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Allison Grayhurst's recent work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Fogged Clarity, Quantum Poetry Magazine, Decanto, Indigo Rising and Message in a Bottle Poetry Magazine. Her book Somewhere Falling was published by Beach Holme Publishers, a Porcepic Book, in Vancouver in 1995. 

Bill Christophersen once constructed a model of a paddle-wheel steamboat out of toothpicks.

Daniel Hales is writer, teacher, and musician. He's in two bands: The Ambiguities and Daniel hales, and the frost heaves. (Which is supposed to be written like two independent clauses separated by a comma and a coordinating conjunction). He has had poems published in many print and online journals, including Verse Daily, The Massachusetts Review, Conduit, and Bateau.

David Oestreich lives in Northwest Ohio with his wife and three children. His work has appeared in Ruminate, Eclectica, Tar River Poetry, and Hobble Creek Review.

Douglas Basford has gone from defiantly carless to baffledly truckful. Some other poems can be found in Anti-, Diagram, H_NGM_N, Birmingham Poetry Review, Ampersand, Poetry, Smartish Pace. He teaches in downtown Buffalo and lives at SUNY-Buffalo, yes.

Garrin Riggin is a former broadcast news director/reporter, and is now an illustrator/painter living in Maryland with his wife Lisa and dog Wally.

Gavin Broom lives and writes in Stirling, Scotland. He's been published over fifty times both online and in print and in the last year has read at Dire Literary Series in Boston, MA and Last Monday at Rio in Glasgow, Scotland. He edits fiction for The Waterhouse Review.

Geordie de Boer, rattles around rural Washington these days wrangling rhyme and wrestling rhythm. He’s been published most recently by elimae, Offcourse, Right Hand Pointing, and Eunoia Review.

Howie Good needs no introduction since you read poetry on the Internet.  His most recent full collection of poetry, Dreaming in Red, is available in print from Right Hand Pointing, and all benefits go to charity. Order it here. That's an order. Order.  

Jack Hodil is an English major and Creative Writing minor at the University of Richmond. In the past year, his work has appeared or is forthcoming in Word Riot, Neon, Pure Francis, the Camroc Press Review, Quantum Poetry Magazine, the Front Porch Review, and many other lovely places. When not writing, he can usually be found avoiding school work, battling inanimate objects, purchasing cheap packs of cigarettes with loose change, or watching cage fights with his action figures.

Jean Brasseur lives and writes in Virginia. She does not hold an MFA and has not published any books or chapbooks (but is in complete admiration of those who have). She has had a lifelong love affair with reading and writing poetry. Her work can be found at Orange Room Review, Gutter Eloquence and Halfway Down the Stairs.

Jeanie Tomasko is the author of Sharp as Want and Tricks of Light. Her poems have been published recently in Lilliput Review, The Midwest Quarterly, Qarrtsiluni and Wisconsin People and Ideas. This is her second appearance in Right Hand Pointing, which makes her happy as a clam. She lives in Wisconsin, works as a nurse, and is currently having a long-distance relationship with E. E. Cummings.  

Jeff Streeby holds an MFA in Poetry from Gerald Stern’s program at New England College in Henniker, New Hampshire.  He is a horseman, cowboy poet and performer whose recent work has appeared in Verdad, Southwest American Literature, Los Angeles Review, Right Hand Pointing and others. His website is at http://www.jeffstreeby.com .

John M. Bellinger is a long time poet and lifetime resident of Central New York. He is the former managing editor of The Comstock Review (2006-2009), and has been published in The Comstock Review, Blue Unicorn, and online at Right Hand Pointing.

Josh Bernstein (cover photo) is a writer from New York City. His work has been published in The Coe Review, The Ugly Tree, Ballard Street Poetry Journal, Thick with Conviction, and Right Hand Pointing, among others. He is nearing the completion of a Master's Degree in English Literature at Brooklyn College. A large collection of his poems and prose can be found on his website at www.joshbernsteinadrift.com.

Kevin McLellan is the author of the chapbook Round Trip (Seven Kitchens, 2010), a collaborative series of poems with numerous women poets. He has recent or forthcoming poems in journals including: Barrow Street, Colorado Review, failbetter, Horse Less Review, Kenyon Review Online, Versal, Western Humanities Review, Witness and numerous others. Kevin lives in Cambridge MA with Frankie (a canary), and sometimes teaches poetry workshops at the University of Rhode Island in Providence.

Lee Anne Sittler is an ESL Assistant living and working in Madrid, Spain. She is also a poet.

Michael Dwayne Smith teaches at a community college. He has work in BLIP Magazine, Mosaic, Mojave, etc. He’s not quite old enough to have been at Woodstock, despite what students say about the ponytail, but definitely lives in a small California desert town with his wife, son, and many rescued animals--all of whom talk in their sleep.

Robin Chapman is author of seven books of poetry, most recently Abundance, winner of the Cider Press Review's Book Award, and The Eelgrass Meadow (Tebot Bach, October 2011). She is recipient of Appalachia's 2010 Helen Howe Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared recently in Alaska Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, and Valparaiso Poetry Review.

Sonja Olson (photo on this page) grew up on the wind-swept plains of North Dakota. She currently lives in Alexandria, VA, where she heads the translation services business unit for a legal support services company. She spends her free time walking her dog Smokey, reading, drawing, painting, photographing and collage-ing. She also plays pinochle when she can find people on the East Coast who know what that is.

Timothy Gager is the author of eight books of short fiction and poetry. His latest Treating a Sick Animal: Flash and Micro Fictions (Cervena Barva Press) features over forty stories, many previously published in various literary magazines. He has hosted the successful Dire Literary Series in Cambridge, Massachusetts every month for the past ten years and is the co-founder of Somerville News Writers Festival.  He has had over 250 works of fiction and poetry published since 2007 and of which nine have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

Tyler Conaty is starting to hate writing. Of course, the only thing he can think to do is write about it.