Carolyn Martin is blissfully retired in Clackamas, OR, where she gardens, writes and plays with creative friends. Her second poetry collection, The Way a Woman Knows, was released in 2015 by The Poetry Box (www.thewayawomanknows.com). Since her only poem written in high school was red-penciled as “extremely maudlin,” she is still amazed she continues to write.

From the Country Called “Abroad,” Volume 1, Issue 2

Andrew Lindquist studied 2D-Studies (Drawing) at Bowling Green State University. Interests include woodworking, painting, and digital art.

The Lonely Cemetery, Volume 1, Issue 2

Christine M. Lasek is a Visiting Instructor at the University of South Florida, where she teaches creative and technical writing. She also serves as the assistant to the Creative Writing Program Director. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in literary magazines such as The Sierra Nevada Review and VIA: Voices in Italian Americana, and her collection of short stories, Love Letters to Michigan, is forthcoming from ELJ Publications in spring 2016. Visit her online at: www.christinemlasek.com.

The Makeshift Carrier, Volume 1, Issue 2

Charlene Langfur is an organic gardener, a southern Californian, a Syracuse University Graduate Writing Fellowship holder and her writing has appeared in The Stone Canoe, Literal Latte, The Adirondack Review, The Hampden Sydney Poetry Review, most recently in Cold Mountain Review, Blueline, Earth’s Daughters, an essay in Stone Voices, and forthcoming, poems in Poetry East and the Spoon River Anthology.

Charlene Langfur is an organic gardener, a southern Californian, a Syracuse University Graduate Writing Fellow and her most current publications include a series of poems in Poetry East and an essay n Evening Street Review.

The Poem is the Same as the World, Volume 1, Issue 2
Beginning Again, It Must Be Time, A Healing, and Confidence, Volume 3, Issue 1
Interview

Thom Kunz received his MFA in fiction from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington where he studied under Allan Gurganus, Rebecca Lee, and other inspiring talents. His recent fiction is forthcoming in Twisted Vine. He has also appeared in Other Voices, Ellipsis, and Slow Trains, as well as essays for the AWP Writer’s Chronicle. He currently lives in Wilmington, NC, with his muse Olivia and a memory-challenged cat named Roxy.

Layover, Volume 1, Issue 2

Lavana Kray is from Iasi, Romania. She is passionate about writing and photography. The nature and the events of her life are topics of inspiration. Her work has been published in: Haiku Canada Review, Asahi Shimbun, The Mainichi, World Haiku Association, Daily Haiga, Heron’s Nest, Frogpond, Eucalypt, Acorn, Ardea, Ginyu, Presence, La Revue du Tanka francophone, and others. She was been chosen for Haiku Euro Top 100-edition 2014.This is her blog: http://photohaikuforyou.blogspot.ro

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