working in Philadelphia. Kaitlyn Crow is a seventeen year old poet from Northern Virginia. She started writing poetry when she realized that her words flowed better when she put a pen to paper. Her work can also be found at Vagabond City Literary Journal. Keith Dunlap is a former co-editor of The Columbia Review and former co-editor of Cutbank, having received his M.F.A. from the University of Montana. His poems have been accepted for publication in Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, The Brooklyn Review, The Carolina Quarterly, The Georgetown Review, Poet Lore, and Sou’wester, among other places. He has a B.A. in English from Columbia College in New York and an M.A. in Classics from Columbia University. He lives in Portland, Maine, with his wife, the novelist, Jenny Siler, and his daughter, Vivica. Christopher Eskilson lives in Los Angeles and attends Pitzer College to study English. He also works as an editor for the small arts group the Hexagon Collective. Robert Fillman lives in eastern Pennsylvania with his wife, Melissa, and his two children, Emma and Robbie. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Lehigh University, where he teaches English and edits the university’s creative writing journal, Amaranth. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the Aurorean, Plain Spoke, The Chaffin Journal, The Meadow, Straylight, Third Wednesday, among other journals. Gabriel Furshong writes Missoula, MT, where he works for the Montana Wilderness Association. His prose has been published in High Country News, Montana Quarterly, the Earth Island Journal, and the Cobalt Review, among other publications. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in the anthology “I Go To The Ruined Place: Contemporary Poems in Defense of Global Human Rights,” (Lost Horse Press), the CutBank Literary Magazine, the Cossack Review and Drunk Monkeys.
Sarah Jefferis’ first poetry book Forgetting the Salt was published by Foothills Press in October 2008. Recently she was awarded a Community Arts Partnership grant for fiction, a CNF fellowship from the Saltonstall Arts Colony as well as the Bea Gonzalez poetry prize for her poems, “Motherhood,” and “The Cake, The Chalice and the Bird.” Her poems and nonfiction have appeared in The Stone Canoe, The American Literary Review, Ithaca Lit. com, The Mississippi Review, Icon, The Hollins Critic, The Patterson Review, Icarus, The Healing Muse and other journals. Her essay, entitled, “Blood and Chocolate,” appeared in an anthology entitled Labor Day: True Birth Stories from Today’s Best Women Writers and published by Farrar Straus and Giroux in April 2014. She has been both a poetry fellow and fiction fellow at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers Center in California. She holds an M.A. from Hollins University, an M.F.A. (Poetry) from Cornell University and a PhD (Memoir) from SUNY Binghamton. She is working on completing her first novel, entitled Running After Jesus, a second book of poetry about how secrets destroy our teeth, and a collection of essays on grief. Currently she lives in Ithaca, NY, with her two daughters. You can find out more about her publications and writing consultant business entitled: Write. Now. at www.sarahjefferis.net. Juleen Eun Sun Johnson Johnson has had poems published in printed publications, including Cirque, Ink Noise Review, Nervous Breakdown, The Rio Grand Review, Buried Letter Press and VoiceCatchers. Johnson currently writes and creates art in Portland, OR. Katia Kash is a traveling writer from London. Her poetry can be found in 3 a.m., Oval Fiction, Streetcake, Shampoo and Forth Magazine. She is also a trained aerialist and takes pictures on film. A.D. Lauren and is currently an undergraduate student studying creative writing at Emory University. 103