Christopher Woods is a writer, teacher and photographer who lives in Texas. His photographs can be seen in his gallery: http://christopherwoods.zenfolio.com. Tina Yu is a CAS sophomore pursuing an English degree with a Studio Art minor. Born in Qingdao, China, she also considers Charleston, SC and Pewaukee, WI as her hometowns. She spends her free time reading, playing with her cat, or on Tumblr.
v v Poetry v v Cynthia Blank is a Senior at NYU studying Dramatic Literature and Creative Writing. Her professional goal is to teach literature and creative writing professionally. Next year, she hopes to begin studies for an MFA in Poetry in hopes of achieving this goal. Joshua Dy Borja is a cobalt fog that gathered when, by instinct, you cupped your hands. Tracing the legends in your wallpaper palms, his smoke bloated and hurricaned and is spilling quietly—the arcs of your index fingers crown a levee that could hold him if you wanted. He also tumbles: joshersaurusrex. tumblr.com. Gregory Crosby used to be an art critic, but then thought better of it. His poems have appeared in Court Green, Epiphany, Copper Nickel, Rattle, Leveler and elsewhere. He co-edits the online poetry journal Lyre Lyre. Greg Drozdek teaches ESL and Martial Arts in Chinatown. His Songs From The Old Parish (non-fiction) and Nine Plays are available at Amazon.com. Milton P. Ehrlich Is a psychologist who has published numerous poems in periodicals such as the Antigonish Review, Wisconsin Review, Shofar Literary Journal, Toronto Quarterly Review, Dream Fantasy International, Huffington Post, and the New York Times. Melisa Garcia is a poet from Long Beach California. Her work has been previously published in Badlands, Askew and Creppy Gnome. Apart from working, in her spare time, she enjoys making earrings, reading, and editing poetry. Ann Hostetler is the author of Empty Room with Light: Poems and editor of A Cappella: Mennonite Voices in Poetry. She teaches at Goshen College in Goshen, Indiana and edits the Journal of the Center for Mennonite Writing at www. mennonitewriting.org. John Lambremont, Sr. is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he serves as editor of Big River Poetry Review. He has a B.A. in Creative Writing and a J.D. from Louisiana State University. His poems are published internationally in reviews and anthologies, including The Chaffin Journal, Picayune, Words and Images, The Louisiana Review, A Hudson View, The Mayo Review, and Taj Mahal Review. John’s blog of previously published poems is found at jlambremontpoet.blogspot.com. Joanne Lowery’s poems have appeared in many literary magazines, including Birmingham Poetry Review, Briar Cliff Review, Slant, Cottonwood, and Poetry East. She lives in Michigan. 124