MARK CUNNINGHAM has three books out:  _80 Beetles_ from Otoliths, _Body Language_ from Tarpaulin Sky, and _71 Leaves_ , an ebook from BlazeVOX

DANIEL CASEY earned his MFA from the University of Notre Dame in 2003. Currently, Casey is the editor of Gently Read Literature, a web journal devoted to criticism of contemporary poetry and literary fiction. In 2008, Gold Wake Press published his first electronic poetry chapbook, Well Enough. Casey currently lives in New Haven, CT.

EVA JANE PECK teaches nursery school in New York City.  Other poems can be found in Coconut Seven, and Fence.

SHANE JOAQUÍN JIMÉNEZ  is originally from San Diego, but has spent the last 15 years living in Las Vegas, Austin, and Brooklyn.  He is finishing an MFA at the Jack Kerouac School at Naropa University, where he writes fiction and edits the literary magazines Bombay Gin and Zero Ducats.  Shane is the author of a chapbook of short stories, entitled It Can Be That Way Still, and has work in The Greensboro Review, Bat City Review, and elsewhere.

JOHN STADLER is a recent graduate from the MFA Program at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Currently, he teaches composition at the Community College of Denver. His work has appeared in Redivider, Pax Americana, Dogzplot, Spring Gun Press, The American Drivel Review, and elsewhere.

BRADLEY SANDS is the author of the novel, It Came from Below the Belt, and the editor of Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens. Forthcoming books include Disappointing Sophomoric Effort (Afterbirth Books), My Heart Said No, But the Camera Crew Said Yes! (Raw Dog Screaming Press), and TV Snorted My Brain (Evil Nerd Empire). His work has appeared in The Bizarro Starter Kit (Blue), The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction, The Dream People, Lamination Colony, No Colony, Opium Magazine, Mud Luscious, Thieves Jargon, Word Riot, NOÖ Journal, and elsewhere. He is an MFA candidate in Writing and Poetics at Naropa University. Visit him at www.bradleysands.com.

MEGAN KAMINSKI is the author of the chapbook Across Soft Ruins (Scantily Clad Press, 2009). Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has been published in Coconut, Denver Quarterly, Phoebe, 6x6, Third Coast, and other fine journals. She lives in Lawrence, KS, where she teaches creative writing and literature as a creative writing lecturer at the University of Kansas.

SERENA CHOPRA has been in timeout with her nose to the wall since 1987. It was here she took to doodling and poetry, often reflecting on the unfair playroom at her back. She has upcoming publications in Pilgrimage and Pax Americana, and recent publications in the Denver Quarterly, Umbrella Factory, and Spine Road One. Serena is also an intern at The New Press in New York City where she spends hours sitting between the stacks, indulging in the smell and snap of brand new books.

STEPHANIE ANN WHITED:  A New Yorker since 2001, Stephanie received her BA in Psychology with a minor in Fine Arts in 2005 from NYU. The Psych degree strongly influenced her poetry. She trades her time and attention for writing, mentoring, advocating alternative health, and acting. She was in a 10 top music video in the UK. She won't tell you which one, but it's not so hard to find out

BECKY JEWELL is a visual artist from Leadville, Colorado. She lives and works in Boulder.

KATHERINE SANCHEZ is a Southern California poet making it happen in the City of Wind. Lover of Chicago dogs and blue skies, dancer, laugher. She has poems published or forthcoming in Mosaic: Art and Literary Journal and Columbia Poetry Review

MONICA STORSS: Half mermaid-half Amazon, Monica Storss is a west-coast based poet, writer, and teacher. She is the curator of Venom & the Anecdote, a reading series in San Francisco. Monica also works as a part of the arts collective OUT OF CONTEXT, as Director of Performance Installations. She is one-half of The Fish Slurry Processing Technicians, a Portland/Astoria, Oregon based duo that works with maritime and oceanic-based literature, specifically nature conservation and fisher poets and fisher poetry. In addition to working with various performance and poetry communities in the Bay Area, Monica also puts in time with California Poets in the Schools and Small Press Distribution. Monica’s scholarly work focuses on Arthur Rimbaud, punk rock, gender, religion and mysticism, and vagabonds. After living in the Pacific states, Texas, Quebec, and France, Monica currently resides in San Francisco, California.

SARAH SUZOR was born and raised in Sheridan, Wyoming. Her poetry, reviews and interviews have appeared in online and print journals including, OR: a literary tabloid, Rain Taxi and Tarpaulin Sky. Her chapbook It was the season, then. is forthcoming from EtherDome Press. She is a co-curator for the 3+3 Reading Series and an editor of Highway 101 Press. She lives in Venice, CA

AMBER NELSON is the co-founder and poetry editor of alice blue. Her chapbook THIS RIDE IS IN DOUBLE EXPOSURE is available at H_NGM_N. She likes blueberries and riding her mighty blue Schwinn.

ROBERT LEE EMIGH III is a second-year MFA student at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and he's a transplant from Flint, Michigan. "I blame this for my love of the aesthetic of poverty." he says!

ADAM WILKS is an attorney who lives and sometimes works in the Bay Area.  In his dreams, he often loses a great many of his teeth.

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