Dashboard Horus: A Bird's Eye View of the Universe

  Miriam Sagan is the author of over thirty books of poetry, fiction, and memoir. Her most recent include Bluebeard's Castle (Red Mountain, 2019) and A Hundred Cups of Coffee (Tres Chicas, 2019). She is a two-time winner of the New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards as well as a recipient of the City of Santa Fe Mayor's Award for Excellence in the Arts and a New Mexico Literary Arts Gratitude Award. She has been a writer in residence in four national parks, Yaddo, MacDowell, Gullkistan in Iceland, Kura Studio in Japan, and a dozen more remote and interesting places. She works with text and sculptural installation as part of the creative team Maternal Mitochondria in venues ranging from RV Parks to galleries. She founded and directed the creative writing program at Santa Fe Community College until her retirement. Her poetry was set to music for the Santa Fe Women's Chorus, incised on stoneware for a haiku pathway, and projected as video inside an abandoned grain silo in rural Itos

           Bio: Melissa is the author of The Karl Muck Scandal: Classical Music and Xenophobia in World War 1 America (melissadburrage.com). She is a member of the Westwood Poetry Group, the Marge Piercy Poetry Group, a 2022 winner of the Joe Gouveia Outermost Poetry Contest. Her work can be found in Wood Cat Review, Poetica Review, Foyer Magazine, Syncopation Literary Journal, Smoky Quartz Tenth Anniversary Literary Anthology and Southern Arizona Press Anthology: The Poppy: A Symbol of Remembrance , all forthcoming. The Karl Muck Scandal was the winner of the 2020 Independent Publishers Book Award (IPPY) for US History; BBC Music Magazine’s Best Classical Music Book Release of 2019; Best Book Award Finalist in 2019 in History and Performing Arts categories. In 2020, Melissa received the Charles A. Hildebrandt Award for Excellence in Holocaust and Genocide Studies by the Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Long lines. Crowded seats. The man’s shoulder next to me can’

Matt McGee writes in the Los Angeles area. In 2022, his work has appeared in Gypsum Tales , Sweetycat Press and Red Penguin . His story ‘Evolution’ will appear in the upcoming David Bowie tribute in Sybaritic Press. When not typing, he drives around in rented cars and plays goalie in local hockey leagues . “Thing is, you don’t have to go really far to travel, you know? I mean, damn bro, we’re only going forty miles and this’ll be like a whole other planet! Yeah!”  Skippy had shouted this at ten minutes past midnight. He’d packed a cooler for the trip, not with snacks and a picnic blanket of course but four fat yellow IPA cans tucked behind Keller’s driver’s seat, like a little secret only they’d share for a night. He’d cheered and hoisted a fresh beer when Keller reluctantly turned the car toward a gentleman’s club five cities away. With sixty of his dollars in Keller’s bone dry gas tank and a cooler of Lagunitas on ice, they traveled along an empty freeway on a cool, damp Monday. T