Phil Brunetti
Phil Brunetti writes innovative short fiction and poetry and much of his work can be found online. Currently he is completing a short-fiction collection entitled “The Bitter Reds” and also working on an ‘antinovel.’
Nancy Ford Dugan
Nancy Ford Dugan’s work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize (in 2012 and 2013) and has been published in Blue Lake Review, Cimarron Review, Passages North, The Minnesota Review, The Alembic, Euphony, Lullwater Review, The Battered Suitcase, The MacGuffin, Epiphany, Coe Review, Buffalo Carp, Delmarva Review, Desert Voices, The Dirty Goat, The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review, The Hurricane Review, The Old Red Kimono, RiverSedge, Superstition Review, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Words and Images, Tin House’s Open Bar, The Writer’s Post Journal, and Eastern Shore Savvy. She lives in New York City and previously resided in Michigan, Ohio, and Washington, DC.
Lynn Hoggard
Translator and poet Lynn Hoggard has published five books and hundreds of articles, poems, and reviews. Her most recent book, a memoir entitled “Motherland, Stories and Poems from Louisiana,” appeared in May 2014 from Lamar University Press. She lives in Wichita Falls, TX. In her view, poems draw forth meanings already implicit in things.
Daniel Davis
Daniel Davis is the Nonfiction Editor for The Prompt Literary Magazine. His own work has appeared in various online and print journals. You can find him on Facebook and Twitter, or at www.dumpsterchickenmusic.blogspot.com.
Julieanna Blackwell
Julieanna Blackwell is a short story writer and essayist. Her humorous column, “Skipping Down the Slippery Side of the Slope,” appeared in the Naples Daily News. A native Chicagoan, she lives with her family in Bradenton where she is completing her first novel.
Edward D. Miller
Edward D. Miller’s poetry appears appears in Counterexample Poetics, Hinchas de Poesia, Wilderness House Literary Journal, The Boston Literary Magazine, and Red Fez. He teaches media and film at the City University of New York.
Katherine Minott
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.
Ellen Black
Ellen’s poetry has been published in Crannóg magazine, South Ash Press, Illya’s Honey, The Smoking Poet, and Eclectic Flash. In 2005, she won first prize in the Richardson, TX Public Library’s annual poetry contest. In 2009, Ellen was one of the Pat Conroy “South of Broad” essay contest winners. This contest was sponsored by Swampland.com and the Nan A. Talese/Doubleday company. That same year, www.killingthebuddha.com published Ellen’s first-person narrative, “Heathen Color,” which provides a glimpse into a day of Ellen’s life in a religious cult into which she was born, and how her longing for a forbidden item—lipstick—incited her into a tiny moment of crime. Ellen is currently working to publish a memoir she wrote about surviving this cult, entitled “Shake That Cream.”