Kalisha Buckhanon
Kalisha Buckhanon majored in English at University of Chicago and received her M.F.A at The New School. She is author of the novels Conception and Upstate, published by John Murray in London and Rouergue in Paris. Her writing has been featured or is forthcoming in Michigan Quarterly Review, London Independent, Mosaic, Fiction International, Hermeneutic Chaos, Intellectual Refuge and more. She was born in Illinois. Her website is www.Kalisha.com.
Judith Grissmer
Judith has been published in the Sow’s Ear Poetry Review (finalist in annual contest 1998), the Golden Nib Online Anthology (2010 first place in poetry VA Writers Club), and the Blue Ridge Anthology (2008/2010 first place in poetry, Blue Ridge Writers Club). She was awarded second place in the Emma Gray Trigg Memorial. She has attended poetry workshops and classes at American University, George Mason University, The Writers Center in Bethesda, Maryland, and Writer House in Charlottesville, Virginia. She has been working independently with instructors from these writing centers and participating in writers critique groups for many years.
Olivia Inwood
Olivia Inwood is an Australian-Lithuanian, born in regional Australia. She is currently studying English and Visual Arts at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Her writing has previously been published in two editions of the Poetry Quarterly (US) and Written Portraits: An Anthology of Short Stories (Australia).
Lara Alonso Corona
Lara Alonso Corona was born in a small city in the north of Spain. She completed her Film and TV studies in Madrid before moving to London to study creative fiction. Her fiction has appeared in ABC Tales and the Glass Woman Prize, The Copperfield Review, Devilfish Review, 50-word Stories, The WiFiles and more recently she has been published by The Danforth Review and Literary Orphans.
Michael Brasier
Michael Brasier is a regular contributor to American Blues Scene Magazine. He has work published in Sassafras Literary Magazine, Elder Mountain Journal, and Paddle Shots: A River Pretty Anthology. He has work forthcoming in Fiction Southeast. He received his Bachelor’s in English from Missouri State University.
Sharon Kurtzman
Sharon Kurtzman’s writing has appeared in print and online at All Things Girl, moonShine Review, Scruffy Dog Review, Airplane Reader, Still Crazy, Charlotte Writers Club Anthology, Better After 50, RiverLit, the Raleigh News and Observer, the May, 2013 edition of Chicken Soup for the Soul: Inspiration for Writers, Main Street Rag’s February, 2014 anthology, Voices from the Porch, and is forthcoming in 1000Words. She has also been a short story semi-finalist in the William Faulkner-Wisdom writing competition, a finalist in the North Carolina State University short fiction contest, and the Summer 2013 fiction scholarship recipient at the Wildacres Writing Workshop.
Jenni O’Rourke
Jenni O’Rourke creative writing student at Cal State Long Beach, with an emphasis on poetry. Jenni is currently finishing her bachelor’s degree with the hopes of returning to Long Beach for the MFA program in poetry. She is South Bay native who currently resides in Orange County and works as a server.
Tobi Alfier
Tobi Alfier is a five-time Pushcart nominee and a Best of the Net nominee. Her seventh and latest chapbook is “The Coincidence of Castles” from Glass Lyre Press. Her collaborative full-length collection, “The Color of Forgiveness”, is available from Mojave River Press. She is the co-editor of San Pedro River Review.