Amy Glynn Greacen is a poet, fiction writer and sometime essayist living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work has appeared and/or is forthcoming in Poetry Northwest, The New Criterion, Sewanee Theological Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry 2010, and elsewhere.
Kelli Allen is an award-winning poet, editor, and scholar.Her poetry and fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Puerto del Sol, Echo Ink Review, Poetry Quarterly, Fjords, Abridged, Lyre Lyre, The Blue Sofa Review, Women Arts Quarterly, The Caper Review, It Has Come to This: Poets of the Great Mother Conference, Foliate Oak, Greatest Lakes Review, Lugh Review (where she was the featured author), Blackmail Press, The Chaffy Review, Euphony and elsewhere. She has been the featured poet for Desperanto Press’s segment “Tea With George” for September 2011. Her fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and she was a finalist for the 2011 Rebecca Lard Award. She is the author of two chapbooks (Applied Cryptography; Picturing What Breaks) and has served as the Managing Editor of Natural Bridge. She is also the founder and director of the Graduate Writers Reading Series for the University of Missouri St. Louis. She holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Missouri St. Louis. Allen gives readings and teaches workshops throughout the US.
Quincy R. Lehr’s poetry and criticism have appeared in numerous venues in North America, Europe, and Australia. His first book is Across the Grid of Streets, and he is the associate editor of The Raintown Review. He inevitably lives in Brooklyn, where he teaches history.
CL Bledsoe is the author of the young adult novel Sunlight; three poetry collections, _____(Want/Need), Anthem, and Leap Year; and a short story collection called Naming the Animals. A poetry chapbook, Goodbye to Noise, is available online. Another available online, The Man Who Killed Himself in My Bathroom. His story, “Leaving the Garden,” was selected as a Notable Story of 2008 for Story South’s Million Writer’s Award. He’s been nominated for the Pushcart Prize 5 times. He blogs at Murder Your Darlings, Bledsoe has written reviews for The Hollins Critic, The Arkansas Review, American Book Review, Prick of the Spindle, The Pedestal Magazine, and elsewhere. Bledsoe lives with his wife and daughter in Maryland.
Sabrina Dalla Valle, MFA, is a poet and educator. Her primary research interests are in the poetic imagination as an aspect of phenomenological perception. She teaches writing and communication theory at Woodbury University in Los Angeles, Ca., and is editor of *Diaphany*, a peer-reviewed journal for integral thought.
Marybeth Rua-Larsen used to be a poet who practiced serial monogamy – writing a long stretch of free verse followed by a long stretch of form. Happily, those days are over, and she can now easily bounce between form and free verse in a poetic orgy she could only dream of previously. She also writes essays, book reviews, flash fiction and occasional scripts for The Somerset Players, a local theater company. She lives on the south coast of Massachusetts, teaches writing and ESL at Bristol Community College, and she’s a poetry editor at Newport Review. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Raintown Review, The Shit Creek Review, Measure, Verse Wisconsin, The Poetry Bus and 14 Magazine, among others, and she won the 2011 Over the Edge New Writer of the Year Competition in the Poetry category.
Melanie Moro-Huber, Book Review Editor, NYQ Reviews.