Roger Soffer is a working screenwriter on miniseries and feature films for Disney/ABC, Warner Brothers, Fox, and Paramount, with credits including Merlin’s Apprentice, Star Trek: DS9, Kazaam, and Category 7. As fun as that can be, poetry has been (and is!) his antidote. His poem “Rivers” had been nominated for a Pushcart, and he has had poetry published in a variety of journals, including Paintbrush, Southern Poetry Review, Briar Cliff Review, Mangrove, New Laurel Review, and Yellow Silk. New poems are forthcoming in Forge, Stickman Review, and Pennsylvania English.
Jocelyn Mosman is a student at Mount Holyoke College, majoring in English and Politics. She is an active member of the Northampton Poetry group, the Poetry Society of Texas, and the founder of the West Texas Poets. She has been published in various anthologies and magazines, including Drunk Monkeys, Rogue Particles Magazine, and Cum Laude Weekly. She has also published her own poetry book, “Soul Music,” and is expecting her second book to be out this summer, “Soul Painting.”
Barry Yeoman was educated at Bowling Green State Univ., The Univ. of Cincinnati, and The McGregor School of Antioch Univ., in creative writing, world classics, and the humanities. He is originally from Springfield, Ohio and lives currently in London, Ohio. His work has appeared, or is forthcoming in Red Booth Review, Futures Trading, Danse Macabre, Harbinger Asylum, Red Fez, Vine Leaves and other print and online journals.
Shaun Turner writes in West Virginia, where he is fiction editor for Cheat River Review. His work can be found in Cleaver Magazine, Potluck Mag, Bartleby Snopes, and Word Riot, among others.
Alexander Cendrowski is currently an undergraduate student in the University of North Florida, and besides writing is kept busy working at his part time job in order to pay for this schooling. Crack the Spine will be his first publication.
Laura Kopchick is a graduate of the MFA program in Fiction at the University of Michigan, where she was a Colby Fellow and where she also received a Roy W. Cowden Award in short fiction and a Hopwood Award in short fiction. In 1998 she received the First Place National Award (with a $10,000 prize) in short Fiction from the National Society of Arts and Letters. Her stories have appeared in the Santa Monica Review, Ascent, Pleiades, and others. She currently teaches creative writing at The University of Texas at Arlington and also serves as the Series Editor of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Fiction from the University of North Texas Press.