writes to be read, and feels honored anytime someone decides to spend their time, which of course could be spent any old way, reading his work.
NANCY GOLD lives and works on the southern shore of Lake Superior. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Swamp Ape Review, Toad Suck Review, A cappella Zoo, and The Moon City Review. She is currently working on a series of essays about traumatic brain injury.
DANIELLE GRAY has a Bachelor of Social Work and currently works in an elementary school in Northeastern Pennsylvania. She enjoys writing memoir and creative nonfiction, most of which relates to her turbulent upbringing in the foster care system. This is her first publication.
MICHAEL HETTICH’ s most recent books of poetry include Systems of Vanishing( University of Tampa Press, 2014), The Animals Beyond Us( New Rivers Press, 2011) and Like Happiness( Anhinga Press, 2010). His work has appeared in many journals, among them Poetry East, Ploughshares, Orion, Prairie Schooner and Notre Dame Review. He lives with his family in Miami and teaches at Miami Dade College.
CANDACE HOWZE is an American writer and multimedia artist living in North Carolina. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Cellar Door, Bop Dead City, Yellow Chair Review, and Glass Poetry Press. She holds a B. A. from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and recently completed her first chapbook, Letters About Losing You.
LESLIE LEONARD is currently an adjunct instructor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. She teaches English composition and will begin her PhD in fall of 2017 studying nineteenth-century American literature and poetry. Leslie’ s own poetry is most interested in expressing the experience of the individual as well as personal experience. As a result, many of her works take up issues of personal, feminine, and queer identity and the ways in which such multiple identities intersect. Leslie’ s creative works make use of first-person narrators and extended metaphors that attempt to represent varying firstperson experiences.
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