Contributors

Laura Roberts is Black Heart’s founding editor. In addition to her duties running the world’s foremost literary rebellion, she also writes the local blog Shoestring Austin, and is currently working on her first book—a novel about the Sin City of the North entitled Naked Montreal. Follow her on Twitter @originaloflaura, or hire her to critique your writing at Buttontapper.com.

Current Staff

• Tyrel Kessinger is a published writer and poet and is the recipient of the 2011 Literary LEO Short Story award. Most recently his work has appeared in 3 AM Magazine, Burning Word and Clapboard House. Tyrel is working on a thousand things at once and hopes to one day sell one his stories to a Hollywood bigwig and make millions. Oh, and of course he’s full of youthful naïveté.
  
• Amanda Kimmerly graduated with a BA in Journalism and minor in Creative Writing from Stephen F. Austin State University. She writes mostly fiction and poetry and is currently co-authoring two books: a YA novel exploring the peculiar habits and inhabitants of podunk East Texas and a Dvarsh glossary for the Hidden Lands of Nod fantasy series, by Robert Stikmanz. She reads fiction submissions for Fringe Literary Magazine and just recently extended her hand to Black Heart Magazine as a volunteer book reviewer and poetry reader. She promises she is not as drab in real life as her bio suggests.
• Brice Robinson is a writer and poet inspired by contemporary author Raymond Carver. He enjoys reading and running, though not at the same time. He is currently working on fiction dedicated to his grandfather, who passed away in 2005.
• shim is your humble digital sherpa, publishing music and food recommendations, plus plenty of random weirdness and a fuckload of swearing at diet-of-insects.com.
• Jennifer Thompson likes to think she hasn’t sold out to The Man. When not writing computer manuals and other business spin-doctory, she writes for fun and has had a modicum of creative success in Adbusters, SMUT magazine, and several other information superhighway poetry, fiction, and humour publications. She is currently enjoying reviewing submissions and other fun endeavors at Black Heart.
• Joshua Willey is a writer from California. He’s currently working on a novel about hitchhiking.

Guest Blogger

• Graham Parke is responsible for a number of technical publications and has recently patented a self-folding map. He has been described as both a humanitarian and a pathological liar. Convincing evidence to support either allegation has yet to be produced. No Hope for Gomez! is his fiction debut: Boy meets girl. Boy stalks girl. Girl already has a stalker. Boy becomes her stalker-stalker. You can also find Graham’s blog here.

Esteemed Alumni

Writers with two or more contributions to our magazine include:

• M. Chastain Addington
• Shane Allison
• Peter Baltensperger
• Jimmy Callaway
• Val Capone
• Simon Case
• Will Dawson
• David Erlewine
• AV Flox
• Y. Funk
• Howie Good
• Lina Harper
• Dru M
• Chris Masson
• Corey Mesler
• Dorla Moorehouse
• Parah Salin
• Greg Santos
• Kathleen Savoy
• Shandyowl
• James Sinclair
• Adam Strong
• Mingus Tourette
• John Moore Williams