up life and her favorite things to write about are bones, beehives, sensual energy, and women. She has been writing for over three years now and is graduating high school with her associate degree with a focus in creative writing. Fredda S. Pearlson is enjoying her third career as a cardiovascular RN. Her poetry has appeared in The California Quarterly, The Wisconsin Review, The Centennial Review, Panoply, Helicon Nine, The Feminist Renaissance, Chrysalis, Stone Country, The Little Magazine, The Dolphin’s Arc: Poems on Endangered Creatures of the Sea, Connecticut River Review, Common Ground Review, Miramar, Bryant Literary Review, Earth’s Daughters, and Pinyon. Jillian Prendergast has spent the last ten years traveling, working in the outdoors, writing, and composting the days into what she hopes will be something of benefit. She resides now in New Mexico, where she writes and studies poetry and prose with the deeply gifted people of the high desert who have welcomed her in. Jillian is happiest writing from the road, covered in stories and dirt. Born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Willy Bo Richardson received an MFA from Pratt Institute in 2000. His works hang in numerous collections, including The Albuquerque Museum, and have been included as part of prestigious retrospectives. Accolades include an exhibition of a body of watercolors at Phillips Auction House in New York. Willy was featured on the PBS weekly arts series ¡COLORES!, and was honored to be a SITE Santa Fe SPREAD finalist in 2014. Stephen R. Roberts collects books, geodes, gargoyles, poetic lariats, and various other objects of interest to enhance his basic perceptions of a chaotic planet that pays little attention to him, as far as he knows. He’s had poems published in Rain City Review, Sulfur River Review, Blackwater, Black River Review, Talking River, WaterStone, Riverrun, Connecticut River Review, and, to get away from all the moisture, Dry Creek Review. Andrea L. Rogers is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and a graduate of the Low Rez program at the Institute for American Indian Arts. At IAIA, she completed her short story collection Man Made Monsters, a meditation on love, loneliness, family, and monsters seen and unseen. She centers native people in this collection next to vampires, werewolves, zombies, aliens, ghosts, two handsome Princes, and a Goatboy. C.C. Russell has published poetry, fiction, and non-fiction here and there across the web and in print. You can find his words in such places as Split Lip Magazine,the Colorado Review, and the anthology Blood, Water, Wind, and Stone. He currently resides in Wyoming where he sometimes stares at the mountains when he should be writing. He can be found on Twitter @c_c_russell.
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