Ink: An Anthology

We're pleased to introduce you to the contributors of Ink: An Anthology: 

Nancy Brewka-Clark

Nancy Brewka-Clark's poems, short stories, drama, and nonfiction have appeared in periodicals and anthologies published by Red Hen Press, University of Iowa Press, Southeast Missouri State University Press, The Boston Globe, Smith and Kraus, YouthPLAYS of Los Angeles, and Routledge U.K. She is the 2019 winner of the Amy Lowell Poetry Prize. Her debut poetry collection Beautiful Corpus will be released June 2020.

Richard Fellinger

Richard Fellinger is an author and writing fellow at Elizabethtown College. From 1994 to 2009, he worked for several Pennsylvania newspapers, including nine years as the state Capitol reporter for MediaNews Group. His fiction includes his story collection, They Hover Over Us, winner the Serena McDonald Kennedy Award, and the novel Made To Break Your Heart. He's a native of Altoona, Pa. and now lives in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Andrea Frantz

 Early on, Andrea Frantz heard the clarion call of two professions: journalism and teaching, thanks to both of her parents. So, she married the fields and became Dr. Andrea Frantz. She has taught journalism for three decades and is most happy when student journalists break new ground or question authority. Frantz is currently a professor of digital media at Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, Iowa, and executive director of the Society for Collegiate Journalists.

Wandeka Gayle

Wandeka Gayle is a Jamaican writer, visual artist, and assistant professor of creative writing at Spelman College. She is the author of Motherland and Other Stories (Peepal Tree Press 2020) and has a Ph.D. in English, with a Creative Writing concentration from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She has received writing fellowships from Kimbilio Fiction, Callaloo, the Hurston/Wright Foundation, and the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. Other writing has appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Rumpus, Transition, Interviewing the Caribbean and other journals and magazines.

Magin LaSov Gregg

 Magin LaSov Gregg’s writing has appeared in The Washington Post, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News, The Rumpus, Full Grown People, Solstice Literary Magazine, Bellingham Review, Hippocampus Magazine, Under the Gum Tree, River Teeth’s Beautiful Things, and elsewhere. A Pushcart Prize nominee, she lives in Frederick, Maryland, with her husband, Carl, and four fabulous rescue pets.

Timothy Kenny

Timothy Kenny is a former newspaperman, Fulbright scholar and college journalism professor. He has traveled widely throughout Eastern Europe and Central Asia and has lived and worked in Romania and Kosovo. His narrative nonfiction and short stories have appeared in twenty-three U.S. and European literary journals, including The Gettysburg Review, Irish Pages, The Kenyon Review Online, and The Amsterdam Quarterly. His 2015 collection of nonfiction essays, Far Country, Stories From Abroad and Other Places, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Jay Langley

Jay Langley wrote and edited weekly newspapers published by his wife, Catherine. Together they started a book publishing wing, a cable TV news hour, a tabloid for horse enthusiasts, and a website that USA Today dubbed the best in its field. To collectors worldwide, they sold reprints of old issues about the 1932 Lindbergh Baby kidnapping. They taught whitewater canoeing to 20,000 people, including students from around the world at the United Nations International School in Manhattan. Now Catherine is a plein air painter. Jay is writing a memoir, called Travels with Peter, about friendship lost and found.

Richard LeBlond

Richard LeBlond is a retired biologist living in North Carolina. His essays and photographs have appeared in numerous U.S. and international journals, and his work has been nominated for Best American Travel Writing and Best of the Net.

Nina B. Lichtenstein

Nina is a native of Oslo, Norway, a teacher, storyteller, Narrative 4 story-exchange facilitator, and AirBnB super-duper host. She is a recovering academic with a Ph.D.in French literature and she earned an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast program in 2020. Her work has appeared in Tablet, Lilith, The Washington Post, Brevity, Literary Mama, and Dorothy Parker's Ashes, among other places. Nina has three adult sons and divides her time between Maine and Tel Aviv with her partner Tony.

Kate Meadows

Kate Meadows launched her writing career at age 15, writing profiles for her hometown newspaper in Pinedale, Wyoming. She holds an MFA in professional writing, with concentrations in creative nonfiction and journalism. Her work has appeared in Writer’s Digest, River Teeth, USAA Magazine, DINE (another anthology produced by Hippocampus) and elsewhere. She leads workshops, works as a writing coach and loves coordinating writing groups that connect writers with similar and complementary artistic interests. Visit her website: www.katemeadows.com.

Anthony J. Mohr

Anthony J. Mohr's work has appeared in, among other places, Christian Science Monitor, Commonweal, DIAGRAM, Eclectica, North Dakota Quarterly, The Saint Ann's Review, Superstition Review, War, Literature, and the Arts, ZYZZYVA, and several anthologies. A five time Pushcart Prize nominee, he received honorable mention from Sequestrum's 2016 Editor's Reprint Award. By day, he is a judge on the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles.

Judy S. Richardson

Judy S. Richardson lives in Richmond, Virginia. She taught high school and, as a professor of Education, wrote numerous articles and three textbooks. She has published in The Penman Review, Persimmon Tree, Lowestoft Chronicle, Whitefish Review, Change Seven, and in Stories Through The Ages: Baby Boomers Plus-2017; Nuance, Anthology of Ventura County Writers Club, 2018; Wingless Dreamer (2020). She is currently writing Traveling at my Own Gait (a memoir) and essays about refugee families.

Marsh Rose

Marsh Rose is a freelance writer, psychotherapist, and college educator. Her short stories have appeared in Hippocampus, Cosmopolitan Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner, Salon.Com and other publications. Her second novel, Escape Routes, was published by Sunbury Press in March 2021. Marsh lives in northern California with her greyhound, Adin.

Roxana Ross

Roxana Ross started her journalism career with a handful of clips and a B.A. in English and creative writing from Florida State University. Eventually she moved to PR, as many do. She writes for herself in her free time, often in Associated Press Style. In between, she works, wrangles young twins, and tries to talk to her husband like a normal woman who has totally figured out how to have it all under control.

Laura Stanfill

Laura Stanfill is the author of Singing Lessons for the Stylish Canary (Lanternfish Press) and the publisher of Forest Avenue Press. She believes in literary community and wishes on indie bookstores like stars.