Heather Sweeney recently earned an MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. Her poetry has been published in Dusie, Shampoo, canwehaveourballback?, Summer Stock and Bombay Gin. She lives in San Diego with her husband and beloved dog, Dexter.
Larry D. Thacker’s poetry can be found or is forthcoming in over sixty journals and magazines including The Still Journal, The Southern Poetry Anthology: Tennessee, Mojave River Review, Poetry South, Mannequin Haus, Ghost City Press, Jazz Cigarette, and Appalachian Heritage. His books include Mountain Mysteries: The Mystic Traditions of Appalachia, and the poetry books, Voice Hunting, Memory Train and the forthcoming, Drifting in Awe. www.larrydthacker.com
Bill Vernon served in the United States Marine Corps, studied English literature, then taught it. Writing is his therapy, along with exercising outdoors and doing international folkdances. Five Star Mysteries published his novel Old Town, and his poems, stories and nonfiction have appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies. Recent nonfiction publications include stories in Under the Sun; Here Comes Everyone Magazine; The Rain, Party, & Disaster Society, Peacock Journal, November Bees, Door is a Jar Magazine, Donut Factory, Clare Literary Journal, Dime Show Review, and Indiana Voice Journal. He plays Uncle Sam in Dayton, Ohio's annual spring festival A World A'Fair.