Serena Solin is currently an MFA candidate in poetry at Washington University. She holds a degree in English & Creative Writing from Columbia University and currently lives in St. Louis. Margaret Spilman was born in West Virginia, raised in Kansas, and bounced around most of the US before settling in the Bay Area. She is currently an MFA candidate at San Francisco State University and was Fiction Editor for Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review. She was one of six writers chosen to receive the PEN Emerging Voices Fellowship in 2014. Her story “Muscle Memory” won the James Kirkwood Literary Prize and her flash piece “From Here to There” was a Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Contest honorable mention. She has been published in The Rattling Wall, The New Flash Fiction Review, Transcurrent, and sParkle & bLink. Alex Stolis lives in Minneapolis; he has had poems published in numerous journals. Recent chapbooks include Justice for all, published by Conversation Paperpress (UK) based on the last words of Texas Death Row inmates. Also, Without Dorothy, There is No Going Home from ELJ Publications. Other releases include an e-chapbook, From an iPod found in Canal Park; Duluth, MN, from Right Hand Pointing and The Hum of Geometry from White Knuckle Press. His full length collection Postcards from the Knife Thrower was a finalist for the Moon City Poetry Award. He has been the recipient of five Pushcart Nominations. Karolina Zapal is an MFA candidate at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, where she received the Anselm Hollo fellowship. She currently instructs an introductory writing seminar, works at The Birds We Piled Loosely Press, and serves as associate editor of Something on Paper.
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