Christopher Woods
Christopher Woods is a writer, teacher and photographer who lives in Houston and Chappell Hill, Texas. His published works include a novel, THE DREAM PATCH, a prose collection, UNDER A RIVERBED SKY, and a book of stage monologues for actors, HEART SPEAK. HIs short fiction has appeared in many journals including The Southern Review, New Orleans Review and Glimmer Train. He conducts private creative writing workshops in Houston. His photography can be seen in his gallery
Steven Fortune
Steven Fortune is a member of the poetry editing staff for Miracle arts magazine. While attending Acadia University in Canada, he served as Editor-In-Chief of the campus arts journal, as well as News Editor of the student union newspaper. His poetry has appeared in several literary publications, and his first independent collection of poems, “A Waltz Around The Swirls,” was published in November 2013.
David Spicer
David Spicer has, over the years and in pursuit of the word, worked as a paper boy, dishwasher, bottle loader, record warehouser, carpert roll dragger, burger flopper, ditch digger, weather observer, furniture mover, Manpower flunky, gas pumper, bookseller, tutor, 11th and 12th grader babysitter, magazine and book editor and publisher, typesetter, proofreader, librarian’s assistant, carney barker, chocolate twister, artist’s model, and last but most certainly least, clinical trial subject for a laxative. He is the author of one full-length collection of poems and four chapbooks, plus eight unpublished manuscripts. He has published in the usual slicks, non-slicks, and online journals.
Alan Semrow
Alan Semrow lives in Wisconsin and is a graduate of English from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. His poems and fiction have been featured in multiple publications, including BlazeVOX14, Red Fez, The Bicycle Review, Earl of Plaid Lit Journal, Potluck Magazine, Blotterature Lit Mag; The Rain, Party, & Disaster Society; Former People: A Journal of Bangs and Whimpers, Barney Street, and Wordplay, and he won the Essayist Award from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point English Department for his nonfiction work. In 2015, his stories are set to be featured in several journals, including EAP: The Magazine, The Radvocate, Indiana Voice Journal, and Golden Walkman Magazine. Semrow spends the majority of his free time with his boyfriend, friends, family, and Shih Tzu, Remy. His work can be read on his blog.
Zak Block
Zak Block’s short fiction appears in Gadfly, Paper Darts, and/or, the Santa Fe Writers Project Journal, and Quail Bell Magazine, and is forthcoming in Reunion: The Dallas Review. He is the founder, editor-in-chief and illustrator of (the) Squawk Back, a semi-weekly online literary journal of transgression and alienation, baptized by fire in May of 2011.
Miranda Roehler
Miranda is a two-time recipient of the G. G. Bruer Award in Creative Writing at The University of Findlay in Findlay, Ohio. Her writing has appeared in The University of Findlay’s student literary magazine From the Writer’s Kitchen and the online literary magazines Insert Lit Mag Here and The Furious Gazelle. In addition, Miranda has served for the past two years as a prose editor for The University of Findlay’s international literary journal Slippery Elm.
David Klugman
David Klugman is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins Writing Program, and has been a practicing psychoanalyst for the past 25 years. He works in Nyack, NY, where he also lives with his wife and daughter. David’s work has recently appeared in Black Fox Literary Journal, Empty Sink, Foliate Oak Literary Journal and Postcard Poems and Prose.
Chelsey Clammer
Chelsey Clammer has been published in The Rumpus, Essay Daily, The Water~Stone Review and Black Warrior Review (forthcoming) among many others. She is the Managing Editor and Nonfiction Editor for The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review. Clammer is also the Essays Editor for The Nervous Breakdown. Her first collection of essays, BodyHome, was released from Hopewell Publishing in March 2015. Her second collection of essays, There Is Nothing Else to See Here, is forthcoming from The Lit Pub, Summer 2015. You can read more of her writing on her website.