Edie Rylander writes mostly fiction from her tiny attic room in SE Portland. She is an editor of the new literary press, The Gravity of the Thing, and volunteer facilitates writing workshops through Write Around Portland. Her work has recently appeared in Thick Jam.
Maryann Cudd
Maryann received a BA in economics from Wells College and an MSSW from Columbia University’s School of Social Work. She worked for many years as a marriage counselor/family therapist. When she retired from practice, her focus shifted to her first love, a writing career. When she’s not writing or learning about the craft of writing, she enjoys being out of doors, skiing, and acrylic painting. Maryann attended the Squaw Valley Community of Writers Conference (2009 and 2011) and the Arizona State Writers Conference (2006 and 2007). Her work has appeared in The Puritan and SNReview.
Erin Castle
Erin Castle received her M.A. in English from Texas Tech University. She still resides in Lubbock, TX, where she teaches English and Creative Writing at Lubbock High, reads submissions for Iron Horse Literary Review, and performs in community theatre productions. Her work has most recently appeared in Apt Magazine and 5×5.
Peter Obourn
Peter’s work is forthcoming or has appeared in Bombay Gin, CQ (California Quarterly), descant, Forge, Gastronomica, Inkwell, Kestrel, The Legendary, Limestone, The Madison Review, New Orleans Review, North Atlantic Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Oyez Review, PANK, Quiddity Literary Journal, Red Wheelbarrow Literary Magazine, SNReview, Spillway, Stickman Review, Switchback, Viral Cat, Wild Violet, The Write Room, and The Blueline Anthology 2004. Peter’s short story, “Morgan the Plumber,” which appeared in North Dakota Quarterly, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Stephanie Kaplan Cohen
Stephanie Kaplan Cohen’s poetry has appeared repeatedly in The New York Times, and has appeared or is forthcoming in 96 Inc., Aura/Literary Arts Review, Confluence, CQ (California Quarterly), Crack the Spine, Folly, Hawai’i Pacific Review, Iconoclast, Pearl, Poet’s Page, Ship of Fools, Sierra Nevada College Review, Slant, Spillway, and Talking River Review. Her prose has appeared or is forthcoming in Amherst Review, Artful Mind, Art Times, Belletrist Review, Binnacle, The Chrysalis Reader, Contraband, descant, Double-Entendre, Forge, Fuel, Grasslands Review, Hardboiled, The Homestead Review, Iconoclast, Jewish Women’s Literary Annual, The Legendary, The Long Beach Independent, Lynx Eye, Minotaur, North Dakota Quarterly, Orange Willow Review, Pedestal Magazine, Reader’s Break, Real (RE Arts & Letters), Reed Magazine, Riversedge, The Scarsdale Inquirer, Slow Trains, The Smashing Icons Anthology, Sulphur River Literary Review, The Westchester Review, and Westview. Her work has also appeared in the anthologies “Lessons in Love: Gifts From Our Grandmothers” (Crown, 2000) and “Split Verse: Poems To Heal The Heart” (Midmarch, 2000). She is the author of a memoir “IN MY MOTHER’S HOUSE,” published by Woodley Books and a poetry book “ADDITIONS AND SUBTRACTIONS,” published by Plain View Press. Stephanie’s work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She writes a column “Ask Stephanie” for the Alzheimer’s Association Quarterly in Westchester and Putnam, New York. Stephanie is also an editor of The Westchester Review. She has done many public and private fiction and poetry readings, and her work has been read on NPR.