contributing co-editor of Her Texas: Story, Image, Poem & Song (Wings Press, 2015). She holds degrees in English from the University of Texas at Austin and Baylor University. She is a native Texan (born in Dallas), and she currently lives in central Texas with her husband and daughter.
Jenny Ferguson is a Canadian studying for her PhD at the University of South Dakota. Her first novel Border Markers is forthcoming from NeWest Press. Nina Ficenec is a writer and illustrator currently residing in the Southern United States with her little boy.
Gregory Crosby is the author of Spooky Action at a Distance (2014, The Operating System). His work has previously appeared in Court Green, Epiphany, Sink Review, Copper Nickel, Leveler, Ping Pong, Rattle, and Sink Review, among others.
Pattie Flint is an uprooted Seattle native toughing it out in Scotland binding books by hand. She has been published in Five [Quarterly], Hippocampus, and TAB, amongst others. She is currently working on her MFA at Cedar Crest College.
Justin Lawrence Daugherty lives in Atlanta and on Twitter at @jdaugherty1081. He is the co-founder of Jellyfish Highway Press, founder/managing editor of Sundog Lit, and edits for New South Journal and Cartridge Lit, a lit mag dedicated to work inspired by video games.
Miranda Freeman earned her B.A. from UCLA in 2012, and currently attends graduate school in a very snow-mangled Boston. Her work has appeared in Lunch Ticket and Massacre Magazine.
Krista DeBehnke lives and write in Lafayette, Louisiana. Her poetry has appeared in the Portland Review, Railtown Almanac, Rock & Sling and Up The Staircase Quarterly, among others. Andrea Janelle Dickens is a native of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia and currently lives in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, where she is a beekeeper and a ceramic artist. She teaches in the Writing Programs at Arizona State and volunteers at the Desert Botanical Garden. Some of her recent work has appeared in Rivet, of zoos, streetcake, New South, Found Poetry Review, and Thin Air. Katryn Dierksen is an English major at the University of Missouri St. Louis. As an artist, she enjoys the process of creating in any accessible format. She has been published once before in Bellerive. Helena Duncan is a fiction writer from Salt Lake City, Utah, studying creative writing at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Tess Fellows preserves the loud world in portable jars. She has been published in Northeastern University’s Spectrum Literary Arts Magazine.
Malcolm Friend is a poet originally from the Rainier Beach neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. He received his BA from Vanderbilt University, where he was the 2014 recipient of the Merrill Moore Prize for Poetry, and is an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also a 2014 recipient of a Talbot International Award for writing. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as La Respuesta magazine, the Fjords Review’s Black American Edition, Alicante’s Información, fields magazine, Pretty Owl Poetry, and elsewhere. Lisa Gaudio’s poetry has also been published in Central Connecticut State University’s literary magazine The Helix, of which she also serves as managing editor. Eugene Goldin was born in Manhattan and grew up in Queens. He was most recently published in The East Jasmine Review, Stoneboat Literary Journal, and The Subterranean Quarterly. G. Timothy Gordon’s work include: OPEN HOUSE (fictions) will be published in February, while GROUND OF THIS BLUE EARTH and UNDER ARIES were published in 2012 and 2014, respectively. An expanded edition of the prize-winning RiverStone Press poetry chapbook competi131