.mermonson.com.
Mercedes Lawry - 6 posts
has had poems published in such journals as Poetry, Natural Bridge, Nimrod, and Prairie Schooner as well as SHARK REEF. She's published two chapbooks - “There are Crows in My Blood” and “Happy Darkness.” She was a finalist for the 2017 Airlie Press Prize and the 2017 Wheelbarrow Book Prize and has received the Vachel Lindsay Poetry Prize from Twelve Winters Press. Lawry has received honors from the Seattle Arts Commission, Jack Straw Foundation, Artist Trust and Richard Hugo House, been a seven-time Pushcart Prize nominee and held a residency at Hedgebrook. She's also published short fiction as well as stories and poems for children.
Meredith Bailey - 1 post
earned an MFA in creative writing from Goddard College. Her work has previously appeared in Pitkin Review, mycarecommunity.org, Alaska Airlines Magazine, and Horizon Air Magazine. She is currently working on her first novel.