David Gialanella, aside from writing fiction, is an award-winning chili chef, out-of-practice musician, impatient driver, lousy gambler, devoted consumer of beers of varying price and quality, and sufferer of sports fandom and other neuroses. His work has been accepted and is pending publication in Tropus Magazine and The Bookends Review. David lives with his wife in northern New Jersey, where he works as a journalist for a legal trade publication.
Kayla Pongrac
Kayla Pongrac is an avid writer, reader, tea drinker, and vinyl record spinner. When she’s not writing creatively, she’s writing professionally—for two newspapers and a few magazines in her hometown of Johnstown, PA. To read more of Kayla’s work, visit www.kaylapongrac.com or follow her on Twitter @KP_the_Promisee.
Christine Catalano
Christine likes to take photographs and play with them on the computer. She dedicates her work to her muse, Gary Iorio, a talented writer and lifelong friend who passed away in March of this year.
David Pring-Mill
David Pring-Mill is a writer and award-winning independent filmmaker. His writings have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry Quarterly, Sheepshead Review, Boston Literary Magazine, Eunoia Review, Page & Spine, Mad Scientist Journal, The Higgs Weldon, openDemocracy, Independent Voter Network, and elsewhere. His first poetry book “Age of the Appliance” is scheduled for publication in late 2014. Follow him online: @davesaidso, pring-mill.com.
Ettosi Brooks
Ettosi Brooks is a multifaceted artist, creating stories and songs that reflect the rhythms and wisdom of the cultures she has experienced. She is the 2011 Independent Music Award winner for a single in the world music category. Additionally, she has created her own reggae musical and scripted the Afrik Nutcracker Ballet.
Amanda Barusch
A native of California, Amanda divides her time between Salt Lake City and Dunedin (New Zealand). She is an MFA student at the University of Utah. Her work has appeared in Bravado, on her website (www.amandabarusch.com), and in other places (like walls and bulletin boards). And yes, “My Clan” is about her extended family and their relationship to planet earth.
Shinjini Bhattacharjee
Shinjini Bhattacharjee is a poet and the Editor of Hermeneutic Chaos Literary Journal. She considers herself to be a lexical photographer who loves to rummage through language to find words that smell like infinite spandex, and weave them into images to cloak her experiences and emotions. Her poems have been published, or are forthcoming in The Stray Branch, Metazen, Literary Orphans, Four and Twenty Poetry,and elsewhere. She is also the author of “Masquerading Fawn,” a poetry chapbook. For more information about her, visit http://echolymph.tumblr.com/
Christine Davis
Christine Davis is currently an MFA student at Northern Arizona University where she teaches English 105 and 205, and edits for Thin Air Magazine. In 2010 she started Second Story Journal, an undergraduate honors publication at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Her work has appeared in publications such as Atlantis Magazine, Swansea Life Magazine, and Sanctuary Literary Journal. In her spare time she roams the mountains of Flagstaff with her husband, Justin, and Molly the Adventure Dog.