D. Ferrara
D. Ferrara has been an active writer and ghost writer for more years than she cares to admit. Articles, essays and short stories are her continuing obsession – several publications, including The Main Street Anthology – Crossing Lines, Green Prints, The Penmen Review, Amarillo Bay, The Law Studies Review, and RIMS Magazine have fed this mania by including them. Her short story, “Then and Now” was long listed in the Able Muse Write Prize for Fiction. “Arvin Lindemeyer Takes Canarsie” was a Top Finalist in the ASU Screenwriting Contest. Her play, “Favor,” won the New Jersey ACT award for Outstanding Production of an Original Play, while “Sister Edith’s Mission,” and “Business Class” were produced at the Malibu Repertory Company’s One Act Play Festival. Three of her full-length film scripts have been optioned. She recently received her M.A. in Creative Writing, where it joined her J.D., L.l.M. and B.A, amid the clutter of her office.
Leslee Rene Wright
Leslee Rene Wright lives in Denver, Colorado, where she writes both fiction and poetry. Her work has appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, A Capella Zoo, Bartleby Snopes, Necessary Fiction, A Clean, Well-lighted Place, Thin Air, Painted Bride Quarterly, Blue Mesa Review, Prick of the Spindle, Tampa Review, Emerson Review, Louisville Review, The Doctor T.J. Eckleberg Review, Raleigh Review, Crab Creek Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Cimarron Review, and others. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and placed honorable mention in the 2013 New Millennium Writings Fiction Award. Her unpublished short story collection, “Partial Stranger,” was the runner up for the 2014 Juniper Fiction Prize contest, held by the University of Massachusetts Press.
R.V. Scaramella
R. V. Scaramella is moving to a farm in Central Oklahoma and scribbles flash fiction in a notebook when he’s supposed to be working.
Erik Allen
Erik Allen is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago with an MFA. He emigrated from Chicago to the endless landscapes of southern Idaho with his wife and cat where he continues to unravel the mysteries of prose.
Ross Knapp
Ross Knapp is a recent college graduate with degrees in philosophy and literature. He has an experimental literary novel forthcoming and various poetry publications in Blue Lake Review, Poetry Pacific Magazine, Indiana Voice Journal, Burningword Literary Journal, Belle Reve Literary Journal, Carcinogenic Poetry, Blood and Thunder Literary Magazine, Tipsy Lit Literary Magazine, Clockwise Cat Literary Magazine, and The Corner Club Press.
Lisa Jay
Lisa Jay is an artist and writer living in Houston Texas. She graduated from Stephen’s College with a BFA in Fine Art, and spent a semester studying at Oxford University before entering the Master’s program in Art History at University of Missouri, which she didn’t finish. She was then uniquely qualified for her long career as a cocktail waitress. During this time she developed several dubiously useful skills: private pilot, black belt in Kung Fu, world traveler, mother, and collector of small and obscure object so no real value. She hopes to someday learn to laugh without ruining her makeup, and actually make money for her art, a novel and crazy concept.
James Shrader
James Shrader enjoys six-word essays. He teaches writing, therefore: waits tables. He pays rent in two countries. His wife and dog are aliens. Poetry is still foreign to him. Nevertheless, some editors are saying yes.
Holly Painter
Holly Painter is an MFA graduate of the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. Her poetry has been published in literary journals in the US, New Zealand, and Australia, including the NZ Listener, Sport, Landfall, Barrelhouse, and the Cream City Review. Holly lives with her wife in Singapore, where she writes love poems on behalf of besotted people around the world at hollypainter.com.