Originally from Oahu, Hawaii, Babette Cieskowski has lived in southern Florida, Kitzingen, Germany and central Texas. She is currently earning an MFA in poetry from Ohio State University. Her poems have been published in Coastlines, The Rectangle, Black Heart Magazine, Arsenic Lobster, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, and Compose.

Robert Long Foreman’s ction has won a Pushcart Prize and contests at Willow Springs and The Cincinnati Review. A collection of his essays, Among Other Things, is forthcoming from Pleiades Press in February 2017. He is writing a novel. His website is www.robertlongforeman.com.

Bayleigh Fraser is an American poet currently residing and writing in Canada. A Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in A Bad Penny Review, The Brooklyn Quarterly, Forage Poetry, Hart House Review, One, Rattle, and other publications.

Beth Konkoski is a writer and high school English teacher living in Northern Virginia with her husband and two children. Her work has been published in literary journals such as: Mid- American Review, The Baltimore Review, and The Potomac Review. In 2010 her chapbook “Noticing the Splash” was published by BoneWorld Press. She enjoys reading her work in the DC area and beyond.

Dorene O’Brien has won Red Rock Review’s Mark Twain Award for Short Fiction, the New Millennium Fiction Award and the international Bridport Prize. She is a NEA and a Vermont Studio Center creative writing fellow. Her stories have appeared in the Connecticut Review, the Chicago Tribune, the Montreal Review, Detroit Noir and others. Voices of the Lost and Found, her short fiction collection, won the USA Best Books Award in Fiction.

Brittney Scott’s rst poetry collection, The Derelict Daughter, won the 2015 New American Poetry Prize. She is also a recipient of the Joy Harjo Prize for Poetry, as well as the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in Best New Poets, Prairie Schooner, The New Republic, Narrative Magazine, Cincinnati Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Linebreak, Indiana Review and elsewhere. She homesteads on seven acres in rural Virginia.

Bridget Grace Sheaff is a theatre artist in Washington, DC. A graduate of The Catholic University of America (BA in Drama 2014 summa cum laude), she has published many written works, including Perfect, Forgive and Forget, love letter to my home town, A Chance of Rain, The Days of Peanut Butter and Honey Sandwiches, Idle Hands, Kissing Lessons, It’s Not About the Hair, Danny’s How-to-Vlog, The Art of Preservation, The Next Table, and Decisions.

Terril Shorb has been a rancher, journalist, radio advertising copywriter, and now teaches Sustainable Community Development at Prescott College where he founded the program by that name. He and his wife, the poet, Yvette A. Schnoeker-Shorb, co-founded Native West Press, whose books honor non-charismatic wild creatures of the American West. His publications include Whole Life Magazine, High Country News, Birds and Blooms, Kudzu House, Cargo Literary Magazine, and Green Teacher Magazine.

Willie VerSteeg is a poet living in Columbus, OH with his wife and two sons. He has been published widely. Find him online @ Willie_VerSteeg

Elizabeth Vignali is an optician and writer in Bellingham, Washington. Her poems have appeared in various publications, including Willow Springs, Crab Creek Review, Natural Bridge, Nimrod, and Menacing Hedge. Her chapbook, Object Permanence, is available from Finishing Line Press.