Josh Goller

Josh Goller started out in the Midwest but transplanted to the damp and gloom of the Pacific Northwest. He founded The Molotov Cocktail lit zine in 2010. He earned his MFA in Fiction at Pacific University and now resides in Portland where he enjoys driving through fog and hipster-watching. When he's not lurking behind the curtain, he can be found critiquing music, film, and books for Spectrum Culture, where he also serves as Managing Editor. His short fiction, essays and articles have appeared...See more

Josh Goller started out in the Midwest but transplanted to the damp and gloom of the Pacific Northwest. He founded The Molotov Cocktail lit zine in 2010. He earned his MFA in Fiction at Pacific University and now resides in Portland where he enjoys driving through fog and hipster-watching. When he's not lurking behind the curtain, he can be found critiquing music, film, and books for Spectrum Culture, where he also serves as Managing Editor. His short fiction, essays and articles have appeared in many online and print publications, and he is a contributing writer for Listverse. He wishes the wages of sin would include a cost of living increase every once in a while. Mary Lenoir Bond spent most of her life in California, where she worked as an actress in Los Angeles before studying fiction, poetry, and theater at the University of Southern California, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. She went on to earn her MFA in Writing at Pacific University. Mary has studied advanced fiction with T. C. Boyle and Aimee Bender, and learned the art of poetry with Marvin Bell, Ellen Bass, Dorianne Laux, Anna Journey, and others. Along the way, she fell in love with San Francisco, where she lived for many years, but now lurks under the gloomy skies of Portland, where she makes jewelry, perfume and other sensory products. She is the recipient of the Virginia Middleton Award for poetry, works as a freelance writer, contributes articles to wildfeather.com, and has seen her poetry published in Prairie Schooner , december Magazine , and Silk Road . See less