Michael Washburn is a Brooklyn-based writer and journalist. His short stories have appeared in numerous journals and magazines 

Matt Bloom's Salt of the Nation is the story of Harry McBride, a disillusioned gravel plant worker who impulsively slugs the Republican presidential nominee during a campaign photo-op and instantly becomes America’s most famous fugitive and newest hero.

“Labors in Vineyards of Desire is a grand, sweeping chronicle of our time, filled with particulars transcendent and mundane, questioned and understood in light of the poet’s astonishing erudition and ferocious appetite for life. Gibbons entertains nearly every version of each of our era’s events, refracting them through the intensely...

CINDY STOCKLER - author of the CALLIOPE: THE SLAVE FROM ATHENS,
ALMA MATER, and OPERATION CAIPIROSKA
"I have these ‘scenes’, or ‘sketches’ in my mind, they´re like short dialogues between two people, something very brief, without any consequence, and I never imagine that is going to turn into something. They keep coming to my mind, though, especially in the quiet of the night (I don´t call it insomnia ‘cause that´s when I get my best inspiration)."

SUSAN POLLET Tell us a bit about yourself-something that we will not find in the official author/illustrator’s bio.  Do you have any unusual creative habits? I am a person with a lot of ideas.  I have been a voracious reader since my early childhood.  When I am not writing, I...

CHERYL CRABB Tell us a bit about yourself – something that we will not find in the official author’s bio?Summers in northern Wisconsin at my grandparents’ cottage near Eagle River were always an adventure for my little sister and me. Up North, we could roam the forest, and our grandpa...