Cheryl Kutcher is an MFA Poetry student at Oklahoma State University . Her work has appeared in Toad , Life and Legends , The Tower Journal , and Postcard Poems and Prose .
Mercedes Lawry has published poetry in such journals as Poetry , Nimrod , Prairie Schooner , Poetry East , Natural Bridge , and others . Thrice-nominated for a Pushcart Prize , she ’ s published two chapbooks , most recently Happy Darkness . She ’ s also published short fiction , essays and stories and poems for children and lives in Seattle .
Poet and filmmaker Dave Malone hides out in the Missouri Ozarks . He is the author of six books of poetry , the most recent O : Love Poems from the Ozarks ( TS Poetry Press ). His interests include the philosophy of Alan Watts , vegetarian fare , and small-batch bourbon .
Carolyn Martin is blissfully retired in Clackamas , Oregon , where she gardens , writes , and plays . Her poems and book reviews have appeared in journals throughout the US and UK , and her second collection , The Way a Woman Knows , was released in February 2015 ( www . thewayawomanknows ). Since the only poem she wrote in high school was red-penciled " extremely maudlin ," she is amazed she has continued to write .
Karen Neuberg ’ s most recent chapbook is Myself Taking Stage ( Finishing Line Press ). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Hermeneutic Chaos , Really System , S / tick , and elsewhere . She ’ s associate editor of the on-line journal First Literary Review-East and lives in Brooklyn NY .
Jared Pearce teaches writing and literature at William Penn University . His poems have recently been or will soon be shared in DIAGRAM , Dark Matter , East Coast Ink , and Convergence .
A native New Yorker , James Penha has lived for the past quarter-century in Indonesia . He has been nominated for Pushcart Prizes in fiction and in poetry . His essay , " It ' s Been a Long Time Coming ,” was featured in The New York Times " Modern Love " column in April 2016 . Penha edits TheNewVerse . News , an online journal of current-events poetry . @ JamesPenha
Ken Poyner ’ s latest collection of short , wiry fiction , Constant Animals , can be obtained , digital or paperback , at www . amazon . com . He often serves as strange , bewildering eye-candy at his wife ’ s power lifting affairs , where she is one of the most celebrated female power lifters of all time . His poetry of late has been sunning in Analog , Asimov ’ s , Poet Lore , The Kentucky Review ; and his fiction has yowled in Spank the Carp , Red Truck , Café Irreal , Bellows American Review . More to come .
Louise Robertson has completed the following checklist in no particular order : Slam teams . Journal publications – literary and journalistic . Poetry event organizer . College degree . MFA in poetry . Full-length book ( The Naming Of , Brick Cave Media ). Trouble sleeping . Tries to be nice . Loves biking and swimming . Hates running . Does it anyway . Good at word games . Loves her two kids all the time . All the time .
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