Angela Corbet writes with Reservoir Street Poetry Workshop, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, under the direction of Tom Daley. Her poetry has appeared in the online journal Sliver of Stone and is forthcoming in Red River Review. She teaches writing and reading to Grade 8 students in a public middle school in Massachusetts.
Bianca Diaz's chapbook, No One Says Kin Anymore, won the Robert Watson Poetry Award and was published by Spring Garden Press in 2009. She taught English at high schools in Virginia and Wisconsin, and currently lives and writes in North Carolina.
Jeff Haas is a Lead Technical Writer at ADP and a Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication. In his spare time, Jeff is the Short Story Workshop Instructor for the Creative Writing Certificate Program at Emory Continuing Education. His first professionally published short story appeared in Baen's Universe and received an honorable mention in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection. He lives in Atlanta with his beautiful wife Melissa and a precocious Westie named Rosie.
A former science journalist turned fiction writer, Tania Hershman's second fiction collection, My Mother Was An Upright Piano: Fictions, was published in May 2012 by Tangent Books. Her first book, The White Road and Other Stories (Salt Modern Fiction, 2008), was commended for the 2009 Orange Award for New Writers and included in New Scientist's Best Books of 2008. Tania is Grand Prize Winner of the 2009 Binnacle Ultra-Short Contest, and European winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Broadcasting Association's Short Story competition. She is currently writer-in-residence in Bristol University's Science Faculty and has been awarded an Arts Council England grant to work on a collection of biology-inspired short fiction. She blogs about writing at TaniaWrites.
Laura Loomis is a social worker in the San Francisco area. "Meeting Angel" is part of series of short stories that she hopes to turn into a novel. Other stories from the same series have appeared in flashquake, Alalit, Many Mountains Moving, and On the Premises.
Mary McCluskey is a journalist with a base in Los Angeles and a home in Stratford upon Avon, UK. Her short stories have appeared in The Atlantic (on-line), The London Magazine, StoryQuarterly, Smokelong Quarterly, NightTrain, Salon.com and other literary publications in the US, UK, Australia and Hong Kong.
Susan Meyers earned an MFA from the University of Minnesota and a PhD from the University of Arizona, and has lived and taught in Chile, Costa Rica, and Mexico. Currently, she teaches fiction at Seattle University. Her work has recently appeared in journals such as CALYX, Dogwood, Rosebud, and The Minnesota Review, and it has been the recipient of several awards, including a Fulbright Fellowship.
Victor Arnoldo Perez is currently an MFA student in poetry at California State University Fresno where he previously received his BA in English Literature. His recent work explores family history, via a collection of old photographs and narratives. He has had the pleasure of studying with great poets and performers such as Lee Herrick, Corrine Hales, Tim Skeen, Taylor Mali, Violet Juno and Jack McCarthy. He looks forward to publishing his first collection of poetry after graduation in 2014.
Lucille Shulklapper's poetry and fiction have appeared in many journals and also in poetry chapbooks, the most recent titled In the Tunnel (March Street Press). She has taught reading K-College, made recordings for the blind, sold realty, and raised a family.
Sara Toruno-Conley is an Assistant Professor of English at Los Medanos College (in the San Francisco East Bay), and the Poetry Review Editor for Boxcar Poetry Review, a quarterly online literary journal. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of California, Riverside. Her poems have appeared in the following publications: The Melancholy Dane, Modoc Independent News (Winner of the Surprise Valley Poetry Prize, April 2009), Eclectica, The CommonLine Project, Ginosko, Temenos, Monday Night, and Perigee.
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