Ace Boggess currently is incarcerated in the West Virginia correctional system.  His poetry has appeared in Harvard Review, Mid-American Review, Notre Dame Review, River Styx, RATTLE, Atlanta Review, and other journals.  His books include The Beautiful Girl Whose Wish Was Not Fulfilled (Highwire Press, 2003) and, as editor, Wild Sweet Notes II, an anthology of West Virginia Poetry (Publishers Place, 2004).

Steven Brown’s writing appears in publications such as Black Warrior Review, DIAGRAM, Cerise Press, Allotrope of Northern Ireland, and the German anthology Frühstück mit Axt. Awards include an Allesee Fellowship, as well as Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, Ohio Arts Council, and MCACA grants. In 2008 he earned an MFA from the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar with his illustrated novel Body Palimpsest. He is from Detroit and lives in Jena, Germany, where he writes full-time.

Lauren Camp’s poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Muzzle and Solo Novo. She has also guest edited special sections for World Literature Today on jazz poetry, and for Malpaís Review on poetry from Iraq. The author of the collection, This Business of Wisdom (West End Press), Lauren hosts “Audio Saucepan” on Santa Fe Public Radio, and blogs about poetry at Which Silk Shirt (http://www.laurencamp.com/whichsilkshirt). She lives in New Mexico.

Deborah Flanagan's work has appeared in journals including The Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares, FIELD, The Laurel Review, and DIAGRAM, among others. She was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize and was awarded Honorable Mention in the Center for Book Arts Chapbook Competition, judged by Terrance Hayes. Deborah lives on the Lower East Side in New York City.

Thomas Fuchs spent much of his career writing and producing television documentaries, and has recently turned to the writing of fiction.He can be reached at fuchsfoxxx@cs.com

Deborah Gang was born and raised in Washington D.C. but relocated to Kalamazoo, Michigan for graduate school—where she fell in love with the large lake to the west—and never left. She worked as a psychotherapist for many years but now mostly writes. Her work is published in Education & Treatment of Children, Literary Mama and The Michigan Poet.

A native New Yorker, Paul Hadella is a teacher, musician and journalist, now living in southern Oregon. Blowfish is from a series of childhood episodes he has been working into fiction. Recently his stories have appeared in Nebo, Rockhurst Review and Obsession Literary Magazine.

Alexis Ivy is from Boston, Massachusetts.  Her most recent poems have appeared in Main Street Rag, Off The Coast, Spare Change News, The Chiron Review, Tar River Poetry, The Santa Fe Literary Review, and upcoming in Eclipse.  Her poetry collection Romance with Small-Time Crooks will be published by BlazeVOX in 2013.

Sarah Katharina Kayss, born in 1985 in Koblenz, Germany, has a BA in History and Comparative Religion from Ruhr University of Bochum and an MA in Modern History from King’s College, University of London.  Her artwork, essays and poetry have appeared in literary magazines, journals and anthologies in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and the United States.  Sarah edits the bilingual literary magazine PostPoetry.  She lives, studies and works in London.

Laurie Lamon’s poems have appeared in The Atlantic, The New Republic, The New Criterion, Ploughshares, and other magazines and journals, including Poetry Daily and Verse Daily websites. In 2007 she received a Witter Bynner award, selected by Poet Laureate Donald Hall.  She has also received a Pushcart Prize.  Her two collections of poetry are The Fork Without Hunger and Without Wings, CavanKerry Press (NJ), 2007 and 2009. She is a professor of English at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington.

Erik La Prade has a BA and an MA from City College (CUNY). His poems and articles have appeared in The Sienese Shredder, The New York Times, Artist and Influence, The Outlaw Bible of American Essays (Thunder’s Mouth Press) Artcritical, and False Confessions, a chapbook, Propaganda Press, 2011. His most recent book is Breaking Through: Richard Bellamy and the Green Gallery, 1960-1965 (MidMarch Arts Press).

John Lawson teaches creative and dramatic writing at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh. His poetry collection Generations was published by St. Andrews College Press in 2007, and his co-edited collection of essays Precisely There: A Festschrift in Honor of Ronald H. Bayes was published by Palisade Press in 2011.

Sheryl L. Nelms is from Marysville, Kansas.  She graduated from South Dakota State University in Family Relations and Child Development.  She is an editor of The Pen Women Magazine, the National League of American Pen Women publication, and has published in numerous literary venues.

William Palmer teaches English at Alma College in central Michigan. His poetry has appeared recently in Ecotone, JAMA, and Salamander. He has published two chapbooks: A String of Blue Lights (Pudding House) and Humble (Finishing Line Press). He is also the author of a college textbook, Discovering Arguments: An Introduction to Critical Thinking, Writing, and Style (Prentice Hall).

Emmy Pérez’s Solstice was recently re-issued as a second edition(Swan Scythe Press). Her work has also appeared in Prairie Schooner, North American Review, PALABRA, and other journals. Her work was recently nominated for a Pushcart prize. Currently, she is a CantoMundo poetry fellow and an assistant professor at the University of Texas-Pan American. She has also taught poetry writing in detention centers and has lived on the U.S.-Mexico border for over a decade.

Marjorie Power has poems in numerous magazines, journals, and anthologies. Among these are Poet Lore, The Atlanta Review, Fault Lines, Living in Storms and The Random House Treasure of Light Verse.  Also, she is the author of seven collections from small presses: Pudding House Publications, The Main Street Rag Publishing Company, Lone Willow Press and others. She lives in Corvallis, Oregon, with her husband.

Octavio Quintanilla’s poems have been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize.  Poems and critical reviews have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Southwestern American Literature, Texas Books in Review, Los Angeles Review, Thin Air, and elsewhere. He teaches English at Texas A & M University, Kingsville.

J. E. Robinson received the Plainsongs Award for his poetry and two Pushcart Prize nominations and an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award for his essays. His collection The Day Rider and Other Stories is forthcoming in 2013. A resident of Southern Illinois, he teaches humanities at the Saint Louis College of Pharmacy.

Alison Ruth was a feature writer for the popular music magazines Creem, Rock, Rock Fever, and Wavelength. Her short stories have been published in J Journal, for which she was nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize, Southern Indiana Review, G.W. Review, and Tulane Literary Magazine. Her first novel Near-Mint Cinderella is forthcoming from Aqueous Books.

Shae Savoy is an MFA candidate at Goddard College and she teaches at Bent Writing Institute in Seattle. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Sinister Wisdom, Eternal Haunted Summer, Requiem Magazine and the anthology Once Upon a Time. She was also a finalist for the 2012 Yemassee Journal Pocataligo Poetry Prize. She blogs at shaesavoy.com.

Roger Sedarat is the author of two poetry collections: Dear Regime: Letters to the Islamic Republic, which won Ohio UP's 2007 Hollis Summers' Prize, and Ghazal Games (Ohio UP, 2011). He teaches poetry and translation in the MFA Program at Queens College, City University of New York.

Judith Skillman’s 13th collection, The Phoenix, New and Selected Poems 2006 – 2012 is forthcoming from Dream Horse Press.  She’s the recipient of awards from The Academy of American Poets, The King County Arts Commission, and the Washington State Arts Commission. Her poems and translations have appeared in Poetry, Poetry Northwest, FIELD, The Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere.  Currently Skillman teaches at Yellow Wood Academy, Mercer Island, Washington.  Visit www.judithskillman.com

Marianne Villanueva is the author of the short story collections Ginseng and Other Tales From Manila, Mayor of the Roses, and The Lost Language. Her work has been widely published and anthologized, both here and in her native Philippines. Recent stories are in New Orleans Review, Wigleaf, Lit’n Image, Phoebe, Prism International and Asian American Literary Review. She is completing a fourth collection, of which Magellan's Mirror is the title story.

Vance Voyles works as a Major Crimes Detective in Central Florida. He received his Creative Writing MFA at the University of Central Florida.  While he is currently focused on nonfiction, his poetry and fiction have been featured in Rattle Magazine and Burrow Press Review.

Marielle van Uitert graduated from the Dutch School for Photography in Amsterdam. A documentary photographer, she has worked in Afghanistan, Iraq, the West Bank, Rwanda, Russia, Lebanon, Africa and the Turkish-Syrian border. Her book Bye Bye Bullshit, 29868 minutes with the last Dutch patrols in Afghanistan 2010 was published in 2011. In 2010 she was awarded second prize in the United Nations Development Program, New York, for her photograph Liquid Gold, which she took in the Central African Republic for Cordaid (a Dutch development agency). She was also a prize winner in the Zilveren Camera 2011 competition, foreign news.

Nathan E. White is a writer and musician living in the Los Angeles area. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Tulane Review, Bellingham Review, Quiddity, The Los Angeles Review, and South Dakota Review.

Evan Morgan Williams has published stories in Witness, The Kenyon Review, ZYZZYVA, and Alaska Quarterly Review. Recent and forthcoming work appears in The Fourth River, Silk Road, New Madrid, and Water~Stone Review. A disgruntled middle-school teacher, he holds a tattered MFA from the University of Montana, which his students look at and say, "Huh?" He welcomes inquiries from readers, writers, and benefactors. Blog: www.evanmorganwilliams.blogspot.com