Lavinia Roberts is a visual artist, facilitator, activist, and published and award-winning writer based in Brooklyn, NY. She creates masks, puppets, and other objects for live performances. Her work has been produced in Los Angeles, Seattle, New York, and London. She is literary manager for The New Alchemists, a social justice oriented performance collective.

Devin Murphy’s recent fiction appears in The Chicago Tribune, Glimmer Train, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Missouri Review, and Shenandoah as well as many other literary journals and anthologies. He holds an MFA from Colorado State University, a Creative Writing PhD from the University of Nebraska—Lincoln, and is now an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Bradley…

Caroline Swicegood is an American writer and educator living in Turkey. Her fiction has appeared in Fiction Southeast, Upstreet, Prick of the Spindle, and other journals, and her nonfiction has appeared in The Literary Bohemian. She lives with her husband on the Asian side of Istanbul.

Julie Brooks Barbour is the author of Small Chimes (Aldrich Press, 2014) and three chapbooks, most recently Beautifully Whole (Hermeneutic Chaos Press, forthcoming 2015). Her poems have appeared in Waccamaw, Four Way Review, diode, storySouth, UCity Review, Prime Number Magazine, burntdistrict, The Rumpus, Midwestern Gothic, and Verse Daily. She is co-editor of Border Crossing and…

Jenna Kilic-Somers received her MFA in Creative Writing from The Ohio State University, where she served as poetry editor of The Journal. Her work has been featured or is forthcoming in Southern Humanities Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, Pleiades, and elsewhere. She grew up in North Fort Myers, Florida and lives in Columbus, Ohio.

Elaina Mercatoris grew up in rural Pennyslvania and studied literature at Allegheny College. She is currently an M.F.A. candidate at the University of Florida, where she also teaches undergraduate writing courses. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Avatar Review and Natural Bridge.

Willy Palomo is a McNair Scholar at Westminster College, studying English and creative writing. His side projects include translating forthcoming novel by Alfonso Kijadurias’ Sivela and working as a reader for the editors at Kalina Press. Willy hopes to eventually become a professor of Salvadoran/Central American literature and creative writing. His work has been published…

Dan Alter has poems recently published or forthcoming in Burnside Review, Field, Zyzzyva, Fourteen Hills, Newfound, Paper Nautilus, Squaw Valley Review, and Sou’wester among others. He lives with his wife and daughter in Berkeley and makes his living as an electrician.

A San Jose, California native, Erin Redfern serves on the board of the Poetry Center San Jose and as associate editor for the 2015 issue of its print publication, Caesura. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Zyzzyva, Scapegoat Review, Mud Season Review and Foliate Oak Literary Magazine.