Harvey J. Baine holds a B.A. in English from University of North Florida, and an M.F.A. in creative writing from American University. As his thesis, he published a collection of short stories entitled Cat Histories. He has published poetry in numerous journals. Some of these are: Skidrow Penthouse, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, Slipstream, Big Muddy, Café Review, REAL, Forge.
Denis Bell is a mathematics professor based in Jacksonville, Florida. He was born in London, England a while back. In addition to writing fiction, his hobbies include listening to music, watching Premier League soccer, and surfing (the web, that is). His writing has appeared, or is forthcoming in Bewildering Stories, Bareback Magazine, The Rusty Nail, Literary Juice, Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine, Calliope, Hirschworth, Enhance Magazine, and EWR.
Mark D. Bennion's poems have appeared in Aethlon, The Comstock Review, Irreantum, RHINO, and other journals. Later this year his second collection of poems, Forsythia, will be published by Aldrich Press. For the past 13 years he's taught writing and literature courses at BYU–Idaho.
Nick Bertelson's other work has appeared or will appear in The Coe Review, The Raleigh Review, Bull Magazine, The New Plains Review, and others.
C.W. Bigelow lives in the Charlotte NC area. His short stories and poems have most recently appeared in The Scrambler,The View From Here,The Shine Journal, The Gloom Cupboard, Indigo Rising, Litsnack,Sister Ignition, Full of Crow, FeatherLit, Curbside Splendor, Literary Juice and The Dying Goose.
As a senior at The University of Northern Colorado, Lindsey Cira is studying English with an emphasis in secondary education. With plans to become a high school English teacher, Cira is looking forward to implement her love for poetry into the classroom. After taking an introductory to poetry course on a whim freshman year, writing and reading poetry has become a necessary part of Cira's everyday life.
Besides writing, Susannah Cecil is a counselor, a yoga instructor and a Board Member of Winston-Salem Writers. Her work has appeared in Deep South Magazine & Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. She was a Finalist in the 2012 Press 53 Open Awards Anthology Contest. She lives in Clemmons, NC.
Chris Curtis is a writer, musician, artist, and poet. His works include “Possessions,” award-winners “Trouble Follows,” featured in The Wayward Peacemaker, and full-length play For the Trees. He lives in Colorado with his wife and pets.
Ray Cline is from Chicago by way of Indiana. He likes to eat pears and collect seashells.
Vela Damon has lived in eleven different states and is currently setting up camp in Texas with two humans, two dogs and one unsociable cat. Her work has appeared in 101 Words, The Subterranean Quarterly, Short-Story.me and several other publications. Visit her Here.
Jim Davis is a graduate of Knox College and an MFA candidate at Northwestern University. Jim lives, writes, and paints in Chicago, where he reads for TriQuarterly and edits North Chicago Review. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Seneca Review, Adirondack Review, The Midwest Quarterly, and Contemporary American Voices, in addition to winning multiple contests, prizes, Editor's Choice awards, and a recent nomination for Best of the Net Anthology. His book, Assumption (Unbound Content, 2013) will soon be followed by book two, Earthmover (Unbound Content).
George Dila's short story collection, "Nothing More to Tell" was published by Mayapple Press in 2011. His stories and essays have appeared in numerous publications.
Hector Duarte Jr. is working on his graduate degree at Florida International University's MFA program. He is a high school English/ELL teacher.
Joshua Duncan, Memphis College of Art BFA 2011 illustration, is an independent New Orleans based artist. Duncan's paintings and drawings pull from the human experience and seek to connect the viewer with moments of the eternal.
J.K. Durick is a writing teacher at the Community College of Vermont and an online writing tutor. His recent poems have appeared in Write Room, Bitterzoet, Third Wednesday, and Up the River.
Margaret Eaton’s stories have appeared in Opium, Matchbook, The Collagist, Pif Magazine, Barrelhouse, and Apt. She was a finalist for Southwest Review's 2013 Fiction Prize.
Theresa Senato Edwards has three published books of poetry and two published short stories. Her poem "Painting Czeslawa Kwoka" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and excerpts from Edwards’ verse novel in progress, "wing bones," are in the latest issue of Gargoyle Magazine. She blogs sometimes at TACSE creations.
Nicholas Efstathiou is a freelance writer, husband, and father surviving as a trashman in New England.
When not slaying Dragons, Falconhead uses Dragon-blood to write poetry, short stories and plays. His work has appeared in Whistling Fire, and Two Hawks Quarterly, Adanna, Outside In Literary & Travel Magazine, and is forthcoming in Glasschord, and in Reverse Culture Shock Anthology.
Gloria Garfunkel is the daughter of two Holocaust survivors and has a Ph.D. in Psychology and Social Relations from Harvard University. She has done psychotherapy for thirty years and has published nearly forty stories recently, mostly flash fiction and memoir. She posts stories on her blog Querulous Squirrel Microfiction Daily.
Katrina Greco is a writer and teacher living in Oakland, California. Her writing has been published in Caught in the Carousel, The Fiddleback, and Hot Metal Bridge. She is fond of sass and stitchery.
Joseph Haeger graduated from Eastern Washington University with a BA in Creative Writing, focusing on fiction under Samuel Ligon. He currently works as a projectionist in Spokane, WA. He has had work published in Zygote in My Coffee, Apropos Literary Journal, Hippocampus Magazine, and Rock & Sling. He has also had a one-act play produced at Gonzaga University. He is a contributor to the alt-weekly the Inlander newspaper.
Bradley Mason Hamlin is an American writer, veteran of the United States Navy, and alumni of the University of California, where poet Gary Snyder dubbed Hamlin “The Road Warrior of Poetry!” Hamlin was born in Los Angeles and currently lives in Sacramento, California with his wife, Nicky Christine, and their children, and their wild cats. He is the editor of Zero Percent Magazine and his latest book of poems, California Blonde, is available from Black Shark Press.
Caitlin Jennings has a master's degree in writing from Johns Hopkins University. Her story “A New Life™ at 30” was shortlisted in the 2012 Writers & Artist Short Story Competition. Her writing has also appeared (or is forthcoming) in The Binnacle, Crunchable, Jersey Devil Press, Northern Virginia Magazine, On Tap, and Piker Press.
Jacqueline Jules is a poet, teacher, and author of two dozen children's books including Zapato Power and Unite or Die: How Thirteen States Became a Nation. Her poetry has appeared in numerous publications including Christian Science Monitor, Imitation Fruit, Innisfree Poetry Journal, Inkwell, Potomac Review, and Pirene's Fountain. Visit her online here.
Erica L. Kaufman lives in Providence, Rhode Island in an old, tilted red house with her needy cat and her less-needy husband. Originally from New Hampshire, she earned her BFA from Emerson College in Writing, Literature, and Publishing and her MFA in Writing for Young People from Lesley University.
Christine Kelly is a professional photographer and writer from northern California. She lives with her husband and three cats and considers her therapist her best friend.
Jennifer Lagier is a retired college librarian/instructor, member of the Italian American Writers Association, Pacific Northwest Writers Association, Rockford Writers Guild and helps coordinate monthly Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium Second Sunday readings.
John McMahon is a part time antique exporter, some time educator and full time writer. He has been living on the banks of the River Kwai in Thailand for ten years.
Regan Markley lives in Oklahoma City with her two dogs and very weird cat. She is an editor for the New Plains Review and will either finish her Master’s thesis or lose her ever-loving-mind. Dealer’s choice.
Tim Miller's work has appeared online and in print in Parabola, Mungbeing, and The Burning Bush. Other notes from history and mythology are frequently posted at wordandsilence.com. His narrative poem "To the House of the Sun" will be published by S4N Books in 2015.
Lee Morgan is a retired IBM employee who did technical writing. He is now free to pursue his passion to write fiction.
Devin Murphy's recent work appears or is forthcoming in Glimmer Train, The Michigan Quarterly Review, The Missouri Review, Shenandoah and The Shoutheast Review as well as over forty other literary journals and anthologies. Devin has also been a winner of The Atlantic Monthly’s 2009 and 2010 Student Writing Contests, and holds and MFA from Colorado State University, a Creative Writing PhD from the University of Nebraska—Lincoln and is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Bradley University.
Originally from Pennsylvania, Kevin Murphy received his BA in English from the University of Alabama and his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Idaho. He resides in Asheville, NC. His only constants across these four states have been his writing and his still working, original Nintendo.
Colleen Purcell is a photographer living in Chile. Her photos have appeared in Off The Coast, The Meadowland Review, Subliminal Interiors, Ken Again, Anderbo and a few other publications.
Kay Poiro is a former arts and entertainment columnist for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Her recent fiction can be found online here and here. She is also a screenwriter and internationally produced playwright whose plays have been performed across the U.S. and around the world.
Wayne hails from Tampa, Florida and has been doing creative writing since he was five years old. Wayne has been published in various zines over the years, including The Cannon's Mouth Quarterly, The Rolling Thunder Press, and Poets Espresso. His first flash fiction story “Breaking Point”, has recently been published at Staxtes.com Greek Literary Review via their “English Wednesdays” Internet zine.
Laide Salako is a graduate of English and currently working as an instructor in a high school.
Elizabeth Helen Spencer is a graduate of Temple University’s MFA program, where she served as Assistant Fiction Editor for the first issue of TINGE Magazine. She co-hosts the Palabras Reading Series in Philadelphia. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from C4: Chamber Four Lit Mag, Friends Journal, Ragazine, and Almost 5Q.
John Stocks is a UK based poet who has had work published in magazines worldwide. He has been widely anthologised.
Emery Thanathiti is currently a junior at Iowa State University, her major is English with an emphasis on creative writing and Linguistics. She was born in Bangkok, Thailand to a Thai father and a Chinese mother, because of that her first language was "pigeon English." She has been reading and writing since she was little and has, in recent years, decided that she shall write seriously in order to inspire other non-native English speakers to not be afraid in pursuing the study of English or a career as an author.
Susan Wolbarst is a writer living in Davis, CA. Her poetry, essays and articles have been published in a variety of places, including The Ledge Poetry & Fiction Magazine, Naugatuck River Review, Poetry Now, PC magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Sacramento Bee and others.
Denis Bell is a mathematics professor based in Jacksonville, Florida. He was born in London, England a while back. In addition to writing fiction, his hobbies include listening to music, watching Premier League soccer, and surfing (the web, that is). His writing has appeared, or is forthcoming in Bewildering Stories, Bareback Magazine, The Rusty Nail, Literary Juice, Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine, Calliope, Hirschworth, Enhance Magazine, and EWR.
Mark D. Bennion's poems have appeared in Aethlon, The Comstock Review, Irreantum, RHINO, and other journals. Later this year his second collection of poems, Forsythia, will be published by Aldrich Press. For the past 13 years he's taught writing and literature courses at BYU–Idaho.
Nick Bertelson's other work has appeared or will appear in The Coe Review, The Raleigh Review, Bull Magazine, The New Plains Review, and others.
C.W. Bigelow lives in the Charlotte NC area. His short stories and poems have most recently appeared in The Scrambler,The View From Here,The Shine Journal, The Gloom Cupboard, Indigo Rising, Litsnack,Sister Ignition, Full of Crow, FeatherLit, Curbside Splendor, Literary Juice and The Dying Goose.
As a senior at The University of Northern Colorado, Lindsey Cira is studying English with an emphasis in secondary education. With plans to become a high school English teacher, Cira is looking forward to implement her love for poetry into the classroom. After taking an introductory to poetry course on a whim freshman year, writing and reading poetry has become a necessary part of Cira's everyday life.
Besides writing, Susannah Cecil is a counselor, a yoga instructor and a Board Member of Winston-Salem Writers. Her work has appeared in Deep South Magazine & Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. She was a Finalist in the 2012 Press 53 Open Awards Anthology Contest. She lives in Clemmons, NC.
Chris Curtis is a writer, musician, artist, and poet. His works include “Possessions,” award-winners “Trouble Follows,” featured in The Wayward Peacemaker, and full-length play For the Trees. He lives in Colorado with his wife and pets.
Ray Cline is from Chicago by way of Indiana. He likes to eat pears and collect seashells.
Vela Damon has lived in eleven different states and is currently setting up camp in Texas with two humans, two dogs and one unsociable cat. Her work has appeared in 101 Words, The Subterranean Quarterly, Short-Story.me and several other publications. Visit her Here.
Jim Davis is a graduate of Knox College and an MFA candidate at Northwestern University. Jim lives, writes, and paints in Chicago, where he reads for TriQuarterly and edits North Chicago Review. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Seneca Review, Adirondack Review, The Midwest Quarterly, and Contemporary American Voices, in addition to winning multiple contests, prizes, Editor's Choice awards, and a recent nomination for Best of the Net Anthology. His book, Assumption (Unbound Content, 2013) will soon be followed by book two, Earthmover (Unbound Content).
George Dila's short story collection, "Nothing More to Tell" was published by Mayapple Press in 2011. His stories and essays have appeared in numerous publications.
Hector Duarte Jr. is working on his graduate degree at Florida International University's MFA program. He is a high school English/ELL teacher.
Joshua Duncan, Memphis College of Art BFA 2011 illustration, is an independent New Orleans based artist. Duncan's paintings and drawings pull from the human experience and seek to connect the viewer with moments of the eternal.
J.K. Durick is a writing teacher at the Community College of Vermont and an online writing tutor. His recent poems have appeared in Write Room, Bitterzoet, Third Wednesday, and Up the River.
Margaret Eaton’s stories have appeared in Opium, Matchbook, The Collagist, Pif Magazine, Barrelhouse, and Apt. She was a finalist for Southwest Review's 2013 Fiction Prize.
Theresa Senato Edwards has three published books of poetry and two published short stories. Her poem "Painting Czeslawa Kwoka" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and excerpts from Edwards’ verse novel in progress, "wing bones," are in the latest issue of Gargoyle Magazine. She blogs sometimes at TACSE creations.
Nicholas Efstathiou is a freelance writer, husband, and father surviving as a trashman in New England.
When not slaying Dragons, Falconhead uses Dragon-blood to write poetry, short stories and plays. His work has appeared in Whistling Fire, and Two Hawks Quarterly, Adanna, Outside In Literary & Travel Magazine, and is forthcoming in Glasschord, and in Reverse Culture Shock Anthology.
Gloria Garfunkel is the daughter of two Holocaust survivors and has a Ph.D. in Psychology and Social Relations from Harvard University. She has done psychotherapy for thirty years and has published nearly forty stories recently, mostly flash fiction and memoir. She posts stories on her blog Querulous Squirrel Microfiction Daily.
Katrina Greco is a writer and teacher living in Oakland, California. Her writing has been published in Caught in the Carousel, The Fiddleback, and Hot Metal Bridge. She is fond of sass and stitchery.
Joseph Haeger graduated from Eastern Washington University with a BA in Creative Writing, focusing on fiction under Samuel Ligon. He currently works as a projectionist in Spokane, WA. He has had work published in Zygote in My Coffee, Apropos Literary Journal, Hippocampus Magazine, and Rock & Sling. He has also had a one-act play produced at Gonzaga University. He is a contributor to the alt-weekly the Inlander newspaper.
Bradley Mason Hamlin is an American writer, veteran of the United States Navy, and alumni of the University of California, where poet Gary Snyder dubbed Hamlin “The Road Warrior of Poetry!” Hamlin was born in Los Angeles and currently lives in Sacramento, California with his wife, Nicky Christine, and their children, and their wild cats. He is the editor of Zero Percent Magazine and his latest book of poems, California Blonde, is available from Black Shark Press.
Caitlin Jennings has a master's degree in writing from Johns Hopkins University. Her story “A New Life™ at 30” was shortlisted in the 2012 Writers & Artist Short Story Competition. Her writing has also appeared (or is forthcoming) in The Binnacle, Crunchable, Jersey Devil Press, Northern Virginia Magazine, On Tap, and Piker Press.
Jacqueline Jules is a poet, teacher, and author of two dozen children's books including Zapato Power and Unite or Die: How Thirteen States Became a Nation. Her poetry has appeared in numerous publications including Christian Science Monitor, Imitation Fruit, Innisfree Poetry Journal, Inkwell, Potomac Review, and Pirene's Fountain. Visit her online here.
Erica L. Kaufman lives in Providence, Rhode Island in an old, tilted red house with her needy cat and her less-needy husband. Originally from New Hampshire, she earned her BFA from Emerson College in Writing, Literature, and Publishing and her MFA in Writing for Young People from Lesley University.
Christine Kelly is a professional photographer and writer from northern California. She lives with her husband and three cats and considers her therapist her best friend.
Jennifer Lagier is a retired college librarian/instructor, member of the Italian American Writers Association, Pacific Northwest Writers Association, Rockford Writers Guild and helps coordinate monthly Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium Second Sunday readings.
John McMahon is a part time antique exporter, some time educator and full time writer. He has been living on the banks of the River Kwai in Thailand for ten years.
Regan Markley lives in Oklahoma City with her two dogs and very weird cat. She is an editor for the New Plains Review and will either finish her Master’s thesis or lose her ever-loving-mind. Dealer’s choice.
Tim Miller's work has appeared online and in print in Parabola, Mungbeing, and The Burning Bush. Other notes from history and mythology are frequently posted at wordandsilence.com. His narrative poem "To the House of the Sun" will be published by S4N Books in 2015.
Lee Morgan is a retired IBM employee who did technical writing. He is now free to pursue his passion to write fiction.
Devin Murphy's recent work appears or is forthcoming in Glimmer Train, The Michigan Quarterly Review, The Missouri Review, Shenandoah and The Shoutheast Review as well as over forty other literary journals and anthologies. Devin has also been a winner of The Atlantic Monthly’s 2009 and 2010 Student Writing Contests, and holds and MFA from Colorado State University, a Creative Writing PhD from the University of Nebraska—Lincoln and is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Bradley University.
Originally from Pennsylvania, Kevin Murphy received his BA in English from the University of Alabama and his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Idaho. He resides in Asheville, NC. His only constants across these four states have been his writing and his still working, original Nintendo.
Colleen Purcell is a photographer living in Chile. Her photos have appeared in Off The Coast, The Meadowland Review, Subliminal Interiors, Ken Again, Anderbo and a few other publications.
Kay Poiro is a former arts and entertainment columnist for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Her recent fiction can be found online here and here. She is also a screenwriter and internationally produced playwright whose plays have been performed across the U.S. and around the world.
Wayne hails from Tampa, Florida and has been doing creative writing since he was five years old. Wayne has been published in various zines over the years, including The Cannon's Mouth Quarterly, The Rolling Thunder Press, and Poets Espresso. His first flash fiction story “Breaking Point”, has recently been published at Staxtes.com Greek Literary Review via their “English Wednesdays” Internet zine.
Laide Salako is a graduate of English and currently working as an instructor in a high school.
Elizabeth Helen Spencer is a graduate of Temple University’s MFA program, where she served as Assistant Fiction Editor for the first issue of TINGE Magazine. She co-hosts the Palabras Reading Series in Philadelphia. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from C4: Chamber Four Lit Mag, Friends Journal, Ragazine, and Almost 5Q.
John Stocks is a UK based poet who has had work published in magazines worldwide. He has been widely anthologised.
Emery Thanathiti is currently a junior at Iowa State University, her major is English with an emphasis on creative writing and Linguistics. She was born in Bangkok, Thailand to a Thai father and a Chinese mother, because of that her first language was "pigeon English." She has been reading and writing since she was little and has, in recent years, decided that she shall write seriously in order to inspire other non-native English speakers to not be afraid in pursuing the study of English or a career as an author.
Susan Wolbarst is a writer living in Davis, CA. Her poetry, essays and articles have been published in a variety of places, including The Ledge Poetry & Fiction Magazine, Naugatuck River Review, Poetry Now, PC magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Sacramento Bee and others.
