Maggie Apple is a freshman at Appalachian State University and has been writing since childhood. She has had poetry previously published by Foliate Oak Literary Magazine and Teen Ink and is currently pursuing writing as a career for the future. Her interests in writing include children's books, poetry, and music lyrics.

Daniel Clausen has been published in Slipstream Magazine, Spindrift, Leading Edge, and Zygote in my Coffee, among other venues. The Ghosts of Nagasaki is his third book and is loosely based on his experiences living in Nagasaki, Japan. Pre-release copies of The Ghosts of Nagasaki are available from the author. You can email him at: [email protected]. You can learn more about Daniel here.

Robert Demaree, a retired educator, is the author of four collections of poems, including Mileposts (2009), published by Beech River Books. He has had over 550 poems published in 125 periodicals.

George Djuric is a former rally racing champion, master chess player, taxi driver, street fighter, student of anti-psychiatry and philosophy, broker with Morgan Stanley… and a writer all the way. Published a critically acclaimed collection of short stories that altered Yugoslav literary scene - 'The Metaphysical Stories' - was dubbed Borges of the Balkans, as well as reborn Babel. Also, he published a trucking road memoir 'Riding with the Big Boys' in the U.S. Djuric infiltrates flashes from his vivid past into fictional alchemy for the salient taste of the 21st century.

William Falo’s stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Emrys Journal, Shalla Magazine, Mississippi Crow, 34th Parallel, Skyline Review, Oak Bend Review, Open Wide Magazine, The Linnet’s Wings, The View From Here, The Monarch Review, and many others.


Terry Foote lives in Park Forest, IL with his wife Pat. His father ignited his passion for poetry and his work as a nurse inspires him to create. Terry's poetry has been published in numerous journals. Terry enjoys home brewing and wine making and being spiritually renewed by nature.

Ira Joel Haber was born and lives in Brooklyn New York. He is a sculptor, painter, book dealer and teacher who sometimes writes poetry and movie reviews. His work has been seen in numerous group shows both in USA and Europe and he has had 9 one man shows including several retrospectives of his sculpture. His work is in the collections of New York University, The Guggenheim Museum, The Hirshhorn Museum & The Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
You can learn more about him here.

Billy Harfosh currently lives in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He is originally from Syracuse, New York. Billy was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1985 during the Lebanese civil war. He was adopted when he was 2 months old and moved to the United States. For the last year Billy has been writing in Southeast Asia. He continues to learn and grow from his surroundings. You can find his latest work published in Ardent! Poetry Journal and Bewildering Stories Magazine. He is currently working on his first collection of poems. Billy has no children no responsibilities and 1 suitcase, he hopes to keep it that way.

j/j hastain is the author of several cross-genre books including the trans-genre book libertine monk (Scrambler Press), anti-memoir a vigorous (Black Coffee Press/ Eight Ball Press) and the xyr trilogy (a metaphysical romance). j/j’s writing has most recently appeared in Caketrain, Trickhouse, Housefire, Bombay Gin and Aufgabe. j/j has been a guest lecturer at Naropa University and University of Colorado.

Melissa Hartman is a student at the University of Arkansas at Monticello. She's studying creative writing with a minor in history - two of her favorite things. When she's not writing or daydreaming of things to write about, she's usually out on adventures, listening to music, drawing, or perhaps taking photos. So far she's only been published in her high school's literary magazine, but she's working on getting her name out there other ways as well. 

Kelly Hitchcock has been featured in Foliate Oak Literary Journal, Clackamas Literary Review, and Line Zero, as well as various online anthologies and independent magazines. You can learn more here.

Christopher James lives in Jakarta, Indonesia and writes, not necessarily in that order. He has been published in The Times, Camera Obscura and on The Tin House website.

Lori Lamothe's poems have appeared in 42opus, Avatar Review, Fogged Clarity, Goblin Fruit, The Nervous Breakdown, Seattle Review and other magazines. She is a mentor for The Afghan Women's Writing Project and teaches part-time at Quinsigamond Community College. She lives in New England with her daughter and a Siberian husky who likes to chew linoleum.


Stephen Massimilla is a poet, critic, professor, and painter. His collection The Plague Doctor in His Hull-Shaped Hat is forthcoming from Stephen F. Austin State University Press as a contest winner. His volume Forty Floors from Yesterday (Bordighera, 2002) won the Bordighera Poetry Prize; his sonnet sequence Later on Aiaia (2001) won the Grolier Prize; Almost a Second Thought was runner-up for the Salmon-Run National Poetry Book Award judged by X.J. Kennedy. Massimilla also received a Van Renssalaer Award judged by Kenneth Koch, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and two Pushcart nominations. He has recent work in AGNI, Atlanta Review, Barrow Street, The Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Provincetown Arts, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. He teaches at Columbia University and the New School. More here.

William Miller  is the author of five books of poetry, twelve books for children and a mystery novel.  His work has been accepted by The Southern Review, The South Carolina Review, Prairie Schooner and Shenandoah.

Perry L. Powell, who lives with his wife in College Park, Georgia and works as a systems analyst, has had work that appeared in The Foliate Oak, Quantum Poetry Magazine, The Lyric, Indigo Rising, The Camel Saloon, Lucid Rhythms, A Hundred Gourds, Prune Juice and Haiku Presence.


Sy Roth is a retired school administrator and has finally found the sounds of silence and the time to think whole thoughts. This has led him to find words and the ability to shape them. He has published in Visceral Uterus, Amulet, BlogNostics, Every Day Poets and The Eloquent Atheist. Recently, he won a poetry contest sponsored by Newsday.

Nushina Shirazi is currently an undergraduate student studying Communications and Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She hopes to one day pursue a career in the film industry, including writing scripts for comedic based shows or writing for talk shows that mainly discuss up-to-date pop culture. Though this is her first piece of work to be published, she hopes for it to be the first of many.

Michael Stewart lives and works in Bristol, UK. He is a prize-winning author of short fiction, a journalist and a travel writer. His work has appeared online (including East of the Web, Red Fez, Orange Labyrinth, Words Literary Journal) and in several anthologies (including Your Messages - Blue Chrome Press; Image Coal - Leaf Books). He recently finished his first novel.

Dee Sunshine is an artist, writer, musician, yoga teacher, tantric massage therapist and new age hobo.  He gave up the life of the homesteader in August 2006 and has since then spent most of his time in Spain, India, Thailand and Indonesia.  He is the author of three poetry collections The Bad Seed (Stride, 1998) and Dropping Ecstasy With The Angels (Bluechrome, 2004) & Visions Of The Drowning Man (Skylight, 2012).  His has also published a novel, Stealing Heaven From The Lips Of God (Bluechrome, 2004).  Dee has put blood, sweat and tears into being of service to other writers and artists, most notably in the time-consuming production of the free resources on his website, especially The AA Independent Press Guide, which he edited, in one form or another, from 1998 until 2011.  He also edited two print magazines, Dada Dance (1984-1990) and the short-lived, but sweet, Acid Angel (1998-2000).  He also edited the charity poetry anthology, The Book Of Hopes And Dreams (Bluechrome, 2006).  Dee welcomes contact by email: [email protected].

Steven Tomlins  is a PhD student at the University of Ottawa. He has won a second place Lucy Maud Montgomery Literature for Children Award and an Honorable Mention Milton Acorn Poetry Award. His poetry has been published by Chiron Review, Mad Swirl, amphibi.us, Bywords.ca, Broken Wine Magazine, Decanto Magazine, and have forthcoming publications in The Cynic and The Edison Literary Review.


Raised in conservative Bangladeshi society, Shoilee SA White  was driven into an early marriage. Her manuscript is about the salvation she found in America’s wilderness away from her unhappy married life.Currently, she is a graduate student at the University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.
Her writing has been published in numerous academic papers, in University’s newspaper, and in Bangladesh magazines.

Lee Wright is a fat, surly, bald man who lives with his beautiful wife (who is only a little surly) and son (who is not at all surly and has made his parents considerably less surly) near Chattanooga, Tennessee.