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Guest Editor’s Spotlight:
Biblical Imbecility
by Laura Taylor

About Our Guest Editor

Jorge Martinez with the Chicago skyline.

Jorge Martinez was born and raised in Chicago but currently resides in the suburbs of Illinois, which is about as dull as it sounds, though he does love his boyfriend and their menagerie of housepets. Jorge’s a rather unaccomplished writer who’s currently more focused on getting his career in order but plans to make something of his work so he will not have wasted so many hours editing. While he does not declare himself an expert on humor (and is rather straight-laced and uptight, according to our reliable sources*), he is very sarcastic and loves dry, satirical humor or downright slapstick nonsense. Unintentional humor is another genre he deeply enjoys, so if anyone wants to write the script to a B-movie slasher, he will be more than happy to read it and even act in it, provided you pay for his transportation to the set.**

*Himself
**Not really

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Guest Editor Kevin McGuirk

Guest Editor Kevin McGuirk

Kevin McGuirk published poems in Cincinnati Poetry Review and Clifton. It’s not his fault both publications are now defunct; besides, that was a long time ago and the statute of limitations, etc. He has studied with Louise Glück, John Ashbery and Michael Harper and credits workshop experiences with them for his love of raw vegetables.

Here’s a quote Kevin just made up: “To Hell with ghosts; they’re just not getting the job done.” Another: “It’s important to remember that ‘fiction’ always has the last word in ‘science fiction.’” McGuirk cites as his biggest influences Don Bogen and Terry Stokes. “Bogen taught me about precision,” says McGuirk, “and hearing Terry Stokes read ‘Crimes of Passion: The Slasher’ taught me the beauty of nightmares, of surrendering completely to the voice of the other.”

McGuirk is reachable at kevinmcguirk [at] me [dot] com