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

Scott Blackburn is a graduate of UNC-Greensboro (Journalism ’07/ English ’10) and a second semester MFA student at Southern New Hampshire University. He currently lives in North Carolina where he teaches high school English. Blackburn also holds a second degree black belt in Ju-Jitsu. His work has appeared in Flash Fiction Magazine. Twitter: https://twitter.com/ScottySaidIt

Spark Plugs, Volume 2, Issue 2 (Pushcart Nomination)

Micah Bradley is originally from Nashville, Tennessee, but she is currently living in Winter Park, Florida, to attend Rollins College. She has had several pieces published in Rollins College’s literary magazine, Brushing, and she was an intern for the college’s literary festival, Winter With the Writers. Bradley has also published articles with several journalistic publications. Twitter: https://twitter.com/micahnell7

The Estelle Show, Volume 2, Issue 2