Louis Wittig works in the advertising industry in New York. He feels that if he leads with that fact, rather than the fact that he tries at writing, you will judge his work on a curve. Like you’ll think “this is good for some guy.” He would appreciate your thinking that. His short fiction and…

Jennifer Tappenden is the founding editor of Architrave Press. She earned an MFA in poetry from the University of Missouri—St. Louis where she also served as the university’s first Poet Laureate. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Flyway, The St. Andrew’s Review, Terrain, Euphony, Bryant Literary Review, Slipstream and elsewhere. Her interview (with…

K. Carlton Johnson lives in the Northern Peninsula of Michigan. Her work has been featured in Diner, Pacific Review, Rattle, Nassau Review, The Connecticut Review, MacGuffin, and Barley South. She is both poet and artist. Her latest book of poems is called Doors and Windows.

Kirsten Hemmy was a Fulbright Fellow for the 2012-2013 academic year, studying border and migration narratives in West Africa. She is currently teaching at the Centre d’Etudes Avancees et de Researche En Management de Projet, Programme, et Portefeuille, Dakar.  When she is not in Senegal, Hemmy is an Associate Professor of Literature at Johnson C.…

Susan Breen is the author of the novel The Fiction Class, which was published by Plume/Penguin. Her stories have been published in Best American Non-Required Reading 2009, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, anderbo.com and many other literary journals. She teaches at Gotham Writers and her second novel, about Tilda and Kamal, is almost done!  

Jenny Rough is a lawyer-turned-writer whose essays, features, and profiles have appeared in publications ranging from Salon, The Washington Post, and Yoga Journal, to More, Writer’s Digest, and AARP, where she is also letters editor for AARP Bulletin. Her work has been included in a number of popular anthologies, and she blogs about nurturing the creative spirit at www.jennyrough.com.

Ian Duhig has written six books of poetry, most recently Pandorama (Picador 2010). He has won the Forward Best Poem Prize, the National Poetry Competition twice, and three times been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. A chapbook of work from his Digressions project based at Shandy Hall will be published this year. Photo by…

Jim Krosschell divides his life into three parts: growing up for 29 years, working in science publishing for 29 years, and now writing in Massachusetts and Maine. His essays are widely published; a collection of his Maine-themed essays will be published in One Man’s Maine (May 2017) by Green Writers Press. His book Owls Head…

Roy G. Guzmán’s poems have appeared in Drunken Boat, Red Savina Review, The Acentos Review, and BorderSenses. He is a native of Honduras, and is currently a Miami resident and English instructor. He wants to dedicate these poems, in particular, to those who struggle to be heard and understood. You can witness his musings over on Twitter (@dreamingauze) and…