Betsy Hays was born, raised and raised her children in the Midwest. She currently lives in Champaign, Illinois with her husband and three dogs. She recently graduated from the University of Illinois with a BA in English and Creative Writing.
Noelle Adamo is a stay-at-home mother with a master’s degree in social work from Columbia University. She enjoys the rural Upstate New York life and all the activities that come with it—hiking, splitting wood, etc.—and keeping a house full of family and friends.
Zach VandeZande is the author of “Apathy and Paying Rent” (Loose Teeth, 2008). His work has recently appeared in Hot Street and Local Lore, and is forthcoming in The Adroit Journal. He is currently a PhD student of fiction at the University of North Texas.
Anna Halberstadt has published many works in the field of psychology but has found poetry to be a more adequate and condensed way to expand on the same themes—growing up as a child of Holocaust survivors in a country still struggling with past trauma, living in three countries (Lithuania, Russia, U.S.), and immigration. She is a finalist in the 2013 Mudfish poetry contest and her creative work has been published by Amarillo Bay, Bluestem, Cimarron Review, Forge, Good Men Project, Mudfish, St. Petersburg Review, Alembic, Permafrost and Tiferet, and translations of her poems in the Lithuanian journals Literatūra Ir Menas and Šiaurės Atėnai. Her collection of poetry “Vilnius Diary” is coming out in the Mudfish individual poet series, Box Turtle Press, in the summer 2014.
Rebecca “Ree” Davis’ writing reflects her early exposure to everyday life through odd jobs and short career bursts as a cook, dishwasher, produce deliverer, farm worker, seamstress, sample garment deliverer, office cleaner, typist, baker, stylist, software program designer, and sales clerk in divsere towns and cities. These jobs fueled her desire to explore as she spent years crisscrossing the country, and eventually traveling to Europe, Latin America and Asia. She then graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Science, followed by ten years as head of research and development for Fortune 500 Company. She has since garnered master degrees in architecture and creative writing. Ree has lived on both US coasts and in Japan and China. She now resides in southwest Virginia with her husband of sixteen years. Her fiction echoes with the people, places and situations she encountered during her years on the road and overseas.
Devon Gallant is the founder and publisher of Cactus Press and the author of 11 chapbooks, including “ABRACADABRA.” His work has previously appeared in Carousel, Misunderstandings Magazine, and the Belleville Park Pages. As well as being a poet, Devon is also a chaos magician, pronoaic, and devotee of Narayani Amma. His forthcoming collection “S(tars)&M(agnets)” is an experimental blend of shamanism, concrete and erotic poetry.
Mollie McNeil lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She studied art and English at the University of California, Berkeley, Mills College and University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is currently a writer, a visual artist and mother of two.
Eugenie Juliet Theall completed her MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, founded a children’s library in Nairobi, Kenya, and currently teaches creative writing and English to middle school children. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Carquinez Poetry Review, The Chaffin Journal, CQ, Curbside Review, Diverse Voices Quarterly, Eclipse, Flash!Point, Forge, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, Hawaii Pacific Review, Hiram Poetry Review, Illuminations, Lullwater Review, Mudfish, Oregon East Magazine, Passage, Quercus Review, Red Rock Review, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Silk Road, and Slipstream. Miss Theall’s work also won first place in the Elizabeth McCormack/Inkwell contest.
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