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journals in the US, UK, Sweden and Australia. In 2012 she was short-listed for the Fermoy International Poetry Festival. Her fifth and latest chapbook is Lit Up, (Kindred Spirit Press). She is the co-editor of San Pedro River Review (www.sprreview.com).

Julie Dill is a Red Earth MFA student at Oklahoma City University. She has written for MetroFamily Magazine, Texas Child Quarterly, and The Oklahoman. She is currently working on her first young adult novel.

Kelly Dumar is a playwright, fiction writer and workshop facilitator from the Boston area. Her most recent publications include short stories in Open Road Review and Literary Mama, as well as poems in Lingerpost, Emerge, and Blast Furnace, and short plays by Art Age and Foxing Quarterly. Kelly’s plays are produced around the US and Canada and published by dramatic publishers. She will be presenting a workshop for youth poets at the Mass. Poetry Festival in May 2013 and she blogs about writing at www.kellydumar.com.

Todd Fuller's poetry and essays have appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, including the American Indian Culture and Research Journal, American Literary Review, Apalachee Review, Barnwood Magazine, Cimarron Review, Crazyhorse, Encyclopedia of Native Americans and Sports, The Great Plains: A Cross-Disciplinary Reader, Hawai’i Review, New York Quarterly, Poet Lore, Puerto del Sol, Quarterly West,South Dakota Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Third Coast, Weber Studies, Wicazo Sa Review, and William and Mary Review. His first book, 60 Feet, Six Inches and Other Distances from Home: the (Baseball) Life of Mose YellowHorse (Holy Cow! Press), was published in 2002. Fuller currently serve as an Associate Director for Research Development at the University of Oklahoma and as an adjunct lecturer in the Native American Studies Program; before taking this post, he served as president of Pawnee Nation College, which he co-founded in 2004.

Julie Hensley grew up on a sheep farm in the Shenandoah Valley, but now she makes her home in Kentucky with her husband (the writer R. Dean Johnson) and their two children.

She is a core faculty member of the Bluegrass Writers Studio, the brief-residency MFA program at Eastern Kentucky University.