Lee Stern lives in Los Angeles where
he is the manager of a Lincoln Towncar service. Some of his other
poems have appeared recently online at these sites: Abyss & Apex Issue 28; Pank Online December 2008; and Canopic Jar. Travis Brown earned a BA from
University of Missouri—Kansas City and an MFA from New Mexico
State University. His work has been reprinted online by Verse Daily and also appeared
in the print journals Fence, Third Coast, West
Branch and Conduit. He has new poems
in Hayden’s
Ferry Review, Anti- and Sixty-Six: A
Journal of Sonnet Studies.
Jolie Braun’s
fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Elimae, BluePrintReview, and Paper
Wall. Last spring
she received an MA in
English from the University of California, Davis, where she taught
composition and literature. Currently she lives in St. Louis, Missouri
and works as a grant writer.
Amelia Gray is a writer living in Austin, Texas. Her book AM/PM has been published by Featherproof Books, and her new manuscript, Museum of the Weird, has been awarded the Ronald Sukenick/American Book Review Innovative Fiction Prize and will be published next year by Fiction Collective Two (FC2). Her writing has appeared in The Onion, American Short Fiction, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Caketrain, and DIAGRAM, among others. Her work has been chosen as the finalist for McSweeney's Amanda Davis Highwire Contest and the DIAGRAM Innovative Fiction Contest. Check out her official website Amelia Gray.
Joe Myer is a poet,
painter, musician, and former fifth-generation farmer from upstate
New York. Joe has performed and recorded music with Saint Low and shown
visual work at the New York State Museum (Albany, NY), Argazzi Art
(Lakeville, CT), and Limner Gallery (New York, NY). His poetry has been
read on National Public Radio and is published in journals such as Forklift, Ohio, and River City.
Rachel Jamison Webster lives in Evanston, Illinois, with her partner Richard and their daughter. She teaches poetry at Northwestern University and edits the online anthology of international poetry, UniVerse. She's had poems published in many journals and also posts some on her blog Rings in Rings.
Missy Ward lives in Portland, Oregon and is a senior at Marylhurst University in the English Literature and Writing Department. She is currently working on a series of handbound, book-length collage pieces. The series will examine houses, animals, food, and fine art.
Ruth Beck is a recent graduate of Marylhurst University, where she holds a BA in Religious Studies & Philosophy. She is the author of the chapbook, Trepanning for Gold (Fir Tree Press, 2008), and is the 2008 recipient of Marylhurst's Community College Writing Award in Poetry. Despite finishing school, Ruth still works a minimum wage job (plus tips) and is afraid of flying...but she is a published poet, which makes the aforementioned realities seem a little less depressing.
Beverly Nelson has an MFA in Creative Writing from The School at the Art Institute in Chicago. As a writer and text-based performance artist, she's been active both in Oregon and Chicago over the past six years. Currently she lives in Portland, Oregon.
Adam Taylor is a native Oregonian who is a recent graduate of Marylhurst with a double major in English Literature and Cultural and Historical Studies. He enjoys walking around town and eating stinky cheese.
