JOHN TALBIRD

John Talbird is the author of the chapbook, A Modicum of Mankind (Norte Maar). His novel The World Out There will be released in the summer of 2020 by Madville Publishing, and his fiction and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, Grain, Juked, Potomac Review, The Literary Review, and Riddle Fence among many others. He is a frequent contributor to Film International, on the editorial board of Green Hills Literary Lantern, and Associate Editor, Fiction, for the noir online journal Retreats from Oblivion. A professor at Queensborough Community College-CUNY, he lives with his wife in New York City.

In Slippage Lit

CHEKHOV’S GUN - ISSUE FIVE