Christine Catalano
Christine worked for a national business-to-business newspaper for many years as a designer, graphic artist, and art director. Her forward-thinking employer guided the company’s transition from typewriter to computer, from film to digital. Now retired, she hopes this background continues to inspire and inform her continuing passion for camera and post-production. Some of her work keeps showing up online, most notably in Mused and Crack the Spine.
Megan Dobkin
Megan Dobkin is a former producer and executive for numerous films and television shows; with production and development credits including Girl, Interrupted; Kate And Leopold; The Recruit; The Vow; Walk The Line; and the two middle films of the Scream franchise. She currently also develops projects for and with her husband, writer/director/producer David Dobkin (best known for his film Wedding Crashers). Megan Dobkin received a degree in English from Kenyon College and is a member of the Los Angeles Poets and Writers Collective.
Carolyn Light Bell
Carolyn Light Bell just retired from secondary English teaching, happy to have more time to dedicate to writing and photography as well as many other personal interests. Her work has appeared in Amarillo Bay, Big Muddy, Blue Buildings, Croton Review, Forge, Great Midwestern Quarterly, Grey Sparrow, The Griffin, Kansas Quarterly, Knock, Limestone, Louisiana Literature, Milkweed Quarterly, Minnesota Memories, Minnesota Women’s Press, Northern Plains Quarterly, The Paterson Literary Review, Phoebe, Praxis, Reform Judaism, Response, RiverSedge, Tales of the Unanticipated, and West Wind Review.
Melanie Faith
Melanie Faith holds an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte, NC. Her writing has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize. She is a writing tutor at a college prep. high school in Pennsylvania and an online creative writing instructor. Her poems, essays, and fiction have been published in the past year at Vermillion Literary Project, Linden Avenue, Aldrich Press, The New Writer, Foliate Oak, and Origami Poems Project. Her work is forthcoming from Star 82 Review, Words Dance, and Crack the Spine (summer 2013). Her poetry collection, “Catching the Send-off Train,” has been chosen as the summer 2013 selection at Wordrunner eChapbooks.
Jos O’Connell
Jos O’Connell is not a normal person; some people would even say that his name isn’t even a real name. Is it pronounced ‘Joss’? Is it pronounced ‘Jose’? Is it pronounced ‘Joz’? With a name just as uniquely strange as his work, he wishes that both his work and his name are approached in the same way; pronounced however you want. Jos has had verse published in Florida’s Ignition magazine, as well as, written songs for musicians such as Joe Purdy and C.P. Stelling. He has won awards for his lead-acting, as well as, his writing of the renounced short-film; “Finger In the Fan:” a film based around a young narcissist, directed by up-and-coming film-maker Zac Grigg. Although he has several titles to his name, it is the love for the word and the written language that is truly important to him. He works to create stories that open up the readers eyes without preaching or talking-down. He also works hard to raise questions and poke at boundaries created by the modern stale-state of prose. Joz, or Jose, or Joss, or Jos, is very grateful for you as a reader and hopes that you enjoy his work!
Monica Doebel
Monica Doebel is a rising high school senior who is the editor of her school’s literary magazine and a member of its yearbook staff. She has had two poems published by Creative Communication, two short stories published in anthologies by Peak City Publishing, and one poem published by the Live Poet’s Society of New Jersey. She enjoys summer blackberries, stained glass, and walking barefoot.
Sally Burnette
Sally Burnette is a Creative Writing and Literature double major at Eckerd College. Her poetry has appeared in Deep South Magazine, the Eunoia Review, and the Eckerd Review and is upcoming in Poetica Magazine and Bop Dead City.
Robert WexelblattRobert Wexelblatt is professor of humanities at Boston University’s College of General Studies. He has published essays, stories, and poems in a wide variety of journals, two story collections, Life in the Temperate Zone and The Decline of Our Neighborhood, a book of essays, Professors at Play; his novel, Zublinka Among Women, won the Indie Book Awards First Prize for Fiction. His most recent book is a short novel, Losses.