Melissa Hammond
Melissa Hammond lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where she writes technical documentation for operating room software. She likes strawberry jam on her pizza and doesn’t know how to whistle.
Kim Magowan
Kim Magowan lives in San Francisco and teaches in the English Department at Mills College. Her fiction is published or forthcoming in Arroyo Literary Review, Bird’s Thumb, Breakwater Review, Corium Magazine, Fiction Southeast, The Gettysburg Review, Indiana Review, JMWW, Parcel Magazine, River City, SNReview, Squalorly, Valparaiso Fiction Review, and Word Riot.
Devanshi Kheterpal
Devanshi Khetarpal is a junior from Bhopal, India. She is the author of “Welcome to Hilltop High” (Indra, 2012) and “Co:ma,to’se” (Partridge, 2014). She is an attendee of the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio 2015 at the University of Iowa. She is a Poetry Editor for Phosphene Literary Journal and the Editor-in-chief of Inklette magazine. Her work has been published in or is forthcoming in The Cadaverine, Eunoia Review, Textploit, Polyphony HS, Glass Kite Anthology, The Noisy Island and The Lipstickparty Magazine among others.
Robin Landa
Robin Landa holds the title of Distinguished Professor in the Robert Busch School of Design at Kean University. She has written more than twenty books about design, creativity, advertising, branding, and drawing, including: “Nimble: Thinking Creatively in the Digital Age” (HOW Books, 2015); “DRAW! The Guided Sketchbook That Teaches You How To Draw” (Pearson/Peachpit, 2014); “Build Your Own Brand” (HOW Books, 2013); “Graphic Design Solutions, 5thedition” (Wadsworth, 2012); “Advertising by Design, 2nd edition” (Wiley, 2011); and “Designing Brand Experiences” (Thompson, 2009). Modern Dog Design Co. illustrated her first children’s book, “The Dream Box.” Robin writes, teaches, designs, and speaks at international conferences. She has won numerous awards, including awards from the National Society of Arts and Letters, the National League of Pen Women, Creativity, New Jersey Authors Award, the Art Directors Club of New Jersey, Graphic Design USA, Rowan University Design Education, and Kean University Creative Research awards. She was the 2013 Kean University Professor of the Year. The Carnegie Foundation counts Robin among the “Great Teachers of Our Time.” She was a finalist in the Wall Street Journal’s Creative Leaders competition. In 2014, Robin was the sole judge of the International HOW Design Logo Competition and she is a favorite speaker at the HOW Design Conferences.
Adam Hoss
Adam Hoss is a writer, educator, holder of a semi-useful M.A. in linguistics and all around good guy from Cleveland, Ohio. His writing has appeared in Epiphany Magazine, Lark’s Fiction Magazine and 140 Fiction. He currently resides in Fremont, Ohio, with his goldfish, his plants and his regrets.
Ceridwen Hall
Ceridwen Hall grew up in Ohio and spent formative years on both coasts before returning to the Midwest to complete an MFA at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), where she now teaches composition and serves as an editorial assistant at The Ninth Letter.
Kelly McNeal
Kelly McNeal is a professor at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersery. She has a Ph.D. from Fordham University in NY, NY. Her recent or forthcoming work is published in Slink Chunk Press and Yellow Chair Review.