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Contributors

In Alphabetical Order:

Glen Armstrong holds an MFA in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and teaches writing at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. He edits a poetry journal called Cruel Garters and has three recent chapbooks: Set List (Bitchin Kitsch,) In Stone and The Most Awkward Silence of All (both Cruel Garters Press.) His work has appeared in BlazeVOX, Conduit and Rogue Poetry.

A Pushcart nominee, Lana Bella is an author of two chapbooks, Under My Dark (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2016) and Adagio (forthcoming from Finishing Line Press), has had her poetry and fiction featured with over 230 journals, including California Quarterly, Chiron Review, Columbia Journal, Gravel, Plainsongs, Poetry Salzburg Review, Pure Slush, The Writing Disorder, Third Wednesday, and elsewhere, among others. Lana resides in the US and the coastal town of Nha Trang, Vietnam.

Mason Bolton is a graduate of the Rutgers-Newark MFA program. His work has been performed by Emotive Fruition and is forthcoming in the Kelsey Review. You can follow/find/tweet/chat idly with him @MasonSBolton or Mason S. Bolton on Facebook.

Casey Charles is Professor of English at the University of Montana in Missoula, where he teaches Shakespeare, queer studies, and law in literature. His poems have won awards in contests judged by Adrienne Rich and Carolyn Forché, and “The Orb’s Prayer” won the Washington Square Poetry Award in 2010.

Alyssa Cooper is a Canadian author, poet, and artist, currently living in Kingston, Ontario with her partner, two cats, and a Boston Terrier. She was first published in 2008, and has since authored three novels, a short story collection, and a poetry collection, as well as having had her short stories and poetry included in a number of magazines and journals.

Richard Fein was a finalist in The 2004 New York Center for Book Arts Chapbook Competition. A Chapbook of his poems was published by Parallel Press, University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has been published in many web and print journals.