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Bahareh
In March 2011, in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, Iranian American Bahareh Bravely took the first steps toward taking her poetry into the public eye. After successfully launching her website, her poems were described by Abu Dhabi Tempo Magazine as “living in the same world we do, yet different. A world more colorful, fantastical, and surreal and yet sometimes more grey, isolated and horrific.” Bahareh has gone on to collaborate with film directors on two poetry videos, and her first public recital led to two television features on the regional cultural channel Poet TV, and the national anchor Abu Dhabi TV introduced her as “one of Abu Dhabi’s most eclectic writers.”
Jill Calvet
Brandon Stettenbenz
Brandon Stettenbenz, an Indiana University alumnus, has been published in Straylight magazine. A frequent participant in and organizer of literary events in Louisville, KY, Brandon is also the author of the literary arts blog “Keep Louisville Literary” (keeplouisvilleliterary.
Josh deLacy is a student at Calvin College. His writing has previously appeared in Dialogue. During the mountaineering season, he spends his time in Washington State’s Olympic and Cascade mountains.
Mark J. Mitchell studied writing at UC Santa Cruze under Raymond Carver, George Hitchcock and Barbara Hull. His work has appeared in various periodicals over the last thirty five years, as well as the anthologies Good Poems, American Places, Hunger Enough, and Line Drives. His chapbook “Thee Visitors” will be published by Negative Capability Press later this year and his novels “The Magic War” and “Knight Prisinor” will be published in the coming months. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, the documentarian and filmmaker Joan Juster. Currently, he’s seeking gainful employment since poets are born and not paid.
Joyce Chong studies health sciences in Ontario, Canada. Her interests include surrealist art, alternative music, and experimental poetry. Her work can be found or is forthcoming in Corvus, Fiction365 and Short, Fast, and Deadly, among others.
John Harper is a graduate of the Writer’s Workshop at Iowa, and has published his poetry in literary journals like DIAGRAM, MID-AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW, CUTBANK, SPINNING JENNY and ZOLAND POETRY. He was a book finalist with Four Way Books, and has a chapbook called PEEK-A-BOO TERRAIN.
An English Lit major in college, Christine slipped into publishing by becoming the artist that had been lurking inside all along. She worked happily in graphics for many years. Now liberated from daily deadlines, she loads more ebooks than she can possibly read into her iPad, keeps her cats contented and tries to tempt her muse with camera, Photoshop, and the occasional poem. Some of her artwork has been published in Fiction at Work, the San Pedro River Review, Crack the Spine, and Mused.