Rebecca Bridge is a writer living and teaching in Seattle. Her work has appeared in The Boston Review, The Columbia Poetry Review, weird deer, The Monarch Review, The Indiana Review, and other places. Her short screenplay, Wednesday's Child, was recently produced by Potenza Productions. She is working on a memoir and a novel. She has a dog named Charlie who is a good dog, mostly.
Julia Cohen is the author of one full-length book, Triggermoon Triggermoon, and her poems are out or forthcoming in the Colorado Review, jubilat, 6x6, and DIAGRAM. She is the co-editor of Saltgrass and the Associate Editor of the Denver Quarterly.
CAConrad is a recipient of the 2011 Pew Fellowship in the Arts, and the 2009 Gil Ott Book Award. He is the author of A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon (Wave Books, 2012), The Book of Frank (Wave Books, 2010), Advanced Elvis Course (Soft Skull Press, 2009), Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006), and a collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled The City Real & Imagined (Factory School, 2010). The son of white trash asphyxiation, his childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. Visit him online at http://CAConrad.blogspot.com and also with his friends at http://PhillySound.blogspot.com
Sasha Fletcher is the author of the novella WHEN ALL OUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED MARCHING BANDS WILL FILL THE STREETS AND WE WILL NOT HEAR THEM BECAUSE WE WILL BE UPSTAIRS IN THE CLOUDS. His poetry manuscript EVERYTHING HERE IS OK has twice been a finalist for Octopus Books. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Kevin Holden is the author of two chapbooks ALPINE (White Queen, 2008) and IDENTITY (Cannibal, 2010). His work has appeared in journals including Colorado Review, 1913, jubilat, Forklift OH, Parcel, Typo, Aufgabe, Cannibal, and The Liberal. His translations of French and Russian poems also exist.
Ish Klein is the author of the poetry books Moving Day and Union! published by Canarium Press. A compilation of her recent videos, entitled Success Window, has been released by Poor Claudia of Portland, Oregon She's from Long Beach, New York but now lives in Amherst, MA with the writer Greg Purcell. Together they record a poetry podcast called the Noslander Poetry podcast.
Paul Legault is the author of two books of poetry, The Madeleine Poems (Omnidawn, 2010) and The Other Poems (Fence, Fall 2011). He co-edits the translation press Telephone Books and works at the Academy of American Poets.
Rob MacDonald lives in Boston and is the editor of the online journal Sixth Finch. His poetry has appeared in Octopus, No Tell Motel, H_NGM_N and other journals. Last New Death, a chapbook, is available from Scantily Clad Press.
Ben Mirov grew up in Northern California. He is the author of Ghost Machine (Caketrian, 2010) and the chapbooks Vortexts (SUPERMACHINE, 2011), I is to Vorticism (New Michigan Press, 2010), Collected Ghost (H_NGM_N, 2010).
Ben Pease is the creator and host of Scattered Rhymes, the featured podcast of The The Poetry Blog. His work has appeared in MAGGY, Paperbag, and SUPERMACHINE, among others. The first half of his long poem, Chateau Wichman, was performed by The Silt Group as part of Toy Box Theatre's Pub Theatre program, and a selection of it will appear as a chapbook with Monk Books. He lives in Brooklyn with the poet Bianca Stone and their cat, Commander Riker.
Sampson Starkweather lives in Brooklyn, NY and is a founding editor of Birds, LLC. He is the author of The Heart is Green from So Much Waiting.
Bianca Stone is the author of the chapbook Someone Else’s Wedding Vows from Argos Books, and has been published in such magazines as Crazyhorse, Conduit, Agriculture Reader, and Best American Poetry 2010. Her blog is called Poetry Comics whoisthatsupposedtobe.blogspot.com. She lives in Brooklyn with the poet Ben Pease and their cat, Commander Riker.
Zoe Strauss is a lesbian anarchist living and working in Philadelphia PA.
Paige Taggart’s chapbook DIGITAL MACRAMÉ was recently released by Poor Claudia. On the horizon, Polaroid Parade will emerge in chapbook-form from Greying Ghost Press. She has poems forthcoming. Check her out: mactaggartjewelry.blogspot.com
Betsy Wheeler's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Dory Reader, The Journal, Bat City Review, Absent, MiPoesias, Forklift;Ohio, Octopus and elsewhere. Small Anchor Press published her chapbook Start Here in 2009, and her first full-length collection of poems, Loud Dreaming in a Quiet Room, is forthcoming from The National Poetry Review Press. She is the editor of Pilot Books and Managing Director of the Juniper Institute.
Dara Wier's newest poems can be found in THE BLUE LETTER, OH NO, TELEPHONE, MATTER, BOSTON REVIEW, SPRUNG FORWARD, LUNGFUL, MAKE, and elsewhere.