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PROGENITOR
ART & LITERARY JOURNAL
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Nonfiction
NONFICTION
Poets
POETS
Heather Wheat
Writer's Studio Contest Winner
Heather Wheat is a mother, wife, daughter, writer, teacher, book-lover, reader. Her poetry has appeared in Poetry Quarterly, Long Exposure Magazine, on GFT Press’s “Ground Fresh Thursday” web series, in GFT Press: One in Four, and in Broad! Magazine; her other work and essays are on BUST.com, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, in Richmond Magazine, and on The Washington Post’s education blog.
Fiction
Kate Niles
Kate Niles lives in Durango, CO and has published two novels, a book of poems, and numerous pieces across genres in many journals and magazines. Her first novel, The Basket Maker, won ForeWord Magazine's Best Fiction Award for Independent Presses, and she is the recipient of a Colorado Individual Artist Award as well. She holds an MFA from Vermont College in Fiction. She works as a psychotherapist in her day job, is a mother to a 21 year old son, and resides with husband and cat at this point. She is deeply interested in the intersection of writing, the human story, and reconnection in a fragmented society.
Stephanie Mark
Stephanie Mark lives in Denver, Colorado and writes fiction focused primarily on the experiences of marginalized women. She has been published in The Festival Review and accepted for publication in Hair Trigger 2.0 and an upcoming Thorntree Press anthology. You can follow all her creative products at https://www.patreon.com/junesayers.
Leah Rogin-Roper
Leah Rogin-Roper is from the part of Virginia where they bring squirrel-brain gravy to potluck lunches but has lived in Colorado ever since she was old enough to choose. She writes poetry when she’s angry, essays lately, and fiction usually. This year, her poem “Devil’s Triangle” was featured in the Rumpus’s Enough series, a flash fiction piece “Little Red Corvette” was published by Cliterature, and her essay and collaborative book list, “108 Books You Should Read Before You Read Another White Dude” was published by Literary Citizen. She lives in the mountains west of Denver.
Rich Glinnen
Rich Glinnen is a market researcher by day and a writer by night. He enjoys bowling and eating Gruyere with his cats at his home in Bayside, NY. He was nominated for the 2017 Best of the Net Anthology. His work can be read in Kenneth Warren’s Lakewood House Organ, at foliateoak.com, petrichormag.com, underwoodpress.com/ruescribe and
richglinnen.tumblr.com. His wife calls him Taco.
FICTION
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