Shane Eaves received his MFA in poetry from California State University, Long Beach, where he served as the poetry editor for Riprap. He is a two-time recipient of the William T. Shadden Memorial Award for his poetry and has been nominated for a Pushcart prize. His poetry can be found in American Mustard, Rust + Moth, Stonecoast Review, Miramar & elsewhere. Suleima Garcia is a 25-year-old who doesn’t like talking about herself but will for the sake of the photo contributor section in this issue. She is from Bellflower in Los Angeles County and works full-time at a small merchandising company. She finds the time to capture the images you see in this journal by just carrying her Minolta X-370 35mm camera through her daily routines and outings. Kathryne Gargano hails from the Pacific Northwest, but isn’t very good at climbing trees. She recently graduated with her MFA in Poetry from the University of Nevada - Las Vegas, and has been published in CALYX, Perceptions, and Alchemy. Her work is forthcoming in Lavender Review, The Fem, and the Colorado Review. You can find pictures of her three-legged pup on Instagram @peternelle3. B.H. James’s first novel, Parnucklian for Chocolate, was a finalist for the 2014 PEN Center USA Literary Award in Fiction. He and his wife are the co-authors of Method to the Madness: A Common Core Guide to Creating Critical Thinkers through the Study of Literature, and he teaches high school English in Northern California, where he lives with his wife and two sons. www.bhjames.com Dylan Karlsson is a poet based in Los Angeles. He is the senior poetry editor of Westwind, and is currently pursuing a BA in English at UCLA. Rose Knapp is a poet, producer, and multimedia artist. She has publications in Lotus-Eater, Bombay Gin, BlazeVOX, Hotel Amerika, Gargoyle, and others. She has a chapbook with Hesterglock Press and a collection forthcoming with Dostoevsky Wannabe. She lives in Los Angeles. Her work can be found at roseknapp.net Ernst Luchs has written comedy for publication, stage, and radio, and has had poems published or forthcoming in Futures Trading and the Prairie Sun, among others. He lives in a Chicago suburb, enjoys astral travel, and has no outstanding warrants.
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