January 21, 2016

Brandon Pitts is the author of Tender in the Age of Fury (Mosaic Press, 2015). Known for subverting gospel and scripture to create political allegories, Brandon first came onto the Toronto lit scene in 2010 with the short story “The BC Crib,” published in the anthology Canadian Voices Volume II. In 2011, he was inducted into the prestigious Diaspora Dialogues as an “Emerging Voice” for fiction, followed by the novel Puzzle of Murders (Bookland Press, 2011) and the popular poetry collection Pressure to Sing (IOWI, 2012). He continued this run of productivity with the production of three plays and editing the anthology, The Courtney Park Connection (IOWI, 2013). Brandon has been living in Mukilteo, Washington since 2014. His website is brandonpitts.com.

Robert Lashley has had poems published in such journals as Feminete, No Regrets, and Your Hands, Your Mouth. His work was also featured in Many Trails to the Summit, an anthology of Northwest form and lyric poetry, published by Rose Alley Press. His full-length book, The Homeboy Songs, was published by Small Doggies press in April 2014. Robert lives in Bellingham, Washington, and his blog is “The Compassionate Misanthrope.”