Formerly a Manhattan entertainment attorney and a contributing editor to the quarterly art magazine SunStorm Fine Art, Susan Lynn Solomon now lives in Niagara Falls, New York, where she is in charge of legal and financial affairs for a management consulting firm.
After moving to Niagara Falls she became a member of Just Buffalo Literary Center's Writers Critique Group, and since 2009 a number of her short stories have appeared in literary journals, including, Abigail Bender (awarded an Honorable Mention in a Writer's Journal short romance competition), Ginger Man, The Memory Tree, Elvira, Going Home, Yesterday's Wings, and Sabbath (nominated for 2013 Best of the Net by the editor of Prick of the Spindle).
Her latest short stories are Reunion, about an individual who must face family after undergoing a transgender operation, appeared in a recent issue of Flash Fiction Press, Captive Soul, which was included in Solstice Publishing's Halloween anthology, Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep, Volume 1, and Niagara Falling, about a man returning to his hometown, which was written for the Solstice Publishing anthology, Adventures in Love. Susan Lynn Solomon's Solstice Publishing novel, "The Magic of Murder," is available at Amazon.com, and Bella Vita, novelette sequel, continues the adventures for the characters from this novel.
Now, a collection of her short stories, "Voices In My Head", is available in both Kindle and paperback editions on Amazon. Visit Susan at her Facebook page.
Graphic artist and painter Allen Forrest was born in Canada and bred in the U.S. He has created cover art and illustrations for literary publications and books. He is the winner of the Leslie Jacoby Honor for Art at San Jose State University 's Reed Magazine and his Bel Red painting series is part of the Bellevue College Foundation's permanent art collection. Forrest's expressive drawing and painting style is a mix of avant-garde expressionism and post-Impressionist elements reminiscent of van Gogh, creating emotion on canvas.
Learn more about Forrest's art at http://art-grafiken.blogspot.ca/2014/12/artist-interviews-and-articles.html and see more of his art at http://allen-forrest.fineartamerica.com/ and http://www.art-grafiken.blogspot.ca/