Elizabeth Barrette
More than 330 of Elizabeth Barrette’s poems have appeared in over 100 markets, most recently “Golden Opportunities” in Star*Line and “An Alphabetic Bestiary” in A Wizard’s Bestiary. Her poems “Before Their Time” and “The Night the Moon Was Stolen” appeared in A Time To… The Best of The Lorelei Signal 2006 which was a finalist for the EPPIE Award. She teaches a four-part poetry course at an online school.

“Angel of Cities” (poetry) - Issue #9

Donna Taylor Burgess
Donna Burgess lives on the South Carolina coast where she pretends to be a Realtor by day. She also enjoys surfing and art. With the sponsorship of local publisher Black River Books, her vampire novel “Kingdom of Night” is now being blogged at http://kingdomofnightnovel.com.

“The Body’s Voice” (poetry) - Issue #10

Jeff Crouch
Jeff Crouch is an internet artist in Grand Prairie, Texas. Google “Jeff Crouch” to see where he’s been on the internet.

Round Midnight (art) - Issue #11

Duane Locke
As of January 2008, Duane has had 5,935 poems published in print magazines and e-zines (not one poem self-published or paid for to be published. Also, he does not subscribe to magazines that publishes his poems). He has had 17 print and e-books published. He has many poems, over twenty books, that he has not prepared in manuscript for publication. He lives in rural Lakeland, Florida, a few feet from an osprey nest. He also has a Ph. D. in Metaphysical Poetry.

Untitled (cover) - Issue #11

Linn Næss
Linn Næss is an undergrad trying to figure out what to do with her degree once she’s finished, and currently splitting her time between Toronto, Canada and Oslo, Norway. She is also a geek, a bookworm, a tea & chocolate addict, and bilingual. She has far too little time on her hands, but she’s very good at procrastinating.

“The Girl That Flew” (art) - Issue #1
Cover (art) - Issue #3
Cover (art) - Issue #4
“(Un?)dead: A One-Sentence Story” (fiction) - Issue #4
“Bright Eyes” (art) - Issue #7
“Defense Mechanisms” (fiction) - Issue #8
Untitled (fiction) - Issue #9
Her Gloves Don’t Match (cover) - Issue #10

Elle Perez
Elle Perez is a photographer from the Bronx. She works and teaches at the Education Alliance, on the Lower East Side of New York.

“Figure Study” (art) - Issue #9

Andrew Rihn
Andrew Rihn is a 24 year old native of Canton, OH. He attends kent State Stark Campus where he majors in English and minors in Writing and Women’s Studies. He has poetry published online at the 21 Stars Review, Poetic InJustice, and the NeoAmericanist.

Distance (poetry) - Issue #10
Where I Stand (poetry) - Issue #11

Christine Stoddard
Christine Stoddard is a native Washingtonian with a DIY attitude and has always been passionate about writing, interested in art, and curious about music. Her art and writing has been published in numerous venues, both online and in print, such as George Mason University’s So to Speak, Grinnell College’s The Grinnell Review, and Spalding University’s The Louisville Review. Her art has appeared in local and regional shows, with her own personal show at the Arlington County Central Library in July 2006. You can read some of Christine’s writing here and view her art here.

“Get Your Feet Wet” (art) - Issue #6
Cover (art) - Issue #7
Untitled (fiction) - Issue #7

Elizabeth Kate Switaj
Elizabeth Kate Switaj teaches English at ShengDa College in China’s Henan Province. She has previously taught ESL in Brooklyn and Japan. Her writing reflects her travels and the things her students have taught her using the language she teaches them, and it has appeared in numerous small press publications, including Gratitude with Attitude, Lines and Stars, Xelas Magazine, Hamilton Stone Review, Euphemism, and Diagram. Her chapbook, The Broken Sanctuary: Nature Poems, is published by Ypolita Press.

“Getting Out of the Bath” (poetry) - Issue #4

R. B. Yeazell
R. B. Yeazell is a Web editor and writer living in the Southwest. She loves reading, knitting, animals, and semi-colons — not always in that order.

Editing Passion (poetry) - Issue #11

Christopher Woods
Christopher Woods has published a prose collection, Under A Riverbed Sky, and a collection of stage monologues for actors, Heart Speak. His photographs have appeared recently in Clapboard House, The Sylvan Echo, Verdad, Newport Review and Birmingham Arts Journal. He lives in Houston and in Chappell Hill, Texas, with his wife, Linda.

Storefront (art) - Issue #10

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