Benjamin Perry
Benjamin values human connection and avoiding eye contact. He helps edit Blank Fiction Magazine though he has no previous publications of his own. Also — and this is important — he brunches on Saturdays.
Malissa Stark
Colorado writer, Malissa Stark, is a student at Columbia College studying creative writing and environmental science. She has most recently been published in The Story Week Reader and The Chicago Tribune.
Karen Lindsey
Karen Lindsey is the author of “DIVORCED, BEHEADED, SURVIVED: A FEMINIST INTERPRETATION OF THE WIVES OF HENRY VIII,” and co-author of “DOCTOR SUSAN LOVE’S BREAST BOOK.” She is an adjunct teacher at Emerson College and the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
Catfish McDaris
Catfish McDaris’ most infamous chapbook is “Prying with Jack Micheline and Charles Bukowski.” His best readings were in Paris at the Shakespeare and Co. Bookstore and with Jimmy”the ghost of Hendrix”Spencer in NYC on 42nd St. He’s done over 20 chaps in the last 25 years. He’s been in the New York Quarterly, Slipstream, Pearl, Main St. Rag, Café Review, Chiron Review, Zen Tattoo, Wormwood Review, Great Weather For Media, and Graffiti and been nominated for 15 Pushcarts, Best of Net in 2010 and 2013, he won the Uprising Award in 1999, and won the Flash Fiction Contest judged by the U.S. Poet Laureate in 2009.
Tina Garvin
Tina lives and writes in Chicago where she lives with her husband and newly born son. Currently she is completing her BFA at the Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago. In addition to writing poetry & prose Tina also manages to make time for creating mixed media art and baking.
Ramona Itule-Patigian
Ramona Itule-Patigian lives in the Berkeley, California, where she teaches, tutors, and writes. She received her MFA from Mills College and her work has appeared in Word Riot, Bluestem Magazine, Triggerfish Critical Review and others. She loves music and fruit.
Desirée Jung
Desirée Jung is a Canadian-Brazilian writer and translator. Her background is in film and literature. She has received her M. F. A in Creative Writing and her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada. She has published translations and poetry in Exile, The Dirty Goat, Modern Poetry in Translation, The Antagonish Review, Gravel Magazine, Black Bottom Review, The Literary Yard, TreeHouse, among others. She lives in Vancouver, Canada.
Francis Daulerio
Francis Daulerio is an English teacher at Downingtown West High School. He finds inspiration in family, friends, nature, and the unpredictability of daily life. Francis currently lives in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania with his loving wife, Leah. His work has been featured in A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, The Shot Glass Journal, and Escarp.