Richard Baldasty’s poetry and short prose have appeared in Pinyon, Epoch, and New Delta Review among other literary magazines. Recent work online: AntipodeanSF, Dark Fire, Thick Jam, and Café Irreal; text/image at Shuf Poetry; collage in Fickle Muses, Ray’s Road Review, Big Bridge, and Gravel. He lives in Spokane.

Jessica Barksdale is the author of twelve traditionally published novels, including “Her Daughter’s Eyes” and “When You Believe.” Her short stories, poems, and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming in Salt Hill Journal, The Coachella Review, Carve Magazine,  Mason’s Road, and So to Speak. She is a professor of English at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, California and teaches online novel writing for UCLA Extension.

Juan Esteban Cajigas is a 19 year old writer currently attending Suffolk University in Boston Massachusetts. Juan Cajigas is a rising sophomore and who writes every day. Juan Cajigas was born in Bogota, Colombia but grew up in the suburbs of Orlando, FL. Juan Cajigas fell in love with writing at an early age and besides creative writing is also studying print-journalism. 

Gary Glauber is a poet, fiction writer, teacher, and music journalist. His works have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and one was named “A Notable Online Story” by StorySouth’s Million Writers Award panel. He took part in The Frost Place’s conference on teaching poetry, as well as Found Poetry Review's Pulitzer Remix Project. Recent poems are published or forthcoming in Falling Star Magazine, Red Ochre Lit, Stone Voices, Untitled With Passengers, Emerge Literary Journal, The Bicycle Review, Black Cat Lit, Eunoia Review, and The Kitchen Poet.

Nikita Gill is a 25 year old madness who once wrote an unknown book called Your Body is an Ocean and is now editor of a literary magazine called Modern Day Fairytales.

Joe Giordano was born in Brooklyn. He and his wife, Jane, lived in Greece, Brazil, Belgium and Netherlands. They now live in Texas with their little Shih Tzu, Sophia. Some of Joe's stories  have appeared in the following magazines:  Alliterati Magazine, Ascent Aspirations Magazine, Bartleby Snopes, Black Fox Literary Magazine, Black Heart Magazine, Blue Lake Review, Bluestem Magazine, Bong is Bard, Crack the Spine, Epiphany Magazine, and Forge.

The Poet Dave Gregg was born in Missouri but has lived on both coasts. In 56 years he has seen much and understood little but strives to decode the puzzle via the gift of great poets and then his own.

Nels Hanson’s fiction received the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award and two Pushcart Prize nominations. Stories have appeared in Antioch Review, Texas Review, Black Warrior Review, Southeast Review, Montreal Review, and other journals. Poems appeared in Word Riot, Oklahoma Review, Heavy Feather Review, Meadowlands Review, Citron Review, Ilanot Review and other magazines, and are in press at Stone Highway Review, Works & Days, Scintilla, Emerge Literary Journal, Drunk Monkeys, and Hoot & Hare Review.

Karl Harshbarger is an American writer (living in Germany) and has had over 80 publications of his stories in such magazines as The Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, The Antioch Review, The New England Review and The Prairie Schooner. Two of his stories have been selected for the list of “Distinguished Stories” in Best American Short Stories and twelve of his stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.  He was a finalist for a collection of short stories in the Iowa Publication Awards for Short Fiction, the George Garrett Fiction Prize for Best Book of Short Stories or Short Novel and the Mary McCarthy Prize for Short Fiction.

Adam Houchens is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he studied English Literature under the poet James Liddy. He has been published in Liddy’s magazine the Blue Canary. He has written a novel he is showing to agents and writes short screenplays for a local film cooperative.

Claire Ibarra is a writer, poet, and photographer residing in Miami, Florida. Her photographs have appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including Blue Fifth Review, Microw, Poetic Pinup Revue, and SmokeLong Quarterly. A series of Claire's photographs is forthcoming in Lummox 2.


Caitlin Johnson is the Managing Editor of CAIRN: The St. Andrews Review. Additionally, She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Lesley University. Her work has appeared in Boston Poetry Magazine, Charlotte Viewpoint, Fortunates, Gravity Hill, Pembroke Magazine, and What the Fiction and is forthcoming at allthingsgirl.com.

Laura Story Johnson was born and raised in Iowa and has lived in New York City, bush Alaska, Mongolia, Boston, Austria, west of the Zambezi River in Zambia, and in Chicago. Her photography has appeared in the Apeiron Review, Animal: A Beast of a Literary Magazine, and is forthcoming in Vine Leaves Literary Journal. You can learn more here.

David Michael Joseph is an Alternative writer, poet, and filmmaker from the great state (tongue in check) of New Jersey, now living in Los Angeles, hoping to breath a breath of fresh air into the literary world. He has a passion for story telling and poetry. Many times he had infused the two elements into his films. He has made four short movies including Festival selections and winners Shadows of Sepulveda and C.A.k.E. He also has written Exodus from the River Town, his first collection of short stories.

Connie Kallback, a University of Washington graduate, taught English then took editorial positions with McGraw-Hill, Prentice Hall and Davies-Black while raising her own two sons and four stepchildren. Before her editorial career and second family, her poetry and essays appeared in journals such as the former Davidson Miscellany and other magazines.

Sean Lause teaches courses in Shakespeare, Literature and the Absurd and Composition at Rhodes State College in Lima, Ohio. His poems have appeared in The Minnesota Review, The Alaska Quarterly, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Another Chicago Magazine, European Judaism, The Atlanta Review, The Saranac Review and Sanskrit. 

Alexa Mergen writes poems and essays as well as stories. Her work appears recently or is forthcoming in Front Porch, Nimrod, Passages North, and Prime Number. She is an assistant fiction editor at Fifth Wednesday Journal. Please visit her website.

Thomas Miranda is currently studying Creative Writing at the University of Houston. His work had been published in the Alethea Journal and has had poems previously in Foliate Oak Literary Magazine. His poetry combines philosophical underpinnings with strong aesthetics with a unique subject matter.

Hysop Mulero is originally from Manhattan, NY. She is presently working on a collection of short stories entitled “Soot of Melancholy’s Dwelling Place” that includes “Atonement”, “Wyrd” and others.

Lynn Nicholas, once a technical editor, now focuses on her creative writing. Her stories have appeared on Rose City Sisters’ Flash Fiction Anthology site, the e-zine Long Story Short, and NaNoWriMo’s blog True-Life Tale. She placed in the Summer 2013 Flash Fiction Contest on WOW! (Women on Writing).

Richard Ong"s painted artwork, stories, poetry and photos have appeared in several issues of bewilderingstories.com, yesterdaysmagazette.com 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). He is also an executive producer of a promotional movie short, “A.R.C. Angel: Kalina,” nominated for Best Guerilla Film Short at the 2013 Action on Film Festival at Monrovia, California.

Sherry McCaulley Palmer is a graduate of Spalding University’s MFA Creative Writing Program. Originally from Louisville, Kentucky, Sherry’s previous publications include, Chicken Soup for the Christian Family Soul, I’m Glad I’m a Mom, Down Syndrome Today Magazine, Monroe Life Magazine, The Tennessee Star Journal, and the Breathitt County Voice.

Shannon Ralph is a writer of fiction, creative non-fiction, and some of the best Facebook posts around. She is currently working on her first full-length novel between short stories. She is a southern transplant living the dream in balmy Minneapolis, Minnesota with her partner and three children. When Shannon is not writing, she can be found hunkered over her laptop battling an ugly addiction to online shopping. Visit her here.

David Sahner is a scientist whose poetry has appeared in a number of journals, including The Bitter Oleander and Connecticut Review. 

Debarun Sarkar is based in Calcutta presently having lived in Surat and Hyderabad before and has just graduated from The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. His poetry has recently appeared in The Brown Critique.

Claire Scott is a poet.

Elizabeth Kate Switaj is a Humanities Instructor at the College of the Marshall Islands and a Contributing Editor to Poets’ Quarterly. Her first collection of poetry, Magdalene & the Mermaids, was published in 2009. Recent poems have appeared in UCity Review and Coldnoon. For more information visit her website.

Marianne Szlyk is an associate professor at Montgomery College, associate editor for Potomac Review, and member of the DC Poetry Project. Most recently, her poems have appeared in the Blue Hour Anthology Volume Two and Of Sun and Sand as well as in Jellyfish Whispers and Aberration Labyrinth.

Diane Webster's goal is to remain open to poetry ideas in everyday life or nature or an overheard phrase and to write from her perspective at the moment. Many nights she falls asleep juggling images to fit into a poem. Her work has appeared in Philadelphia Poets,  Illya's Honey,  River Poets Journal and other literary magazines.

Lisa Yow-Williams lives just a short splash from the Florida Gulf Coast, where she writes weird fiction. Her most recent claims to fame appeared in Sips Card and Eccentric Chai. She uses her master’s degree to write in the corporate world and blog about nonsense at https://chronicnonsense.wordpress.com/.

Bill Vernon served in the United States Marine Corps, studied English literature, then taught it. Writing is his therapy, along with exercising outdoors and doing international folkdances. His poems, stories and nonfiction have appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies, and Five Star Mysteries published his novel Old Town.