Crack the Spine - Issue 156

Contributors Tyler Auffhammer Tyler Auffhammer is preparing to jump out of the frying pan (college) and into the fire (public education). He enjoys typical white trash pastimes, including, but not limited to: beer drinking, motorcycle riding, and the raising of flags.

Sometimes, he gets up the courage to write a poem or two.

Eva Garber Eva Garber is a Toronto native living in Los Angeles while she completes an MFA in creative writing at Otis College of Art and Design. Her work has appeared in Word Riot and Literary Orphans.

Alison Hicks Alison Hicks is the author of a poetry collection “Kiss” (PS Books, 2011), a chapbook “Falling Dreams” (Finishing Line Press, 2006) and “Love: A Story of Images” (AWA Press, 2004), a finalist in the 1999 Quarterly West Novella Competition. Her work has appeared in Eclipse, Edison Literary Review, Fifth Wednesday, Gargoyle, Louisville Review, Sanskrit, Pearl, and Permafrost, among other literary magazines. Awards include the 2011 Philadelphia City Paper Poetry Prize and two Pennsylvania Council on the Artsfellowships. She is founder of Greater Philadelphia Wordshop Studio, which offers communitybased writing workshops.