Millicent Borges Accardi (Birth) is the author of two poetry books: Injuring Eternity and Woman on a Shaky Bridge. She received fellowships from the NEA, California Arts Council, Barbara Demming Foundation and Canto Mundo. A second full-length poetry collection Only More So is forthcoming from Salmon Press, Ireland in 2012.
B. Chelsea Adams (For a Long Time) received her MA from Hollins College in Creative Writing and English. A chapbook of her poems, Looking for a Landing, was published by Sow's Ear Press in 2000. Her stories and poems have been published in numerous journals, including Poet Lore, Potato Eyes, Albany Review, Southwestern Review, California State Poetry Quarterly, Huckleberry Magazine, Union Street Review, Wind, Lucid Stone, Rhino, and the Alms House Press Sampler. Java Poems a chapbook celebrating her addiction to coffee was published in 2007. She retired after teaching at Radford Univerity in Virginia for 23 years. (Photo credit: Christine Burgoyne)
Jesse Cheng (Chance Reunion with Monsters) is from Southern California. Works have appeared or are forthcoming in NANO Fiction, Pear Noir!, and Asian Pacific American Journal. His website is jesse-cheng.com.
Kelly N. Cockerham (Becoming) felt the soft tug of words at an early age and has followed their trail ever since. A graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars in Vermont, her poems have appeared in The Leveler, Palooka, Soundzine, IthacaLit, and are forthcoming in Pebble Lake Review. She currently lives in Maryland with her husband and two children, but her heart resides on the west coast of Florida.
Tommy Dean (Arriving) works as a high school English teacher. A graduate of the Queens University of Charlotte MFA program, he has been previously published in Apollo’s Lyre, Pindeldyboz, Boston Literary Magazine, Blue Lake Review, and 5X5.
Lori D'Angelo (My Own Private Wind) earned her MFA from WVU in 2009, and her work has appeared in various literary journals including Word Riot, Drunken Boat, Stirring, and Literary Mama.
Marko Fong (Simulators) lives in Northern California and published most recently in Pif, Kweli Journal, Extract(s), and Solstice Quarterly. He also serves as fiction editor for Wordrunner e-Chapbook.com. He is married to a woman who does not let him play video games anymore.
Matthew Gasda (A Poem for Today) is a poet living in Brooklyn, NY. His first book of poetry,The Humanist, is available through Amazon and select bookstores.
Danica Green (The Illusion Shatters) is a UK-based writer with work appearing in over 50 literary journals and anthologies, including Smokelong Quarterly, Neon Magazine, PANK and Eclectic Flash.
Patricia Heim (Watermark) is a psychotherapist in private practice in Philadelphia. She received both her B. A. and M.A. from Immaculata University and post-graduate training from the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. Pat lives with her husband on a farm in Chester County, Pennsylvania and writes with the Greater Philadelphia Wordshop studio.
Beverly A. Jackson (The Red Car) is a poet, writer and painter living in Naples, Florida. She is widely published on the web and in print: credits here. She is currently working on a memoir "The Loose Fish Chronicles," excerpts of which can be found here.
Darwin Leon (Illustrator) was born in 1972 in a small town in Havana, Cuba. In 1987, his family sought refuge in Spain, then continued to the United States and settled in Miami. Leon earned his Bachelors in Fine Arts from Miami International University of Art & Design. His work combines aspects of the masters of the Renaissance with his own surreal style, which he refers to as Expressionistic Surrealism. With a sharp sense of humor and figurative imagination, Darwin Leon details the social context of pseudo-political, human involvement with a gift for enhanced form and characterization. Displaying the imbalances of society with a satirical perspective, his artistic creations animate the discontinuities of the post-industrial order. He currently resides with his wife and two children in Bradenton, Florida.
Kurt Mueller (Ontario, California) gets a check from the University of Wisconsin - Marathon County. His most recent work can be found at The Drill Press, Specter Literary Magazine, Hinchas de Poesia, Bull: Men's Fiction, The Atticus Review and Black Heart Magazine.
Michael Milburn (Hot Glass) teaches English in New Haven, Connecticut. His essays have recently appeared in New England Review and Hippocampus. His third book of poems, Carpe Something, will appear this summer from Word Press.
B.D. Wilson (The Hardest Thing) is a writer from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada whose work has appeared in the anthology Dark Pages from Blade Red press, Fictitious Force, and Niteblade Fantasy and Horror Magazine among others. A firm believer in a virtual existence, BD's home on the Web is located at http://www.bdwilson.ca
Kathryn Winograd (Afterward: A Draft), poet and essayist, is author of Air Into Breath (Ashland Poetry Series), winner of the Colorado Book Award in Poetry, and Stepping Sideways Into Poetry (Scholastic, Inc), a classroom resource book for K12 teachers. She recently won 1st place in the Non-rhyming Poetry category of the Writer’s Digest 80th Annual Writing Competition 2011, and 1st place in the Chautauqua Poetry contest. Her essay, “Bathing” was named a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2011 and is included in The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction along with “(Note to Self): The Lyric Essay.” Recent or forthcoming publications include Fourth Genre, River Teeth, Hotel Amerika, Puerto del Sol, and Literary Mama.
