Jeffrey Condran

Jeffrey Condran is the author of the story collection, A Fingerprint Repeated (Press 53).  His debut novel, Prague Summer (Counterpoint), was published in August 2014 and received a 2015 Independent Publisher Book Award’s Silver Medal.  His fiction has appeared in journals such as The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, and Epoch, and has been awarded the The Missouri Review’s 2010 William Peden Prize and Pushcart Prize nominations.  He is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and co-founder/publisher of the independent literary press, Braddock Avenue Books.

Robert Peluso

Robert Peluso holds a PhD from Columbia University, where he was also awarded a President's Fellowship. He has contributed numerous interviews, literary features, and book reviews to print, radio, and online forums. His fiction has won the Caliban Book Shop-Pittsburgh Quarterly Review Prize (Hilary Masters, judge), was selected by The Fourth River as one of the best stories of the past ten years, and was long-listed for LitMag’s Virginia Woolf Award for Short Fiction. Recent stories have appeared in Modern Language Studies, Burrow Press Review, and Big Muddy. He is co-founder/publisher of Braddock Avenue Books.

 

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Sherrie Flick

Sherrie Flick, the author of the flash fiction chapbook I Call This Flirting (Flume) and the novel Reconsidering Happiness (Bison Books, University of Nebraska Press), which was a semi-finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Her flash fiction appears in many anthologies including Norton’s Flash Fiction Forward and New Sudden Fiction. Her stories have been published in North American Review, Ploughshares, Quarterly West, Northwest Review, Prairie Schooner, Puerto del Sol, and Booth Journal, among others. Recently, Dan Chaon selected her story “Gravity” for Wigleaf’s 2011 50 Very Short Story List. She has received grants and fellowships from Sewanee Writers’ Conference, PA Council on the Arts, PA Partners in the Arts, Ucross Foundation, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the Heinz and Pittsburgh foundations. She lives in Pittsburgh and teaches in Chatham University’s MFA program. www.sherrieflick.com

Luke Lozier

Luke Lozier, who is dedicated to 'connecting discerning buyers to booksellers online without middlemen crashing the party' as Chief Executive of Bibliopolis (www.bibliopolis.com), a technology firm devoted exclusively to helping independent booksellers and publishers maintain their independence in an era of fast-changing technology. Also a poet and photographer, his work has appeared in such places as Lyric&, Calliope and the New Yinzer (www.newyinzer.com). He is currently at work on a poetry collection, provisionally titled "House".

Marc Nieson

Marc Nieson, a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and NYU Film School. His background includes filmmaking, children’s theatre, building construction, and a season with a one-ring circus. Excerpts from Schoolhouse: A Memoir in 13 Lessons have appeared in Literary Review, Iowa Review, Green Mountains Review, and Chautauqua. Recent fiction is in Conjunctions, Hawk & Handsaw, the 2011 Wordstock Ten and Stripped anthologies. His prose has won two Pushcart Prize nominations, the Literal Latte Fiction Award, and Raymond Carver Short Story Award. His award-winning feature-length screenplays include Speed of Life, The Dream Catcher, and Bottomland. He serves on the faculty of Chatham University, and is working on a new novel, Houdini’s Heirs. Link: You can read one of his prize-winning short stories, “The Last Hours of Pompeii” @ www.carvezine.com.

 

Savannah Adams

Savannah Adams is a graduate of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock's English program. She is a graphic designer who has worked with Braddock Avenue Books since 2015. She has also worked for Heifer International and the Jesse Lewis Choose Love Foundation.

Madison Brown

Madison Brown is a MA candidate at Mississippi State University, studying Creative Writing. She is Associate Editor of the Jabberwock Review and Editorial Assistant with Braddock Avenue Books. She plans to pursue a job in the publishing field post-graduate school.

Meghan Reed

Meghan Reed is an MA candidate at Mississippi State University studying creative writing. She holds degrees in creative writing and French from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. A Cooper Honors Scholar, her work has appeared in, Equinox, where she won the 2017 Award for Fiction.

 

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KateLin Carsrud

KateLin Carsrud is a graduate student in the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi. Her work has appeared in the Baltimore-based literary magazine JMWW and Equinox, where she was awarded the 2019 David Jauss Prize for Fiction.

Carrie Guimond

Carrie Guimond is a senior at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock where she is majoring in English and minoring in Professional and Technical Writing. Her work has appeared in the literary journal JMWW, and she in an intern at Braddock Avenue Books. After graduation, she intends to pursue an MFA in Creative Writing. She lives in Conway with her husband, Joe, and their many cats.

Erica Harris

Erica Harris is a senior at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock majoring in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing. She is also minoring in Mass Media. Erica is a member of the Chancellor’s Leadership Corps and an intern at Braddock Avenue Books.

Jessica Maxwell

Jessica Maxwell is a senior at the University of Arkansas Little Rock. She is pursuing a B.A. in English with a focus in Creative Writing. After graduating, she plans to pursue Larry David in the hopes that he will agree to put his hand atop her head and channel all of his comedic genius into her, but before that, time allowing, she would like to get an MFA in Creative Writing.

Janee Miller

Janee Miller is a senior at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock where she is majoring in Professional and Technical Writing and minoring in Creative Writing. She is a member of the Chancellor’s Leadership Corp Scholarship Program at UA Little Rock. Her goal after graduation is to attend graduate school, and eventually work in journalism.

Adrishi Yadava

Adrishi Yadava is a junior at University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She is a Studio Art major with an English minor. She is an active member in the art community and is also a studio assistant at the Windgate Center of Art and Design. She has been published in the UALR newspaper, The Forum. She has worked previously as an intern for The Butterfly Typeface Publishing House, where she assisted in all phases of the publishing process. An avid reader, she has an undying love for all things art and literature.