Judith Cody, poet and composer, won national awards from Atlantic and Amelia magazines, also a national award in music. Poetry, in Spanish and English editions, is in the Smithsonian’s permanent collection. Poems are published in over 80 literary journals and anthologies such as: Stand, Nimrod, New York Quarterly, South Carolina Review, Texas Review, Fugue, Distillery, Fox Cry Review, Louisville Review, Madison Review, Caduceus, Oakland Out Loud, Anthology of Monterey Bay Poets, and Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, others. Poems were quarter-finalists for the Pablo Neruda Prize and won honorable mentions from the National League of American Pen Women, and others. Cody was editor-in-chief of the first Resource Guide on Women in Music, San Francisco State University. She wrote the internationally notable biography of composer, “Vivian Fine: A Bio-Bibliography,” Greenwood Press, and “Eight Frames Eight,” poems. She is the editor of a PEN anthology and editor of a NASA division history. View Judith’s website and learn more about her music.
J.D. Kotzman works in the health policy field and lives in the Washington, D.C., area with his girlfriend and two pugs, Grendel and Ginger. Previously, he has served as an editor and writer for several print and online news publications. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Speculative Edge, Straylight Literary Arts Magazine, and the An Unlikely Companion collection (a project of Spark: A Creative Anthology).
A.J. Huffman has published seven solo chapbooks and one joint chapbook through various small presses. Her eighth solo chapbook, “Drippings from a Painted Mind,” won the 2013 Two Wolves Chapbook Contest. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, and her poetry, fiction, haiku, and photography have appeared in hundreds of national and international journals, including Labletter, The James Dickey Review, Bone Orchard, EgoPHobia, Kritya, and Offerta Speciale, in which her work appeared in both English and Italian translation. She is also the founding editor of Kind of a Hurricane Press.
Jessica Evans is a 30 year old writer from Cincinnati, Ohio. As the author of innumerable poems, short stories and an unpublished novel, Jessica’s fingers regularly burn from overuse on a keyboard.. She is the founder of a local writing Salon held monthly at Cincy Workshop, a design collective. A current student at Spalding University, she is in active pursuit of her Masters in Fine Art, Fiction. Interests outside of reading and writing include yoga and running.
Annabelle Edwards is a young writer living in New Jersey with her two cats. She writes poetry, prose, and short stories whilst studying Spanish and Italian. Annabelle is infatuated with the written word and considers it to be a constant challenge, dependent outlet. Annabelle has had a love affair with writing that has lasted longer than any relationship she has been in. Edwards is currently working on her first chapbook, yet to be titled. It will contain a series of poems, prose, and short stories. Annabelle runs a successful writing blog on tumblr called The Scribes of a Poet Of Sorts.
Morgan’s poetry has been published in Exercise Bowler, Pacific Poetry, Angle Poetry, Dead Flowers, Poetry Quarterly and Innisfree. Morgan’s stories can be found in Eclectica, South Loop Review, Embodied Effigies, Shadowbox, Slab, and Glasschord.
Dick Bentley has published fiction, poetry, and memoir in over 200 publications on three continents. He served on the board of the Modern Poetry Association (now called the Poetry Foundation) and was prizewinner in the International Fiction Awards sponsored by the Paris Review and the Paris Writers’ Workshop. His books, “Post-Freudian Dreaming” and “A General Theory of Desire,” are available on Amazon. Visit Dick’s website.
Kenneth P. Gurney lives in Albuquerque, NM, USA. He edits the New Mexico poetry anthology Adobe Walls. To view a fuller biography, publishing credits and available books visit his website.
William D’Arezzo is a native of Providence, RI and has lived most of his life in the New England area. A self-taught musician, he drifted from one day job to another for twenty years while spending his evenings playing saxophone in local bars. During his middle age years he enrolled in Rhode Island College and studied creative writing there with Thomas Cobb. He is the author of one novel, “The Rhonda Front,” two different excerpts from which will be published in the Spring 2014 issues of Cactus Heart and The Milo Review. His short fiction has also appeared in Niche Literary Magazine. He is currently at work on his second novel.