G. K. Adams and her husband live on the Texas Gulf Coast. Her fiction has appeared in a number of journals, including The Legendary, Linnet’s Wings, Vine Leaves Literary Journal, Zest Literary Journal, and Flashquake. Her personal essays have appeared in Texas Gardener and the anthology From the Porch Swing. She has served on the editorial staff of an allied health journal in the District of Columbia and as a technical editor for industry. She taught high school English for five years.

Gloria Ludlam Bennett writes poetry and prose and is a Pushcart Prize nominee. Her work has appeared in various literary journals and reviews. She teaches composition, literature, and creative writing at the University of North Georgia. She also serves as President, Board of Directors, for the Georgia Writers Association.

Ray Cline is from Chicago by way of Indiana. He likes to eat pears and collect seashells.

Edward A. Dougherty is the author of Backyard Passages (FootHills Publishing, 2012) as well as four other chapbooks, and of the books Pilgrimage to a Gingko Tree (WordTech, 2008) and Part Darkness, Part Breath (Plain View Press, 2008). After finishing his MFA in Creative Writing in Bowling Green, Ohio, Dougherty taught at BGSU and was poetry editor of the Mid-American Review. In 1993, he and his spouse traveled to Hiroshima to be volunteer directors of the World Friendship Center where they served for two and a half years, witnessing the fiftieth anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They now live and work in Corning, New York, a place defined by the confluence of three rivers and a glass company you may have heard of.

Born and raised in Brooklyn, Eugene Durante is a Police Officer for the NYPD. He is a keen observer of the off-beat and a world class smarty-pants. A New York archetype, “Gino” is well known for not stroking others and not getting stroked in the process.

John Grey is an Australian born poet. Recently published in International Poetry Review, Sanskrit and the science fiction anthology, “Futuredaze” with work upcoming in Clackamas Literary Review, New Orphic Review and Nerve Cowboy. 

Cole U. Hamer’s work has been staged, published, and aired on radio in the US and abroad. Recent stories have appeared in or are coming in: Stymie: A Journal of Sport and Literature, ThickJam and The Pavilion. You can reach Cole here.

Allen Hope’s fiction and poetry has appeared in Fried Chicken and Coffee, Ghost Town, Gravel Magazine, Snow Monkey, and elsewhere. He is a graduate of Sonoma State University and currently lives in Gallipolis, Ohio with his wife and two daughters.

David Jones holds an MA in dance from Mills College. He began his studies at the University of Oregon where he performed with the Ballet Company. In the Bay Area, his mentors were Gwen Lewis and Ed Mock. He has been influenced by such noted jazz specialists as Gus Giordano and Joe Tremaine. He has worked with the Village People, Taj Mahal, Luciano Pavarotti, and Harold Nicholas of the famed Nicholas Brothers. He also worked with the cast of the Las Vegas spectacular "Jubilee", and performed with the San Francisco Opera’s productions of “Lost in the Stars” and “Aida”, which was televised live in Europe.. He has been a guest instructor for both the Dance Masters of America and the National Association of Dance Artists, and is a professor of Dance at the College of Marin. He has been published.

Chad W. Lutz was born in Akron, Ohio, in 1986 and lives in the neighboring suburb of Stow. An avid athlete, activist, writer and musician, Chad holds a BA in English with a Minor in Writing from Kent State University. He runs and writes (a lot).

Kaci Mason lives in Kansas City, where her two cats conspire to obstruct her keyboard when she manages to get quiet writing time. Her poetry has been published most recently in The Storyteller and this is her first short story.

JD Mayrant is a freelance writer from Washington, DC. She has previously been published in Black Heart Magazine, Haunted Waters Press and Cliterature Online Journal.

Jenean McBrearty's photography inspires and expresses her writing aesthetic: look below the surface. She is a graduate of San Diego State University, and a former community college instructor who taught Political Science and Sociology. 

Junior Mclean is a Bronx native, for a time he lived in Anderson, Indiana and back, he is currently a freelance digital artist and graphic designer since 1996 and a digital cover “2D/3D” artist for Gaming, Fantasy, Sci-Fi; and fractals which have been used for public exhibitions and more. Learn more here.

Mark J. Mitchell studied writing at UC Santa Cruz under Raymond Carver, George Hitchcock and Barbara Hull. His work has appeared in various periodicals over the last thirty five years, as well as the anthologies Good Poems, American Places,Hunger Enough, Retail Woes and Line Drives. His chapbook, Three Visitors has recently been published by Negative Capability Press. Artifacts and Relics, another chapbook, is forthcoming from Folded Word and his novel, Knight Prisoner, was recently published by Vagabondage Press.. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, the documentarian and filmmaker Joan Juster.

Brigita Orel has had her stories and poems published in Foliate Oak Literary Journal, Cantaraville, Autumn Sky Poetry, and other magazines and collections. In 2010, she was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She studied writing at Swinburne, Australia, and she lives and creates in Slovenia. Her blog can be found here.

Ben Orlando, editor and writing teacher and has published work in a variety of magazines and journals, including the Bellevue Literary Review.

Stephen Ostrowski is a widely-published fiction writer, poet, playwright and, more recently, songwriter.

R. Hoyte Raney is a Paramedic Field Chief for the Chicago Fire Department, and the front man for the Chicago based Alt/Americana band "Drama Junkies". His writing has appeared in N.E.I.U’s the Apocalypse, the Chicago Tribune, the Oklahoma Review (Spring, 2013) and will be appearing in Penduline Press and Emerge Literary Journal (Fall, 2013).

Vanessa Raney is an American living in Croatia, and working on a novel. Her poems, fiction, nonfiction and scholarly writings have previously appeared in various, though mostly online, publications.

Oliver Rice’s poems appear widely in journals and anthologies in the United States and abroad. Creekwalker released an interview with him in January, 2010. His book of poems, On Consenting to Be a Man, is published by Cyberwit and is available on Amazon. His online chapbook, Afterthoughts,
Siestas, and his recording of his Institute for Higher Study appeared in Mudlark in December, 2010.

Larry Rogers is a poet and singer/songwriter. He lives in Fort Smith, AR, with his wife and several cats. His poems have appeared in New York Quarterly, the South Carolina Review, Rattle, and the Denver Post.


Taylor Ross holds a BA in English from UCLA, participated in the Short Story: Advanced Workshop at the UCLA Writers’ Program, and has published in Santa Barbara Magazine, among others. A finalist in the 2012 Writer Unboxed Flash Fiction contest, Ross placed second in the Stanford Story Slam 2013.

Mindela Ruby is a teacher, writer, and culinary explorer. Her fiction has appeared in print, online and in mp3 format in journals including Arcadia, The Binnacle, FRiGG, Melusine, Literary Mama, Jersey Devil Press, and BoundOff. She has written a novel, MOSH IT UP.

David Rutter is a Los Angeles based writer of poetry, fiction and theatre. This year his work has been published in Haggard & Halloo, The Wilderness House Literary Review, Subliminal Interiors, Dressing Room Poetry Journal, Clean Sheets, Leaves of Ink, Eskimo Pie, Eunoia Review, The Los Angeles Review of Los Angeles and most recently, the Los Angeles Times. He is not writing a screenplay.

Lori Schafer is a part-time tax practitioner and part-time writer residing in Northern California. Her short stories, flash fiction, and essays have appeared in numerous print and online publications, and she is currently completing her second novel. You can find more of her work here.

Adam Schrum spends his time thinking in Rochester, Minnesota. His poetry has appeared in Fox Cry Review.

Samy Sfoggia is an undergraduate Photography student. She shoots with film cameras and primarily with black and white negative film scanned and digitally altered (assemblies, color inversion, drawings on the tablet). Her work is influenced by movies (David Lynch) and literature (Franz Kafka). She tries to represent the subconscious mind by creating fantastic imagery and by juxtaposing elements that seem to contradict each other. Her pictures are like frames of an unconscious deliberately incoherent and illogical. She tries to create the nightmare aesthetics.

Louis Staeble has most recently had photographs appear in the Ohio Environmental Council's 5th Annual Photo contest. His web site can be found here.

Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Teresa Starr's poems have appeared in dozens of literary magazines including the Journal of the American Medical Association, North American Review, The Sun, and Ploughshares. She and her husband, musician Mark Alexander, currently live in Western Kentucky.

Lara Sterling is a writer living in L.A. She was previously a journalist for Playboy. Her fiction has appeared in various literary magazines. 

Allison Thorpe's work has appeared in a variety of journals, some of which include Poem, Appalachian Heritage, Parnasus, Potato Eyes, Kalliope, Wind, The Milo Review, Dead Flowers, Pikeville Review, Sunrust, Damaged Wine, Cold Mountain Review, and Zephyrus.

John Vanderslice's fiction, poetry, and nonfiction has appeared widely in literary journals and anthologies, including Versal, Seattle Review, South Carolina Review, 1966, Sou'wester, Laurel Review, and Exquisite Corpse.

Leah Zibulsky is writing a collection of essays about her dating life. She lives and copyedits for money in New York City.