New updates on 5 Cha contributors: Ricky Garni, Dena Rash Guzman, Kaitlin Solimine, Greg Santos and W.F. Lantry

Ricky Garni 

A 'miniature' by Ricky Garni titled "KO-AK" is now available in Ginger Piglet Magazine. As the man himself wisely writes, 'That's right. The sweet piglet is made of ginger.' Don't you want to smile to that?

|| Ricky Garni's poetry was published in Issue #16 of Cha. 


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Dena Rash Guzman

Dena Rash Guzman's poem "checklist" is now available in Ink Node. define the short version of a long hoax... 

|| Dena Rash Guzman's poetry was published in Issue #15 and Issue #16 of Cha.

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Kaitlin Solimine

An excerpt from Kaitlin Solimine's first novel, Empire of Glass, is now available in Guernica Magazine! Read it here. Kaitlin won the 2012 Dzanc Books/Disquiet International Literary Program Award, selected by Colson Whitehead.

|| Kaitlin Solimine's fiction was published in Issue #14 of Cha.



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Greg Santos 

Three poems by Greg Santos are now available in have you seen my whale  #2.   Read "what an age we live in", "a deep unimaginable sadness" and "help!" here.  Don't you want to send Greg an email to make him happy again?

|| Greg Santos's poem "Siem Reap, Cambodia" was published in issue #10 of Cha and discussed here.

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W.F. Lantry 

Congratulations to W.F. Lantry! His poetry collection, The Structure of Desire (Little Red Tress Press), which contains 108 poems of love, passion, mystery and devotion, is now launched! The book has a foreword by Jean-Yves Solinga, a prologue, introduction to each poem and a sixteen-page glossary. Learn more about The Structure of Desire and Bill's work here.

||Read W.F. Lantry's Cha profile.

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New updates on 3 Cha contributors: O Thiam Chin, Chris Galvin and Ocean Vuong

O Thiam Chin

Congratulations to O Thiam Chin! His short story collection The Rest of Your Life and Everything that Comes with It, reviewed in the current issue of Cha, has been longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize (€25,000). Other longlisted writers include Don DeLillo, Jackie Kay and Joyce Carol Oates. You can see the full list here. 

O Thiam Chin's short story "Pebbles" was published in Issue #8 of Cha.

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Chris Galvin

Chris Galvin's flash fiction "For the Love of Mushrooms" is now featured in the April edition of Tuck Magazine.
Chris Galvin's creative non-fiction was published in Issue #16 of Cha. 

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Ocean Vuong

Ocean Vuong's poem "In Defense of Dancing" is published in Guernica. 

Ocean Vuong's poem "Paramour" was published in issue#10 of Cha; the poem has been nominated for inclusion in Best of the Net Anthology 2010.

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Marc Vincenz in Guernica

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Marc Vincenz's translation of Erika Burkart's poem "An Early Morning in Daylight-Saving Summer" is now out at Guernica. 'Some are sucked back into the nightmare; / those that remain, dive into cracks—'

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Read Marc Vincenz's Cha profile.

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Sumana Roy in Guernica

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Sumana Roy's poem "Desert" is now published in Guernica. Read it here.

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Sumana Roy's poem was published in Issue #14 of Cha.

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