Vivian Witkind Davis
Vivian Witkind Davis, Ph. D., retired in 2007 from The Ohio State University, where she had a productive career as a public policy analyst and researcher. Before working at Ohio State, she was a staff writer for Congressional Quarterly, a weekly magazine in Washington, D.C. As a sideline from her day job at Ohio State, she reviewed restaurants for Columbus Monthly magazine for ten years and contributed several in-depth articles. Witkind Davis’ writing has been published or is forthcoming in Defenestration, The Citron Review, Concho River Review, and Forge. She self-published a memoir, “Paper Heirloom,” in 2014.
Molly Giordano
Molly Giordano has a BA in political science and journalism from the University of Delaware and a Masters in Public and Non-Profit Administration from the University of Pennsylvania. She is the Director of Development and Marketing at the Delaware Art Museum. She lives with her husband and cat in Wilmington, Delaware.
Michael Sean Ezekial Wilson
Michael Sean Ezekial Wilson is a sophomore studying English and Creative Writing at Indiana University in Bloomington. Referred to by many of his friends as Zeke, a self-bestowed title referencing the catholic upbringing he no longer adheres to, Michael chooses to focus on the “divine” things in life as subjects for writing, ranging from common suburban animals to pavement salt He currently holds a position as a YMCA summer camp counselor in Michigan and intends on pursuing a PHD after his undergraduate studies.
Robert A. Kaufman
Robert A. Kaufman graduated from Brown and served as a Fulbright Scholar in Oslo. His writing has been featured in Blaire magazine, Extract(s), FD magazine, and Fjords Review. Robert is currently a MALS student at Dartmouth studying poetry.
A.J. Huffman
A.J. Huffman’s poetry, fiction, haiku, and photography have appeared in hundreds of national and international journals, including Labletter, The James Dickey Review, and Offerta Speciale, in which her work appeared in both English and Italian translation. She is also the founding editor of Kind of a Hurricane Press.
Eleanor Levine
Eleanor Levine’s writing has appeared in Hobart, Fiction, Fiction Southeast, Monkeybicycle, The Denver Quarterly, Pank, The Toronto Quarterly, Gertrude, Dos Passos Review, Barrelhouse, Intima, IthacaLit, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, Roadside Fiction (Ireland), S/tick (Canada), Literateur (UK), Litro (UK), Barely South Review, Kentucky Review, Juked, Menacing Hedge, and Artemis. More work is forthcoming in Split Lip Magazine‘s new book series, “Utter Foolery: The Best Global Literary Humor, 2015;” and Gone Lawn. Her poetry collection, “Waitress at the Red Moon Pizzeria,” was recently accepted for publication.
Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas
Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas is a seven-time Pushcart nominee and four-time Best of the Net nominee. She has authored several chapbooks along with her latest full-length collection of poems: “Hasty Notes in No Particular Order” newly released from Aldrich Press. She is the 2012 winner of the Red Ochre Press Chapbook competition for her manuscript “Before I Go to Sleep” and according to family lore she is a direct descendent of Robert Louis Stevenson. Visit her at her website.
Laurie Jacobs
Laurie lives on Boston’s north shore. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University. Her work has appeared in Bartleby Snopes, The Drum and Foliate Oak among other publications. She also has published several books for children.