Most of Tom Halford’s writing is set in Saint John, New Brunswick. He lives elsewhere, but he likes to go back to the port city in his head. In February of 2013, he became a proud new papa. Now he writes between diaper changes and of games of peek-a-boo. His last publication was with The…

Elizabeth Kerlikowske is strictly Midwestern and likes to write outside in the sun when there is any. She’s the author of five books of poetry, and her work appears in many journals. She is also the president of Friends of Poetry, a nonprofit in Kalamazoo, Michigan, dedicated to poetry.

Jed Myers is a Philadelphian living in Seattle. Two of his poetry collections, The Nameless (Finishing Line Press) and Watching the Perseids (winner of the 2013 Sacramento Poetry Center Book Award), are to be released in 2014. He won the 2012 Mary C. Mohr Editors’ Award offered by Southern Indiana Review, and received the 2013 Literal Latte Poetry Award.…

A graduate of Smith College, Katrina Kenison spent many years working in publishing, first as a literary editor at Houghton Mifflin Company in New Haven, New York, and Boston, and then, from 1990 through 2006, as the series editor of the best-selling The Best American Short Stories  anthology, published annually by Houghton Mifflin-Harcourt. She co-edited, with John Updike, The…

Beth Kephart is the award-winning writer of sixteen books—memoir, young adult novels, history, and fable. Handling the Truth has received starred reviews, was named a Top Ten September book of the month by BookPage, and was featured in O Magazine. Kephart teaches creative nonfiction at the University of Pennsylvania and was named a Philadelphia Literary…

Rebecca Rosenblum is a writer and editor living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Rebecca’s short fiction has been short-listed for the Journey Prize, the National Magazine Award, and the Danuta Gleed Award, longlisted for the Relit Award, and she was herself a juror for the Journey Prize 21. Her work has been seen in Exile Quarterly,…

Tom Ipri is a librarian and writer currently back in his hometown of Philadelphia, PA after four years in Las Vegas. His creative works have appeared in Ayris Magazine, Small Brushes, Superior Poetry News and The Vermillion Literary Project. You can visit him online at Being and Formulating.

Keith J. Powell earned his MFA at the University of San Francisco. He is a founder and the managing editor of Your Impossible Voice. His work has appeared in Able Muse, Dramatics Magazine, Rougarou, Fiction 365, Playscripts, Inc, and elsewhere.

Debra Eve is a nonfiction writer who blogs about creativity and positive aging at Later Bloomer. You can find her most popular essays on Kindle. She also holds an MA in Anthropology from UCLA, where she was the last assistant to archaeologist Marija Gimbutas, a colleague of Joseph Campbell. She helped bring Dr. Gimbutas’s final book, The Living…