Contributors

Editorial Staff

Laura Roberts is Black Heart’s Founding Editor. In addition to her duties running the world’s foremost literary mutiny, she has also penned the best novel you’ll ever read about pirates, ninjas and evil politicians in Austin, Texas: Ninjas of the 512. She is currently publishing her second novel, Naked Montreal, in serial format at Buttontapper Press. Follow her on Twitter @originaloflaura.

Robert Cole is a fiction editor at Cease, Cows as well as Black Heart. He is among the 2013 Nâzim Hikmet Poetry Competition winners and is featured in their annual chapbook. Robert’s writing has previously appeared in Erbacce, Willows Wept Review, THIS Literary Magazine, Thirteen Myna Birds, GlassFire and others. His collaborative work with Juliet Cook is soon to appear in Menacing Hedge and their chapbook MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM has been accepted for publication by Hyacinth Girl Press and will be released next year. He tries to blog at poymstuff.blogspot.com.

Gabino Iglesias is Black Heart’s Poetry Editor. He is also a writer, journalist, book reviewer and PhD student based in Austin, Texas. You can find him on Twitter @Gabino_Iglesias.

Heather L. Nelson is Black Heart’s original Fiction Editor. She is also Editor-in-Beef for Cease, Cows mag, and a former sidewalk mannequin. (Yes, that happened.) Pub credits: Connotation Press, Writer’s Digest, Metazen, Thousand Shades of Gray, Gutter Eloquence, DOGZPLOT, Zygote in My Coffee, Pure Slush, Haiku for Lovers anthology, The Fat City Review, GlassFire, Black-Listed, and BH. Her MFA is currently kicking her ass. Tell her what you’re wearing: heather@hlnelson.com.

Staff Readers

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.

Hazel Quigley is an Irish poet and writer currently living in Austin, Texas. Before moving to the U.S. in 2011, she graduated with a BA in English and Psychology from the University of Limerick, Ireland. As a student, she taught English to children in Ghana, West Africa. Hazel’s poetry has been featured in Madswirl, Four Cornered Universe and Forty Ounce Bachelors, with more publications due this year.  She’s currently working on her first collection of poetry and hopes to eventually get a novel started, when life stops getting in the way.

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.

Danielle White likes to write, particularly creative nonfiction and poetry. She has been published here and there, in City Lines Magazine, Gutter Eloquence, and Student at Large. She also blogs occasionally for WriteByNight. She is currently enjoying the things Austin has to offer, which has been a pretty strange (yet wonderful) assortment so far.

Book Reviewers

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.

Joshua Willey is a writer from California. He’s currently working on a novel about hitchhiking.

Interviewers

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.

Esteemed Alumni

Writers with two or more contributions to our magazine include: