Karen Boissonneault-Gauthier
Karen Boissonneault-Gauthier is a photographer, writer and columnist who has often been told she has an eye for what the camera loves. She likes to say that’s why she rarely turns the camera onto herself. She has previously shot cover art for Crack the Spine and has been featured in Zen Dixie Magazine, Cactus Heart Press, Dactyl and Vagabonds Anthology to name but a few.
Jeni McFarland
Jeni McFarland is an MFA in Fiction at the University of Houston. She is a Michigander, and has worked previously on a snow removal team for a roofing company, as a housekeeper for a hotel, and as the pastry chef of a country club. Her writing has appeared in Spry, Forge, and elsewhere.
Arthur Davis
Arthur Davis is a management consultant, has been quoted in The New York Times, Crain’s New York Business, interviewed on New York TV News Channel 1, taught at the New School University, given testimony as an expert on best practices for the U.S. Senate and appeared as an expert witness on best practices before The New York State Commission on Corruption in Boxing. He has written 11 novels and over 130 short stories. Over 40 stories have been published online and in print.
Matt Piotrowski
Matt Piotrowski has an MA in Writing from Johns Hopkins University and currently lives in Washington, DC. His work has appeared in Bluestem, Cottonwood, Red Wheelbarrow Literary Magazine, Lullwater Review and Pangoline Papers.
Ron Torrence
Ron’s story, “Persistence of Vision,” was featured in a special 10th anniversary edition of Eureka Literary Magazine in 2002. He has been writing for many years. His stories range from near mainstream treatments to pretty far-out, dream-like pieces. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Dirty Goat, Dos Passos Review, Nassau Review, Riversedge, Orange Willow Review, Slipstream, Oxalis, Ash, Potent Aphrodisiac, Rockhurst Review, The Tower Journal, Thereby Hangs A Tale, Typo, Sour Grapes, Circuit Traces, RE:AL, Reflections Literary Journal, way station magazine, West Wind Review, Wild Violet, and Pleasant Living. He has taught short story courses at the Writers’ Center in Bethesda, Maryland, and he’s published a non-fiction book, “In the Owner’s Chair,” (Prentice-Hall), a video, “Ten Keys to Success” which won the Best Business Video of 1995 from the Special Interest Video Association, and many articles in the field in which he makes his living, small business management, including work featured in the Wall Street Journal.
Randall Brown
Randall Brown teaches at Rosemont College’s MFA in Creative Writing Program. He is the author of the award-winning collection “Mad to Live” (Flume Press, 2008), his essay on (very) short fiction appears in The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction: Tips from Editors, Teachers, and Writers in the Field, and he appears in the Norton Anthology of Hint Fiction (W.W. Norton, 2010). He blogs regularly at FlashFiction.Net and has been published widely, both online and in print, including online at American Short Fiction, Tin House, and Mississippi Review; and in-print in Cream City Review, Lake Effect, and Harpur Palate.
Ann Minoff
Ann graduated from New York University with a degree in philosophy and continued her education at the National College of Chiropractics in Illinois. She received my Doctorate of Chiropractic in 1982. Ann currently teaches classes on Qigong and Kabbalah. Her work is forthcoming or has been published in The Alembic, Amarillo Bay, Blood Lotus, California Quarterly, The Chaffin Journal, The Distillery, Diverse Voices Quarterly, Emprise Review, Harpur Palate, Jewish Women’s Literary Annual, Licking River Review, The Literary Review, Lullwater Review, Nimrod, Pearl, Porcupine, Quiddity Literary Journal, Sacred Journey: Journal of Fellowship in Prayer, Spoon River Poetry Review, and The Write Room.
Susan Adams
Susan Adams, PhD is an Australian poet published in nine countries. She was awarded ‘commended’ in the 2012 O’Donoghue International Poetry Competition (Ire), Highly Commended in the Val Vallis Award 2012 , (Au), and Highly Commended in the Adrien Abbott Poetry Prize 2012.(Au). She has been read numerously on ABC Radio National. Publications include Quadrant, Westerly, Southerly, Eureka Street, Hecate, Social Alternatives, Cordite, FourW, The Long Paddock, Australian Poetry. Her first book “Beside Rivers” was released by Island Press. (2013)
Jeffrey Dieter
Jeffrey Dieter studied writing at Goucher College and lives in Baltimore, Maryland. He believes that one should not wait for inspiration and write in spite of feeling that one has nothing new to say.