Timothy A. Ruane is an experimental artist, photographer, creative writer and art reviewer for Artist Portfolio Magazine. He graduated from Georgetown University, where he studied English and the fine arts. He taught photography at the Edmund Burke School in Washington D.C. and was a chief copy editor in the editorial department of The Washington Post,…

Thaddeus Rutkowski is the author of the novels Haywire, Tetched and Roughhouse. He teaches at Medgar Evers College and the Writer’s Voice of the West Side YMCA, both in New York. His writing has appeared in The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, Fiction, and Fiction International. He was awarded a 2012 fellowship in fiction writing…

Lita A. Kurth (MFA Rainier Writers Workshop) has published essays, poems, and short stories in Tikkun, NewVerseNews, Blast Furnace, eliipsis…literature and art, the Santa Clara Review, the Exploratorium Quarterly, Tattoo Highway, Vermont Literary Review, and others. An excerpt of her novel appeared as a story, “Marius Martin, Proletarian,” in On the Clock: Contemporary Short Stories of Work (Bottom Dog Press). Her nonfiction, “Pivot,” which appears in…

Ira Joel Haber was born and lives in Brooklyn. He is a sculptor, painter, book dealer, photographer and teacher. His work has been seen in numerous group shows both in USA and Europe and he has had nine one-man-shows including several retrospectives of his sculpture. His work is in the collections of  The Whitney Museum Of American Art, New York University,…

Ada Limón is the author of three collections of poetry, Sharks in the Rivers, This Big Fake World, and Lucky Wreck. Her work has appeared in numerous magazines and journals including Harvard Review, TriQuarterly Online, Poetry Daily, and The New Yorker.  She has received fellowships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and…

Cathleen Calbert’s poetry and prose have appeared in many publications, including Ms. Magazine, The New York Times, and The Paris Review. She is the author of three books of poetry: Lessons in Space (University of Florida Press), Bad Judgment (Sarabande Books), and Sleeping with a Famous Poet (C.W. Books). She has been awarded The Nation…

Laura Madeline Wiseman is the author of more than a dozen books and chapbooks and the editor of Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2013). Her books are American Galactic (Martian Lit Books, 2014), Some Fatal Effects of Curiosity and Disobedience (Lavender Ink, 2014),Queen of the Platform (Anaphora Literary Press, 2013), and…

Paul David Adkins lives in New York and works as a counselor.

Ana Consuelo Matiella, MA, was born in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico and raised in Ambos Nogales, on the U.S./Mexico border by a clan of Spaniards and Mexicans. She is author of The Truth About Alicia and Other Stories (University of Arizona Press), and of various books on multicultural education, including Positively Different, Cultural Pride, and La Familia (ETR Associates). She has been a…