Katharine Monger
Katharine earned her BA in English literature and creative writing from The University of Iowa (’13), where she interned at The Iowa Review from 2012-2013. She is now pursuing my MA in rhetoric and composition from The University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (’15). Currently, Katharine is serving as Nonfiction Editor of UWM’s cream city review. She has been previously published in Apeiron Review.
Richard T. Rauch
Richard T. Rauch lives along Bayou Lacombe in southeast Louisiana. Born and raised in the New Orleans area, Rick is a graduate of LSU and received his PhD in theoretical physics from Stony Brook University. He has lived and worked in New York, Los Angeles, Washington DC, and currently tests rockets at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. Poetry credits include Big Muddy, Confrontation, decomP, Euphony, Grey Sparrow, The Oxford American, Pembroke Magazine, Quiddity, Wild Violet, and the Love Notes anthology (Vagabondage Press), among others. Flash fiction credits include Infective INk and Aspen Idea (Aspen Writers’ Foundation/Esquire Short, Short Fiction Contest finalist).
H. Wallis
H. Wallis was born and raised on a remote farm in British Columbia, Canada, but has spent most of her adult years living in Northern California. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from California State University, Chico, where she studied with Jeanne Clark, Ellen Walker, and Joanne Harris Allred. A traveler sometimes, H. Wallis has been writing on planes and buses, in bars and jukes, and on ramshackle piers and far-flung verandas for the better part of twenty years. She currently works as a copywriter and finds time for poetry on the ferry between work and her home in Sausalito. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in The Critical Pass Review, Drunk Monkeys, Existere, Fourteen Hills, The MacGuffin, Oxford Magazine, Pennsylvania English, and Watershed Review.
Margaret Ries
Margaret has had four short stories accepted for publication. “For Sale” was published in Green Hills Literary Lantern XX; “Half-Light” in Black Middens: New Writing Scotland 31, an anthology of new fiction in Scotland. “The Doll and the Samsonite” appears in the current issue of Cactus Heart and “The Perfidy of Things” in the current issue of The Bicycle Review. She was also shortlisted in Fish’s flash fiction contest last year. She is currently revising her second novel, The Block of Joy, and looking for an agent for the first one, Shadow Jumping. Margaret lived in Berlin for 13 years before moving to Edinburgh in 2006.
Adel Souto
Adel Souto is a Cuban-born an artist, writer, and musician, currently living in Brooklyn, NYC. He has written for his own fanzines starting in the early 90s, and has contributed pieces to numerous magazines, fanzines, and websites since. He has released several books, including a “best of”, and a chapbook on the subject of a 30-day vow of silence, while also having translated the works of Spanish poets. His work, both art pieces and photography, has shown in galleries in NYC, Philadelphia, and Miami, as well as in Europe, and South America. His music videos have been screened at NYC’s Anthology Film Archives, and he has lectured on the subject of occult influences in photography at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development’s Department of Art and Art Professions. As side projects, he produces the public access tv show, Brooklyn’s Alright If You Like Saxophones, and is heavily involved with his musical outfit, 156, which has a handful of releases on several labels across the U.S.
Michael Dominic Tesauro
Michael Dominic Tesauro is a graduate of Chapman University’s MFA/MA program. He is a fiction editor for Tin Cannon Literary Magazine. His work has been published in Wilderness House Review, Carnival Literary Magazine, Inlandia Journal, amongst others.
Windy Lynn Harris
Windy Lynn Harris’s short stories and essays have been published in magazines across the US and Canada. She is the Tips editor at The Review Review and runs a Market Coaching for Creative Writers program where she teaches writers how to professionally submit their work to literary magazines. She is currently working on her first novel, a dystopian war-of-the-sexes story that explores our evolving definition of gender identity. Learn more at her website.
Meggie Royer
Meggie Royer is a writer and photographer from the Midwest who is currently majoring in Psychology at Macalester College. Her poetry has been published in Winter Tangerine Review, Words Dance Magazine, Harpoon Review, and more. She also has two published poetry books, Survival Songs and Healing Old Wounds with New Stitches. Her work can be found at writingsforwinter.tumblr.com.