TIMOTHY WILLIS SANDERS is the author of the short story collections Modern Massacres (Publishing Genius, 2022) and Orange Juice and Other Stories (Publishing Genius, 2010), and the novel Matt Meets Vik (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2014). He lives in San Francisco.
Currents, an Interview Series with Brian Alan Ellis (Episode 87: Lee Matthew Goldberg)
LEE MATTHEW GOLDBERG is the author of ten novels including The Ancestor and The Mentor, as well as the YA series Runaway Train. He’s been a finalist in various scriptwriting contests—Script Pipeline, Book Pipeline, Stage 32, We Screenplay, the New York Screenplay, Screencraft, and the Hollywood Screenplay—and his books are in various stages of development for film and TV. He is also the co-curator of The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series in New York City.
Currents, an Interview Series with Brian Alan Ellis (Episode 86: Shy Watson)
SHY WATSON wrote Horror Vacui (House of Vlad Press, 2021) & Cheap Yellow (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2018) & co-founded blush lit. Find more work at places like New York Tyrant, The Rumpus & [PANK].
CURRENTS, an Interview Series with Brian Alan Ellis (Episode 85: Ravi Mangla)
RAVI MANGLA is the author of the novels The Observant (Spuyten Duyvil) and Understudies (Outpost19). He lives in Rochester, NY.
Currents, an Interview Series with Brian Alan Ellis (Episode 84: Jordan Castro)
JORDAN CASTRO is the author of The Novelist: a Novel (Soft Skull Press, 2022) and two poetry books. He is from Cleveland, Ohio.
Currents, an Interview Series with Brian Alan Ellis (Episode 83: Kelby Losack)
KELBY LOSACK is the author of several novels, the latest of which is Letting Out the Devils. One half of the Agitator podcast with J. David Osborne. He lives with his wife and son in Gulf Coast Texas.
Currents, an Interview Series with Brian Alan Ellis (Episode 82: Jennifer Robin)
JENNIFER ROBIN is the author of Death Confetti (Feral House, 2016) and Earthquakes in Candyland (Fungasm, 2019) and the chapbook Even Snowflakes Heal and You Can Download Skin (Ladybox, 2016). Robin’s July 2022 release on Far West, You Only Bend Once with a Spoonful of Mercury, is a collection of dreams written for a live audience on social media. Her book of vignettes about American barbarism, selling boots to foot fetishists, and the joyless chewing of Thanksgiving turkey, DESTROY NOTHING (the most important thing) will be released by Future Tense in 2023.
Currents, an Interview Series with Brian Alan Ellis (Episode 81: Garth Miró)
GARTH MIRÓ is a writer based in New York City. He is the author of The Vacation (Expat Press, 2022). His stories have appeared in Litro, Sundog Lit, X-R-A-Y, and Maudlin House, among others. He was a semifinalist for North American Review’s 2021 Kurt Vonnegut Prize. He currently works as a handyman.