Vivian Faith Prescott:
My poetry has appeared in Drunken Boat, Cirque, Turtle Quarterly, Dirtcakes, and Connotations. I’m a Pushcart Prize nominee and I was recently awarded the Jason Wenger Award for Literary Excellence. I was also awarded Honorable Mention in Boulevard’s Poetry Contest for Emerging Writers and was a finalist for the 2009 Joy Harjo Award from Cutthroat: a Journal of the Arts. My first book of poetry The Hide of My Tongue will be published by Plain View Press in the winter of 2011.
I’m a fifth generation Alaskan and I live in Sitka and Kodiak, Alaska. I hold a Ph.D. in Cross Cultural Studies and an MFA from the University of Alaska, Anchorage. I’m the Co-Director of a non-profit called Raven’s Blanket, designed to perpetuate the cultural wellness and traditions of Indigenous peoples through education, media, and the arts.
Joseph Veronneau ran Scintillating Publications 1999-2009 and published chapbooks as well as the lit zine AGUA. His own poems have appeared in a diverse range of journals, such as Counterexample Poetics, Ditch, Word Riot, Thieves Jargon, Chiron Review, etc. He’s currently working toward a BA in Writing and Literature at Burlington College. His most recent chapbooks are More Than Promised (Pudding House) and Within The Grand Scheme (Propaganda Press). He has an upcoming chapbook titled ill-fated solutions through Propaganda Press.
Andrew J. Stone lives and writes in Southern California with iced coffee and mint tea. He strongly believes that sleep is a dream that hardly comes true. His work has appeared or will appear in Subliminal Interiors, In Between Altered States, Disingenuous Twaddle, Short, Fast, and Deadly, The Rainbow Rose, The Carnage Conservatory, Raven Images, and Dead Snakes among other places. He blogs at: http://andrewjstone.blogspot.com/
Rachel Marsom-Richmond: I graduated with my M.A. from Northern Arizona University in May of 2009, and I graduated with my M.F.A. from Georgia College & State University this May. My poems have appeared in Three Line Poetry, The Bijou Poetry Review, and The Camel Saloon.
Mark James Andrews is the author of Burning Trash (Pudding House, 2010). His writing has appeared in many print & online venues. You can look it up. He lives and writes approximately one mile outside the city limits of Detroit and currently has no guru, no method and no PHD.
When Jay Halsey is not too strung out from the 7:30-4:30 work schedule of feeding people more impoverished than himself, he spends time with his wife, reads many books, writes poetry, snaps photos, drinks beer and whiskey, talks to the neighborhood cats, and even once viewed a show on television that wasn’t complete shit. http://head-axe.tumblr.com/
Athena G. Csuti is a young student and writer from Canada. She has been published in ditch, poetry magazine and Intercamp. Every spare moment she has that is not dedicated to studying Creative Writing and History is spent working on new poetry and prose.
Troubadour Kaul is a collaboration project between two artists who indulge in poetry, travelogues, prose, photography and music. They came together in 2010 in a last ditch effort to merge their influences since they’ve been told it is 21st century chic to do so. Despite being recently nominated for the 2011 Best of the Net and 2011 Best Short Writing in the World, their ranking remains dismal in the Indian arranged-marriage-market. While Vineet Kaul rents out his vocabulary and cynicism to his partner-in-rhyme, the Troubadour brings his imagination to the table. Neither of them, however, is bringing any bread to the table. Maybe that is what happens when you collaborate with your alter-ego.
Mark Heinlein was awarded the 2009 American Academy of Poets/Virginia de Arujo Award, selected by Mark Doty and Kimiko Hahn, and the Bonita M. Cox Award for creative nonfiction. In 2010, one of his poems was selected as the best in the county by the Poet Laureate of Santa Clara County. Born in Beech Grove, Indiana, he is a grocery clerk, a former Poetry Consultant at Saratoga High School in Saratoga, CA, and he lives in San Jose, CA.
Joseph M. Gant is a scientific glassblower by trade and education and is a writer by everything else that matters. His work has appeared modestly in small press and academic journals. Gant is Poetry Editor for SAM Publishing and recently authored a full-length collection of poetry, Zero Division, which is published through Rebel Satori Press.
Charles Bigelow: My fiction and poetry has appeared in Big Two Hearted, Nocturnal Lyric, The Scrambler, The View From Here, The Gloom Cupboard, Indigo Rising, Karamu, Litsnack, and Aldebaran, among others.
Rose Mary Boehm: I am a German-born UK citizen and write under my maiden name: Rose Mary Boehm. Have been a writer all my life (painter and photographer), interrupted occasionally by things one needs to do, such as caring for a family, founding a business and playing the corporate game. Two novels have been published in the UK (COMING UP FOR AIR and THE TELLING) in 2010 and 2011 respectively, as well as a collection of my poetry, TANGENTS, written since (almost) retiring. I am still active as a freelance copywriter. With my second husband I live in Lima, Peru, a country of contradictions which slips increasingly into my poetry.
