Christopher DeWan has published numerous short stories, in journals recently including A cappella Zoo, Bartleby Snopes, The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review, Grey Sparrow Journal, Jersey Devil Press, Necessary Fiction, and wigleaf. His story “Hoopty Time Machine” was winner of The Binnacle‘s “Ultra-Short Competition,” and he has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize. Learn more on his website.
Denise Kodi is an award-winning writer who tackles tough subjects with humor and sensitivity. Her stories and essays have been featured in Poem Memoir Story, The Sun, Skirt Magazine, Progenitor (for which she won the Creative Nonfiction Prize) and elsewhere. She is the author of “Blessed,” a brutal and brutally funny memoir about growing up in a home with a family curse. Blessed is represented by Ms. Julia Kenny of Dunow, Carlson & Lerner. Denise has worked with at-risk youth and cofounded a charitable organization to encourage young writers through anonymous gifts. She lives in Denver, CO and is a sucker for rescue dogs. When not writing she can be seen visiting local shelters and dragging one home. Read more about Denise on her website.
Author of four published novels and over a hundred published poems, stories, and articles, Jerry McGinley is the founder and publisher of Lake City Lights Online Literary Magazine.
Carolyn Rice is an archaeologist, activist and poet who taught college extension courses in the fields of art and creativity in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her poems have appeared in West Marin Review, City on a Hill Press and the Marin Poetry Center Anthology. Ms. Losee currently chairs the Annual Marin County High School Poetry Awards on the board of the Marin Poetry Center. She owns and manages an archaeological consulting company, and lives with her husband and son in Tiburon, California.
Jim Warner’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in various journals including The North American Review, PANK Magazine, Five Quarterly, The Minnesota Review, and is the author of two collections “Too Bad It’s Poetry” and “Social Studies” (PaperKite Press). Currently, Jim is the Managing Editor of Quiddity housed at Benedictine University in Springfield, IL and writes the weekly column Best Worst Year for SunDog Lit.
Elaine Silverstein is the cofounder and cochairman of Beber-Silverstein Group, one of the largest woman-owned, privately held advertising agencies in America. The agency, which is now in its 33rd year, has represented clients as diverse as Leona Helmsley, whom they made a queen, and the National Organization for Women, for whom they worked but could not pass the Equal Rights Amendment. Elaine has been recognized by my industry with multiple awards. Elaine grew up in Detroit and now lives in Miami. She is a wife, mother, sister, aunt, mentor, and now in middle age she finds that she has stories to tell. Elaine’s work has appeared in Aethlon, Jewish Women’s Literary Annual, Lilith, North Atlantic Review, Palo Alto Review, Phoebe: Gender and Cultural Critiques, RE:AL, Talon Magazine, and Westview.