Amy Maloof likes to take herself on walks, her two feet — grounded, and in close proximity to her discoveries (roughly two feet) — point at what she sees and proves she was there. Her humor and observations are presented in this collection, aptly titled Two Feet.
Two Feet by Amy Maloof is available now.
Maloof is a third-generation Southern Californian who grew up making mud pies in/with the dirt from a lemon grove that got plowed under and excavated to make way for the eight-lane freeway known as The 210. She attended Chaffey Community College, transferred to UC Santa Cruz and earned her MFA from Claremont Graduate University. In 2023 the remainder of Maloof’s student loans were forgiven by the Biden/Harris administration; this provided more elation than any advanced degree. Her practice spans a wide range of media wherein connecting threads include humor, language, and cultural commentary. Maloof teaches drawing, plays guitar and sings in the rock duo Falcon Eddy.
Website: www.amymaloof.com
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Aurora Baldealis is a collection of fabulist micro stories by master storytellers Jeff Friedman and Meg Pokrass. Imagine a universe where bald men are mirrors for other bald men, where an angel can break or mend a heart, where the Northern lights glow in the memory of all the beautiful, lost souls wandering this world. Friedman and Pokrass’s Aurora Baldealis lifts the veil of the ordinary world.
Aurora Baldealis by Meg Pokrass and Jeff Friedman is available now.
MEG POKRASS is the author of First Law of Holes: New and Selected Stories (Dzanc Books, 2024) and eight previous collections of flash fiction and two novellas in flash. Her work has been published in three Norton anthologies, including Flash Fiction America, New Micro, and Flash Fiction International; Best Small Fictions 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023 and 2025; Wigleaf Top 50; and numerous literary magazines including Electric Literature, New England Review, Lit Hub, McSweeney’s, Five Points, Washington Square Review, and Passages North. Meg is the founding editor of New Flash Fiction Review, festival curator of Flash Fiction Festival UK, and founding/managing editor of the Best Microfiction anthology series. She lives in Scotland, where she serves as chief judge for the Edinburgh Flash Fiction Award.
JEFF FRIEDMAN is the author of eleven collections of poetry and prose, including Broken Signals (Bamboo Dart Press, 2024), Ashes in Paradise (Madhat Press, 2023), and The Marksman (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2020. His poems, microfiction, and translations have appeared American Poetry Review, Poetry, Poetry International, New England, Review, and The New Republic. His work has also been included in numerous anthologies including Cast-Iron Aeroplanes That Can Actually Fly: Commentaries from 80 American Poets on their Prose Poetry, Flash Fiction Funny, Flash Nonfiction Funny, Dreaming Awake: New Contemporary Prose Poetry from the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom, and Best Microfiction 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026. He has received an NEA Literature Translation Fellowship, two individual artist grants from the New Hampshire Arts Council, and numerous other awards.
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Now and Then, Now is the second collection of stories from Margot Hover, whose earlier books on spirituality and health, family systems, and research in spiritual care established her reputation in the field of pastoral care. In these stories, her curiosity, humor and deep faith are shaped by her close observations and sensitive awareness of herself and the world around her.
Now and Then, Now by Margot Hover is available now.
Margot Hover, D.Min. ACPE/NACC Supervisor Emerita spent her pre-retirement career first as high school English and drama teacher, then as teaching chaplain at Dallas Parkland Hospital, Duke University, Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and finally, working with pastors throughout rural Illinois and Missouri. She was foster parent for troubled teens before adopting two Cambodian refugee children, and is now proud grandmother of five. She currently ministers as a Spiritual Director. She lives at Pilgrim Place, a retirement community working for peace, justice, and care of the environment.
Email: maggiehpiper@gmail.com
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