Katherine Minott, M.A. is an artist whose photographic work reflects the Japanese aesthetic of wabi sabi–the celebration of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. Her work has appeared in Camas: The Nature of the West, New Mexico Magazine, Visual Language Magazine, and the Santa Fe Reporter’s Annual Manual. Please visit her website at katherineminott.com.
Jason Peck
Jason’s work has appeared in more than two dozen newspapers and magazines across Pennsylvania and Virginia, with fiction either published or forthcoming in Seven Eleven Stories, Third Wednesday and 50-Word Stories. Jason also serves as an editor at After Happy Hour Review, which recently celebrated its inaugural issue.
Elizabeth Mastrangelo
Elizabeth Mastrangelo has been teaching literature, writing, grammar, and social skills to ninth and eleventh graders for 14 years. She currently attends Emerson College’s MFA program in Creative Writing as a Dean’s Fellow. In the spare moments between these commitments, she works as a freelancer, ghostwriting romance novellas and website copy. She lives north of Boston with her devoted husband, spunky daughter, and sports-obsessed son, who provide her with endless engaging material for her stories. Liz’s work has been featured or is forthcoming in the Sheepshead Review, Black Heart Magazine, Burningword Literary Journal, and Extract(s): Daily Dose of Lit. She blogs about teaching, womanhood, and motherhood at her site, www.spurredgirl.com.
Neil Brown
Neil Brown graduated from Cardiff University with a MA in Analytic Philosophy in which he learned fantastic ways to procrastinate. He once sneezed an M&M through his nose and caused a horse to faint in Costa Rica.
Holly Thomas
Holly Thomas is a war poet for the 9/11 generation and a lifestyle writer who focuses on the dirty, ugly, and yet sometimes fabulous truth of everyday people and everyday thoughts. She is a story collector and wants to continue writing creative nonfiction to keep those stories alive. She has written numerous newspaper articles, and her writing about the conflict diamond trade was published in Lap Lambert Academic Publishing. Holly’s creative writing has appeared in The Vehicle: A Literary Journal, and her essay “About Him” placed 7th in the 77th Annual Writer’s Digest Short Story Awards. She studied with Tim O’Brien, who, after reading a few of her short stories, encouraged Holly to keep writing and compile a collection. Holly received her BA in journalism and MA in political science. Her expertise is in conflict resource studies. She has presented her political science research at various conferences from 2010–2012, been awarded the Williams Travel Grant three years in a row, and received the Booth Library Excellence in Research & Creativity Award in 2010 and 2011. Holly has also been inducted into the Society of Collegiate Journalists; Kappa Tau Alpha, National Honor Society in Journalism and Mass Communications; and Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Honor Society in Political Science. Currently, she is an advertising consultant. Aside from writing, she loves playing the guitar, being outdoors, and playing with her daughter and dogs.
Bob Buchanan
Bob Buchanan’s poetry collection, “Beyond The Wall,” has been published by Cardinal House Publishing and was listed as a “Best Poetry Book” for May, 2014, by Grace Cavalieri in the Washington Independent. His work has appeared in multiple literary journals, and he is active in the Scottsdale poetry community. He have a new collection of work coming out in 2015. He earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Oklahoma State University, but no longer has need of a pocket protector.
Wulf Losee
Wulf Losee lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. His poems have appeared in Forge, Full Moon, The New Guard, North Coast Literary Review, PoeTalk, and Rio Grande Review. His short fiction has been published in Oak Square. He won First Prize in the 84th and 86th Annual Poets’ Dinner Contest and was a finalist in the 2012 Knightville Poetry Contest. Wulf enjoys traveling to the “edges of the world” and has visited Iceland, Tasmania, Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia, the west coast of Ireland, and the highlands of Scotland. He also collects the art of indigenous peoples, fine art photography, and magic carpets.
Rich Ives
Rich Ives lives on Camano Island in Puget Sound. He has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Artist Trust, Seattle Arts Commission and the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines for his work in poetry, fiction, editing, publishing, translation and photography. His writing has appeared in Verse, North American Review, Dublin Quarterly, Massachusetts Review, Northwest Review, Quarterly West, Iowa Review, Poetry Northwest, Virginia Quarterly Review, Fiction Daily and many more. He is the 2009 winner of the Francis Locke Memorial Poetry Award from Bitter Oleander. In 2013 he has received nominations for The Pushcart Prize (2), The Best of the Net and Story South. He is the 2012 winner of the Creative Nonfiction Prize from Thin Air magazine. Both “Tunneling to the Moon,” which is being serialized with a new story each day on the Silenced Press website for 2014, and “Light from a Small Brown Bird” (poetry––Bitter Oleander Press) are scheduled for paperback release in 2015.