gale acuff

Gale Acuff, a professor in the Modern Languages Department at Arab American University in Jenin, Palestine, has had poetry published in Ascent, Ohio Journal, South Carolina Review, Florida Review, Poem, Worcester Review, South Dakota Review, Maryland Poetry Review, and many other journals. He has authored two books of poetry, Buffalo Nickel and The Weight of the World.

daniel barbiero

Daniel Barbiero lives and works in the Washington, D.C., area. His recent work appears or is forthcoming in Tamafhyr Mountain Irregular, Turbula, Ekphrasis, Listening to Water: The Susquehanna Watershed Anthology, Words-Myth, Ygdrasil and elsewhere. He is also active on the local improvised music scene as a double bassist.

kimberly becker

Kimberly Becker, a resident of Gaithersburg, Maryland, has published poetry in journals such as 2River, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Borderlands, and Eclectica, as well as in an anthology of contemporary women's poetry, Letters to the World.

regina coll

Regina Coll lives in Silver Spring, Maryland. Over the past two years she has created a '”Poetry in non-traditional spaces" project called The Bathroom Poetry Project, which can be accessed at http://bathroompoet.net.

liz dolan

Liz Dolan lives in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. A Pushcart nominee in poetry, fiction and nonfiction, she has published poems, memoir and short stories in New Delta Review, Mudlark, Rattle, Harp Weaver, The Cortland Review, Illuminations, Prism International Quarterly, Canadian Woman Studies, Philadelphia Stories, and Natural Bridge, among others.

amy garrett-brown

Amy Garrett-Brown lives in Northern Virginia. She is the editor-in-chief of Equilibrium, a literary/art journal which is published in Boise, Idaho. Amy is getting her M.F.A in Writing from George Mason University.

david mclean

David McLean was born in Wales and has lived in Sweden since 1987. He is the author of a poetry chapbook, a hunger for mourning.

christine stoddard

Christine Stoddard is a writer and artist originally from Arlington, Virginia. She is currently a first-year at Grinnell College in Iowa, and intends to major in English and possibly Spanish.