Sydney Avey lives in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Yosemite, California. and the Sonoran Desert in Arizona. She has a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of California, Berkeley, and a lifetime of experience writing news for non profits and corporations. Sydney blogs here about the themes she writes about--relationships, legacy, faith and travel.
Rosemary Baker is a retired English professor and now a struggling writer. She lives in Syracuse, New York, with her husband and a geriatric cat.
Susan Beresford wrote as a hobby before the “dark” years. She kept a journal at the bedside of her youngest child to make sense of the foreign language of disease and medicine. After he died she wrote to save her own soul. She hasn’t stopped writing. You can learn more here.
Robert Boucheron is an architect in Charlottesville, Virginia. He writes articles and fiction on housing, communities, gardens, electric motorcycles, and love gone wrong. His work appears in Blue Lake Review, Cerise Press, Construction, Cossack Review, Dark Matter, Foliate Oak, IthacaLit, Montreal Review, Mouse Tales Press, NewerYork, Niche, North Dakota Quarterly, Northern Virginia, Pachinko, Piedmont Virginian, Prime Number, Rider, Rusty Nail, Streetlight, Talking Writing, 34th Parallel, Virginia Business, Zodiac Review. You can learn more at his website.
Melodie Corrigall is a Canadian writer whose stories have appeared in Bartleby Snopes, Blue Lake Review, Toasted Cheese, The November 3rd Club, This Zine Will Change Your life, FreeFall, Six Minute Magazine, Subtle Fiction and Switchback literary magazine.
Spenser Davis is both an actor and playwright currently living in Chicago, where he has taken part in over thirty-five productions with theater companies across Illinois, Arkansas, Missouri, and Iowa. On the writing front, his plays have been produced across North America, (most recently in Canada). In Chicago , his work has been featured in venues such as the American Theater Company, the Chicago Dramatists, and The Second City. His short play Minimalistic Men was named one of “The Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2012” by New York's Smith & Kraus. He graduated from the University of Illinois with a Bachelor's in Creative Writing. He currently serves as the Literary Manager for both production companies: Hobo Junction Productions and Broken Nose Theater.
Thomas Cochran was raised in Haynesville, Louisiana. His work includes novels Roughnecks (Harcourt) and Running the Dogs (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). His non-fiction and poetry have appeared in Oxford American, Rattle, Gray’s Sporting Journal, and various other publications. He currently lives with his wife on some acres in rural northwest Arkansas
Darrell Dela Cruz graduated from San Jose State’s MFA Program for Poetry. His works have been published in Thin Air, Third Wednesday, and ZAUM, and will appear forthcoming in Two-Thirds North and The Clackamas Review. He tries to analyze a poem a day on his blog, or rather, he acknowledges his misinterpretations of poems for all the internet to read.
Mark DeMoss lives in the North Texas area. He works as a software developer, and can often be found online at the flash challenge site ShowMeYourLits.com. His stories have been published in SmokeLong Quarterly, Bartleby Snopes, Nib Magazine and various other venues.
Randall DeVallance is a writer living in Vermont. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Eyeshot, Pindeldyboz, and many others. He is also the author of the novella and short story collection, 'The Absent Traveler', published in December 2010 by Atticus Books."
Cindy Forbes is a former teacher and instructional designer who now spends her time writing fiction and poetry. She lives on Padre Island in South Texas.
J. Oscar Franzen workshopped in Texas A&M University's creative writing program, earning a Master of Arts in English. Last summer, he spent two months working with Andrew Feld at the University of Washington.
D. E. Fredd—lives in Townsend, Massachusetts. He has had over one hundred and fifty short stories and poems published in literary reviews and journals. He received the Theodore Hoepfner Award given by the Southern Humanities Review for the best short fiction of 2005 and was a 2006 Ontario Award Finalist. He won the 2006 Black River Chapbook Competition and received a 2007, 2009 and 2010 Pushcart Nomination. He has been included in the Million Writers Award of Notable Stories for 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2010.
Margaret A. Frey writes from the foothills of the Smoky Mountains. Her work, fiction and nonfiction, has appeared in Camroc Press Review, Cezanne’s Carrot, Notre Dame Magazine, Kaleidoscope and elsewhere. Forthcoming work is scheduled for Flash Fiction Online, Used Furniture Review and The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature.
Philip Goldberg has had over 25 short stories published in literary and small press publications.
Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas is a six-time Pushcart nominee and Best of the Net nominee. She has authored eight chapbooks along with her latest full-length collection of poems: Epistemology of an Odd Girl, newly released from March Street Press. She is a recent winner of the Red Ochre Press Chapbook competition for her manuscript Before I Go to Sleep and according to family lore she is a direct descendent of Robert Louis Stevenson.You can learn more here.
Kyle Hemmings has been published in Wigleaf, Storyglossia, Elimae, Match Book, This Zine Will Save Your Life, and elsewhere. His latest collection of prose/poetry is Void & Sky from Outskirt Press. He lives and writes in New Jersey.
Gwendolyn Jenson's poems have appeared in the Amethyst Arsenic, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Comstock Review, The Malahat Review, Measure, Nashville Review, and Salamander. After spending many years in academia, Gwendolyn retired from the presidency of Wilson College in 2001. She now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and serves as a board member of Off the Grid Press, a press for poets over sixty. Birthright, her first book, was published by Birch Brook Press in a letterpress edition (with a second printing in 2012).
Anders Johnson, a Minnesota native, currently teaches painting and drawing at Vincennes University in Southern Indiana. He paints both on location and in the studio, usually on the same piece, creating hybrid plein air works that explore improbable colors and fantastical spaces. An art graduate from North Park University, Chicago, he holds an MFA from Indiana University and has appeared in recent group shows in Chicago, Philadelphia, and Seattle. Visit him here.
Maureen Kingston is an assistant editor at The Centrifugal Eye. Her poems and prose have appeared or are forthcoming in The Bookends Review, Emerge Literary Journal, Gone Lawn, Rufous City Review, Stone Highway Review, Terrain.org, VAYAVYA, and Wild Orphan (UK).
Kate LaDew is a graduate from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC with a BA in Studio Arts
David Landrum has appeared in numerous journals, including decomP, 34th Parallel, Amarillo Bay, Earthspeak Magazine, Dark Sky, Danse Macabre, and many others.
Darian Lane was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, raised in Bethesda, Maryland. Graduated Arizona State University and moved to Los Angeles to Produce and Assistant Direct Music Videos and Commercials. Most notable for Black Eyed Peas, Beyoncé, Ashlee Simpson, Chris Brown, 50 Cent, Pharrell & Gwen Stefani, Proactive, Windsor Pilates (1&2), Pepsi, IBM (w/ Muhammad Ali) and American Express. Lane is currently finishing his third novel.
Lyn Lifshin’s Another Woman Who Looks Like Me was published by Black Sparrow at David Godine October, 2006.. (Also out in 2006 is her prize winning book about the famous, short lived beautiful race horse, Ruffian: The Licorice Daughter: My Year With Ruffian from Texas Review Press. Lifshin’s other recent books include Before it’s Light published winter 1999-2000 by Black Sparrow press, following their publication of Cold Comfort in 1997 and 92 Rapple from Coatism.: Lost in the Fog and Barbaro: Beyond Brokenesss and Light at the End, the Jesus Poems, Katrina, Ballet Madonnas. For other books, bio, photographs see her website. Persephone was published by Red Hen and Texas Review published Barbaro: Beyond Brokenness. Most recent books: Ballroom, All the Poets (Mostly) Who Have Touched me, Living and Dead. All True, Especially the Lies. And just out, Knife Edge & Absinthe: The Tango Poems. In Spring 2012, NYQ books will publish A Girl Goes into The Woods. Also just published: For the Roses poems after Joni Mitchell. just published: Hotel Hitchcock from Danse Macabre. And Secretariat: The Red Freak, The Miracle from Texas Review Press
Jennie Chapman Linthorst, MA, CAPF is an author, Certified Applied Poetry Facilitator, and founder of LifeSPEAKS Poetry Therapy. Jennie works with men and women exploring personal histories through reading and writing poetry. She is the author of a book of poems, Autism Disrupted: A Mother’s Journey of Hope, published by Cardinal House Publishing in 2011. Her poetry has been featured in Edison Literary Review, Forge, Sanskrit Literary Arts Magazine, and forthcoming in Kaleidoscope and Bluestem magazines. Her work has been featured online at Hopeful Parents, Our Journey Through Autism, Wellsphere, The SPD Blogger Network, and WOW! Women on Writing. Visit her website to learn more.
Herbert Woodward Martin taught poetry and creative writing at The University of Dayton for three decades. He has been widely associated with the poet and novelist Paul Laurence Dunbar whose works he has edited, read and performed across the United States.
Herbert Woodward Martin taught poetry and creative writing at The University of Dayton for three decades. He has been widely asociated with the poet and novelist Paul Laurence Dunbar whose works he has edited, read and performed across the United States.
Susan Martin is a retired English and creative writing teacher. She has had poetry and short fiction published in several anthologies, literary magazines, e-zines, and other on-line sites. She won prizes in "The Age Begins 2009 Women's Inspirational Contest" and the New Jersey Poetry Society's 2012 Annual Contest.
Scott Miller works as a software developer while pursuing a writing career to achieve the elusive left-brain/right-brain balance. When not writing poetry or software, he can be found practicing kung fu, baking his famous desserts, at the pilates studio, or beating the latest incarnation of The Legend of Zelda.
Richard Ong's painted artwork, stories, poetry and photos have appeared in several issues of bewildering stories , Yesterdays Magazette and The Blotter Magazine. One of these stories has been republished in print as part of an anthology titled Toys Remembered (compiled and edited by Madonna Dries Christensen).
Lynne T. Pickett has worked as a news reporter for WILK radio and the New Age Examiner. She has a degree in Broadcast Journalism from Syracuse University. She has recently had one of her short stories published in Diverse Voices Quarterly.
Ken Poyner lives in the lower right-hand corner of Virginia, with his power-lifter wife, four rescue cats, and two attitude-challenged fish (in their separate but similar bowls). His 2013 e-book, Constant Animals: 42 Unruly Fictions, is available for download at all the usual e-book retail sites. Recent work has appeared in My Favorite Bullet, The Legendary, Conte, Asimov's, Rattle, and a host of other places.
Caitlin Rose is an artist living out Lodi, California. She primarily paints with acrylic paint on canvas, and enjoys painting the creatures or her mind, the beasts she's become, the gargoyles in the mirror. She is influenced by Outsider Art, Caravaggio, Basquiat, wine, and music.
Catori Sarmiento has contributed fiction to Nothing. No One. Nowhere, The Citron Review, Brick Rhetoric, and Crossed Out Magazine. She has also contributed non-fiction to Her Kind and This Boundless World, with several academic essays published by Student Pulse. She is an English and Writing Professor at Central Texas College, Pacific Far East Campus in Tokyo, Japan.
Frank Scozzari's fiction has previously appeared in various literary magazines, including The Kenyon Review, South Dakota Review, Folio, The Nassau Review, Roanoke Review, Pacific Review, Reed Magazine, Ellipsis Magazine, Sycamore Review, Eureka Literary Magazine, The MacGuffin, Foliate Oak Literary Journal, Hawai’i Pacific Review, Chrysalis Reader, and many others. Writing awards include Winner of the National Writer’s Association Short Story Contest and three publisher nominations for the Pushcart Prize of Short Stories.
L.B. Sedlacek’s poetry has appeared in publications such as Sea Stories, Third Wednesday, Mastodon Dentist, The Hurricane Review, Main Street Rag, Tertulia Magazine, Pure Francis, Manorborn, Big Pulp, Fickle Muses, and others.
Samantha Seto is a writer. She has been published in various anthologies including Ceremony, The Screech Owl, Nostrovia Poetry, Soul Fountain, Ydgrasil, and Black Magnolias Journal.
Sam Silva has poetry in print magazines including: Samisdat, The ECU Rebel, Sow's Ear, The American Muse, St. Andrews Review, Dog River Review, Third Lung Review, and various others.
Kristen Snow is a Creative Writing major at the University of Arkansas in Monticello, Arkansas. She grew up in the suburbs near Jacksonville, Florida and severely misses having spontaneous “beach days” in Daytona. She is an aspiring author with a special interest in fantasy style fiction and children's stories.
Megan Towey is an undergraduate at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, where she is earning a double major in Written Arts and Classical Studies.
She expects to graduate in May 2015.
David Van Houten is a fairly new writer, while examples of his past work have been previously published by Foliate Oak.
B. A. Varghese graduated from Polytechnic University (New York) in 1993, and has been working in the Information Technology field ever since. Inspired to explore his artistic side, he is currently working toward a degree in Creative Writing from the University of South Florida. His work is forthcoming in Apalachee Review.
Mark Vogel has published short stories in Cities and Roads, Knight Literary Journal, Whimperbang, SN Review, as well as many other various literary journals. Currently, he is a professor of English at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina.
Shoilee White is currently a graduate student at the University of South Florida, Tampa, FL. Her writing has been published in numerous academic journals, in American university newspapers, in various American magazines, and in Bangladeshi magazines as well.
Diane Webster challenges herself to remain open to poetry opportunities, and to write what she sees: whether by walking across the parking lot, or watching the hawk scowl from its tree. Her work has appeared in Illya’s Honey, The Cape Rock and other literary magazines.
Laura Wendorff, born in Wausau, Wisconsin, earned bachelor’s degrees in English and history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Her work has appeared in Verse Wisconsin Online, American Transcendental Quarterly, Faculty Development, and Journal for the Study of Peace and Conflict.
Laura Winton is a poet, writer, and performance artist living in Minneapolis. She has had her work published in little magazines throughout the country and around the world. She is the editor and publisher of the on-again off-again literary magazine Karawane. This is her first foray into having her artwork or photos published anywhere except Karawane.
Elizabeth Yalkut is a writer in New York City, who attended Emma Willard School and Barnard College, Columbia University.
Rosemary Baker is a retired English professor and now a struggling writer. She lives in Syracuse, New York, with her husband and a geriatric cat.
Susan Beresford wrote as a hobby before the “dark” years. She kept a journal at the bedside of her youngest child to make sense of the foreign language of disease and medicine. After he died she wrote to save her own soul. She hasn’t stopped writing. You can learn more here.
Robert Boucheron is an architect in Charlottesville, Virginia. He writes articles and fiction on housing, communities, gardens, electric motorcycles, and love gone wrong. His work appears in Blue Lake Review, Cerise Press, Construction, Cossack Review, Dark Matter, Foliate Oak, IthacaLit, Montreal Review, Mouse Tales Press, NewerYork, Niche, North Dakota Quarterly, Northern Virginia, Pachinko, Piedmont Virginian, Prime Number, Rider, Rusty Nail, Streetlight, Talking Writing, 34th Parallel, Virginia Business, Zodiac Review. You can learn more at his website.
Melodie Corrigall is a Canadian writer whose stories have appeared in Bartleby Snopes, Blue Lake Review, Toasted Cheese, The November 3rd Club, This Zine Will Change Your life, FreeFall, Six Minute Magazine, Subtle Fiction and Switchback literary magazine.
Spenser Davis is both an actor and playwright currently living in Chicago, where he has taken part in over thirty-five productions with theater companies across Illinois, Arkansas, Missouri, and Iowa. On the writing front, his plays have been produced across North America, (most recently in Canada). In Chicago , his work has been featured in venues such as the American Theater Company, the Chicago Dramatists, and The Second City. His short play Minimalistic Men was named one of “The Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2012” by New York's Smith & Kraus. He graduated from the University of Illinois with a Bachelor's in Creative Writing. He currently serves as the Literary Manager for both production companies: Hobo Junction Productions and Broken Nose Theater.
Thomas Cochran was raised in Haynesville, Louisiana. His work includes novels Roughnecks (Harcourt) and Running the Dogs (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). His non-fiction and poetry have appeared in Oxford American, Rattle, Gray’s Sporting Journal, and various other publications. He currently lives with his wife on some acres in rural northwest Arkansas
Darrell Dela Cruz graduated from San Jose State’s MFA Program for Poetry. His works have been published in Thin Air, Third Wednesday, and ZAUM, and will appear forthcoming in Two-Thirds North and The Clackamas Review. He tries to analyze a poem a day on his blog, or rather, he acknowledges his misinterpretations of poems for all the internet to read.
Mark DeMoss lives in the North Texas area. He works as a software developer, and can often be found online at the flash challenge site ShowMeYourLits.com. His stories have been published in SmokeLong Quarterly, Bartleby Snopes, Nib Magazine and various other venues.
Randall DeVallance is a writer living in Vermont. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Eyeshot, Pindeldyboz, and many others. He is also the author of the novella and short story collection, 'The Absent Traveler', published in December 2010 by Atticus Books."
Cindy Forbes is a former teacher and instructional designer who now spends her time writing fiction and poetry. She lives on Padre Island in South Texas.
J. Oscar Franzen workshopped in Texas A&M University's creative writing program, earning a Master of Arts in English. Last summer, he spent two months working with Andrew Feld at the University of Washington.
D. E. Fredd—lives in Townsend, Massachusetts. He has had over one hundred and fifty short stories and poems published in literary reviews and journals. He received the Theodore Hoepfner Award given by the Southern Humanities Review for the best short fiction of 2005 and was a 2006 Ontario Award Finalist. He won the 2006 Black River Chapbook Competition and received a 2007, 2009 and 2010 Pushcart Nomination. He has been included in the Million Writers Award of Notable Stories for 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2010.
Margaret A. Frey writes from the foothills of the Smoky Mountains. Her work, fiction and nonfiction, has appeared in Camroc Press Review, Cezanne’s Carrot, Notre Dame Magazine, Kaleidoscope and elsewhere. Forthcoming work is scheduled for Flash Fiction Online, Used Furniture Review and The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature.
Philip Goldberg has had over 25 short stories published in literary and small press publications.
Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas is a six-time Pushcart nominee and Best of the Net nominee. She has authored eight chapbooks along with her latest full-length collection of poems: Epistemology of an Odd Girl, newly released from March Street Press. She is a recent winner of the Red Ochre Press Chapbook competition for her manuscript Before I Go to Sleep and according to family lore she is a direct descendent of Robert Louis Stevenson.You can learn more here.
Kyle Hemmings has been published in Wigleaf, Storyglossia, Elimae, Match Book, This Zine Will Save Your Life, and elsewhere. His latest collection of prose/poetry is Void & Sky from Outskirt Press. He lives and writes in New Jersey.
Gwendolyn Jenson's poems have appeared in the Amethyst Arsenic, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Comstock Review, The Malahat Review, Measure, Nashville Review, and Salamander. After spending many years in academia, Gwendolyn retired from the presidency of Wilson College in 2001. She now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and serves as a board member of Off the Grid Press, a press for poets over sixty. Birthright, her first book, was published by Birch Brook Press in a letterpress edition (with a second printing in 2012).
Anders Johnson, a Minnesota native, currently teaches painting and drawing at Vincennes University in Southern Indiana. He paints both on location and in the studio, usually on the same piece, creating hybrid plein air works that explore improbable colors and fantastical spaces. An art graduate from North Park University, Chicago, he holds an MFA from Indiana University and has appeared in recent group shows in Chicago, Philadelphia, and Seattle. Visit him here.
Maureen Kingston is an assistant editor at The Centrifugal Eye. Her poems and prose have appeared or are forthcoming in The Bookends Review, Emerge Literary Journal, Gone Lawn, Rufous City Review, Stone Highway Review, Terrain.org, VAYAVYA, and Wild Orphan (UK).
Kate LaDew is a graduate from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC with a BA in Studio Arts
David Landrum has appeared in numerous journals, including decomP, 34th Parallel, Amarillo Bay, Earthspeak Magazine, Dark Sky, Danse Macabre, and many others.
Darian Lane was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, raised in Bethesda, Maryland. Graduated Arizona State University and moved to Los Angeles to Produce and Assistant Direct Music Videos and Commercials. Most notable for Black Eyed Peas, Beyoncé, Ashlee Simpson, Chris Brown, 50 Cent, Pharrell & Gwen Stefani, Proactive, Windsor Pilates (1&2), Pepsi, IBM (w/ Muhammad Ali) and American Express. Lane is currently finishing his third novel.
Lyn Lifshin’s Another Woman Who Looks Like Me was published by Black Sparrow at David Godine October, 2006.. (Also out in 2006 is her prize winning book about the famous, short lived beautiful race horse, Ruffian: The Licorice Daughter: My Year With Ruffian from Texas Review Press. Lifshin’s other recent books include Before it’s Light published winter 1999-2000 by Black Sparrow press, following their publication of Cold Comfort in 1997 and 92 Rapple from Coatism.: Lost in the Fog and Barbaro: Beyond Brokenesss and Light at the End, the Jesus Poems, Katrina, Ballet Madonnas. For other books, bio, photographs see her website. Persephone was published by Red Hen and Texas Review published Barbaro: Beyond Brokenness. Most recent books: Ballroom, All the Poets (Mostly) Who Have Touched me, Living and Dead. All True, Especially the Lies. And just out, Knife Edge & Absinthe: The Tango Poems. In Spring 2012, NYQ books will publish A Girl Goes into The Woods. Also just published: For the Roses poems after Joni Mitchell. just published: Hotel Hitchcock from Danse Macabre. And Secretariat: The Red Freak, The Miracle from Texas Review Press
Jennie Chapman Linthorst, MA, CAPF is an author, Certified Applied Poetry Facilitator, and founder of LifeSPEAKS Poetry Therapy. Jennie works with men and women exploring personal histories through reading and writing poetry. She is the author of a book of poems, Autism Disrupted: A Mother’s Journey of Hope, published by Cardinal House Publishing in 2011. Her poetry has been featured in Edison Literary Review, Forge, Sanskrit Literary Arts Magazine, and forthcoming in Kaleidoscope and Bluestem magazines. Her work has been featured online at Hopeful Parents, Our Journey Through Autism, Wellsphere, The SPD Blogger Network, and WOW! Women on Writing. Visit her website to learn more.
Herbert Woodward Martin taught poetry and creative writing at The University of Dayton for three decades. He has been widely associated with the poet and novelist Paul Laurence Dunbar whose works he has edited, read and performed across the United States.
Herbert Woodward Martin taught poetry and creative writing at The University of Dayton for three decades. He has been widely asociated with the poet and novelist Paul Laurence Dunbar whose works he has edited, read and performed across the United States.
Susan Martin is a retired English and creative writing teacher. She has had poetry and short fiction published in several anthologies, literary magazines, e-zines, and other on-line sites. She won prizes in "The Age Begins 2009 Women's Inspirational Contest" and the New Jersey Poetry Society's 2012 Annual Contest.
Scott Miller works as a software developer while pursuing a writing career to achieve the elusive left-brain/right-brain balance. When not writing poetry or software, he can be found practicing kung fu, baking his famous desserts, at the pilates studio, or beating the latest incarnation of The Legend of Zelda.
Richard Ong's painted artwork, stories, poetry and photos have appeared in several issues of bewildering stories , Yesterdays Magazette and The Blotter Magazine. One of these stories has been republished in print as part of an anthology titled Toys Remembered (compiled and edited by Madonna Dries Christensen).
Lynne T. Pickett has worked as a news reporter for WILK radio and the New Age Examiner. She has a degree in Broadcast Journalism from Syracuse University. She has recently had one of her short stories published in Diverse Voices Quarterly.
Ken Poyner lives in the lower right-hand corner of Virginia, with his power-lifter wife, four rescue cats, and two attitude-challenged fish (in their separate but similar bowls). His 2013 e-book, Constant Animals: 42 Unruly Fictions, is available for download at all the usual e-book retail sites. Recent work has appeared in My Favorite Bullet, The Legendary, Conte, Asimov's, Rattle, and a host of other places.
Caitlin Rose is an artist living out Lodi, California. She primarily paints with acrylic paint on canvas, and enjoys painting the creatures or her mind, the beasts she's become, the gargoyles in the mirror. She is influenced by Outsider Art, Caravaggio, Basquiat, wine, and music.
Catori Sarmiento has contributed fiction to Nothing. No One. Nowhere, The Citron Review, Brick Rhetoric, and Crossed Out Magazine. She has also contributed non-fiction to Her Kind and This Boundless World, with several academic essays published by Student Pulse. She is an English and Writing Professor at Central Texas College, Pacific Far East Campus in Tokyo, Japan.
Frank Scozzari's fiction has previously appeared in various literary magazines, including The Kenyon Review, South Dakota Review, Folio, The Nassau Review, Roanoke Review, Pacific Review, Reed Magazine, Ellipsis Magazine, Sycamore Review, Eureka Literary Magazine, The MacGuffin, Foliate Oak Literary Journal, Hawai’i Pacific Review, Chrysalis Reader, and many others. Writing awards include Winner of the National Writer’s Association Short Story Contest and three publisher nominations for the Pushcart Prize of Short Stories.
L.B. Sedlacek’s poetry has appeared in publications such as Sea Stories, Third Wednesday, Mastodon Dentist, The Hurricane Review, Main Street Rag, Tertulia Magazine, Pure Francis, Manorborn, Big Pulp, Fickle Muses, and others.
Samantha Seto is a writer. She has been published in various anthologies including Ceremony, The Screech Owl, Nostrovia Poetry, Soul Fountain, Ydgrasil, and Black Magnolias Journal.
Sam Silva has poetry in print magazines including: Samisdat, The ECU Rebel, Sow's Ear, The American Muse, St. Andrews Review, Dog River Review, Third Lung Review, and various others.
Kristen Snow is a Creative Writing major at the University of Arkansas in Monticello, Arkansas. She grew up in the suburbs near Jacksonville, Florida and severely misses having spontaneous “beach days” in Daytona. She is an aspiring author with a special interest in fantasy style fiction and children's stories.
Megan Towey is an undergraduate at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, where she is earning a double major in Written Arts and Classical Studies.
She expects to graduate in May 2015.
David Van Houten is a fairly new writer, while examples of his past work have been previously published by Foliate Oak.
B. A. Varghese graduated from Polytechnic University (New York) in 1993, and has been working in the Information Technology field ever since. Inspired to explore his artistic side, he is currently working toward a degree in Creative Writing from the University of South Florida. His work is forthcoming in Apalachee Review.
Mark Vogel has published short stories in Cities and Roads, Knight Literary Journal, Whimperbang, SN Review, as well as many other various literary journals. Currently, he is a professor of English at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina.
Shoilee White is currently a graduate student at the University of South Florida, Tampa, FL. Her writing has been published in numerous academic journals, in American university newspapers, in various American magazines, and in Bangladeshi magazines as well.
Diane Webster challenges herself to remain open to poetry opportunities, and to write what she sees: whether by walking across the parking lot, or watching the hawk scowl from its tree. Her work has appeared in Illya’s Honey, The Cape Rock and other literary magazines.
Laura Wendorff, born in Wausau, Wisconsin, earned bachelor’s degrees in English and history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Her work has appeared in Verse Wisconsin Online, American Transcendental Quarterly, Faculty Development, and Journal for the Study of Peace and Conflict.
Laura Winton is a poet, writer, and performance artist living in Minneapolis. She has had her work published in little magazines throughout the country and around the world. She is the editor and publisher of the on-again off-again literary magazine Karawane. This is her first foray into having her artwork or photos published anywhere except Karawane.
Elizabeth Yalkut is a writer in New York City, who attended Emma Willard School and Barnard College, Columbia University.
