Emily Rose Kahn-Sheahan

Emily Rose Kahn-Sheahan lives in Chicago where she hosts and curates the Mental Graffiti poetry series and Real Talk Live, when she’s not converting coffee drinkers to the amazing world of loose tea. Her work has recently appeared in Columbia Poetry Review, After Hours, Jet Fuel Review and TimeOut Chicago. Her chapbook, Cigarette Love Songs and Nicotine Kisses, was…

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Bobbi Lurie

Bobbi Lurie’s work has been published in Fence, American Poetry Review, and New American Writing, among others. She is the author of four poetry collections, most recently the morphine poems (Otoliths, Australia).

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V.A. Smith

V.A. Smith is a writer and photographer who feels lucky to live and work in Portsmouth, NH. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Driftwood Press, Connotation Press, Scissors & Spackle, Petrichor Review, Temenos Journal, Stirring, Paper Tape, and Muzzle Magazine. She can be reached at vixworx.com.

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Terry Barr

Terry Barr’s essays have appeared in Hamilton Stone Literary Review, Wilderness House Review, Red Fez, Tell Us A Story, Sport Literate, Blue Lyra Review, Melange Press, Thin Air, and Iron Gall Review. He lives in Greenville, SC, with his wife and two daughters.

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Hayley Solomon

Hayley Solomon (B.Bibl(Hons); M.A.) is primarily a novelist. She is a Romantic Times ‘Top Pick” awardee, and a University of Maine at Machias Honoree thrice over. Under African Shadows was her debut into the literary short story genre, followed by the Music Box which featured as a top ten of the Momaya Press Annual Review 2013. When she is not…

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Julie Paul

Julie Paul’s first book of short stories, The Jealousy Bone, was published in 2008. Stories, poems and essays have appeared in many literary journals, including The Dalhousie Review, The Fiddlehead, Event, PRISM International and The Rusty Toque. Her second collection of short stories, The Pull of the Moon, will be published by Brindle & Glass this year. She lives…

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Nina Badzin

Nina Badzin lives in Minneapolis with her husband and four children. She’s a contributing writer at Brain, Child Magazine and Kveller.com, and her fiction has appeared in The Drum Literary Magazine, The First Day Journal, The Ilanot Review, Literary Mama, Midwestern Gothic, Monkeybicycle, The Pedestal Magazine, The Potomac: a Journal of Poetry and Prose, and elsewhere.

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Stephen Mead

When not being a creatively frustrated secretary employed by a very nice university in NY, Stephen Mead is a published artist, writer, maker of short collage-films and poetry/music mp3s.  Much can be learned of his multimedia work by placing his name in any search engine. His latest Amazon release is entitled “Our Spirit Life,” a poetry/art meditation…

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Jessica Barksdale

Jessica Barksdale is the author of twelve traditionally published novels, including Her Daughter’s Eyes and When You Believe. Her short stories, poems, and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming in Salt Hill Journal, The Coachella Review, Carve Magazine, Mason’s Road, and So to Speak. Her latest novel is forthcoming in the fall from Ghostwoods Books. She is a professor of…

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