Contributor Biographies
Chase Cartwright lives in Minnesota where he is pursuing an MA in Forensic Psychology. He
currently works as a fiction editor for The Whistling Shade Literary Journal. His writing has
been presented at the National Undergraduate Literature Conference and the Midwest
Undergraduate Conference in the Humanities.
Margot Mink Colbert is Assistant Chairperson and Professor in the UNLV Dance Department.
Choreographer, teacher, dancer, her artistic career spans the professional, independent and
academic milieus. Her choreography has been performed internationally in Europe, South
America and Israel. She holds a Bachelor degree from the renowned Juilliard School of Music.
Frank E. Dobson, Jr., has published fiction, nonfiction, and scholarly work. His recent novel,
Rendered Invisible, examines the themes of racially-motivated violence and racial
reconciliation. He is presently working on a scholarly project which examines the careers of
pioneering black male actors, such as Clarence Muse, James Edwards, and Woody
Strode. Dobson works at Vanderbilt University and also teaches at Fisk University.
Told Giles is currently Assistant Professor of English at Midwestern State University in Texas.
His recent scholarship appears in Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Philosophy and
Literature, and the Journal of Beat Studies. He is also Associate Editor of the William Carlos
Williams Review.
Kim Idol is a writer/instructor partial to dogs, guns, and rock climbing. Her short stories have
been published in Danse Macabre, Portland Review, Toasted Cheese, Dead Neon, and
submitted to the Kulka Best American Voices anthology. She is currently at work on a
collection of essays on chaos theory and detective fiction.
Shaun Leonard is a film and television journalist and academic, originally from Galway, Ireland.
He is completing his MFA in Creative Writing at UNLV, while writing scripts for stage and
screen. His film and TV podcast, www.isitabicycle.com, debuts new episodes every Friday.
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