Rich Ives has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Artist Trust, Seattle Arts Commission and the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines for his work in poetry, fiction, editing, publishing, translation and photography. His writing has appeared in Verse, North American Review, Dublin Quarterly, Massachusetts Review, Northwest Review, Quarterly West, Iowa Review, Poetry Northwest, Virginia Quarterly Review, Fiction Daily and many more. He is the 2009 winner of the Francis Locke Memorial Poetry Award from Bitter Oleander. In 2011 he received a nomination for The Best of the Web and two nominations for both the Pushcart Prize and The Best of the Net. He is the 2012 winner of the Creative Nonfiction Prize from Thin Air magazine. His book of days, “Tunneling to the Moon,” is currently being serialized with a work per day appearing for all of 2013 at Silenced Press.
Michael Lane
Michael has studied literature and creative writing at Point Park University, Sonoma State University and Portland State University. He’s had the honor of having short stories published in The Storyteller, African Voices Magazine, Spindrift, and Aim Magazine. He’s also the author of “Emancipation” a diverse collection of human and humane stories linked in an omnipotent way that only real life can assemble.
Vicki Iorio
Vicki Iorio is a native Long Islander. Her first collection of poetry, “Poems from the Dirty Couch,” was published in April 2013.
Tania Moore lives and works along the mighty Hudson River, where she teaches creative writing in New York area schools. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Quiddity, Kestrel, The Other Journal, Sheepshead Review, the anthology Up, Do, Flash Fiction by Women Authors, and many others. She was a finalist for the 2012 Bosque Fiction Prize, and she earned her MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts, where she was the recipient of the C. Woolrich Fellowship for fiction.
Jerri Benson
Jerri Benson is a senior writing major at Boise State University. She’s lived in Idaho, Alaska, Washington, Maryland, Massachusetts and Kentucky-Tennessee. After graduating, she hopes to pursue a MFA degree in Creative Writing.
Samuel R. Buckley
Samuel R. Buckley has been writing since he was nine, and now currently writes as a freelancer. He has had stories published in a range of magazines in the US, UK and Singapore, including Eunoia Review, The Spittoon, The Cadaverine, and others.
Holly Day
Holly Day is a housewife and mother of two living in Minneapolis, Minnesota who teaches needlepoint classes for the Minneapolis school district and writing classes at The Loft Literary Center. Her poetry has recently appeared in Hawai’i Pacific Review, Slant, and The Tampa Review, and she is the 2011 recipient of the Sam Ragan Poetry Prize from Barton College. Her most recent published books are “Walking Twin Cities” and “Notenlesen für Dummies Das Pocketbuch.”
Namkyu Oh
Namkyu Oh is a Korean-born New Jersey native. He is currently a sophomore at Princeton University, where he studies politics and creative writing.