Current Occupation – writer Former Occupations – printer, trucker, roofer, bartender Contact Information: Tom Larsen was a journeyman printer for 26 years before giving it up for the writer’s life. What he was thinking isn’t clear. ### Printers Inc. Take …
Current Occupation: City Firefighter Former Occupation: City Firefighter Contact Information: I am an English writing major in my final term as an undergraduate at Boise State University, and hope to start graduate school next fall. In addition to school, I …
Current Occupation: Technical Writer Former Occupation: Teacher Contact Information: Sara Greenwald is a contracting technical writer in San Francisco who will be unemployed again this fall. Stories of hers have been published in Pindeldyboz, Third Space, Red Fez, the Harvard …
Current Occupation: Writer Former Occupation: Part-time Paralegal Contact Information: Patty Somlo has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize three times. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review, The Santa Clara Review, the Sand Hill Review and Guernica. Her …
Current Occupation: Student and House-Keeping Assistant Former Occupation: Nursing Home Caregiver Contact Information: Philip Kao hails from Michigan, and graduated in 1999 with an AB in Economics from the University of Chicago. ### A Room with No View In the …
Current Occupation: retired social worker Contact Information: 17 year shipyard electrician Contact Information: A poet since she was 14, Mary Slocum was the last winner of the Portland Artquake competition in the 90s and a winner of Washington State Poetry …
Current Occupation: Nurse Former Occupation: Factory Worker Contact Information: Ann Neuser Lederer was born in the Black Swamp region of Ohio, location of the factory discussed in “Factory Job.” After an period of infatuation with Anthropology and earning two impractical …
Current Occupation: Bakery Assistant Former Occupation: Movie Extra, Night Shift Nursing Home Janitor, Home Theater Installer, etc. Contact Information: Ronald Steiner lives and migrates in an infinite loop from western Pennsylvania. He has lived in Arizona, Pittsburgh, and the Philadelphia …
Current Occupation: private tutor Former Occupation: college and adult English and ESL teacher Contact Information: I have written poetry my whole life and been a teacher my whole life. I have about four dozen poems in public in over two …
Current Occupation: Companion to my 88-year-old mother and our 19-year-old cat Former Occupation: Child rearer, landscaper, cook, laundress, errand runner, social planner, travel agent, and all-around indentured servant of high-powered attorney. Contact Information: Denise Emanuel Clemen became a mother at …
Current Occupation: Retired Steelworker (2003-Present) Former Occupation: Production Steelworker (1972-2003) Contact Information: David was born in the steel town of East Chicago, Indiana. He attended D.E. Gavit High School in Hammond, IN. He spent one year attending Indiana State University …