Contributors
March 2014

Benjamin Adelmann is a working artist from Los Angeles California, now living in Tokyo. His paintings begin in an abstract mode and are worked and reworked through multiple layers of paint.

Ren Austin is a 53-year-old writer living in Dallas, Texas. She has three children, a dog and a husband. She is not looking forward to the holidays.

Michaela Ballard will graduate from Eastern Kentucky University this December for an English Degree with an emphasis in Creative Writing.

Kyle Beasinger is a writer, producer, and independent filmmaker in Atlanta, Georgia. He enjoys music, movies, and his dogs.

Chrystle Berche is an author, photographer and artist living in North Central Iowa.

Michaela Derrick is a resident of Arkansas. She is a junior in high school and loves to hangout with friends.

Eric Howerton's poetry, fiction, and journalism have appeared or are forthcoming in Pank, the Newer York, The Locust, Dying Goose, The Legendary, The Higgs Weldon, Night Train, Grey Sparrow, Duck and Herring Pocket Field Guides, Johnny America, and Haggard and Hallo.

Michael Lacare has been published in Salon.com as well as Junk Lit Fix Magazine.

Barbara McGaw has poetry published in literary journals both online and in magazine format. In 2011, her poem "A Stone Heart," was the recipient of the Abbie Copps Prize for Poetry, sponsored by Olivet College.


Michael Mira is a writer and photographer based in Houston. His work have appeared in various publications, such as The Nervous Breakdown, Identity Theory, Poetry Pacific, Coalesce Magazines, Negative Suck, among others. He is currently working on a book about abandoned buildings in Texas for Lamar University Press.

Ron Morita has a masters in biomedical engineering and is an electrical engineer. His fiction appeared in Cigale Literary Magazine, Penduline Literary Magazine, and The Chamber Four Lit Mag. It is forthcoming in Star 82 Review, Empty Sink Publishing and Sassafras Literary Magazine.

David Muerdter is a consulting geophysicist but has a history of exhibiting and selling his work at art fairs.

Christopher Mulrooney has written poems in Red Branch Journal, The Germ, Auchumpkee Creek Review, Epigraph Magazine, Exercise Bowler, Futures Trading, Pomona Valley Review, Or, The Ofi Press Magazine, SAND Journal, The Hour of Lead, Black & BLUE, The Cannon's Mouth, The Seventh Quarry, and The Criterion.

Edward Palumbo is a graduate of the University of Rhode Island. His fiction, poems, shorts, and journalism have appeared in numerous periodicals, journals, and anthologies including Rough Places Plain, Flush Fiction, Tertulia Magazine, Epiphany, The Poet’s Page, Reader’s Digest, Baseball Bard, Dark Matter, and poemkingdom.com.

Douglas Penick wrote the National Film Board of Canada’s prize winning two-part series on the Tibetan Book of the Dead (Leonard Cohen, narrator) and the libretti for two operas: King Gesar (Sony CD w/ Ma, Serkin, Ax et. al.) and Ashoka’s Dream (Santa Fe Opera) with composer, Peter Lieberson. He is the author of A Journey of the North Star and Dreamers and Their Shadows.

Nancy Penrose is a well-published and award-winning writer of literary nonfiction. 

Randi Proescholdt was born and raised in Marshall County, Iowa. She is currently a freshman at the University of Iowa.  She is an English major interested in creative writing.

Shara Sinor writes literary nonfiction, mostly centered around her travel experiences. She is an amateur photographer, she displays primary travel photography, but has also created a technique for photographing through a kaleidoscope.