The Contributors
Michael Backus
Amy Bassin
Paula Bosco Damon
Grant Clauser has published two books: Necessary Myths (2013) and The Trouble with Rivers (2012), and has books forthcoming from PS Books and Cider Press Review Books. Poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Cortland Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Tar River Poetry, Southern Poetry Review and others. He also writes about electronics and fishes and teaches when he can. He blogs occasionally at www.unIambic.com. Twitter: @uniambic
Grant Clauser
Dah’s fourth poetry collection is The Translator (Transcendent Zero Press, 2015) and his poetry has been published by editors from the US, UK, Ireland, Canada, China, Spain, Australia, Africa, Philippines and India. His poems have recently appeared in Straylight Magazine, Otoliths, The Cape Rock, Acumen Journal, Sandy River Review, Indian River Review, The Linnet’s Wings, and Junto Magazine. Dah lives in Berkeley, California and is working on the manuscript for his sixth poetry book. ‘Harbinger Asylum Magazine’ nominated Dah’s poem “Some god” for the 2017 Pushcart Prize. He is the chief editor of ‘The Lounge’, a poetry critique group, and his fifth book is forthcoming in 2018, also from Transcendent Zero Press.
Dah
Stacy W. Dixon’s work has appeared in Tiger’s Eye, Pirene’s Fountain, Exponent 11, Sweet Tree Review, Word Fountain, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her first chapbook collection A Pebble Thrown in Water was published by Tiger’s Eye Press, and her new chapbook is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. She can be found on Facebook @stacydixonsplace
Stacy Dixon
Therese Gilardi
Derek Lazarski
Paul Negri
Cree Pettaway
Ellen Roberts Young is a member of the writing community in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She has published two chapbooks with Finishing Line Press, Accidents (2004) and The Map of Longing (2009). Her first full-length book of poetry is Made and Remade, (WordTech Editions, 2014). She is co-editor of Sin Fronteras/Writers Without Borders Journal and blogs intermittently at www.freethoughtandmetaphor.com.
Ellen Roberts Young
Barbara Shomaker
Pat Tompkins is an editor in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her poems and short fiction have appeared in Mslexia, KYSO Flash, Thema, and other publications.
Pat Tompkins
Laura Madeline Wiseman teaches at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her book Drink won the 2016 Independent Publisher Bronze Book Award for poetry. Her book is Velocipede (Stephen F. Austin State University Press), a 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist for Sports.
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Laura Madeline Wiseman
Verna Zafra-Kassala
KB Ballentine has a M.A. in Writing and a M.F.A. in Creative Writing, Poetry. Her latest collection, The Perfume of Leaving, was awarded the 2016 Blue Light Press Book Award. Her work also appears in River of Earth and Sky: Poems for the Twenty-first Century (2015), Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume VI: Tennessee (2013) and Southern Light: Twelve Contemporary Southern Poets (2011).
KB Ballentine
Mark Blickley
Betty Burton
Raven J. Cole is a teacher, YA/poetry writer, and book nerd from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She received her B.A. at Louisiana State University where she studied English and secondary education with concentrations in critical pedagogy and community-based learning spaces.Her poetry can be found in Black Napkin Press, The Fable Online, and at the bottom of most pots of gumbo.
Raven J. Cole
Recipient of the Dana Award in Poetry, Tom Daley’s poetry has appeared in Harvard Review, Massachusetts Review, Fence, Denver Quarterly, Crazyhorse, Witness, and elsewhere. FutureCycle Press published his first-full length collection of poetry, House You Cannot Reach—Poems in the Voice of My Mother and Other Poems, in 2015.
Tom Daley
Linda Dove holds a Ph.D. in Renaissance literature and teaches college writing. She is also an award-winning poet, and her books include In Defense of Objects (2009), O Dear Deer,(2011), This Too (forthcoming, 2017), and the scholarly collection of essays, Women, Writing, and the Reproduction of Culture in Tudor and Stuart Britain (2000). Poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and the Robert H. Winner Award from the Poetry Society of America. She lives with her family and two Jack Russell terriers in the foothills of Los Angeles. More at www.pw.org/content/linda_dove
Linda Dove
Michael Harshbarger
Loretta Martin
Mary Newell, Ph. D. lives in the lower Hudson Valley. She has taught literature and writing at the college level, most recently at West Point. Her poems have been published in Spoon River Poetry Review, Hopper Literary Magazine, Written River, Earth’s Daughters, Chronogram, About Place, Jivin’ Ladybug, First Literary Review East, and other journals and anthologies. Dr. Newell (MA Columbia, BA Berkeley) received a doctorate from Fordham University in American Literature and the Environment. You can read her published poems at http://manitou-musings.weebly.com/.
Mary Newell
Joe Ponepinto
Marzelle Robertson, a retired English teacher and school counselor, lives in East Texas with her husband. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals including Arts and Letters, Borderlands, Cyphers, and The Evansville Review. As for social media, I don’t participate unless you count attendance at happy hour at one of the two happy places on the square in Mt. Vernon, population roughly 2700. The attached photograph was taken in 2015 in the Guadalupe Mountains. We were on our way to Big Bend National Park and the tiny, historic town of Marathon, where Los Portales was written.
Marzelle Robertson
John Sierpinski has published poetry widely in literary magazines from Backstreet Quarterly and California Quarterly to North Coast Review and Spectrum as well as many others. His work is also in three anthologies. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2013. He is currently sending out a book length collection of his poetry. He lives in Plymouth, Wisconsin with his wife Lynn.
He can be found on Facebook and LinkedIn. Or you can Google John Sierpinski to see examples of his writings from the magazines that he is in and a U-Tube video of a reading in Racine, Wisconsin.
John Sierpinski
Doug Van Hooser’s poetry has appeared in Poetry Quarterly, Chariton Review, Sheepshead Review, Gravel, and Black Fox Literary Magazine. His short fiction can be found in Red Earth Review, Intrinsick, Crack the Spine, and The Riding Light Review. Doug is a Chicago playwright active at Chicago Dramatists Theatre and Three Cat Productions.
Doug Van Hooser
Bill Wolak
Kevin Zepper
Alexandria Barkmeier
Ace Boggess is author of three books of poetry, most recently Ultra Deep Field (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2017), and the novel A Song Without a Melody (Hyperborea Publishing, 2016). His writing has appeared in Harvard Review, Mid-American Review, RATTLE, River Styx, North Dakota Quarterly and many other journals. He lives in Charleston, West Virginia.
Ace Boggess
Sara Caporaletti
Sandy Coomer is a poet and mixed media artist. Her poetry has been published in numerous journals and anthologies. She is the author of three poetry chapbooks: Continuum (Finishing Line Press), The Presence of Absence (Winner of the 2014 Janice Keck Literary Award for Poetry), and the forthcoming Rivers Within Us (Unsolicited Press). Sandy is a poetry mentor in the AWP Writer to Writer Mentorship Program, the recipient of fellowships and scholarships to three writers-in-residency programs, and the founding editor of the new online poetry journal Rockvale Review (www.rockvalereview.com). She lives in Brentwood, TN.
Sandy Coomer
Shlomit Miky Dan
Leslie Doyle
Candice Kelsey's poems have appeared in such journals as Poet Lore, The Cortland Review, Hobart Pulp, and Wilderness House -- and her work has been incorporated into multiple 3-D art installations. She has been accepted into the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the Virginia Quarterly Review's Writer's Conference. A high-school English teacher of 19 years' standing, she lives in Los Angeles and serves as a fiction reader for The New England Review.
Candice Kelsey
Tamara Miles teaches English at Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College in South Carolina. She was honored to be a 2016 contributor at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and a resident at Rivendell Writers Colony in August, 2017. Her poetry has been published in Fall Lines; Pantheon; Apricity; The Tishman Review; The Rush; Obra/Artifact; Snapdragon; Whatever Our Souls; The Cenacle; and other publications. She hosts a radio show called “Where the Most Light Falls” related to the arts, focusing on poetry and music at SpiritPlantsRadio.com.
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Tamara Miles
Dayna Patterson
Fabrice Poussin
After growing up in the Pacific Northwest, Catori Sarmiento’s world travels have often inspired her unique writing style. When not exploring the many cracks and crags in Japan, Catori Sarmiento spends her time writing poetry and prose. As an author, her works have appeared in numerous literary publications.
Catori Sarmiento
Louis Staeble
Elizabeth Kirkpatrick Vrenios' poetry has been featured in many online and print journals such as Clementine, Kentucky Review, Two Cities Review, GFT Press, Page and Spine, Form Quarterly, Bethlehem Writers Roundable, and in issues of Hurricane Press, Poeming Pidgeon Unsplendid, The Binnacle, Evening Street Review and The Edison Review. Her prize winning chapbook Special Delivery (a work which plumbs the depths of grief, centering around the poet's twenty year old son Nick, killed in the 1988 terrorist attack that destroyed Pan Am 103 in midair over Lockerbie, Scotland) was published by Yellow Chair Press in the spring of 2016. She has been a 30/30 poet for Tupelo Press. She is a Professor Emerita from American University, and has spent most of her life performing as a singing artist across Europe and the United States.
Elizabeth Kirkpatrick Vrenios
Christopher Woods
Jim Zola
Chelsea Bartlett
Carl Boon lives in Izmir, Turkey, where he teaches courses in American Culture and literature at 9 Eylul University. His poems appear in dozens of magazines, most recently Burnt Pine, Two Peach, Lunch Ticket, and Poetry Quarterly. He is also a 2016 Pushcart Prize nominee.
Carl Boon
Vincent Chabany-Douarre
William C. Crawford
Ian Delaney
Laura Forsey writes free-form poetry about the short, stolen moments that catch your breath. She currently lives in Ottawa, and would consume poetry and novels instead of eating if she should. This is her first formally published work.
Laura Forsey
Grace Lanoue
Devon Miller-Duggan has published poems in Rattle, Margie, The Indiana Review, Harpur Palate, The Hollins Critic. She’s won a couple of prizes, several Delaware Division of the Arts grants, and a handful of Pushcart nominations. She teaches Poetry Writing for the Department of English at University of Delaware. She tries to get to someplace with mountains in it at least once a year, and loves driving across the panhandle of Texas. Her books are Pinning the Bird to the Wall (Tres Chicas Books, 2008), Neither Prayer, Nor Bird (Finishing Line Press in 2013) and Alphabet Year (Wipf & Stock, 2017).
Devon Miller-Duggan
Jack Peterson lives ordinarily in Upland, Indiana, with his wife and two children and runs on country roads.
Jack Peterson
Madison Rahner is from South Carolina. She's an English major studying at Coastal Carolina University. Twitter: @RahnerNotRainer Instagram:@MadisonRahner
Madison Rahner
Caleb Michael Sarvis
Susan Stamm Evans
taylor d. waring is a poet / musician from Oshkosh, WI. He is currently earning his MFA at Eastern Washington University. He recently released his first chapbook, infomercials and released an EP with his post-stoner doom band, Baba Yaga (another is due out soon). He also writes music reviews over at riffrelevant.com (mostly heavy metal). When he’s not writing or playing tunes, he’s watching Gundam Wing, listening to records, or sampling the local Jameson.