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Press 53 Spotlight
2011 Press 53 Spotlight
Five short story authors and three poets earning recognition through publication and awards.
SOFTCOVER
9 x 6, 210 pages
ISBN 978-1-935708-35-3
$17.95
Spotlight Short Story Authors
Spotlight Poets
Okla Eliott
Jen McConnell
Steve Mitchell
Anne Leigh Parrish
Jubal Tiner
Clare L. Martin
Maureen Sherbondy
Kate Waldman
The 2011 Press 53 Spotlight is the second volume in an annual anthology series from Press 53 that features works from poets and short story authors who come to the attention of Press 53 poetry series editor Tom Lombardo and founding editor Kevin Morgan Watson by way of the annual Press 53 Open Awards writing contest, through the standard submissions process, and from reading journals, magazines, and anthologies. These are writers who, individually, in the editors’ opinions, are creating a body of work worthy of consideration for a book of his or her own poetry or short stories.
Okla Elliott is currently the Illinois Distinguished Fellow at the University of Illinois, where he works in the fields of comparative literature and trauma studies. He also holds an MFA from Ohio State University. For the academic year 2008-09, he was a visiting assistant professor at Ohio Wesleyan University. His drama, non-fiction, poetry, short fiction, and translations have appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, Indiana Review, The Literary Review, Natural Bridge, New Letters, A Public Space, and The Southeast Review, among others. He is the author a full-length collection of short stories, From the Crooked Timber (forthcoming from Press 53), three poetry chapbooks—The Mutable Wheel; Lucid Bodies and Other Poems; and A Vulgar Geography. He co-edited (with Kyle Minor) The Other Chekhov.
A native Californian, Jen McConnell began her writing life in San Francisco in 1996. She received her MFA from Goddard College in Vermont and has published numerous stories in literary journals and anthologies. Jen currently makes her home on the Lake Erie shore, with her husband, child and pug. She supports her writing habit by working in non-profit marketing and communications, saving the world one electronic press release at a time. Her website is www.jenmcconnell.com.
Steve Mitchell has been a construction worker, cowboy, substitute teacher, therapist and chef. He’s worked in theatre, film, and multi-voice poetry. He’s published in Contrary, Peregrine, Prime Number, Flash Magazine and The North Carolina Literary Review, among others. He is currently completing a novel, Body of Trust. He has a deep belief in the primacy of doubt and an abiding conviction that great wisdom can inhabit very bad movies. He can be found at: www.thisisstevemitchell.com.
Anne Leigh Parrish’s short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Virginia Quarterly Review, Clackamas Literary Review, The Pinch, American Short Fiction, PANK, Knee-Jerk Magazine, Prime Number Magazine, C4, Eclectica Magazine, Storyglossia, Bluestem, and r.kv.r.y., among other publications. Her story collection, All The Roads That Lead From Home, is due out in October 2011 from Press 53.
Jubal Tiner teaches at Brevard College in Western North Carolina and is the founder and editor of Pisgah Review, and a former editor of The Cimarron Review and Midland Review. His stories have appeared in The Baltimore Review, Florida Review, Oxford Magazine, Puerto del Sol, Jabberwock Review, Dos Passos Review, Weber Studies, and elsewhere. His short story collection, The Waterhouse, is forthcoming from Press 53 in Spring 2012.
Clare L. Martin is a poet/mother/wife, a graduate of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and lifelong Louisiana resident. Clare’s creative writing has appeared in Avatar Review, Poets and Artists, Blue Fifth Review, Referential Magazine, Scythe, and Literary Mama, among others. Her poems have been included in the anthologies: The Red Room: Writings, Best of Farmhouse Magazine Vol. 1, and Beyond Katrina. Her work has twice been nominated for Best of the Net, and for Best New Poets. Clare has written for theatre and recently served as a writer for Play. Music. Heal, a multi-disciplined collaborative theatre project with the company Acting Up (in Acadiana), which brought together actors, musicians and writers in creating a contemporary story revolving around the potential for music to heal.
Maureen Sherbondy received a B.A. degree from Rutgers University. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications, including European Judaism, Calyx, Feminist Studies, 13th Moon, Cairn, Comstock Review, Crucible, The Roanoke Review and the Raleigh News & Observer. Her poems have won first place in: The Deane Ritch Lomax Poetry Prize, The Lyricist Statewide Poetry Contest, the Carrie McCray Poetry Award, and the Hart Crane Memorial Poetry Award (Kent State University). Visit Maureen at www.maureensherbondy.com.
Kate Waldman received her B.A. in English at Yale University. Her poetry thesis was awarded the Theron Rockwell Field Prize in 2010. She is the first place winner of Narrative Magazine’s Second Annual Poetry Contest and the 2011 recipient of APJ’s American Poet Prize. Other honors include a Gordon Barber Memorial award for poetry in 2008. Kate was born in Washington D.C. and is currently an intern at Slate.
