Amye Barrese Archer is a graduate student working towards her MFA in Creative Writing at Wilkes University. She has written poetry, short stories, a novel that will never be finished, and many truths on bathroom walls. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming in PANK, Twins, The Ampersand Review, The Battered Suitcase, and others. Her chapbook, No One Ever Looks Up, was published by Pudding House Press in 2007. Amye has two-year-old twin daughters, and shares her life with her brilliant husband, Tim. You can see samples of her work and read her blog at www.amyearcher.com
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Eric Blanchard was born in 1965 and grew up in Houston, Texas. Eric has an Associate of Fine Arts degree in theatre, a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy, and a Juris Doctor degree. He has practiced law in Houston and around the State of Texas since 1996. Eric’s poetry has recently been published, or is forthcoming, in Hanging Moss Journal, Autumn Sky Poetry and Breadcrumb Scabs. He currently resides in Onalaska, Texas.
April Michelle Bratten April Michelle Bratten is a writer from Minot, North Dakota. She has upcoming work in Greenbeard, Pirene's Fountain, and Hobo Camp Review. She is the co-editor of the online literary journal Up the Staircase.
Clay Carpenter is a newspaper copy editor in Corpus Christi, Texas. His poems have appeared in such literary journals as Flutter, Apple Valley Review, Falling Star, Nibble, decomP and Orange Room Review.
Bill Christophersen’s poems have appeared in such journals as Antioch Riview, Borderlands, Main Street Rag, Poetry, Shenandoah and Virginia Quarterly Review. He lives in New York City.
Nadine Darling lives and writes in the Boston area with her adorable husband. Catch up with her at http://sixtruethings.blogspot.com/
Janann Dawkins has written poetry for over twenty years. Her work has been featured most recently in Gloom Cupboard, mad swirl, Anastomoo, Blinking Cursor, The Tonopah Review, Tipton Poetry Journal, At-Large, Taj Mahal Review, Alba and MiPOesias; and she has other work forthcoming as well. Her chapbook, Micropleasure, was published by Leadfoot Press in 2008. A graduate of Grinnell College with a B.A. in American Studies, she now resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Carol Lynn Grellas is a two-time Pushcart nominee and the author of two chapbooks: Litany of Finger Prayers, from Pudding House Press and Object of Desire newly released from Finishing Line Press. She is widely published in magazines and online journals including most recently, The Smoking Poet, deComp and The Lyric with work upcoming in Pirene’s Fountain, Ken *again, Poetry Midwest and The Best of Boston Literary Magazine. She lives with her husband, five children and a tiny, blind dog named Ginger.
M.J. Iuppa lives on a small farm near the shores of Lake Ontario. Her most recent chapbook is As the Crows Flies (Foothills Publishing 2008) and second full length collection, Within Reach, forthcoming from Cherry Grove Collections (2010). She is Writer-in-Residence and Director of the Arts Minor Program at St. John Fisher College, Rochester, NY.
Jackie Jones is a freelance writer and photographer from Orange County, Calif. She earned a Bachelor's degree in English and journalism from Chapman University in Orange, Calif., and is currently applying to grad schools for creative writing. She never goes anywhere without her little black Moleskin book and a Nikon at her side, in case inspiration strikes. See more of her work at jacquelynrachel.blogspot.com
Rhonda Lott is currently a PhD candidate at Texas Tech University. Her work has appeared in Kennesaw Review, The Southern Quarterly, Journal of Truth and Consequence, and elsewhere. She also serves as an editor for Stirring.
Zach Lundgren is a creative writing student at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he expects to earn his BA and then move onto graduate school; hopefully somewhere a little warmer. With recent success, he has had poems in several online and print reviews, including his own school's honors journal.
Donal Mahoney an immigrant from Chicago, lives in St. Louis, MO. He has worked as an editor for The Chicago Sun-Times, Loyola University Press and Washington University in St. Louis. He has had poems published in or accepted by The Wisconsin Review, The Kansas Quarterly, The South Carolina Review, Orbis (England), Commonweal, The Christian Science Monitor, Revival (Ireland), The Beloit Poetry Journal, The Istanbul Literary Review (Turkey), Oak Bend Review, Poetry Super Highway, Public Republic (Bulgaria) and other publications.
Twice nominated for The Pushcart Prize, Carla Martin-Wood is the author of two recently released chapbooks, Garden of Regret and Redheaded Stepchild, and a third forthcoming, The Last Magick, all from Pudding House, as well as poems in two anthologies, Love Poems & Other Messages for Bruce Springsteen, and Casting the Nines. Carla has been widely published in the US, UK, and Ireland, in Rosebud, Flutter, TheLyric, Tinfoildresses, The Foliate Oak, State Street Review, Elk River Review, and others. http://www.thewellredhead.com/
Louis McKee has poems forthcoming in APR, 5 A.M., Paterson Poetry Review, and Poet Lore, among others. RIVER ARCHITECTURE, a selected poems, was published in 1999, and a collection of his newer work, NEAR OCCASIONS OF SIN, appeared in 2006. Adastra Press has published MARGINALIA, a volume of his translations from Old Irish of monastic poems. STILL LIFE, a chapbook of poems, is just been issued from FootHills, and JAMMING, is a prize winner and forthcoming from TLOLP.
Matt Ryan’s poems have appeared in over twenty journals, including Pindeldyboz, Opium and Word Riot. He is a Pushcart Prize nominee, editor for Best New Writing and English professor at Concordia University St. Paul. He holds the MFA in Writing from Spalding University.
Gregory Sherl writes poems about Lane Cleary's lips. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in New York Quarterly, Gargoyle, Los Angeles Review, Bryant Literary Review, Night Train, Chiron Review, Everyday Genius, Eclectica, PANK, and elsewhere.
Julia Klatt Singer is the poet in residence at Grace Neighborhood Nursery School and a visiting writer in the schools through Compas. She has had over thirty poems and short stories published. She is also a calendar poet in the St Paul Almanac, 2010. Ms. Singer lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Gianni Skaragas was born in Northern Greece, Macedonia. He has published four novels in Greece, including “Surface”, which recently appeared in France. In 2008, he was granted a Fulbright Foundation scholarship for the University of Iowa's International Writing Program. His English play “Prime Numbers” premiered in New York on February 2009.
Larry D. Thomas a member of the Texas Institute of Letters and the 2008 Texas Poet Laureate, retired in 1998 from a thirty-one year career in social service and adult criminal justice, and has since that time published ten collections of poems. His most recent collection, an e-chapbook titled The Circus, was recently published online by Right Hand Pointing, and a book-length print collection titled The Skin of Light is forthcoming from Dalton Publishing. Among the numerous prizes and awards he has received for his poetry are the 2004 Violet Crown Award (Writers’ League of Texas), 2003 Western Heritage Award (National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum), two Texas Review Poetry Prizes (2001 and 2004), and a $2,000.00 grant from The Ron Stone Foundation for the Enhancement and Study of Texas History. His poetry has also received three Pushcart Prize nominations, a Poet’s Prize nomination (Nicholas Roerich Museum), and four Spur Award Finalist citations (Western Writers of America). His Web site address is http://www.larrydthomas.com/.
Billy Thompson is a technical writer. He lives with his wife Abby in Media, Pennsylvania, a few minutes outside Philadelphia. His essays have appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Quarterly Conversation, The Vocabula Review, The Schuylkill Valley Journal and Confluence.
Mimi Vaquer was born in 1974 in Savannah, GA where she is a poetry and fiction writer, in addition to being an 8th grade English teacher. She graduated from Georgia Southern University with a BA in English in 1997, and is currently pursuing her Masters Degree in Education. She has work in previous and upcoming literary journals, including Willard and Maple, Foliate Oak, Grey Sparrow Press, Ouroboros Review, and Steam Ticket Journal.
Ken Wheatcroft-Pardue has most recently been published in Big Land, Big Sky, Big Hair: Best of the Texas Poetry Calendar, The Texas Observer, and Borderlands. He also has a poem forthcoming in the 2010 Texas Poetry Calendar.
Michael T. Young has published two collections of poetry: Because the Wind Has Questions and Transcriptions of Daylight. He has received a 2007 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and a 2008 William Stafford Award. He's been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize and received the Chaffin Poetry Award for 2005. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Heliotrope, Lips, The Same, The Sow's Ear Poetry Review, and many other journals. His work is also in the anthologies Phoenix Rising and Chance of a Ghost. He currently lives with his wife and children in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Fredrick Zydek is the author of nine collections of poetry. Formerly a professor of creative writing and theology at the University of Nebraska and later at the College of Saint Mary, he is now a gentleman farmer when he isn’t writing. He is the editor for Lone Willow Press.