SAUMYA BAIJAL is a writer, theatre artiste, advertising professional, and a student of Kathak. 

ADAM J. GELLINGS is an MFA student at Ashland University, where he studies Creative Writing. 

JAMIE MOORE is an English professor and the Literary and Workshops Director for the Mixed Remixed Festival. 

GABRIEL RICARD is an editor and contributor with Kleft Jaw, the author of Captain Canada's Movie Rodeo, and a contributor at Cultured Vultures. 

ALEX SCHUMACHER has toiled away in the relative obscurity of minimum-wage jobs and underground comics longer than he cares to admit. 

MARCIA KRAUSE BILYK is an essayist, photographer, and hospice volunteer who lives in rural New Jersey. 

TIMOTHY HOBBS is a retired medical technologist living in Temple, Texas. 

TRIIN PAJA is an Estonian living in a small village in rural Estonia.  

ANDREW ROSS is a third-year MFA candidate at the University of Memphis. 

SANJEEV SETHI is the author of three well-received books of poetry. He lives in Mumbai, India. 

PETER V. DUGAN hosts the reading series Celebrate Poetry at the Oceanside Library in Oceanside, New York. 

NAIMA KARCZMAR is a bi-racial, semi-youthful, fairly gay student living and writing in Portland, Oregon. 

KIMBERLY PETERSON has had a number of her poems published in Poetry Breakfast. 

DEBORA ST. FLEUROSE is a college student born in Chicago, Illinois. 

DONNA WALKER-NIXON served as a full professor at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, where she founded Windhover: A Journal of Christian Literature in 1997.