Karen Boissonneault-Gauthier
Karen Boissonneault-Gauthier is a photographer, writer and poet who loves finding the odd within the beautiful, the spark within the mundane and capturing the nightmare as well as the dream. Published internationally, regionally, as well as in heritage and military museums, she’s been featured in Zen Dixie Magazine, Artemis Journal, Cactus Heart Press, Dactyl, Fine Flu Literary Journal, The Scarborough Big Art Book, Sand Canyon Review, The Notebook, Shadows and Light Anthology and Vagabonds Anthology to name a few of the creative places she dwells. Follow Karen @KBG_Tweets
James Seals
James Seals earned his MFA in Fiction at Southern New Hampshire University. His stories have been published in Amoskeag Journal, Forge Journal, Rio Grande Review and others. James also has published an essay and numerous poems. His stories “White, Like You” (’13) and an excerpt, “Turned His Eyes Away” (’14), from his masters’ thesis, American Value, won SNHU’s graduate writing contest. SNHU’s MFA faculty awarded James’ masters’ thesis the Lynn H. Safford Book Prize.
Samuel Vargo
Samuel Vargo has written poetry and short stories for print and online literary magazines, university journals and a few commercial magazines. Mr. Vargo worked most of his adult life as a newspaper reporter. He has a BA in Political Science and an MA in English (both degrees were awarded by Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio, USA). Vargo was fiction editor of Pig Iron Press, Youngstown, Ohio, for 12 years. A book-length collection of Vargo’s short stories, titled “Electric Onion Head and the Rotating Cyclops of the Month,” was published by Literary Road and had a web presence for five years.
Julie Wittes Schlack
Julie Wittes Schlack writes essays, short stories, and articles for the business press. Her essays regularly appear in Cognoscenti, and her work has been published or is forthcoming in numerous publications, including Shenandoah, Writer’s Chronicle, The Louisville Review, Eleven Eleven, Ninth Letter, and Tampa Review. Julie received her MFA from Lesley University’s low-residency program.
Mitch Kellaway
Mitch Kellaway is a transgender writer and editor who currently contributes to The Advocate and the Lambda Literary Review. He earned a B.A. in Gender Studies from Harvard University. He has published (or has forthcoming) essays and articles in Original Plumbing, Cliterature, Outrider, Zeteo, and Jonathan.
Karen Hildebrand
Karen Hildebrand’s poetry has been published or is forthcoming in various journals, including Blue Earth Review, Blue Mesa Review, Fourteen Hills, A Gathering of the Tribes, great weather for MEDIA, G.W. Review, The Journal, Maintenant, Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, Nimrod International Journal, and Poet Lore. Her play, “The Old In and Out,” cowritten with Madeline Artenberg and adapted from their poetry, was produced in New York City in June 2013. Karen has had two chapbooks published, “One Foot Out the Door” and “Final Shot at Love,” and her work has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize.
Ani Tuzman
Ani Tuzman is a writing mentor at Dance of the Letters Writing Center that she founded in 1982 to help children, teens, and adults experience the joys of writing. Years earlier, before leaving city life, she also cofounded A Kangaroo’s Pouch (El Buche del Canguro), a bilingual and multicultural school in the Boston area. Ani’s work has been published in CALYX, Mothering, Tikkun, Sanctuary, Darshan, FamilyFun, and Body Mind Spirit, among other journals and magazines. Her writing is included in such anthologies as “Chicken Soup For The Mother & Daughter Soul,” “Divine Mosaic,” and MotherPoet. Her poetry is also featured on two CDs, “Spirals Of Light” and “Poetry and Chamber Music on Themes Of The Holocaust.” She has received the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Prize for Poems on the Jewish Experience and the Peter K. Hixson Memorial Award for Creative Writers.
Tennae Maki
Tennae Maki is a weekend writer that works for an architecture firm by day. She holds a Master’s degree in Art History, where she studied architecture zines and urban planning. On a pro bono basis, she is also the audio archivist for a Brooklyn based arts radio station. Her work has been published in numerous print and digital literary journals, including; 491, Spillway, Eunoia Review, Futures Trading, The Bicycle Review, Lone Star Poetry Magazine, and Pure Francis.