Catching up with co-editor Stacia Fleegal

My co-editor and writing bestie Teneice is super busy. You can’t keep this woman from making books. She makes books all the livelong day. We also edit them now, so check that out.

We decided to write these “what are we up to now that we aren’t publishing authors on BL every other week” posts. You know what Teneice is up to, so it’s my turn, I guess.

In the past year, I’ve done two things I never thought I would do: I switched genres and I began teaching.

#BLauthor17: Gerard Sarnat

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#BLauthor17 is Gerard Sarnat.

Gerard Sarnat is the author of two critically acclaimed poetry collections, 2010’s HOMELESS CHRONICLES from Abraham to Burning Man and 2012’s Disputes. His pieces have appeared or are forthcoming in over eighty journals and anthologies.  Harvard and Stanford educated, Gerry’s been a physician who set up and staffed clinics for the disenfranchised, a CEO of health care organizations, and a Stanford professor. For The Huffington Post review of his work and more, visit his website.  “Sniffing Jacaranda Again” may appear in his third collection, "17s," in which each poem, stanza, or line has seventeen syllables.

Read this short gem of a poem by Sarnat:

#BLauthor15: Jason David Peterson

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#BLauthor15 is Jason David Peterson.

Jason David Peterson lives, writes, and works in Saint Paul, MN. He can also be found co-hosting the Saint Paul Poetry Workshop. He received his Masters in English at the University of Wisconsin with an emphasis in creative writing, and his poetry has been recognized in the back alleys of literature with scholarships, nominations, and awards in Canada and the U.S.

Jason is a previous contributor to BL (see issue #26) and has a book out from Distillate Press called Brutes & Fools—look for a review of that title coming next week, along with a guest post by Peterson.

#BLauthor13: Sara Biggs Chaney

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#BLauthor13 is Sara Biggs Chaney.

Sara Biggs Chaney received her Ph.D. in English in 2008 and currently teaches first-year writing in Dartmouth's Institute for Writing and Rhetoric. Her first chapbook, Precipice Fruit, was released by ELJ Publications in October 2013, and her second chapbook, Ann Coulter's Letter to the Young Poets, is forthcoming from dancing girl press this summer. Sara's poems and flash fictions have recently appeared (or will soon appear) in Word Riot, PANK, SunDog Lit, Dr. T.J. Eckleburg Review, Menacing Hedge, Whiskeypaper, and other places. You can catch up with Sara at her blog.