Amanda Shayne Aszman lives with her husband in Washington state, where she is a writer’s assistant and an editorial intern for Entangled Publishing. Her work appears in Kenyon Review Online, Working Writer, Nib Magazine, and Revolver. She’s writing her first novel, a YA urban fantasy. You can find her at www.amandashayne.com.

Barbara Abercrombie has published novels, children’s picture books, including the award­winning Charlie Anderson, and books of non­fiction. Her personal essays have appeared in national publications as well as in many anthologies. Her most recent books are Courage & Craft: Writing Your Life Into Story, Cherished: 21 Writers on Animals They’ve Loved & Lost, and A…

Glen Chamberlain lives in Bozeman, Montana, where she teaches writing at Montana State University. “Horse Thieves” is from the short story collection Conjugations Of The Verb To Be. She has completed her second collection, All I Want Is What You’ve Got, and is working on a novel, The Grand Voyage To The Country Of The…

Cathi Grandfield lives in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. Her poems have appeared in The Fiddlehead and are forthcoming in Grain.

Marion Agnew’s fiction has appeared in Prairie Fire, South Dakota Review, and the 11th annual Ten Stories High anthology, as well as at the Blind Hem. Her essay, “All I Can Say,” appeared in Best Canadian Essays 2012 and in Room magazine and was shortlisted for the 2009 CBC Literary Awards. An essay entitled “Words” is…

Randall Mann is the author of two books of poems, Breakfast with Thom Gunn and Complaint in the Garden. A new collection, Straight Razor, is forthcoming from Persea Books in October 2013. His poems and prose appear in Poetry, The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, Salmagundi, and The Washington Post. He lives in San Francisco.

Anne R. Allen is the author of six romantic-comedy mysteries and a guidebook for authors co-written with Catherine Ryan Hyde. Anne’s blog, which she shares with Ruth Harris, was named one of Writer’s Digest’s Best 101 Websites for Writers for 2013. Her  award-winning poems and short fiction have appeared in journals as diverse as the literary…

Em Howard is, among other things, a late-bloomer who came to the craft of writing in her forties. Before she added the title of “writer” to her list of endeavors, she has been a daughter, a best-friend, a wife, a mother, and a non-traditional student at Michigan State University where she studied English and creative…

Aliza is a poet and playwright, graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She makes her living as an Astrologer and Tarot Reader in New York City. You can find her blogging daily at moonplutoastrology.com.