viewer to higher planes of pure emotionality while reminding them that there is no time but the present to be themselves. She enjoys coffee and tea. Milly Stilinovic, the offspring of two fiery broadcast journalists and authors of black-listed books, was told from a very young age that history is always written by the victor. The born and bred Australian Serb has experienced the horrors of war and passed borders in the dark of the night with armed gunmen. She has ran from NATO tomahawks and became a freedom-fighting statistic in the 2000 revolution which saw the overthrow of Milosevic’s stronghold regime. These experiences only fortified her desire to use her immersive literary journey to discover these untold truths. Her only armour? A solid 13-year career in theatre acting and a master in journalism. She contributes her “wracting” (writer-acting) to Australian online publishers such as ninemsn, Red Scout and Scavenger. Stilinovic resides, on the docks of Sydney harbour, with her long-suffering partner and her ever-depleting prized wine collection. Tegan Elizabeth Webb is a fledgling writer working out of Melbourne, Australia. She began writing at the tender age of five, when her father gave her her first notebook, and to this day he is still unaware of what he started. She is a lover of animals, craft and the written word. To date, she has been published in the Writing Disorder, and in Francesca Lia Block’s Love Magick Anthology. July Westhale is a poet, activist, and radical archivist with a weakness for botany and hotair balloons. She is a 2011 Emerging LGBT Voices Fellow in Poetry through the Lambda Literary Foundation. Her poetry has most recently been published in University of Wisconsin’s Women in REDzine, Generations Literary Journal, Hinchas de Poesia, WordRiot, 580 Split, Quarterly West, Muzzle Magazine and So to Speak: A Feminist Literary Journal. Her poetry can also be found in the recently released anthology, Conversations at the Wartime Café: a Decade of War 2001-2011. A graduate of Mills College, she is currently a candidate for the MFA in Poetry at Lesley University. www.julywesthale.com Jane Yolen is an author of children’s books, fantasy, and science fiction, including Owl Moon, The Devil’s Arithmetic, and How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? She is also a poet, a teacher of writing and literature, and a reviewer of children’s literature. She has been called the Hans Christian Andersen of America and the Aesop of the twentieth century. Her books and stories have won the Caldecott Medal, two Nebula Awards, two Christopher Medals, the World Fantasy Award, three Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards, the Golden Kite Award, the Jewish Book Award, the World Fantasy Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Association of Jewish Libraries Award among many others. Her website address is: http://janeyolen.com/ Lev Yilmaz is the animator, publisher, and filmmaker responsible for the wildly popular Tales of Mere Existence animated comic series. His films and animation have exploded in notoriety online and garnered the attention of a variety of major media outlets like Comedy Central, The Onion, New York City’s Rooftop Film Festival, and Showtime. His bedraggled, continually defeated self-portrait has become the internet’s version of a household name. In 2009, Simon & Schuster published Lev’s first “official” book, Sunny Side Down: A Collection of Tales of Mere Existence. Today, Lev’s work is most widely accessed via his website, IngredientX.com, and his YouTube channel, AgentXPQ, which currently reports over 37 million video views.
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