Marléne Zadig
Marléne Zadig is a writer currently based in Silicon Valley, California and a graduate of the MFA program in Creative Writing from the University of Maryland. She occasionally makes beer (only when her 1950s house with no insulation and no AC allows) and very often makes stories—once, a novel, now begging to be liberated from the coat closet. She is also the mother of two very young children who both literally and figuratively keep her up at night. Her work has received an Honorable Mention for both the 2010 and 2011 Katherine Anne Porter Fiction Prizes at the University of Maryland and can been found or is forthcoming in Sakura Review, Reed Magazine, and Split Lip Magazine.
Matthew Vasiliauskas
Matthew Vasiliauskas is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago. In 2009, he was awarded the Silver Dome Prize by the Illinois Broadcast Association for best public affairs program as producer of the Dean Richards Show at WGN Radio. His work has appeared in publications such as The Newer York Press, The University Of Wyoming’s Owen Wister Review and The Pennsylvania Review. Matthew currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
Charles Edward Brooks
Charles Edward Brooks was born in North Carolina. He holds advanced degrees from Duke University and the University of Lausanne and fellowship in the Society of Actuaries. His work has appeared in Eureka Literary Magazine, Licking River Review, Menacing Hedge, North Dakota Quarterly, The pacificREVIEW, SEEMS, Xavier Review, and many other publications. In addition to original writing, he is active as a literary translator, working in English, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese. He lives in Switzerland.
Keith Moul
Keith’s poems and photos appear widely. Three recently published books include: “The Grammar of Mind” from Blue & Yellow Dog; “Beautiful Agitation” from Red Ochre Press; and “Reconsidered Light,” a collection of poems written to accompany Keith’s photos, from Broken Publications. Broken Publications also released “To Take and Have Not” in 2014 and Finishing Line Press is preparing “The Future as a Picnic Lunch” for release in 2015.
Suzanne O’Connell
Suzanne O’Connell lives in Los Angeles where she is a poet and a clinical social worker. Her work can be found in Forge, Atlanta Review, Blue Lake Review, The Manhattanville Review, G.W. Review, Reed Magazine, The Griffin, Sanskrit, Permafrost, Foliate Oak, Talking River, Organs of Vision and Speech Literary Magazine, Willow Review, The Tower Journal, Thin Air Magazine, Mas Tequila Review, The Evansville Review, The Round, Serving House Journal, Poetry Super Highway, poeticdiversity, Fre&D, Silver Birch Press, and Licking River Review. She was a recipient of Willow Review’s annual award for 2014 for her poem “Purple Summers.” She is a member of Jack Grapes’ L.A. Poets and Writers Collective.
Michael Barach
Michael Barach is the Poetry Editor of Juked and a Program Specialist in the Florida Department of Education in Tallahassee, where he lives with his wife, Brandi.
R. Gerry Fabian
R. Gerry Fabian is a retired English instructor. He has been publishing poetry since 1972 in various poetry magazines. He is the editor of Raw Dog Press. He is currently working on a book of his poems.
Sean Higgins
Sean lives in a brick farmhouse with his wife. They have cats and chickens. He works as a citations submission editor for a research firm, and likes to collect old nautical maps. His work has been published in Midwestern Gothic, Bartleby Snopes, and The Furious Gazelle.