Robyn Goodwin holds an MFA in Creative Writing from George Mason University, where she won the highest prize for fiction, The Heritage Award ($15,000). Her story, “Watershed,” was later selected by her contemporary fiction hero, Sherman Alexie, to appear in Scribner’s “The Best of the Writing Workshops”. She’s been published in Five Points, So To…

Aileen Hunt is an Irish writer and editor, and lives in Dublin. She is working on her first book, a collection of short essays based on the lives of pioneering women. One of her essays will be published shortly in the Lindenwood Review. She has many great memories of the years she spent living in Ohio and California…

Susannah Clark teaches creative writing and freshman composition at Emerson College, where she earned her MFA in 2013. She currently lives in the Inman Square neighborhood of Cambridge, Mass., but is soon moving to northern India to teach at Ashoka University. Her essays and journalism have appeared in publications such as Extract(s), Rock & Sling, BCDWire, and…

Mitchell Welch is a writer, editor and poet from Melbourne, Australia. He is the poetry editor of Ricochet Magazine and his work has been featured in a range of Australian and international journals.  

Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, The Nation, Poetry, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. His most recent collection is Almost Rain, published by River Otter Press (2013). For more information, including free e-books and his essay titled “Magic, Illusion and Other Realities,” please visit his website at www.simonperchik.com.

Chris Yamashita lives in Portland, OR, and teaches writing at Chemeketa Community College. He’s been published in Weave, won a DeFilippis-Rosselli Award for Writers of Color, and was named Semi-Finalist in Dzanc Books’ International Literature Awards. He holds an MFA from Oregon State University.

Lee Olsen is an English master’s student at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA. Growing up in the mountains of northern Utah, he learned early to appreciate rugged landscapes and stories of the people who inhabit them. He is pleased to call the Pacific Northwest his current home.

Suzannah Showler’s collection of poems, Failure to Thrive, is out April 2014 from ECW Press.

Leonore Wilson received her B.A. and M.A. in English and Creative Writing at UC Davis, and has taught at various colleges in the Bay Area for over twenty years. She has been the recipient of various grants and fellowships through Villa Montalvo Center for the Arts and the University of Utah. Her work has been…