Eric Beeny (b. 1981) is the author of THE DYING BLOOM (Pangur Ban Party, 2009), SNOWING FIREFLIES (Folded Word Press, 2010), OF CREATURES (Gold Wake Press, 2010), MILK LIKE A MELTED GHOST (Thumbscrews Press, 2011), PSEUDO-MASOCHISM (Anonymosity Press, 2011), HOW MUCH THE JAW WEIGHS (Anonymosity Press, 2011), and some other things. His blog is Dead End on Progressive Ave. (http://ericbeeny.blogspot.com)

Nick Courtright writes words and will have more of them soon—his book Punchline is forthcoming from this press. His work has appeared in journals such as The Southern Review, Boston Review, Kenyon Review Online, The Iowa Review, and many others, and a chapbook, Elegy for the Builder’s Wife, was published in 2010 by Blue Hour Press. He’s Interviews Editor of the Austinist, an arts and culture website based in Austin, Texas, where he teaches at St. Edward’s University, and lives with his wife, Michelle, and son, William. Feel free to find his THOUGHT MACHINE at (http://nickcourtright.tumblr.com)

Kristina Marie Darling is the author of three full-length poetry collections: Night Songs (Gold Wake Press, 2010), Compendium (Cow Heavy Books, 2011), and The Body is a Little Gilded Cage: A Story in Letters & Fragments (Gold Wake Press, 2012).  She has been awarded fellowships from Yaddo, the Ragdale Foundation, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, as well as grants from the Vermont Studio Center and the Elizabeth George Foundation.  She is also the editor of a forthcoming anthology, narrative (dis)continuities: prose experiments by younger american writers (VOX Press, 2011).

Donora Hillard’s poetry collection Theology of the Body (Gold Wake Press, 2010) was a bestseller in Women’s Studies at Amazon.com. Her work has appeared in Best of the Web (Dzanc Books, 2010), FRiGG, Hint Fiction (W.W. Norton & Company, 2010), Monkeybicycle, and elsewhere. She teaches at Wayne State University in Detroit, where she is pursuing a PhD with an emphasis in poetics and postpedagogy. She co-edits Cow Heavy Books and Midwestern Gothic and is completing a new manuscript entitled Jeff Bridges.

Jeannie Hoag is author of Informal Invitation to a Traveler: Letters between J.R. & Miss Kim. Jeannie was born in Wisconsin and is currently a librarian in Buffalo, New York. She is a graduate of the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her chapbook New Age of Ferociousness was published in 2010 by Agnes Fox Press.

Kyle McCord’s is the author of Informal Invitation to a Traveler: Letters between J.R. & Miss Kim. His first book, Galley of the Beloved in Torment, was the winner of the 2008 Orphic Prize and was released by Dream Horse Press.  He has work forthcoming or published from Boston Review, Columbia: a Journal of Art and Literature, Cream City Review, Gulf Coast, Painted Bride Quarterly, Volt, and elsewhere.  He’s worked for The Beloit Poetry Journal, jubilat, and The Nation.  Currently, he lives in Des Moines, Iowa where he coordinates The Younger American Poets Reading Series.

Evan Kennedy has lived in Brooklyn and San Francisco. He is author of Shoo-Ins to Ruin.

Megan Martin is the author of Sparrow & Other Eulogies, a collection of short prose things. Other pieces have appeared or are forthcoming in >kill author, Make: a Chicago Literary Magazine, Caketrain, H_NGM_N, Denver Quarterly, Tarpaulin Sky and elimae. She lives in Cincinnati with her boyfriend and three awesome cats.

T.A. Noonan is the author of two hybrid-genre collections, The Bone Folders (Sundress Publications) and Petticoat Government (Gold Wake Press), as well as the chapbooks Darjeeling (Ahadada Books) and Balm (Flaming Giblet Press). Her work has appeared in Ninth Letter, Verse Daily, The Superstition Review, RHINO, specs, Phoebe, and many others. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Flaming Giblet Press, which publishes the online journal grain short/grain long. Currently, she lives on Florida’s Treasure Coast with her husband.

Nick Ripatrazone is the author of Oblations, a book of prose poems from Gold Wake Press. His writing has appeared in Esquire, The Kenyon Review, West Branch, The Mississippi Review, Puerto del Sol, Notre Dame Review, Southeast Review and Beloit Fiction Journal. He graduated from the MFA program at Rutgers-Newark and lives with his wife in New Jersey.

Kathleen Rooney  is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press, and the author, most recently, of the art modeling memoir Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object (University of Arkansas Press, 2009) and the essay collection For You, For You I Am Trilling These Songs (Counterpoint, 2010). She lives in Chicago where she is a Visiting Assistant Professor at DePaul University, and the 2011-2012 Writer in Residence at Roosevelt University.(http://kathleenrooney.com)(http://www.rosemetalpress.com/)

Andrea Witzke Slot primarily writes poetry but also writes fiction and scholarly work. As of 2011, she began publishing her creative work under the name Andrea Witzke Slot, but she continues to teach and publish academic work under the name Andrea Witzke Leavey. Her work has appeared in such places as Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Translation Review, Chiron Review, Connotation Press, Alba: A Journal of Short Poetry, The Houston Literary Review, The Pacific Review, and Southern Women’s Review. She resides just outside of Chicago with her husband, the youngest of her five children/stepchildren, and her crazy West Highland Terrier, Macbeth. She teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago and is currently on the editorial board of RHINO Poetry. Her website is: (www.andreawitzkeslot.com).

Erin Elizabeth Smith is the author of The Fear of Being Found (Three Candles Press 2008) and The Naming of Strays (Gold Wake Press 2011, forthcoming). Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including 32 Poems,New Delta Review, Yalobusha Review, Water~Stone, Cimarron Review, and RHINO. She teaches in the English Department at the University of Tennessee and serves as the managing editor of Stirring: A Literary Collection and the Best of the NetAnthology. 

Joshua Young Lives in Chicago with his wife, their son, and their dog. For more information about his writings, films, and other projects visit, http://thestorythief.tumblr.com. He is author of When the Wolves Quit: A Play-in-Verse (forthcoming).