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Shyla Ann Shehan is an analytical Virgo from the US Midwest. She has an MFA from the University of Nebraska where she was awarded an Academy of American Poets Prize. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Pinch, New York Quarterly, Nelle, Door is a Jar Magazine, Midwest Quarterly, Drunk Monkeys, Plainsongs, and elsewhere, and she was nominated for a Pushcart in 2022. Shyla is the curator of The Good Life Review and lives in Omaha with her partner, children, and three cats. ❀ For more, please visit shylashehan.com. 

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Shyla Ann Shehan (she/her) is an analytical Virgo from the US Midwest. She received an MFA in Poetry from the University of Nebraska and is curator of The Good Life Review. She lives in Omaha with her partner, children, and three cats. ❀ For more, please visit shylashehan.com.

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Stephanie holds both a Bachelor of Music degree in Instrumental Music Education and an M.A. in English: Literary Study from the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga.  During the pursuit of her M.A., her research interests were varied, ranging from tracing the ideas presented in the poetry of Walt Whitman through the music of Bruce Springsteen to Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, and cocaine addiction.  Stephanie presented a shortened, conference essay, “Self-Administered, Hypodermically, Subcutaneously, or Intravenously: Exploring the Cocaine Addiction of Sherlock Holmes,” at the Tennessee Philological Association Conference in 2010.  She is a 2018 graduate of Queens University of Charlotte and earned an M.F.A. in Creative Writing.  Previous works have been published in The Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, The Smart Set, and other journals.

Professional Bio

Stephanie L. Haun holds an MFA in Creative Writing with an emphasis in Creative Nonfiction from Queens University of Charlotte. Previous works have been published in The Smart Set, Drunk Monkeys, Beyond Words, The Intima, The Centifictionist, and others. She can be found on Twitter (@shaunwriter) and Instagram/Facebook (@stephaniehaunwriter).

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Kim kjagain Moes loves dandelions, exploring fresh places, and laughing at herself. Her work appears in multiple journals, most recently in Jake Magazine. @kjagain on almost all social media. On writing, she says, “Write the life we live, explore the lessons not yet learned, and then, eat catharsis for dinner.”


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There  is  this  hypnotic  symmetry  to  the  Harry  Potter  series  which  makes  it  especially  fascinating  to  obsessive-compulsive  minds  such  as  my  own.  

Snape Snape Severus Snape

If movies are a reflection of the times, then it’s easy to feel overcrowded. Even onscreen, it increasingly feels like there’s no space left to turn for solitude.

Outside the City Limits: An Appreciation for Civilization's End

Emotional Climate Report (after Tom Waits)

"The Golden Boy" is a true story about school, about isolation and self-discovery. The title of the story is inspired by the author's grandfather, whose name, Aurel, translates to "golden boy."

The Golden Boy

Do You Ever Have Thoughts Like This? If So, Do You Let Them Eat You Alive? 

This is a visual poem I created along with a line of original writing.

Freeze Frame

Zmorg and the Sun of Zmorg

Non-Fungible 

What Happened After the October 14, 1978, American Top 40 Countdown

Massage Poem

How shattering it is to be told by someone you consider a friend that they no longer have room for you in their life.

A Severing

Hugh Hefner, I Hope You Rot in Hell

WTF Michael Patrick King?

Ciao! Manhattan

big bird singing at his father's funeral

the blender

Bounce

Last Names

Broken Octopus Trap

Now More Than Ever

don’t lay me down 
under tornado green skies 

but let me dust gentle 
against oceans I’ve never seen ...

Don't Bury Me in Oklahoma

I pick it up and see that he chose a dinosaur book for tonight’s bedtime reading. Sweet. I love dinosaurs. I pick up the hardcover book. It’s an A-Z dinosaur book. A is for Ankylosaurus. B is for Brachiosaurus. Everything is going just fine until F. 

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