Stephen P. Phillips served in the U.S. Navy as a surface warfare officer and Explosive Ordnance Disposal technician. During his naval career he deployed to Haiti, Somalia, the Balkans, and the Persian Gulf and served in the Global War on … Continue reading From the Desk of Stephen P. Phillips: It’s not the first time Iran has deployed mines in the Gulf
Natalie Oceanheart is a trained psychologist and volunteer counselor. She immigrated to the United States in 2023 after the second Russian invasion of Ukraine. She has been awarded for her volunteer services and leadership by the Red Cross. Her new … Continue reading Life Beyond Fear: Why This Book Was Written
Jill Christman is the author of If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (Nebraska, 2022), Darkroom: A Family Exposure, and Borrowed Babies: Apprenticing for Motherhood. She is a professor in the Creative Writing Program at Ball State University, … Continue reading From the Desk of Jill Christman: Baltimore Bound
Kerry Fine is an instructor in the Department of English at Arizona State University. Michael K. Johnson is professor of American literature at the University of Maine-Farmington. Rebecca M. Lush is a professor in the Literature and Writing Studies Department … Continue reading Teaching Weird Westerns
Brad Bigelow is a writer, instructor, and editor living in Missoula, Montana. He is the editor of the Recovered Books series for Boiler House Press and has been a writer for the Neglected Books website since 2006. With more than six … Continue reading From the Desk of Brad Bigelow: In Search of Virginia Faulkner
Larry C. Skogen is president emeritus of Bismarck State College, an independent historian, and a retired member of the U.S. Air Force. He is the editor of To Educate American Indians: Selected Writings from the National Educational Association’s Department of Indian Education, … Continue reading From the Desk of Larry C. Skogen: To Educate American Indians
Shann Ray’s novel Where Blackbirds Fly (Bison Books, 2025) is a braided set of five novellas, each a tenderly told and brutally honest investigation into the nature of relationships and what it means to love. As with his previous work, … Continue reading A History of Love and Fracture: An interview with Shann Ray
Rick Gosselin is a Pro Football Hall of Fame journalist who has covered the Detroit Lions, New York Giants, Kansas City Chiefs, and Dallas Cowboys. He became a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame selection committee in 1988 and … Continue reading From the Desk of Rick Gosselin: The Team that History Forgot
Dean Marshall Tuck is a writer living in eastern North Carolina with his wife and daughters. His work has been published in Alaska Quarterly Review, Epoch, Witness Magazine, and elsewhere. Tuck serves on the advisory board for the North Carolina Literary Review and teaches writing at … Continue reading Twinless Twin: A Novel and Unsolved Mysteries
Andrea Strongwater is an author and artist whose artwork has been shown worldwide, including in the collections of the University Medical Center of Princeton, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum in Ithaca, New York, the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, Or … Continue reading From the Desk of Andrea Strongwater: Lost Synagogues of Europe
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