Michael Passafiume is a Brooklyn, NY-based writer whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Alembic, The Blue Hour Magazine, Dirty Chai, Drunk Monkeys, KNOCK Magazine, The Louisville Review, Meat for Tea, Minetta Review, Poetry Quarterly, SLAB and The Subterranean Quarterly, among others. His chapbook, Archipelagos, will be published by Blue Hour Press in Spring 2015. Michael was co-poetry editor (2012-2014) at Lunch Ticket, a literary journal from the MFA community at Antioch University Los Angeles.

no mas, Volume 1, Issue 2

Abigail Parlier is a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, lover of words, and aspiring humanitarian.

Contradictions, Volume 1, Issue 2

Brian McRoberts first began studying photography while attending Bowling Green State University while he worked as an intern for student publications. After college he worked with a local artist collective until 2014. He now works on his own independent projects.

Winter, Volume 1, Issue 2

Michael P. McManus has published poems and short stories in numerous publications. These include Louisiana Literature, Texas Review, Atlanta Review, Rattle, Prism International, The MacGuffin, Pennsylvania Review, The Dublin Quarterly, Texas Review, Burnside Review, and O-Dark-Thirty, among others. He is the recipient of an Artist Fellowship Award from the Louisiana Division of the Arts. His poetry has received Pushcart Prize nominations as well as The Virginia Award and The Oceans Prize.

I am Told, Volume 1, Issue 2

Brendan McDonnell lives in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. His stories have appeared in The Monarch Review, Storm Cellar, The Mulberry Fork Review, The Bookends Review, The Griffin, Crack The Spine, Foliate Oak, and Beginnings.

Attrition, Volume 1, Issue 2