Josie Turner
Josie Turner lives in Hertfordshire and works in London. She’s had fiction and poetry published in The Frogmore Papers, Sentinel Literary Quarterly, Fractured West, The Interpreter’s House and The North. In 2013 she was placed third in Mslexia‘s short story competition, and in 2015 she was a winner of the Plough short story competition.
Grant Tarbard
Grant is the former editor of The Screech Owl and co-founder of Resurgant Press. He has worked as a journalist, a contributor to magazines, a reviewer, an interviewer and a proof reader. Grant’s poetry can be seen in such magazines as The Rialto, Illumen, Aphelion, Ink, Sweat & Tears, Bone Orchard Poetry, BLAZE, The Journal, Southlight, Sarasvati, Earth Love, Mood Swing, Puff Puff Prose Poetry & Prose, Postcards Poetry and Prose, Playerist, Lake City Lights, The Open Mouse, Miracle, Poetry Cornwall, I-70, South Florida Review, Stare’s Nest, Medusa’s Kitchen, Zymbol, Weyfarers, Synchronized Chaos, BLUEPEPPER, Every Day Poetry, Verse-Virtual, Tribe, The Golden Key, New Poetry, I am not a silent poet, East Coast Literary Review, HARK, The Black Light Engine Room, The Black Sheep Journal, Haiku Haven, Lunar Poetry, Decanto, Your One Phone Call, Danse Macabre, Message in a Bottle, Of/with: journal of immanent renditions, Elbow Room, The Mind[less] Muse, Ginosko Literary Journal, Abbreviate Journal, Visual Verse and First Time.
Jared Pearce
Jared Pearce teaches writing and literature at William Penn University.
Todd Mercer
Todd won the Grand Rapids Festival of the Arts Flash Fiction Award for 2015, the first Woodstock Writers Festival Flash Fiction Award, two Kent County Dyer-Ives Poetry Prizes and was runner-up in the Palm Beach Plein Air Poetry Awards. His digital chapbook, “Life-wish Maintenance” appeared in 2015 at Right Hand Pointing. Mercer’s recent poetry and fiction appear in: Bartleby Snopes, Cheap Pop, Dunes Review, Eunoia Review, Kentucky Review, The Lake, The Legendary, Lost Coast Review, Literary Orphans and Main Street Rag Anthologies.
Rosie McFarland
Rosie McFarland received her BA in English literature before deciding to spend what money she had left to backpack around the British Isles for two months and stay six weeks in Haiti. She has a passion for giving every person the opportunity to tell their story. Rosie spent her time in Haiti interviewing locals and collecting stories for an eventual collection of creative non-fiction short stories, “Seeds in a Dark Fruit Sky.” She has been making videos for her YouTube channel for over two years. Rosie now lives in California to pursue a career in filmmaking.
Richard Key
Richard earned his medical degree from the University of Mississippi and currently works as a pathologist at Flowers Hospital in Dothan, Alabama. His short story, “The Fall Of Squirrel,” received first place in the humor category of the 2013 Alabama Writers’ Conclave Literary Contest and is published at alalit.com, and his short story “The Point System,” was a finalist in the adult short topics division of last year’s Pacific Northwest Writers Association (PNWA) annual literary competition. His work has appeared in The Penmen Review, Broken Plate, and The Birmingham Arts Journal.
Richard Orodenker
Richard Orodenker is the author of four books on the writing of sports literature in the U.S., including The Writers’ Game: Baseball Writing in America (Twayne’s American Authors Series), which won the SABR/Sporting News Award for Baseball Research. His fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in North American Review, Boston Review, South Carolina Review, Studies in Short Fiction, Aethlon, Work, and other magazines and journals. He earned an M.F.A from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars in 1976 and is Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Intellectual Heritage Program at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA.
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.