Angela Allan has a B.A. and Honors in English from Wesleyan University in Connecticut. She writes stories, rhyming poems, and eulogies for rabid mammals. She currently resides in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Alyce Lomax
Alyce Lomax’s work has appeared in The MacGuffin, Gargoyle, The Summerset Review, Lily, Pindeldyboz, Drunken Boat, and others, as well as the Paycock Press anthology “Gravity Dancers: Even More Fiction by Washington Area Women.” By day, she writes about and analyzes stocks for investing Web site The Motley Fool, with a particular focus on socially responsible investing and occasional sense of humor. A resident of Alexandria, Va., she also contributes to social media’s cat photos phenomenon, certainly does enjoy games like Bejeweled, and knits for relaxation (with a special emphasis on fashioning square and rectangular objects).
Brian Alan Ellis
Brian Alan Ellis is the author of “33 Fragments of Sick-Sad Living.” His fiction has also appeared in such publications as Skive, The Single Hound, Zygote in My Coffee, Monkeybicycle, DOGZPLOT, Conte, FLARE: The Flagler Review, Diverse Voices Quarterly, flashquake, Spittoon, Spry, Emerge, NAP, and Atticus Review, among others. “The Mustache He’s Always Wanted but Could Never Grow,” a collection of Ellis’s short stories, comes out next year. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida.
Beth Nelson
Beth Nelson’s writing has been published in American Literary Review and Camera Arts Magazine. She has had the privilege of attending artist residencies at Jentel, near Sheridan, Wyoming; The Hill House, near Mancelona, Michigan; and Brush Creek Ranch, near Saratoga, Wyoming, where she also served as Interim Director in the winter of 2013. In 1995, she served as an Associate Fiction Editor for Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Beth was recently accepted into The Book Project, an innovative program developed by The Lighthouse Writers Workshop Literary Center, Denver, Colorado, to assist dedicated writers in completing and publishing manuscripts. She’s trekked in Nepal, gone on photo safari in Kenya, and tramped the backwoods of New Zealand. She and her husband David once lived as expatriates in Saudi Arabia, and later, parented a foster child. Today she resides in Centennial, Colorado and continues to work on her short story collection, “Rurality.”
Jane Whittington
Jane Whittington writes poetry and fiction. Her flash fiction, “Jazz and Solo,” appears in the summer 2013 issue of Black Fox Literary Magazine. One of her short stories was finalist in the 2011 Glimmer Train Fiction Open. She was finalist in the Marjorie Wilson Award for Excellence in Poetry. Her writing is anthologized in the online journal, Abalone Moon. Jane is regional organizer of the New Hampshire Writers’ Project Writers’ Night Out and Upper Valley Writers, a resource for writers in New Hampshire and Vermont.
Aidan Badinger
Aidan Badinger, a ’12 DePauw University alum (English Writing), mainly focuses on the stream-of-consciousness writing process, which yields some of the most innovative pieces of language yet to be seen. Badinger has drawn major inspiration from Richard Brautigan and Don Van Vliet, not to mention Frank Zappa and Tom Waits. He will often tell you that he wants to write more, and he can’t accept his current behavior if he doesn’t have a pen in his hand. He wishes to have a voluminous life’s work that ripples like the ocean.
Carol Bell
After studying biology and chemistry at the University of Colorado, Carol Bell worked for many years as a pharmaceutical chemist. Once retired, she chose to abandon her life of analysis, gas chromatographs and titrations to live on a hay ranch on the Western Slope of Colorado where she could focus on writing poetry, short stories and non-fiction. She studied at Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction, Colorado where she earned a degree in English. She has studied with Colette Inez, Christopher Merrill, Amy Irvine, Dr. Barry Laga, and Craig Childs. Her work has appeared in Amarillo Bay, Bayou, The Broome Review, California Quarterly, Cape Rock, Forge, Mobius, Pilgrimage Magazine, RiverSedge, Soundings East, Studio One, and Talking River among others. Her first non-fiction book, “Soldier # 37483425; Memories of WWII,” will be available in book stores soon.
Victoria Peterson-Hilleque
Victoria Peterson-Hilleque’s poems appeared or are forthcoming in Paper Nautilus, The Montucky Review, Poppy Road Review, Our Day’s Encounter, Northern Cardinal Review, and other journals. Her books “How to Analyze the Works of Sylvia Plath” and other titles were published by ABDO Publishing Company. She’s the Poet-In-Residence at Solomon’s Porch Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota where she also teaches a poetry workshop.