George Drew is the author of The View from Jackass Hill (Texas Review Press, 2011), 2010 winner of the X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize, Texas Review Press, which also published his chapbook, Down & Dirty (Texas Review Press, 2015), and forthcoming New & Selected, Pastoral Habits, in 2016. His sixth collection, Fancy’s Orphan, is forthcoming in 2017 from Tiger Bark Press. He is the winner of the 2014 St. Petersburg Review poetry contest.
Don’t Blame Me (A Country Tune), Volume 1, Issue 2
William Doreski’s work has appeared in various online and print journals, as well as in several collections, most recently The Suburbs of Atlantis (AA Press).
For Joanne and Virtual and Virginal, Volume 1, Issue 1
Sally Deskins is an artist and writer focusing on the perspectives of women in art including her own. She has exhibited nationally and published her art and writing internationally. She is founding editor of Les Femmes Folles and illustrated the 2014 book, Intimates and Fools, with poetry by Laura Madeline Wiseman. sallydeskins.tumblr.com
Leafless, Red Fruit, Does Giving Nourish, Volume 1, Issue 2
Christine Degenaars has had work published in several Boston College affiliated magazines, including Stylus, Laughing Medusa, and The Medical Humanities Journal of Boston College. Outside of Boston College, she has had work published in Hermeneutic Chaos. She also has work forthcoming in Plain China: Best Undergraduate Writing and Red Paint Hill Publishing. She has also been the recipient of two Bishop-Kelleher Awards and was an honorable mention for the Bennington Award.
Blue Train, Volume 1, Issue 2
Dylan Debelis is a publisher, poet, performer, chaplain, and minister based out of New York City. A candidate for Unitarian Universalist Ministry, Dylan embodies his faith in praxis through his pastoral care and social justice activism. In sermons, writings, and worship, Dylan weaves grotesque worlds, loving embraces, and an off-kilter wit to lead the audience or congregation in a very unorthodox prayer.
Car Crash, Volume 1, Issue 2
Chloe Cherubin is a recent graduate of Bowling Green State University with a Bachelor’s in Digital Art. Chloe is a freelance illustrator, digital painter, and character designer working to gain exposure in the film and animation industry. In the past she did some illustration work for a website designing company in California called Zurb and a small website project for Kentucky.gov. Recently Chloe offered her local library a series of character designs and illustrations of their stuffed animal lions to decorate the children’s corner. The library featured Chloe on the front page of the community newspaper. The majority of Chloe’s work is posted on Deviant Art and Tumblr.
Through the Clock Tower: Scene 3 and Swamp, Volume 1, Issue 1
Yuan Changming, eight-time Pushcart nominee and author of five chapbooks including Kingship (Goldfish Press, 2015), is the world’s most widely published poetry creator who speaks Mandarin but writes English. Growing up in a remote Chinese village, Changming began to learn the English alphabet in Shanghai at 19 and published several monographs on translation before moving to Canada as an international student. With a PhD in English from the University of Saskatchewan, Changming currently co-edits Poetry Pacific and runs PP Press with Allen Qing Yuan in Vancouver. Since mid-2005, Changming has had poetry appearing in 1029 literary publications across 35 countries, including Barrow Street, Best Canadian Poetry, BestNewPoemsOnline, Cincinnati Review, and Threepenny Review.
Advertising Slogans: A Poem about Word Power, Volume 1, Issue 2
Matt Chamberlain grew up in Wigan, Lancashire, and now lives in southern England. He has been fascinated by the English language all his life, dabbling in poetry since childhood but remained reluctant to keep, let alone share, his linguistic doodles. In 2014 he self-published his first collection: Love, misery and fruit crumble. He is working on his second collection and regularly performs his work in and around London. See www.mattchamberlainpoe.wix.com/poetry
Elastic bands, Volume 1, Issue 1
Queens, NYC native Audrey T. Carroll is an MFA candidate with the Arkansas Writer’s Program and graduated with a BA in Creative Writing from Susquehanna University. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Fiction International, Hermeneutic Chaos, Foliate Oak, Writing Maps’ A3 Review, The Cynic Online Magazine, and others. She can be found at http://audreytcarrollwrites.weebly.com and @AudreyTCarroll on Twitter.
Miles, Volume 1, Issue 2
Jeff Burt has lived in Wisconsin, Texas, Nebraska, and California. He has work in Thrice Fiction, The Cortland Review, Digital Papercut, The Great American Literature Magazine, and others. He won the 2011 SuRaa short fiction award.
Inventory, Volume 1, Issue 1
The Magnolia Review 