Ashanti Anderson is an undergraduate student at Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans.

Leonard Kress has published fiction and poetry in Massachusetts Review, Iowa Review, American Poetry Review, Atticus Review, Harvard Review, The Writing Disorder, Barn Owl Review, etc. His recent collections are The Orpheus Complex, Living in the Candy Store, and Thirteens. He teaches philosophy, religion, and creative writing at Owens College in Ohio.

Erin Jones is a third-year poet at the University of Florida. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Fourteen Hills, Parcel, Subtropics, Boxcar Poetry Review, Tar River Poetry, and The Lyric.

Melissa Ballard studied fashion merchandising, worked retail and was a bank teller and a public school camp counselor before attending college. She has written essays for Brevity, Gravel, Full Grown People, and other publications.

Sonja Livingston’s latest book, Queen of the Fall, was published this spring as part of the American Lives Series at the University of Nebraska Press. Her first book, Ghostbread, won the AWP Prize for Nonfiction and is taught in classrooms around the country. A new essay collection, Ladies’ Night at the Dreamland (forthcoming, 2016) blends…

Catherine Cobb Morocco was born in South Dakota and currently lives in Newton, Massachusetts. Her first book, Moon without Craters or Shadows (Aldrich 2014) explores her recovery from brain injury. “Son’s Story” from that volume won the Dana Foundation (Neuroscience) prize for poetry about the brain.  Her poems are published in The Massachusetts Review, Prairie…

George Freek is a poet/playwright living in Belvidere, IL. His poetry has recently appeared in The Missing Slate; Offcourse Literary Journal; WrightVerse; Chiron Review; New Plains Review; Rockhurst Review; Blue Door Quarterly; Mud Season; and Samizdat Literary Journal. His plays are published by Playscripts, Inc.; Lazy Bee Scripts; and Off The Wall Plays.

Brock Kingsley holds an MFA in creative writing from the Ohio State University. His words and photographs have been published, or are forthcoming, in The Brooklyn Rail, The Nervous Breakdown, Paste, Pleiades, Slant Magazine, Tahoma Literary Review, and elsewhere. He currently teaches in the Department of English at TCU in Fort Worth, Texas.