Phil Temples lives in Watertown, Massachusetts, and works as a computer systems administrator at a university. He has published over one hundred works of short fiction in print and online journals. Blue Mustang Press recently published Temples’s full-length murder-mystery novel, The Winship Affair. And his new paranormal-horror novel, Helltown Chronicles, has just been accepted by Eternal Press.

Those Two Legs, Volume 2, Issue 2

Susan Speranza is in her last year of the MFA Writing program at Lindenwood University. Her poetry has been published in various literary journals, including The Literary Yard and The Voices Project. In 2012, she was a Quarter Finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest. The same novel was on the short list of finalists in the 2012 William Faulkner-William Wisdom Competition. It was subsequently published as The Tale of Lucia Grandi, the Early Years by Brook House Press. It has since garnered favorable reviews and has been compared to the American classic, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

Lord of the Song, Volume 2, Issue 2

Hannah Robison is a junior in the Creative Writing conservatory at the Orange County School of the Arts located in Santa Ana, California. She is also part of the Los Angeles-based program “WriteGirl” and Cottonwood Church’s Youth Unleashed Creative Writing program. Her dream is to be a professional songwriter, but she also loves writing scripts and nonfiction pieces.

The Eighth Grade Graduation Speech I Never Gave, Volume 2, Issue 2

Marsha Roberts’ short stories and essays have been appeared in Thrice Fiction, Loud Zoo, Gravel, Biostories, Hospital Drive, The Marin Independent Journal, and Laugh Your Shorts Off, among others. She recently completed her first novel, The Agent, about an elegant con game. It has not yet been published.

Imprint, Volume 2, Issue 2

Quinn Ramsay is a native Oregonian and graduate of the University of Glasgow. His prose and poetry have been published in Paragraphiti, From Glasgow to Saturn, Santa Clara Review, PLUM, and Gemini, and he has been a recipient of the Amy M. Young Award in Creative Writing. He was recently a co-editor and designer of Williwaw: an Anthology of the Marvellous.

As We Are Married, my thoughts run backward, Volume 2, Issue 2

Emilio Pinedo was born in Mexico City. Since then, Pinedo has lived in three different countries. He is a passionate traveler, bookworm, and movie buff. Pinedo loves great literary works, anything by Wes Anderson, a good espresso, and long talks with friends. He is interested in foreign affairs and sociopolitical issues. Pinedo is committed to giving back to his community and to the world in which he lives. He takes advantage of every opportunity to learn, grow, and mature. Life has been hard, but Pinedo has learned to overcome those hardships and express himself through his photographs.

Bravado, Volume 2, Issue 2

Joslyn Neiderer lives in central PA with her husband and three children. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Kind Over Matter, Warren, and PennUnion. She has a BA degree in creative writing from Bloomsburg University and an MA degree in science writing from Johns Hopkins University. During the day she is a multimedia specialist at Penn State, and at night you’ll find her knitting, drawing with pastels, and creating other types of mixed media art.

Sue’s Suicide, Volume 2, Issue 2

Bruce McRae, a Canadian musician, is a Pushcart nominee with over a thousand poems published internationally. He has performed across Canada and the U.K., and has been on a number of CDs. His latest book, An Unbecoming Fit Of Frenzy is available now on Amazon and through Cawing Crow Press.

The Dog Said and Who’d Be a Weatherman, Volume 2, Issue 2