Jessica Bryant Klagmann grew up in New Hampshire surrounded by artists and naturalists. She received an MFA from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where she was also fortunate enough to acquire a haunted truck, an adventurous husband, and a too-adventurous dog. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Whitefish Review, Written River: A Journal of…

RV has written novels, plays, essays, and short stories. He’s currently working on a collection of dervish essays.

Dawn Shirk is a writer and teacher in Greensboro, NC. As an education writer, Dawn has published articles in Library Media Connection and Information Searcher, was a guest editor for The Change Agent, and was a contributor to the New York Times Room for Debate. She is excited to publish her first piece of creative…

Leonard Kogan is an artist who lives and works in Baltimore, MD. Exhibitions include “Wall flowers” Herzliya Museum Israel, “The After Light” Andy Warhol Factory New York, “SUR/FACE/S” Nexus Project Gallery New York, Museum of Yanko-Dada Israel, “Project Diversity” Sputnik Gallery Brooklyn NY, Jordan Faye Contemporary Baltimore and others. Leonard’s work has been featured in a…

Leonard Kogan lives and works in Baltimore, MD. Major exhibitions include “Wall flowers” in Herzliya Museum, “The After Light” at the Andy Warhol Factory in New York, “SUR/FACE/S” at Nexus Project Gallery in New York, a show at the museum of Yanko-Dada of Modern Art in Tel-Aviv, “Project Diversity” in Sputnik Gallery, Brooklyn and others.…

In 2012, John Oliver Hodges won the Tartt First Fiction award for his short story collection, The Love Box. His new fictions are appearing in The Writing Disorder; Gravel; The Great American Literary Magazine; Knee-Jerk Magazine; and REAL: Regarding Arts and Letters. John teaches writing at Montclair State University and the Gotham Writers’ Workshop. He…

Ruth Foley lives in Massachusetts, where she teaches English for Wheaton College. Her work appears in numerous web and print journals, including Antiphon, The Bellingham Review, The Louisville Review, and Nonbinary Review. Her chapbook Dear Turquoise is available from Dancing Girl Press. She serves as Managing Editor for Cider Press Review. Photo credit—Jed Foley

David Raney is a writer living in Atlanta, where he serves as managing editor for Habitat for Humanity. In past lives he taught English at William & Mary, Emory, and the State University of West Georgia. He has spent a great deal of time in bookstores, paid and unpaid, and once knocked himself out while…

Diane Lockward is the author of The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop (Wind Publications, 2013) and three poetry books, most recently Temptation by Water. Her previous books are What Feeds Us, which received the 2006 Quentin R. Howard Poetry Prize, and Eve’s Red Dress. Her poems have been included in such journals as Harvard Review,…