Eleanor Swanson’s fiction and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in a number of publications. Awards include a Fiction Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Colorado Council on the Arts Fellowship in Literature. Her first poetry collection, A Thousand Bonds: Marie Curie and the Discovery of Radium, was a finalist for…

Bernard Grant is a winner of the 2015 Paper Nautilus Press Debut Series Chapbook Contest. He has been nominated for Best of the Net, was awarded a 2015 Jack Straw Fellowship, and is the Associate Essays Editor for The Nervous Breakdown. His stories and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review, Stirring, Fiction Southeast, and other journals.…

Betty Jo Buro recently received her MFA in creative nonfiction from Florida International University. Her essays have appeared in Hippocampus Magazine, Cherry Tree, The Lindenwood Review, Sliver of Stone, and Hunger Mountain. She lives and writes in Stuart, Florida.

Deborah Bacharach is the author of After I Stop Lying (Cherry Grove Collections, 2015). Her work has appeared in Many Mountains Moving, The Antigonish Review, Literary Mama, and Blue Mesa Review among many others.

William Blomstedt is a geographer and a beekeeper. He lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Matthew Grolemund’s fiction and poetry has appeared in The Ampersand Review, Permafrost, Euphony and Jelly Bucket. A native of Erie, Pennsylvania, and a founding editor of Wichita State University’s online literary journal mojo, he currently writes and teaches in South Korea.

Harry Wilson is a retired professor of Art at Bakersfield College. His photographs have been exhibited and published widely. He has exhibited at the de Young Museum in San Francisco and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art among others, and he has published in Cerise Press, Rolling Stone, The Sun and Zyzzyva among others. He…

José Angel Araguz is a CantoMundo fellow and winner of RHINO Poetry’s 2015 Editor’s Prize. He has had poems recently in Prairie Schooner, Borderlands, and The Laurel Review. He is pursuing a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Cincinnati. Author of Reasons (not) to Dance, a chapbook of microcuento style short…

Kathleen Boyle’s work has appeared in numerous literary magazines, including Zyzzyva, Poet Lore, and The Bellingham Review.