Gale Acuff has had poetry published in Ohio Journal, Descant, Adirondack Review, Florida Review, Carolina Quarterly, South Dakota Review, Santa Barbara Review, and many other journals. He has authored three books of poetry: Buffalo Nickel (BrickHouse Press, 2004), The Weight of the World (BrickHouse, 2006), and The Story of My Lives (BrickHouse, 2008). He has taught university English in the US, China, and the Palestinian West Bank.
Scott Newton Allen received an MFA from the California College of the Arts where he edited poetry for the literary journal Eleven Eleven. He has taught English language in Southern California and Bologna Italy, and English composition at San Quentin State Prison. He has contributed poetry, essays and book reviews to Eleven Eleven, The Willow Tree People,Chaparral, Poetry Super Highway and Ouroboros.
Suzanne Allen’s poems appear in anthologies and journals in four countries and her first press-published chapbook, Verisimilitude, is available at CorruptPress.net. She’s also a rogue videographer and a co-editor of the Paris based issue.ZERO.
Tamar Altebarmakian is a second year fiction MFA student at California State University, Long Beach. She has an unwavering affinity for British television and science-fiction and hopes to wake up one day to the realization that she has been a time-travelling Brit all along. She is a recipient of the Gerald Locklin Writing Prize and her work has appeared in RipRap and made the Top 25 list in the Glimmer Train Fiction Open.
Mila Anhielo is a 21 year old English major living in Los Angeles, like everyone else, she supposes. She is an avid blogger and reader, who has recently been featured in Crack The Spine, an online literary magazine, as well as in other online publications. She hopes her writing makes a connection, and someone out there can be slightly amused.
Lloyd Aquino teaches English composition and literature at Mount San Antonio College. His work has been published in Chaffey Review, Pomona Valley Review, Suisun Valley Review, Underground Voices, Turbulence, and Atlantic Pacific Press.
Jose Arroyo is a single father of 3 who repairs and maintains industrial and commercial air conditioners at a steel mill in Rancho Cucamonga for a living.
Michael Ashley is a 30 year old from the county of West Yorkshire in the United Kingdom, most of the time he is either working the 9 ‘til 5 or walking his dogs, but in between this (and the rest of the menial tasks that come along with life) he writes a little poetry. If you want to read more of Mike’s poetry visit www.michaelashleypoetry.wordpress.com.
April Avalon has been writing for five years, getting inspiration from various experiences seen by the eyes of a thinker. The purpose of her creativity is urging people to see beyond the bounds, to be themselves, to speak their minds loud, not to be afraid to differ from the crowd. She creates to destroy. To destroy the naive beliefs. To destroy the stereotypes.
Ronald Baatz and his wife live in New York.
Danny P. Barbare resides in Greenville, SC. His poetry has appeared in numerous magazines such as Faith, Hope, and Fiction, Sepia, Weyfarers, and many others.
Mariacristina Natalia Bertoli is a picaresque anti-heroine who ceaselessly travels all over Europe and beyond. Her essays, translations, reviews and short stories have been published in France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. A collection of her poems, which have been published mostly in the United States, is currently being translated into French by Pierre Lamarque and will soon appear in La page blanche.
Rich Boucher has published four chapbooks of poetry and for seven years hosted an open reading and slam in Newark, Delaware. Since moving to Albuquerque in March of 2008, Rich has been performing and writing steadily in the Duke City. Hear some of his poems at richboucher.bandcamp.com. New work can be found in the online journal Brawler.
John Brantingham has had work published in hundreds of magazines in England and the United States. His first poetry collection East of Los Angeles is available through Anaphora Press and his first short story collection Let Us All Pray Now to Our Own Strange Gods is upcoming from World Parade Book.
Michael H. Brownstein has been widely published. He has nine chapbooks out and currently administrates the website http://projectagentorange.com.
John F. Buckley lives in Orange County, California. His work has been published in a number of places, one of which nominated him for a Pushcart Prize in 2009. His chapbook Breach Birth was published on Propaganda Press in March 2011. His full-length collaboration with Martin Ott, Poets’ Guide to America, is coming out on Brooklyn Arts Press in Summer 2012.
David Caddy is a poet, critic and editor. His latest books are Man in Black (Penned In The Margins 2007) and The Bunny Poems (Shearsman Books 2011). His collection of essays, So Here We Are, is due from Shearsman Books in 2012. He edits Tears in the Fence magazine.
Belline Chao’s work has appeared in Askew, The 2River View, Connotation Press, Packinghouse Review, and Aspects of Robinson: Homage to Weldon Kees. She currently resides in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Marta Chausée lives, works and plays in and near her tree house in the secret jewel in the crown of Southern California, the wee college town of Claremont, with her luck dragon, Falcor, by her side and her beloved writer friends and peeps nearby. Her first book, Resort to Murder, will be published in 2012 by Oak Tree Press. Her motto is: Manus manum lavat.
Danielle Cofer is a student at Cal Poly Pomona and a reading editor for A Few Lines Magazine. She enjoys hiking, communing with gnomes, and questioning the motives of government agencies.
Virginia Conn is a poet/collagist in Tucson, AZ.
Glenn Cooper lives in Tamworth, Australia, and has been publishing in the small press and behind for the last decade. His latest book is His Crucible of Pain: 20 Prose Poems Concerning Rimbaud.
Candace Cortez’s poetry expresses her feelings of living in a borderland. She has been published in the Mount San Antonio Community College’s Mosaic as well as Bank-Heavy Press’s Robo-Book.
Born in Southern California, Mark Cortez is most influenced by renaissance art; he tries to bring a sense of realism into his mostly surrealistic art through focus on shading and the development of light and dark values. He has worked in the action sports industry for many years and his work has appeared in magazines and on shirts, album covers, and skateboards.
Scott Creley’s work has been printed in Sentence, Freefall, and the collection Bear Flag Republic from Alcatraz Press. He is an occasional host of the Valley Poets reading series and a curator of the San Gabriel Valley Literary Festival.
Before he was born, his parents wanted to name him Nestor Daniel Cuesta; however, at the time of his birth, neither parent could remember the desired first name, so they left it at Daniel Cuesta. Think of him as an ―almost-Nestor Daniel Cuesta, though really he is just dANIEL cUESTA. He likes to do a lot of things like walking, hiking, breathing, thinking, biking, etc. but on occasion, he sits down, cuts paper, pastes, paints, and scrawls down things that resemble something like a picture.
Carl Miller Daniels is an OCD agoraphobe who flosses quite regularly.
Mick Davidson has had some poems and a short story published in Specter Literary Magazine. He is one of their regular columnists and has performed some of his work in Cambridge. He is a technical author who works for a software house but started out as a newspaper and magazine journalist. He finished his first novel (vampire) last year and is 1/2 way through his second (bike-based romance). He is British but lives in the Netherlands and listens to Trance, classical music and silence while he works
from home.
Isaac Boone Davis is a writer living and working throughout the United States. His work has been previously published at Writethis.com and The Smokelong Quarterly.
Cassandra de Alba has a degree in poetry and history from Hampshire College—specifically, poetry about the American sideshow c. 1840-1940. She lives in Somerville, MA with a cat who won’t stop hitting her.
Charlotte De’Ath was born in the east end of London but now lives in an idyllic cottage situated deep in the beautiful Suffolk countryside. She has published one chapbook Kicks To Hypnotise Suburban Daughters by Erbacce Press, another of dark urban fairy tales is in the making. She is one of the founders of the Clueless Collective.
Cory De Silva’s album, “Someday When I’m Young,” was released in March 2010. He co-edits for Bank-Heavy Press in Long Beach, CA and writes poetry and fiction. His second album, “Beginnings,” is scheduled for release in 2012.
Jude Dillon is a male and a photographer and poet/writer living in Calgary Alberta.
He has a blog of photographs: www.judedillonphoto.blogspot.com.
William Doreski’s work has appeared in various e and print journals and in several collections, most recently Waiting for the Angel (Pygmy Forest Press, 2009).
T. Fox Dunham resides outside of Philadelphia PA—author and historian. He’s published in over seventy international journals and anthologies and was a finalist in the Copper Nickel Annual Short Story Contest for his story, The Lady Comes in the Night. He’s a cancer survivor. His friends call him Fox, being his totem animal, and his motto is: Wrecking civilization one story at a time.
Rola Eldanaf is a second-year graduate student in the MFA program at California State University, Long Beach. She hopes to teach creative writing classes at the community college level, and pursue a PhD degree in Literature and Creative Writing. She is a fan of the written word, and the element of surprise in literature as well as in all aspects of life.
jacob erin-cilberto has been writing and publishing poetry since 1970. He lives and teaches in Southern Illinois. His 12th book of poetry, Used Lanterns, was published in February by Water Forest Press in Stormville, NY. erin-cilberto was nominated for a pushcart prize in 2006-2008 and in 2010.
Vickie Fernandez is an award-winning writer and alumni of Ariel Gore’s Literary Kitchen. Her stories have appeared in many online publications including Penduline Press, The Rumpus, Antique Children, Spurt Literary Journal, FYLM, and Tiki Tiki. She was the recipient of the 2011 Judith Stark award and a finalist in Hunger Mountain’s 2010 competition for creative non-fiction. Vickie is currently working on a memoir while simultaneously wrangling a new set of unruly tales into submission.
Zach Fishel is a recent Pushcart Nominee and graduate student at the University of Toledo. His work has appeared in numerous print and online journals. He is an editor at Jumping Blue Gods.
Ray Foreman is the editor and publisher of Clark Street Review and Backstreet, both bi monthlies. He has been writing narrative human condition poetry for the past 30 plus years.
Jack Foster is the Production Editor of A Few Lines Magazine and the Lead Editor of Wormwood Chapbooks. His work can be found in journals such as Kudzu Review, Eunoia Review, The Adroit Journal, and Yes, Poetry. Jack irregularly blogs here.
Wesley Francis has had poems published in Dash, RipRap, Zygote In My Coffee, and forthcoming in Pearl. He currently lives in Los Angeles, and is trying to grow out a nice winter beard.
Jim Fuess works with liquid acrylic paint on canvas. He is striving for grace and fluidity, movement and balance. He likes color and believes that beauty can be an artistic goal. A lot of his abstract paintings are anthropomorphic. The shapes seem familiar. The faces are real. The gestures and movements are recognizable. More of his paintings may be seen at www.jimfuessart.com.
Matt Galletta lives in upstate NY. He brews his own beer so he never has to leave the house.
Ricky Garni is a graphic artist from North Carolina. His latest short work publications can be found in Softblow, Poetry Quarterly, and Unfold. He is currently working on a twelve book collection called OK YOU CAN STOP NOW, as well as a tiny book called TOOTHBRUSHES. Once a month, he teaches poetry to seniors at Covenant Place in Carrboro, North Carolina.
Conrad Geller is an old poet with more than a hundred poems in publication, in print and electronically. He grew up in Boston, lived in New York, and now lives and writes in Northern Virginia.
Kelley Gillaspy is currently a second year student in the MFA program at California State University, Long Beach.
Lawrence Gladeview is a Boulder, Colorado poet and one of two editors for MediaVirus Magazine. His debut full-length poetry collection, Just Ignore The Beer Stains, is available now from PigeonBike Press.
Howie Good, a journalism professor at SUNY New Paltz, is the author of the new poetry collection, Dreaming in Red, from Right Hand Pointing. All proceeds from the sale of the book go to a crisis center, which you can read about here. He is also the author of numerous chapbooks, including most recently The Devil’s Fuzzy Slippers from Flutter Press.
Dylan Gosland is a 22 year old California twin who just wants to put his writing out into the world. He has been published in The Left Coast Review and Creepy Gnome, and loves the sound of one hand clapping. He also has a moderate addiction to Nestle Butterfingers.
Jeffrey Graessley is a lowlife from Southern California. His latest works can be found in Filthy Secret Books and Turbulence Magazine. When not running with the wild dogs on the streets, he enjoys a quiet evening alone with a bottle of cheap wine and some Bukowski to make him feel better about himself. He is often seen shouting on street corners, urging people to accept themselves for the creatures they are.
Arpine Konyalian Grenier’s poetry has appeared in numerous publications including several anthologies. She has four published collections, most recently, The Concession Stand: Exaptation at the Margins (Otoliths, 2011).
John Grey is an Australian born poet who works as financial systems analyst. His work has recently been published in Poem, Caveat Lector, Prism International and the horror anthology, What Fears Become. He has work upcoming in Potomac Review, Hurricane Review and Pinyon.
The late Allen Ginsberg called Dorothea Grossman’s poetry, “clear, odd, personal, funny or wild-weird, curious and lucid.” The award-winning poet lives, works and writes in Los Angeles. She has been a featured poet in the March, 2010 issue of Poetry Magazine, and the recipient of that magazine’s Wood Prize. Two CDs, “Call & Response” and “Call & Response & Friends,” feature her in live performance with improvising trombonist Michael Vlatkovich and other creative improvising musicians.
Jerry Guarino’s short stories have been published by dozens of magazines in the United States, Canada, Australia and Great Britain. His first collection of twenty-six critically acclaimed stories, Cafe Stories, was released in November 2011. It is available as a paperback on amazon.com and as an e-book on kindle.
Samantha Hawkins grew up in Jonesboro, GA (but she tells everyone Beverley Hills, CA), and is majoring in Business Computer Systems (though her heart is in English). Her poetry has been published in multiple anthologies and may soon be featured in Poetry (if they would only stop rejecting her).
Pushcart Prize nominee Kevin Heaton writes in South Carolina. His work has appeared in a number of publications, including: Raleigh Review, Foundling Review, The Honey Land Review, and Mason’s Road.
Kyle Hemmings is the author of several chapbooks of poems: Avenue C (Scars Publications), Cat People (Scars), Fuzzy Logic (Punkin Press), and Tokyo Girls in Science Fiction (NAP). His latest ebook is Down Moon Girl from Trestle Press.
Rose Hesse is a graphic designer living in Seattle.
Rusty Kjarvik is an emerging writer, world music percussionist and artist. His poetry has been accepted in various online and print publications including 3:AM Magazine, The Body Electric Anthology from and/or and Marco Polo Arts Magazine. He has also published visual art, and has an exhibition. He performs music regularly with Vi An Diep and lives in Calgary, Alberta where he blogs.
Steve Klepetar teaches literature and writing at Saint Cloud State University in Minnesota. His work has received several nominations for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Web. His latest chapbook, My Father Teaches Me a Magic Word, has recently been accepted by Flutter Press.
Michaelsun Knapp is a Native American, college graduate, living in the L.A. area, strong with the force. His work was been published in Creepy Gnome, In Somnis Veritas, and Beatnik.
Keith G. Laufenberg has been writing for over 30 years and has had over a hundred poems and short stories published. His work has appeared in The Maryland Review, Pulp Empire, NuVein, Mobius, The Write Room, Corner Club Press, Danse Macabre, Fringe, and Kzine, among others. He has also had 2 novels published: Miami Rock and Semper-Fi-Do-or-Die and he now has three other novels and five books of short stories on Amazon Kindle which can be assessed at his website.
Brian Le Lay is a poet based out of New York City. His first book of poems, Don’t Bury Me in New Jersey, is available from Electric Windmill Books. His work has recently appeared in The Rusty Nail, Hobo Pancakes, and Drunk Monkeys. He blogs here.
Zack Nelson-Lopiccolo holds a B.A. in Creative Writing and Literature from California State University, Long Beach. He is one head of the Cerberus that is Bank-Heavy Press. Residing in Long Beach, he works as a drywall taper and lives on a sailboat where many mutated creatures visit him. His poetry can be seen in Indigo Rising Magazine, ¡Vaya!zine, Short, Fast, and Deadly, Contemporary American Voices, Pipe Dream, and Crack the Spine.
Denny E. Marshall has had art & poetry recently published.
Agnes Marton is a Hungarian-born poet, editor, linguist, and translator. She regularly works together with visual artists, takes part in exhibitions and art projects in Europe, in the USA and in New Zealand. She performs in 5 countries. Her book is Sculpture/poésie with Mani Bour.
John McKernan is now a retired professor. He lives – mostly – in West Virginia where he edits ABZ Press. His most recent book is of selected poems, Resurrection of the Dust. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review, Field, and elsewhere.
Karie McNeley is a mid-twenties poet, artist, and student from Lakewood, CA. Her poetry has been published in Verdad!, Pagan Friends, and Bank-Heavy Press. She also has forthcoming publications in Tears In The Fence, Words & Images, and Pearl. She is an editor and lead artist for Bank-Heavy Press, a smallpress publishing group founded in early 2011 and located in Long Beach, CA.
Janice Krasselt Medin’s poems have appeared in Yale Journal of the Humanities in Medicine, an anthology The Harsh and the Heart (Silver Boomer Books, 2011), Battered Suitcase, and in many other places.
Cruz Medina’s fiction has appeared in Acentos Review and Solstice Literary Journal. He earned a MFA from Chapman University in ’08, and will earn his PhD in Rhetoric, Composition and the Teaching of English in ‘13 from the University of Arizona, where he teaches writing.
http://mexifornianqueen.tumblr.com/
Andrea Montoya is currently a student at Mount San Antonio College. She is in the process of writing two different genres of books as well as writing fiction short stories in her spare time. She also has a blog named “The Bark-Off” where she states her opinion on dog-related news updates.
Natalie Morales is a senior English major at UCLA. Her poetry has been published in Mt. San Antonio College’s MoSAIC, Cornell University’s Rainy Day Literary Magazine, and Conceit Magazine’s Amulet literary journal.
Eric G. Müller is a musician, teacher and writer living in upstate New York. He has written two novels, Rites of Rock (Adonis Press 2005) and Meet Me at the Met (Plain View Press, 2010), as well as a collection of poetry, Coffee on the Piano for You (Adonis Press, 2008). Articles, short stories and poetry have appeared in many journals and magazines. For more, visit: www.ericgmuller.com.
Ben Nardolilli’s chapbook, Common Symptoms of an Enduring Chill Explained, has been published by Folded Word Press. He maintains a blog and is looking to publish his first novel.
Jenny Ortiz is a quite serious 25 year old New Yorker, except when unicorns (specifically chubby unicorns) are involved. When she isn’t pleading with Kurt Sutter via Twitter to be her mentor, she is teaching at St. John’s University, Adelphi University, and LaGuardia Community College (see, quite serious). When she isn’t teaching, she’s hanging out with her friends showing off earth and water bending skills (not serious, but super fun). When she is alone and it’s raining, she likes to read Haruki Murakami, or listen to the Broken Bells and daydream.
Alan Passman is a man who strives for impossibility. His aesthetic is one that blends blatant pop cultural nerdery with red hot American male deviancy masking the empathetic heart of one who has hurt and one who has been hurt. Ever the renaissance man, he is not only a poet and a writer of prose but also a musician in the Los Angeles-based band The Terrapin. He received his BA and MFA from Cal State Long Beach for Creative Writing and Poetry respectively. Currently he teaches English as a Second Language at CSULB.
Jacqueline Pham is a first year student in the MFA Creative Writing program at California State University, Long Beach. She holds two Bachelor of Arts degrees from CSULB, one in Literature and one in Creative Writing with a minor in Psychology. Her poems have been published in RipRap, The Mas Tequila Review, Subliminal Interiors, Bank-Heavy Press, The Legendary, and The Anthology of International Youth Poetry.
Enrique Plazola is a freelance illustrator and concept artist. He grew up in San Diego and worked as a caricature artist for 3 years. He has also worked as a stereo artist for Legend 3D and as a designer for different t-shirt companies. For more of his work, check out his website and video blog.
Douglas Polk is a poet living in the wilds of central Nebraska with his wife and two boys. He has had numerous poems, three books of poems, and two children’s books published. Poetry books are: In My Defense, The Defense Rests, and On Appeal. The children’s books are: The Legend of Garle Pond and Marie’s Home.
Frederick Pollack is the author of two book-length narrative poems, THE ADVENTURE and HAPPINESS, both published by Story Line Press. Other poems appear in print and online journals. He is an adjunct professor of creative writing at George Washington University.
Sean M. Poole was born in New York City and raised in Southern California. His book, Gattorno: A Cuban Painter For The World, has won several awards, including the 2009 Eric Hoffer Award for Excellence in Independent Publishing. He recently published Words Are My Paint, a collection of poems and sketches. He has also worked as a voice-over artist, and an independent writer/director of short dramatic and educational videos. Most recently, he was a spokesperson and Promotional Writer for TIGERS-The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species. Poole currently resides in South Carolina where he is collaborating with historian Allen John Olson on a book detailing the history of the American Renaissance Festival.
Angel Pulliam is a graduate student at Arkansas Tech University and has had poems published in Milk Sugar, Applause Magazine, and the chapbook House of Broken Deer.
R L Raymond is a storyteller. He runs all aspect of PigeonBike — an online and print journal, as well as a small poetry press. He keeps it simple and honest. His publications include – Existere, Carousel, Epic Rites, Blazevox, Not One of Us, etc. His first collection, Sonofabitch Poems is out and available.
Kevin Ridgeway is a writer from Southern California, where he resides in a shady bungalow with his girlfriend and their one-eyed cat. Recent work has appeared in Underground Voices, Stanley the Whale, Full of Crow and Negative Suck. Mr. Ridgeway’s poetry chapbook, Burn Through Today, is available through Flutter Press.
Charles P. Ries lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His narrative poems, short stories, interviews, and poetry reviews have appeared in over two hundred print and electronic publications. He will have a new book of poetry published in 2011: Girl Friend & Other Mysteries of Love that will be published by Alternating Current Press. His work is archived at Marquette University‘s Raynor Library in the Charles P. Ries Collection.
Natalie Robles is a very sweet 9 year old terrier mix with green eyes. She is safe around cats, but keep away from the elderly and children. Do not rush Natalie or make loud clicking noises. Natalie does the artwork for Knox, which is a complicated mish mash of paw prints.
Daniel Romo’s poetry can be found or is forthcoming in Gargoyle, The Los Angeles Review, MiPOesias, Scythe, Connotation Press, and elsewhere. His first book of poetry, Romancing Gravity, is forthcoming from Pecan Grove Press. More of his writing can
be found at danielromo.wordpress.com.
Luke Salazar has an MFA in creative writing from California State University, Long Beach. His work has been published in Pearl, Chiron Review, The Ledge, Re)verb, Spot Lit Magazine, San Pedro River Review, Beggars and Cheeseburgers, and Vulcan. His poem “Black Friday” won the 2009 Working People’s Poetry Contest in Blue Collar Review.
Charlotte San Juan is a student from West Covina, California who started writing stories and poems as soon as her little fingers knew how. She attended Mt. San Antonio College, where her writing was recognized in the Left Coast Review. Her poetry will also be featured in a British online magazine called The Beatnik. Apart from writing, she enjoys the company of cats, liquor, and silly men.
Fabio Sassi is a visual artist from Bologna, Italy.
Miriam Schneider has taught English as both a first andsecond language and has worked in public relations. She lives in Los Angeles with her two cats, Keaton and Rabbi Catz.
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Stephen Silke received a master’s in fiction at the University of Southern California. His new book of fiction: Trickster Stories (2011) is available for Kindle on amazon.com.
Adrienne Selina Silva is a poet currently residing in Walnut, whose work has been featured in Creepy Gnome, The Left Coast Review, and Bank-Heavy Press. One of her short stories won first place in Mount San Antonio College’s Writer’s Day Contest.
Michael Spring is the author of three poetry collections: blue crow (2003), Mudsong (2005), and Root of Lightning (2011). His poems have appeared in numerous publications, including The Atlanta Review, DMQ Review, The Dublin Quarterly, Gavea-Brown, The Midwest Quarterly, and NEO. New poems forthcoming in: Cirque, Innisfree, NEON, Sleet and Spillway. Michael lives in O’Brien, OR. He is currently a natural builder, a martial art instructor, and a poetry editor for The Pedestal Magazine.
Gordon J. Stirling is a retired U.S. diplomat, now residing in Oklahoma. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, where this story takes place. It is based on a dream he had in 1983, while working at the U.S. Embassy in Rome.
Andrew J. Stone sleeps in the sunshine. Recent work has appeared in Danse Macabre, blue & yellow dog, Full of Crow, and Short, Fast, & Deadly, among other places. He recently finished a chapbook of poetry titled, Teenage Angst & the Ekphrastic Exercise. He’s now seeking publication. Find him where the graveyard is always full at: http://andrewjstone.blogspot.com/.
Sanchari Sur is a Bengali Canadian who was born in Calcutta, India. While her poetry and short stories have made their appearances in Corvus, Red River Review, Crack the Spine, Map Literary and elsewhere, her experimentation with photography is a recent obsession. Her blog can be found here.
Declan Tan works as a freelance journalist in Nuremberg, Germany where he also teaches English as a foreign language. He has published some prose and poetry here and there. He is originally from London, England.
Nicole Taylor has many hopeful projects, no MFA’s and is an artist, a hiker, a volunteer, and a dancer, formerly in DanceAbility. She blogs here and you can also find her at http://www.oregonpoeticvoices.org/poet/312/.
Paul Kareem Tayyar’s most recent book of poems is Follow the Sun (Aortic Books), and his previous collections include Postmark Atlantis (Level 4 Press) and Scenes From A Good Life (Tebot Bach). He is the Founding Editor of World Parade Books, which has published collections by Gerald Locklin, Rafael Zepeda, Donna Hilbert and Edward Field. He holds a PhD in American Literature from UC Riverside.
Francesca Terzano is a writer who lives in Montclair California. She loves reading about Greek Mythology.
M. Tesauro is 25. He hates the heat, lives in the smog. An Inland Empire original.
Thomas R Thomas for his day job does software QA. He volunteers at Tebot Bach in Huntington Beach. His verse has been published in Don’t Blame the Ugly Mug: 10 Years of 2 Idiots Peddling Poetry, Creepy Gnome, Pipe Dream, Bank-Heavy Press, Conceit Magazine, and Marco Polo.
Michael Torres was born and raised in Pomona, Ca. He was exposed to poetry at an early age, learning the works of William Shakespeare, Langston Hughes and Emily Dickinson to name a few. He has been published in Beatlick News, The Chiron Review, Left Coast Review, and Solo Press. His first chapbook of poetry, The Beautiful Distraction, was published by Finishing Line Press. Michael is currently in school pursuing a degree in creative writing.
Owen Torres is a recent graduate of the University of California, Riverside, earning a bachelor of arts degree in Creative Writing. His literary focus is science-fiction, magical realism, absurdist fiction, historical fiction and he has also written several poems and short memoirs. He is currently working on his first novel.
K. Andrew Turner grew up in the San Gabriel Valley in beautiful Glendora where he currently resides. His short fiction can be found in the Chiron Review.
Raised by a gaggle of bears in the heart of Orange County, Brian Verwiel witnessed his first mauling at the age of 4. Since then, his severely underdeveloped mind has often times taken him to the very depths of humanity. He finds joy in the places others would only find fear and horror.
McKenzie Wagner is a Westminster College student working on a Bachelor of Arts in Secondary Education, English Literature, and a minor in Women’s Studies. She is President and an active member of Sigma Tau Delta, the Honorary English Society. She is the Vice President of Kappa Delta Pi, Nu chapter, Honorary Education Society. She received first place in Westminster College’s literary Magazine,
Janus, for short story.
Corinne Wallace is a young Poet and Creative Jewelry Designer in the Northwest, and she primarily draws her inspiration from Northwestern Culture. Her writing generally reflects sarcasm, chaos, and love, and the underlying theme of balance through contradiction is present in nearly all pieces she creates.
Dillon J. Welch often spends his free time having lengthy conversations with tollbooth workers, or musing on the frail existence of life while drinking gin and smoking a very long, slender cigarette. His poetry has been published in Extract(s) and on the fridge in his apartment.
Denise R. Weuve is a Creative Writing/English high school teacher in Cerritos, CA. Her poetry has appeared in Genre, South Coast Literary Journal, Pearl, and RipRap. She collects paper cuts, fountain pens, and miscellaneous damage to display in glass cases for voyeurs to peruse.
Bronte Williams lives in New Zealand.
Stephen Williams is a creative writing student attending UC Riverside where he won the Chancellor’s Performance Award for excellence in fiction. He is currently preparing to graduate while polishing two completed novels for publication.
Since 1970, John Yamrus has been a fixture on the poetry scene. He’s published 18 volumes of poetry, two novels and has had more than 1,300 poems published in print magazines around the world. His latest book, CAN’T STOP NOW!, is on amazon.
Jason Yore was born in 1987 in San Diego, CA. Currently a freelance tutor and copywriter/editor, Jason spends his free time reading, writing and playing basketball or swimming. He loves to travel when he can afford it, whether it be spontaneous drives to the Bay Area or commandeering a jetski in Costa Rica.
Omar ZahZah’s work has been featured in such publications as The Chiron Review, RipRap, and Narrative Magazine. He lives in Long Beach, California.
Thomas Zimmerman teaches English, directs the Writing Center, and edits two literary magazines at Washtenaw Community College, in Ann Arbor, MI. Poems of his have appeared recently in Antiphon, The Sonneteer, and Curio Poetry. His chapbook In Stereo: Thirteen Sonnets and Some Fire Music is forthcoming from The Camel Saloon Books on Blog.
