Charles F. Thielman was born and raised in Charleston, S.C., moved to Chicago, educated at red-bricked universities and on city streets. He was married on a Kauai beach in 2011, and he is a loving grandfather of five free spirits. His work has appeared in The Pedestal, Pif Magazine, SLAB, The Commonline, Gargoyle, Poetry365, The Criterion, Poetry Salzburg, Gangway, and others.
Canvas Waiting, Volume 1, Issue 1
Louis Staeble lives in Bowling Green, Ohio. His photographs have appeared in Agave, dislocate magazine, Driftwood, Four Ties Literary Review, Gravel, Iron Gall, On the Rusk, Paper Tape Magazine, Tupelo Quarterly, and Up The Staircase Quarterly. He can found on the web at http://staeblestudioa.weebly.com. Or or http://lstaebl.wix.com/closeup
Fetish, Volume 1, Issue 1
Theatrics, Volume 2, Issue 2
J.R. Solonche is the author of Beautiful Day (Deerbrook Editions), Won’t Be Long (Deerbrook Editions), Heart’s Content (chapbook from Five Oaks Press), Invisible (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize by Five Oaks Press), The Black Birch (Kelsay Books), I, Emily Dickinson & Other Found Poems (Deerbrook Editions), In Short Order (Kelsay Books), Tomorrow, Today & Yesterday (Deerbrook Editions), If You Should See Me Walking on the Road (forthcoming July 2019 from Kelsay Books), The Time of Your Life (forthcoming April 2020 from Adelaide Books), and coauthor of Peach Girl: Poems for a Chinese Daughter (Grayson Books). He lives in the Hudson Valley.
Four Swans and Four Peonies, Volume 1, Issue 1
Death and Taxes, Volume 2, Issue 1
For a Friend Who Wants to Hear the Music Better, Winter Afternoon, and Lying on My Back on the Bench, Volume 5, Issue 2
Domenic Scopa is an MFA candidate at Vermont College of Fine Arts, where he studies poetry and translation. He is a two-time Pushcart Prize Nominee and the recipient of the 2014 Robert K. Johnson Poetry Prize.
Elegy for Aidan, Volume 1, Issue 2
Terry Savoie has published more than three hundred poems in the past three decades. These include Poetry, The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Black Warrior Review, The Iowa Review, Tar River Poetry, and America. He attended the Iowa Writing Program in the late ‘70s and is now retired from teaching and living in Coralville, Iowa.
Good Times, Volume 1, Issue 2
Mark Antony Rossi’s poetry, criticism, fiction and photography have appeared in The Antigonish Review, Another Chicago Review Bareback Magazine, Black Heart Review, and Collages & Bricolages. His most recent play Eye of the Needle was produced by Grin Theatre, Liverpool, England and its YouTube recording is available at http://markantonyrossi.jigsy.com
Unmasking Unwanted Underground, Volume 1, Issue 2
Allison Rosh received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Bowling Green State University. Her work is an exploration of skin and the body through abstraction, mimicry, and layers of color. She is interested in science, nature, and dance. Currently she is pursuing her Master of Fine Arts with a focus in printmaking at the University of Iowa.
Flushed and Groomed and Mangled, Volume 1, Issue 2
Jessica Robinson is a young Canadian writer based in “The City Above Toronto,” who spends her time watching people and trying to do them justice on paper. She has had poetry published with Soliloquies, Belleville Park Pages, and Room Magazine, among others, and is currently a contributor for The Lambda, the Laurentian University newspaper. You can find her on Twitter @hey_jeska.
i don’t think he said my name, Volume 1, Issue 2
Breanna Ridgeway is a young photographer from Northern Ohio. Her photographs combine the raw feel of photojournalism and the beauty of fine art.
Untitled from a series “22,” Volume 1, Issue 1
Andersen Reece is a writer and photo hobbyist who discovered the magic of photographs through the lens of a Brownie Box Camera. She sometimes misses the gritty feel of the old photo albums, their black photo corners on black pages, but enjoys creating digital photo books for her family and friends.
Holland Harbour, Volume 1, Issue 2
The Magnolia Review 