Textual Healing with Mallory Smart

Caleb Bethea is an MFA at UofSC, studying fiction by night. By day, he works as a copywriter. But, the best of his time is spent with his wife and two goblins by the ocean. You can read his work in HAD, Maudlin House, Autofocus, Twin Pies, Bending Genres, hex, and elsewhere. He tweets at @caleb_bethea_

Check out his writing here: https://linktr.ee/caleb_bethea_

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A former high school English teacher, Michael Paul Kozlowsky is the author of the upcoming literary novel SCARECROW HAS A GUN from Imbrifex Books. Writing as M.P. Kozlowsky, he is the author of the YA novel FROST, and three middle-grade books - JUNIPER BERRY, ROSE COFFIN, and THE DYERVILLE TALES. He lives in New York with his wife and two daughters.

Represented by Stacey Kondla at The Rights Factory.

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Michael Paul Kozlowsky is the author of the literary thriller SCARECROW HAS A GUN. Writing as M.P. Kozlowsky, his children's novels include JUNIPER BERRY, FROST, ROSE COFFIN, and THE DYERVILLE TALES. He lives in New York with his wife, two daughters, and beagle Huxley. He can be reached on Instagram and Twitter @mpkozlowsky, or at his website mpkozlowsky.com.

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Caleb Bethea is a writer from the Southeast. He's an MFA at the University of South Carolina and works as a copywriter. The best of his time - by far - is spent with his wife and two goblins by the ocean. Catch his work in Maudlin House, HAD, Bear Creek, Twin Pies, hex, Autofocus, and elsewhere. Follow him on Twitter at @caleb_bethea_

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Dmitry Samarov was born in Moscow, USSR in 1970. He immigrated to the US with his family in 1978. He got in trouble in 1st grade for doodling on his Lenin Red Star pin and hasn't stopped doodling since. After a false start at Parsons School of Design in New York, he graduated with a BFA in painting and printmaking from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1993.

Upon graduation he promptly began driving a cab—first in Boston, then after a time, in Chicago— which eventually led to the publication of his illustrated work memoirs Hack: Stories from a Chicago Cab (University of Chicago Press, 2011) and Where To? A Hack Memoir (Curbside Splendor, 2014).

Music to My Eyes (Tortoise Books, 2019) is his first non-cabbie-related book.

Soviet Stamps (Pictures&Blather, 2020) is the second.

All Hack (Pictures&Blather, 2020) is a summation of his cabbie-related work.

Old Style (Pictures&Blather, 2021) is his first work of fiction. He has exhibited his work in all manner of bars, coffee shops, libraries, and even the odd gallery (when he's really hard up.)

He writes dog portraits and paints book reviews in Chicago, Illinois.

You can see more of his work than you'd ever want to at dmitrysamarov.com.

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You can buy his new book, paint-by-numbers here: https://shop.dmitrysamarov.com/home/paint-by-numbers

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Bobby Miller is a writer and filmmaker from New Jersey who lives in Los Angeles. His fiction has appeared in Maudlin House, Expat Press, and Bending Genres. His films have premiered at Sundance, SXSW, and Fantasia. He's currently working on his first novel, and yes, has a Substack you should read: BobbyMiller.Substack.com

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Amy Long is the author of Codependence (2019), selected by Brian Blanchfield as the winner of CSU Poetry Center’s Essay Collection Prize. Her work has appeared in Diagram, Ninth Letter, Hayden’s Ferry Review and elsewhere, including as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2019.

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J.D. O’Brien is the author of Zig Zag from_ _Schaffner Press. It comes out in January.

Description:

Capri Dall has a foolproof plan to knock over the marijuana dispensary where she works. But when her boyfriend botches the heist, the two of them end up in a stolen car with a trunkful of rare high-end weed--and an unhinged security guard on their trail.

Harry Robatore is a burned-out rhinestone cowboy, barely scraping by as a bail bondsman. Agreeing to help out an old pal, and settle his bar tab, he sets out to track down the lovers on the run. The chase begins in the San Fernando Valley and leads him deep into the heart of the Mojave Desert--building to an explosive showdown at a ghost town tourist trap.

Zig Zag is equal parts Elmore Leonard and Charles Portis--with Larry McMurtry's cowboy hat along for the ride.

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J.D. O’Brien was educated by nuns and holds a degree from the Jack Dempsey Bartending School in New York City. He edited the comedy zine Flop Sweat and his writing has appeared in Arthur Magazine, Dazed and Confused, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere. His essay on Chevy Chase was anthologized in The Lowbrow Reader Reader, published by Drag City Books. He has worked as a bartender, cold caller, dishwasher, and Strand Bookstore employee. After stints in New York City, Los Angeles, and Portland, Oregon, he returned to his home of western Massachusetts. He has a dog named Lefty.

You can buy Zig Zag here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/zig-zag-j-d-o-brien/18619829?ean=9781639640133

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Joseph Fasano is an American poet, novelist, and songwriter.  His novels include The Swallows of Lunetto (Maudlin House, 2022) and The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing (Platypus Press, 2020).  His books of poetry include The Crossing (2018), Vincent (2015), Inheritance (2014), and Fugue for Other Hands (2013).  His debut album of original songs, The Wind that Knows the Way, is available wherever music is streamed or sold.

Fasano's honors include the Rattle Poetry Prize, the Cider Press Review Book Award, eight Pushcart Prize nominations, and a nomination for the Poets' Prize, "awarded annually for the best book of verse published by a living American poet two years prior to the award year."  His work has been widely translated and anthologized, most recently in The Forward Book of Poetry 2022 (Faber and Faber, 2022).  He teaches at Columbia University and Manhattanville College.

The Swallows of Lunetto comes out on November 25th. Preorder a hardcover or paperback copy while they last!

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