Find out more about the fabulous writers in our very first issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly —Winter 2025!
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Ethel Watts Mumford
S. D. Brown was born in Kingston, Jamaica. She received a B.A from The New School for Social Research in New York City, and a M.S. in Literacy from Adelphi University. Her short story entitled “A View from Across the Soursop Tree” was published in the Anthurium: University of Miami. Her work has appeared in Stockholm University’s Two Thirds North, University of Northampton’s Journal of Postcolonial Writing, and the Adelaide Literary Magazine. Several of her short stories have been published in The Caribbean Writer, including “Love with the Calypso Cricketer,” “Love and Decline Amid the Crown Heights Riots,” and “Another Country But The Same Ole Friggin’ Story.” S.D. Brown is a member of the International Women Writers’ Guild. Her story, ‘Heat‘ appears in the Winter 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
David Cody is a graduate of Binghamton University, a retired civil servant and current track and cross-country coach at Binghamton High School in upstate New York. His short fiction has appeared in The Seattle Review, Mayday, Ragazine and other publications. His story “April Third” was featured in the 2021 gun violence anthology Humans in the Wild. Since 2019, he has served as an assistant editor for Narrative Magazine. He can be reached at davidcody15@yahoo.com. His story, ‘God is Still Speaking‘ appears in the Winter 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Nancy Cook runs “The Witness Project,” a program of community writing workshops in Minneapolis designed to enable creative work by underrepresented voices. A social practice artist, she is particularly focused on intersections of geography, history, and cultural heritage in her work, some of which has recently appeared in McNeese Review, Cutleaf Journal, and Gulf Coast Journal. Nancy’s pronouns are She/Her/Hers. You can find out more about Nancy and her work on her website NancyLCook.com. You can subscribe to her weekly blog by emailing nancycook.email@gmail.com
Her story, ‘When a Stranger Comes In‘ appears in the Winter 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Sean Heffron has been writing and publishing since 2006, mostly commercial fiction. He published “The Skinny On Your First Year in College” for Rand MediaCo., won an honorable mention in the “Weird Christmas” Flash Fiction contest, and self-published three novels. He is currently working on the third novel in a three-book deal from Aethon Books, and took a break between books two and three to write this piece, Tails of the Eighth Year. Sean works as an Assistant Dean and a writing instructor at a university in New England. He is inspired by his family, who enjoy all things outdoors. Sean tells us, “We’re like a small pack of lumberjacks, sans the beards.” His story, ‘Tails of the Eighth Year‘ appears in the Winter 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Toby Jaffe has been published in The Baffler, New Republic, American Prospect, and elsewhere. Their story, ‘Katie: A Collection of Clippings‘ appears in the Winter 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
M.A. Kyriacou is an NHS doctor and aspiring writer. When she is not poking people with needles or penning romantic fiction for nobody to read, she is keeping her plants well hydrated at her flat in east London. M.A. Kyriacou can be contacted about her writing and other opportunities via email at kyriacouam@gmail.com. Her story, ‘On Tenderness‘ appears in the Winter 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Simone Martel is the author of the novel A Cat Came Back, a memoir titled The Expectant Gardener, and a story collection, Exile’s Garden. Simone was born in Oakland, CA. After studying English at U.C. Berkeley, she created and operated an organic tomato farm in the Central Valley. This experience inspired her novel-in-progress, Zarzamora, a finalist in the Grindstone International Novel Prize. You can find out more about Simone and her work on her website Simone Martel. Her story, ‘The Case Against Wanda‘ appears in the Winter 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Dustin Moon is a writer from Vancouver Island, B.C. with a Bachelor of Arts in Writing from the University of Victoria. His work has appeared in Freefall Magazine, Pulp Literature, Fusion Fragment, The Good Life Review, The New Quarterly, and others. He lives in Victoria with his husband and their nonstop dogs. Dustin uses He/Him pronouns. He can be reached on Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/dustinmoon.bsky.social. His story, ‘Sybil and Thanksgiving 2019‘ appears in the Winter 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Nicole Rosevear’s work has appeared in North American Review, Bennington Review and VoiceCatcher, as well as the anthologies City of Weird: 30 Otherworldly Portland Tales and Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin. She teaches fiction, composition, and literature at Clackamas Community College. Her story, ‘Rats‘ appears in the Winter 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
D. P. Snyder is a bilingual writer, poet, critic, and literary translator from Spanish. Her writing has been published in Luvina, Two Lines Journal, World Literature Today, and Ploughshares, among others, and she is the Latin American Fiction editor for Exile Quarterly (Canada). Her story “La puerta secreta” was a finalist in the International Short Story Competition San Miguel Writers Conference (2020), and her essay “A Bone’s Story” was a finalist in the Medium Essay Challenge (2021). She focuses her translation practice on writing by women, and the trials of women are central to her own fiction and poetry. Her published books in translation include Meaty Pleasures by Mónica Lavín, Arrhythmias by Angelina Muñiz-Huberman, and Scary Story by Alberto Chimal. She lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina. You can read more of D.P. Snyder on her website, and follow her on BlueSky: dpsnyder.bsky.social, FB: @dorothy.pottersnyder, and IG: @dpsnyder_writer. Her story, ‘A Necessary Assumption‘ appears in the Winter 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.
Featured Writer from the Annals of History
Ethel Watts Mumford (1878-1940) was an American novelist, short story writer, and playwright from New York City. As her career as an author grew, her husband, a lawyer named George Mumford, began to object to her commitment to writing. Ethel Watts Mumford divorced her husband, and moved to San Francisco with their young son, vowing never to marry again unless the man accepted her career as a writer. She had a prolific career spanning the years from 1900 to 1925. She married Peter Geddes Grant in 1906 and some of her work may be found listed under the name Ethel Watts Mumford Grant. The author’s portrait above is from an advertisement in the June 1908 issue of New Broadway Magazine. Her story ‘Her Groove‘ appears in the Winter 2025 issue of The Lemonwood Quarterly.