Lauren Yates
Lauren Yates is a Pushcart-nominated poet who is currently based in Philadelphia. Her writing has appeared in Nerve, XOJane, FRiGG, Umbrella Factory, Softblow, and Melusine. Lauren is also a poetry editor at Kinfolks Quarterly and a member of The Mission Statement poetry collective. She is currently a Poet in Residence with the Leonard Pearlstein Gallery at Drexel University. Aside from poetry, Lauren enjoys belly dancing, baking quiche, and pontificating on the merits of tentacle erotica. For more information, visit laurentyates.com.
JT Gill
JT Gill is a 22 year old who lives in Virginia. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Cease, Cows, Every Day Fiction, Daily Science Fiction, and The Molotov Cocktail, where he recently won the 2015 Flash Fool competition. You can find more of his work on his website, worldsofhisown.com.
Susan G. Duncan
Susan G. Duncan is presently a consultant with a performing and visual arts clientele, capping a long career in arts administration. She has served as executive director for San Francisco’s long-running musical comedy phenomenon “Beach Blanket Babylon,” the al fresco California Shakespeare Theater, and the Grammy-winning, all-male vocal ensemble Chanticleer. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Atlanta Review, Blast Furnace, Compass Rose, G.W. Review, Iodine Poetry Journal, The MacGuffin, NonBinary Review’s online feature, Alphanumeric, OmniArts, Poem, The Quotable, River Oak Review, Skive Magazine, Soundings East, Thema, and The Yalobusha Review, as well as anthologies by Red Claw Press and The Poetry Box.
Marcia LeBeau
Marcia LeBeau has been published in Handsome Journal, Poemeleon, Inertia Magazine, and others. She received an honorable mention for the Rattle Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in Oprah’s O Magazine and have been read on the radio. She holds an MFA in poetry from the Vermont College of Fine Arts’ creative writing program. Marcia lives in South Orange, New Jersey with her husband and two young sons.
Katrina Johnston
Katrina Johnston is the winner of the CBC-Canada Writes True Winter Tale. She lives in James Bay in Victoria BC, Canada. Works of short fiction may be found at several online venues. Occasionally, she breaks into print. The goal of her storytelling is to share.
E. Branden Hart
E. Branden Hart writes, works, and lives in San Antonio with his wife, son, and two neurotic dogs. He is Executive Editor of the online literary and arts magazine, Empty Sink Publishing. His fiction has been published in various magazines and publications, including Toasted Cheese Literary Magazine, The Sand Hill Review, and “Shades and Shadows,” a paranormal anthology by XChyler Publishing.
James Kincaid
James Kincaid has published many non-fiction and academic books, several short stories, and 2 novels, one of them co-authored with Percival Everett. He taught for years at Southern Cal and am now at Pitt.
Christine Catalano
Christine, a onetime graphic designer, likes to take photographs and play with them on the computer. She dedicates her work to her muse, in the hope that he continues to inspire her.