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Bill Christophersen's poems have recently appeared, or are shortly to appear, in Hanging Loose, Innisfree Poetry Journal, Light Quarterly, Potomac Review, Rhino, Sierra Nevada Review, Tampa Review and Yale Review.  He lives in New York City and plays country fiddle.

Caleb Bouchard is a college freshman living in Acworth, Georgia. He was recently blocked by Garry Shandling over Twitter, @imcalebbouchard. He occasionally blogs at www.somethingofsignificance.tumblr.com

Chad Sanderson is a senior Writing and Linguistics major at Georgia Southern University. He is currently working on obtaining his Bachelor’s degree and keeping himself sane by reading, writing, and teaching martial arts. 

Craig A. Hart has been a writer, book reviewer, editor, and back to writer again. He is currently the editor of a literary magazine and writes in his spare time. He lives in Idaho.

Dale Patterson lives in Columbus, Indiana. He has a Master's Degree in Art Education from Indiana University and a thirty-nine-year teaching career. Dale is now retired and spends his time creating visual art and writing poetry. You can see more of Dale’s work at http://dalepattersonart.com/

George Held publishes widely both online & in print. He's a six-time Pushcart nominee, and Garrison Keillor read one of George's poems on The Writer's Almanac. HIs latest book, NEIGHBORS, contains animal poems for children and drawings by Joung Un Kim.

Helen Vitoria (cover photo) is a photographer and a poet living in Effort, Pennsylvania. Her photographs appear and are forthcoming in Phantom Kangaroo, kitchen, ken*again and others. Her poems can be found in many online and print journals. She is the author of six poetry chapbooks and a full-length poetry collection. Her work has been nominated for Best New Poets & the Pushcart Prize. She is the Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief of THRUSH Poetry Journal & THRUSH Press. Find her here: http://helenvitoria-lexis.blogspot.com/

Glenn Osborn (1943-2010)'s work lives on, which would make him grin. You can see his art and writing in various places:  The Story Garden, Arvilla Studio (dedicated to the stewardship of his art), Morpo Review, and others. There will be a retrospective of his art soon, too.

Marc Swan lives on Munjoy Hill in Portland, Maine. His work has been published in The New Quarterly, Gargoyle, Pearl, Slipstream, and Westerly, among others. Simple Distraction, a collection of his poems from 1989 to 2009, was published in fall 2009 by tall-lighthouse in London, England. 

Neil Capathios has three full-length poetry collections, Playground of Flesh (MSR Press), At the Axis of Imponderables (winner of the Quercus Review Press Book Award), and Beyond the Bones (FutureCycle Press). He teaches and is Coordinator of Creative Writing at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, Ohio. 

Robert Laughlin lives in Chico, California, in a Craftsman bungalow that deserves the attention of a well-heeled future owner. Mr. Laughlin has published 100 short stories, 200 poems and one novel, Vow of Silence. His website is at www.pw.org/content/robert_laughlin.

Ron. Lavalette lives in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, land of the fur-bearing laketrout and the bilingual stop sign. He has been widely published both in print and online. A sample of his published work can be found at Eggs Over Tokyo .

Scott Owens is a recipient of awards from the Academy of American Poets and the Pushcart Prize Anthology and is the author of 10 collections of poetry and over 1000 published poems in journals including Georgia Review, North American Review, Chattahoochee Review, Southern Poetry Review, and Poetry East among others. He is the founder of Poetry Hickory, editor of Wild Goose Poetry Review and 234, and vice president of the Poetry Council of North Carolina. Born and raised in Greenwood, South Carolina, he teaches at Catawba Valley Community College in Hickory, North Carolina.

Tammy Ho Lai-Ming is a Hong Kong-born writer currently based in London, UK. She is a founding co-editor of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. More at www.sighming.com.

Terry Paul Pearce is an unapologetic Londoner. He enjoys fiction where what’s real and what isn’t is at least uncertain, if not entirely unclear. This may have something to do with his experience of life. Or it may not. His work has surfaced in places like The Legendary, Cezanne’s Carrot, and Grey Sparrow Journal. You can read more at terrypaulpearce.blogspot.com.