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Allison Berry is working on her MFA at Queens University of Charlotte and is a lecturer for the Women’s Studies Program at Pittsburg State University and the Department of English and Philosophy at Missouri Southern State University. Her poetry has appeared in such journals as Cow Creek Review and Little Balkans Review. She is also a contributor to the anthologies To the Stars through Difficulties: A Kansas Renga in 150 Voices (2012), and Begin Again: 150 Kansas Poems (2011). She lives in Joplin, Missouri, with her two children.
Michelle Bonczek Evory is the author of The Art of the Nipple (2013) and Naming the Unnameable An Approach to Poetry for New Generations (forthcoming). Her poetry is featured in the 2013 Best New Poets anthology and has been published in over seventy journals and magazines, including Crazyhorse, cream city review, Green Mountains Review, Orion Magazine, and The Progressive. She holds a PhD from Western Michigan University and an MFA from Eastern Washington University, taught most recently at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, and mentors poets at the Poet’s Billow (thepoetsbillow.org).
Jason Bredle lives in Chicago. His fourth book, Carnival (2012), was selected as the 2012 Editor’s Choice for the Akron Series in Poetry.
Sarah Carson was born and raised in Michigan but now lives in Chicago with her dog, Amos. She is also the author of three chapbooks and two full-length collections: Poems in Which You Die (2014) and Buick City (forthcoming 2015). She sometimes blogs at sarahamycarson.wordpress.com.
Doug Paul Case works as a salon receptionist in Bloomington, where he earned his MFA from Indiana University. His poems have appeared in Court Green, Redivider, Salt Hill, and Hobart. He’s probably wearing a cardigan. [End Page 131]
Marisa Crawford is the author of the poetry collection The Haunted House (2010) and the chapbook 8th Grade Hippie Chic (2013). Her writing is forthcoming in Electric Gurlesque (2016) and The &NOW Awards 3 (2015). Marisa is a poetry editor for Coconut Magazine and founding editor of the new feminist website Weird Sister. She lives in Brooklyn.
Mike Dockins was born in 1972 and grew up in Yonkers, New York. He holds a BS from SUNY Brockport, an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and a PhD from Georgia State University. His poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, the Gettysburg Review, Third Coast, the Greensboro Review, Quarterly West, Willow Springs, Salt Hill, Atlanta Review, jubilat, Mid-American Review, Indiana Review, Gulf Coast, West Branch, Meridian, PANK, and elsewhere, and they have been reprinted on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and in the 2007 edition of The Best American Poetry. His critically acclaimed first book of poems, Slouching in the Path of a Comet (2007), after moving 850 copies, is currently anticipating a third print run. His second collection, Letter to So-and-So from Wherever (2014), was a cowinner of the first annual Maxine Kumin Award in Poetry. Mike moonlights as a singer-songwriter. Fame for Zoe (2005), the latest full-length album from his acoustic-pop duo Clop, is available on iTunes. He lives in Decatur, Georgia, where he sleeps until noon when he can.
Lawrence Eby lives, writes, and edits in Southern California and is the author of Flight of August (2014), which won the 2013 Louise Bogan Award. His work has appeared in Passages North, Black Tongue Review, Arroyo Literary Review, and Superstition Review, among others. He is the founder of Orange Monkey Publishing, a poetry press, and a founding member of PoetrIE, a literary nonprofit in the Inland Empire of Southern California.
The most current information about Thomas Patrick Levy can be found online by typing “Thomas Patrick Levy” into the text box at google.com.
John McCarthy’s work has appeared in The Pinch, Oyez Review, Salamander, Jabberwock Review, Midwestern Gothic, SPECS, Digital Americana, and The Conium Review, among others. He lives in Springfield, Illinois, where he is the assistant editor of Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program. [End Page 132]
Brian Oliu is originally from New Jersey and has taught at the University of Alabama since receiving his MFA in 2009. His work has been anthologized...
