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

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 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

Matthew Wallenstein lives in Braddock, PA. This year his work has appeared in Euphony, Subtle Tea, among others.

Forwarding Address and Caretaker, Volume 2, Issue 1

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’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)

Aden Thomas grew up in central Wyoming. He has a bachelor’s degree in English Literature, a master’s degree in Finance, and speaks Spanish. His work has been featured in The Kentucky Review, Up The Staircase Quarterly, and Third Wednesday.

The Divorce of Gravity, Silver Muse, and How I Knew, Volume 2, Issue 1

Sharon Tapia is a Junior English major at Cedarville University. She has been published in the Door is a Jar.

Winking, Volume 2, Issue 1

Rob Sobel is finishing up his MFA in fiction at Fairleigh Dickinson University, where he is also a reader for The Literary Review. He graduated from James Madison University with a degree in English and was given the Departmental Award in Creative Writing. His fiction has appeared in Lunch Ticket, Cigale Literary, Pound of Flash, Gardy Loo, and The Literary Itch. He has been working with special needs children in northern New Jersey for the past four years.

The Realtor, Volume 2, Issue 1