About Our Contributors

Pamilerin Jacob is a young Nigerian poet & mental health enthusiast. He writes to ease internal turmoil & also to shed light on the stigma surrounding mental illness. He is the author of Memoir of Crushed Petals (2018) & forthcoming chapbook, The Depression Gospels (2018). Pamilerin lives in Sango-Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria. He is a staunch believer in the powers of critical thinking, Khalil Gibran’s poetry & chocolate ice cream

Operations Manager by day and daydreamer by nature, Tom Gumbert co-authored the anthology, “Nine Lives,” and is the winner of The Sunlight Press 2017 Spring fiction contest. Tom’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in fine publications, including Riggwelter Press, Figroot Press, Dodging the Rain, Porridge Magazine and formercactus. When not reading or staring at the Ohio River, Tom works on his writing.

Keana Labra was born and raised in the Bay Area, California. Her work appeared in the January 2018 and February 2018 issues of the now defunct journal, The Aoi Kuma. One may also find her literary reviews and artist interviews on the online publication, Chopsticks Alley. She was recently accepted as a regular contributor to the Royal Rose Magazineand Rose Quartz Magazine. Knowing the importance of representation, she would like her work to be evidence that Filipino Americans are also present in the literary and art world. She uses her experiences as reference for her poetry.

Isabella Zellerbach is a writer with a focus on the culture/superstition of a Mexican household and how that relates to sexuality, gender dynamics, and grief/trauma. She is a graduate from Johns Hopkins University with Bachelor’s degrees in Writing Seminars and Political Science. She is a Flash Fiction Reader and Assistant Creative Non-Fiction Editor at Homology Lit. She has work forthcoming in Honey & Lime Lit. You can find her at @izellerbach on twitter or https://izellerbach.wordpress.com/.

Amy Shimshon-Santo is a poly-lingual writer and educator (English, Spanish, Portuguese). She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize in creative non-fiction (2017), Best of the Net in poetry (2018). Her writing has been published by Lady Liberty Lit, Zócalo Public Square, Yes Poetry, Awkward Mermaid Lit Mag, Rose Quartz Journal, Rag Queen, Full Blede, PCC Inscape Mag, ACIC, Spectrum, SAGE Publications, UC Press, SUNY Press, Public!: A Journal of Imagining America, Teaching Artist Journal, Tiferet Journal, and Critical Planning Journal. She can be reached at www.amyshimshon.com. Twitter: @amyshimshon Instagram: @shimshona

Erica Anderson-Senter lives and writes in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Pieces have appeared in Midwestern Gothic, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and Crab Fat Magazine. Her chapbook, seven days now, was published by The Dandelion Review. Erica hosts free literary events throughout her city to bring art to the public. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing through the Writing Seminars at Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont.

Kayleigh Campbell is a Creative Writing PhD student at The University of Huddersfield and an Editorial Assistant at Stand Magazine. She has been published both in print and online including Riggwelter Press, Independent Leeds and Ghost City Press with Eye Flash Poetry upcoming. She is a mum to her eight-month old daughter Eliza. Twitter - @kayyyleighc

Sara Moore Wagner is the Cincinnati based author of the chapbook Hooked Through (Five Oaks Press, 2017). Her poetry has appeared in many journals and anthologies including Glass Poetry Journal, Gulf Stream, and Gigantic Sequins, among others, and is forthcoming in journals like Western Humanities Review and Pretty Owl Poetry. She has been nominated for a Pushcart prize, and for Best of the Net. www.saramoorewagner.com.

Amy Poague is an Iowa City-based poet working at a junior high school, and she holds an M.A. in Creative Writing from Eastern Michigan University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Opiate (online and print versions), The Mantle, SWWIM Every Day, Mojave He[art] Review, Really System, Rockvale Review, Transom, and Helen: A Literary Magazine. She is on Twitter at @PoagueAmy.

Goldie Earnest lives far away, in an ancient city, in a land of many broken empires. She has a degree. She puts her poems online. Her Mum worries about her when she reads them. The focuses of her literary works are the relationship between nature and humankind, the concept of borders, the struggle of fully accepting oneself, both body and mind. Her blog address is goldiearnest.wordpress.com and @earnest_goldie is where she tweets.

F. J. Bergmann edits poetry for Mobius: The Journal of Social Change (mobiusmagazine.com), and imagines tragedies on or near exoplanets. She has competed at National Poetry Slam as a member of the Madison, WI, Urban Spoken Word team. Her work appears irregularly in Abyss & Apex, Analog, Asimov's SF, and elsewhere in the alphabet. A Catalogue of the Further Suns won the 2017 Gold Line Press poetry chapbook contest and the 2018 SFPA Elgin Chapbook Award.

A.N. DeJesus is a poet and technical writer out of Kansas City, Missouri pursuing an MA in Literary Criticism. She has work featured in The Los Angeles Review and Bear Review; she is a past contributor to Anti-Heroin Chic Magazine.

Geraldine Fernandez (Dray) is a graduate of Bachelor in Secondary Education Major in English and a second year law student mental health advocate from the Philippines. Her works have appeared in various papers and poetry journals namely The Hundred Islands, The Plebeians, The Birds We Piled Loosely, The Fem Literary Magazine, Spillwords Press, Isacoustic, etc. She posts about mental health issues at https://instagram.com/gdraylovesgritty and could be reached through https://www.facebook.com/gdray.fernandez

Michael D. Petrucelli is a recovering alcoholic and heroin addict, who to be honest isn't always the best at recovery, but is really trying his best. His dedications in life are to work, poetry, and love. His time away from those things is usually spent pushing towards social and economic justice. His writing deals heavily with addiction and how it steals your identity in every aspect. More of his writing can be found at https://michaelpetrucelli.wordpress.com/ or his unedited thoughts can be found on his twitter @comarxology.

Amy L. Bethke’s fiction has appeared in Literary Mama, MnLIT, Murphy Square and 100 Word Story. She lives in Maple Grove, Minnesota with her husband, children and a crazy dog named Cooper.

A.E. Weisgerber is a teacher, editor, and writer, a 2018 Chesapeake Bay Writer and 2017 Frost Place Scholar. Work in Heavy Feather Review, The Alaska Star, SmokeLong Quarterly, FLAPPERHOUSE, great weather for MEDIA, Matchbook Lit, DIAGRAM, and Zoetrope Cafe’s Story Machine. Her work has been nominated for Pushcarts, Best of the Nets, Wigleaf Top 50s, and Best Small Fictions. She reads for the Wigleaf Top 50. Follow @aeweisgerber or visitanneweisgerber.com

Trisha Kostis is a writer and Chef who spends the bulk of her time running a misfit crew of cooks and servers in a Seattle food establishment. When not creating dishes that diners can insult on Yelp, she is writing flash fiction and working on a short story collection that she previews to her grandchildren for their candid appraisal.

Her essay “Parts Unknown” is published in the June issue of Into the Void. https://intothevoidmagazine.com/

“Freud in the Kitchen”, a non-fiction essay on restaurant life, will be published in the June issue of the 45th Parallel. http://45thparallelmag.com/about

Adam Shechter has been published in The Minnesota Review, The Literary Bohemian and Psychoanalytic Perspectives, among others. He delivered a paper called “Notes on a Theoretical Script for Poetic Living in a Therapeutic Trance,” at the 2017 Annual Conference of the Association for the Psychoanalysis for Culture and Society. His chapbook, Paul Celan and the Messiah’s Broken Levered Tongue was co-authored with Daniel Y. Harris and published by Cervena Barva Press. He lives in NYC with his wife and two children, where he works as a psychotherapist in private practice and at a neighborhood clinic.

Tom Funk is an Associate Circuit Judge in the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Illinois. For the past four years he has been the presiding judge in the Logan County Drug Court where he meets weekly with 3-5 participants in recovery and hears their stories. He is married to Karrie and has three children.

Caroline Henley is a writer and a social media marketer, with a career that has spanned book publishing, tech startups, and higher education. Her essays and fiction have been published in Mockingbird Magazine, LoftLife, and The F Word. She is at work on a memoir, Havishamarama, about losing a parent while planning a wedding.

Brinda Gulati is a final year Creative Writing student at the University of Warwick. Her favourite poem is 'Funeral Blues', she loves the smell of old pages in secondhand bookshops; her favourite account on Instagram is @jasoncampbellstudio. Brinda has lived across continents and in different cities: in Delhi, Singapore, and now in the UK.

Lydia A. Cyrus is a central Appalachian writer from Huntington, West Virginia. She is an award-winning scholar and her work as been featured in various places in print and online. She is a proud Mountain Woman who strives to make positive change in and about Appalachia. She lives in Lafayette, Indiana with her strong will and sense of truth, which guide her wherever she goes.

Katherine Sinback’s work has appeared in The Rumpus, daCunha, Gravel, Foliate Oak, Clackamas Literary Review, The Hunger Journal, Cabildo Quarterly Online, and Oyster River Pages. She publishes her zine Crudbucket and writes two blogs: the online companion to Crudbucket, and Peabody Project Chronicles 2: Adventures in Pregnancy After Miscarriage. Crudbucket was featured in the 2007 Multnomah County Library “Zinesters Talking” series and was included in the 2016 Alien She exhibit at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Born and raised in Virginia, Katherine lives in Portland, Oregon with her family.

Katrina K Guarascio is a writer and educator living in Albuquerque, NM. She is seeking an audience for her ever growing surplus of poetic meanderings. She is grateful to anyone who reads her work and in awe of those willing to share it. She hates writing bios.

Marilee Goad is a queer writer residing in South Korea. She has work published or forthcoming in Ghost City Review, ELJ, Barrelhouse, and Yes Poetry, amongst others. You can follow her on twitter @_gracilis and find her website at marileethepoet.tumblr.com.

Laurence White (they/them) is a non-binary Kentucky born poet who lives in Santa Cruz, California. Laurence has published one thing in one book and is about to release their premier zine For, Ever. Laurence recently released a collaborative bedroom EP under the name Chaotic Futch. When Laurence is not speaking or listening, they are in silence or searching for its inexorable stillness. That is where you will find them.

Barnaby Hazen is an author, musician and aspiring anarchist. His work has appeared in Jerry Jazz Musician and won for fiction categories in The Independent Press and Beverly Hills Book Awards. Originally from Los Angeles, he now lives with his wife, Sarah, in Taos, New Mexico.

Nikki Donadio is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers and holds an MA in Creative Writing. Her work has appeared in Gertrude, Yes Poetry, Vessel Press, Jellyfish Review, and others. You can follow her on Twitter @nikki_donadio

Lindsey Warren is a recent graduate of Cornell University’s MFA program. She has been published in The Fox Chase Review, Broadkill Review, Icarus Down, Rubbertop Review, Marathon Review, GASHER Journal, Josephine Quarterly and Hobart. Lindsey is the recipient of a Delaware Division of the Arts Fellowship and has been a finalist for the Delaware Literary Connection Prize and the Joy Harjo Prize. She splits her time between Ithaca, New York and Newark, Delaware.

Accepted into college at the age of fifteen, and into graduate school at nineteen, Brooksie C. Fontaine is currently studying with the Newport MFA in Creative Writing. She lives and works in Rhode Island, where she is writing for her university magazine and drinking her local coffee shops.

Beth Whitney crafts original wild folk from a homestead in the seasonally rich mountains of the Pacific Northwest. “She delves beneath the surface-- sometimes far beneath-- trying to find... something. What she creates during that search is haunting and eerily beautiful.” Frank Gutch Jr., No Depression.

Effie Pasagiannis is a first generation Greek-American lawyer, writer and curator based in New York City. Effie's poetry has been featured in Snapdragon Journal, the Write Launch, Platform Review, and the inaugural print publication of Pen + Brush, a 125-year nonprofit supporting female writers and artists. Effie has appeared as a featured poet at the Bowery Poetry Club, Arlo Hotels, The Assemblage and Pen + Brush. She is currently working on a collection of short stories with female protagonists at a crossroads of choice. As a curator, Effie brings together writers and other artists to collaborate and showcase their work in soul-nourishing spaces. She is an avid proponent of personal transformation and an advocate for educational, criminal justice, immigration and environmental reform.

Jill Mceldowney is the author of the forthcoming chapbook "Airs Above Ground" (Finishing Line Press 2018) as well as "Kisses Over Babylon" (dancing girl press). She is a cofounder and editor for Madhouse Press. Her previously published work has appeared in journals such as Vinyl, Fugue, Half Mystic, the Sonora Review and other notable publications.

Chloe Spencer is a writer for GameLuster and frequently writes about indie games. She formerly interned with Kotaku. In her spare time, she produces the show 1Game1Minute on YouTube and is the creator of CrossXComix.

Grace Yannotta is currently in her senior year of high school in North Carolina. She's an aspiring author and an aspiring historian and an aspiring a lot of things. She has work published or forthcoming in Dream Noir, Angry Old Man, and Zin Daily among others, as well as an upcoming astrology column in Dark Wood Magazine.

Maria Sledmere is a PhD student at the University of Glasgow, studying Anthropocene aesthetics and the everyday through creative-critical practice. She’s Poetry and Nonfiction Editor at SPAM Zine and Press, editor of Gilded Dirt, member of A+E Collective and regular contributor to GoldFlakePaint Magazine. You can find more work on her blog, musingsbymaria.wordpress.com.

T. J. Butler was crowned Miss Virginia Beach in a shopping mall pageant when she was three, and she began writing shortly thereafter. She has worked in a variety of jobs from dishwasher to magician’s assistant to corporate office drone. She was a cat person until she was a dog person, and she once ate shark but found that it tasted too much like a predator. She lives on a sailboat with her husband and dog, and she is a regular contributor to Tiny House Magazine.

Grace Lytle is a young poet from Houston, Texas. She has previously been published in Canvas Literary Journal and 45th Parallel Magazine, among others. She loves black coffee and the winter. Her website is gelytle.wixsite.com/portfolio.

Janelle Cordero is an interdisciplinary artist and educator living in the seventh most hipster city in the U.S. Both her writing and her paintings are sparse narratives that emphasize the disconnected nature of the human condition. Her writing has been published in dozens of literary journals, including Harpur Palate and The Louisville Review, while her paintings have been featured in venues throughout the Pacific Northwest. Her debut poetry collection, Two Cups of Tomatoes, was published in 2015, and her chapbook with Black Sand Press is forthcoming in 2018. Janelle’s artistic priority is to collaborate with other creators to push for social and political change. Stay connected with Janelle’s work at www.janellecordero.com.

Kerriann Curtis is an artist and poet based in San Tan Valley,Arizona. She is a writer on the serialized literature website Channillo, and also co-founder and editor at Wordkrapht.

Angel Cezanne is a freelance editor and writer, the creator of Eleanor: A Zine, a mental health advocate, a caregiver, and a low-key meme queen. Her creative writing has been published by Crab Fat Magazine, Sea Foam Magazine, Selfish Magazine, and others.

Sheila Sondik, poet and printmaker, lives in Bellingham, Washington. Her poetry has appeared in CALYX, Kettle Blue Review, The Literateur, Raven Chronicles, The Floating Bridge Review, and elsewhere. Egress Studio Press published her chapbook, Fishing a Familiar Pond: Found Poetry from The Yearling, in 2013. She has studied a wide range of Japanese and Chinese art forms and her haiku, tanka, and related verse are in numerous print and on-line journals.

Alice Tarbuck is a poet and academic living in Edinburgh. She is part of 12, a women’s poetry collective, and her first pamphlet, Grid, is published by Sad Press.

Rachel Mindell lives in Tucson, Arizona. She is the author of Like a Teardrop and a Bullet (Dancing Girl Press), and her poems have appeared (or will) in Pool, DIAGRAM, Bombay Gin, BOAAT, Forklift, Ohio, Glass Poetry, The Journal, Sundog Lit, Tammy, and elsewhere. Rachel holds an MFA and MA from the University of Montana. She manages content and promotions for Submittable, and teaches poetry to young people.

Chestina Craig (she/her) lives on the California coast with her cat. Her work has been published by The Rising Phoenix Review, Sea Foam Mag, Button Poetry and others. She has presented her work at The Presidents Commission on The Status of Women, The Young Women’s Empowerment Conference, & more. She has a degree in Marine Biology, loves to meld science and art, and sometimes pets sharks or hangs out with octopi. She hopes that one day she will only be required to wear gauzy clothing, study the ocean, and get paid to have too many feelings. Her chapbook “body of water” came out October 2017 with Sadie Girl Press.

Lauren Milici is a Florida native who writes poetry, teaches English, and is currently getting her MFA in Creative Writing somewhere in the mountains of West Virginia. When she isn’t crafting sad poems about sex, she’s either writing or shouting into the void about film, TV, and all things pop culture. @motelsiren

Cindy Rinne creates art and writes in San Bernardino, CA. Cindy is the author of seven books: Mapless with Nikia Chaney (Cholla Needles Press), Moon of Many Petals (Cholla Needles Press), Listen to the Codex (Yak Press), Breathe In Daisy, Breathe Out Stones (FutureCycle Press), and others. Her poetry appeared or is forthcoming in: Birds Piled Loosely, Home Planet News, Outlook Springs, The Wild Word (Berlin), Storyscape Journal, Event Horizon Magazine, several anthologies, and others. www.fiberverse.com

Alisha Mughal's work has appeared in Bad Pony Magazine, Rag Queen Periodical, and Porridge Magazine. She has a BA in Philosophy from the University of Toronto, and she currently resides in Ontario, Canada.

Tiffany Babb is a New York based poet. She is interested in the tension between images and the written word. You can find more of her work at www.tiffanybabb.com

Pat Foran is a writer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His work has appeared in WhiskeyPaper, Gravel, Bending Genres, formercactus and elsewhere. Find him on Twitter at @pdforan

Belinda has worked as a psychiatric nurse, lecturer and creative arts practitioner. Her poems are published in magazines, on-line journals and anthologies. In 2017, she won the Poetry in Motion Competition to turn her poem into a film, since shown Internationally. In April, she supported Gill McEvoy at Cheltenham Poetry Festival, and has just learnt of her second place in the Ambit Poetry Competition.

Marissa Glover teaches and writes in central Florida, where she spends most of her time sweating. Her poetry has been published at Four Ties Lit Review, The Furious Gazelle, Rose Quartz Journal, and Picaroon Poetry, among others—and is forthcoming from Collective Unrest and The Cabinet of Heed. Follow her on Twitter @_MarissaGlover_.

Trina and her black cat, Icabod, travel the Realm of The Muse conjuring poetry and allowing it to escape into Collective Cosmos. A party often ensues since the pair is always accompanied by at least one of Trina’s many personalities. On occasion, they pick up a musician and, under the moniker of Logic Alley, the Intrepid Duo take on the fight for Truth, Justice, and The American Way (non-revised edition) on stages across the area. At other times, Trina puts her acting training to work and pretends to be a normal person.

Avery Williamson lives in Morgantown, WV. They are a founding member of The Bench: an Artist's Collective. This coming winter they will help edit Queer Appalachia's Electric Dirt. They were EIC of Calliope, an arts magazine, and an active member of the Appalachian Prison Book Project. They have two beautiful gardens and one beautiful cat. You can find them on Twitter @AeTBench.

Salvatore Goldblatt is 20 years old and lives in Los Angeles, California. After a failed career as a soundcloud rapper, he turned to poetry for catharsis, self expression, and an outlet for his creative energy. He attends an unnamed liberal arts college, where he majors in English and hosts a very successful hip hop/ love advice show on campus radio.

Anna Cates is a graduate of Indiana State University (M.A. English and Ph.D. Curriculum & Instruction/English) and National University (M.F.A. Creative Writing). Her first collections of poetry and fiction, The Meaning of Life and The Frog King, were published by Cyberwit Press, and her second poetry collection, The Darkroom, by Prolific Press. She lives in Ohio with her two beautiful kitties and teaches education and English online, including graduate courses in creative writing. Poet/author’s homepage: https://www.amazon.com/A.-Cates/e/B006TGBCT2

Amee Nassrene Broumand is an Iranian-American poet, photographer, & grad student in computer science. Nominated for a Pushcart by Sundog Lit, she also has poems in A-Minor Magazine, Empty Mirror, Menacing Hedge, Occulum, Word Riot, & elsewhere. She blogs for Burning House Press & served as their guest editor for the month of March 2018. Find her on Twitter @AmeeBroumand.

Rosemary McLeish is an outsider artist and poet, now living in Kent, UK. She is 72, and after a long hiatus has started writing poetry and regularly performing it again. She likes to exhibit her poetry along with her artworks, and lately has started making zines which combine both. She is working on getting a collection published in the near future, though the “under forty lines” rule is hampering her progress. Some things don’t change.

Oak Ayling is a young woman quietly stitching poetry into the blurry windswept border between Devon and Cornwall UK. Highly commended by Indigo Press in the Geoff Stevens Memorial Prize, She has gone on to be published in the inaugural edition of the fast growing literary magazine From Whispers to Roars, its anticipated second issue and in the forthcoming charitable anthology “Shorthand” by author Helen Cox in support of UK homeless charity StreetLink. Oak is a poet "fervently seeking purity and purpose".

Val Rigodon is an occultist from Brooklyn, NY who can write a spell for anything. You can find her at @valdritch on Twitter.

Vanessa Maki is a writer (& other things) who is queer & full of black girl magic. She has work in various places such as Entropy, Susan/The Journal, Rising Phoenix Press, Sad Girl Review among others & is forthcoming in Sorority Mansion among others. She is founder/EIC of yell/shout/scream & rose quartz journal. Her debut chapbook “press ctrl-alt-delete” is available on Payhip. Follow her twitter & visit her site.

Kimberly Burwick was born and raised in Massachusetts. Burwick earned her BA in literature from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and her MFA in poetry from Antioch University Los Angeles. She is the author of four collections of poetry: Has No Kinsmen (Red Hen Press, 2006), Horses in the Cathedral, winner of the Robert Dana Prize (Anhinga Press, 2011), Good Night Brother, winner of the Burnside Review Prize, (Burnside Review Press, 2014) and Custody of the Eyes. (Her latest collection is forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon University Press). She is currently Clinical Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Washington State University.

Sara Barnard (she/her) is from the UK, has lived in Spain and Canada, and is now based on a sailboat (currently in Central America) with her husband, child, and laptop for company. The last few years have mainly been about parenting and PhDing. She has recently had work accepted by Bone & Ink Press, Glass Poetry Press, Hypertrophic Literary, and Ink & Nebula. Say hi on Twitter: @Sara_Barnard

Stephanie Luka was born in 1997 to a Dutch mother and a Congolese father. She discovered her fascination with the arts only after quitting her career as a professional gymnast and entering the University of Amsterdam at the age of sixteen. Her work emanates mostly from dreams, and has previously been featured in Allegory Ridge, International Times and Visitant Lit, among others.

Erik Fuhrer holds an MFA from the University of Notre Dame. His work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in BlazeVox, Dream Pop Press, CrabFat Magazine, Noble/ Gas Qrtrly, and Crack the Spine.

Neshan Tung makes collages and writes poetry to get by. She is currently at the University of Calgary, majoring in English. Neshan takes inspiration from graveyards, Marlboro men, peach schnapps, achy and swollen hearts, disco balls, dream work, knives, and strangers who smile back.

PJ Smith quit smoking in February 2018 and resumed writing, after a tobacco habit of several decades and a literary hiatus of nearly as long. Her writing experience includes scripts and publicity materials for a PBS series and features for newspapers and magazines. Smith is a Florida resident.

Joan Gullett, 17, got her inspiration from many “Button Poetry” poets, and Alexa Ritzell (online) because of the way people perfectly described emotions both gently and powerfully. When she was 13, she became unsure on how to express herself verbally, that's when she picked up a pen, and opened a journal.

Rodd Whelpley’s work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Levee Magazine, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, 2River View, *82 Review, Kettle Blue Review, Shot Glass Journal, The Chagrin River Review and other journals. By day he manages an electric efficiency program for 32 cities in Illinois.

Demi Richardson studied creative writing at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Her work has previously appeared with decomP, Construction Lit, The Adirondack Review, Strange Poetry, and Broken Tooth Press, among others. Links to all of her published work can be found at www.deminicolle.wordpress.com.

Dev Murphy is a writer and artist from Ohio, now living in Pittsburgh. Her work has been featured or is forthcoming in New Ohio Review, Occulum, Persephone's Daughters, Eternal Remedy, Anomaly, The Esthetic Apostle, and others. You can follow her on twitter @gytrashh.

Nick Soluri is an undergraduate at Union College in New York. He’s been previously published in Boston Accent, Albany Poets, Occulum, The Slag Review, and others. His social media links are all @nerkcelery.

Madeleine Corley is a poet by internal monologue trying to break into the written craft. She has had work published in the Ibis Head Review and Zathom.com. Of the many things she loves, her current favorites are Captain Crunch Berries for dessert, her dogs giving her kisses, and movie-to-musical soundtracks. She currently lives in Marietta, Georgia, and will take residence in Ireland come November.

Christine Taylor, a multiracial English teacher and librarian, resides in her hometown Plainfield, New Jersey. She serves as a reader and contributing editor at OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters. Her work appears in Modern Haiku, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, The Rumpus, wildness, and The Paterson Literary Review among others. She can be found at www.christinetayloronline.com

Ahja Fox is a poet obsessed with bodies/ body parts (specifically the throat). Her tagline is ‘#suicidebywriting’ and her muses are dead things found among the living. Ahja can be found around Denver reading at various events and open mics or co-hosting at Art of Storytelling. She has recently decided to end her educational hiatus and is going for her BA in English-Literature/Creative Writing at UCD. She publishes in online and print journals like Five:2:One, Driftwood Press, Rigorous, Noctua Review, SWWIM , Tuck Magazine, and more. She has also recently been included in the 2018 Punch Drunk Anthology. Follow her on Instagram or Twitter at aefoxx.

Jessica Morey-Collins is a poet and resilience planner. She received her MFA from the University of New Orleans, where she won an Academy of American Poets award, and worked as associate poetry editor for Bayou Magazine. Her poems can be found or are forthcoming in Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, Sycamore Review, and elsewhere. She works as a project manager for the University of Oregon's Institute for Policy Research and Engagement. Find her at www.jessicamoreycollins.com

Nikoletta Nousiopoulos is a mother, wife, and poet who resides in Southeastern Connecticut. She published all the dead goats in 2010 with Little Red Tree Publishing. Some of her poetry has appeared in Tammy, Pioneertown Literary Journal, Thin Noon, Meadowland Review, and others. She is taking some time off as an adjunct professor of writing to focus on motherhood and poetry.

Tim Duffy is a poet, teacher, and scholar working in Connecticut. His work has recently appeared in or will appear shortly in Cotton Xenomorph, Rabid Oak, The Hawai'i Review, Entropy, Occulum, Moonchild Mag, and the Longleaf Review. He is the founder and EIC of 8 Poems.

Sprout Conner is an Aquarius sun/Leo moon/Scorpio rising. They study Creative Writing at the University of Colorado Denver. When they aren't writing they can be found googling IT problems or watching cooking shows.

Ellen Maloney is an emerging writer of both poetry and non-fiction. A recent student of the New School Writers Colony in New York, she's currently working on an essay collection. Previously published in The Guardian and guest blogger for the Center for Youth and Community Justice. Read more of Ellen's work at medium.com/@eatsleeplaugh

John Sullivan received the 'Jack Kerouac Literary Prize,' 'Writers Voice: New Voices of the West' award, AZ Arts Fellowships (Poetry & Playwriting), Artists Studio Center Fellowship, WESTAF Fellowship, was a featured playwright at Denver's Changing Scene Summer Play (Changing Scene Theatre), and an Eco-Arts Performance Fellow from Earth Matters On Stage / University of Oregon. He was Artistic/Producing Director of Theater Degree Zero, and directed the Augusto Boal / Theatre of the Oppressed focused applied theatre wing at Seattle Public Theater. For the past fifteen years, he has used Theatre of the Oppressed with communities in the Deep South to promote dialogue on cumulative health risks and environmental justice issues with NIEHS environmental health scientists. He was a writer for the (now defunct and sorely missed) online journal, Community Arts Network / Art in the Public Interest.

Carrie Danaher Hoyt is a lifelong lover & writer of poetry. She lives in Massachusetts where she is a wife and mother of three school-aged kids; she also works as an estate planning attorney. Carrie has poems in The Cabinet of Heed, Amethyst Review, The Pangolin Review, Twitterization Nation & thegreenlightjournal.com. She is also very proud to have a poem in Isabelle Kenyon's poetry collaboration titled, "Please Hear What I'm Not Saying," the proceeds of which go to raise awareness of and support for mental health. You can find Carrie on Twitter @CDanaherH.

Violet Mitchell is a Denver-based writer and artist. She is working toward a B.A S. in cognitive literary studies and a B.A. in creative writing, both from Regis University. Her work has been published in Loophole, Flourishing, Across the Canyon, Who's Who, Sixfold, ANGLES, and Furrow Magazine.

Maxana Goettl was born and raised in Mesa, Arizona. Her poetry explores tenderness, strangeness, loss, depression, and touch. She deals primarily with the translation of feeling to paper, the mechanics of the mind to the body of work. She currently lives in Tempe, Arizona, and is pursuing a degree in Creative Writing at Arizona State University.

Marisa Crane is a lesbian fiction writer and poet. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Pigeon Pages, Pidgeonholes, Drunk Monkeys, Riggwelter Press, Okay Donkey, X-R-A-Y Magazine, and elsewhere. She currently lives in San Diego with her fiancée. You can read more of her work at www.marisacrane.org. She tweets @marisabcrane.

Rachel M. Patterson is a 31 year old avid reader and writer. She enjoys coffee, and loves any and all literature. Stephen King is her hero, and she believes "normal" is a four letter word.

Harley Claes is a poet and novelist from Detroit, Michigan. Her first Poetry anthology is titled 'Pity the Poetics.' She attended an all arts school majoring in Creative Writing and minoring in dance. Her website is harleyclaes.wixsite.com/author

Eva Cherokee El Beze grew up in San Francisco, CA in an anarchist theatre collective. Eva has been published in magazines, journals and books for her poetry, personal essays and creative nonfiction as well as won awards for stage and film scripts. She divides her time between India, Europe, Africa and California.

Liezel Graham lives in Scotland with her husband and son. She writes poetry about loss, mental health, postnatal depression, bulimia recovery and recovery from a chaotic childhood. Espresso gives her superpowers and silence is her oxygen.

Veronica Klash resides in Las Vegas where inspiration and humor abound. She writes flash fiction, short stories, articles, and essays. When she’s not writing, Veronica indulges in her other obsessions: food, martinis, Japan, and goofy socks. Find her at veronicaklash.com.

Emily Kellogg’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as Entropy Magazine, Hazlitt, and The Puritan. In 2017, her creative nonfiction work received an honourable mention in Room Magazine‘s CNF competition and was shortlisted for PRISM International‘s CNF prize. She was recently named one of three finalists for the Creative Nonfiction Collective Society's 2018 prize. A selection of her work is available on her website: https://www.emilykellogg.com/

Tara A. Elliott lives with her husband and son on the Eastern Shore of Maryland where she teaches English. She is the founder and director of Salisbury Poetry Week, serves as a facilitator for Salisbury University's Lighthouse Literary Guild, and is the co-chair of the 2019 Bay to Ocean Writer's Conference. She is honored to have been selected as the 2018 Maryland Humanities' Teacher of the Year. Her recent poems have been published in MER, The TAOS Journal of International Poetry & Art, and Wildness, among others, and are forthcoming in Triggerfish Critical Review, and The American Journal of Poetry.

Michael Mitchell's love of music started at an early age and slowly became an addiction that courses through his veins to this very day. It is guaranteed that if you are in his proximity that he will try to get you to travel to the nearest record store and make you buy beyond your means. His wife and two children acknowledge his problem and continue to encourage him into rehab.

Joshua Dean Smith currently works as a data storyteller, where he integrates mathematics, art, and technology to transform data into compelling stories. His work has been featured in the anthology "Ohio's Best Emerging Poets" and the online journal "The Grove". He grew up in the Appalachian region of Ohio, and currently lives in Columbus, Ohio with his wife, Rebekah, his dog, Wild Jane, and his cat, Ernest Hemingway (and he has a little boy on the way).

Demond J Blake is a warehouse associate who has traveled the country working odd jobs, writing and meeting various artists, musicians and nonconformists living life on the fringes of society. He lives in Colton, CA with his wife and teenage son. Demond is currently seeking publication for 'Slackass' his first novel.

On an unseasonably cool July morning in Chicago, equivalent to Dickens' David Copperfield , Judge Burdon was born on a Friday. His mother theroized it was so he would be in time for weekend festivities. His fascination by the predominence of the written word inspired his study of English Literature. He attended Universities in the United States, London and Paris to continue his life's scholarship focusing on Victorian novels and authors. His writing career to date has been devoted primarily to poetry and songwriting. He is presently engaged in finishing his book "Imitation of Myself." A non-fiction story encompassing his experiences as a drug runner for a Mexican Cartel. Judge celebrated his 65th birthday last July and lives modestly in Costa Rica.

Alex Harrison is an Irish poet, filmmaker and musician based out of Vancouver. He has read his work at the 2017 Westport Arts festival and at the recent launch of the 3 Fates: Garden Witch zine. His writing has appeared in The Occulum, The Hidden Channel, Three Fates: Bath Time and BeateRoute Magazine. He is a co-founder and editor of the online literary magazine Cold Coffee Stand.

Ron Burch's fiction has been published in numerous literary journals including Mississippi Review, Eleven Eleven, PANK, and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His novel, Bliss Inc., was published by BlazeVOX Books. He lives in Los Angeles.

CHARLIE-ANNE BUTTERWORTH is a Creative Writing graduate, speculative fiction author, satire poet and urban cryptid from East London. She is usually a science-fiction writer but likes to give motion to her personal identity through experimental fiction and poetry. She refers to her creative process as ‘word wrangling’ and is inspired by the works of Octavia E. Butler and Margaret Atwood. Her work has been featured in Fincham Press’s The Unseen anthology and Pyre Publishing’s Reap What You Sow zine. Follow her on Twitter @cabwrites.

Lekan Alesh is founding editor at the Electronic Pamphlet. His poems were recently published by Philosophical Idiot, Event Horizon, Smeuse Poetry, Sentinel Literary Quarterly, and Ann Arbor Review. He tweets @IM_alesh

Mela Blust is a writer and artist from the south, who currently resides in rural Pennsylvania. Her work has appeared in Nixes Mate Review, Califragile and Little Rose Magazine, and is forthcoming in Rust+Moth, Abstract Magazine, The Magnolia Review, Ink in Thirds, and Third Wednesday Magazine.

Jane-Rebecca Cannarella is the editor of HOOT Review and Meow Meow Pow Pow Lit. She was a genre editor at Lunch Ticket, as well as a former contributing writer at SSG Music and Sequart: Art & Literacy. When not poorly playing the piano, she chronicles the many ways that she embarrasses herself at the website www.youlifeisnotsogreat.com.

Darling Fitch is an American-born, Berlin-based writer, musician and performance artist whose compositions often grapple with issues of collective and individual identity. Their work has appeared in festivals internationally, including the Dixon Place HOT! Fest, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and the Month of Performance Art – Berlin. In addition to performing regularly in Berlin and abroad, Fitch runs the local performance series Yes/No/Other/All: Performance on the Boundaries of Identity. www.darlingfitch.com
Photo credit: Aurora Romano Photography

Kimberly is the author of White Goat Black Sheep (FLP) and her poetry has appeared in several literary journals including The 3288 Review, Temenos, Storm Cellar, Borderlands: The Texas Poetry Review, The West Texas Literary Review, Windhover, Ruminate Magazine, Relief, RiverSedge and The Berkeley Poetry Review. She is an an MFA graduate of New England College, an English instructor, a book reviewer for NewPages, and an editor for the Nimrod International Journal of Poetry and Prose. Her writing explores trauma, sexuality, violence against women, motherhood, and displacement.

Santino DallaVecchia is a queer poet and artist from Michigan. An MFA graduate from Vermont College of Fine Arts, his work has appeared in Dream Pop Press, Heron Tree, Pithead Chapel, and Gambling the Aisle, among others.

Lisa Folkmire is a poet from Warren, Michigan. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts where she studied poetry. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including Heron Tree Literary Arts Journal, Gravel, Atlas & Alice, Timber, and Ann Arbor Current Magazine. She is also a reader for The Masters Review.

Isabella Esser-Munera teaches English to fourteen year olds and is an advocate for children everywhere. Her work has appeared in Faded-Out magazine and Maudlin House. She can be found on twitter as @esserisst,
and is currently working on her first novel.

Kelly Curtis is a recovering middle school English teacher, who lives in western Pennsylvania. After eleven years in 8th grade, she has recently decided to embark on a new career as a writer and editor. Kelly is an animal lover, with a penchant for reading. She hopes to become a published author, as well as a certified Cicerone.

Sara Matson has her MA in Literature from Northeastern Illinois University. She shares her Chicago apartment with her amazing husband and their three young boys, who all happen to be cats. Her work can be found or is forthcoming in Poached Hare, Burning House Press, Occulum, Dream Pop Press, Snapdragon Journal, Waxing and Waning, her mother’s refrigerator, and elsewhere. Sara Matson self-published her first chapbook, corporeal sin in 2014, and her second chapbook, electric grandma is forthcoming in 2018. She tweets as @skeletorwrites.

David Bankson lives in Texas. He was finalist in the 2017 Concīs Pith of Prose and Poem, and his works can be found in concis, (b)oink, Thank You for Swallowing, Artifact Nouveau, Riggwelter Press, Five 2 One Magazine, etc.

Rachel Nix is an editor for cahoodaloodaling, Hobo Camp Review and Screen Door Review. Her own work has appeared in L'Éphémère Review, Occulum, and Rogue Agent. She resides in Northwest Alabama, where pine trees outnumber people rather nicely, and can be followed at @rachelnix_poet on Twitter.

Charlotte Underwood is a 22-year-old from Norfolk, UK. With a passion for helping others and writing, she has found love in words and expression of them.

Andrew Velzian is a Scotsman currently living in Vietnam. He is sub prose editor at Under The Fable magazine and has poetry and short fiction published both online and in print.

Alfonso Mango is a degenerate droog pacing the stains of his own mess-riddled basement vegas apartment. His drunken scrawlings have been unfortunately tied to publications at Horror Sleaze Trash as well as Punch Drunk Press. Thank you for being gentle on him.

Jack Forbes is an Australian writer based in Melbourne. His short fiction has appeared in the Australian-based international journal, Tincture, and the University of Queensland's literary journal, LiNQ.

Arielle Tipa is a writer who lives near a haunted lake in New York. She is the Founding Editor of Occulum. Her debut chapbook of poetry and prose, daughter - seed, is set to release in Winter 2018 from Empty Set Press.

Kenneth Nichols earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Ohio State and maintains the writing craft website Great Writers Steal (www.greatwriterssteal.com). His work has appeared in a wide range of publications, including Main Street Rag, Crimespree Magazine, and Lunch Ticket.

Ian Lewis Copestick is a 45 year old poet from Stoke On Trent England. Although he has a long history of addiction issues, he hates the thought of being defined by it. He started writing poetry about 15 years ago after discovering Bukowski and being hit by the revelation that working class people CAN be poets.

Marisa Silva-Dunbar’s work has been published in Poetry WTF?!, Better than Starbucks Magazine, Redheaded Stepchild, Words Dance Magazine and Gargoyle Magazine. She graduated from the University of East Anglia with her MA in poetry, and has been shortlisted twice for the Eyewear Publishing Fortnight Poetry Prize. She currently lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Rachael Gay is a poet and artist living in Fargo, North Dakota. Her work has appeared in Quail Bell, Rag Queens, Déraciné Magazine, Eunoia Review, Daily Gramma, Literary Orphans, FreezRay Poetry, Bitterzoet Magazine, The Bookends Review and others. More of her work can be found at witchinghourpoetry.tumblr.com.

Scott Simmons is a young aspiring poet and humorist from Texas that has been featured in Duane's Poetree, Horror Sleaze Trash, and The Rye Whiskey Review. He also dabbles in art and he is the editor for The Dope Feind Daily.

William C. Crawford is a writer and photographer based in Winston-Salem, NC. He was a combat photojournalist in Vietnam. He has published extensively in various formats including fiction, creative nonfiction, memoirs, book reviews, and essays. He had a parallel career as a social worker and community organizer. There, he wrote biting editorials on behalf of the powerless such as abused children, the frail elderly, and victims of enforced state sterilizations. He is known as Crawdaddy to his yellow Lab, Scout. Website

Chad Musick is a mathematician, writer, and editor who lives in Japan with his family.

Samantha Cole-Reardon has recently found herself at Florida State University studying Higher Education, but her heart lies in Massachusetts where she graduated with a B.S. in Psychology at Bridgewater State University. Sammy has loved to write her entire life and lives for cheesy poems. In her free time, you can find her staring into the abyss and thinking about life, or eating a healthy diet of ice cream and popcorn. Sammy is made primarily out of bubble gum and glitter, but could not do so without coffee and an internal dialogue that just won't quit.

Patrick Jenkinson has spent nearly half his life in active addiction, five years in the violent grip of heroin, getting thrown about from living in sober houses to his car to jail like the winds from Dante's second circle, and as of now has a little over a year sober. These poems are his means of coming to grips with what has transpired in his life.

A New Jersey native, Lisa Sisler is the editor of Knocking at the Door: Approaching the Other, a poetry anthology from Write Bloody Books and the author of Creative Writing Workshop, a textbook for beginning writers. Her poetry has appeared in print and online at Connotations Press, Contemporary American Voices, The Writing Disorder, Adanna, among others. She teaches writing at Kean University.

Lydia Friedman once went on a blind date with a marble statue in Vienna. She lives in New England. www.crookedbutinteresting.wordpress.com

Frankie Spring is an undergraduate student at Indiana University South Bend majoring in English Writing. She has never understood a single joke, or the elusive art of social networking, but likes to think she's a nice person to hang out with anyway. So far, her poetry has appeared in her college's literary journal. It will also soon appear in Retirement Plan, a zine showcasing South Bend artists and writers.

Preach the Poet comes from Chicago. Utilizing religious text and pop culture to create stories to share. He’s performed in AL, TN, FL, and TX. He currently represents Lucha Dallas and you can find him some where in the community lending a helping hand.

Steve Henn wrote Indiana Noble Sad Man of the Year (Wolfson Press, 2017) and two other books of poetry. He teaches high school in northern Indiana.

Klae Bainter received his BA in creative writing from the University of Washington in 2015, and will begin master's studies in the NEOMFA program in Cleveland in the fall of 2018. He currently resides in Seattle, WA.

Kendall A. Bell's poetry has been most recently published in Philosophical Idiot and Work to a calm. He was nominated for Sundress Publications' Best of the Net collection in 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2015. He is the author of twenty four chapbooks. His next chapbook, "Chasing The Skyline", will be released in June 2018. He is the founder and co-editor of the online journal Chantarelle's Notebook and publisher/editor of Maverick Duck Press. His chapbooks are available through Maverick Duck Press. He lives in Southern New Jersey.

Stormy Skies received her Master’s degree in Publishing from The George Washington University. Her works can be found in STRAPPED zine, ABSENCE Literary & Visual Art Review Magazine, Junto Magazine, and Civil Coping Mechanisms. She currently lives in Southwestern Pennsylvania surrounded by wilderness.

Katherine Nazzaro graduated from Bridgewater State University in 2017 with a major in English and a concentration in Classics. She has loved Greek mythology since she was a child, which influences a lot of her writing. In her spare time she volunteers at her local library, forgets the name of every book she’s ever read and enjoyed, and changes her mind twice a minute.

Megan Prevost is a Creative Writing student in Florida. Her work has appeared in The Beacon and Scarlet Leaf Review. In her free time, she likes to cry over stray cats and take pictures of lighthouses. You can follow her on twitter @megpre_23

Hannah Searsy is a writer who lives in Fort Worth, TX with her partner Luc, and their two Siamese cats Mojo and Scrambles. Her work has appeared on Madswirl.com and is forthcoming in Thimble Literary journal.

Stefan Lutter was born and raised in Upstate NY, where he still resides. His work has appeared in Word Riot, Five 2 One, and Vending Machine Press.

Lauren Bender lives in Burlington, VT. Her work has appeared in IDK Magazine, The Collapsar, Gyroscope Review, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, Yes Poetry, and others. You can find her on twitter @benderpoet.

Jessie Lynn McMains is a poet, writer, zine-maker, and small press owner. Her words have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Left of the Lake Magazine, L’Ephemere Review, Burning House Press, Shakespeare & Punk, and others. She collects souvenir pennies and stick & poke tattoos, and is perpetually nostalgic, melancholy, and restless. You can find her website at recklesschants.net.

Shan Cawley is a poet based out of Morgantown, WV. Her first full length collection, kingdom now, is set to be released this summer by Maudlin House Press. You can follow Shan on Twitter and Instagram @shancawleywvu.

Melissa Kelly is a Poet and Short Story writer from Long Island, NY. She was recently published in the WestWard Quarterly Magazine, Soft Cartel and Plum Tree Tavern.

Jeannie E. Roberts has authored four poetry collections and one children's book. Her most recent collection is The Wingspan of Things, a poetry chapbook (Dancing Girl Press, 2017). She is also the author of Romp and Ceremony, a full-length poetry collection (Finishing Line Press, 2017), Beyond Bulrush, a full-length poetry collection (Lit Fest Press, 2015), and Nature of it All, a poetry chapbook (Finishing Line Press, 2013). She is the author and illustrator of Let's Make Faces!, a children's book dedicated to her son (author-published, 2009). Her work appears in books, online magazines, print journals and anthologies, including A Year of Being Here, An Ariel Anthology, Bards Against Hunger, Blue Heron Review, Bramble, Festival of Language's Festival Writer, Literary Mama, Misty Mountain Review, Portage Magazine, Quill and Parchment, Red Cedar Review, and elsewhere. Born and raised in Minneapolis, she lives in an inspiring setting near Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, where she writes, draws and paints, and often photographs her natural surroundings.

Arya F. Jenkins’s poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in numerous journals and zines. Her short story, “Foolish Love,” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2017. Her poetry has also been nominated for the Pushcart. Her work has appeared in at least four anthologies. She writes jazz fiction for Jerry Jazz Musician, an online zine. Her poetry chapbooks are: Jewel Fire (AllBook Books, 2011) Silence Has A Name(Finishing Line Press, 2016). Her poetry chapbook, Autumn Rumors, is slated for publication by CW Books in September 2018. Her jazz-inspired short story collection, Blue Songs in an Open Key, was just accepted for publication by Fomite Press.

Savannah Slone is a queer writer who earned her B.A. in English: Professional and Creative Writing from Central Washington University and is completing her M.F.A. in Writing at Lindenwood University. Her poetry and short fiction has appeared in or will soon appear in Manastash Literary Arts Magazine, Creative Colloquy, Heavy Feather Review, Boston Accent Lit, PaperFox Lit Mag, The Stray Branch, The Airgonaut, Ghost City Press, Sinister Wisdom, decomP magazinE, Maudlin House, FIVE:2:ONE, Foliate Oak, Pidgeonholes, and Luna Luna Magazine. Her debut chapbook, Hearing the Underwater, is forthcoming publication at Finishing Line Press. Savannah lives in Skykomish, WA, where she works a handful of part-time jobs and cares for her toddler with autism. She enjoys reading, writing, knitting, hiking, and talking all things intersectional feminism.

Lauren Gargiulo is a published writer from and living in Vancouver BC. Lauren is currently completing a BA in English Literature from Queen’s University. In the little spare time that exists, Lauren enjoys reading, working on screenplays and slowly but surely compiling beer and book related research for an upcoming blog. You can find Lauren on Twitter at @GargiuloLauren

Kristin spends her time perfecting the art of sarcasm, binge-watching and concert-going. She is a published poet with a BA in English | Creative Writing from the University of Central Florida. Her passions include reading, writing, music and pop culture. When she’s not living in the pages of books or spending time with her niece, you can find her reviewing TV shows, music and movies on her blog, According to Kristin.

Neil Creighton is an Australian poet whose work as a teacher of English and Drama brought him into close contact with thousands of young lives, most happy and triumphant but too many tragically filled with neglect. It also made him intensely aware of how opportunity is so unequally proportioned and his work reflects strong interest in social justice. Recent publications include Poetry Quarterly, Poeming Pigeon, Poets Reading the News, New Verse News, Autumn Sky Daily, Praxis Mag Online, Ekphrastic Review, Social Justice Poetry and Verse-Virtual, where he is a Contributing Editor. He blogs at windofflowers.blogspot.com.au

Rebecca Gransden lives on an island and writes sometimes. She can be found on Twitter @rlgransden and online occasionally at rebeccagransden.wordpress.com

Daniel Edward Moore’s poems have been published in journals such as: The Spoon River Poetry Review, Rattle, Columbia Journal, New South, The American Journal of Poetry and others. His poems are currently at Mandala, Lullwater Review, december Magazine, Natural Bridge Literary Journal, Scalawag Magazine, Tule Review, Hot Metal Bridge, Fire Poetry Journal, West Texas literary Review and RAW Journal of Arts.

His book “Confessions of a Pentecostal Buddhist” can be found on Amazon. He lives in Washington on Whidbey Island. Visit Daniel at danieledwardmoore.com/

Alexandra Naughton is a writer based in Richmond, California. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Be About It Press, established in 2010. She is the author of six poetry collections including You Could Never Objectify Me More Than I've Already Objectified Myself (Punk Hostage Press, 2015), I Will Always Be In Love (Paper Press, 2015), and I Wish You Never Emailed Me (Ghost City Press, 2016). Her first novel, American Mary, was published by Civil Coping Mechanisms in 2016. Her writing has been widely published on the web and in print, and she performs regularly in the Bay Area and elsewhere.

Dynas Johnson is an English major at Temple University and a contributing editor for Hyphen, Temple’s undergraduate literary magazine. She has poems featured in Sooth Swarm Journal, Ghost Proposal, Rogue Agent, and Vagabond City Lit. When she is not writing, she can be found studying, listening to BTS, or looking for new bubble tea places. You can find her on Instagram: @dynasaur0 and on tumblr: https://shuidinosaurs.tumblr.com/.

Nancy Byrne Iannucci is a historian who teaches history and lives poetry in Troy, NY. Her work is published/forthcoming in numerous publications including Bop Dead City, Allegro Poetry Magazine, Gargoyle, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Typehouse Literary Magazine, Riggwelter Press, Poetry Breakfast, Three Drops from a Cauldron, Picaroon Poetry, Dying Dahlia Review to name a few. Her debut book of poetry, Temptation of Wood, is due out in May, 2018, published by Nixes Mate Review.

Kate Garrett is the managing editor of Three Drops from a Cauldron, Picaroon Poetry, and Lonesome October Lit. Her own writing appears here and there, and she is the author of several pamphlets, most recently You've never seen a doomsday like it (Indigo Dreams, 2017), and Losing interest in the sound of petrichor (The Black Light Engine Room Press, 2018). Kate was born and raised in rural southern Ohio, but moved to the UK in 1999, where she still lives in Sheffield with her husband, five children, and a sleepy cat.
www.kategarrettwrites.co.uk

Nadia Wolnisty is a poet, artist, and performer in Dallas, Texas. Her work has appeared in, Apogee, Philosophical Idiot, Spry, McNeese Review, Essay Daily, Paper & Ink, and the Art Uprising anthology “Desolate Country,” among others. She has two chapbooks: “Manual” from Cringe-Worthy Poetry and “A Zoo” from Finishing Line Press. A chapbook and a full-length are forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press and Spartan.

Lorette C. Luzajic is an artist and writer whose mixed media collage paintings have been exhibited extensively in her city, Toronto, Canada, as well as in Mexico, Tunisia, and the USA. She is a member of Workman Arts, an organization for artists in recovery from addiction and mental illness. She is the founding editor of The Ekphrastic Review, a journal devoted to poetry inspired by art. She is working on her fifth poetry collection and on a book of essays about Mexico City. Visit her at www.mixedupmedia.ca.

Tianna Grosch lives in the woodlands of PA and received her MFA at Arcadia University this past May. Her work has previously appeared in New Pop Lit, Who Writes Short Shorts, The Odyssey and Loco Mag, and is forthcoming in Ellipsis Zine, Echo Lit Journal (Paragon Press), Blanket Sea Magazine, and Crack the Spine. Follow her on Twitter @tiannag92.

Ra Kay is an aspiring author from Kansas (relating more to “The Wiz” rather than plain ol’ “The Wizard of Oz”) with more than twenty years of journaling and writing poetry/prose under her belt. Unconventional to say the least, her imagination and pen crosses literary lines, creating a unique lyrical quality in her work. When she’s not writing, she’s thinking about it, reading, or engaging in an array of other activities that contribute to her inspiration.

Nina Belen Robins is a three time national slam poet and author of the books of poems “Supermarket Diaries” and “A Bed With My Name on it”. She lives with her husband and cats and works in the bakery department of a supermarket. She spent much of her life in various institutions but has finally broken free and wants to normalize and destigmatize mental illness as best she can.

Amy Baskin’s work is featured in Friends Journal, Every Pigeon, apt, and more. She is a 2016 Willamette Writers Kay Snow Poetry award recipient for her poem “About Face.” She wrote this poem when she first read Sherman Alexie's apology to women he had harmed and mistreated. Writing helps her to make sense of human failure and to explore why she still loves the disappointing and the wounding among us, including herself.

Rachele Salvini is an Italian student of Creative Writing and a first-year PhD candidate at Oklahoma State University. She writes both in Italian and in English, and her work has been published in several magazines such as Takahe Magazine, The Fem Literary Magazine, The Machinery, and others. She is an Editorial Assistant for Cimarron Review and she has been an editor and translator for The Wells Street Journal.

Alicia Bakewell is a short fiction writer living in Western Australia. Her work has been published by Flash Frontier, Ellipsis Zine and Fictive Dream, and she was the winner of Reflex Fiction’s Spring 2017 competition. She is trying to give up writing poetry. She tweets nonsense @lissybakewell.

One in eight couples suffers from infertility. Most men and women suffer in silence, a few of them document their journeys on personal blogs. Yevgeniya Przhebelskaya has found her voice by writing poetry. Her poems have been published in magazines in Russia and in USA. Yevgeniya is a founder and facilitator of Bergen Poetry Workshop, and an Administrative Assistant at Leonia United Methodist Church. She earned a Masters in Education from Hunter College, CUNY. Yevgeniya hopes that her experience of suffering and healing will encourage people around the world. .Yevgeniya’s poems were published in Ancient Paths, A Blind Man’s Rainbow, Time of Singing, and The Penwood Review. Check out her poetry page at https://leonia.church/2018-archive/poetry-by-yevgeniya-przhebelskaya/

Kathleen is an undergraduate student, teaching assistant, and lover of literature.

Mary is an 18-year-old aspiring poet and writer who has recently been published in Kingdoms of the Wild and Moonchild Magazine. She is currently working towards earning her degree in English, and spends her days dreaming of writing beloved poetry and living in the mountains with her friends and family close by.
Twitter: @rhymesofblue

Alison Harville's poems have appeared in Tower Journal, The Café Review and the anthology Under the Legislator of Stars. She is a resident of the Seacoast area of New Hampshire and a member of City Hall Poets. She can be found online at @RubyAli_GMW.

Jason Powell is a New York City Firefighter in the FDNY and an avid people watcher. He spends all of his free time and (some of his work time) writing and reading and eating chocolate covered pretzels.

Joe Amaral works 48-hour shifts as a paramedic on the central coast of California. He loves spelunking outdoors, camping, traveling, and hosting foreign exchange students with his young family. Joe’s writing has appeared in awesome places like 3Elements Review, New Verse News, Panoply, Poets Reading the News, Postcard Poems and Prose, Rise Up Review and Writers of the Portuguese Diaspora. Joe won the 2014 Ingrid Reti Literary Award.

Clara Burghelea is Editor at Large of Village of Crickets and an MFA candidate at Adelphi University. Her poems and fiction have been published in Peacock Journal, Full of Crow Press, Quail Bell Magazine, Ambit Magazine, The Write Launch and elsewhere. She lives in New York.

Colin Dardis is a poet, editor and arts coordinator from Northern Ireland. His work has been published widely throughout Ireland, the UK and the USA. Colin’s personal history of depression and mental illness is an ongoing influence on his work. One of Eyewear Publishing's Best New British and Irish Poets 2016, a collection with Eyewear, the x of y, is forthcoming later this year. www.colindardispoet.co.uk

J.David from Cleveland, Ohio; likes Phoebe Bridgers; and hopes to one day become lovely

Mark McConville is a freelance music journalist from Scotland. His work has appeared in print and online. He has written for many music publications. He also dabbles in prose and poetry.

Rebekah Morgan is an american that lives in Romania. Rebekah Morgan went to Rockbridge co. Highschool.

George L Stein is a writer and photographer living in Michigan City in Northwest Indiana. George works in both film and digital formats in the urban decay, architecture, fetish, and street photography genres. His emphasis is on composition with the juxtaposition of beauty and decay lying at the center of his aesthetic. George has been published in Midwestern Gothic, Gravel, Foliate Oak, After Hours, Hoosier Lit, Gulf Stream Magazine, 3Elements, Stoneboat, Occulum, the Gnu Journal, Iliinot Review and Darkside Magazine.

Tiffany Jimenez is from the San Francisco Bay Area. She earned her BA in Creative Writing from UC Santa Cruz, and her MFA from Saint Mary's College of California. Her most recent work has appeared in Hobart, Anomaly Literature Journal, and Door Is a Jar Magazine. Other than being an ardent supporter of the imagination and the art of storytelling, she writes a lot, laughs a lot, startles easily, and loves potatoes.

Merridawn Duckler is a poet, playwright from Portland, Oregon. She’s the author of “Interstate” forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press. Recent work published or forthcoming in Ninth Letter, Juked, Jet Fuel Review, Disquieting Muses Quarterly, the anthologies “Climate of Opinion: Sigmund Freud in Poetry” and “Weaving the Terrain” from Dos Gatos Press. Fellowships/awards include Writers@Work, NEA, Yaddo, Squaw Valley, SLS in St. Petersburg, Russia, Southampton Poetry Conference, Wigleaf Top 50 in micro-fiction, Southampton Review flash contest. She’s an editor at Narrative and at the international philosophy journal Evental Aesthetics.

Emily Blair is an Appalachian poet and college instructor living in Charlotte, North Carolina. Her first chapbook of poetry, WE ARE BIRDS, is forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press. Her recent work can be found in Boshemia Magazine, Punch Drunk Press, Vagabond City, and Figroot Press, among others.

Emily Warzeniak is an artist, poet, and scientist currently attempting to survive the unforgiving climes of the New Mexican desert.

Elizabeth Dutton is a California native. She was the recipient of the 2017 Morton Marcus Poetry Prize for “Native Daughter of the Golden West” and is the author of the novel Driftwood. She earned an M.Phil. in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow and a B.A. in English from the University of California, Davis. She is currently teaches English at a community college and at a federal prison (and is a staunch proponent of educational access and criminal justice reform). She’s working hard on her second novel (she promises) and a collection of poems. Follow her on Twitter @duttonwrites.

Gervanna Gravity Stephens is a Jamaican born spoken word artist who sees the world in aliens, spies and Hogwarts houses. She dabbles in education, photography, public speaking and a little graphic design, for creation at heart includes everything! Tweets @gravitystephens

Laurie Kolp’s poems have appeared in Stirring, Whale Road Review, concis, Up the Staircase, and more. Her poetry books include the full-length Upon the Blue Couch and chapbook Hello, It's Your Mother. An avid runner and lover of nature, Laurie lives in Southeast Texas with her husband, three children, and two dogs.

sydney mcneill is a canadian poet who likes plants and bees a lot. send her your art at sea foam mag and keep up with her here.

Jen Persichetti holds a Bachelors in Journalism and is a member of IAPWE - International Association of Professional Writers and Editors. Writing has always come naturally to her. It is her first love....she can’t get enough. Jen decided to pursue writing because nothing brings her more joy than to put pen to paper. A collection of Jen's work has been growing over the years as personal journal entries. She hopes to share them with the world one day...Jen is striving to make that aspiration a reality.

sally burnette currently lives in Boston. their poems have appeared most recently in BOAAT, Calamus Journal, Sixth Finch, and Yes, Poetry. tweets @dunebuggy12.

Brice Maiurro is a poet from Denver, Colorado. His work has previously been featured by The Denver Post, Birdy Magazine, Suspect Press, and The Denver Poetry Map to name a few. His first collection of poetry, Stupid Flowers, was released in June of 2017 by Punch Drunk Press.

Kelsey O'Kelley is an editor, poet, and green tea fan who hails from Chicago. She has also been published in UpWrite Mag, The Whistling Shade, and Sea Foam Mag.

Natasha Cabot is a Halifax-based Canadian writer whose work has been featured in Thrice Fiction Magazine, Toasted Cheese Literary Journal, Wilderness House Literary Review, as well as several others. She recently completed work on her first novel, "Patriotland."

Erin Taylor is an American poet whose work has been featured at LAMBDA Literary, Cosmonauts Avenue, Scum Mag, and more. More of her work can be found at erintaylor.tumblr.com and she tweets at @erinisaway.

Nick Stanovick is a graduate of Temple University, a Babel Poetry Collective alumni, and an International Poetry Slam Champion. His poems have appeared in Spillway, Vinyl, Public Pool, Rising Phoenix Review, Drunk In a Midnight Choir, and SickLit Magazine among others. He’s currently a Masters candidate at Auburn University, where he studies Composition and Rhetoric and eats many grilled cheese sandwiches.

Alana Saltz is a poet, writer, and freelance editor living in Tacoma, WA. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The LA Times, The Huffington Post, voxpoetica, Angels Flight literary west, and The East Jasmine Review. You can visit her website at alanasaltz.com and follow her on Twitter and Instagram @alanasaltz.

Benjamin Brindise is the author of Rotten Kid (Ghost City Press, 2017) and co-author of Those Who Favor Fire, Those Who Pray to Fire (EMP 2018). He is a Teaching Artist at the Just Buffalo Literary Center and facilitates after school poetry programming for Buffalo’s Public Schools. He has represented Buffalo twice in the 2015 and 2016 National Poetry Slams and has recently been published in Maudlin House, Foundlings, and The Magnitizdat Literary among others.

Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler is a poet and translator from New Hampshire. His latest translation project, Mesopotamia, a collection of short stories and poems by great living Ukrainian author Serhiy Zhadan, is forthcoming from Yale University Press.

Nicole Melchionda is a graduate of Stetson University where she majored in English with a minor in creative writing. There she completed an independent study on gothic poetry with award-winning poet Terri Witek and earned membership to Phi Beta Kappa. The interests that infiltrate her work include biology, human anatomy, cosmology, psychology, and interpersonal relationships. She has worked as an English teacher in China and now resides in Poland.

Ashley Cooke is a creative writing major attending Long Beach City College. She is from Long Beach, CA. She is currently working on her first poetry collection entitled “Like Pulling Teeth”. She works at a hospital and at a music venue. She has been writing poetry for 10 years.

Jonathan Treadway is a self taught Kentucky folk artist. He was born a preachers kid in 1976. Guided by the spirits he went on to fail at the family biz. Now, he spreads a new message from His church of paint where oblivion shouts, can I get a witness? He lives and paints in an attic apt. in a house built in the 1840s that both sides of the civil war walked in front of in Bowling Green, KY, 65 miles north of Nashville. He is also a poet and former Rock n roll singer. He paints omens, spirits, visions, dreams and secular saints of lost America. In his mind, the paintings are a call and response hymn with his phantoms and shadows. The paintings are of the dirty and fraid holy, the blessed and damned from times echo.

William R. Soldan grew up in and around the Rust Belt city of Youngstown, Ohio, where he lives with his wife and two children. A high school dropout and college graduate, he holds a BA in English Literature from Youngstown State University and an MFA from the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts program. His work appears or is forthcoming in publications such as New World Writing, Gordon Square Review, Thuglit, (b)OINK, Anomaly Literary Journal, Ohio’s Best Emerging Poets Anthology, and many others. You can find him at williamrsoldan.com if you'd like to connect.

Amy Kotthaus is a poet and photographer. Her poetry has been published in Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Yellow Chair Review, Occulum, and others. Her photography has been published in Storm Cellar, Typehouse Literary Magazine, Moonchild Magazine, Crab Fat Magazine, and others. She currently lives in Maine with her husband and children.

Amy Miller is a 24 year old bisexual anarcho-feminist.
She's only online to announce publication: @amyamyanneanne

Marisa Adame, Latinx storyteller/creative from Dallas, Texas, seeks to create work that balances as much as it deconstructs. Her work has appeared in Crab Fat Magazine, Red Savina Review, Hold the Line, Metaphor Magazine, and St. Sucia zine. Her chapbook manuscript, butterfly bombs, was a finalist for Thoughtcrime Press's Lorien Prize in 2017. You can find her on YouTube or Instagram (@marisasaysthings), and on her official Facebook page.

Meagan Masterman is a writer from Maine. Her work has appeared in Funhouse, Unbroken Journal, and Maudlin House. She co-edits Reality Hands. Find her online at https://twitter.com/meaganmasterman

Marc Tissenbaum up working on a family farm in West Virginia, received a a B.A. in Journalism from Marshall University, moved to Boston in time for The Pixies/Throwing Muses/Zulus era of music, went to write about business research at the University of Georgia, and was laid off during the massive George Herbert Walker Bush recession. He then earned an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Vermont College, went to work for--and bailed on--the poorly executed 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, GA. He stayed in Athens, GA where he played music and worked as a club doorman, janitor, ghostwriter, waiter, house painter, carpenter's assistant, farmer, organic landscape gardener, and grocery clerk. He's traveled, somewhat extensively for a U.S. American, visiting Canada, Cuba, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Peru, England, Scotland, The Netherlands, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Spain, The Czech Republic, Poland, Slovenia, Croatia, Turkey and Morocco. He moved to Philly in October 2016 and is still trying to find his place and way in the world.

Nichole Acosta is a multicultural, queer, diabetic, poet whose work captures human nature in its best and worst light. Writing for those who have felt left behind in the margins, she has been performing spoken word poetry solo and in collaboration with musicians and other performers from New York City to Singapore since she was 11 years old.

Holly Spencer is a recovering addict who lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her four dogs and two cats. She is a recent graduate of Point Park University where she obtained two Bachelor Degrees: Creative Writing and Behavioral Sciences. During her "real" job, she works with women in drug and alcohol recovery, as well as pregnant, homeless women. Her piece, “Stuck,” has been published in Jet Fuel Review, an online literary magazine, in the creative nonfiction genre. Recently, “Stuck,” has been nominated for The Best of the Net, 2016. Her poem, “The Cost,” has been featured on Rise Up Review, an online forum for protest poetry, June 2017.

Alexandria is a writer and student from the South. She began writing as a way to come to terms with mental illness and trauma. She loves museums, cats, and psychology.

Lance Milham is a fiction writer and poet from Melbourne, Florida. He is a recent graduate from the University of Central Florida in Creative Writing.

Célia Schouteden is a twenty-four years artist based in Belgium. She’s currently studying at her hometown university, in Liège, to become a psychologist. Since 2016, she has explored herself through analog photography which she's using as a therapy to help herself with her anxiety and her cyclothymic disorder. She would love to help other survivors through art so, hopefully, they feel less alone in their conditions. In December 2017, she founded Peculiars Magazine, an online magazine with the aim of raising awareness around mental health through words and art.

Carrie Laski lives in Texas for the time being. Her work has appeared in Peach Mag, Occulum, Maudlin House, Spy Kids Review, tenderness, yea, Philosophical Idiot, and The Pendulum. She loves riding the bus and will do Sum 41 at karaoke any chance she gets. twitter: @heyy_carrie_ann website: https://serialfascinations.com/

Grant Guy is a Winnipeg, Canada, poet, writer and playwright. Former artistic director of Adhere + Deny. His poems, short stories, essays and art criticism have been published in Canada, the United States, Wales, India and England. He has three books published: Open Fragments (Lives of Dogs), On the Bright Side of Down and Bus Stop Bus Stop (Red Dashboard). His plays include A.J. Loves B.B., Song for Simone and an adaptation of Paradise Lost and the Grand Inquisitor. He was the 2004 recipient of the MAC’s 2004 Award of Distinction and the 2017 recipient of the WAC’s Making A Difference Award.

Sarah Elgatian is a second generation Armenian-American with a lot of questions. She has a wife and a cat and beautiful family. Sarah likes bright colors, dark coffee, and wicked clowns. She believes in live music, wild animals, and homemade soup and lives in Iowa City, IA where she gets to experience all of these things every day.

Remi Recchia is an MFA Candidate in Poetry at Bowling Green State University, where he serves as Assistant Poetry Editor for the Mid-American Review and teaches Creative Writing. His work has appeared in or will soon appear in the Pittsburgh Poetry Review, the Old Northwest Review, Blue River Review, Front Porch, Gravel, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and Ground Fresh Thursday Press, among others.

Maia Brown-Jackson is an exhausted graduate student at the Fletcher School for Law and Diplomacy. She dreams of saving the world and accepts that for the moment that means exams on corporate finance and American history as told by white men. While struggling not to injure herself in krav maga and sublimating stress through baking, sometimes she writes poetry so she doesn't have to experience actual feelings more often than necessary.

Jason Jackson writes short fiction and, occasionally, poetry. He also takes photographs. In a busy life he hopes to get better at all three. Find links to his published words and pictures at jjfiction.wordpress.com Jason tweets @jj_fiction

jennifer del castillo came into writing and photography, as a way to find meaning in life after becoming disabled and recovering from trauma. the intention she looks to create is not to be perfect with the work. instead it is up to observers to come up with their own interpretations. you can find her at smallslowstep.com and on Twitter/Instagram (@smallslowstep).

Michael H. Brownstein has been widely published throughout the small and literary presses. His work has appeared in The Café Review, American Letters and Commentary, Skidrow Penthouse, Xavier Review, Hotel Amerika, Free Lunch, Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, The Pacific Review, Poetrysuperhighway.com and others. In addition, he has nine poetry chapbooks including The Shooting Gallery (Samidat Press, 1987), Poems from the Body Bag (Ommation Press, 1988), A Period of Trees (Snark Press, 2004), What Stone Is (Fractal Edge Press, 2005), I Was a Teacher Once (Ten Page Press, 2011), Firestorm: A Rendering of Torah (Camel Saloon Press, 2012), The Possibility of Sky and Hell: From My Suicide Book (White Knuckle Press, 2013) and The Katy Trail, Mid-Missouri, 100 Degrees Outside and Other Poems (Kind of Hurricane Press, 2013). He is the editor of First Poems from Viet Nam (2011).

Candace Hartsuyker loves 1940s screwball comedies, YA lit, all things theater and film noir. She is a first-year fiction student in McNeese State University’s MFA Program.

Amber Miller is currently studying teacher education in the Midwest. Miller's poetry and essays have been featured in The New Verse News, Making queer history, and Aois21 Publishing.

R.S. Williams taught college writing for 19 years before starting a new career as a freelance writer-artist-editor. She documents the small things most of us miss: moments when light falls across a wall, a sign, the sky, a face. Her current projects include the photo series For Wes and her debut novel, Songs My Father Barely Knew.

Jeanann Verlee is a 2017 NEA Poetry Fellow and the author of two books, Said the Manic to the Muse and Racing Hummingbirds, which was awarded a silver medal in the Independent Publisher Awards. Her third book, prey, was first runner-up for the 2016 Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award and will be published by Black Lawrence Press in 2018. She is a recipient of the Third Coast Poetry Prize and the Sandy Crimmins National Prize, and her work appears in Adroit, BOAAT, Rattle, and BuzzFeed Reader, among others. Verlee collects tattoos and kisses Rottweilers. She believes in you. Find her at jeanannverlee.com.

Sierra Brown is a poet from the south currently residing in the north. She is a Zell Fellow at University of Michigan's Helen Zell Writer's Program. She does letterpress work with Wolverine Press and is currently working on a design project for the Prisoner's Creative Arts Program. You can find her work at Salamander and Blue Mesa Review.

Kim Bailey Spradlin is a 2016 Pushcart Prize Nominee, published poet and writer, and former columnist for Five 2 One Literary Magazine 2016-2017. Kim teaches writing courses online and works as a freelance editor. She lives in Lawrenceburg, TN with her husband, published poet S. Liam Spradlin.

Jen Rouse’s poems have appeared in Poetry, Poet Lore, Pretty Owl, The Tishman Review, The Inflectionist Review, Midwestern Gothic, Sinister Wisdom, the Plath Poetry Project, Occulum, Lavender Review, and elsewhere. She has work forthcoming in Up the Staircase's 10th anniversary issue and Sliver of Stone. She’s the 2017 winner of Gulf Stream’s summer poetry contest. Rouse’s chapbook, Acid and Tender, was published in 2016 by Headmistress Press. Find her at jen-rouse.com and on Twitter @jrouse.

Rocco Marinelli currently resides in the Adirondacks of Upstate, NY. His work has been published by the NY Literary Magazine, Little CAB Press and RumbleFish Press.

Robert Carr is the author of "Amaranth" a chapbook published in 2016 by Indolent Books and a 2017 Pushcart Prize nominated poet. His poetry has appeared in Arts & Understanding Magazine, Bellevue Literary Review, Kettle Blue Review, Radius Literary Magazine, Pretty Owl Poetry and other publications. He lives with his husband Stephen in Malden, Massachusetts and serves as an associate poetry editor for Indolent Books. He is also deputy director for the Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Sciences at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Poetry, book reviews, and upcoming events can be found at robertcarr.org.

Claire L. Smith is an Australian poet, author, essayist and artist. Her work has been featured in Moonchild Magazine (Issue Two), A Woman's Thing, MookyChick, NerdVanaTV and Business Woman Media. Twitter: @clairelsmixth

Aleeya Wilson is originally from Denver Colorado, she moved to San Francisco to study in the MFA program at the University of San Francisco. Some of her poems have appeared in Teeth Dreams Magazine and Suspect Press. She is currently completing a manuscript of poems.

Jackson Dickert is a writer from Columbia, South Carolina.

Sarah is a twenty-one-year-old student studying English and Creative writing at Concordia University in Montreal. She is a never-before-published poet. Most of her work takes its inspiration from nature, whether it be her cottage in Quebec or her grandparent’s home in Grand Barachois, New Brunswick. She has found art and a connection with nature to be her primary healers. When there is a fusion of the two that is when she feels most whole.

Archita Mittra is a wordsmith, visual artist with a love for all things vintage and darkly fantastical. A student of English Literature at Jadavpur University, she also has a Diploma in Multimedia and Animation from St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata. Her work has appeared or been profiled in The Statesman, Thought Catalog, Maudlin House, Rising Phoenix Review, Luna Luna Magazine and elsewhere. She also serves as the Poetry Editor at Quail Bell Magazine, occasionally practises as a tarot card reader and is still waiting for The Doctor and the TARDIS to show up. You can follow her Twitter at @archita_mittra and check out her blog here: https://architamittra.wordpress.com/

Austin Beaton studied Spanish and Creative Writing and regret at the University of Oregon, where he was a finalist for the Walter and Nancy Kidd Memorial Writing Competition in Poetry. His work has appeared in Peach Mag, The Stay Project, (b)OINK, Porridge Magazine, Voicemail Poems and is forthcoming in Oxidant Engine and the Angel City Review. He lives near the ocean in San Luis Obispo, California where he drinks flat H20 from a sparkling water bottle, bakes figs, and gives nicknames.

Phil Hall's most recent books are Conjugation (BookThug, 2016), and Guthrie Clothing: The Poetry of Phil Hall—a Selected Collage (Sir Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2015). He has won Canada’s Governor General’s Award (2011), and Ontario’s Trillium Award (2012). He has twice been nominated for the Griffin Prize.

Miriam Kramer studied Creative Writing at Pacific University, and works at a local bookstore. Her work has been published in The Rising Phoenix Review, and Indigent Press. She lives in Bound Brook, NJ, with her faucet obsessed cat, Ernie. Miriam is overly sentimental, often rescuing items from other peoples’ garbage.

Dave Worrell’s chapbook “We Who Were Bound” was published in August 2012 by Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press. His ekphrastic collection “Close to Home” was published in 2015, featuring paintings by Catherine Kuzma. Dave’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Slant, Canary, Shot Glass Journal, Referential Magazine, Wild River Review, U.S. 1 Worksheets, Exit 13 and elsewhere. He has performed his music-backed poems at Chris’ Jazz Café in Philadelphia and The Cornelia Street Café in New York.

Gabe Kahan is a poet, freelance writer, visual artist, and the founding editor of the literature and arts journal, Taxicab Magazine. He has forthcoming poetry in The Occulum, The Bitchin' Kitsch, The Paragon Journal, and others. He lives and writes in New York and Washington, DC. He never leaves the house without his Burt's Bees beeswax lip balm. You can follow him on Twitter @GabeKahan or visit his website at gabekahan.com.

Kari Rhyan's previous work, Standby for Broadcast--a memoir on the dangers of canned patriotism, family loyalty, and discount retail--focused on her time as a Navy nurse in Afghanistan, and has received praise from Kirkus and Blue Ink, and are widely available online. www.krhyan.com

Lindsey Woodward began writing poetry at age 9 because she found pencils and paper easier to communicate with than people. 25 years later, she still prefers the company of books and cats. Born and raised in Port Hope, Ontario, she inevitably fled and studied art history and English at Carleton University in Ottawa. Upon completion of her studies, she returned to the area although she remains uncertain why. Her chapbook Huckster Piss (2008) was published by In/Words Press, and she is a regular contributor on The Mighty website.

Larry Rogers is a poet-singer/songwriter. Golden Antelope Press recently published a full-length collection of his poems titled "Live Free or Croak." It's available at Amazon and Barnes and Noble.

Donna Reis’s debut poetry collection, No Passing Zone, published by Deerbrook Editions (December, 2012) was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is co-editor and contributor to the anthology, Blues for Bill: A Tribute to William Matthews (Akron Poetry Series, 2005). Her non-fiction book, Seeking Ghosts in the Warwick Valley, published by Schiffer Publishing, Ltd (2003) has sold nearly 3000 copies. She is the author of three poetry chapbooks: Certain(Finishing Line Press, 2012); Dog Shows and Church: A Sequence of Poems (2000) and Incantations (1995) both published by Eurydice Press. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including The Same, and Zone 3, Blood Lines: Tales of Mayhem and Murder (Knopf, 2011); Chance of a Ghost, Helicon Nine Editions (2005) and Beyond Lament: Poets of the World Bearing Witness to the Holocaust, Northwestern University Press (1998). Reis received her Master of Arts Degree in Creative Writing at The City College, City University of New York, in 2002.

Andrés Castro, a PEN member/volunteer, is listed in the Directory of Poets and Writers. His work has appeared in the anthology Off the Cuffs: Poetry by and About the Police, as well as in print and online journals including Left Curve, Counterpunch, The Potomac, Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, Newtown Literary, Acentos, Pilgrimage, New Verse News, Montreal Serai, and ImageOutWrite. He also regularly posts work on his blog The Practicing Poet: Dialogue to Creativity, Poetry, and Liberation.

John Darr is a poet, teacher and music critic from Richmond, VA. He is currently an MFA candidate at Wichita State University.

Danny Dalferro a writer from Rockville Centre, New York. For a living, he works as a custodian. He lives in Oceanside, New York with his cat, Mal.

Betsy Mars is a poet, educator, and animal lover. She has a love for languages and other cultures which was born and nurtured during her years living in Brazil as a child. She is her best self when traveling, and sometimes even manages to be funny, though her children deny it, Her work has appeared in the California Quarterly, Silver Birch, and Gnarled Oak, among others, as well as in a number of anthologies. Her poetry can be found at https://marsmyst.wordpress.com/.

Isabelle Kenyon is a Greater Manchester based poet and a graduate in Theatre: Writing, Directing and Performance from the University of York. She is inspired by the people and events around her - she observes and writes what she sees and what she feels. She is the author of poetry anthology, This is not a Spectacle and micro chapbook, The Trees Whispered, published by Origami Poetry Press. Her poems have been published in many poetry anthologies and included in literary festivals, such as the Inkyneedles anthology, the Great British Write Off, the Wirral festival of Music, Speech and Drama, Poetry Rivals, and the Festival of Firsts. Isabelle has been awarded third place in the Langwith Scott Award for Art and Drama and runner up in the Visit Newark Poetry Competition. You can read more about Isabelle and see her work at flyonthewallpoetry.co.uk

Ben Britton is a writer studying in the south west of the UK, although was brought up in the Big City. He has had a few poems published, and was selected to be a judge for the 2017 Poetry Super Highway annual contest. He enjoys Chinese food and walking in the rain.

Rosanna Bates was born in Worcester, England at the height of baggy jeans and boy band popularity. Her childhood was spent reading and writing stories she was too embarrassed to show anyone. She graduated from Lancaster University with a degree in Psychology in 2012 and enjoys feeding a constant impulse to travel.

Paul Beckman has four story collections, a novella published and a new collection, ”Kiss Kiss” due out in early 2018.. He’s had over 350 of his stories published in print, on line, and via audio. Paul runs the monthly FBomb NY flash fiction reading series at KGB. He had a micro story selected for the 2018 Norton Microfiction Anthology.

Nathan Tompkins is a writer living in Portland, Oregon though his heart will always be in his native North Idaho. His works have appeared in many publications including Drunk Monkeys, Five2One, NonBinary Review, and Windfall A Journal of Poetry of Place. He's the author of five chapbooks, the latest of which is Uncomfortable Adventures.

Samara is a two-time Pushcart nominee whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Inklette, Eyedrum Periodically, Peacock Journal, Eunoia Review and others. She has two children, works in marketing and design, and has returned to university to complete her BA in Poetry. More at www.samarawords.com.

Alan Britt has published over 3,000 poems nationally and internationally in such places as Agni, Bitter Oleander, Bloomsbury Review, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Christian Science Monitor, Confrontation, English Journal, Epoch, Flint Hills Review, International Gallerie (India), Kansas Quarterly, Letras (Chile), Magyar Naplo (Hungary), Midwest Quarterly,Minnesota Review, Missouri Review, New Letters, Northwest Review, Osiris, Pedrada Zurda (Ecuador), Poet’s Market, Queen’s Quarterly (Canada), Revista/Review Interamericana(Puerto Rico), Revista Solar (Mexico), Roanoke Review, Steaua (Romania), Sunstone, Tulane Review, Wasafiri (UK), and The Writer’s Journal. His interview at The Library of Congressfor The Poet and the Poem aired on Pacifica Radio, January 2013. He has published 16 books of poetry. He teaches English/Creative Writing at Towson University.

Joey Sheehan is a poet and essayist from Baltimore, Maryland. His work has appeared in Alien Mouth, Five:2:One Magazine, and The Cerurove. His first collection, New Queer Cinema and Other Poems came out locally in 2015. He is a graduate of University of Baltimore's creative writing MFA program.

Kathy Gibbons was born and raised in Philadelphia. In 1981, she migrated to Houston where she met and married a New Yorker. In Houston, they raised their Texan son until he went and became a Los Angeleno. And from Houston, she continues to write about these three coasts and the stories contained within and without. Her words have been seen in Creative Nonfiction's 'Tiny Truths' column and in Tuck Magazine.

Thai-Lynne Lavallee-McLean writes from home while caring for her three children. Part-time, she is working on her Bachelor of Arts degree with a Major in English. As a teen, she attended YouthWrite summer camp for young writers, where she studied under renowned Canadian writers. Thai-Lynne has recently published a short story and several pieces of poetry that can be found in print and online.

Aša Ricciardi writes from the road. Three years a nomad with only 40 liters on her back, she belongs nowhere and everywhere. She is living the story she always wished to write and collecting tales she never thought to tell. Aša freelances as an editor and writer to support her vagabond life, but her real aspirations are in children's literature and novel writing.

Mike Zone is the author of Fellow Passengers: Pubic Transit Poetry, Meditations & Musings and Better than the Movies: 4 Screenplays. His poetry and stories have been featured in: Beatnik Cowboy, Horror Sleaze Trash, In Between Hangovers, Mad Swirl, Rasputin Poetry, Synchronized Chaos, Triadae Magazine and Your One Phone Call. He scrapes by in Grand Rapids, MI

C. Alexander is a recent MFA graduate from Lindenwood University. He resides in Providence, RI, and has been previously published in The Eunoia Review. He hopes the use of the first initial doesn't come off as pretentious; there is already a famous Caleb Alexander. Instagram: @calexanderpoetry, website: https://calexanderpoetry.wordpress.com/

M. Stone is a bookworm, birdwatcher, and stargazer who writes poetry while living in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in San Pedro River Review, SOFTBLOW, Calamus Journal, and numerous other print and online journals. She can be reached at writermstone.wordpress.com.

Veronique M. Aglat is an emerging Canadian writer. She is fascinated by the changes that happened to her body over her lifetime.

Adam Fout is a writer masquerading as a marketer. He has been published in Borrowed Solace, The Courtship of Winds, and 365 Tomorrows, with upcoming works in Déraciné. He lives in North Texas with his wife and middle-aged cat. His work can be found on his website, adamfout.com.

Brittany Fonte holds an MFA in Creative Writing. She is the author of three books and the co-editor of a Lambda Literary Finalist in Poetry Anthology. She lives in Maryland.

Michael Dwayne Smith lives near a Mojave Desert ghost town with his family and rescued animals. His most recent book is Roadside Epiphanies (Cholla Needles Press, 2017). Twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, his work haunts many literary houses--The Cortland Review, New World Writing, Skidrow Penthouse, Word Riot, Heron Tree, Pirene's Fountain, Gravel, San Pedro River Review, Monkeybicycle, burntdistrict--and has been widely anthologized. When not writing or teaching, MDS is editor of Mojave River Press & Review.

David Hanlon is from Cardiff, Wales, and currently living in Bristol, England. He has a BA in Film Studies & is training part-time as a counsellor/psychotherapist. He has been writing poetry over the last two years, drawing mostly on his own life experiences. You can find his work online at Ink, Sweat & Tears, Fourth & Sycamore, Eunoia Review, Amaryllis, Scarlet Leaf Review & forthcoming at One Sentence Poems.

Kailey Tedesco is the author of These Ghosts of Mine, Siamese (Dancing Girl Press) and the forthcoming collection, She Used to be on a Milk Carton (April Gloaming Publishing). She is the editor-in-chief of Rag Queen Periodical and a staff writer for Luna Luna Magazine. She also performs with the Poetry Brothel. Her work is featured or forthcoming in Prelude, Prick of the Spindle, OCCULUM, Flapperhouse, and more. For other information, please visit kaileytedesco.com.

Denise Jarrott is the author of the chapbook Nine Elegies. She grew up in Iowa and currently lives in Brooklyn.

Ateret Haselkorn writes fiction and poetry. She is the winner of 2014 Annual Palo Alto Weekly Short Story Contest (adult contestants). Her work has been published in Scarlet Leaf Review, Literally Stories, Mused Literary Review, and Page & Spine. She is a member of the Alabama Street Writer’s Group of San Francisco and maintains a website at: https://aterethaselkorn.wixsite.com/author. Twitter: @HealthyHalo1.

Holley Hyler has been published in Adelaide, Buck Off Magazine, Rebelle Society, and The Urban Howl. She was a finalist in the 2017 Adelaide Literary Awards with her essay, “Nonlinear.” She is passionate about sixties music and the guitar. You can find more of her work on her website, holleyhyler.com.

Allison Hummel is a poet currently based in Southern California.

Preeti Vangani is an Indian writer and currently an MFA candidate at University of San Francisco. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in The Bombay Review, Public Pool, Juked, Lines+Stars and Knicknackery. She has performed her spoken word poems across India, New York, Chicago and more recently at local San Francisco events including Voz Sin Tinta and Kearny Street Workshop.

Aaron Conklin lives Warrensburg, MO on a small farm with his wife and two sons. Having graduated from the University of Central Missouri in 2014 with a BS in Education, Aaron is a high school English teacher and a middle school wrestling coach. His hobbies include studying chess, practicing martial arts, and writing poetry. When asked about where he finds his inspiration for writing, Aaron stated: "I choose to live simply, close to the earth, and in service to others."

William Atkins is 26 years old and lives in London. He has been writing poetry for about 3 years now and aims only to better his work. He cares a lot for reality and its occasional surrealism, especially in Nature

Elena Kotsil is a writer-in-progress based in Munich. Apart from scientific papers, she has managed to publish a few words back home, Greece. She tries to finish her PhD in cancer biology which is a tough business, and on Saturday nights she focuses on her typewriter to deal with her issues that happens to be plenty.

Sarah Nichols lives and writes in Connecticut. She is the author of five chapbooks, including Dreamland
for Keeps (Porkbelly Press, forthcoming, 2018) and How Darkness Enters a Body (Porkbelly Press, forthcoming, 2018). Her work is also forthcoming and has appeared in Glass, Rogue Agent, Rag Queen Periodical, and LunaLuna.

SM Jenkin is a second-generation Irish writer, a lover of science fiction with itchy feet and one of the editorial advisors for Confluence magazine. SM is a regular performer on the Kent Live lit scene and has had work published in literary anthologies and magazines including: Boyne Berries, The Mermaid, City Without a Head, the Medway Festival Fringe, All Sorts and Unexplored Territory. @sajenks42 https://www.facebook.com/SMJenkinWriter

Edianna Reyes Ovalle evokes vital emotions, knowledge, morals, truths, and values, through writing. She loves being outspoken because it has helped her to freely express her opinions of the world and its people. Her work has been featured in the likes of HangTime Magazine, PPP Ezine, and NOTLA Digital.

Beth Gordon is a writer who has been landlocked in St. Louis, Missouri for 16 years but dreams of oceans, daily. Her work has recently appeared in Into the Void, Quail Bell,Calamus Journal, DecomP, Five:2:One, Barzakh, and others. She can be found on Twitter @bethgordonpoet.

Craig Ross (also known as Ajani Addae Kamara) was raised in South Central Los Angeles. A Crip emeritus, he has been incarcerated since 1981. While in the hole—ten years in San Quentin‘s Adjustment Center—he began to study psychology, mythology, African and Asian history, and follow a spiritual path. He is now a recognized writer and mentor. In 1995 he won the Pen Prison Writing Award for best short fiction: “Walker‘s Requiem,” a riveting account of a young man‘s last day before being executed. Presently he is completing his memoirs, The Road to Purgatory. He continues to inspire others with his words. (With Steve Champion)

Rachel Newcombe is a psychoanalyst on Orcas Island and Seattle, WA. Her writing has appeared in Contemporary Psychoanalysis, The Psychoanalytic Review, The Rumpus, Hippocampus, 7x7LA, and elsewhere. She co-leads a writing collective in Seattle for therapists exploring New Narrative.

Elias Siqueiros is a Texas poet resettled in New England. His work has appeared in Milk, Moria, Stirring, Word Riot, DecomP, and elsewhere. He is the author of the poetry collection The Heart Of An Animal.

Steve Champion (Adisa Akanni Kamara) is a death row prisoner at San Quentin State Prison. A Crip emeritus, he grew up in South Central Los Angeles. Champion has been incarcerated since 1981. He is self taught and conversant in African history, philosophy, political science, and comparative religion. As an author he has received an honorary mention in the short fiction category in the 1995 Pen Prison Writing Contest and in 2004 won first place in nonfiction for his essay, “His Spirit Lives On: George E. Marshall.“ In 2010 Steve published a memoir entitled "Dead to Deliverance". Steve continues to write and research for future projects.

With Craig Ross

Tara Mae Mulroy is the author of the chapbook, Philomela (dancing girl press, 2014). Her poems, stories, and essays have been published in Ruminate, CutBank, Juked, Waccamaw, The Journal, and others found at www.taramaemulroy.com. She currently edits Nightjar Review and teaches Latin.

J.M. Green is the author of two chapbooks, The Novice Angler (Finishing Line Press, 2017) and Super Rich (Pudding House, 2008). Green is a librarian at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Iris Orpi is a Filipina writer living in Chicago, IL. She is the author of the novel The Espresso Effect (2010) and two books of compiled poems, Cognac for the Soul (2012) and Beautiful Fever (2012). Her work has appeared in over two dozen print and online publications around Asia, North America, and Europe. She was an Honorable Mention for the Contemporary American Poetry Prize, given by Chicago Poetry Press, in 2014.

Annmarie Lockhart is the founding editor of vox poetica, an online literary salon dedicated to poetry, and Unbound Content, an independent poetry press. A lifelong resident of Englewood, New Jersey, she lives, writes, and works two miles from the hospital where she was born. You can read her words at fine journals online and in print.

Amanda Oaks is the founding editor of Words Dance, an independent press + biweekly online poetry journal. Her work has recently appeared in Thrush Poetry Journal, decomP, Lunch Ticket, Drunk In A Midnight Choir, The Black Napkin, & Stirring. She is the author of several poetry collections: Hurricane Mouth (NightBallet Press, 2014), her co-authored split book, I Eat Crow (Words Dance, 2014) & her series of free eChapbooks. Her newest chapbook, The River is Everywhere, is available from Red Flag Poetry. : http://amandaoaks.com

Hannah Maerowitz is an economics student at UC Santa Barbara that is fond of writing, discussing nuanced problems, and all types of visual art. She is currently working on a conceptual photography series about conservation, as well as various writing projects.

Carling Berkhout is a writer and musician, currently studying at Bennington College with a focus on the illustration/construction of girlhood, boyhood, and womanhood. The majority of her creative work deals with understanding identity and body within a gendered society. She is also a clawhammer banjo player who performs regularly as a duo under the name Carling & Will. Her work has appeared in Quail Bell Magazine and Fretboard Journal. Website: carlingberkhout.com

Matthew Johnson is a poet and an irrational sports fan. His writing has appeared in The Coraddi, The Yellow Chair Review, Jerry Jazz Musician, The Roanoke Review and elsewhere. He has poetry forthcoming in the The Stray Branch. You can find him on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/Matt_Johnson_D

Miguel Caldas was born in Mozambique in 1972, but now resides in Lisboa, Portugal, since the age of three, where he lives with his wife, daughter and a turtle.

J.B. Stone, was recently published with two poems featured in The Occulum, and flash fiction which will be part of the summer issue vol. 2 of 121 words Flash Fiction. A performance poet as well, Stone has performed his work at the 100,000 poets & Artists for Change, the Toronto International Poetry Slam, Who's It 716: Battle of the Genres, the Pure Ink Poetry slam & open mic, and the Pulse Poetry Slam & Open Mic

Adrian Slonaker works as a copywriter and copy editor in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with interests that include vegetarian cooking, wrestling, and 1960s pop music. Adrian's poetry has appeared in Uut Poetry, Ginosko Literary Journal, Zingara Poetry Picks, Plum Tree Tavern, Amaryllis, Oddball Magazine, and others.

Jack M. Freedman is a poet and spoken word artist from Staten island, NY. He penned three chapbooks: Never Lick the Spoon, Tobias, and Art Therapy 101. In the US, his poetry was previously published in New York, Massachusetts, Texas, Oregon, Vermont, and Florida. Abroad, his work was published in France, Canada, and the UK. http://www.facebook.com/jackmfreedman

Mr. Jonathan A. Bloom is a retired archaeologist living one day at a time in Atlanta, Georgia. He is a musician, writer, and actor. He plays flute, harmonica, penny whistle, and pan flute with various local musicians. He writes short stories and poetry as the spirits (or demons) move him. Mr. Bloom studies acting and has been cast in several short films.

Vicki Iorio is the author of the poetry collection, Poems from the Dirty Couch, Local Gems Press, 2013and the chapbook, Send me a Letter, dancinggirlpress. You can read Iorio's work in Hell strung and Crooked, I Let Go of the Stars, (Great Weather for Media), The Brownstone Poets Anthology, The San Pedro Review, The Mom Egg, Crack the Spine, The Painted Bride Quarterly, The Fem Lit Magazine, Redheaded Stepchild Magazine, The Paper Street Journal, Poetry Bay, Home Planet News,Concise, Cactus Heart, Rattle on line,South Florida Poetry Journal, 521 Magazine,RatsAss Review, New York Times, blog site, Poetry Super Highway, Eratio Poetry Journal, In Between Hangovers.

Tina Neyer is a writer, living and working in a neighborhood near Cincinnati, Ohio. She embraces the attitude that we are all created equal. She has studied addiction both through personal experience and academic training. Tina is an academic tutor in the athletic department at Xavier University. She also is a family mediator, working with all populations who want a better way to solve the issues of divorce and stepfamilies. She is the mother to six young adults. Her dog, Chester loves to sit on the porch with her.

Thomas Fucaloro is the author of two books of poetry published by Three Rooms Press, most recently It Starts from the Belly and Blooms, which received rave reviews. The winner of a performance grant from the Staten Island Council of the Arts and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, he has been on three national slam teams. He holds an MFA in creative writing from the New School and is a cofounding editor of Great Weather for Media and NYSAI press. He is a writing coordinator at the Harlem Children’s Zone and lives in Staten Island. His new book, Depression Cupcakes takes a look at mental illness through the eyes of Ars Poetica.

Suzanne Bailie is a playwright, artist and poet. Her short plays and monologues have been produced across the United States, United Kingdom, South America, South Korea and Australia. Suzanne’s inventive and quirky poetry continues to be highlighted in many poetry anthologies and magazines.

Eve Kenneally is a New York-based freelance writer and recent alumna of the MFA program at the University of Montana. Her chapbook "Something Else Entirely" was released in January 2017 by Dancing Girl Press. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Salt Hill, Whiskey Island, Yemassee, Bop Dead City, decomP, Stirring, and elsewhere.

Courtney Hartman is a singer-songwriter and a member of the Grammy-nominated string band Della Mae. Her first solo album, Nothing We Say, was released last year. These poems and photographs are from the first six days of Courtney's 40 day pilgrimage along the camino.

For more information visit www.courtneyhartman.com.

Mathea Morais was raised in St. Louis and earned a degree in Literature from NYU. She began her career writing about hip hop culture and music for “The Source” magazine and “Trace Urban Magazine.” She has studied writing with Bret Anthony Johnston, Jessica Treadway and John Hough, Jr. In 2007, she wrote a children’s book called I’m Lucy: A Day in the Life of a Young Bonobo that was published by the Bonobo Conservation Initiative and features an afterword by renowned primatologist Jane Goodall. Mathea lives on Martha’s Vineyard where she teaches English and founded the High School Creative Writing Collaborative with Alexander Weinstein. She contributes regularly to the “Martha’s Vineyard Times” and “Martha’s Vineyard Magazine.” Her literary work has been published in “Arts & Ideas” magazine and is forthcoming in “The New Engagement” literary journal.

Jade Homa is a passionate dog lover, pasta enthusiast, and anxious poet. At age 18, she has already written over 50 poems and several short stories. Jade currently resides in Pennsylvania with her dog, Indie, and will be attending university in several months.

Joseph S. Pete is an award-winning journalist, an Iraq War veteran, an Indiana University graduate, and a frequent guest on Lakeshore Public Radio. He was named the poet laureate of Chicago BaconFest 2016, a feat that Geoffrey Chaucer chump never accomplished. His literary or photographic work has appeared or is forthcoming in New Pop Lit, The Grief Diaries, Gravel, Perch Magazine, Lit-Tapes, Synesthesia Literary Journal, Dogzplot, shufPoetry, Prairie Winds, Blue Collar Review, Work Literary Magazine, Lumpen, Stoneboat, The Tipton Poetry Journal, Jenny Magazine and elsewhere. Don’t tell anyone he wrote this bio, because that’s like a trade secret or whatever.

A.D. Hurley lives in the scenic mountains of North Georgia, with her large brood of children, a fantastically domesticated husband, and two dogs. She is a poet, writer, associate editor for Ariel Chart Literary Journal, and artistic photographer. Her poetry, prose, and photography can be found in a number of literary journals and anthologies published across the globe.

Jennifer Martelli’s debut poetry collection, The Uncanny Valley, was published in 2016 by Big Table Publishing Company. She is also the author of the chapbook, Apostrophe and the chapbook, After Bird, from Grey Book Press. Her work has appeared in Thrush, [Pank], Glass Poetry Journal, The Heavy Feather Review, and Tinderbox Poetry Journal. Jennifer Martelli has been nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net Prizes and is the recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant in Poetry. She is a book reviewer for Up the Staircase Quarterly, as well as a co-curator for The Mom Egg VOX Blog Folio.

Abby Wojcik is a current student at Canisius College majoring in English and creative writing. She is the assistant features editor for The Griffin Newspaper. Her hobbies include, reading, writing, painting, drawing, and thinking of ways to make others happy.

dance mckobb is an existential crisis corps an endless idea
don't think about it too much
lest we recruit you

Steve Young has an MFA in Fiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts. He has published thirteen previous short stories including in recent issues of the Saturday Evening Post, The Wild Word, and Woven Tale Press. Two of his stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and BASS. Young grew up in Vermont and now lives and writes in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He has been a journalist for most of his career.

Rachel Reilly is a Chicago born writer and visual artist who currently resides in Albuquerque, NM with her 4 lb dog, Baby Sappho. She blogs at https://atmosphereofglass.wordpress.com/ and Tweets at @rach_anastasia.

Mark Thorson is the author of several screenplays including the award winning American Passage, and most recently, of the forthcoming collection of short stories Final Delivery, from which “Final Delivery” was published in the Prize edition of “The Mississippi Review,” and “The Poetry Bitch” published in Alaska. The full collection will be published sometime in 2018.

His first play "To Cheat A Clown" was produced in Los Angeles where it received critical acclaim including a review from critic Eric Lerner, of the Los Angeles Herald who wrote, "This play is strong, funny, deeply emotional, and a remarkable work for a young playwright." Lerner also referred to the play as, "The debut of an important new American playwright.“

An Alumni of the prestigious American Film Institute, as a Screenwriting Fellow, Mark left the theatre to study script writing under Leonardo Bercovici, and was disciplined in dramatic structure by AFI's iconic headmaster, Antonio Valani. Mark’s education also includes higher institutions in both arts and commerce including Concordia College in Minnesota as well as the Harvard Business School in Boston.

“It was a health scare about a year ago that prompted me to pick up the pen again. After several years of retirement from the theatre, I dug out my box of unseen, unproduced scripts and began to get back to work. Since then I have completed the play, “A Flower for Death in the Wild Wild West,” which was put into production this past summer in Minnesota.

John Jack Jackie (Edward) Cooper is the creator of These Are Aphorithms (http://aphorithms.blogspot.com), author of Ten (Poets Wear Prada, 2012), and Ten … more (Poets Wear Prada, 2016). His American English translation of Wax Women, with French texts of the original poems by Jean-Pierre Lemesle and photographs by Henry Jacobs (International Art Office: Paris, 1985), drew acclaim and dedicated full-window display from the Gotham Book Mart in New York — legendary fishing hole to the “wise” — released in the United States the following year. His work has appeared in Brownstone Poets 2013; The Venetian Hour, Dinner with the Muse, Part II; CLWR 49,CLWR 50; online at exitstrata.com; in the Sweet Tree Review (Summer 2016); and Rat’s Ass Review (Love & Enduring Madness); forthcoming, in the Unbearables anthology “Somewhere to Nowhere.” He is co-publisher and co-editor of Poets Wear Prada, a small literary press based in Hoboken, New Jersey, the birthplace of baseball, Frank Sinatra, and Blimpie’s. His whereabouts have been numerous, like his names, but are currently in France where they are likely to remain. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.

Rich Boucher’s poems have appeared in Gargoyle, The Nervous Breakdown, Apeiron Review, The Mas Tequila Review, In Between Hangovers, Menacing Hedge, and Cultural Weekly, among others. From the summer of 2016 to the spring of 2017, he served as the Associate Editor and Weekly Poem Curator at Elbow Room Magazine.

Ankita Anand is a writer-poet-performer based in Delhi, India. An archive of her publications can be found here: anandankita.blogspot.in

Amanda Kusek is a writer living in New York City with her neurotic Jack Russell Terrier, Ajax. Her poetry was recently featured at the Westmoreland Arts & Heritage Festival. She is also published in Blotterature and across the web. She maintains her own blog at CheapCourage.com.

Mileva Anastasiadou is a neurologist, living and working in Athens, Greece. Her work can be found in many journals and anthologies, such as the Molotov Cocktail, Maudlin house, Menacing Hedge, Midnight Circus, Big Echo:Critical SF, Jellyfish Review, Asymmetry Fiction and others. She has published two books in Greek and a collection of short stories in English (Once Upon a Dystopia by Cosmic Teapot Publication).

Michelle Reale is an Associate Professor at Arcadia University. She has authored seven poetry collections including the most recent The Marie Curie Sequence (Dancing Girl Press, 2017) and All These Things Were Real: Poems of Delerium Tremens, (West Philly Press, 2017). Confini: Poems of Refugees in Sicily is forthcoming from Cervena Barva Press.

David Fewster is a poet, humorist and musician living in Tacoma WA.

Samantha Alsina is a recent graduate of the Creative Writing program at the University of California, Santa Cruz where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Literature with a concentration in poetry. She hopes to pursue a career in writing and intends to apply for graduate school in the Fall. Other works can be found in Rise Up Review, Matchbox Magazine, Chinquapin Literary Magazine, and in Red Wheelbarrow Anthology. Samantha currently resides in Santa Cruz, California.

Lisa Stice is a poet/mother/military spouse who received a BA in English literature from Mesa State College (now Colorado Mesa University) and an MFA in creative writing and literary arts from the University of Alaska Anchorage. While it is difficult to say where home is, she currently lives in North Carolina with her husband, daughter and dog. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and the author of a poetry collection, Uniform (Aldrich Press, 2016). You can find out more about her and her publications at lisastice.wordpress.com and facebook.com/LisaSticePoet.

Justin Karcher is the author of Tailgating at the Gates of Hell from Ghost City Press, http://ghostcitypress.tumblr.com/gcp003, the chapbook When Severed Ears Sing You Songs from CWP Collective Press, https://www.cwp-press.com/#/when-severed-ears-sing-you-songs/ and the micro-chapbook Just Because You've Been Hospitalized for Depression Doesn't Mean You're Kanye West from Ghost City Press, https://gumroad.com/l/karcher2017, as part of their 2017 summer micro-chapbook series. His recent work has appeared in Foundlings, Cease,Cows, Thought Catalog, varsity goth, Occulum and more. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Ghost City Review. His one act play When Blizzard Babies Turn to Stone premiered in February at Alleyway Theatre in Buffalo, NY. He tweets @Justin_Karcher.

Kai Coggin is a queer Filipino-American poet living in the valley of a small mountain in Hot Springs National Park, AR. She received her B.A. in English, Poetry, and Creative Writing from Texas A&M University. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Assaracus, Lavender Review, Calamus Journal, Blue Heron Review, Yellow Chair Review, and elsewhere.

Kai is the author of two full-length collections, PERISCOPE HEART (Swimming with Elephants, 2014) and WINGSPAN (Golden Dragonfly Press, 2016), as well as a spoken word album called SILHOUETTE (2017). Her poetry has been nominated twice for The Pushcart Prize, as well as Bettering American Poetry 2015, and Best of the Net 2016. www.kaicoggin.com

Born in Edinburgh of Canadian heritage, Roy's work has appeared in the likes of And Other Poems, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Lighthouse Literary Journal and the anthology Neu! Reekie! UntitledTwo. He now lives in Dunbar, East Lothian. His website is www.roymoller.com

Molly Johnsen received an M.A. from the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College, where she participated in a poetry workshop with Tracy K. Smith. She has also worked with Natalie Shapero at the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop.

Kathryn Lee Willgus is an aspiring writer from Georgia, based in the quaint and quirky college town of Charlottesville, Virginia. She received a Bachelor of Arts in English and Russian and a Creative Writing Certificate in fiction from Sewanee: The University of the South in May 2016 and spent the last nine months in Russia on a Fulbright U.S. Student Award. Kathryn’s work appears or is forthcoming in Coldnoon and Nailed.

Jane Rosenberg LaForge is the author of "An Unsuitable Princess: A True Fantasy/A Fantastical Memoir" (Jaded Ibis Press 2014) and the forthcoming novel "The Hawkman: A Fairy Tale of the Great War" (Amberjack Publishing). Her next full-length poetry collection will be "Daphne and Her Discontents" (Ravenna Press.) jane-rosenberg-laforge.com

Kendall graduated from the University of Tampa’s Creative Writing M.F.A. program and currently teaches writing at Florida International University in Miami. Her poem, “How to Match the Sky,” was published in the Spring 2017 issue of Driftwood Press. Her poetry was featured by Shade Tree Creations; as she was awarded a winner in their Art Affair Writing Contest, 2014. The themes of her work include: freedom, authenticity and self-love.

Shirley Jones-Luke is a poet and a writer. Ms. Luke lives and works in Boston, Massachusetts. She has an MFA from Emerson College. In addition, Ms. Luke is a teacher for the Boston Public Schools. Her work has been published in Adelaide, Damfino, Deluge, ENUF, Fire Poetry and Mass Poetry.

Rachel Busnardo lives in Boulder, Colorado with her partner. She grows tomatoes and has strong opinions.

Julie Hogg is a Poet from the North East of England. She has work published in many literary journals and magazines including Black Light Engine Room, Butcher’s Dog, Proletarian Poetry, StepAway Magazine and Well Versed. Featured in anthologies by Ek Zuban, Litmus, Zoomorphic and ‘Writing Motherhood’ from Seren, her debut pamphlet ‘Majuba Road’ is available from Vane Women Press.

Yael D Sherman has published in Role Reboot, thirdspace, Feminism at The Movies, Exposing Lifestyle Television, and numerous non-profit publications. She has a doctorate in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and is raising two young children with her husband.

Jess Nieberg is a poet and student living in Denver, CO. She is receiving her BA in neuroscience at the University of Colorado. She is a member of the 2017 Denver Mercury poetry slam team and was a finalist for the Denver Youth Poet Laureate. Her work is forthcoming in the Mutiny Info Reader, Bottlecap Press' blog, and Better Than Starbucks Poetry Magazine. Her favorite sound is laughter, she enjoys green tea and the color green a little too much, and would very much like to pet your dog.

Laura Eppinger is a Pushcart-nominated writer of fiction, poetry and essay. She graduated from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA in 2008 with a degree in Journalism, and she's been writing creatively ever since. She's the blog editor at Newfound Journal. Her publication list lives here:http://lolionthekaap.blogspot.com/p/creative-writing.html

Emily Hoover is a fiction writer and book reviewer based in Las Vegas. Her work has appeared in FIVE2ONE Magazine, Wraparound South, The Los Angeles Review, Necessary Fiction, Ploughshares blog and others.

Jeri Thompson: So Cal resident who has recently returned to poetry after a 25 year dry spell. Her work can be seen in Chiron Review, Cadence Collective, Cactifur, Lummox 4, and Blaze/Vox. She is currently working on her first chapbook.

Heather Johnson (a.k.a. Heather Johnson Lapahie) is an indigenous writer from the Navajo Nation who teaches at the University of New Mexico and reads for the Blue Mesa Review. Her work has appeared in the Sigma Tau Delta Rectangle. She’s currently working on a novel and book of poetry. She’s a mother, an avid Netflixer, and pug owner.

Sophie, AKA Sparkle Jumprope Queen of Hello Poetry loves rap music and hails from the pacific northwest. She loves slam poetry, and is influenced by music and other poets.

Jason Ryberg is the author of twelve books of poetry, six screenplays, a few short stories, a box full of folders, notebooks and scraps of paper that could one day be (loosely) construed as a novel, and, a couple of angry letters to various magazine and newspaper editors. He is currently an artist-in-residence at both The Prospero Institute of Disquieted P/o/e/t/i/c/s and the Osage Arts Community, and is an editor and designer at Spartan Books. His latest collections of poems are Head Full of Boogeymen / Belly Full of Snakes (Spartan Press, 2016) and A Secret History of the Nighttime World (39 West Press, 2017). He lives part-time in Kansas City with a rooster named Little Red and a billygoat named Giuseppe and part-time somewhere in the Ozarks, near the Gasconade River, where there are also many strange and wonderful woodland critters.

Cat just received her MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of New Mexico in May. She’s had poems and essays published in several literary journals and was the Nonfiction Editor for Blue Mesa Review. Right now, she’s revising her manuscript and recovering from grad school.

Chris Brauer is a Canadian writer and teacher, based in southeastern British Columbia. He has recently completed a travel memoir about living and teaching in the Sultanate of Oman, and is currently working on a book about his travels in Ireland. He is also working on his first collection of poetry. His writing has appeared in several websites and magazines including Celtic Life International, Ireland of the Welcomes, Our Canada and A New Ulster. Visit www.ChrisBrauerWriter.com for more information.

Christa McDaniel is a Creative Writing major in a very uneventful town in Arkansas, so she must invent her own little curiosities. She does so with her writing.

The art of photography is a relatively new venture for Stefynie, stemming from years in the documentary film and music fields. This led to work as a video journalist for online newspapers which expanded into photo journalistic work for local and regional print newspapers. Soon after she began creating photographs for herself as a means of self expression, delving into a much more personal art form. She first turned the camera on herself, learning many of the nuances of photography in the process. She then focused on portrait, abstract and nature work and began exhibiting in local and online venues. Her most recent endeavor is in photographic composite imagery. Using visual metaphors and symbolism, these images are re-creations of unexpressed moments in her life and are rooted in self-discovery and the interconnectedness with others. Recent exhibitions include the A Smith Gallery, the Saginaw Art Museum, Photo Place Gallery, and the River Winds Gallery

Alex Marchesi started writing as a combatant to his insomnia during college. He was an avid musician, playing guitar and declaring a music major while attending SUNY Oswego. Soon though, he learned to love lyric writing a lot more than plugging into an amp, graduating with a creative writing degree in 2015.

He’s been featured in online publications Phree Write and Fourth & Sycamore, also having an upcoming poetry e-book coming out in December from Underground Voices. In his senior year, he won the campus wide haiku contest of over 200 entrants. While he’s not dressing up the skeletons in his closet to be a little more presentable, he’s querying his novels around looking for his shot to break the industry. Other than wanting to reinvent the Brat Pack, he’s a tic tac junkie and a sucker for girls with a quick wit. He loves his cat Tiger more than anything, even when her three AM meows nearly shatter glass.

CLS Ferguson, PhD is a communication professor who has published many academic articles and two academic books. Her performance in Silence, which she co-wrote and produced earned best actress and best film awards. Her music video Secrets & Lies also earned accolades. CLS has published poetry in Dirty Chai, Sheepshead Review, Drunk Monkeys, etc. Poetry collection God Bless Paul is out on Rosedog Books, chapbook, The Way We Were is out on Writing Knights Press, and collection Soup Stories is coming soon from Portage Press. She and husband Rich are raising their daughter and Bernese Mountain Border Collie Mutt. http://clsferguson.wix.com/clsferguson

Lisa L. Weber has a degree in Interior Design which is currently being unused. Instead, she decorates blank pages with words, and spends time remodeling her thoughts and feelings. Besides reading and writing, she likes to spend her time boxing, hiking, drinking beer, eating carbs, watching movies, and singing off-key. She loves her husband and son, and the dog she is allergic to. You can follow her blog, www.brainonwheels.blogspot.com

Amanda Ameen is a twenty-something-year-old college student from Brooklyn, New York who thought majoring in creative writing would make her super employable. She also studies psychology, and hopes to one day become a trauma therapist which, incidentally, is the focus of much of her poetry. Hobbies of her include closing her eyes at night and wishing she could be Kurt Cobain, Raymond Carver, or Franz Kafka, waking up, remembering these are unrealistic goals, and melting into a puddle of Netflix, old gangster movies, charcoal drawings, and books by dead Russian guys.

Lauren Sarrantonio is studying to be a speech-language pathologist, but in between seconds, she enjoys running from the wind that's pushed her here. Find more of her work in Twelve Point Collective, Gandy Dancer, Teen Art Gallery's Green Light, and Outrageous Fortune.

Arianna is a senior at the State University of New York: College at Geneseo where she studies Creative Writing and Adolescent Education. While she hopes to be an English teacher one day, she also wishes to pursue her Master's in Poetry following undergrad. Arianna is also involved in slam poetry, having won her college’s Slam Competition in the Spring of 2016. She hopes to continue writing and performing poetry once she’s out in the “real world”.

Rebecca Moseman is a professional photographer and graphic designer. She received her BFA in Art from Virginia Tech in 1997, and her MFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2001. Rebecca's photography has been exhibited throughout the United States, as well as internationally.
www.mosemanstudios.com

Amanda Stovicek is a writer and teaching artist from Northeast Ohio. She is a recent graduate of the NEOMFA program. Her work has appeared in The New Old Stock, Rubbertop Review, Jenny Magazine, and Us For President, among others.

Ruth Asch started writing a long time ago when emotions that couldn't be expressed (without seeming crazy) became too much to bear... and formed the habit of stashing all the bitter-sweet thoughts into poems. She has one volume of poems to her name: Reflections, and has had work published in many literary journals, including among others Poetry Repairs, Peacock Journal, Ghazal Page, Bamboo, The Literary Yard, Mediterranean Poetry, Ink in Thirds and Hedgerow Poems.

Guinotte Wise lives on a farm in Resume Speed, Kansas. His short story collection (Night Train, Cold Beer) won publication by a university press and not much acclaim. Three more books since. His wife has an honest job in the city and drives 100 miles a day to keep it. www.wisesculpture.com/blog

Newberry’s books are NEVER COMPLETELY AWAKE (Deerbrook Editions), TAKE THE LONG WAY HOME (due out in late 2017 from Unsolicited Press), WHERE IT GOES (Deerbrook Editions), LEARNING BY ROTE (Deerbrook Editions), RUNNING LIKE A WOMAN WITH HER HAIR ON FIRE (Red Hen Press), LIMA BEANS AND CITY CHICKEN: MEMORIES OF THE OPEN HEARTH (E.P. Dutton &Co)
Her work has been anthologized and widely published in the U.S. and abroad. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Brian Newberry, a Media Creative.

Ilyana Kuhling is an Irish-Canadian poet based in Limerick, Ireland, and a lover of all things spoken word. She's a member of the Art-Bar poetry group in Toronto, and a previous winner of the Dublin-based "Slam-Sunday" poetry competition. Her work has appeared in Irish poetry publications including Silver Apples and Stanzas, and she firmly believes that a good cup of tea can solve almost anything.

Dean Rhetoric has poetry in Sea Foam, Nauseated Drive, Ghostland, Picaroon and others. He currently hides out in East London and says things here: https://twitter.com/dean_rhetoric

Julie Rouse is the author of Boy, a chapbook published by Dancing Girl Press. A graduate of the MFA Poetry program at the University of Montana, her poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Arsenic Lobster, and decomP, among other journals. She is a poet and visual artist living and working in Iowa.

Jim Meirose's work has appeared in numerous magazines and journals, including Calliope, Offbeat/Quirky (Journal of Exp. Fiction pub,), Permafrost, North Atlantic Review, Blueline, Witness, and Xavier Review, and has been nominated for several awards. His E-book "Inferno" has been published by Underground Voices. His novels, "Mount Everest" and "Eli the Rat", are available from Amazon. Visit www.jimmeirose.com to know more.

Born East London but now residing amongst the hedge mumblers of rural Suffolk, P.A.Levy has been published in many magazines, from ‘A cappella Zoo’ to ‘Zygote In My Coffee’ and stations in-between. He is also a founding member of the Clueless Collective and can be found loitering on page corners and wearing hoodies at www.cluelesscollective.co.uk

GJ Hart currently lives and works in London and has had stories published in The Molotov Cocktail, The Jersey Devil Press, The Airgonaut, The Harpoon Review,, The Jellyfish Review and others. He can be found arguing with himself over @gj_hart.

Stephen Nelson is a writer and visual poet from Hamilton, Scotland. He is the author of Lunar Poems for New Religions (KFS Press) and Thorn Corners (erbacce-press). His latest book is a Xerolage of visual poetry called Arcturian Punctuation (Xexoxial Editions). He has published in The Sunday Times and exhibited vispo internationally. Check out www.afterlights-vispo.tumblr.com

Jacob Hammer has been writing poetry for eight years and has received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Vermont College of Fine Arts. His poetry can be found in See Spot Run Literary Journal, Three and a Half Point 9, Fourth & Sycamore, Shantih (forthcoming), and has been featured in the Pine River Anthology.

Nooks Krannie is a Palestinian/Persian girl and poet. She tumbls at http://nkrannie.tumblr.com/ and instagrams @nookskrannie.

Nod Ghosh's work features in various New Zealand and international publications. Further details: http://www.nodghosh.com/about/

Adam Steiner's poetry and fiction appear in I Am Not A Silent Poet, Rockland Lit, Proletarian Poetry, The Next Review, Fractured Nuance zine. He recently completed the Disappear Here project to produce a series of poetry films about Coventry ringroad. He tweets @BurndtOutWard

Erin Lyndal Martin is a poet, music journalist, and visual artist. Her poetry has recently appeared in Gigantic Sequins, decomP, and Cosmonauts Avenue. She's on Twitter at @erinlyndal.

Chris Milam lives in the past. His stories have appeared in Rabble Lit, (b)OINK, The Airgonaut, Fictive Dream, and elsewhere. You can find him on Twitter @Blukris

Mason Mimi (they/them) is a poet, activist, student, and daycare worker based out of Portland, OR. They make zines, host open mics, and host a radio show/podcast series with some of their great friends as Big Things PDX (bigthingspdx.com).Their most recent collection of their own poems is also up on the Big Things PDX website, titled "Comes In Threes."

Antoine Bargel is a bilingual writer and literary translator working in English and French, poetry and fiction. Began writing poetry at 10, is now 34. Married and divorced twice, like in the story, but that could just be a coincidence. Other stories can be found on his website www.antoinebargel.com

Frankie is a nutritionist, journalist and spoken word artist based in Scotland. Her work explores public health, practical wisdom, and the curation of identity. She wrote her first rap, "Fair Play", at the age of 8, and has retained a passion for social justice ever since.

Tim Goldstone’s poetry and short stories have been published in various magazines and anthologies. Prose sequence read on stage at The Hay Festival. Contributor to TV, radio, theater. Worked and backpacked throughout Western and Eastern Europe and North Africa. Born in England, currently living in Wales.

Rachel Tanner is a writer from Alabama who thinks she's funny on Twitter (@rickit). Her work can be found in various places like Apocrypha and Abstractions, Transition, Cheap Pop, The Atticus Review, Pentimento, Empty Sink Publishing, etc. She's not afraid to cuddle all your pets and "like" all your profile pictures.

Tom Dolan is an artist, musician, and writer who lives and works in Los Angeles. He exhibited artwork internationally and puts words to music with the LA post-punk group, Fourwaycross.

Michael Seeger is a poet and educator residing in the Coachella Valley near Palm Springs, California. Prior to his life as a middle school English instructor, he worked as a technical writer for a baseball card company and served as a Marine infantry officer during Desert Storm. He considers poetry a passion and writing generally a way of life. Michael’s poems have recently appeared in US poetry journals/publications like the Lummox Press, Better Than Starbucks, Anti-Heroin Chic, The Mindful Word and as finalists in several GoodReads contests.

Scott C. Kaestner is a Los Angeles poet, writer, dad, husband, and humanoid who believes that by ingesting art we can ease our appetite for destruction. Google ‘Scott Kaestner Poetry’ to peruse his musings.

Ruby McCann has been working with writing and writers for more than twenty years. She provides writing workshops, advice, writes Blogs and works across artistic disciplines to inspire new work. She loves reading, the colour yellow, storms, rain, the ocean and walking. Walking inspires Ruby’s writing. She is the current Chair of the Scottish Writers’ Centre supporting and promoting writers living and working in Scotland.

Colette Phair's latest novel, In Your Shadow, is inspired by the science of epigenetics and tells the story of how political trauma can be passed down through generations. She is also the author of Nightmare in Silicon and Purgatory and has been published in The Apocalypse Reader, Women's Studies Quarterly, and New Dead Families. Colette has worked and volunteered for a number of progressive nonprofits and political campaigns. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and escapes America whenever possible.

Susan Cossette is the author of Peggy Sue Messed Up . . . and other poems. Her work has appeared in Rust & Moth, Adelaide Literary Magazine, and Clockwise Cat, among others. She is a recipient of the University of Connecticut’s Wallace Stevens Poetry Prize. By day, she is communications director for Voices of September 11th, a nonprofit that works with those impacted by mass violence and terrorism. More of her work may be found at https://musepalace.wordpress.com.

Linda Anne Atterton was born in Scotland near Glasgow. She studied at Aberdeen, Oxford and Cambridge Universities, qualifying as a Clinical Psychologist before moving to work in Norfolk in 1991. Her specialty is brain injury. At seventeen, she was winner for her age group of Lallans magazine competition for a Scottish poem. Since returning to creative writing after a long break, she has published poetry in the UK and Ireland, in Abridged, The Moth, and Far Off Places, as well as being included in several anthologies. Her sonnet Banished won Litro's Shakespearean Sonnet competition in 2014. Running On Sand is her first novel. It began as a short story, Are The Stars Hot or Cold, which reached the semifinals of Carve Magazine's competition in 2014. The idea came from a flash fiction piece (Sea Defences, published in Litro) and from a poem, Toy Suns, published in Abridged. She lives in Norwich, about twenty miles from the seaside village where the book is set.

Stephanie Valente lives in Brooklyn, NY. She has published Hotel Ghost (Bottlecap Press, 2015) and has work included in or forthcoming from Danse Macabre, Nano Fiction, and Black Heart. Sometimes, she feels human. http://stephanievalente.com

The poet Ed Roberson once told her, “You only have one life and you only have one work.” Advice she's taken to heart–she's filed taxes in 7 U.S. States and now finds herself working on a cattle and deer station in the depths of New Zealand.

Find her fiction at Entropy Mag, her poetry at 3am Magazine and her blog at www.herearelions.org.

Tyler Sherwood Pruett is a writer and artist with a special interest in creative nonfiction and indeterminate literary forms. His work has recently appeared in many prestigious journals such as Otoliths, X-Peri, Zombie Logic Review, and Clockwise Cat. He is the author of A Refutation of Exile published by Red Moon Press, a themed collection of threshold art poems. Tyler studied writing at Johns Hopkins University.

Elsa Valmidiano's works have appeared in literary journals such as TAYO, make/shift, Burner, As/Us, Literature for Life, Bottlecap Press, and others, as well as chapbooks and anthologies such as Field of Mirrors, Walang Hiya, Circe’s Lament, and forthcoming in Precipice: Writing On The Edge. In 2016, she was a finalist for the Rita Dove Award in Poetry sponsored by the Salem College Center for Women Writers, and she was also long-listed for the Short Memoir Prize sponsored by Fish Publishing in Ireland. This summer, Elsa has been awarded to attend the DISQUIET International Literary Program in Lisbon. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College and has performed numerous readings throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. She currently serves as Fiction Editor of As/Us, where she seeks stories by underrepresented writers of color.

August Andrews is a new writer from Buffalo, New York. Most of his work is geared towards the young adult audience with a particular focus on how young people navigate difficult, convoluted life transitions. Being that he himself is still finding his way through life, August spends most of his time writing, but when he gets up from the keyboard, he frequents open mics at various Buffalo venues, and he spends time with his pet mouse, Spinach.

Sheldon Lee Compton is the author of four books, most recently the novella A True Story: A Novella (Shivelight Books, 2017). His recent fiction and poetry can be found in Unbroken Journal, Wigleaf, Gravel, New World Writing, Live Nude Poems, gobbet, Vending Machine Press, and elsewhere. He was cited in Best Small Fictions 2015 and Best Small Fictions 2016.

Karlo Sevilla is a freelance writer who lives in Quezon City, Philippines. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Philippines Graphic, Outsider Poetry, Rat's Ass Review, Radius Lit, Parody, Eunoia, Jazz Cigarette, Wraith Infirmity Muses, Origami Poems Project microchap, in the respective first anthologies of Peacock Journal, Riverfeet Press, and Eternal Remedy, and elsewhere. He also coaches wrestling, trains in Brazilian Luta Livre, and does volunteer work for the labor group Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino (Solidarity of Filipino Workers).

Kristina Dyer is from Belfast, Northern Ireland. When she's not writing she enjoys baking and being overly emotional about her dogs. She's been published by 101 Words and Firefly Magazine

Alessandra Salisbury is a Brazilian journalist with major in entertaining arts. She has background works in dance and theatre. She has been living in Australia for the past 9 years where she graduated in Associate Degree in Creative Writing. She is currently studying Bachelor of Arts/Education majoring Drama. She is the founder, director and choreographer of Starlettes theatre productions in the Far North Coast area of New South Wales www.starlettes.com.au. She has written and produced a few theatre plays in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). She has published her first kids book called Naughty Nana which is for sale on Amazon.

Anzhelina Polonskaya was born in Malakhovka, a small town near Moscow. Since 1998, she has been a member of the Moscow Union of Writers and in 2003, Polonskaya became a member of the Russian PEN-centre. In 2004 an English version of her book, entitled "A Voice," appeared in the acclaimed “Writings from an Unbound Europe” series at Northwestern University Press. This book was shortlisted for the 2005 Corneliu M Popescu Prize for European Poetry in Translation. In 2013 « Paul Klee's Boat » a bilingual edition of her latest poems was published by Zephyr Press and was shortlisted for the 2014 Best Translated Book Award and 2014 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.

Gretchen is currently the managing editor of Quail Bell Magazine. Her written work has appeared in Wear Your Voice Mag, ROAR Feminist, The Establishment, Bustle, projects of SFG Media, and more. Gretchen has also been interviewed for Her Campus as part of their “How She Got There” series as well as a segment on For Creative Girls. She is based in a small town in Virginia.

Jon Anātman is a journalist of the secret, a lover of the statistically infrequent and a pilgrim in search of the unconscious aspects of human experience. His work explores media, storytelling, language, fringe ideology and junkyard philosophy. He's currently completing a MA of Publishing at the University of Sydney and is an editor at @thistlemagazine.

Steve Klepetar lives in Saint Cloud, Minnesota. His work has been published widely in the U.S. and abroad, and has received several nominations for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize (including four in 2016). He is the author of twelve poetry collections, the most recent of which are A Landscape in Hell; Family Reunion; and How Fascism Comes to America.

Deena ElGenaidi is a writer living in Philadelphia. She graduated from Rutgers Camden's Creative Writing MFA program in 2016 and currently works as an editor at an academic publisher. Deena has taught English at a number of local colleges as well as in Morocco and Peru. She lives with her cat Sasha, named after Sasha Obama, and writes primarily fiction.

Linda M. Crate is a Pennsylvanian native born in Pittsburgh yet raised in the rural town of Conneautville. Her poetry, short stories, articles, and reviews have been published in a myriad of magazines both online and in print. She has three published chapbooks A Mermaid Crashing Into Dawn (Fowlpox Press - June 2013), Less Than A Man (The Camel Saloon - January 2014), and If Tomorrow Never Comes (Scars Publications, August 2016). Her fantasy novel Blood & Magic was published in March 2015. The second novel of this series Dragons & Magic was published in October 2015. The third of the seven book series Centaurs & Magic was published November 2016. Her novel Corvids & Magic was published March 2017. Her novel Phoenix Tears is forthcoming.

Nancy Scott is managing editor of U.S.1 Worksheets in New Jersey. She is the author of numerous collections of poetry, her most recent, Ah, Men (Aldrich Press, 2016) is a retrospective of men who have influenced her life. A social worker, Scott has worked for the State of New Jersey and various non-profits advocating for adoption and foster care, mental health and homeless issues. She is also an artist working mostly in collage and from time to time she exhibits her art and poetry together in print and online journals. www.nancyscott.net.

Shlomo Franklin grew up in Bethel, New York. He soon developed his own style of music inspired by the neighboring grounds of Woodstock. His musical influence includes Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Nirvana and Johnny Cash. Shlomo Franklin is a touring musician whose music can be found on Bandcamp. shlomofranklin.bandcamp.com/

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Maryam Khamesi likes to write lyrics, poetry, and stories that explore emotional pain.

Kimberly Casey is a Massachusetts native with her BFA in Writing, Literature and Publishing from Emerson College in Boston, MA. She now lives in Huntsville, AL where she founded Out Loud HSV, a spoken word and literary arts collective dedicated to creating a welcoming platform for language, writing, and communication to flourish. Her work has appeared in Hypertrophic Literary, Red Fez, and The Corvus Review among others, and she has a self-published chapbook of poetry, ‘Learning to Love Anchors’.

Olivia Meyer is 17 years old and a junior in high school. She live in Seattle, Washington and has been published in her school’s newspaper. Writing is her favorite way to express herself and she's been doing it for as long as she can remember. Olivia thinks that poetry is a beautiful part of life and she loves both making and reading it.

Kristin Garth is a novelist and poet who resides in Pensacola, Florida. She is currently working on an erotic novel entitled The Meadow.

Abby Burns is a queer feminist currently residing in Indiana where she is an MFA candidate at the University of Notre Dame. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Entropy, (b)OINK zine, Microfiction Monday Magazine, and Longridge Review.

L. A. Traynor lives in Glasgow and is the author of two novels, Anomalies and Revelations. She is included in several Scottish anthologies and numerous websites and magazines. She opened World Community Arts Day 2016 in Edinburgh and has appeared in two five star Edinburgh Fringe events. She is founder of Woman Poets with Fierce Words and the co-founder of Fierce Poetry in Motion which produces Poetry Films and delivers events to bring them to a wider audience and runs the THRAWN project which encourages women around the World to support other women have a voice by being filmed reading the poem THRAWN.

She is on the Council for the Federation of Writers (Scotland) and member of Scottish Writers' Centre and Scottish Pen.
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Dana Espinosa is an undergraduate creative writing student at Brooklyn College. She hopes to some day publish a book of poetry. She works part time at a small café in Montclair, NJ, and she is the chief of publications at her college's student-run creative writing magazine "Stuck In The Library." Dana is at the age where life is just beginning to reveal the vastness of its insanity to her, and writing is her favorite way of coping with that. When Dana isn't writing, she spends time with her beautiful cat, Nala, her supportive friends, and her loving boyfriend down in Virginia.

Tarin Kovalik is an MFA candidate at Old Dominion University. Her work focuses on the themes of feminism and female sexuality. Tarin enjoys writing about what is seen as "not lady like." She lives with her cat in Norfolk, Virginia.

David Lohrey grew up in Memphis. He graduated from U.C., Berkeley. His plays have appeared in the UK, Switzerland, India and, most recently, in Croatia. In a Newark Minute and Sperm Counts were translated and produced in Estonia (2016). His poetry can be found in Softblow, The Blue Mountain Review, Otoliths, Cecile’s Writers and Quarterday. In addition, recent poems have been accepted as part of anthologies published by the University of Alabama (Dewpoint), Illinois State University (Obsidian) and Michigan State University (The Offbeat). David is a member of the Sudden Denouement Literary Collective in Houston. Recent fiction can be read in Crack the Spine and at inshadesmag.com. He teaches in Tokyo.

Anuja Ghimire was born and raised in Kathmandu, Nepal. A Pushcart-nominee in 2015, she's published in the U.S., Canada, and Nepal in over 40 journals, print and online. She lives in Dallas, TX with her husband and two little girls and writes poetry. In the day, she works as an editor/publisher in the e-learning industry.

Rebecca Phelps is an actress, screenwriter and novelist. She is the co-creator of the popular writing blog Novel2Screen.net and her adaptation of the novel The Doll in the Garden has been optioned for film. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two kids.

At the end of a workday Marvin Dorsey travels 60 minutes by freeway, exiting on a long unpaved desert road to his ranch home in Lancaster. There he is greeted by the wind, lone tumbleweeds rambling across the sandy vista, and a variety of farmyard animals. The dichotomies of city and desert, noise and quietude, and the confines of a cage vs.the expansive freedom of the night’s universe of stars, inform the heart of Marvin’s poetry – where a deep interior life shares the page with the wide exterior landscape.

Kate Jones is a freelance writer based in the UK with flash and short fiction appearing in various online literary magazines, including The Nottingham Review, SickLit, Spelk and The Open Pen, as well as winning the Flash 500 quarterly competition. She also publishes creative non-fiction and essays, including regularly writing for The Short Story.

Don Kingfisher Campbell, MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University, multi-award-winning poet listed on the Poets and Writers website, has been a coach and judge for Poetry Out Loud, a performing poet/teacher for Red Hen Press Youth Writing Workshops, Los Angeles Area Coordinator and Board Member of California Poets In The Schools, poetry editor of the Angel City Review, publisher of Spectrum and the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly, leader of the Emerging Urban Poets writing and Deep Critique workshops, organizer of the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Festival, and host of the Saturday Afternoon Poetry reading series in Pasadena, California. For publication credits, please go to: http://dkc1031.blogspot.com

Nick Black’s stories have been published by literary magazines including (b)OINK zine, the Lonely Crowd, Spelk Fiction, Open Pen, Severine, Funhouse, Firefly, Razur Cuts and Litro, with more coming soon to Jellyfish Review and the Ham .

His stories have also won various flash contests and been listed for the 2015 and '16 Bath Flash Fiction Awards, Land Rover/GQ/Salon House Short Story Competition and the Spread the Word Prize.

Julie Gautier-Downes was born in San Diego and relocated to New York City in 2001, prompting her bi-coastal identity and interest in perceptions of home. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2011 and her Master of Fine Arts in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2014. She has exhibited her work in solo and group shows across the United States and in the United Kingdom. Gautier-Downes has had her photographs published in Ain’t Bad Magazine, Dazed Digital, the Hand Magazine, Ohio Edit, and Phosmag. She currently resides in Spokane, Washington.

Quentin Mahoney is a bartender, musician, and writer from Boston, Massachusetts. Previous poetry in Little Star Magazine.

Crystal Snoddon is a Canadian writer whose image is as blurred as any other, and whose poetry has been recently published in The Quarterday Review, Tuck Magazine, Communicator's League, The Light Ekphrastic.

James Roberts is a writer and performer from Bradford in the UK. He's spent the last few years living in Russia and moving around Spain where he's written variously about political strife, the joy and pain of memory and finding dark comedy in the day-to-day.

Ahrend Torrey is a poet and painter. He is a creative writing graduate from Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. When he is not writing or teaching English at Herzing University in New Orleans, Louisiana, he enjoys the simpler things in life, like walking around Bayou St. John on Sunday mornings, with his partner, Jonathan, and their two rat terriers Dichter and Dova.

Simon Pinkerton is that guy you recognize from high school and can’t believe still lives in town. He can often be found <insert your favorite verb/activity here, to increase interest in and rapport with this author>. Please find him @simonpinkerton and please read his fiction and humor at places like Word Riot, Vanilla Sex Magazine, Queen Mob's Tea House and Entropy Magazine.

Carla Barger is a writer and freelance editor. She grew up riding horses in vast open fields and has never quite gotten used to living in cities, which makes her wonder regularly why she continues to do so. Her work has appeared in several literary journals, photography books, art gallery catalogs, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Visit her website at https://carlabarger.wordpress.com.

Currently working on his second volume of poetry, Medicine, John Berry writes from his Winchester Va. home with his beloved wife, Brenda, and their constant yorkie companions, Molly and Lily. When not engaged in writing or his profession as a woodworker and cabinet-maker, John hosts a monthly poetry open-mic and an internet poetry show, The Sock Drawer Poetry Series, on
www.winlifetv.com. He is also pursuing a two-year course of study in the energetic healing arts through the Whitewinds/Featherstone Institute of Integrated Energy Medicine and is a Level 2 Reiki practitioner in the Usui Holy Fire tradition.

Robert Walicki is the curator of Versify, a monthly literary reading series in Pittsburgh, PA. His work has appeared in a number of journals, including I-70 Review, The Kentucky Review, and The Red River Review A Pushcart nominee, he currently has two chapbooks published: A Room Full of Trees (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2014) and The Almost Sound of Snow Falling (Night Ballet Press, 2015), which was nominated to the 2016 Poet's House in New York.

Penney Knightly is a survivor of child and adult sexual abuse, and explores themes on the subject in her work. Her poetry has appeared in Raving Dove, Broad Magazine, Big River Review, Dead King, Postcard Poems and Prose, and Ink in Thirds. She lives with her family on a sailboat in the San Francisco Bay. She tweets @penneyknightly and shares art on her blog http://penneyknightly.com.

Donna studied Creative Writing and Philosophy at NYU. She meandered about before she became a successful business woman, married and mothered 2 beautiful children. Donna is passionate and deeply inspired by the works of Sharon Olds, Sylvia Plath, Allan Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, Jayne Anne Phillips, Mary Karr, Denis Johnson to name a few. In their raw honesty and bare bones she has found her own niche and has been inspired over and over again to continue to seek out her voice. Her life is a paradox of cryptic and dark melded into alive and bold. She has written down events from scribbles to journals. Over the years she has documented lives growing up poor, witnessing drugs, prostitution, overdoses and death. She has bundled stories of lives that fell apart in front of her or with her. She’s been compelled since her youth to open it up onto paper, with pen. Donna has been published Mud Fish, Nocturnal Lyric, The Café Review, The New York Quarterly and was lucky enough to study under William Packard back in the day. She took a slight hiatus and can most recently found in 34th Parallel.

Ryan Quinn Flanagan is a Canadian-born author residing in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada with his other half and mounds of snow. His work can be found both in print and online in such places as: Evergreen Review, The New York Quarterly, Word Riot, In Between Hangovers, Red Fez, Horror Sleaze Trash, and Your One Phone Call.

Alex Rochinski is a Boston-born writer and musician currently based in New York. His work has appeared in Nat. Brut and Noncanon Press.

Devon Balwit is a writer/educator from Portland, OR. She has two chapbooks forthcoming in 2017: How the Blessed Travel from Maverick Duck Press, and Forms Most Marvelous from dancing girl press. Her work has found many homes, among them: The Ekphrastic Review, The NewVerse News, Vector Press, Work to a Calm, Sweet, and more.

Ingrid is a Salvi refugee residing in Historic Filipinotown. Her work has been featured in Leste Mag, Electric Cereal, Drunk Monkeys, velvet-tail, amongst others…Her third full-length poetry book 'Zenith' is out now through Editions Du Cygne. She writes through guided ethos or some fleeting alien-hand syndrome and tries to make the jumbled mess in her head, into verse. She hopes it resonates.

Hillary Leftwich resides in Denver with her son. She is co-host for At the Inkwell, a NYC based reading series and organizes/hosts other reading/fundraiser events around Denver. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Creative Coping Mechanism (CCM) “A Shadow Map” Anthology, Hobart, Matter Press, Smokelong Quarterly’s “Why Flash Fiction?” Series, The Review Review and others.

Michael Prihoda is a writer, editor, and teacher from Indianapolis, IN. He is the editor of the literary magazine and small press After the Pause. Publications of poetry, flash fiction, and art have appeared in Potluck, Rasasvada, Pretty Owl Poetry, and Spelk Fiction, among other locales. He is also the author of two chapbooks and five poetry collections, the most recent of which is The First Breath You Take After You Give Up (Weasel Press, 2016).

Margarita has published one book of poetry, "Animals and Other Gods", in the Bulgarian (Sofia University Press, 2016). Her second book, "Demons and World", also in the Bulgarian, is forthcoming in March 2017 (Black Flamingo Publishing, Sofia).

Evan McMurry graduated from Reed College and received his MFA from Texas State University-San Marcos. His fiction has appeared in more than a half-dozen publications, including Post Road and Euphony, and his reviews have appeared in Bookslut and elsewhere. He is currently the social media editor for ABC News.

Cathy Ulrich is a writer from Montana. Her work has appeared in various journals, including Firefly Magazine, The Airgonaut, Lunch Ticket and Superstition Review.

Sonia Greenfield was born and raised in Peekskill, New York, and her book, Boy with a Halo at the Farmer's Market, won the 2014 Codhill Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in a variety of places, including in 2010 Best American Poetry, The Antioch Review, The Bellevue Literary Review, Cimarron Review, Cream City Review, The Massachusetts Review, Meridian, and Rattle. She lives with her husband and son in Los Angeles, California, where she edits the Rise Up Review and co-directs the Southern California Poetry Festival.

Gordana Kokich is a writer, artist and amateur folklorist from Portland, Oregon. Her latest project, To Me There Exists an Egg is a multimedia time-based anthology of autopoietic works that subvert classical definitions of authorship. Deeply influenced by the arcane wisdom of her eastern European roots, Gordana is a thought leader in the neopagan community. She can be found dancing with the Strugotsky brothers, adding new entries to Milorad Pavic's Khazar Dictionary or writing love letters to Sophia Parnok. She has been a guest contributor for God's and Radicals and Plant Healer Magazine.

j4 is a collective of four persons, all given names beginning with j, who are compelled to explore transindividual composition
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Living by the Great Salt Lake, Cheyenne Nimes is a cross-genre writer currently working on poetry/nonfiction hybrids. Work is forthcoming in The Shell Game, an anthology on forms (University of Nebraska). Awarded the Edwin Ford Piper Scholar Award for Names for Water Bodies & Other Places the Water Fell: A Micro-history of American Rivers and the World Water Crisis, she was a University of Iowa Art Museum resident writer chosen by Eula Biss. Passing Through 90 Degrees, which garnered an NEA, received the Michael Rubin award from San Francisco State University. South Loop Review, Ninth Letter, DIAGRAM, Kenyon Review, etc. are recent homes, and work is forthcoming in Jellyfish Review, Threadcount, and interIrupture. She collects rocks, feral cats, & crime shows.

Cynthia Bruckman is the author of Endangered Species (Wind River Press, 2005). Her plays have been produced in Seattle, San Francisco, and New York. She is a dual American-Canadian citizen, currently living on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

Carla is a freelance writer living in Wales. Her story JOHN was published in Electric Read's Young Writer's Anthology 2016 and her poems have appeared in Dirty Chai, Squawckback, and The New Welsh Review. Carla reads poetry submissions for The White Review and writes reviews for The TLS, Wales Arts Review and The New Welsh Review. She is working on a collection of short stories based on the human spirit's response to boredom and isolation set in a seaside town.

Amelia Browning is an undergraduate student at Utah State University, a writer, and a youth counselor at a residential treatment facility. She enjoys reading, learning foreign languages, live comedy, and hiking with her 70- pound Lab mix in the mountains surrounding Logan, Utah.

Eaton Jackson is an aspiring Jamaican writer, with a lifelong ambition of fitting the right words in the blank spaces. In so doing, he would like that a picture of one common humanity, peace, respect, honor and love become an achievable community. Because language should not be a barrier to feelings, and like the indigenous reggae music of his native homeland, whose lyric might not be readily understood, but whose infectious beat is – he would like his words to convey a similar understanding. His works have appeared in Tuck magazine, The NewsVerse News, River Poets Journal.

Jo-Ella Sarich has worked as a lawyer for a number of years, and has recently started writing again after a rather long hiatus. Her poetry has appeared in Tuck Magazine and The Galway Review, and will be appearing in the upcoming Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2017. http://mysticalfirenight.tumblr.com/

Jim was born in Dublin and has lived in Vancouver since 1979. He has a degree in Chemical Engineering from UCD. His wife and two daughters complain if they are not mentioned in bio’s, so he would like to thank all three of them for their support.

He has published previously in Cyphers (Ireland) ,The sHop (Ireland) , In-Flight Literary
Magazine, Oddball Magazine and others. He blogs at
https://stopdraggingthepanda.wordpress.com.

Jim also writes lyrics for "The Mitchell Feeney Project" (album, "Crossing Lines", available on iTunes)

Jenny Galipo is a multidisciplinary artist surviving in San Francisco and Los Angeles. She has done projects for city art walks and in multiple performance art spaces among collaborating artists, where she fostered the raw parallels between the play of action and the act of creation. She tried really hard to finish her B.A. in Art History from San Francisco State University, but has been more rewarded doing social work in the arts with artists with developmental disabilities. With writing, she tries to capture fragments of life.

Allyson's pantry describes her as a lovely, ferocious, and usually hungry writer. She writes nonfiction essays about sex, relationships, anxiety, and other life altering matters, such as brain tumors and the underrated act of crying on the floor. She strives to connect others with words because she wants people to feel less alone.

Her work has been published in Red Light Lit, Thought Catalog, xoJane, Writtalin, and Zaum.

Peggy Turnbull is a poet and retired academic librarian who lives in Wisconsin. She is currently writing a series of poems about her encounters with the divine. Most recently she has been published in Whitmanthology: On Loss and Grief.

In addition to blogging at http://mnicolerwildhood.com, m.nicole.r.wildhood's work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Atticus Review, and elsewhere. She was a finalist for America Magazine’s annual Foley Poetry Contest and her nonfiction has been anthologized in several collections. She currently writes for Seattle’s street newspaper Real Change and is at work on a novel and several volumes of poetry, including one in Spanish.

Sara True is a visual and performance artist, poet, and world traveler. She hails from Los Angeles, CA, where she grew up with white privilege, a fear of her own sexuality, and proximity to the sea. She is a big fan of critical reevaluation of self and society, of values we hold to be inherent and true, and of redefinitions of beauty. She currently resides in snowy Portland, where her work focuses largely on examinations of the body, unraveling the effects of the body politic on the intimate, sensuous body. Her work can be found online at saratrueart.com or on Instagram as: @saratrueart.

Andrea Randall has been writing poetry and short stories since she learned to write. Her poetry has been published in local presses, and she debuted her first novel, Ten Days of Perfect, in 2012.

Andrea has gone on to publish more than a dozen novels and novellas, and lives and works with her novelist husband, Charles Sheehan-Miles. You can learn more about Andrea’s work and her life at www.andrearandall.com.

Suhasini Patni is a second year undergraduate at Ashoka University, in India, studying English literature. She has previously published a book review in The Tishman Review and a micro-fiction piece with A Quiet Courage and Entropy2, and hopes to publish many more. She is new to the publishing world but loves to write.

Amanda Loudin is a freelance writer who covers health, fitness, parenting and travel. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, Outside magazine, Scary Mommy and many others. You can find her on Twitter at @misszippy1.

Laura Page is the founding editor of Virga Magazine. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming from Rust+Moth, Crab Creek Review, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Red Paint Hill, and others. She is the author of two chapbooks, "Children, Apostates" (Dancing Girl Press, 2016) and "Sylvia Plath in the Major Arcana" (Anchor & Plume, forthcoming).

Dan Diehn lives in St. Paul, MN with his wife and two cats. He likes taking long walks on the beach, drinking mojitos, and having fun. Select short stories and his serial novellas, Hashtag Barry: The Ugliest Kid Who Ever Lived and The Door can be read at Culture Currency (http://www.cultcurrency.com/). His writing has also appeared on SickLitMagazine https://sicklitmagazine.com/) and Cease, Cows (http://ceasecows.com/). Follow him @diedan (https://twitter.com/diedan)

An ink stained wretch, Fred Dodsworth spent most of the last 30 years in newsrooms picking fights. The truth is a slippery bastard and he lost most of those fights. Now he writes poetry and fiction because there's more truth to be found in fiction than in any news story ever printed.

Eliza Mimski is a retired high school English teacher. She lives in San Francisco where she writes poems about the election in order to keep sane. She has been published in Quiet Lightning's Sparkle and Blink and in Fiction 365.

Lauren Suchenski is a fragment sentence-dependent, ellipsis-loving writer and lives somewhere where the trees change color. Lauren believes in the inherent creative capability within all people. You can find more of her poetry at @_laurel_hill on Instagram.

Gerard Sarnat has been nominated for a 2016 Pushcart Prize and is the late-career author of four critically-acclaimed collections: HOMELESS CHRONICLES from Abraham to Burning Man (2010), Disputes (2012), 17s (2014) and Melting The Ice King (2016). Work from Ice King was accepted by over seventy magazines, including Gargoyle and Lowestoft Chronicle and The American Journal of Poetry, and featured in Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, Avocet: A Journal of Nature Poems, LEVELER, tNY, StepAway, Bywords and Floor Plan. Since then new work has been featured in Dark Run and Scarlet Leaf. For Huffington Post and other reviews, reading dates, publications, interviews and more, visit GerardSarnat.com. Go to Amazon to find Gerry’s books plus Editorial and Customer Reviews.

Harvard and Stanford educated, Gerry’s spent time in jails as a physician and social justice protestor, built and staffed clinics for the marginalized, been a CEO of healthcare organizations and Stanford Medical School professor. Sarnat's spent decades working for Middle East peace, including being a member of the US’s longest-running Jewish-Palestinian dialogue group and serving on the New Israel Fund international board. Married since 1969, he and his wife have three children and four grandkids.

Goldkamp lives in Saint Louis / New Orleans / the spirit of gratitude. He likes spreading it around / realizing how damn lucky this is. He has work in Mudfish / Hoot / Seems / dryland / The Harpoon Review / Straylight / others. His art has been covered by the Post-Dispatch / Time / NPR / more. To read up on / about these things, google:henry goldkamp with a fresh drink of your choice.

Howie Good is the author of Dangerous Acts Starring Unstable Elements, winner of the 2015 Press Americana Prize for Poetry. His other books include A Ghost Sings, a Door Opens from Another New Calligraphy and Robots vs. Kung Fu from AngelHouse Press (both 2016).

Alexandria Morales is an undergraduate student at the University of Southern California double-majoring in Philosophy and Comparative Literature. She currently interns at a legal aid self-help clinic. She aspires to attend law school and pursue philosophy graduate studies to become a civil rights lawyer and professor. She is currently working on a political dystopian novel entitled American Ozymandias, and numerous short stories experimenting with innovative forms and philosophical and cultural discourse. She is a bisexual, Mexican-Korean woman who has bipolar disorder, and has lived through post-traumatic stress disorder. It is essential to her that you know, no matter the divergences of your identity from hegemonic norms, that there is solidarity, compassion, and a dire existential need for you.

Christine Stoddard is a Salvadoran-Scottish-American writer and artist who lives in Brooklyn. Her visuals have appeared in the New York Transit Museum, the Ground Zero Hurricane Katrina Museum, the Poe Museum, and beyond. In 2014, Folio Magazine named her one of the top 20 media visionaries in their 20s for founding Quail Bell Magazine. She also is a Puffin Foundation grantee, Tom Tom Festival artist, and Artbridge winner.

John Muth was born and raised in central New Jersey. For the last fifteen years, he has been an academic advisor, working for Rutgers University. The main focus of his poetry is satire, particularly romantic relationships, modern values, and the inner workings of higher education.

Some of his poems have appeared in The Stray Branch, Section 8 Magazine, and US 1 Worksheets.
His first book, A Love for Lavender Dragons (Aldrich Press), was published in 2016 and can be found on Amazon.com

Samantha Zaphiris is an author originating from Pennsylvania, but finds herself living most often in her head, which furthermore is above the clouds. She’d like to consider herself an author, and writes poetic verse in her free time. Apart from writing, she is an advocate for ending the stigma surrounding mental health, an avid music lover and or musician, a sucker for old movies, and the girl who wants to be friends with just about everyone. Her struggles with anorexia nervosa have shaped her writing into what it is today, and is still molding who she is as a person. You can most often find her at quaint diners, local music shops, or on www.samanthazaphiris.tumblr.com

David Subacchi lives in Wales where he was born of Italian roots. He studied at the University
of Liverpool and he has 4 published collections of his English Language poetry First Cut (2012),
Hiding in Shadows (2014), Not Really a Stranger (2016) and A Terrible Beauty (2016). His work
has also appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies.

You can find out more about David and his work at
http://www.writeoutloud.net/profiles/davidsubacchi

Tim Staley was born in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1975. He serves as publisher of Grandma Moses Press. His debut collection, Lost On My Own Street, was released by Pski's Porch Publishing in 2016. His newest chapbook, The Most Honest Syllable is Shhh, is forthcoming from Night Ballet Press. He lives in the highlands of the Chihuahuan Desert. Visit him online at poetstaley.com/.

Amy Forstadt’s writing has appeared in Pif, 300 Days of Sun, and Entropy Magazine. Other writing credits include Disney Online Originals, Nickelodeon, The Hub, and Animal Planet. She lives in Los Angeles with her son and two insane cats.

Kate Santos is a writer and photographer living in Los Angeles

Elisabeth J. Ferrell-Horan is a stay at home mom in Vermont raising two young boys, feeding her animals and dreaming in poetry. When not writing, she finds peace and inspiration working with her three very special horses: Deuce, Flynnie and Bees. They speak to her without using words.
Elisabeth is a survivor of many things - most recently severe postpartum depression. She wants to tell all the mothers out there suffering in pain and perhaps alone, that they are good mothers, and that it is possible to get better, if they can just hold on, and find the right help. http://ejfhoran.weebly.com/

James Walton has been published in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald newspapers, and many journals and anthologies. He has been short listed twice for the ACU national Literature Prize, is a double prize winner in the MPU International Poetry Prize, and Specially Commended in The Welsh Poetry Competition.

Christopher Hopkins, was born and raised in Neath South Wales, surrounded by machines and mountains, until he moved to Oxford in his early twenties. He currently resides in Canterbury and works for the NHS. Chris has had poems published in Rust & Moth Magazine, Anti-Heroin Chic Magazine, Tuck Magazine, Dissident Voice magazine, the online literary journal 1947, Transcendent Zero Press and Duane's PoeTree. Two of his early e-book pamphlets "Imagination is my Gun" and "Exit From a Moving Car" are available on Amazon.

Bio: Tricia Marcella Cimera is a Midwestern poet with a worldview. Look for her work in these diverse places (some forthcoming): Buddhist Poetry Review,The Ekphrastic Review, Foliate Oak, Failed Haiku, I Am Not A Silent Poet, Mad Swirl, Silver Birch Press, Yellow Chair Review, Wild Plum and elsewhere. She has a micro collection of water-themed poems called THE SEA AND A RIVER on the Origami Poems Project website. Tricia believes there’s no place like her own backyard and has traveled the world (including Graceland). She lives with her husband and family of animals in Illinois / in a town called St. Charles / by a river named Fox.

Kelsey Cooley is a senior at the University of North Texas.
She is involved in the writing program and is soon to be a graduate student.
One day, she hopes to become a creative-writing professor.

Ann Blackburn is a student at Sarah Lawrence College where she studies poetry. She is currently working on her manuscript. Her work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in Red Paint Hill Poetry Journal, Crack the Spine, Eunoia Review, and elsewhere.
Her website can be found at: www.annblackburnpoetry.com

Christopher Iacono lives with his wife and son in Massachusetts. You can learn more about him at cuckoobirds.org.

Jim Gibson grew up in the feral plains of England in an ex-coal mining village, Newstead, where the lack of employment was overshadowed by the grand home of the poet Lord Byron. This juxtaposition could have been the trigger that started him on his literary path. He is currently the fiction editor for Hand Job Magazine, where he tries to encourage the lesser voiced truths of our society. Find him at jimegibson.com

Jennifer Hernandez lives in Minnesota where she works with students from immigrant families and writes poetry, flash, and creative non-fiction. She has performed her writing at a non-profit garage, a taxidermy-filled bike shop, and in the kitchen for her children. Her recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Dying Dahlia Review, Mothers Always Write and New Verse News, as well as Bird Float, Tree Song (Silverton Books), A Prince Tribute (Yellow Chair Press) and Write Like You’re Alive (Zoetic Press).

Mike Meraz lives and writes in Whittier, Ca.

Sudhanshu Chopra hails from India. He finds inspiration to write from observations, memories, subconscious, books he reads, movies he watches, and music he listens to. Sometimes a phrase or simply a word is enough.

Christien Gholson is the author of two books of poetry, All the Beautiful Dead (Bitter Oleander Press, 2016), and On the Side of the Crow (Hanging Loose Press, 2006); and a novel, A Fish Trapped Inside the Wind (Parthian, 2011). He was once a fish falling through a clear blue sky. He is now a plastic bag skipping across the desert floor. He lives in New Mexico. He can be found online at noise & silence.

Carol is a poet, teacher, musician, librarian, wife, mother, and grandmother living in Upstate New York. She is insatiably curious, which is why she reads everything: newspapers, novels, poems, poems, poems, the backs of cereal boxes, painting instructions from “Home Depot,” and, of course, Facebook. She expects to receive her MFA in Creative Writing from The College of Saint Rose in December 2016.

Alexis Rhone Fancher is the author of How I Lost My Virginity to Michael Cohen and other
heart stab poems,(2014) and State of Grace: The Joshua Elegies, (2015). She is published
in Best American Poetry 2016, Rattle, Slipstream, Hobart, Cleaver, Public Pool,The MacGuffin,
and elsewhere. Since 2013 she has been nominated for seven Pushcart Prizes and four Best of The Net awards. Alexis is poetry editor of Cultural Weekly.www.alexisrhonefancher.com

r. miller is an aspiring poet residing the wilds of Southern Pennsylvania. He is a member of Paper Plane Pilots, an international writers' collective. He has previously published a chapbook entitled "Separate Instances of Loneliness"

Daniel Sokoloff is a poet from Philadelphia. When not writing or walking one of his lizards, he enjoys stargazing and speeding down I-95. He graduated from Temple University, and is writing his chap book, “Dream of the Ash”, a meditation on his connection with the Norse god, Odin.

Robert W. Getz lives in Glenside, PA. His latest book of poetry is "Pomp and other Circumstances: Poems 2014-2015."

Edward Willes is an Australian poet who’s poetic essence has been distilled within the state of Queensland (both rural and urban). Endeavoring to establish a voice of connection within the small but profound moments of cultural reflection and nostalgic rhythms, he rejects the pop cultural iconic identities that take hostage the personal experiences of a contemporary Australian.

http://edwardwilles.wordpress.com/

Jess Mize is a blonde-haired surfer girl from South Carolina. Her favorite author is Stephen King.

Jon Bennett is a writer and musician living in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood. You can find his work on Spotify, Pandora, and at www.jonbennett.info.

The day Jada Yee’s high school English teacher introduced free verse poetry to the class was the day she found her passion. What she struggled to say aloud was translated clearly onto the page. Poetry encourages truth without perfection. In the last fourteen years, writing in silence and with music has become Jada’s strongest coping skill for depression and anxiety. Her work has appeared in literary magazines such as Poydras Review, Mad Swirl, A Quiet Courage and others.

Mark Young's most recent book is Mineral Terpsichore, from gradient books of Finland. An e-book, The Holy Sonnets unDonne, has recently come out from Red Ceilings Press, & another e-book, For the Witches of Romania, is due out from Beard of Bees.

Elizabeth Austin is a poet, photographer, visual artist, and single mum. She is currently a graduate student in Creative Writing at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her work has appeared in the Schuylkill Valley Journal, See Spot Run, and Driftwood Press. She was recently featured in a collaborative exhibit with photographer Sarah Jane Sanders at the Norton Center for the Arts. She is first runner up for Bucks County Poet Laureate 2014 and lives in Newtown, Pennsylvania.

Miriam Sagan is the author of 30 published books, including the novel Black Rainbow (Sherman Asher, 2015) and Geographic: A Memoir of Time and Space (Casa de Snapdragon, 2016). She founded and heads the creative writing program at Santa Fe Community College. Her blog Miriam’s Well (http://miriamswell.wordpress.com) has a thousand daily readers. She has been a writer in residence in two national parks, at Yaddo, MacDowell, Colorado Art Ranch, Andrew’s Experimental Forest, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Iceland’s Gullkistan Residency for creative people, and another dozen or so remote and unique places. Her awards include the Santa Fe Mayor’s award for Excellence in the Arts, the Poetry Gratitude Award from New Mexico Literary Arts, and A Lannan Foundation residency in Marfa.

K. Foster-Goodrich, known on stage as "KFG", is a spoken word poet, city-wide slam team organizer, and social justice activist from Michigan. Their work has been previously featured in Crab Fat Magazine.

Benjamin Blake was born in the July of 1985, and grew up in the small town of Eltham, New Zealand. He is the author of the poetry and prose collections, A Prayer for Late October, Southpaw Nights, and Reciting Shakespeare with the Dead.
www.benjaminblake.com
www.twitter.com/benjaminblake
www.facebook.com/wordsbybenjaminblake

Taunja Thomson’s poetry has appeared in The Cincinnati Poets’ Collective, The Cincinnati Poetry Review, The Licking River Review, The Aurorean, Lime Hawk Collective Arts Journal, Really System, Squalorly, Wild Age Press, The Cahaba River Journal, Sandy River Review, Watershed, Portage Magazine, and Amore, an anthology of love poetry. In August of 2016, her work will appear in Potomac. Two of her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Award: “Seahorse and Moon” in 2005 and “I walked out in January” in 2016. She is co-author of a collaborative chapbook of ekphrastic poetry that has recently been accepted for publication and has a writer’s page on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TaunjaThomsonWriter. She resides in Kentucky with her husband and six cats, where she practices collage craft, terrarium creation, and water gardening.

jacklyn janeksela can be found @ felled limbs, Oddball Magazine, The Nervous Breakdown, Berfrois, Barrelhouse, Uut Poetry, Pig Latin, Thought Catalog, Luna Magazine, & Talking Book. forthcoming in WhiskeyPaper, Reality Hands, Manneqüin Haüs, & DumDum Magazine. she is in a post-punk band called the velblouds. her baby @ femalefilet. more art @ artmugre & a clip. she is an energy.

Jason Baldinger has spent a life in odd jobs, if only poetry was the strangest of them he’d have far less to talk about. He’s traveled the country and written a few books, the latest of which are The Lower 48 (Six Gallery Press) and The Studs Terkel Blues (Night Ballet Press). A short litany of publishing credits include Blast Furnace, The Glassblock, Lilliput Review, Green Panda Press, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, Beatnik Cowboy, In Between Hangovers, Your One Phone Call and Fuck Art, Let’s Dance. You can hear audio versions of some poems on Bandcamp, just type in his name.

John D Robinson was born in 63 in East Sussex, UK; his work has appeared widely in the small press and online literary publications; including Rusty Truck; Rats Ass Review; Red Fez; Bareback Lit; Dead Snakes; The Kitchen Poet, Underground Books; Pulsar; Poet&Geek; The Commonline Journal; The Chicago Record; Mad Swirl; The Clockwise Cat; Poetic Diversity; Your One Phone Call: Ink Sweat & Tears; Horror Sleaze and Trash; Poetry Super Highway; Zombie Logic Review; Opal Publishing; Hastings Online Times; Bold Monkeys; Napalm and Novocain; The Legendary; Yellow Mama; Winamop.com; The Beatnik Cowboy; Outsider Poetry; Revolution John; BoySlut; The Peeking Cat Poetry Magazine; In Between Hangovers; Eunoia Review. Locust Magazine; Hobo Camp Review; Message In A Bottle; and poems appearing in; The Sentinel Literary Quarterly; Cavalcade of Stars; Degenerate Literature; He is a contributing poet to the 2016 48th Street Press Broadside Series; His latest collection ‘When You Hear The Bell, There’s Nowhere To Hide’ (Holy&intoxicated Publications) carries an introduction by poet and novelist John Grochalski. He is married with 1 daughter, 2 grandchildren, 3 cats, 1 dog and he likes to drink wine whilst listening to quietness.

Joe Russo has been published in Linguistic Erosion, Farther Stars than These, Leaves of Ink, Typehouse Magazine, Door is A Jar Magazine, Spillwords, BoySlut Poetry Magazine and Centum Press’s upcoming antholgy 100 VOICES AT CENTUM. You can find him on Twitter - Josephrusso8 or on Instagram - Joerusso8.

Ron Androla is a poet living with his wife, Ann Androla, in Eerie, PA. He's the author of CONFLUENCE (Busted Dharma Books), 2015, available on Amazon, FACTORY FABLES (Pressure Press), 2016, along with many other books. He's been writing & publishing since the late 1970s.

Darren C. Demaree is the author of five poetry collections, most recently "The Nineteen Steps Between Us" (2016, After the Pause). He is the Managing Editor of the Best of the Net Anthology and Ovenbird Poetry. His poems have appeared, or are scheduled to appear in numerous magazines/journals, including the South Dakota Review, Meridian, New Letters, Diagram, and the Colorado Review. He is currently living and writing in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children.

Colin James has a chapbook of poems, DREAMS OF THE REALLY ANNOYING,
from Writing Knights Press.

Peter Marra’s writings explore alienation, addiction, the functions and misuses of love, the curse of secrets, victimization and assorted obsessions. He has had over 200 poems published either in print or online in over 25 journals. His latest published work is approximate lovers (downtown materialaktion) published by Bone Orchard Press. An e-chapbook, peep-o-rama (Hammer and Anvil Books) is available as a Kindle Edition at Amazon. Peter has recently completed a new poetry collection Vanished Faces (a performance of occult infections) to be published in 2017 by Writing Knights Press.

Aswin is a poetry enthusiast and a student of poetry. Recently graduated and incorporated into corporate world, he is keen to capture daily experiences in verse. One of his poems was published in Deccan Chronicle. Blogs at: karmicinjustice.blogspot.com

Joseph Victor Milford is a Professor of English and a Georgia writer. His first collection of poems, Cracked Altimeter, was published by BlazeVox Press in 2010. He is the host of The Joe Milford Poetry Show, a co-founder of BACKLASH PRESS, and the editor of RASPUTIN: A Poetry Thread (a literary journal of poetry).
https://twitter.com/joemilfordpoet
http://jmilford2005.wix.com/josephvmilfordpoet
http://rasputinpoetry.blogspot.com/
http://www.backlashpress.com/

Peter Magliocco writes from Las Vegas, Nevada, where he's been active in small press circles for several years. He has recent poetry at THE BEATNIK COWBOY, DEAD SNAKES, PYROKINECTION, THE NEGLECTED RATIO, and elsewhere. His new poetry book is Poems for the Downtrodden Millennium from The Medulla Review Publishing.

Jennifer Lagier has published eleven books and in literary magazines, taught with California Poets in the Schools, co-edits the Homestead Review, helps coordinate Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium Second Sunday readings. Newest chapbook: Scene of the Crime(Evening Street Press). Forthcoming books: Harbingers(Blue Light Press), Camille Abroad (FutureCycle). Website: : : Poetry by Jennifer Lagier : :

Sneha Subramanian Kanta is a poet, critic and writer. She believes in poetry being a form of dissent and is intrigued by unspoken words that vocabularies cannot define and believes in a world with no borders. She has taught undergraduate students literature and has also been an Assistant Editor at Charnwood Arts, United Kingdom. Postcolonial literature and literary theory and criticism are her areas of research interest. You can write to her at [email protected]

morgan downie is a short story and poetry writer. an island man, he finds mainland roads no less circular. he is a friend of the neighborhood cats and likes to smile at strangers.

Mike Linaweaver is a socialist, activist and writer operating in the endless summer of South Texas. His story "Are You Alright?" was nominated for a 2014 Pushcart Prize. His work has appeared in Sleet Magazine, The Magill Review and Red Wedge Magazine. He was a founding member and editor of the South Texas art and culture (maga)zine, Strike and is currently working on the small press project Strike Syndicate with fellow founder, editor and writer Raul Alonzo.

Abdul-Jaleel Abdalla is a poet and artist from Brisbane, Australia.

Sergio A. Ortiz is the founding editor of Undertow Tanka Review. His collections of Tanka, For the Men to Come (2014), and From Life to Life (2014) were released by Amazon. He’s a two time Pushcart nominee and a four time Best of the Web nominee. His poems have been publish in over four hundred journals and anthologies.

Scott Douglas: was born in the UK, but now lives and teaches in South Korea. He has had a piece of flash fiction published, The Smile, by Out Of the Gutter magazine and is looking for more places to publish his work. His work focuses on ideas of humanity and what it means to lose it. His influences range from Dashiell Hammett to China Mieville, and he is always looking for genres to write in and explore. You can find him at twitter.com/sdouglas86

Eugenia Hepworth Petty lives in the Pacific Northwest. Her photography has appeared on the cover of The Sun Magazine, and in books and journals in Spain, Italy and the US. Her third poetry chapbook,Instructions for the Apocalypse, is forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press, as are two poem-books from Richard Hansen's Poems-For-All Project. Analog photo galleries and a list of publishing credits can be found at:www.eugeniahepworth.com

PM Flynn is a North Carolina writer. He holds a B.S. in English from East Carolina University. His writing interests extend to poetry, fiction novels and screenplays. He owns a coffee house with his wife, which features live music most Friday nights. He has self-published a book on Creativity and Reason: THE CREATIVELY DRIVEN LIFE; and co-wrote and self-published ASSASSINATIONS: THE WORLD’S CLANDESTINE KILLER ELITE with Bob Chapman. Patrick has been published in many print and online literary magazines including Helen Literary Magazine, the Fictional Café, The Grassroots Women’s Project, The Mirror/Slush, etc.

Tamsen Grace is a published author and poet, inspirational speaker, martial artist and a cancer survivor. She lives in the Midwest with her three children.

Barry Fentiman Hall is a walking writer based in Kent, UK who mythologises his travels and the people he meets. He hosts Roundabout Nights in Chatham and regularly performs his work in Kent and London. He has been published in City Without A Head (Wordsmithery 2013), An Assemblance Of Judicious Heretics (Wordsmithery 2105), and his first solo collection The Unbearable Sheerness Of Being (Wordsmithery 2016).

The Amy Bassin/Mark Blickley text based art collaboration, Dream Streams, began this past year after they read Man Ray’s memoir, Self-Portrait, and were enthralled by the Dadaist experiments that combined fine art photography with poetic texts..This past summer their collaboration was featured as an art installation at the 5th Annual NYC Poetry Festival on Governors Island and published in Columbia Journal of Literature & Art.Amy is a fine arts photographer/video artist and co-founder of the international artists collective, Urban Dialogues. In 2016 she has exhibited in Bronx and Brooklyn art galleries. Blick’s most recent book is Sacred Misfits (Red Hen Press). His play, Valadon: Reclining Nude, opens this October at NYC’s 13th Street Repertory Theater. He is a proud member of the Dramatist Guild and PEN American Center.

Steven Storrie has worked as a cable T.V repair man, dishwasher, choreographer, ice cream vendor and junk yard attendant. Tired of this shit he is currently locked in his basement working on his first collection of poetry, bickering with his neighbours over nothing and storing the baseballs he keeps when they are hit into his yard. You can find him at the site he runs, Black Coffee For Breakfast, here http://renegadepriest11.wix.com/blackcoffeebreakfast

Chuck Taylor does photography, children's magic shows, fiction, and poetry. He is currently unemployed and is enjoying the trip as his canoe moves over the waterfall.

Rob Plath is a 46-year-old poet from New York. He has over a dozen books out. Rob is most known for his monster collection A Bellyful of Anarchy (Epic Rites Press). He lives with his cat and stays out of trouble. For more about Rob Plath visit his website robplath.com.

J.K. Shawhan's a writer, blogger, and Editor-in-Chief of The Basil O' Flahertyliterary arts website. Her work has/is scheduled to be published with Centum Press, Eunoia Review, Mosaic Art & Literary Journal, Rat's Ass Review,Wordgathering, Silver Birch Press's My Sweet Words Series and Me, in Fiction Series, and more. You can read her blog of new adult humor athttp://funnyzombieblog.blogspot.com/.

Kofi Fosu Forson is originally from Ghana, West Africa. He has written and directed plays for the Riant Theater. His collaborations include Gender, Space, Art and Architecture, a video project with Transvoyeur, Liverpool, England and Dismember the Night, thread poetry and photography project with New York City artist, Dianne Bowen at Tribes Gallery. As writer and poet he has published with Three Rooms Press and Great Weather for Media. As performer he has participated in productions of What the Hell is Love? And The Loser Project at Cornelia Street Café. He currently writes for Armseye and Whitehot Magazine, respectively.

Ace Boggess is the author of two books of poetry: The Prisoners (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2014) and The Beautiful Girl Whose Wish Was Not Fulfilled (Highwire Press, 2003). His novel, A Song Without a Melody, is forthcoming from Hyperborea Publishing. His writing has appeared in Harvard Review, Mid-American Review, RATTLE, River Styx, North Dakota Quarterly and many other journals. He lives in Charleston, West Virginia.

Gareth Writer-Davies was Commended in the Prole Laureate Competition in 2015, Specially Commended in the Welsh Poetry Competition and Highly Commended in the Sherborne Open Poetry Competition.
Shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and the Erbacce Prize in 2014.

His pamphlet "Bodies", was published in 2015 through Indigo Dreams.

Carlie Sherry's art practice is positioned in the realm of introspection, where self-reflection reveals issues of identity and shared humanness. In her paintings she deals with the unmasking of self, which is buried under the weight of social constructs. Her processes of unmasking involve the breakdown and build up of the inner and outer self, in the pursuit of discovering her own truths. Carlie is a working artist in Clinton NY, and has her Masters of Fine Arts Degree from Syracuse University.

Ben Nardolilli currently lives in New York City. His work has appeared in Perigee Magazine, Red Fez, Danse Macabre, The 22 Magazine, Quail Bell Magazine, Elimae, fwriction, Inwood Indiana, Pear Noir, The Minetta Review, and Yes Poetry. He blogs at mirrorsponge.blogspot.com and is looking to publish a novel.

Leah Mueller is an independent writer from Tacoma, Washington. She is the author of one chapbook, “Queen of Dorksville” (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2012), and two full-length books, “Allergic to Everything” (Writing Knights Press, 2015) and “The Underside of the Snake” (Red Ferret Press, 2015). Her work has been published in Blunderbuss, Sadie Girl Press, Origins Journal, Talking Soup, Silver Birch Press, Yellow Chair Review, Cultured Vultures, and many other publications. She is a regular contributor to Quail Bell magazine, and was a featured poet at the 2015 New York Poetry Festival. She was a runner-up in the 2012 Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry contest.

Michael Lee Johnson lived ten years in Canada during the Vietnam era. He is a Canadian and USA citizen. Today he is a poet, editor, publisher, freelance writer, amateur photographer, small business owner in Itasca, Illinois. He has been published in more than 880 small press magazines in 27 countries, and he edits 10 poetry sites. Author's website http://poetryman.mysite.com/. Michael is the author of The Lost American: From Exile to Freedom (136 page book) ISBN: 978-0-595-46091-5, several chapbooks of poetry, including From Which Place the Morning Rises and Challenge of Night and Day, and Chicago Poems.

Not so long ago, Stephen Jarrell Williams was called by some, the Great Poet of Doom… Now, he writes at night, enthused, and waiting for the Coming Good Dawn. He is the founder and editor of Dead Snakes atdeadsnakes.blogspot.com

Daniel Farias is a writer and filmmaker from Garden Grove, California. He mainly works as a freelance videographer/editor for different organizations around the Orange County and LA area. He has also written a couple short stories, most of them published in various volumes of the Barrio Writers Anthology. He currently studies film at Cal State Long Beach, where he also works as an internet content creator.

Nicole Surginer grew up in the small country town of Bastrop Texas. Writing is her passion. She is inspired by the beauty of nature and enjoys writing from the dark side of love and passion.

Katie Lewington likes to review the books she reads, listen to music, daydream, watch Cary Grant films, help The Pithead Chapel journal and Transcending Shadows review and Punks Write Poems Press sift through their submissions, sniff 50 year old poetry tomes and enjoy the aesthetic display of many literary magazines (she has been published in some of these) Contact her through Twitter @idontwearahat and her blog https://katiecreativewriterblog.wordpress.com

Mitchell Krockmalnik Grabois has had over a thousand of his poems and fictions appear in literary magazines in the U.S. and abroad. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, The Best of the Net, and Queen’s Ferry Press’s Best Small Fictions for work published in 2011 through 2015. His novel, Two-Headed Dog, based on his work as a clinical psychologist in a state hospital, is available for Kindle and Nook, or as a print edition. To see more of his work, google Mitchell Krockmalnik Grabois. He lives in Denver.

Claira is a gender queer, witch and public servant. They spend most of their days working on temple devotion, cooking for loved ones, working and petting cats.
They are complex, yet simple..
A juicy and honest contradiction.
Also referred to as an enigma.

Brenton Booth lives in Sydney, Australia. Poetry and fiction of his has appeared in many small press publications. His poetry collection " Punching The Teeth From The Sky" is available from Epic Rites Press. To read more of his work visit brentonbooth.weebly.com

Francine Witte is the author of the poetry chapbooks Only, Not Only (Finishing Line Press, 2012) and First Rain (Pecan Grove Press, 2009), winner of the Pecan Grove Press competition, and the flash fiction chapbooks Cold June (Ropewalk Press), selected by Robert Olen Butler as the winner of the 2010 Thomas A. Wilhelmus Award, and The Wind Twirls Everything (MuscleHead Press). Her latest poetry chapbook, Not All Fires Burn the Same has just won the Slipstream chapbook contest and will be published in summer, 2016. Her poem “”My Dead Florida Mother Meets Gandhi” is the first prize winner of the 2015 Slippery Elm poetry award. She has been nominated seven times for a pushcart prize in poetry and once for fiction. A former English teacher, Francine lives in New York.

Michael Marrotti is an author from Pittsburgh using words instead of violence to mitigate the suffering of life in a callous world of redundancy. His primary goal is to help other people. He considers poetry to be a form of philanthropy. When he's not writing, he's volunteering at the Light Of Life homeless shelter on a weekly basis. If you appreciate the man's work, please check out his blog:www.thoughtsofapoeticmind.blogspot.com for his latest poetry and short stories.

Shekhar Dev was born in 1985 at Chittagong in Bangladesh, a South Asian country. Poet's language is Bengali. Two of his poetry collections have been published in Bangladesh. These are 'School of Ancient Practice' (2014) and 'Supreme Liberal Mind' (2016). He completed his degree in Mathematics and post graduation in Pure Mathematics from Chittagong University in Bangladesh. These three poems are from his 2nd poetry collection 'Supreme Liberal Mind.'

Luke Skoza is a twenty seven year old poet, teacher and model. He has been published in Retort Magazine and Bareknuckle poet along with numerous other journals. He has lived in three different states and two different countries in the last two years but feels at home in New Orleans. If you want to find out more about his life, his facebook is https://www.facebook.com/luke.skoza

L D Diem is a high school English teacher, and a mother to a very active toddler. She survives by consuming large amounts of caffeine on a regular basis.

Shelly Miller lives in Creswell, Oregon a town of about 5,000 people. She enjoys hiking, photography, reading and even coloring. She started writing poetry to help her express her feelings and emotions in a way she'd never been able to before. She suffers from mental illness and is working very hard to not let it define who she is.

Gary Beck has spent most of his adult life as a theater director, and as an art dealer when he couldn’t make a living in theater. He has 11 published chapbooks. His poetry collections include: Days of Destruction (Skive Press), Expectations (Rogue Scholars Press). Dawn in Cities, Assault on Nature, Songs of a Clerk, Civilized Ways, Displays (Winter Goose Publishing). Fault Lines, Perceptions, Tremors and Perturbations will be published by Winter Goose Publishing. Conditioned Response (Nazar Look). Resonance (Dreaming Big Press). His novels include: Extreme Change (Cogwheel Press) Acts of Defiance (Artema Press). Flawed Connections (Black Rose Writing). Call to Valor will be published by Gnome on Pigs Productions. His short story collection, A Glimpse of Youth (Sweatshoppe Publications). Now I Accuse and other stories will be published by Winter Goose Publishing. His original plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes and Sophocles have been produced Off Broadway. His poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in hundreds of literary magazines. He currently lives in New York City.

Catherine has her BA degree in Professional Writing in English from Carlow University. She has had numerous short stories and non-fiction published. In continuing to write vigorously, she puts all of herself into expression and words. Writing is her savior, experience her muse.

Julius Ferraro is a journalist, performer, playwright, and administrator based in Philadelphia. He is co-founder of Curate This, has served as theater editor of Phindie, and writes for thINKingDANCE, Philly.com, The Smart Set, and the FringeArts blog. His recent performances include Micromania, The Death and Painful Dismemberment of Paul W. Auster, and The Mysteries of Jean the Birdcatcher with {HTP}, On the Road for 17,527 Miles with 14th Street, and his Phindie Fringe Bike Tours. With the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program’s Restored Spaces Initiative he coordinates community-led environmental arts projects.

Ally Malinenko is the author of the poetry collections The Wanting Bone and How to Be An American (Six Gallery Press) as well as the YA novel This Is Sarah (Bookfish Books). Forthcoming from Low Ghost Books is a poetry collection entitled Better Luck Next Year. She's at @allymalinenko mostly talking about David Bowie, Doctor Who and stupid cancer.

Ricky Garni was born in Miami, Florida, in 1957. He works as a graphic designer by day and writes music by night. His work is widely available on the Web and in print. COO, a tiny collection of short prose printed on college lined paper with found materials such as coins, stamps, was recently released by Bitterzoet Press.

Heath Brougher is the poetry editor of Five 2 One Magazine. He has published two pamphlets with Green Panda Press and his first chapbook A Curmudgeon Is Born is forthcoming from Yellow Chair Press. His work has appeared or is due to appear in Diverse Voices Quarterly, Chiron Review, SLAB, Main Street Rag, Crack the Spine, Mobius, Epigraph, BlazeVOX, Foliate Oak, Stray Branch, Third Wednesday, eFiction India, and elsewhere.

Born and raised in Beautiful British Columbia, Nicole Lyons is a hippie at heart who lives a good life. A lover of words, she has spent the last three years writing stories for others, and is now pursuing her dream of writing for herself. In her former life Nicole used her voice as an advocate for mental health awareness, as a speaker for a Canadian non profit that focuses on suicide prevention, but now she writes the words she was never allowed to say. Nicole is currently sorting through her thoughts, writing them down, and getting set for publication of her first book of poetry.

Karenna Wright holds a BA in Communications, Literary Journalism, from the University of Denver. Her writing has appeared in a number of literary journals and publications. She lives in an unincorporated seaside area of northernest California, where she can often be found dipping her toes in the Pacific Ocean while gazing upon the coastal redwoods. Stay tuned for her first book, Romeo and Juliet in Dementiaville. Connect with her at www.WrightingLife.com.

Mel Bikowski: She is one with the many face God. She wears many faces in this life. Poet, Mom, Wife, Artist, Dancer, Lover of Dance Music, Traveler, Friend, Lover. She has poems published in Elephant Journal, GERM Magazine, and Quail Bell Magazine. Her Website:www.melbikowski.com

Kevin Abate is an autistic writer from Texas who's struggled with mutism his entire life.

Jane Hunter is a lost soul, dancing through the challenges of life, looking for something that seems impossible to define. When she finds that illusive 'something' she'll scream, and shout, from the rooftops of the world. Until then you can usually find her somewhere, occasionally elsewhere, but never nowhere.

Korliss Sewer looks at the world through skewed eyes, and enjoys taking apart the puzzle of life piece by piece to reconstruct it with her version of the truth. She has been published in The Poetry Bus, Orange Room Review, BlazeVOX, SubtleTea, Gutter Eloquence, etc., etc., etc.!

john sweet, b 1968, been exploring the idea of writing as catharsis for the better part of 30 years. has also recently begun playing with the concept of truth as an ever-evolving absolute. most recent collection is APPROXIMATE WILDERNESS (2016 Flutter Press).

Carter Vance is a student and aspiring poet originally from Cobourg, Ontario, currently studying at Carleton University in Ottawa. His work has appeared in such publications as A Swift Exit, (parenthetical) and the Scarlet Leaf Review. He received an Honourable Mention from Contemporary Verse 2's Young Buck Poetry Awards in 2014. His work also appears on his personal blog Comment is Welcome (commentiswelcome.blogspot.com).

W. Jack Savage is a retired broadcaster and educator. He is the author of seven books including Imagination: The Art of W. Jack Savage(wjacksavage.com). To date, more than fifty of Jack’s short stories and over seven-hundred of his paintings and drawings have been published worldwide. Jack and his wife Kathy live in Monrovia, California.

Flower Conroy is the author of three chapbooks: Facts About Snakes & Hearts, winner of Heavy Feather Press’ Chapbook Contest; The Awful Suicidal Swans; and Escape to Nowhere. She is the winner of Radar Poetry’s first annual Coniston Prize and the Tennessee Williams Exhibit Poetry Contest, as well as a scholarship recipient of Bread Loaf, Squaw Valley, Napa Valley and the Key West Literary Seminar writers’ conferences. Her poetry has appeared/is forthcoming in American Literary Review, Gargoyle, Jai Alia and others.

Kenneth P. Gurney lives in Albuquerque, NM, USA with his beloved Dianne. His latest collection of poems is Stump Speech. His website is kpgurney.me.

Nicole Henares (Aurelia Lorca) is a poet, storyteller, and teacher who lives in San Francisco California. She has her BA in English from UC Davis, her MFA in Writing and Consciousness from California Institute of Integral Studies, and is an alumna of the Voices of Our Nation Writing Workshops. She is interested in how Lorca’s duende, the duende of Andalusia and flamenco, is a cross cultural spirit.

David Ross Linklater is a poet from the Highlands of Scotland, now living in Glasgow. He is currently studying a Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow and is working on a collection of poems. His writing has appeared inGlasgow Review of Books, The Grind, The High Flight, Ink, Sweat & Tears and RAUM, amongst others. He digs watermelon.

Living in the picturesque(ish) town of Wollongong, Australia, Gracie Delaney is an artist, photographer, writer, and all-round head case, who regularly discusses the meaning of life with the small commune of native birds who reside within her dreadlocks. An idealist at heart, Gracie constructs her work atop two basic principles: the first, an unending love for the imagined, and the second, an unwavering belief in our God-given ability to look beyond the bounds of the mundane, and see with more than just our eyes. You can find her on DeviantART (http://sparki111.deviantart.com/) and Instagram (@gracie.alexandra)

Russell Streur’s poetry has been widely published in the United States and Europe. His work is most recently included in Negative Capability Press’s 2015 anthology of Georgia poetry, Stone, River, Sky. Streur is the former editor of the world’s original online poetry bar, The Camel Saloon and is the current editor of Plum Tree Tavern ( http://theplumtreetavern.blogspot.com/ ). He is the author of The Muse of Many Names (Poets Democracy, 2011), The Table of Discontents (Ten Pages Press, 2012), and Fault Lines, forthcoming this year from Blue Hour Press. An avid photographer, Streur is a member of the Atlanta Artists Center and the Atlanta Photography Group. His camera work is seen in the eco-poetic journal Written River and other print and online publications as well as the Grandview and Tula Galleries and other venues in the Atlanta area.

Laura LeHew’s collections include: Becoming (Another New Calligraphy), Willingly Would I Burn, (MoonPath Press), It’s Always Night, It Always Rains,(Winterhawk Press) and Beauty (Tiger’s Eye Press). Lana Hechtman Ayers says “As dark as the reality of Becoming is, the journey is redeemed by unflinching examination, moments of unwavering generosity, and the faithful testimony of survival.” In her other life Laura owns a computer forensics and network security consulting company. Laura received her MFA from the California College of Arts. She edits her small press Uttered Chaos www.utteredchaos.org. Laura always thought she’d be an astronaut lauralehew.com.

John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident. Recently published in New Plains Review, South Carolina Review, Gargoyle and Silkworm work upcoming in Big Muddy Review, Main Street Rag and Spoon River Poetry Review.

John Grochalski is the author of The Noose Doesn’t Get Any Looser After You Punch Out (Six Gallery Press 2008), Glass City (Low Ghost Press, 2010), In The Year of Everything Dying (Camel Saloon, 2012), Starting with the Last Name Grochalski (Coleridge Street Books, 2014), the novel, The Librarian (Six Gallery Press 2013), and the forthcoming novel, The Wine Clerk (Six Gallery Press 2016). Grochalski currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, in the section that doesn’t have the bike sharing program.

Donal Mahoney, a native of Chicago, lives in St. Louis, Missouri. His fiction and poetry have appeared in various publications, including The Wisconsin Review, The Kansas Quarterly, The South Carolina Review, The Christian Science Monitor, The Chicago Tribune and Commonweal. Some of his work can be found at http://eyeonlifemag.com/the-poetry-locksmith/donal-mahoney-poet.html#sthash.OSYzpgmQ.dpbs=

Christopher Lucka is a 26 year old photographer based in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Born in Los Angeles in 1989, he moved to New York in 2007. He began shooting in 2009, and immediately fell in love with photography. With roots as a street photographer with a passion for the surreal, he branched off into portraiture as well as focusing on architecture, dance, and social movements. Along with photography, he has an interest in writing, utilizing both mediums to evoke visceral emotions and ideas. His work is located at https://www.flickr.com/photos/sainthuck/

Jessie Janeshek's chapbooks Spanish Donkey/Pear of Anguish and Rah-Rah Nostalgia are forthcoming from Grey Book Press and dancing girl press respectively. Her full-length collection of poems is Invisible Mink (Iris Press, 2010). An Assistant Professor of English and the Director of Writing at Bethany College, she holds a Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and an M.F.A. from Emerson College. She co-edited the literary anthology Outscape: Writings on Fences and Frontiers (KWG Press, 2008). You can read more of her poetry at jessiejaneshek.net.

Kristina England resides in Worcester, Massachusetts. Her writing has been published in several magazines, including Gargoyle, Silver Birch Press, and Story Shack Magazine.

Monica Mamchur has been writing since she was in grade school. Her first poem was published at the age of thirteen in Rebound (1983), a collection of children’s writings. She studied and completed a diploma in journalism at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in 1992, but quickly realized that instead of just reporting news about people partaking in both ordinary and extraordinary activities around her, she wanted to be part of that action and so, at the age of eighteen, began travelling on her own. Monica recorded her adventures in numerous travel journals enjoying the challenge of integrating herself into the world’s communities, investigating people’s stories, and writing from the heart. She went on to earn a BA in International Development Studies (2000) and a Bachelor of Nursing degree (2004), both from the University of Calgary.

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Shafinur Shafin, poet from Bangladesh and also an editor of the webzine Prachya Review. Poetry is her passion.

Bethany W Pope is an award-winning writer. She received her PhD from Aberystwyth University’s Creative Writing program, and her MA from the University of Wales Trinity St David. She has published several collections of poetry: A Radiance (Cultured Llama, 2012) Crown of Thorns, (Oneiros Books, 2013), The Gospel of Flies (Writing Knights Press 2014), and Undisturbed Circles (Lapwing, 2014). Her collection The Rag and Boneyard, shall be published soon by Indigo Dreams and her chapbook Among The White Roots Will be released by Three Drops Press next autumn. Her first novel, Masque, shall be published by Seren in 2016.

Ali Znaidi (b.1977) lives in Redeyef, Tunisia. He is the author of several chapbooks, including Experimental Ruminations (Fowlpox Press, 2012),Moon’s Cloth Embroidered with Poems (Origami Poems Project, 2012), Bye, Donna Summer! (Fowlpox Press, 2014), Taste of the Edge(Kind of a Hurricane Press, 2014), and Mathemaku x5 (Spacecraft Press, 2015). For more, visit aliznaidi.blogspot.com.

Robert F. Gross? Bio? Robert F. Gross is a playwright, director, performance artist, writer, queer, lone wolf, and lost soul. He lives alone. His work has recently appeared in Local Nomad, Thirteen Mynah Birds, and After the Pause.

John C. Goodman is a Canadian writer and Pushcart Prize nominee. He has published three collections of poetry, most recently Dark Age (Grey Borders), as well as a novel which was short-listed for an Arthur Ellis Award, and a novella, The Duck Lake Chronicles (Quattro Books). He also authored the non-fiction work Poetry: Tools & Techniques (Gneiss Press). John is the past editor of ditch, (www.ditchpoetry.com), an online magazine of experimental poetry. He currently lives in British Columbia, Canada.

The recently released, This Summer and That Summer, (Bloomsbury) is Sanjeev Sethi’s third book of poems. His work also includes well-received volumes, Nine Summers Later and Suddenly For Someone. He has, at various phases of his career, written for newspapers, magazines, and journals. He has produced radio and television programs.

His poems have found a home in The London Magazine, The Fortnightly Review, Allegro Poetry Magazine, The Galway Review, Solstice Literary Magazine, Off the Coast Literary Journal, Hamilton Stone Review, Literary Orphans, Crack the Spine Literary Magazine, The Peregrine Muse, Otoliths, Café Dissensus Everyday, The Bitchin’ Kitsch, Section 8 Magazine,Futures Trading Anthology Three, and elsewhere. Poems are forthcoming in Sentinel Literary Quarterly, Ink Sweat & Tears,First Literary Review-East, Pyrokinection, Meniscus, The Jawline Review, The Open Mouse, Drunk Monkeys, Amaryllis Poetry, Harbinger Asylum and Linden Avenue Literary Journal.He lives in Mumbai, India.

Nate Maxson: is a writer and performance artist. He is the author of several collections of poetry including 'The Whisper Gallery' and 'The Age Of Jive'. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Brentley Frazer: is an Australian poet, academic and editor. Currently he lectures in poetry at Griffith University and is editor-in-chief of open access humanities magazine, Bareknuckle Poet Journal of Letters. www.brentley.com

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Olivier Schopfer: lives in Geneva, Switzerland. He likes to capture the moment in haiku and photography. His work has appeared in The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2014 as well as in numerous online and print journals such as Acorn, bottle rockets, DailyHaiga, Failed Haiku, Frogpond,Gnarled Oak, Modern Haiku, Otoliths, Presence, Right Hand Pointing, SonicBoom, Under the Basho & Up the Staircase Quarterly. He also blogs athttp://olivierschopferracontelesmots.blog.24heures.ch/.

LaChele Leigh Claypool: LaChele Leigh Claypool has independently worked for five years as an alternative photographer with a natural eye, focusing mainly on horror/macabre/nature and abstract photography often depicting physiologically stirring images and melancholy scenes as well as an emphasis on gender bending and boundary pushing through art. Claypool is a published photographer as well as having worked closely with several local Seattle and Arlington Bands Including Woodshed and others. As well as being the curator of multiple art shows at the InArtsN.W., Seattle and featured in art shows at Balmar, Sunlight Café, Darrells tavern, and the InArtsN.W. Claypool is anticipating the upcoming collaboration of work NSFW art magazine due for release late 2016, following the recently created abstract portrait book, available soon and a book of photos, Visual Violence. All current projects and the complete body of work can be found under De-Evolutionary Photography @ www.facebook.com/revolutionphotog on facebook.

Julene Tripp Weaver: originally from New York, now has a psychotherapy practice in Seattle, Washington. Her poetry book, No Father Can Save Her, was published by Plain View Press. She is widely published in journals and anthologies. Her chapbook, Case Walking: An AIDS Case Manager Wails Her Blues, contains writing from her work through the heart of the AIDS epidemic. Garrison Keillor featured a poem from this collection on The Writer’s Almanac, and in his anthology, Good Poems American Places. Find more of her writing at www.julenetrippweaver.com. She is on Twitter @trippweavepoet.

Meera Srikant : based in Chennai, India, is a content writer, editor, novelist, avid reader, classical dancer, teacher, observer of life, mother of two... She has three romance novels published by Pageturn Publisher, has serialised a novel in Jukepop and blogs regularly at www.meera-lastingimpressions.blogspot.com

T. J. Dennett: was born and raised in Northamptonshire. He has been writing poetry since he was seventeen, and has been published both in print and online.

Glen Armstrong: holds an MFA in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and teaches writing at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. He edits a poetry journal called Cruel Garters and has three recent chapbooks: Set List (Bitchin Kitsch,) In Stone and The Most Awkward Silence of All (both Cruel Garters Press.) His work has appeared in Poetry Northwest, Conduit and Cloudbank.

Christopher Hivner: writes from a small town in Pennsylvania surrounded by books and the echoes of music. He has recently been published in Saudade and Dead Snakes. A chapbook of poems, “The Silence Brushes My Cheek Like Glass” was published by Scars Publications and another, “Adrift on a Cosmic Sea”, was published by Kind of a Hurricane Press. website:www.chrishivner.com, Facebook: Christopher Hivner - Author, Twitter: @Your_screams

Alexis Bates : is an upstart poet and writer living in Baltimore, MD. Her poems force us to reflect on how we relate to topics such as self-perception, feminism, and mental illness. Her work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in Doll Hospital, White Ash, Rising Phoenix, and others.

Eve Paradise-Gallardo: A poet who lives on the tip of Texas. She has had a few of her poems published in a couple of chap books. She enjoys reading and writing poetry.

Samuel J. Fox: holds a B.A. in Literature from Western Carolina University. Samuel is published in Iodine Poetry Journal, Rat's Ass Review, and Broad River Review where Samuel was a finalist for the Ron Rash Award. Samuel lives in the Piedmont of North Carolina.

Bridget Eileen: lives in Boston. She grew up in the South Shore suburbs of the city. She received her undergraduate and graduate degrees in the great state of Maine. Along with writing poetry, journals, & picture books, she runs a style website showcasing her bargain hunter adventures in artsy, pinup, foodie, travel, nature and style stuff. Her work has been published in various publications, inlcuding most recently in Summerstock Journal and Let the Bucket Down. Her role model in life is Maude, of Harold and Maude.

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Marianne Szlyk: is a professor at Montgomery College and the editor of The Song Is... Recently, she published her second chapbook, I Dream of Empathy, with Flutter Press. Her first (Listening to Electric Cambodia, Looking Up at Trees of Heaven) is available for free here: http://barometricpressures.blogspot.com/2014/10/listening-to-electric-cambodia-looking.html . Her poems have appeared in Long Exposure, Poppy Road Review, Of/with, bird's thumb, Cacti Fur, Five2One Magazine's #thesideshow, Contemporary American Voices, Jellyfish Whispers, Napalm and Novocaine, Silver Birch Press, and other online and print venues including Kind of a Hurricane Press' anthologies. She hopes that you will stop by The Song Is... at http://thesongis.blogspot.com/ .

G. M. H. Thompson: was born on February 15, 1990, in about 12 in the morning, in a hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America. G. M. H. Thompson received a B.A. in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on the twelfth of May, 2013. His poetry either has or will shortly appear in Old Red Kimono, Shemom, Bear Creek Haiku, Scifaikuest, among others. Let Us Go, a poem of his, has received the Winter 2016 Heart & Mind Zine Judge's Choice Award in the category of poetry. This poem will be published on February 28th, 2016, along with the rest of the Winter 2016 edition of Heart & Mind Zine (http://www.heartandmindzine.com)

Joan McNerney: has been included in numerous literary zines such as Camel Saloon, Seven Circle Press, Dinner with the Muse, Blueline, Missing of the Birds, and included in Bright Hills Press, Kind of A Hurricane Press and Poppy Road Review anthologies. She has been nominated three times for Best of the Net.

Jacob William Cox: was born in San Francisco and raised in Hawaii. His travels have taken him through Europe, South America and Asia, and he reads insatiably. His work has appeared in The Basil O'Flaherty, Atticus Review, Belleville Park Pages and The Santa Clara Review.

Rehan Qayoom: is a poet of English and Urdu, editor, translator and archivist, educated at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has featured in numerous literary publications and performed his work internationally. He is the author of About Time and other books. www.rehanqayoom.weebly.com

Ren Martinez: is a procrastinating writer, fairy punk, and distracted geek. Her aesthetic is "would be suspected of witchcraft by local villagers." She has been published in Potluck Magazine, Margins Magazine, The Mary Sue, and The Quotable, and is also a regular contributor for Quail Bell Magazine. She currently resides in Richmond with a cat who thinks she's a princess. If you love snark and pictures of cats, you can find her at @renthemusical and itsrenmartinez on Instagram. For more witchy writings and glitterature, head to renmartinez.com.

Katherine Orozco-Verderber: is a novelist, poet, playwright, and short story author from South Texas. Her previous works have been published all over the world. She is also the main stage manager for Zero Untitled Films/Productions, a nontraditional theatre company that seeks to stage the unstageable productions while encouraging their actors to produce their own plays.

Sarah Lilius: lives in Arlington, VA. Some places her poems has been published include Tinderbox, The Denver Quarterly, Stirring, The Lake, Hermeneutic Chaos, Moss Trill, and BlazeVOX. She is the author of What Becomes Within (ELJ Publications, 2014) and her second chapbook is forthcoming this year from Black Cat Moon Press. Her website issarahlilius.com.

Wayne Russell: is a creative writer born and raised in Florida, and even though his travels have carried him around the world, some strange force keeps pulling him back home again. Wayne has been published in Nomadic Voices Magazine, Zaira Journal, Danse Macabre, The Bitchin' Kitschs' and others.

Daniel de Culla: (1955) is a writer, poet, and photographer. He is also a member of the Spanish Writers Association, Earthly Writers International Caucus, Poets of the World, and others. Director of Gallo Tricolor Review, and Robespierre Review. He has participated in Festivals of Poetry, and Theater in Madrid, Burgos, Berlin, Minden, Hannover and Genève .He has exposed in many galleries from Madrid, Burgos, London, and Amsterdam. He is moving between North Hollywood, Madrid and Burgos, Spain. His address is in Burgos, just now. He has more than 70 published books.

gary lundy: was a professor of english at the university of montana western until 2011. each july he is an instructor of the mandolin building class at rocky grass academy, in lyons, colorado. gary’s poems have appeared most recently in: Yellow Chair Review; Guide to Kulchur the Journal; The Maynard; The Main Street Rag; and, After Happy Hour. his book, heartbreak elopes into a kind of forgiving, will be published this spring by is a rose press.

Gabriel Cleveland: is still incredibly baffled by his existence, even after 28 years. To mitigate this, he's thrown himself head-first into creative projects, from script writing to video game character creation to mailing poetry on postcards to total strangers. He graduated from Pine Manor College with an MFA in creative writing. He maintains a writer page on Facebook, which is full of early drafts and other exciting material: http://Facebook.com/GabrielTHEPOET.

Lynn White: lives in north Wales. Her work is influenced by issues of social justice and events, places and people she has known or imagined. She is especially interested in exploring the boundaries of dream, fantasy and reality. Her poem 'A Rose For Gaza' was shortlisted for the Theatre Cloud 'War Poetry for Today' competition 2014 and has since appeared in several journals and anthologies. Poems have also recently been included in anthologies which include - Harbinger Asylum’s 'To Hold A Moment Still', Stacey Savage’s ‘We Are Poetry, an Anthology of Love poems’, Community Arts Ink’s ‘Reclaiming Our Voices’, Vagabond Press, ‘The Border Crossed Us’, ‘Civilised Beasts’ from Weasel Press, ‘Alice In Wonderland’ by Silver birch Press and a number of on line and print journals.

Poornima Laxmeshwar: has authored a small poetry collection named Anything But Poetry published by Writers Workshop, Kolkata. Her works have appeared or are forthcoming in magazines such as Vayavya, The Aerogram, Northeast Review, Kitaab, Brown Critique, The Stockholm review to name a few. Her haiku has appeared in several magazines. She resides in Bangalore and works as content writer for a living.

Jennifer MacBain-Stephens: went to NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and now lives in the DC area. Recent chapbooks are out or forthcoming from Grey Book Press, Dancing Girl Press and Shirt Pocket Press. Her first full length collection is forthcoming from Lucky Bastard Press. Recent work can be seen or is forthcoming at Jet Fuel Review, Pith, Freezeray, So to Speak, Entropy, Right Hand Pointing, Chiron Review, and decomP. Visit: http://jennifermacbainstephens.wordpress.com/.

Michael McInnis: After spending six years in the Navy chasing white whales Michael founded The Primal Plunge, Boston’s only bookstore dedicated to ‘zines. He has published poetry and short fiction in 1947, The Commonline Journal, Cream City Review, Dead Snakes, Dissident Voice, Literary Yard, Monkey Bicycle, Rasputin Poetry and other little magazines and small presses.

Saheli Mitra is a journalist, poet, author and blogger from the vibrant country India. She uses poetry primarily as a tool of protest against the patriarchal Indian society as well as against war and terrorism rocking the world today. Her first romantic novel Lost Words was internationally launched in 2014. Her verses have featured in several national and international literary journals like Yellow Chair Review, Piker Press USA, Tuck Magazine, Learning and creativity, Du-Kool, Taj Mahal Review, Red Balloon Anthology and many more. She runs a blog on women issues called allabouteve.

Mikel K: is a poet and memoirist living in Atlanta, Ga. K was voted best Atlanta Poet, the last three years in a row, by readers of Creative Loafing, Atlanta's weekly newspaper. He has a BS in English with a minor in Journalism from Georgia State University.

Poetry by Mikel K has appeared in: Subtle Tea, drown in my own fears, poetic diversity, Zygote In My Coffee, The Blue Lake Review, Swimming With Elephants, Ceremony,Visceral Uterus, High Coupe, Fragrance Poetry Magazine, The Piker Press, Vox Poetica, Napalm and Novocaine, Ceremony, The Georgia Review, The Reeve Report, Lowlife Magazine, The Political Dogma, World Wide Hippies.com, Open Salon, and Beagle Bugle. He was a music columnist for a number of years, covering the Atlanta music scene and worked as a freelancer for The Atlanta Journal Constitution.

You can buy a book by K at http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/mikelkpoet

Robert Beveridge: has been living in and around Northeast Ohio for over two decades, and writing poetry for a good deal longer than that. Work can recently be found in Third Wednesday, Guide to Kulchur, and the anthology Stories from the Polycule (Thorntree Press, 2015). He can also be found making people very uncomfortable with loud noises atxterminal.bandcamp.com.

SK Thompson: is a scribbler, painter, whiskey connoisseur, and lover of pink starburst. IG: @moonrosegypsy

Archana Kapoor Nagpal: is an internationally published author of four books – '14 Pearls of Inspiration', 'The Road to a Positive Life', ‘A Haiku Per Day’ and 'The Fragrance of a Beautiful Life'. She has also seen her poems published in numerous other literary journals, blogs, websites and anthologies including Friday Gurgaon, Whispers, Writers Asylum, VerseWrights, The Bamboo Hut, Frogpond (Issue 37-2) – The Journal of the Haiku Society of America, Under the Basho, Asahi Haikuist Network, HOO-Knows Home & Family Magazine, Harvests of New Millennium (Art & Poetry), Gems (An Anthology of haiku, senryu and sedoka), Taj Mahal Review (An International Literary Journal ), Frameless Sky, Tamarind Magazine, A Hundred Gourds 4.1, DailyHaiga, brass bell: a haiku journal, UHTS (United Haiku and Tanka Society) Cattails, Tulip, Paper Wasp, Prune Juice (Journal of Senryu Kyoka & Haiga), Gnarled Oak, Faces and Places – Haiku Anthology, The Mustard Grain, Ershik #9, Modern Haiku (45:3 Issue), Issa’s Untidy Hut, hedgerow: a journal of small poems, NeverEnding Story (Butterfly Dream Haiku), Chrysanthemum 17 and many others. Her haiku and senryu are translated into Chinese, German and Russian as well. Her two poems – ‘God on Facebook’ and ‘Circle of Life’ are highly acknowledged by other poets, and her readers as well. She has written poems around empowerment of women in India, and eradication of the social evils – dowry, female foeticide, et al.

Lana Bella: A Pushcart nominee, Lana has had her poetry and fiction featured or forthcoming with over 180 journals, including a chapbook with Crisis Chronicles Press (Winter 2016), Abyss & Apex, Chiron Review, Coe Review, Columbia Journal, Elohi Gadugi, Foundling Review, Fourth & Sycamore, Galway Review, Harbinger Asylum, Literary Orphans, Lost Coast Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, Poetry Quarterly, Roanoke Review, William Jessup University, and elsewhere, among others. She divides her time between the US and the coastal town of Nha Trang, Vietnam, where she is a mom of two far-too-clever-frolicsome imps. https://www.facebook.com/niaallanpoe

Trista Hurley-Waxali: is a transplant from Toronto, now perched on barstools in West Hollywood. She has performed at Avenue 50, Stories Bookstore and internationally at O’bheal Poetry Series in Cork, Ireland and a TransLate Night show from Helsinki Poetry Connection. She is currently working on her novel, At This Juncture.

Ella Russell: The poems I write are taken from personal experiences or those of people that I am close to. That is often how it goes though. I value people's understandings of things, the differences in these understandings and the origins of these understandings. This is important and is often the subject of the short films that I make and write; the focus of the last being the housing crisis and London's spawning of unaffordable housing developments that choker local communities. I am a student of visual art at present, and have been a student of film and performance in the past.

Nicholas Sollitto: grew up in the small town of Mount Airy, Maryland. After attending one year at a small college near Mount Airy Nicholas moved to Corpus Christi, Texas. Nicholas currently attends the University of Texas A&M - Corpus Christi. At the University he is continuing to further his knowledge in the areas of English and Marine Biology.

Allison Grayhurst: is a member of the League of Canadian Poets. Three of her poems have been nominated for Sundress Publications “Best of the Net” 2015, and she has over 825 poems published in more than 365 international journals and anthologies. Her book Somewhere Falling was published by Beach Holme Publishers in 1995. Since then she has published eleven other books of poetry and six collections with Edge Unlimited Publishing. Prior to the publication of Somewhere Falling she had a poetry book published, Common Dream, and four chapbooks published by The Plowman. Her poetry chapbook The River is Blind was published by Ottawa publisher above/ground press in December 2012. In 2014 her chapbook Surrogate Dharma was published by Kind of a Hurricane Press, Barometric Pressures Author Series in October 2014. More recently, her chapbook No Raft – No Ocean was published in October 2015 by Scars Publications. She also has a chapbook Currentspending publication this Fall/Winter with Pink.Girl.Ink. Press. She lives in Toronto with her family. She also sculpts, working with clay;www.allisongrayhurst.com A few of her publication credits include: Literary Orphans; Blue Fifth Review; The American Aesthetic; Agave Magazine;JuxtaProse Literary Magazine, The Brooklyn Voice, The Toronto Quarterly; Fogged Clarity, Boston Poetry Magazine, Ayris, Decanto and White Wall Review.

John Lowther: work appears in The Lattice Inside and Another South and Held to the Letter (with Dana Lisa Young) is forthcoming. He works in video, photography, paint and performance. His dissertation seeks to reimagine psychoanalysis with intersex and transgender lives as foundational.

Catfish McDaris: is a New Mexican living near Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He has four walls, a ceiling, heat, food, a woman, a daughter, and two cats.His 25 years of published material is in the Special Archives Collection at Marquette University. He’s listed in Wikipedia. His ancestors are from the Aniwaya Clan of the Cherokee Nation. Catfish McDaris won the Thelonius Monk Award in 2015.

Michael Verderber: is a Texas playwright who specializes in writing plays and disjointed poetry. He has three books - “[nonspace]: theatre off the stage” (Fountainhead P), “Twas the FLOP Before Xmas” and “Still Standing Still” (both Sarah Book P) and has been published by VAO Press, The Thing Itself Journal, tNY Press, and others. His plays Libertad and The Problem with Robot Dogs were both staged Off Broadway in New York City and he was the Aug 2014 winner of Playwright’s Express’s "Best Comedy" for his play "GPS" (tie for first) in LA. He may be reached at [email protected]

Janet Crawford: is a 47 year old Scottish writer, Falkirk based ( the home of the Kelpies ), writes from her heart and hopes her sometimes stirred emotions show clearly through her work making for an enjoyable, thought provoking read .

PW Covington's: work is inspired by the Beat tradition of the American highway. His short fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart prize, and his poetry has been published by academic journals and underground 'zines.
Covington has been invited to read across the Western US, including by the Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival and at The Beat Museum in San Francisco. Covington's latest collection of poetry "Sacred Wounds" is published by Slough Press. www.PWCovington.com

Jazmen Bishop: is 25, has been writing for ten years now. Her favorites are short stories and poetry. All based on life experiences. She hopes that others can learn through her trials and tribulations. She hopes to have her short story collection out by 2017. She currently resides with her children in Virginia and spends every free moment she can get writing and improving her gift. She also runs her own Facebook page called Jaz-Mania. Stop by sometimes she loves to make people laugh.

Matthew Borczon: is a writer and nurse from Erie, Pa he writes about his experience at camp Bastion, the busiest combat hospital in Afghanistan from 2010-11 and all the problems he has had coming home. His work has been printed in Big Hammer, Rasputin, Dissident voice as well as many other journals and his chap book A clock of Human Bones will be published by the Yellow Chair review in Early 2016.

Sinead McKeever: is from Northern Ireland, started writing poetry as a young child but hid it very well from teasing siblings. Inspired to write by: walking around Glasgow, especially at night, the beautiful and wild Irish/ Scottish countryside and people, funny things friends and random people say, bad breakups, dodgy student living situations, such as: ceilings collapsing etc. Loves spooky things, maybe because born on halloween. Thinks Glasgow is one of the greatest places on earth.

Aria Riding: is a name once used by my sister. I started using it, to change how people thought of the stories when I performed them. Then several people began to perform stories, saying they were Aria Riding. I then started using the name to help publish the stories of friends of mine who have various forms of madness, who cannot handle the horrible grind of submitting stories themselves. Aria Riding is now being used by several writers of different genders, persuasions, mental health states, and ethnic backgrounds as a solidarity project. Through this experiment, she is trying to write a more complete author. Recent publications include Gargoyle Magazine, Atticus Books, The Adirondack Review, etc.

A. Riding is the author of "The Exhibitionists," a series of interconnected triggers, or stories about the unspeakable present: the things we suppress, and continue to do while denying that we do them.

Riding never goes out, is never seen, but her emissaries run Psychomachia Theater, a fringe space showcasing underrepresented/innovative arts/performance/letters (Seattle) and the dissident art/performance/butoh group Danse Perdue: website: www.lostdance.com.

Ken Allan Dronsfield: is a Published Poet/Author/Digital Artist originally from Hampton New Hampshire, now residing in Oklahoma. He has been writing for many years and enjoys hiking, playing guitar and spending time with his cats Merlin and Willa. His published work can be found at numerous print venues including:
http://whispersinthewind333.blogspot.com/
https://leastbitternbooks.wordpress.com/
http://promomanusa.wix.com/
http://www.indianavoicejournal.com/
http://tuckmagazine.com/

Nick Romeo: is a multidisciplinary artist, musician and writer. His writings have been published in “The Brentwood Anthology, by Pittsburgh Poetry Exchange,” Uppagus, Rune, StreetCake Magazine, Eye Contact, Syzygy, and others. He was interviewed for Pankhearst's Fresh Featured poet of December 2015. Nick lives in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania with his wife and cat, Megatron. www.pittsburghartistregistry.org/accounts/view/nickromeo

Scott Thomas Outlar: hosts the site 17Numa.wordpress.com where links to his published poetry, fiction, essays, and interviews can be found. His words have appeared recently in venues such as The Literary Nest, Cavalcade of Stars, Inwood Indiana, Dark Matter Journal, and High Coupe. Scott's chapbook "Songs of a Dissident" was released in 2015 through Transcendent Zero Press and is available on Amazon.

Kenyatta JP Garcia: is the author of This Sentimental Education, ROBOT and Playing Dead. They have a fondness for peanut butter, lentils, squirrels and comic books but find gingerbread men to be the most frightening baked goods on the face of the earth. When they're not hiding out from anthropomorphic foodstuffs, they run Altpoetics and are an assistant editor at Horse Less Review.

Jim Lewis: is an internationally published poet, musician, and nurse practitioner. His poetry and music reflect the complexity of human interactions, sometimes drawing inspiration from his experience in healthcare. When he is not otherwise occupied, he is often on a kayak, exploring and photographing the waterways near his home in California.

Jenny Fernald: is a photographer and mixed media artist. She graduated from San Francisco State University with a Master's degree in Creative Arts. Jenny Fernald's artwork has been exhibited in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, Marin County California and New Smyrna Beach Florida.

Carl Scharwath's: work has appeared internationally with over eighty publications selecting his poetry, short stories, essays or art photography. He won the National Poetry Contest award on behalf of Writers One Flight Up. His first poetry book “Journey To Become Forgotten” was published by Kind of a Hurricane Press.

R. Bremner: a former cab driver, truck unloader, computer programmer, and vice-president at Citibank, hails from Lyndhurst and Glen Ridge, NJ, USA. For the past 18 months he has been writing almost exclusively beat and Dada, often metrical. For biographical data and publication history, please visit him at http://www.pw.org/content/r_bremner

Susan Beall Summers: is an over-educated, under-achiever who has traveled from the swamplands of South Georgia to the Pyramids of Egypt. She interviews poets for Texas Nafas, Channel Austin, is a member of Writer’s League of Texas, Austin Poetry Society, and Gulf Coast Poets. Publishing credits include Ilya’s Honey, Texas Poetry Calendar, Harbinger Asylum, Yellow Chair Review, Di-Verse-City, Cattails, Frog Pond and others. She has a full length collection and a recent chapbook. She has given feature performances across the country and remains unapologetic about her open mic addiction. www.tidalpoolpoet.com

Samantha Lee Terrell: is a published poet who lives near Springfield, Missouri. Her work can be found in such reputable publications as: DoveTales by Writing for Peace (Colorado), the Ebola chapbook by West Chester University (Pennsylvania), Dissident Voice, Knot Magazine and others.

Adam Levon Brown: is a poet residing in Eugene, Oregon.. He started writing in Winter of 2014 to express his thoughts and emotions as a way of finding catharsis. He has two collections of poetry published with the independent publishing group Creative Talents Unleashed. He has been published in several places including Section 8 Magazine, Leaves of Ink, and Bitchin’ Kitsch.

Kushal Poddar: widely published in several countries, prestigious anthologies included Men In The Company of Women, Penn International MK etc, Van Gogh’s Ear, been featured amongst the poets for the month December by Tupelo Press, Vine Leaves Literary Journal's Best of 2014 and in various radio programs in Canada and USA presently lives at Kolkata and writing poetry, fictions and scripts for short films when not engaged in his day job as a lawyer in the High Court At Calcutta and an English Language Trainer in various universities. He is editor of the online magazine ‘Words Surfacing’ He authored ‘The Circus Came To My Island’ (Spare Change Press, Ohio) and “A Place For Your Ghost Animals” (Ripple Effect Publishing, Colorado Springs). The forthcoming book is “Understanding The Neighborhood” (BRP, Australia).

Stephen Watt: is a poet and performer from Glasgow whose debut collection "Spit" was published in 2012 after winning the Poetry Rivals slam in Peterborough. Since then, Stephen has had work published in various countries, won the StAnza Digital Poetry Slam, the Hughie Healy memorial trophy, and the Tartan Treasures award. A new pamphlet collection "Optograms" is being published by Wild Word Press in February 2016. https://www.facebook.com/StephenWattSpit/

Shloka Shankar: is a freelance writer from Bangalore, India. She loves experimenting with Japanese short-forms of poetry like haiku, senryu, and haibun, as well as found/remixed poetry from time to time. Her poem was nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology in 2015. Shloka is the founding editor of the literary & arts journal, Sonic Boom. You can read more of her work here.

Kyle Hemmings: has art work in The Stray Branch, Euphenism, Uppagus, The Bitchin' Kitsch, Black Market Lit, Red Bird Press,Snapping Twigs, and Convergence. He loves pre-punk garage bands of the 60s, Manga comics, and urban photography/art.

Mark Antony Rossi's: poetry, criticism, fiction and photography have appeared in The Antigonish Review, Another Chicago Review, Bareback Magazine, Black Heart Review, Collages & Bricolages, Death Throes, Ethical Spectacle, Gravel, Flash Fiction, Japanophile, On The Rusk, Purple Patch, Scrivener Creative Review, Sentiment Literary Journal, The Sacrificial ,Wild Quarterly and Yellow Chair Review.
http://markantonyrossi.jigsy.com

Sarah Frances Moran: lives in Waco, Texas. Some people call her Maurice, cause she speaks of the pompitous of love. Her poems have appeared in Rust+Moth, Drunk in a Midnight Choir, Cobalt Review, Star 82 Review and more. She is the founder/editor of Yellow Chair Review. She may be reached at www.sarahfrancesmoran.com

Chris D'Errico: is a poet and musician. His writing has appeared in such eclectic publications as Misfitmagazine, Otoliths, CounterPunch, and Blue Collar Review. His books include: "The Meat Game" (Thunder Sandwich), "Debris Of Hearts" (OffCenter Press), "Vegas Implosions & Exterminator Chronicles” (Virgogray Press) and "Ministry of Kybosh" (Virgogray Press). Among other vocational adventures, he has worked as a short order cook, a doorman, a neon sign-maker's helper, and an exterminator. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, D'Errico lives in Las Vegas, Nevada. For more visit www.clderrico.com.

Marc Lengfield: lives in Florida where he teaches mathematics at a local university. His previous publications include a short story titled 'Diary of Blind Love' dedicated to the post punk, sex positive literary pioneer Kathy Acker, which first appeared in Dogzplot some years ago.

Rollo Nye: is a poet living in New York. He has worked in supermarkets, department stores and universities. His poetry has recently appeared in the "Syzygy Poetry Journal, Bad Acid Laboratories, Inc., and will soon be published in the Avatar Review and The Red River Review.

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