Skyler Nielsen
Skyler Nielsen grew up on a family farm in California’s San Joaquin Valley. A fifth generation farmer, he acquired a love for stories from his father and this led him to UC Riverside where he received a BA in U.S. History in 2002. Shortly after the family farm went under in 2003 Skyler relocated to California’s central coast and began writing while working for the grounds department at Cabrillo Community College.
Scott Anderson
Scott Anderson studied fiction writing as an undergraduate at The University of Iowa and also at Goddard College. His fiction appears in Word Riot, Burst, Marco Polo Arts Mag, Otis Nebula, Cell Stories 2010, Fuck Fiction, and will be in the next issue of Sleet Magazine. He has received grants from The McKnight foundation and The Five Wings Arts Council.
Alicia Cole
Alicia Cole lives with a photographer and a bevy of animals. Over their house, egrets and great blue herons fly. She has a penchant for birding, blackberries, and walking through brambles. Her poetry and short fiction may be found in Birkensnake, Third Wednesday, Punchnel’s and Eclectica Magazine. She blogs at three-magpies.livejournal.com.
Strother Kevin Hall
Strother Kevin Hall is a native of Powell County, Ky., and currently lives in Georgetown, Ky. He is a graduate of the University of Kentucky and spent several years as a newspaper reporter and editor in Georgetown. His first book, “Lost Change and Loose Cousins,” co-authored with Aaron Saylor, was published in 2013.
Drew Dean
Drew Dean is from Northeastern Vermont near the city of Burlington. He went to the Vermont Commons School, a private college prep school in South Burlington. He started writing seriously in junior year with poetry, and moved on to fiction and nonfiction in senior year. He has participated on the reading board for Rivercraft magazine at Susquehanna University where he attends, and is currently the poetry editor for another magazine, Variance. He entered college as a creative writing major with a film studies minor. He hopes to carry his lessons and experiences to his goal of writing and directing films.
Tony Van Witsen
Tony Van Witsen has been writing fiction for approximately ten years, specializing in short stories. In the summer of 2001 he enrolled the MFA program in fiction at Vermont College and received his degree in January 2004. His stories have appeared in Square One, Serving House Journal, Crosstimbers, Ray’s Road Review, and Valparaiso Fiction Review. He lives in Wisconsin.