Rebecca Kokitus lives in Media, PA just outside Philadelphia. She is an aspiring poet and is currently an undergraduate in the writing program at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. She has been previously published by Philosophical Idiot and has forthcoming work in Moonchild Magazine and Lemon Star Magazine. She tweets at @rxbxcca_anna. Courtney LeBlanc is the author of the chapbooks All in the Family (Bottlecap Press) and The Violence Within (Flutter Press) and is an MFA candidate at Queens University of Charlotte. Her poetry is published or forthcoming in Public Pool, Rising Phoenix Review, The Legendary, Germ Magazine, Quail Bell Magazine, Brain Mill Press, Haunted Waters Press, and others. She loves nail polish, wine, and tattoos. www.wordperv.com, @wordperv, www.facebook.com/poetry.CourtneyLeBlanc. Clare Lindley is an artist based in rural North Yorkshire, her work is created by handcutting paper, in many layers and colours, ending up with a finished piece. Nature is a strong influence, but it is depicted with imagination and more than a little artistic license. Animals or the human figure are always present. She has just had her first illustrated children’s book published, a collaboration with writer Peter Lynas. Pauline McCarthy is a self-taught artist/poet from Middlesbrough. As member of Cleveland Art Society, she has taken part in several local exhibitions, including The Heritage Gallery, Saabat Gallery and Stokesley Town Hall. She has poems and paintings in Message in a bottle poetry magazine and her painting of Middlesbrough Transporter bridge can be seen hanging up in the Transporter visitors centre, Middlesbrough. Jessica Mookherjee is of Bengali origin and was raised in Wales. She is widely published, including Agenda, The North, Rialto, Under the Radar. Her pamphlets are The Swell (TellTale Press, 2016) and Joyride (Black Light Engine Room Press). She had a poem highly commended in the Forward Prize 2017 for best single poem. Her first collection, Flood, will be published by Cultured Llama in Spring 2018. She is co-editor of
Against the Grain Poetry Press. Daryl Muranaka lives in the Boston area with his wife and two children. He enjoys aikido and taijiquan and exploring his children’s dual heritages. His poems have appeared in By&By Poetry, the Roanoke Review, and Spry Literary Review. He has published one collection and a chapbook. Dermot O'Sullivan is from Dublin, Ireland. He studied English Literature in Trinity College, Dublin. His work has been published in various journals including The Honest Ulsterman, Causeway/Cabhsair, The Incubator and Fence. He currently lives in Brazil, where he recently had his first full-length play produced.
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