Brooks Rexroat teaches and writes in Cincinnati, Ohio. He holds a master of fine arts degree in creative writing from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and his work has appeared in publications including Weave Magazine, The Montreal Review, The Cleveland Review, The Literary Bohemian, and Boston Literary Magazine. Visit him online at brooksrexroat. com. Fabio Sassi lives and works in Bologna, Italy. He’s started making visual artworks after varied experiences in music and writing. He makes acrylics with the stencil technique on board, canvas, old vinyl records or other media; his brushes are spray cans. When he makes an artwork sometimes he browses his stencil patterns trying to match them to create an unusual or surreal composition. He is also inspired by the news and by the human condition and its shades. He also makes photos searching the weird side of things. Find out more at coroflot.com/faboisassi. Jackie K. White earned her PhD in Creative Writing (poetry) from UIC with concentrations in Latino and Latin American and Women’s Studies. She served for 9 years as an editor with RHINO, and is an associate professor at Lewis University. Her poems and translations have appeared in ACM, Bayou, Folio, Karamu, Natural Bridge, Quarter after Eight, Spoon River, Third Coast, etc. and online at seven bridges, shadowbox, and prosepoem. com. Her chapbook Bestiary Charming won the 2006 Anabiosis Press award, and Petal Tearing & Variations was published by Finishing Line in 2008. A third chapbook, Come Clearing, in which “Body Cento...Year Two” appears, is forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press. Kirby Wright was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is a graduate of Punahou School in Honolulu and the University of California at San Diego. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Wright has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes and is a past recipient of the Jodi Stutz Memorial Prize in Poetry, the Ann Fields Poetry Prize, the Academy of American Poets Award, the Robert Browning Award for Dramatic Monologue, and Arts Council Silicon Valley Fellowships in Poetry and The Novel. Before the City, his first poetry collection, took First Place at the 2003 San Diego Book Awards. Wright is also the author of the companion novels Punahou Blues and Moloka’i Nui Ahina, both set in Hawaii. He was a Visiting Fellow at the 2009 International Writers Conference in Hong Kong, where he represented the Pacific Rim region of Hawaii. He was also a Visiting Writer at the 2010 Martha’s Vineyard Residency in Edgartown, Mass., and the 2011 Artist in Residence at Milkwood International, Czech Republic.
126