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Cathy Barber’s work has been published recently in the literary journals Pearl, Sweet, Marco Polo Quarterly, and in the anthology Doorknobs and Bodypaint: Fantastic Flash Fiction. She is pursuing her MFA at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is a past president of the board and a member of the advisory council of California Poets in the Schools. Her humor blog, Is It Just Me, can be found here. 

Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal lives in Los Angeles County, where he works in the mental health field. He was born in Mexico. His first book of poetry, Raw Materials, was published by Pygmy Forest Press. His poems in English and Spanish have appeared in The American Dissident, The Blue Collar Review, and Pemmican Press. His latest chapbook, Songs For Oblivion, was published by Alternating Current Press.

Caitlyn Christensen graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 2011. Her poems have been previously published in Collision Literary Magazine. She still lives in Pittsburgh, where she serves as Nonfiction Editor of Weave, a bicoastal literary magazine.

Mary Cresswell is from Los Angeles and lives on New Zealand’s Kapiti coast. Her third book, Trace Fossils, was published in 2011. See also her details here.

Laura E. Davis is the author of Braiding the Storm (Finishing Line Press, 2012). Raised in Pittsburgh, she now writes, edits, and teaches poetry, among other things, in San Francisco, where she lives with her partner, Sal.

Stevie Edwards is an MFA candidate at Cornell University and edits Muzzle Magazine. Stevie's work has appeared in a number of publications, including Verse Daily, Rattle, PANK, decomP, and Night Train. Her first book, Good Grief, was recently published by Write Bloody Publishing. 

Howie Good's most recent full-length collection is Dreaming in Red, proceeds from the sales of which benefit a rape crisis and suicide prevention program in Alabama. He has two chapbooks forthcoming, Fog Area from Dog on a Chain Press and The Death of Me from Pig Ear Press. 

Kenneth P. Gurney lives in Albuquerque, NM, USA. He edits the New Mexico poetry anthology Adobe Walls. To view a fuller biography, publishing credits and available books visit this website. 

Alicia Hoffman lives, writes and teaches in Rochester, New York. She is an MFA student at the Rainier Writer's Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. Some of her more recent work can be found at Camroc Press Review, Stone Highway Review, A Minor Magazine and Scissors & Spackle. Occasionally, she has stuff to say at her blog. 

Christopher Oie Keller lives in Portland, Oregon. He earned his Master's four years ago but is still a substitute teacher. He used to work at Victoria's Secret and was once rejected on an episode of "So You Think You Can Dance.'" His fiancée's name is Laura and she usually likes his poems more than he does. 

Joy Ladin is the author of five books of poetry, including Transmigration, a finalist for a 2009 Lambda Literary Award and Coming to Life, winner of a 2010 Forward Fives award (all from Sheep Meadow Press). A new collection, The Definition of Joy, is due out from Sheep Meadow in June. Joy's memoir of gender transition, Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders, was just published by University of Wisconsin Press. Joy's work has appeared in many periodicals, including American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, Southwest Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and North American Review. A Fulbright Scholarship enabled her to serve as Poet-in-Residence at Tel Aviv University. She holds the David and Ruth Gottesman Chair in English at Stern College of Yeshiva University.

W. F. Lantry has melted ingots of magnesium, skimmed the slag off the cauldron, and poured the liquid metal into forms made with damp sand. He also fought wildland fires in the mountains of California. These activities prepared him for his work in writing, the traces of which can be found at http://wflantry.com.

A native of Kolkata, India, Kushal Poddar writes poetry, fiction and scripts for television mini-series and is published worldwide. He is the author of All Our Fictional Dreams.

Mark Reep is an artist and writer whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in American Art Collector, Endicott Journal, Metazen, Drawing Magazine, Word Riot, and many other publications.  The six pieces in this issue of RHP are charcoal and graphite. A self-taught artist, Mark has exhibited regularly for seventeen years.  Gallery representation by West End Gallery, Corning, NY, and Jardine Gallery, Perth, Scotland. Visit his website. 

Dan Schall teaches at Arcadia University near Philadelphia and is the Director of the University's Writing Center. He is a scholar by day and a poet by night (or is it the other way around?). He is a founding member of the Assassin's Guild Writing Group and is currently an editor for Obsession Literary Magazine.

Ellen McGrath Smith teaches at the University of Pittsburgh and in the Carlow University Madwomen in the Attic program. Poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Now Culture, Sententia, The American Poetry Review, Cerise, The Same, Kestrel, Oranges & Sardines, Diner, 5 a.m., Oxford Magazine, The Prose Poem, Southern Poetry Review, Descant (Canada), and others. 

Ian C. Smith’s work has appeared in Axon: Creative Explorations, The Best Australian Poetry, Chiron Review, Island, Southerly, & Westerly. His fifth book is Contains Language, Ginninderra Press (Adelaide). He lives in the Gippsland Lakes area of Victoria, Australia. 

Jeff Streeby grew up in Sioux City, Iowa, where he attended Morningside College. He 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, RHP and others.

Nicholas Wilsey grew up in Schuylerville, New York. He DJ's the poetry-focused radio show The Eggshell Parade (eggshellparade.tumblr.com) and is currently a reader for Harpur Palate. His poetry is forthcoming in Paddlefish.

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