Siobhan Casey is currently a Creative Writing MFA student at Chatham University with a concentration in poetry. Her work has appeared in The Susquehanna Review, Dash Literary Magazine, and Coal Hill Review.

Adam Crittenden is currently working on his MFA at New Mexico State University, where he edits for Puerto Del Sol. He also finds time to toil with his own poetry.

Barbara Daniels’s book Rose Fever: Poems was published by WordTech Press. She earned an MFA in poetry at Vermont College and is on the staff at Peter Murphy’s Getaway in Cape May, New Jersey.

Nicelle Davis lives in Southern California with her son J.J. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Blue Mesa Review, Broadsided, Front Range, The New York Quarterly, Offending Adam, The Pedestal Magazine, SLAB Magazine, Two Review, and others. She’d like to acknowledge her poetry family at the University of California, Riverside and Antelope Valley Community College. She is an assistant poetry editor for Connotation Press and runs a free online poetry workshop at The Bees’ Knees Blog.

George Drew was born in Mississippi and raised there and in New York State, where he currently lives. He is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently The Horse’s Name Was Physics from Turning Point Press. Drew has won several awards, including the 2003 Paumanok Poetry Prize, the 2007 Baltimore Review Poetry Prize, the 2008 South Carolina Review Poetry Prize, and the 2009 Adirondack Literary Award. A fifth collection, The View from Jackass Hill, is the winner of the 2010 X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize and will be released in 2011 by Texas Review Press.

Lou Gaglia’s work appears or is forthcoming in Blueline, FRiGG, JMWW, The Prick of the Spindle, Foliate Oak, The Ear Hustler, Rose & Thorn Journal, Stymie, Stirring, Bartleby Snopes, and others. He lives and teaches in upstate New York.

Jeannie Hoag’s as yet unnamed chapbook is forthcoming from Agnes Fox Press. Her work is forthcoming or published from NOO Journal, Invisible Ear, and Seeing Other People. She served as managing editor for Slope Editions and now works at the Poetry Collection at the University of Buffalo.

Andrew Howe is an Assistant Professor of History at La Sierra University in Riverside, California. He teaches courses in 20th century American history and popular culture studies, and his research interests include the intersection of cold war narratives and masculinity studies.

Brad Johnson is an associate professor at Palm Beach State College in Florida and has two chapbooks, Void Where Prohibited, and The Happiness Theory, available at puddinghouse.com. His third chapbook, Gasoline Rainbow, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. Work of his has recently been accepted by The Jabberwock Review, The Madison Review, Natural Bridge, Steam Ticket, Willow Springs, and others.

Christopher Linforth is an MFA fellow at Virginia Tech. He is the editor of the forthcoming book The Anthem Guide to Short Fiction (Anthem Press, 2011). He also has work published in Denver Quarterly, Permafrost, Camas and other literary journals.

David McAleavey teaches literature and creative writing at George Washington University in DC and has been published over the years in many journals, including Poetry, The Georgia Review, and Ploughshares. He has work currently online at Ascent, Foliate Oak, Innisfree, and Divine Dirt Quarterly, and has work forthcoming at Epoch, Poetry Northwest, Denver Quarterly, Chiron Review, and a number of other journals.

Kyle McCord’s book, Galley of the Beloved in Torment, was the winner of the 2008 Orphic Prize and was released by Dream Horse Press in the spring. He has work forthcoming or published from Boston Review, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, Cream City Review, Gulf Coast, Painted Bride Quarterly, and elsewhere. He’s worked for The Beloit Poetry Journal, jubilat, and The Nation.

Robert Miltner teaches creative writing and literature at Kent State University Stark and is on the poetry faculty of the Northeast Ohio MFA in Creative Writing consortium through Kent State University. He is the author of Hotel Utopia, selected by Tim Seibles as winner of the 2009 New Rivers Press book prize, and a dozen chapbooks, including Against the Simple (Wick chapbook award). Miltner has published poems in Artful Dodge, Barrow Street, LIT, Diagram, Pleiades, Prose Poem, Sleeping Fish, and Sentence. He is writing a novel, The Tempest, and edits The Raymond Carver Review.

Lauren Nicole Nixon is a Brooklyn-based teaching artist, choreographer, and poet. Recent and forthcoming publications include The Tulane Review, Umbrella Factory, The Belladonna Chaplet Series, Spillway, The Writing Disorder, No, Dear, In Posse Review, and Leveler. Her choreography has been presented at The Triskelion Arts Collaborations in Dance Festival, VIP(arty) Performance Series, Triskelion Arts Split Bill Series, The Living Theatre, and Dixon Place.

William Page’s poems have appeared in Southwest Review, The Southern Review, North American Review, Ploughshares, Kansas Quarterly, American Literary Review, and in over a hundred other reviews and anthologies, including Eskyment. His third collection of poems, Bodies Not Our Own, won a Walter R. Smith Distinguished Book Award, and his collection William Page Greatest Hits 1970 – 2000 is available from Pudding House Publications. He is founding editor of The Pinch and a retired professor of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Memphis.

Wayne Scheer has been nominated for four Pushcart Prizes and a Best of the Web. His work has appeared in a variety of print and online venues, including The Christian Science Monitor, The Pedestal Magazine, Flashquake, and Camroc Press Review. Revealing Moments, a collection of twenty-four stories, can be downloaded at pearnoir.com/thumbscrews.htm. Wayne lives in Atlanta with his wife and can be contacted at wvscheer@aol.com.

Michael Schmeltzer earned an MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. He helps edit A River & Sound Review and is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Winner of the Artsmith Literary Award and Eighth Annual Blue Earth Review Flash Fiction Contest, his work appears in Natural Bridge, Water~Stone Review, New York Quarterly, Crab Creek Review, and Fourteen Hills, among others.

Tracy Stone, who rarely uses her "real" name, received her M.A. from Florida Atlantic University as Moxy and is now working on her Ph.D. as May at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She edits the book review section of this journal, along with her Gothic colleague Joel Terranova, and spends her free time reading zombie fiction. Her chosen field of study is Fantastic Literature, and her favorite argument is for the Fantastic as a mode, rather than a genre.

James Valvis lives in Issaquah, Washington. His poetry and fiction have recently appeared in 5 AM, Confrontation, Crab Creek Review, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Nimrod, Rattle, Slipstream, Southern Indiana Review, and are forthcoming in Arts & Letters, Atlanta Review, Catalonian Review, Crab Creek Review, Gargoyle, Hanging Loose, Los Angeles Review, Midwest Quarterly, New York Quarterly, PANK, River Styx, South Carolina Review, and elsewhere. A book-length collection of his poems is forthcoming from Aortic Books.