Shloka Shankar
Shloka Shankar is a freelance writer from Bangalore, In-
dia. She enjoys experimenting with Japanese short-forms,
as well as found poetry alike. Her work has most recently
appeared/ is forthcoming in Persephone’s Daughters, Car-
nival Horse, Right Hand Pointing, Drunk Monkeys, Poetry
WTF?!, and so on. Shloka is the founding editor of the
literary & arts journal, Sonic Boom.
Eric Sheranko
Eric Sheranko is from Baltimore, MD where he works as a
contractor decommissioning a nuclear ship. He is a fan
of Eliot, Joyce, and Bukowski. If you enjoy any of the
aforementioned authors, his work will probably let you
down, but you should read it anyway. His work explores
the involvement of commodities in shaping identity and
the loss of immanence in a materialistic world.
Ana C. H. Silva
Ana C. H. Silva lives in NYC and Olive, NY. Her poetry
has been published in Podium, Rogue Agent, The Mom Egg
Review, the nth position, Snow Monkey, Chronogram, Ste-
pAway Magazine, Anemone Sidecar, and Between the Lines.
Ana created “Olive Couplets,” a community-based poetry
project, and “Lines in the Woods,” an outdoor, interac-
tive poetry installation at the Century House Historical
Society in Rosendale, NY. Ana helps curate the MER online
Gallery. She won the inaugural Rachel Wetzsteon Memorial
Poetry Prize at the 92nd St. Y Unterberg Poetry Center.
Sydney Vance
Sydney Vance currently lives in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
In the spring of 2017, she received her BA in Creative
Writing from The University of Central Oklahoma where
she also served as the Senior Editor of Poetry for New
Plains Review. Her work has previously appeared in Jazz
Cigarette Magazine, 1890: A Journal of Undergraduate
Research, Words Dance, and Josephine Quarterly.
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