Patty Somlo has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize three times, was a finalist in the Tom Howard Short Story Contest, and has been nominated for the 2013 storySouth’s Million Writers Award. She is the author of “From Here to There and Other Stories.” Her work has appeared in numerous journals, including the Los Angeles Review, the Santa Clara Review, and WomenArts Quarterly, among others, and in twelve anthologies, including “Solace in So Many Words,” which won the Next Generation Indie Book Award for Anthology.
Daniel Davis
Daniel Davis is the Nonfiction Editor for The Prompt Literary Magazine. His own work has appeared in various online and print journals. You can find him on Facebook and Twitter, or at www.dumpsterchickenmusic.blogspot.com.
Anita Roberts Soupir
Anita Roberts Soupir is a freelance writer and is currently polishing her first manuscript, “The Dessert Club Series Book 1 – Don’t Trifle With Me,” as she searches for representation. Her work can be seen in: Literary Juice, Thick Jam, Crack the Spine, Mused – the BellaOnline Literary Review Magazine, and Boston Literary Magazine.
Phil Brunetti
Phil Brunetti writes innovative short fiction and poetry and much of his work can be found online. Currently he is completing a short-fiction collection entitled “The Bitter Reds” and also working on an ‘antinovel.’
Ken Haas
Ken Haas lives in San Francisco, where he works in healthcare and sponsors a poetry writing program at the UCSF Children’s Hospital. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Alabama Literary Review, Caesura, The Cape Rock, Cottonwood, Forge, The Coachella Review, Freshwater, Hawai’i Pacific Review, Helix, Moon City Review, Natural Bridge, Pennsylvania English, Pigsah Review, Quiddity, Red Wheelbarrow, Rougarou, Schuylkill Valley Journal Of The Arts, Spoon River Poetry Review, Squaw Valley Review, Stickman Review, Tattoo Highway, and Wild Violet. His work has also been anthologized in “The Place That Inhabits Us” (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2010) and the “Marin Poetry Center Anthology” (2012, 2013).
Leisha Douglas
As a professional psychotherapist and part-time yoga teacher, Leisha feels blessed to have satisfying work and time to write as well. From 2001 to 2010, Leisha codirected the Katonah Poetry Series with former Poet Laureate Billy Collins and currently serves as poetry consultant to the series committee. Her chapbook, “The Season of Drunken Bees,” received special mention in The Comstock Review’s Niles 2009 Chapbook Competition. Her poems have appeared in The Alembic, Corium Magazine, The Cortland Review, decomP, Forge, Front Porch, Ghoti, Ginbender Poetry Review, Hakomi Forum, Helix, The Minetta Review, and Sanskrit.
Bruce Bagnell
After he received his bachelor’s in English from Fairleigh Dickinson University, Bruce Bagnell went on to earn his master’s from John F. Kennedy University. Throughout the years he has worked as a cook, mechanic, and college professor; held various management positions; and was a USAF captain in Vietnam. Now retired, Bruce focuses wholeheartedly on his writing and has been published in OmniVerse, The Scribbler, The Round, and several online magazines. He also hosts at Poetry Express Berkeley and the East Bay Writer’s Drop-In workshop. He is a member of the Bay Area Poets Coalition and was awarded honorable mention in their 2013 Maggi H. Meyer Memorial Poetry Contest.