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  128   Michelle  Villanueva  is  a  student  finishing  up  an  MFA  in  Creative  Writing  -­‐  Poetry  at  the  University   of  Nevada,  Las  Vegas.  Her  chapbook  Postscript:  Lions  is  forthcoming  from  Etched  Press,  and  her   work  has  previously  appeared  in  The  Tower  Journal,  The  Red  Rock  Review,  Foothill  Poetry  Journal,   and  other  print  and  online  publications.     Nalini  Priyadarshni  is  a  poet,  writer,  editor  and  amateur  photographer.  Her  work  has  appeared  at   Up  the  Staircase  Weekly,  eFiction  India,  Mad  Swirl,  Crescent  Magazine,  The  Riveter  Review,  Writes  &   Lovers  Café,The  Gambler,  Camel  Saloon,  Earl  of  Plaid,CUIB-­‐NEST-­‐NIDO,  and  The  Open  Road  Review   besides  numerous  anthologies  including  I  Am  Woman,  Awakening  of  She,  Art  of  Being  Human  etc.   Her  forthcoming  publications  include,  Undertow  Tanka,  52  Loves  and  Phoenix  Photo  and  Fiction.  She   lives  in  India  with  her  husband  and  two  feisty  kids.     Leesa  Luck  grew  up  in  Washington  state  on  many  farms.  In  a  town  of  many  cows.     Niall  McGrath  is  from  County  Antrim,  Ireland.  His  recent  The  Way  It  Is"  and  "Clay"  (Lapwing,   Belfast,  2013,  2014).     Strider  Marcus  Jones  is  a  poet,  law  graduate  and  ex  civil  servant  from  Salford/Hinckley,  England   with  proud  Celtic  roots  in  Ireland  and  Wales.  A  member  of  The  Poetry  Society,  his  five  published   books  of  poetry  are  modern,  traditional,  mythical,  sometimes  erotic,  surreal  and  metaphysical   http//www.lulu.com/spotlight/stridermarcusjones1.  He  is  a  maverick,  moving  between  forests,   mountains  and  cities,  playing  his  saxophone  and  clarinet  in  warm  solitude.     William  R.  Soldan  graduated  with  his  BA  in  English  from  Youngstown  State  University  and  is   currently  a  student  in  the  Northeast  Ohio  MFA  program,  where  he  studies  Creative  Writing.  His  work   has  appeared  in  such  venues  as  The  Raw  Alternative,  Quail  Bell,  Sanitarium,  Eclipse  and  others.  He   also  has  a  story,  "The  Bad  Ones,"  forthcoming  in  The  Fictioneer.  William  enjoys  good  books,  bad   movies,  lifting  very  heavy  things  over  his  head,  and  consuming  dangerously  high  quantities  of   caffeine—among  other  ridiculous  things.  You  can  follow  him  on  twitter  @RustWriter1  or  find  him  on   Facebook  (as  Bill  Soldan).