Apeiron Review | Issue 4

Aida Ibisevic was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She moved to Washington DC area in 1995.

Melodee Jarvis lives in Oakland and works at a suicide hotline in San Francisco, training new volunteers and staff on how to help people not kill themselves.

Unsurprisingly, most of her poetry is about the Bay Area and/or death. Though most of her poetry sucks, she make really excellent nutritional yeast/sriracha/ curry popcorn, so at least she can be proud of one thing.

Laura Story Johnson is an attorney working in human rights research and advocacy. Born and raised in Iowa, she has lived in New York City, bush Alaska, Mongolia, Boston, west of the Zambezi River in Zambia, and in Austria. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and has most recently appeared in Great Lakes Review and Eclectica Magazine. She currently resides in Chicago with her husband and two children. www.laurastoryjohnson.com Yi Shun Lai is the fiction editor for the Los Angeles Review. Her non-fiction has been published at TheHairpin.com, Inlandia, the Christian Science Monitor, and Big Lucks, among others.

Anthony J. Langford lives in Sydney Australia. He is a father and step-father.

He writes novels, stories, poetry and makes video poems. Some of his recent publications include Ink, Sweat & Tears, Microliterature, Otoliths and bluestem.

He works in television and has made short films, some of which have screened internationally. A novella, Bottomless River (2012) and a poetry collection, Caged without Walls (2013) are out through Ginninderra Press.

A wide selection of his work can be found at www.anthonyjlangford.com 102