Contributors Josh Gaines. Josh writes poetry, and has been trained by the military to survive in any wilderness environment... but in Chicago, can't even find a parking space. He has been published in elimae, Gloom Cupboard, and in a few Oklahoma anthologies. He is currently working towards his MFA in poetry at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. https://www.facebook.com/spiderjosh
Peter Marra. Originally from Gravesend Brooklyn, Peter M. lived in the East Village, New York from 1979 to 1993 at the height of the punk – no wave music – art rebellion. Peter has had a lifelong fascination with Surrealism, Dadaism, and Symbolism, some of his favorite writers being Paul Eluard, Arthur Rimbaud, Tristan Tzara, Edgar Allan Poe, and Henry Miller. His favorite artists are Salvador Dali, Felicien Rops, Dante Rossetti and Amedeo Modigliani. Peter also cites Roger Corman and Russ Meyer as influences. He has had approximately 100 poems published either in print or online. www.angelferox.com
Jayme Russell. Jayme Russell is a poet and essayist who has received her BA and MA in creative writing from Ohio University. She is currently seeking her MFA in poetry at The University of Notre Dame. Her writing can be seen online at Fringe Magazine and Marco Polo. jaymechristinerussell@gmail.com
Aaron Poller. Aaron Poller currently works as a nursepsychotherapist in Winston-Salem, N.C. He also teaches Mental Health Nursing at Winston-Salem State University. He has been writing since the 1960′s when he studied poetry with Jean Garrigue and Daniel Hoffman while a student at the University of Pennsylvania. His poems have appeared recently in Barnwood Poetry Magazine, Eunoia Review, Muddy River Poetry Review, The Writing Disorder, Cherry Blossom Review, Wild Goose Poetry Review, Poetry Quarterly, Poetic Medicine, The Yale Journal of Humanities in Medicine and Palimpsest. He lives abundantly in a small house with his wife, four dogs and three cats. ajprn@aol.com