William Morris is an MFA candidate at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. His work has been published or is forthcoming online at Crab Fat Literary Magazine, Fiction Southeast, Oblong Magazine, drafthorse, and 5×5. He is the recipient of the 2015 Besse Patterson Gephardt Award for Fiction. William lives in St. Louis, where he devotes his time to cats, coffee, and creative writing.

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Patty Paine is the author of Grief & Other Animals (Accents Publishing), The Sounding Machine (Accents Publishing), Feral (Imaginary Friend Press), Elegy & Collapse (Finishing Line Press), and co-editor of Gathering the Tide: An Anthology of Contemporary Arabian Gulf Poetry (Garnet Publishing & Ithaca Press) and The Donkey Lady and Other Tales from the Arabian Gulf (Berkshire). Her poems, reviews, and interviews have appeared in Blackbird, The Louisville Review, Gulf Stream, The Journal, The South Dakota Review, and other publications. She is the founding editor of Diode Poetry Journal, and Diode Editions, and is an assistant professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar where she teaches writing and literature, and is Interim Director of Liberal Arts & Sciences.

Obscured Series 8, Obscured Series 12, and Obscured Series 5, Volume 2, Issue 1

Tom Pescatore can sometimes be seen wandering along the Walt Whitman Bridge or down the sidewalks of Philadelphia’s old Skid Row. He might have left a poem or two behind to mark his trail. He maintains a poetry blog: amagicalmistake.blogspot.com.

They All Float Down here in Texas Flood Waters, Volume 2, Issue 1

Sally Zakariya’s poems have appeared in Tishman Review, Apeiron Review, Broadkill Review, Boston Literary Magazine, Emerge, Third Wednesday, Evening Street Review, and elsewhere. Zakariya has won prizes from Poetry Virginia and Virginia Writers Club. She is the author of Insectomania (2013) and Arithmetic and other verses (2011) and editor of Joys of the Table, an anthology of poems about food. Zakariya blogs at www.ButDoesItRhyme.com.

Meditation On a French Fry, Volume 2, Issue 2

Tobi Alfier is a five-time Pushcart nominee and a Best of the Net nominee. Her most current chapbooks are The Coincidence of Castles from Glass Lyre Press, and Romance and Rust from Blue Horse Press. Her collaborative full-length collection, The Color of Forgiveness, is available from Mojave River Press. She is the co-editor of San Pedro River Review (www.sprreview.com).

Going Walkabout in Romilly-sur-Seine, Volume 2, Issue 1

Barbara Buckley Ristine is from NY but she moved a lot before finally settling in Reno, where she’s remained for over twenty years. She thinks that she qualifies as an “emerging” writer/poet because it has taken her over thirty years to return to her first passion of writing. She’s led several lives up until recently: lawyer, mother, small business owner. Now she has embarked on her fourth act as a student at the University of Nevada, Reno, studying creative writing. When she’s not mindlessly staring at the Sierras, she writes short stories, historical fiction, and the occasional poem. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Meadow, Bewildering Stories, Route 7 Review, and Earthbound Journal. Twitter: https://twitter.com/renobarb

Work in Progress and Late Night Radio, Volume 2, Issue 2

Edward Lineberry is a poet who has lived most of his adult life in Atlanta, Georgia. After writing novels for many years, he switched to poetry to explore story and character in compact verse forms. Previously his work has appeared in Prelude and Gap Tooth Poetry. Edward received his degree from the University of Georgia. Twitter: https://twitter.com/elineberry

Fiercely Loyal, Volume 2, Issue 2

Samantha Madway is engaged in the lengthy process of transcribing hundreds of pages of her writing from barely legible blue ink into reader-friendly (twenty-first century) Times New Roman type. She loves her dogs, Freddie and Charlie, more than anything else in the universe. Twitter: https://twitter.com/SamanthaMadway

They Don’t Make Reruns Like They Used To, Volume 2, Issue 2

Arielle Lipset studied creative writing at Franklin & Marshall College. She currently lives in Prague and teaches English as a foreign language. Find more of her work at www.ariellelipset.com. Twitter: https://twitter.com/ariellelipset

Collage on Paper, Volume 2, Issue 2

A recent graduate of the Converse College Low-Residency MFA program, Lisa M. Hase-Jackson teaches English and Poetry at the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC, and is a freelance writer, workshop facilitator, and writing coach. Hase-Jackson’s poems have appeared in such literary magazines as Midwest Quarterly, Sugar Mule, Kansas City Voices, Pilgrimage, and Fall Lines as well as anthologized in several collections. She is the editor of 200 New Mexico Poems, a celebration of New Mexico’s centennial, and Zingara Poet, a space for practicing poets. Twitter: https://twitter.com/ZingaraPoet

Mile Markers and Forecast, Volume 2, Issue 2