Jocelyn Locksley
Jocelyn Locksley lives in northwest Ohio, where she works at a coffee shop. She also translates from German to English, which she writes about at jocelynlocksley.com. Her other interests include bicycling, film noir, knitting, and attempting to keep at least some of her houseplants alive.
Justin J. Murphy
Justin J. Murphy was born in London and raised in Los Angeles. He studied film theory at the University of California at Santa Barbara and has spent his life examining the art of bartending. He enjoys beer, the Los Angeles Lakers, and Redwood trees.
Tim Suermondt
Tim Suermondt is the author of two full-length collections: TRYING TO HELP THE ELEPHANT MAN DANCE (The Backwaters Press, 2007 ) and JUST BEAUTIFUL from New York Quarterly Books, 2010. He has published poems in Poetry, The Georgia Review, Blackbird, Able Muse, Prairie Schooner, PANK, Bellevue Literary Review, Stand Magazine (U.K.), and has poems forthcoming in december magazine, Plume Poetry Journal, North Dakota Quarterly and Ploughshares. After many years in Queens and Brooklyn, he has moved to Cambridge with his wife, the poet Pui Ying Wong.
Linda Carela
Linda Carela works at the U.S. Fund for UNICEF where she analyzes donor data and provides senior leaders with information regarding donor engagement and giving patterns as well as the external economic and political environment. This data guides decisions that will ultimately help save more children’s lives. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Jelly Bucket. She has attended The Writers Studio for four years and studied with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Philip Schultz.
Paul Hansom
Paul Hansom has an MFA from USC and has been published in venues like New Letters, Storyscape Journal, Chicago Quarterly, So.Cal. Anthology, etc. He has also been nominated for Pushcarts, Sundances, and has actually won, yes won, a PEN-West John Rechy Fellowship.
Cecile Barlier
Cecile Barlier was born in France and received her master’s degree from the Sorbonne University in Paris. For over a decade, she has lived in the United States, where she is raising her family and working as an entrepreneur. She has been a regular student and occasional teacher at the Writer’s Studio in San Francisco for a number of years. Cecile’s work has been published in numerous journals and her story, “A Gypsy’s Book of Revelations,” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Kitty Oberly
Kitty Oberly is a current student at Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, majoring in Illustration. She enjoys creating art, reading, listening to or creating music, learning about the world, wishing she could make a million graphic novels, trying to write and talking to animals. Her art can be seen anywhere from schools, art galleries and other planets.