Christine Catalano
Christine Catalano Worked as a graphic designer for many years and is now able to concentrate exclusively on photography She has been published in Crack the Spine previously, is a regular contributor to Bella Online’s Mused magazine, and recently was interviewed for an article about her photography in Canada’s Front&Centre literary magazine.
George Dila
George Dila’s short story collection “Nothing More to Tell” was published by Mayapple Press in 2014, and his short story chapbook, “Working Stiffs” is forthcoming from One Wet Shoe Press in Spring 2014. His stories and personal essays have appeared in numerous journals and earned several literary awards and prizes. A native Detroiter, George now lives and writes in the Lake Michigan shore town of Ludington.
Savannah Ganster
Savannah Ganster is a PhD student at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge where she spends her time studying and making performances. During her free time she enjoys writing poetry, plays, and short fiction. When she’s not working, Savannah can be found relaxing in the company of her two cats, Avalanche and Snapdragon, and her dog, Edgar.
John Gorman
Before John’s stories made it into print he snapped the “Eyesore of the Week” for the Queens Ledger. Now he spits wine for a living. His work has appeared in Monkeybicycle, Writer’s Digest, The Summerset Review, Apt, Hunger Mountain and elsewhere. His debut novel “Shades of Luz” is published by All Things That Matter Press. He snagged his MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific University.
Romana Iorga
Romana Iorga is a Romanian-American writer living in Virginia. She has previously published two collections of poetry in her native language. She is a graduate of the University of Minnesota creative writing program and is currently teaching high school English at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.
Pamela Hammond
Pamela Hammond was born in Chicago, grew up in Southern California, and now lives in Santa Monica. She earned a bachelor’s degree from UCLA and a master’s degree from California State University, Northridge. She worked for a start-up visual art magazine in Los Angeles, images and issues, and then developed her own periodical, Eye International. She became a Los Angeles-based critic for Art News based in New York, reviewing exhibitions for more than a decade. Her love of nature has led her to hike, backpack, and travel, often to Northern California, and to Alaska, the Southwest, Hawaii, and New Zealand’s South Island, which became her home for almost a year. She completed two chapbooks, “Encounters” (2011) and “Clearing” (2012), produced by Red Berry Editions, Fairfax, California. In 2013, her work appeared in Forge, Assisi, Foliate Oak, Broad River Review, and Tulane Review. In 2014, her work will appear in Whistling Shade.
Daniel Clausen
Daniel Clausen has veins that circulate 1930s pulp fiction. When he bleeds Philip Marlowe appears. His work has been published in Slipstream Magazine, Leading Edge Science Fiction, and Black Petals. If you are interested in a review copy of his new book, “The Ghosts of Nagasaki,” you can contact him directly.
Rose Mary Boehm
A German-born UK national, Rose Mary Boehm lives and works in Lima, Peru. Author of two novels and a poetry collection (“Tangents”), her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in US poetry reviews. Toe Good Poetry, Poetry Breakfast, Burning Word, Muddy River Review, Pale Horse Review, Pirene’s Fountain, Other Rooms, Requiem Magazine, Full of Crow, Poetry Quarterly, Punchnel’s, Avatar, Verse Wisconsin, Naugatuck River Review, Boston Literary, Red River Review, Ann Arbor, Main Street Rag, Misfit Magazine and others. See her photography here.
Hannah Thurman
Hannah is a writer living in Brooklyn, NY. In 2011, she completed studies in creative writing at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, where she received Highest Honors for her thesis, a collection of stories called “Good Enough Secrets.” She has stories and reviews published in The Coffin Factory, Fiction Advocate, The Apeiron Review, The Menda City Review, Fiction365, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, and others.