New week, new issue, new friends…
Ann Privateer
A poet grounded by a rich sense of place, Ann Privateer grew up in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. There she kept lists of words in a notebook while walking in the woods or on icy shards of the Chagrin River. She moved to L.A., California to continue college, married, then moved north to raise a family. Now, a retired teacher, she spends part of the year in Paris, France with family. Her poems have appeared in Manzanita, Poetry Now, Tapestries, Entering, and Tiger Eyes to name a few.
Matthew Hall
Matthew Hall has just finished Monmouth University graduate school and lives in New Jersey, where he teaches middle school. He enjoys spending summer months, over-caffeinated and writing, in coffee houses. He is currently working on his first novel.
Jessica Housand-Weaver
Jessica Housand-Weaver is an MFA graduate student at The University of Arkansas at Monticello and co-editor of UAM’s new magazine, Gravel. She has been published or is upcoming in Stone Soup Magazine, Poetic Voices Magazine, The Dark Fiction Spotlight, Mused-The BellaOnline Literary Review, Mocha Memoirs Press, Malpais Review, Fickle Muses, Poetry Pacific, and The New Poet, among others. She currently lives in the mountains of New Mexico with her husband, a disabled veteran, their two children, two step-kids, four dogs, and a flock of freerange chickens.
Wendy Sue Gist
Wendy Sue Gist was raised in the forest of the Southwest on the outskirts of Flagstaff, Arizona. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Burningword Literary Journal, New Plains Review, Oyez Review, Pif Magazine, Rio Grande Review, RipRap, Sundog Lit, The Chaffey Review, The Fourth River, Tulane Review and other fine journals. She currently resides in southwestern New Mexico.
Angela Morris
Angela Morris resides in Oklahoma City with her pit bull, Rollins. She is currently working on her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the University of Central Oklahoma, where she was the recipient for the Bob Burke Endowed Scholarship in Creative Writing and the assistant for the Southwest Everett Literary Award. She currently serves as an assistant fiction editor for the literary journal Arcadia Magazine and is employed as a staff writer at the UCO College of Fine Arts and Design. Angela grew up in a bilingual household with an immigrant mother who installed in her a love for travel and a musician as a father who taught her that art is a way of life. When Angela is not busy studying she travels, her recent conquests including Europe, Thailand and the ever-so-exotic Las Vegas, Nevada. Her travels, as well as her love for music and history and her personal experiences, serve to inspire and influence her writing. Her goals in life include seeing a live performance by the band Mischief Brew and getting accepted into a Ph.D. program to study Literary and Cultural Theory. She is very grateful to her boyfriend for reminding her that while hard work is absolutely necessary in higher education, it’s okay every now and then to sit on a rooftop, listen to music and relax.
Robin Gaines
Robin Gaines’s short stories can be found in various literary journals and anthologies. She has written for newspapers and magazines and received her master’s degree in journalism from Michigan State University. Gaines finished a novel-in-stories and is currently working on a novel about love and the cost of not loving each other enough. She lives outside Ann Arbor, Michigan with her family.
Amelie Daigle
Amelie Daigle holds a bachelor’s degree in English Writing from Loyola University New Orleans, where she had the pleasure of editing and contributing to two English department journals, Revisions and The Reader’s Response. She currently attends Boston College, where she is a Ph.D. candidate in the field of English Literature. Her work is forthcoming in the Diverse Arts Project’s Fall 2013 publication.
Darren C. Demaree
Darren C. Demaree is living and writing in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children. He is the author of “As We Refer to Our Bodies” (2013) and “Not For Art Nor Prayer” (2014), both are forthcoming from 8th House Publishing House. He is the recipient of two Pushcart Prize nominations.