Joseph Masser
Joseph Masser is a high school English teacher in rural New Jersey (yes there is such a thing), currently pursuing his MFA in fiction from National University. He has been a national cycling champion and a coppersmith, and his musical alter ego has written, recorded and released four original albums of folky rock and roll under the name Joe Cassady & The West End Sound.
Alley Malinenko
Ally Malinenko occasionally gets stories and poems published online or in print. Occasionally she doesn’t. It’s all relative. She is the author of the poetry book “Wanting Bone” by Six Gallery Press and the children’s novel “Lizzy Speare and the Cursed Tomb” published by Antenna Books. She lives in Brooklyn which is amazing except for when it isn’t.
Richard Wagle
Richard Wagle is a writer and artist who resides in Cleveland, Ohio. He has lived in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Ohio and may one day escape the Midwest.
Jane Otto
Jane Otto’s poems and short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Nimrod International Journal, Existere – Journal of Arts and Literature, Eclipse, Talking River, The Journal, and New Southerner. She was a finalist for Nimrod’s Pablo Neruda Prize in Poetry for 2013, and received an Honorary Mention in the New Southerner’s 2012 Literary Edition. Jane was raised in Colorado and grew up in New York City, where she lived for nearly 25 years. Currently, she lives in Los Angeles, where she is working on a chapbook entitled, “Why I Went Away.”
Joshua Osto
Joshua lives and works in London, England. He has been published this year in Prole and Birkensnake magazines. JOshua is a co-Editor of The Red Line magazine.
Reneé Bibby
Reneé Bibby is a teacher and a student with The Writer Studio, Tucson. Previously published in Black & BLUE, she has read at Writers Studio National and International Branches Reading at the KGB Bar in New York, NY.
Steven Leonardo Cifford
Steven Leonardo Clifford is an experimental poet, a Long Island native and self-proclaimed “postmodernism lover” and “literary theory buff,” Clifford has written for a series of online publications including: Eviscerator Heaven, Calliope Nerve, Asbestos Boots on Beatnik Feet, See Spot Run, Camel Saloon, penmen review, Blind Vigilance Revue, and was the only poet to be featured in an online edition of Queens Politics. A member of a family of artisans and the artistically minded, Clifford’s relatives shared with him their insights and nurtured him throughout the years, which no doubt helped to transform him into the poet he is today.
Francesc Franch
Francesc is a native of Spain who came to the United States at the age of seventeen. She has authored three novels, “Amelia Asleep in the Darkness” (Pagès Editors, Spain, 2011), “Gray City Under the Rain” (Editorial Milenio, Spain, 2007), and “A Hidden Portrait” (Editorial Milenio, Spain, 2005). The first was written in Catalan, while the latter two were written in Spanish. Francesc has also written “A Catalan Symbolist: Selected Poems of Marius Torres” (Peter Lang Publishing, 1992), and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Compass Rose, Front Range Review, Fourteen Hills, G.W. Review, Hiram Poetry Review, Hospital Drive Magazine, Monarch Review, Natural Bridge, The Old Red Kimono, Phantasmagoria, Quercus Review, Quiddity Literary Journal, Rio Grande Review, Sanskrit, Schuylkill Valley Journal of the Arts, Spoon River Poetry Review, Stand, and Verdad.
Keith Moul
Keith’s poems and photos appear widely. Three recently published books include: T”he Grammar of Mind” from Blue & Yellow Dog; “Beautiful Agitation” from Red Ochre Press; and “Reconsidered Light,” a collection of poems written to accompany Keith’s photos, from Broken Publications.