Lana Bella

A Pushcart nominee, Lana Bella is an author of two chapbooks, Under My Dark (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2016) and Adagio (forthcoming from Finishing Line Press), has had her poetry and fiction featured with over 200 journals: Columbia Journal, Poetry Salzburg Review, Third Wednesday, among others. She resides in the U.S. and the coastal town of Nha Trang, Vietnam, where she is a mom of two far-too-clever-frolicsome imps.

For You Must Wander, Volume 2, Issue 2

David-Matthew Barnes

David-Matthew Barnes’s poetry has been featured in Memoryhouse, Red Booth Review, The Comstock Review, Glitterwolf Magazine, Chelsea Station, Sonic Boom, Wicked Alice, and more. He is the national winner of the Hart Crane Memorial Poetry Award, selected by Kent State University. He has been an educator for more than a decade. He lives in Denver.

The 12 on Tenth Street and I Know Why Marianne Did It, Volume 2, Issue 2

W. Jack Savage

W. Jack Savage is a retired broadcaster and educator. He is the author of seven books including Imagination: The Art of W. Jack Savage (wjacksavage.com).  To date, more than fifty of Jack’s short stories and over six hundred of his paintings and drawings have been published worldwide. Jack and his wife Kathy live in Monrovia, California.

This is Where He Fell, That Stretch Out West, Replacing a Panel, and Prison at Alsace-Lorrain, Volume 2, Issue 1

Amy Wood

Amy Wood is a British writer whose stories feature in Opening Line Literary ‘Zine (Sept. & Dec. 2014), Flashdogs: An Anthology (Dec. 2014), Spelk Fiction (Jan. 2015), and Flashdogs Solstice: Light & Dark (June 2015). She has won multiple flash fiction contests as well as the monthly short story competition at Creative Writing Ink. Her blog amywoodfiction.wordpress.com showcases more of her short stories and flash fiction.

Fly Away Boy, Volume 2, Issue 1

Stephen Scott Whitaker

Stephen Scott Whitaker is a member of National Book Critics Circle and literary review editor for The Broadkill Review. His poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in dozens of publications. His previous chapbooks include the steampunk inspired The Black Narrows, the award winning Field Recordings, and The Barleyhouse Letters. Whitaker teaches theater, literature and psychology in rural Maryland. In 2004 he was the recipient of an NEA grant to adapt Romeo & Juliet into a rock musical. He lives on the Eastern Shore of Virginia with his family. He blogs on occasion at: http://fieldrecord.blogspot.com/.

To Gut Bacteria, Volume 2, Issue 1

Richard Vyse

Internationally collected artist Richard Vyse has been featured in galleries in New York and Hawaii. He has studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York and taught at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. His art is in the Art of Man issue #19 and the Leslie+Lohman Museum in New York. Visit manartbyvyse.blogspot.com.

Man BOLD, Man Edge, and Man Marble, Volume 2, Issue 1

Teressa Rose Ezell

Teressa Rose Ezell’s short story “Water and Fire” was included in Main Street Rag’s recently released anthology, Coming Off the Line. Her work has also appeared in the Mulberry Fork Review, Apeiron Review, 99 Pine Street Literary Journal, and the Bethlehem Writers Roundtable. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Lindenwood University.

Penny Altars, Volume 2, Issue 2 (Pushcart Nomination)