June 18, 2015

Jed Myers is a Philadelphian living in Seattle. Two of his poetry collections, The Nameless (Finishing Line Press) and Watching the Perseids (winner of the 2013 Sacramento Poetry Center Book Award), are 2014 publications. He’s received Southern Indiana Review’s Mary C. Mohr Award, the Literal Latte Poetry Award, and a Pushcart nomination. His poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Nimrod International Journal, JAMA, Fugue, Atlanta Review, I-70 Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Crab Orchard Review, Blast Furnace, Crab Creek Review, Temenos, and elsewhere. He works as a psychiatrist with a therapy practice and teaches at the University of Washington.

Alina Rios spent the first part of her life in St. Petersburg, Russia, and now lives in Seattle with her six-year old son and a ghost-cat. Her poetry and fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Camroc Press Review, Neon, Apex Magazine, The Colored Lens, and other fine places. Her fiction was shortlisted for the Speculative Literature Foundation’s Gulliver Travel Grant. To learn more or say hello, please visit www.alinarios.com. Photo credit: Rosanne Olson