Marguerite Weisman was born in Los Angeles. She’s an editor at HarperCollins and has her MFA from The New School. She now lives in Brooklyn.
Brent is currently an adjunct lecturer at City College of New York and has been teaching both literature and writing courses for the past four years. Brent’s poetry and short stories have appeared in such literary journals as BlazeVox12, Five Quarterly, The Promethean and Shot Glass Journal.
Rosalia Scalia writes both fiction and nonfiction. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Amarillo Bay; The Baltimore Review; North Atlantic Review; Pebble Lake; Pennsylvania English; The Portland Review; Quercus Review; Smile, Hon, You’re In Baltimore; South Asian Ensemble; Spout Magazine; Taproot; Blue Lake Review, and Willow Review, among others. The story that appears in Taproot won first prize in its annual literary fiction competition for 2007, and “Uncharted Steps” merited a 2010 Individual Artist Grant from the Maryland State Art Council.“Sister Rafaele Heals the Sick,” first published by Pebble Lake Review and nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2005, appeared again in an anthology titled “City Sages: Baltimore” (CityLit Press, May 1, 2010), a collection of stories by 32 Baltimore writers, including Poe, Anne Tyler, and Alice McDermott, among others. Her story, “You’ll Do Fine,” was a recipient of the Willow Review Award for the Spring 2011 issue. Her story, “Henry’s Fall,” was a finalist in the Gival Press Short Story competition and her short story collection was selected as one of eleven finalists for the Sante Fe Writers Project Literary Award. Scalia earned a. master’s degree in writing from Johns Hopkins University in May 2003. She lives in Baltimore, Md with her family.
Dan Sicoli is a co-editor with Slipstream Magazine. Bent fenders, broken guitar strings, second-hand dresses, and three-legged dogs have often made their way into his so-called poetry. He lives in Niagara Falls, NY where he can often be found banging a old Gibson in local dives, gin mills, and barrelhouses with an area rock’n’roll band. Pudding House Publications (Columbus, OH) released two of his chapbooks, “Pagan Supper” and “the allegories.” He also oven dries his own garden tomatoes.
Zoltán, 27 years old and from Hungary, writes surreal short stories. His first book, a novel titled “Mesék Kaptárvárosból” (Tales from Hive City) was published in 2010. He is the editor of Katapult Kortárs Alkotói Oldal a site that focuses on neoavantgarde and postmodern literature, abstract paintings and electronic, mostly experimental music. Zoltán is published in Caliban Online, Thrice Fiction, The Phantom Drift, Gone Lawn, Exit Strata.
Lucille Lang Day has published a children’s book, “Chain Letter,” and eight poetry collections and chapbooks, including “The Curvature of Blue,” “Infinities,” and “The Book of Answers.” Her first poetry collection, “Self-Portrait with Hand Microscope,” was selected by Robert Pinsky for the Joseph Henry Jackson Award in Literature. She is also the author of a memoir, “Married at Fourteen: A True Story,” which received a 2013 PEN Oakland – Josephine Miles Literary Award and was a finalist for the 2013 Northern California Book Award in Creative Nonfiction. Her short stories, essays, and poems have appeared in more than one hundred literary journals, such as Atlanta Review, The Chattahoochee Review, The Cincinnati Review, The Hudson Review, The MacGuffin, Nimrod International Journal, Passages North, and The Threepenny Review. Visit Lucille’s website or Twitter.
Dean is a full-time student at St. John’s University, where he works in the Office of Sustainability and the Writing Center. He is Assistant Editor of the school’s literary and Arts publication, Sequoya, and has been published in it, as well as the school’s Humanities Review. Dean has presented work in featured performances with The Epic 12 Collective, The Inspired Word, and Poetry Teachers NYC, and will feature at an event hosted by Great Weather for MEDIA later in 2014.
Stanley has a BGS degree from The University of Texas at Dallas and has been published in the following: Wisconsin Review, Nexus, Main Street Rag, South Carolina Review, Poetry Nottingham and other publications in the U.S.A.,Britain,Canada and New Zealand. He was the winner of The Mississippi Valley Poetry Contest, 2006 and Full of Crow Poet of the month,Sept., 2009.
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, and haiku 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.