Dinah Cox has published or has stories forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Cream City Review, Copper Nickel, Beloit Fiction Journal, North Dakota Quarterly and others. She’s a Visiting Assistant Professor in the English Department at Oklahoma State University where she’s also an associate editor at Cimarron Review.

Cynthia Cupe is a Newark, New Jersey native.  She has served twenty-seven years of a thirty year prison sentence at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women.  She is presently working to earn Undergraduate Degrees from Raritan Valley Community College and Drew University.  She aspires to become a photojournalist and currently writes poems and articles she hopes to publish in the future.  She practices Siddha Yoga and is a lover of God, books, nature, music and humankind.

Erika Dreifus earned a Pushcart Special Mention for her previous J Journal publication, “For Services Rendered,” which appeared in the Spring 2009 issue. “For Services Rendered” was republished in Erika’s collection, Quiet Americans: Stories (Last Light Studio, 2011), which was named an American Library Association Sophie Brody Medal Honor Title. Web: www.erikadreifus.com.

Stephen Gibson is the author of four poetry collections, Paradise (Miller Williams prize finalist, University of Arkansas Press, 2011), Frescoes (Lost Horse Press book prize, 2009), Masaccio’s Expulsion (MARGIE/Intuit House book prize, 2006), and Rorschach Art (Red Hen, 2001), and a short story collection, The Persistence of Memory, forthcoming from Stephen F. Austin State University Press.

Joyce Goldenstern has led workshops of Emily Dickinson's poetry at the Newberry Library in Chicago and has baked ED's black bread, which requires brandy, low oven temperatures, and several hours' baking time.

Michael Graves is the author of Adam and Cain (Black Buzzard, 2006), In Fragility (Black Buzzard, 2011) and two chapbooks, Illegal Border Crosser (Cervana Barva, 2008) and Outside St. Jude’s (R. E. M. Press, 1990). In 2004, he received a grant from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation. Thirteen of his poems appear in the James Joyce Quarterly. He has read from his poems to a gathering of the Joyce Society at the Gotham Book Mart in New York City.

Pamela Morneault Gemme quit smoking about two and one half years ago and since then she has been publishing poetry. Pamela’s first publication was in the Franco-American Women’s Institute’s journal Moe Pi Toe in 2010. Recent publications include Protest Poems. Org., Contemporary American Voices, The Fib Review.  Pamela is a member of Poemworks, the workshop for publishing poets in Boston, Massachusetts.

Brady Harrison’s fiction has appeared in Cerise Press, Serving House Journal, Short Story, Wascana Review, and other literary journals in the U.S. and Canada. He is the author of Agent of Empire, editor of All Our Stories Are Here, and co-editor of Punk Rock Warlord: The Life and Music of Joe Strummer (forthcoming).

Lakisha Jackson writes creative nonfiction and poetry.  She is studying sociology at LSU, Shreveport.

Kristin G. Kelly is an English professor at the University of North Georgia. She lives with her family in Gainesville, Georgia, and writes most often about veterans’ issues. Her recent poem about veteran suicide, Confirmed Kill, was published in the Summer 2012 issue of Hospital Drive, the humanities journal of the University of Virginia Medical School.

Amasa Larkins is a retired educator who lives on a fifty-acre farm in north Georgia where he raises goats, cows, a huge boar pig and feral cats. He is the only Democrat in Madison County, the only Mormon High Priest in Moon’s Grove, the only Mormon Democrat east of California and the only Mormon anywhere who voted for Obama.

Irene Mitchell earned her BA from Hunter College and MA from SUNY New Paltz. A long-time teacher of writing, she has published in literary magazines in the U.S. and England, and is the author of A Study of Extremes in Six Suites (Cherry Grove Collections, 2012), and Sea Wind on the White Pillow (Axes Mundi Press, 2009). Formerly poetry editor of Hudson River Art Journal, Mitchell serves as poetry contest juror, and facilitator of poetry workshops.

Bob Monson has a degree from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, where he has lived for the past twenty years.  He has lived most of his life in the Willamette Valley and was a high school teacher in Albany, Oregon.

Arpi Pap, a native of Romania, has dedicated his education and profession to Photography and the Visual Arts. For over twelve years he has refined his photography, specializing in fine art and commercial work. He works as a photographer for different institutions, magazines and events around NYC, and is proud to have ICP (International Center of Photography) and CUNY (City University of NY) as part of his fine arts resume.

T R Poulson grew up on a farm overlooking the American Falls Reservoir in southeastern Idaho.  She has a bachelor's degree in animal science from the University of Nevada, Reno.  Her work has appeared in Verdad, Main Channel Voices, Trajectory, Dead Flowers: A Poetry Rag, The Wildcat Review, Alehouse, and A Dream in the Clouds. 

darlene anita scott’s poetry has appeared in anthologies including Homegirls Make Some Noise, Growing Up Girl, Role Call and most recently in journals including ITCH, Specter, The Baltimore Review, Tidal Basin Review, and diode.  scott is currently working on running faster, eating fewer Mike and Ikes at the midterm, and a series of poems about the residents of Jonestown, Guyana, a community of American men, women, and children coerced into suicide by their spiritual leader.

Christopher Urban has stories published or forthcoming in Pear Noir!, Midwestern Gothic, Folio: The Literary Journal at American University, and his essays and reviews have appeared in Open Letters Monthly, Counterpunch, Bookslut and the Anderson Valley Advertiser. He lives in Brooklyn, where he's worked in publishing at Random House and at n +1 magazine.

Vance Voyles is a Sex Crimes detective in central Florida. He received his MFA in creative writing at the University of Central Florida. His work has recently been included in Creative Nonfiction's anthology True Crime: Real-life Stories, scheduled for publication with In Fact Books in March 2013. Other selections of his work have been featured in Burrow Press Review, Rattle Magazine, and Pithead Chapel. He is currently working on a memoir, Waiving Miranda: Confessions of a Sex Crimes Detective, about his time in law enforcement.

Paula Yup lives and writes in the Marshall Islands. She has written poetry since her childhood in Arizona, and later at Occidental College; her MFA is from the Vermont College program. Her one-hundred-plus poems have appeared in anthologies (Feather, Fins & Fur, Earth Beneath, Sky Beyond, A Kiss is Still a Kiss, What Book!?) and journals (including Earth's Daughters, Mid-American Review). Her first book, Making a Clean Space in the Sky, was just published by Evening Street Press.