Dave Petraglia
Dave Petraglia has appeared in Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, Better Homes & Gardens; more recently in Agave, Cactus Heart, Crack the Spine, Dark Matter, eFiction India, Far Enough East, Gravel, Loco, Olivetree Review, Petrichor Review, Prick of the Spindle, Storyacious, Thought Catalog, theNewerYork, and Vine Leaves. He’s a writer and photographer and lives near Jacksonville, Florida. His blog is at www.drowningbook.com
Amber Johnson
Amber is a 20-something year old college student studying psychology, hopeful for the future and trying to get by. She’s hopeless for music (The Doors being her favorite) and art (Dali, Monet, and Klimt being her top picks). She reads everything from poetry to novels to nonfiction (writers like Kerouac, Jung, and Sartre to name a few) and enjoys surrounding herself with nature. Put simply: she’s thoughtful, quiet & terrible at parties.
Mary Julia Klimenko
Mary Julia Klimenko obtained her BA & MA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University after which, she taught Creative Writing for two years before returning to school to get a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology. She has three limited edition books in print in collaboration with artist, Manuel Neri for whom she’s been the primary model for the past 40 years. She’s a psychotherapist in private practice in Benicia, California where she writes and wanders the shoreline of Carquinez Straits.
Lee Varon
Lee Varon is a writer and social worker. Her poetry and short stories have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and she has been published in many journals including Artful Dodge, Atlanta Review, Blue Mesa Review, Euphony, Hawai’i Review, High Plains Literary Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Permafrost, Pleiades, The Round, The Somerville Times, So To Speak, Soundings East, Stone’s Throw, and Willow Review. Her short story, “Until the World Brought to Me Again Its Gold Its Vermillion,” won the Briar Cliff Review Nineteenth Annual Fiction, Poetry, and Creative Nonfiction Contest.
James Grabill
James Grabill’s poems have appeared in numerous periodicals such as Stand (UK), Magma (UK), Toronto Quarterly (CAN), Harvard Review (US), Terrain (US), Seneca Review (US), Urthona (UK), The Potomac Review (US), kayak (US), Plumwood Mountain (AUS), Caliban (US), Mobius (US), Spittoon (US), Weber: The Contemporary West (US), The Common Review (US), and Buddhist Poetry Review (US). His books include Poem Rising Out of the Earth (1994) and An Indigo Scent after the Rain (2003). Wordcraft of Oregon has published his new project of environmental prose poems, Sea-Level Nerve: Book One in 2014, with Book Two scheduled for 2015. A long-time Oregon resident, he teaches ‘systems thinking’ relative to sustainability.
Alex Ender
Alex Ender teaches English and tutors writing at the University of North Florida and Florida State College Jacksonville. Ender will relocate soon for a MFA Creative Writing Fiction candidacy at the University of Florida. Ender is currently a reader for the online literary magazine Fiction Fix, lead editor of the online craft blog The Talon Review, and served as lead editor to the independently published contemporary short story and poem collection Exothorpe. He completed a ghostwriting memoir, Anyways, That’s My Story, for a long term international businessman in Jacksonville, Florida. Ender’s work can also be found in Epiphany magazine in their February issue.
Cathleen Maza
Cathleen Maza lives and writes full time in the Gunderson Historic District of Oak Park, Illinois, where she shares a one hundred year old home with her husband, daughter, dog, cat and extremely vocal cockatiel. She recently completed her first short story collection and is trying to find a good home for it. Her previous work has appeared in The Vehicle and Chicago Quarterly Review.