Dan Encarnacion
Dan Encarnacion earned an MFA in Writing at the California College of Arts and lives in Portland, Oregon. Dan has been recently published in The Atlas Review, Word Riot, Eleven Eleven, Upstairs At Duroc, and/or, The Blue Mesa Review, and forthcoming in Assaracus, The Los Angeles Review, Whiskey Island, and Blackbox Manifold. He was the featured artist for Reconnaissance Magazine’s 2013 issue and is included in the anthology “Reduce: A Collection of Writings from Educe Journal 2012” (Educe Press).
Nivi Engineer
Nivi Engineer is the author of “The Indian Girl’s Definitive Guide to Staying Single.” She earned her BA in English from Case Western Reserve University, an MS in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis, and is pursuing an MFA in Fiction from Spalding University. She lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio with her husband, three sons, and dog.
Dave Petraglia
Dave Petraglia has appeared in Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, Better Homes & Gardens; more recently, or scheduled in Agave Magazine, Cactus Heart Press, Dark Matter Journal, eFiction India, Loco Magazine, Gravel Literary Review, Storyacious, The Olivetree Review, Petrichor Review, Thought Catalog, theNewerYork, and Vine Leaves Literary Journal. He’s a writer and photographer and lives near Jacksonville, Florida. His blog is available here.
Brock Avery-Robinson
Brock Avery-Robinson currently lives in New York City. He studied studio art, poetry, and film history at Sarah Lawrence College. He serves as co-editor for the zine Purelle, in addition to printing two zines of his own, SkyyMall and Fhloston Paradise.
Danielle Mitchell
Danielle Mitchell is one of ten emerging poets featured in “Pop Art: An Anthology of Southern California Poetry” (Moon Tide Press). Her prose poems have appeared in Connotation Press, decomP, Freeze Ray, Day One and are forthcoming in Union Station Magazine. Danielle directs The Poetry Lab in Long Beach, California where she hosts workshops & craft seminars. She is an alumna of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers & holds degrees in Women’s Studies & Creative Writing from the University of Redlands. She currently guest writes for DIY MFA & blogs at poetryofdanielle.com.
Bill Kirby
Bill Kirby is a teacher of English and creative writing in South Mississippi and a teacher/consultant with the Writing Project. He is a founding member of the 365th Writers’ Avoidance/Support Group. He won the 1995 Eudora Welty Film and Fiction Festival Award for Poetry; he has had poems published in the Saturday Afternoon Journal and short stories in 14 Hills Literary Review, The Avatar Review, Bellow Literary Journal, and Circa Literary Review. His novel “The Lulu Journals: The Somewhat Life of the Reluctant Roughneck” was a semi-finalist in the 2009 Faulkner-Wisdom Creative Writing Competition.
Dawn Wilson
A graduate of Bath Spa University in England, Dawn Wilson has had the pleasure to dabble in kitsch, surrealism, and espièglerie. Her work can be found in Gone Lawn, Paper Darts Magazine, Metazen, New Dead Families, Drunk Monkeys, and Punchnel’s, among others, while the author herself can be found dismantling the kitchen for wearable items, or at nightdawn.wordpress.com.
Janne Karlsson
Janne Karlsson is a highly productive inkslinger from Sweden. He is a proud member of the Epic Rites family, www.epicrites.org, and a publisher of DIY chapbooks, www.svenskapache.se.