Dusty Cooper
Dusty is writing a collection of stories based on his experiences on Koh Phangan in the Gulf of Thailand. His work has appeared in Fogged Clarity, Berkeley Fiction Review, Paper Nautilus, Fiction Southeast, Litro, Bartleby Snopes, The Colored Lens, and Weave Magazine. Dusty received his Master’s of Creative Writing from Southeastern Louisiana University where he currently teaches.
Caroline Cottom
Caroline’s poetry has been published in Motif, Morning Glory, and Cumberland Poetry Review, among others. Her personal essays and poems have appeared in The Pen Is Mightier Than The Broom: Memoirs, Stories, and Poems. Caroline won the Transitions Abroad personal essay contest and finished as a runner-up in the Writers Workshop personal essay contest. Caroline earned her PhD in educational policy and MA in special education from Vanderbilt University and her BA in English literature from California Lutheran College. She teaches meditation, leads spiritual retreats, and edits nonfiction books. During the 1980s and 1990s, Caroline served as director of the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign and played a key role for the U.S. Coalition that essentially ended nuclear testing in Nevada. She wrote a memoir on the experience, “Love Changes Things: Even In The World Of Politics.”
Elen Cox
Elen Cox is a Washington, D.C. resident, by way of Oregon, New Zealand, Tennessee, New York and Vietnam. Her fiction has been published in Buffalo Almanack, Takahe Magazine and Vine Leaves Journal.
Dennis Scott Herbert
Dennis Scott Herbert is dangerous. He is a graduate of Coastal Carolina University and current MFA candidate at Minnesota State University, Mankato where he serves as a fiction editor for the Blue Earth Review. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Hobart, Jet Fuel Review, TROn, and Archarios Literary Art Magazine.
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: 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.
Benjamin Sabin
Benjamin Sabin writes to keep the walls from closing in. The walls are closing in, which means that he is not writing enough. He has two cats, a wife, and a little girl. He loves them very much.
Saudamini Siegrist
Saudamini Siegrist was born in Montana and grew up in the West and Midwest. She earned a doctorate in English literature at NYU and a master’s in poetry at Columbia, and has taught at St. John’s University and at Fordham University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Forge, Salamander, Free State Review, Studio One, The Worcester Review, The North Stone Review, Zone 3 and Al-Raida Journal and received a nomination for the Pushcart Prize. She currently lives in New York City and works at UNICEF on human rights and humanitarian action.
Jada Yee
It was during her first year of high school that Jada Yee discovered poetry. It quickly became a soulful passion and therapeutic tool. Although her writing resume includes only a small handful of modest publications, the greatest reward has always been the creative process; the “high” that comes from filling a blank page. Jada has been fortunate enough to share her work with a supportive audience of friends and family. Some of her poems have been published in high school and college magazines, Poetry Now Online, as well as California’s Spring 2004 anthology, “Celebrate! Young Poets Speak Out” via Creative Communication, Inc.