Month: February 2024

Tyler C. Gore is the author of My Life of Crime: Essays and Other Entertainments, which the Washington Independent Review of Books called “immensely readable…full of the people and peculiarities of New York and told with an almost wide-eyed wonder of someone in love with the place — even the worst of it.”

Boston native Eugenio Volpe was awarded the PEN Discovery Award for Fiction and nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net prizes. Volpe’s essay “Jesus Kicks His Oedipus Complex” was listed as notable in Best American Essays 2021. His stories have appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Salamander, New York Tyrant, VICE, Post Road, The Nervous Breakdown, BULL, and other journals. Out now, I, Caravaggio (CLASH Books) his daring debut novel about the temperamental Baroque master, dramatizes an artistic superstar’s psychological unraveling under the sexual and political pressures of the Catholic Reformation. Volpe resides in Los Angeles with his wife and son, where he is a professor of rhetoric at Loyola Marymount University.

Brooke Bentley is a former television anchor and award-winning sports reporter. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Davidson College, she received a master’s in journalism from the University of Southern California. Brooke then spent two years working for the Houston Texans as a media personality and over a decade working in sports journalism. Brooke now devotes her time to championing local nonprofits, including Homemade Hope, where she served as the development director. She and her husband live in Houston and are raising two young boys.

Kelley McNeil is the author of A Day Like This and Mayluna. Prior to writing fiction, she worked for over a decade in the entertainment industry. A native of Pittsburgh, she lives in South Florida most of the time but can often be found in London with a good pen, good music, and her two daughters nearby.