Rita Buckley (“Afternoon Delight”) is an award-winning freelance medical writer. A summa cum laude graduate of Boston University’s College of Communication, she has attended the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference. Her work is widely published in magazines and newspapers. Her poetry and fiction have appeared online and in print in Electric Acorn, Versal, and other literary journals and anthologies.

Dianna Calareso (“What I Think My Grandmother Is Thinking”) writes creative nonfiction with a special interest in family memoir. She works as an editor, freelance writer, and writing instructor, and recently completed her first memoir, At Ease. She earned her MFA at Lesley University and lives in the Boston area.

Emily Ferris (“Philadelphia Calls Seattle and Forgets to Listen”) attends Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina, where she studies Health Sciences and French. She spends her summers in the Catoctin Mountains, working as a camp counselor.

Marlowe Fox (“Poem IV”) has recently graduated from Florida State University College of Law. In addition, he possesses a master's degree in Urban and Regional Planning. Marlowe is currently pursuing a career in the fields of urban planning and land use law.

James Henschen (“On the Commonality of Kittens and Addicts”) is the author of the award winning short film “Looking in the Fishbowl” as well as a film adaptation of the short story “The Monkey’s Paw” which screened in film festivals throughout the country. His work has appeared in literary journals such as Whiskey Island Review, Glassfire Magazine, Vibrant Gray, and Eleven-Eleven magazine. James currently resides in Orlando, FL.

Doug Holder (“But what could you do with such a man?”) is the founder of the Ibbetson Street Press. His poetry and prose have appeared in The Boston Globe, HazMat, Pegasus, The Toronto Quarterly, Rattle, Home Planet News, Istanbul Literary Review and others. His latest collection of poetry is “The Man in the Booth in the Midtown Tunnel" (Cervena Barva Press). His book of interviews recently released is "From the Paris of New England: Interviews with Poets and Writers" (Ibbetson Street- 2009). He holds an M.A. in Literature from Harvard University.

Shane Kraus (“Group Home”) is a graduate student at USC. He has work published or forthcoming, most recently in Our Stories, Underground Voices, Chiron Review, Metal Scratches, and Sacramento News & Review. At present he's at work on his first novel and PhD coursework in linguistics and literature.

Tim Martin (“The Object of Meinwald’s Affection”) is the author of “There's Nothing Funny About Running,” “The Legend of Boomer Jack,” “Why Run If No One Is Chasing You?” and “The Culverts of Humboldt County.” He has two novels due out this year: “Scout's Oaf” (Cedar Grove Books), and “Fast Pitch,” co-written with author James Brown, (Blitz Publishing).

J.A.McNutt's (“Forgiveness”) new book "Poetry of Days" 2009, Eloquent Books, will be released this year. "Miss Judy" teaches reading, writing and math to Special Needs Children in a San Diego Elementary School and has been a writer since the age of 12. She grew up in New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and California and on radio stations across America. She lives in Sedona as well San Diego and is a writer and a painter by trade, heart and soul...http://www.absolutearts.com/judymcnutt/

Erika Meyers (“Swings”) is a graduate of Kent State University with a B.A. in English. Her work has appeared in several literary magazines both in the US and abroad including The New Writer, Bateau, languageandculture.net, and The Blue Collar Review, where she received the first place prize in their 2007 Working People's Poetry contest.

Kyle Owens (“Sketches beneath the Daffodil Tree”) lives in the Appalachian Mountains and when he's not watching football he can be found writing or cartooning.

Jonathan Perez (“Menacing, the Great Cauldron of the Moon”) was born in New York City. He received a B.A. in English from Bowdoin College, where he won the Bowdoin Poetry Prize and Nathalie Walker Lleweyn Prize in poetry; afterward he received an M.A. in English and American Literature from the University of Virginia. Currently he is a doctoral candidate in American Studies at Rutgers University. He is an Adjunct Instructor at CUNY Hunter College where he teaches Immigrant American Literature and Modern American Hemispheric Poetry. His dissertation looks at hemispheric representations of pre-modern identity in the Americas, in poetry and fiction, from the late 19^th and early 20^th century. He uses Contemporary theory in his analysis, in particular psychoanalytic and deconstructive criticism, Foucault and crossings with queer criticism.

Zachary Powers (“The Whim of the Cable”) lives and writes in Savannah, Georgia. He is writing this bio himself, and writing it in the third person, which to him feels rather pompous. He is averse to pomposity and is really quite personable. You'd like him. Give Zach Powers a chance. Why do you have to be so judgmental?  His work, equally self-absorbed, has appeared in Opium Magazine and Pindeldyboz and maybe elsewhere but he can't remember. His writing for television won an Emmy.

J.E. Reich (“Why John Denver”) hails originally from Pittsburgh, PA, and now currently resides in Boston, MA. She has been nominated for an EVVY Award for Outstanding Prose: Fiction and her short story "And They Shall Tattoo History on Your Skin" will be published in the upcoming issue of Frostwriting.

Robert Vivian (“Notes from the Konukevi”) is the author of the forthcoming novel “Lamb Bright Saviors.” He also wrote “Cold Snap As Yearning” and “The Mover Of Bones.”

John Watmuff (“The Most Beautiful Bolt”) comes from Berwyn, Pennsylvania. However, he currently resides in State College, Pennsylvania where he is acquiring Computer Science and Philosophy degrees at Pennsylvania State University. He is at work on a dystopian novella as well as a handful of short stories.

Thomas White (“Suffering”) lives with his wife and two children in Peterborough, New Hampshire. He has an MFA in creative writing from The University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop and an MA in Religion and Religious Education from Fordham University. “Suffering” is part of a cycle of personal essays about religion and psychology. Another essay from this cycle was recently published in the Colorado Review.