William C. Blome
William C. Blome writes poetry and short fiction. He lives wedged between Baltimore and Washington, DC, and he is a master’s degree graduate of the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars. His work has previously seen the light of day in such fine little mags as Crack the Spine, Amarillo Bay, Prism International, Laurel Review, Salted Feathers, and The California Quarterly.
David Hicks
David Hicks is a writer living in Denver. His previous stories have been published in Glimmer Train, Colorado Review, Saranac Review, and many other magazines. He is represented by Victoria Skurnick of the Levine Greenberg Agency. His work may be found at http://david-hicks.com
Jessica Morey-Collins
Jessica Morey-Collins is an MFA student at the University of New Orleans, where she works as associate poetry editor for Bayou Magazine. She received a scholarship to study at the NYS Summer Writer’s Institute. Her poems can be found or are forthcoming in the North American Review, Vinyl Poetry, ILK Journal, Pleiades, Black Tongue Review and elsewhere on the web and in print.
Tiffany Wang
Tiffany Wang is a junior at John H. Guyer High School, a school on the outskirts of Dallas, TX. She loves to experiment with all different stylistic forms of prose, and usually comes up with story ideas right before she falls asleep. Her work has been nationally recognized by the Scholastic Arts and Writing Awards, and has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as the Eunoia Review, the Blue Monday Review, the Texas Writers Journal, and the Cadaverine, among others. When she’s not writing, you can probably find her playing the piano, attending a debate tournament, or studying furiously for the SAT.
Bill Pruitt
Bill Pruitt is a fiction writer, storyteller and poet, and an Assistant Editor with Narrative Magazine. He has published poems in such places as Ploughshares, Anderbo.com and Cottonwood, two chapbooks with White Pine and FootHills, and self-published Walking Home from the Eastman House. He has told stories in various places in Rochester and upstate New York, including the National Women’s Hall of Fame; he recently performed an original version of the lives of Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony, entitled “Two Kinds of Fear.” He and his wife Pam have two children and two grandchildren. “My Cousin Gabe” is his first published story.
Kate Imbach
Kate Imbach is a writer living in Park City, Utah. She used to work in tech startups. She also has a Master’s in Public Administration from Suffolk University, which is only one letter away from an MFA. Kate’s work has been published or is forthcoming in Weave Magazine, Jersey Devil Press, Map Literary and Axolotl. You can read her work on kateimbach.com and follow her on Twitter @kate8.
Ricky Garni
Ricky Garni is a graphic designer and machinist from Carrboro, North Carolina. His work is widely available in print, on the Web and in a number of anthologies. He has received an honorable mention as well as five nominations for the Pushcart Prize. Some of his recent titles include: THE ETERNAL JOURNALS OF CRISPY FLOTILLA, MAYBE WAVY and THE SEA OF KICKING LEGS. JIGGLE FEST, a collection of short prose, was released in December 2014. THE PINKIE EMBRACE will be released late summer, 2015.
Charles Kerlin
Charles Kerlin has a PhD from the University of Colorado and he teaches creative writing and American literature at Saint Joseph’s College in Rensselaer, Indiana. He was in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate program for two summers. He’s published half a dozen stories in The Hopewell Review, The Flying Island, and From the Edge of the Prairie. He won the Hopewell prize for best fiction judged by Alan Cheusse, book editor for NPR. His piece, “And One Fine Morning…,” about the difficulties of reconciling science and religion, appeared in the Dec. 13, 2013 edition of Atticus Review.