Hillary Kobernick writes poetry for both performance and the page. She holds a Master’s of Divinity, meaning she has, in fact, mastered the divine. She currently pastors a small church outside Chicago. Her poetry has appeared in literary magazines in the U.S. and Canada, including Bellevue Literary Review, Barely South, Ellipsis, and decomP. Her work can always be found at http://hillarykobernickpoetry.tumblr.com/.
Quits, Volume 2, Issue 2
Robert D. Kirvel, a 2016 Pushcart Prize nominee for fiction and a 2015 ArtPrize winner for creative nonfiction, has published stories or essays in the UK, New Zealand, Germany, and a dozen U.S. literary journals, such as the Columbia College Literary Review.
Dear Miss Hines, Rosie Missed School Because Nittins Had Kittens and She Ate the Placenda Which Made Her Sick, Volume 2, Issue 2
Jean A. Kingsley earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University, and lives in Rochester, New York. She is the recipient of the 1995 Academy of American Poets Prize, a finalist for “Discovery”/The Nation and The Constance Saltonstall Foundation of the Arts Fellowship. Her poems have appeared in numerous national literary journals, and she won a poetry book award for Traceries from ABZ Press in 2014, selected by C. D. Wright. She is a recent reviewer for the Antioch Review and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Scurf of Memory, Volume 2, Issue 2
Katrina Johnston is the winner of the CBC/Canada Writes True Winter Tale. Works of short fiction may be found at several online sites and a couple of print issues. She lives in Victoria, BC, Canada. The goal of her fiction is to share a human journey and to explore together.
Speaking of Lillian, Volume 2, Issue 2
A.J. Huffman has published thirteen full-length poetry collections, fourteen solo poetry chapbooks, and one joint poetry chapbook through various small presses. Her most recent releases, The Pyre On Which Tomorrow Burns (Scars Publications), Degeneration (Pink Girl Ink), A Bizarre Burning of Bees (Transcendent Zero Press), and Familiar Illusions (Flutter Press) are now available from their respective publishers. She is a five-time Pushcart Prize nominee, a two-time Best of Net nominee, and has published over 2600 poems in various national and international journals, including Labletter, The James Dickey Review, The Bookends Review, Bone Orchard, Corvus Review, EgoPHobia, and Kritya. She is the founding editor of Kind of a Hurricane Press. You can find more of her personal work here: https://ajhuffmanpoetryspot.blogspot.com/
Notes to the Wind, Volume 2, Issue 2
Wolf, I Think About Concrete, Attached to a Lamp Post, and The Phenomenon of Bones, Volume 4, Issue 2
Ann Howells has edited Illya’s Honey since 1999, recently taking it digital: www.IllyasHoney.com and alternating issues with a new co-editor. Her publications are: Black Crow in Flight (Main Street Rag, 2007), the Rosebud Diaries (Willet Press, 2012), Under a Lone Star (Village Books Press, 2016), and upcoming: Letters for My Daughter (Flutter Press, 2016), and Cattlemen & Cadillacs, an anthology of Dallas/Ft. Worth poets she is editing (Dallas Poets Community Press, 2016). Her poems appear widely among small press and university journals.
Watermelon Summer and Orchid and Rose, Volume 2, Issue 2
CLS Ferguson, PhD speaks, signs, acts, publishes, sings, performs, writes, paints, teaches, and rarely relaxes. She and her husband, Rich Ferguson, are raising their Bernese Mountain Border Collie Mutt, Sadie in Hollywood, CA. http://clsferguson.wix.com/clsferguson.
Imposter, Volume 2, Issue 2
Marissa Davis is a writer from Paducah, Kentucky, currently living and studying in Nashville. Besides writing, she enjoys baking, yoga, and world travel. Her work has appeared in Teen Ink, Kindred Magazine, and The Vanderbilt Review.
Olympia Unmoderated and Scents of Three Summers, Volume 2, Issue 2
Kelci Crawford is a comic artist and illustrator based in southeast Ohio. She is the creator of the comics “Johnson & Sir,” “Charlie & Clow,” and “Mini-Comic Theater,” as well as the co-creator of the comics “Validation” and “Seeing Him.” More of her work can be found on their website, www.kelcidcrawford.com.
To Ladies and Star Mage, Volume 2, Issue 2
Joshua Daniel Cochran is a graduate of the University of Arizona and City College of New York. His first published short story won the Fred Scott Award in 2002. More recent publications include Bourbon Penn and The Gathering Darkness anthology from Black Cat Books. Cochran’s second novel, The Most Important Memoir Ever Written Ever (SEARCH), was released in January 2014. Currently Cochran lives and writes in his hometown of Tucson, Arizona.
Into the Ease, Volume 2, Issue 2 (Pushcart Nomination)
The Magnolia Review 