William Walsh’s books include “Speak So I Shall Know Thee: Interviews with Southern Writers,” “The Ordinary Life of a Sculptor,” “The Conscience of My Other Being,” “Under the Rock Umbrella: Contemporary American Poets from 1951-1977,” and “David Bottoms: Critical Essays and Interviews.” His work has appeared in AWP Chronicle, Cimarron Review, Five Points, Flannery O’Connor Review, The Georgia Review, James Dickey Review, The Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, North American Review, Poetry Daily, Poets & Writers, Rattle, Shenandoah, Slant, and Valparaiso Review.
H.V. Cramond is the Poetry Editor for and a Co-founder of Requited Journal for Innovative Art and a Writing Instructor at Loyola University Chicago. She holds an MFA in Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has received grants from the Illinois Arts Council and the City of Chicago’s Community Arts Assistance Program. Her poem “War of Attrition” was a finalist in the 2013 Split This Rock Poetry Festival Contest judged by Mark Doty. Some recent work can be found in Soundless Poetry, Keep Going, Wunderkammer, Ignavia, death hums, Matter Monthly, and Pandora’s Box (Southport Press, 2011). She’s currently in residence at the Vermont Studio Center.
Following her mother’s death in 2011, Megan Vered penned a family story that she sent to her siblings every Friday. Her essay in Crack the Spine is part of that collection. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in the “First Person” column of the San Francisco Chronicle, Amarillo Bay, The Diverse Arts Project, Existere Journal of Arts and Literature, The Oklahoma Review, and she will be the featured essayist in the Spring 2014 publication of Mezzo Cammin. She is among the authors featured in the “Story Chairs” short story installation at Jack Straw Productions in Seattle.
Howard Winn’s writing, both fiction and poetry, has been published by such journals as Galway Review (Ireland),Dalhousie Review, Descant (Canada), Chaffin Journal, Borderlands, Hiram Poetry Journal, New Verse News. His B. A. is from Vassar College. His M. A. is from the writing program at Stanford University. He has done additional graduate work at the University of California San Francisco. His doctoral work was done at N. Y. U. He has been a social worker in California where he also taught for three years and currently is a faculty member of SUNY as Professor of English.
Todd Mills received his bachelorʼs degree from Antioch University. As a young man he defined himself as a traveler, working his way around the world and supporting himself as a laborer, cook, and teacher in faraway places like the Highlands of New Guinea. Now, with his drifter days behind him, he lives comfortably with his Zimbabwean wife in Ojai, California. He cowrote and produced the documentary film “Timothy Learyʼs Dead.” His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Rougarou, The Alembic, Griffin, The Legendary, ONTHEBUS, Voices, The Coe Review, Yellow Silk, AUSB Odyssey, Sage Trail, RiverSedge, Paranoia VHS, Collage, Antiochracy, Forge, Jet Fuel Review, New Plains Review, and in the anthology Poets on 9-11.
Genevieve Pfeiffer lives outside NYC, concocting plans to someday build and live in a treehouse. She’s a poet, and has taught workshops in summer camps and a correctional facility. She’s worked as Editor, Editorial Assistant, and Community Outreach Coordinator. Her work can be found in BlazeVox and Crack The Spine, and she is currently scrapping together a wordpress blog, BlackWidowProse, to analyze the craft of women poets and muse on what it is for her to identify as ‘woman’ within the human ilk.
Sam Grieve was born in Cape Town and lived in Paris and London prior to settling down in Connecticut. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in A cappella Zoo, Cactus Heart, Forge Journal, Grey Sparrow Journal, Wild Violet Literary Magazine, Sanskrit and PANK.
Kait Austin is a New Orleans native who loves a full-bodied red, Creole cuisine, and roaring family gatherings. She graduated with a BA in creative writing from Louisiana State University, and is currently studying editing at the University of Washington. Kait doesn’t have pets, a significant other, or any eccentric hybrid of the two. She does, however, have a cute studio apartment in Seattle, which is pretty cool.
Annabelle Edwards is a young writer and photographer living in New York. Her work has appeared in Gone Lawn, Belleville Park Pages, and the Red Booth Review. She is the co-editor of Control Literary Magazine.