Jesse Minkert

Jesse Minkert lives in Seattle. In 2008, Wood Works Press published his collection of microstories, Shortness of Breath & Other Symptoms. His work has appeared in about fifty journals. Finishing Line Press will release his collection, Rookland, in 2017. He is a 2016 Pushcart nominee.

October and Chain Link Fence, Volume 3, Issue 2
Interview
Review, Rookland, Volume 4, Issue 2

Stephanie Maldonado

Stephanie Maldonado’s writing is best described as free versed and for the soul. She writes to help others understand and express their own feelings. Her goal is to inspire and heal as many people as she possible. She works towards this by participating in many monthly writing challenges and publishing some of her work on theprose.com.

Balloons, Volume 3, Issue 2
Interview

Sarah Key

With a B.A. in English from Duke University and a M.A. in Communications from USC, Sarah Key has enjoyed word-work as an art book editor, cookbook author, poet, essayist, and teacher. With numerous poems in journals from Poet Lore to Tuesday; An Art Project and inclusion in two poetry anthologies, she has studied poetry at the Frost Place, Cave Canem, and the 92nd Street Y. Also, she has eight essays on the Huffington Post. Her favorite teachers are the students she tutors at a community college in the Bronx.

Self-Portrait as Super Elastic Bubble Plastic, Volume 3, Issue 2
Interview

Leland James

Leland James is the author of four books of poetry and a book on poetry craft. He has published over 200 poems in journals and magazines worldwide including The Lyric, Form Quarterly; Rattle, The South Carolina ReviewThe Spoon River Poetry Review; New Millennium Writings; HQ The Haiku Quarterly, and The London Magazine. He was the winner of The UK’s Aesthetica Creative Writing Award, The Little Red Tree International Poetry Prize, and the Writer’s Forum short poem contest. He has received honors in many others competitions and was recently nominated for a Push Cart Prize. www.lelandjamespoet.com.

Yesterday’s Balloons, Volume 3, Issue 2
Interview

Mark Hudson

Mark Hudson is an Illinois poet and artist, who spends most of his time writing and doing art. He has a degree in creative writing from Columbia College, in Chicago, and has been published many times in-print, online, and internationally. To check out his poetry on the web go to Illinoispoets.org.

Balloons, Volume 3, Issue 2
Chicago Fire and Beautiful Fire, Volume 4, Issue 1
Interview
Judith’s Skull, Volume 5, Issue 1

To laugh or cry and What is Life?, Volume 5, Issue 2

Jack D. Harvey

Jack D. Harvey’s poetry has appeared in Scrivener, The Comstock Review, The Magnolia Review, The Antioch Review, The Piedmont Poetry Journal and a number of other online and in print poetry magazines over the years. The author has been a Pushcart nominee and over the years has been published in a few anthologies.

Cape Horn, Volume 3, Issue 2
Interview
Book Release, Mark the Dwarf
Kicking Against the Goads, Loneliness, Birth Month, and Six Mile Pond, Volume 4, Issue 2
Review, Volume 5, Issue 1
Angelic Hearts, Clown, Little Liza, Enter the Apocalypse, and Ravishment of the Holy Wisdom, Volume 5, Issue 1

Ode to Olivia, Non Doulet, Cassandra, Riding on the Bus, and Sunny Day, Volume 6, Issue 1

Roberta Gould

Roberta Gould lives in the Hudson Valley, studies ants, and has taught Romance languages. Her work has appeared widely in poetry journals over the years, and she is the author of 11 poetry books, the last three: Pacing the Wind (Shivistan Press), Louder than Seed (Foot Hills Publishing), and To the Dogs (Flame Tree Press), favorably reviewed by XJ Kennedy, Home Planet News, Lit Mag, and Compulsive Reader. Her website is robertagould.net

The Top, Balloon Buddha, and Archaeology, Volume 3, Issue 2
Interview

Book Release, Woven Lightning

Laura Dennis

Laura Dennis has been published in various anthologies, including, Tranquility from Kind of a Hurricane Press, Home and Away from House of Blue Skies and Love Notes from Vagabond Press. She also has two self-published chapbooks entitled Wheels on the Bus and The Bookshelf. She has been published in a number of online magazines. She is one of the 2014 winners of Friends of the University Hospitals poetry contest and is a part of the Sidewalk Poetry in Callingwood Park, both in her home of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

After, Volume 3, Issue 2
Interview

Darren C. Demaree

Darren C. Demaree’s poems have appeared, or are scheduled to appear in numerous magazines/journals, including Diode, Meridian, New Letters, Diagram, and the Colorado Review. He is the author of eight poetry collections, most recently Two Towns Over (March 2018), which was selected as the winner of the Louise Bogan Award by Trio House Press. He is the Managing Editor of the Best of the Net Anthology and Ovenbird Poetry. Demaree currently lives and writes in Columbus, Ohio, with his wife and children.

Emily as We Ensure Our Joy with Practical Water and Emily as Wind Racing from the Corners, Volume 3, Issue 2
Review, Two Towns Over, Volume 4, Issue 1
bone requires bone #55, bone requires bone #56, and bone requires bone #57, Volume 4, Issue 2