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

Kalyn Maria is sixteen-years-old and a sophomore in high school. She started writing poetry at a young age, and is eager to emerge as a new writer. Maria writes a lot of her poems about love and its ups and downs, as well as poems about her own experiences.

Simply Money, Volume 2, Issue 2

Capotă Daniela Lăcrămioara studied Public Relations and Communication at Danubius University in Galati, Romania. She had a drawing exhibition “Mystery and shapes” and graphics “The fascinating leaf,” “Rustling in ink.” She is interested in haiku, Japanese stampa, sumi-e, watercolors, poetry, and literature. At the moment she is a member of the Romaniankukai group.

Evergreen and Tree of Life, Volume 2, Issue 2

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