John Clark Vincent
John Clark Vincent is a writer and poet who lives in Portland, Oregon. He is a poetry editor for The Timberline Review, and has self-published one poetry collection, “Repairing Shattered Glass.” His poetry has won awards in the William Herbert Carruth Memorial Poetry Competition (first place) and the Kay Snow Writing Contest (for both poetry and screenwriting). In addition to poetry, John has published two non-fiction books on winemaking and sustainable agriculture in the Pacific Northwest, and he blogs about organic farming for Mother Earth News.
A. A. Weiss
A. A. Weiss grew up in Maine and served in the U. S. Peace Corps from 2006-2008. His writing has appeared in Hippocampus, 1966, Drunk Monkeys, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Pure Slush, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of a fellowship from the Bronx Council on the Arts and a Pushcart Prize nomination. Visit his website at www.aaweiss.com
Tyler Auffhammer
Tyler Auffhammer is preparing to jump out of the frying pan (college) and into the fire (public education). He enjoys typical white trash pastimes, including, but not limited to: beer drinking, motorcycle riding, and the raising of flags. Sometimes, he gets up the courage to write a poem or two.
Laura Stout
Laura Stout graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara with a degree in Economics. She now lives in sunny Manhattan Beach, California with her very patient husband and two sometimes bewildering but wondrous teenage children. In between dreaming up stories, she ferries her two dogs to local hospitals and brings smiles to the patients and staff. Her stories have appeared at Halfway Down the Stairs, Menda City Press, The Corner Club Press, Drunk Monkeys, Literary Orphans, Blue Lake Review, The Greensilk Journal and Writers Type where she received a prize for best short story of 2013. One of her works was also nominated for Best of the Net, 2014. Visit her website at: lauraroxie.com.
Alison Hicks
Alison Hicks is the author of a poetry collection “Kiss” (PS Books, 2011), a chapbook “Falling Dreams” (Finishing Line Press, 2006) and “Love: A Story of Images” (AWA Press, 2004), a finalist in the 1999 Quarterly West Novella Competition. Her work has appeared in Eclipse, Edison Literary Review, Fifth Wednesday, Gargoyle, Louisville Review, Sanskrit, Pearl, and Permafrost, among other literary magazines. Awards include the 2011 Philadelphia City Paper Poetry Prize and two Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellowships. She is founder of Greater Philadelphia Wordshop Studio, which offers community-based writing workshops.
Abbie Stoner
Abbie is from upstate New York but is currently a second year writing major in Burlington, Vermont. She has piles of books on her floor, writes lyrics for her theoretical band, and doesn’t leave the house without her wrists smelling faintly of vanilla. Abbie’s life motto is “do no harm, but take no shit” and she doesn’t believe in guilty pleasures; like what you like and be who you are without apology.
Eva Garber
Eva Garber is a Toronto native living in Los Angeles while she completes an MFA in creative writing at Otis College of Art and Design. Her work has appeared in Word Riot and Literary Orphans.
John Clark Vincent, Baby Bunny moved me to near tears. Thank you John. Len