John C. Mannone has over 500 works published/forthcoming in venues such as The Drowning
Gull, New England Journal of Medicine, Drunk Monkeys, Inscape Literary Journal, Windhover,
Artemis, 2016 Texas Poetry Calendar, Southern Poetry Anthology (NC), Still: The Journal, Town
Creek Poetry, Tupelo Press, Baltimore Review and Pedestal. Author of two literary poetry
collections, including Disabled Monsters (The Linnet’s Wings Press 2015), he is the poetry
editor for Silver Blade and for the Hugo-nominated Abyss & Apex. He has been nominated three
times for the Pushcart. He is a professor of physics in east TN. Visit The Art of Poetry: http://
jcmannone.wordpress.com
Beth McDonough trained in Silversmithing at GSA, completing her M.Litt at Dundee . She was
Writer in Residence at Dundee Contemporary Arts 2014-16. Her poetry appears in Gutter, The
Interpreter’s House, Antiphon and elsewhere and her reviews in DURA. Handfast (with Ruth
Aylett), was published in May 2016.
Though born in Ohio (1933), John N. Miller grew up in Hawai'i (1937-1951). He retired in
1997 from teaching literature and writing at his undergraduate alma mater, Denison University
(Granville, OH), and now lives with his wife Ilse in a retirement community in Lexington, VA.
Jacob Minasian received his MFA in poetry from Saint Mary’s College of California, where he
was the 2016 Academy of American Poets University and College Poetry Prize winner, and was
awarded two MFA Advisory Board Fellowships. He was also a 2012-13 Ina Coolbrith Memorial
Poetry Prize winner, placing third overall. His work is forthcoming on Poets.org. He currently
lives in Walnut Creek, California.
Keith Moul is 70, retired and loving it. His mind senses more than it ever has. What's not to
like?
Daryl Muranaka was raised in California and Hawaii. He received his MFA from Eastern
Washington University and spent three years in Fukui, Japan, in the JET Program. He currently
lives in the Boston area with his wife and two children. In his spare time, he enjoys aikido and
taijiquan and exploring his children’s dual heritages.
Iris N. Schwartz is a fiction writer, as well as a Pushcart-Prize-nominated poet. Most recently,
her work has appeared in Grabbing the Apple: An Anthology of Poems by New York Women
Writers; and in such journals as The Gambler, Gravel, Jellyfish Review, MUSH/MUM Journal,
and Siren. She has work forthcoming in Pure Slush (Volume 12) and The Flash Fiction Press.
Kristen Sharp is a Physician Assistant student at the University of California, Davis. Her poetry
and fiction has previously been published in Cleaver Magazine and The Ampersand, the literary
magazine of Fordham University. She was the 2012 recipient of Fordham University's Bernice
Kilduff White and John J. White Prize in Creative Writing. She just moved back to the west coast
after eight years in New York City.
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