earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Solstice of Pine Manor College. JDB teaches creative
writing and comp for local colleges and facilitates workshops for Oakland University’s MBWP
Writing Camps. Her poetry and prose appear in publications such as AWP's Festival Writer, the
Good Men Project, Literary Orphans, Sliver of Stone, Solstice Lit Mag, and other fine journals.
Laurin DeChae is a MFA candidate for poetry at the University of New Orleans, where she acts as
the associate editor for Bayou Magazine. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Harpur Palate,
burntdistrict, Rust + Moth, Crack the Spine, and elsewhere.
Julianne DiNenna, usually from DC, writes from Geneva, Switzerland. Her work has been
published in Offshoots, Susan B and Me, Grasslands Review, Italy a Love Story, Every Day Fiction,
as well as others. She won poem of distinction in Writecorner Press in 2011 and she has frequently
been spotted on the train heading south to escape the winter.
Alexis Rhone Fancher is the author of How I Lost My Virginity To Michael Cohen and other heart
stab poems, and State of Grace: The Joshua Elegies. Find her poems in Rattle, The MacGuffin,
Slipstream, Fjords, H_NGM_N, great weather for MEDIA, Chiron Review, and elsewhere. Since
2013 she’s been nominated for four Pushcart Prizes and four Best of The Net awards. Alexis was
photography editor of Fine Linen Literary Magazine and is poetry editor of Cultural Weekly, where
she publishes “The Poet’s Eye,” a monthly photo essay about her ongoing love affair with Los
Angeles. www.alexisrhonefancher.com
Sandy Feinstein’s poetry has appeared most recently (2015) in Freshwater and Tau; it has also
appeared in anthologies, including A Fine Frenzy: Poets Respond to Shakespeare, and, in 2015,
Teaching as a Human Experience. Her scholarly publications include articles on Chaucer, Arthurian
literature, and alchemy, among medieval topics. She coordinates the Penn State Berks Honors
Program and teaches English.
Patricia Frolander and her husband, Robert, ranch in the Black Hills of Wyoming. Still active,
you may find her on a tractor or horse, but at this stage of her life she prefers her writing desk.
Jamie Haddox is a poet from Minnesota. She holds a BA in Creative Writing from Metropolitan
State University. Her work has appeared in Metro State’s literary publication, Haute Dish, as well as
Pretty Owl Poetry, and on the Golden Walkman Podcast. In her spare time, Jamie loves reading and
watching her son play hockey.
Nels Hanson grew up on a small farm in the San Joaquin Valley of California and has worked as a
farmer, teacher and contract writer/editor. His fiction received the San Francisco Foundation’s
James D. Phelan Award and Pushcart nominations in 2010, 2012, and 2014. Poems appeared in
Word Riot, Oklahoma Review, Pacific Review and other magazines and received a 2014 Pushcart
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