Truth Teller Spotlight – Susann Cokal
Aside from her role as the Editorial Director of Broad Street Magazine, Susann Cokal also wears hats as historical novelist, pop-culture essayist, book critic, and professor of creative writing and modern literature at Virginia Commonwealth University. In addition to her three published novels, Cokal has published fiction and nonfiction in Electric Literature, Gargoyle, The Cincinnati Review, The Journal, Hayden’s...
Truth Teller Spotlight – Thomas E. Kennedy
Thomas E. Kennedy has published hundreds of essays, stories, and interviews, as well as almost forty books. The third and fourth novels in his Copenhagen Quartet are Kerrigan in Copenhagen (2013) and Beneath the Neon Egg (2014). His work has been honored with a Dan Turrèll Award, a Pushcart Prize, an O. Henry Prize, and a National Magazine Award...
Truth Teller Spotlight – Shalom Auslander
Author and producer Shalom Auslander uses humor to recount stories of shame, sex and God as a young boy growing up in an Orthodox Jewish community. His books, “Beware of God,” “Foreskin’s Lament” and “Hope: A Tragedy” draw on his Jewish upbringing and early questions about faith. Auslander has published articles in The New York Times Magazine,...
Truth Teller Spotlight: Lea Marshall, poet and dance critic.
“The act of writing poetry feels to me like seeking truth, finding ways to write that reveal truths even I may not have known before the poem came to be …” Lea Marshall, Associate Chair of the dance department at Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of the Arts, meshes her creativity in the fields of...
Truth Teller Spotlight – Dr. Neal Hall
Dr. Neal Hall, a graduate of Cornell and Harvard Universities, is a medical-surgical eye physician by day, and an internationally acclaimed poet by night. His poetry, which tells spine-chilling truths about injustice and inhumanity, has been performed in many countries outside of the United States, including: Kenya, Indonesia, France, Jamaica, Morocco, Canada, Nepal, Italy, and...
