In Order of Appearance:
Seth Elkins lives alone in a small town in Iowa. You can find his work in the archives of Off Beat Pulp and KillPoet, as well as a few others. He likes to practice photography, hunt agates, play pool, drink whiskey and write words. Often in that order.
The poetry of Pris Campbell has appeared in Chiron Review, Oranges & Sardines, The Dead Mule, Boxcar Poetry Review, Wild Goose Review and numerous other journals and anthologies. She had published five poetry collections, the two most recent being The Nature of Attraction, with Scott Owens, by Mainstreet Rag Press, and Sea Trails, by Lummox Press. She has been nominated three times for a Pushcart. A former Clinical Psychologist, she has been sidelined with ME/CFS since 1990. She makes her home in the Greater West Palm Beach, Florida.
Jay Passer is a native of San Francisco, CA. His most recent work has been published in 3:AM Magazine, Haggard & Halloo, ALBA, and forthcoming in Red Fez and Calibanonline. He lives with 3 houseplants and a stuffed yellow duck.
Brad Burjan is fairly convinced that he was dropped off on his parents doorsteps by aliens. He was a one-time Bong Olympic Champion in highschool. Brad also paints and recently sold his first painting to some guy for $25 and a Joy Division cd that he promptly broke about an hour later. He quickly learned from that experience that “it is a bad idea to sit down with a cd in your back pocket”. Believe it or not, Burjan has been published in such publications as California Quarterly, The American Dissident, Killpoet, and Rio Grande Review to name a few.
Brandi Hutchinson believes in illusion and distraction. She understands the value of persuasion and she would love to persuade you to see her as a human being. Brandi is also an animal. Not just in bed. She has submitted very few selections of word beads to very few online small press magazines. Brandi is not a small press whore. You can find her rare gems in Killpoet Issues 3 & 8 and Off Beat Pulp Issue 1. For more of her poetry you can contact her at hutchinb at hotmail dot com.
C. Derick Varn has a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry at Georgia College and State University where he served as assistant editor for Arts and Letters: A Journal of Contemporary Arts. He has served as managing editor for the now defunct Milkwood Review. C. Derick Varn won the Frankeye Davis Mayes/Academy of American Poets Prize in 2003 and has recently published poems in Backwards City Review, Cartier Street Review, JMWW Magazine, Xenith, and Unlikely Stories 2.0. He currently lives in Yongin-si, South Korea during the academic year and in Macon, Georgia during the summer season.
Roberta Lawson lives in Brighton on the South Coast of England. She likes colour, tea, Shamanism, and laughing at the wrong moment. You can find her writing in Mung Being, Prick of the Spindle, and other places around the web and in print.
John Tustin’s poetry has appeared in dozens of magazines and online journals since he began submitting two years ago, and his work is forthcoming in Bryant Literary Review, Chiron Review, Blue Lake Review, and others. fritzware.com/johntustinpoetry is a link to his poetry online.
Miceál Kearney lives in the West of Ireland and has published in magazines in Ireland, England and America. Inheritance is Miceál’s debut collection and was published by Doire Press in 2008.
Gary Beck has spent most of his adult life as a theater director and worked as an art dealer when he couldn’t earn a living in the theater. He has also been a tennis pro, a ditch digger and a salvage diver. His chapbook ‘Remembrance’ was published by Origami Condom Press, ‘The Conquest of Somalia’ was published by Cervena Barva Press, ‘The Dance of Hate’ was published by Calliope Nerve Media, ‘Material Questions’ was published by Silkworms Ink, ‘Dispossessed’ was published by Medulla Press and ‘Mutilated Girls’ is being published by Heavy Hands Ink. A collection of his poetry ‘Days of Destruction’ was published in by Skive Press. Another collection ‘Expectations’ was published by Rogue Scholars
John Swain lives in Louisville, Kentucky. Full of Crow published his chapbooks, The Feathered Masks and Burnt Palmistry, and his sixth chapbook, Handing the Cask, recently appeared from erbacce press.
Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal was born in Mexico. He lives and works in the mental health field in Los Angeles County. His chapbook, Digging A Grave, is available from Kendra Steiner Editions. Alternate Current Press will publish his next chapbook, Songs For Oblivion.
Michael N. Thompson is the author of the poetry collections: Dancing Inside The Mouth Of Madness, This Hollow Pierces and the recently completed Verbal Alchemy. His poems have been published by Nine Twenty Two Press, The Toronto Quarterly, Pooka Press, Rusty Truck, Asterius Press, San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly, Deuce Coupe, Word Riot, Gloom Cupboard, Scythe Literary Journal and Heavy Bear Magazine. Michael lives in San Francisco
