David Joez Villaverde has forthcoming or recently published work in Crab Fat Magazine, Occulum, Wigleaf, 100 Word Short Story, Adbusters, After the Pause, Cheap Pop, and Hoot. He is former editor of the After Happy Hour Review. He can be found at schadenfreudeanslip.com or @academicjuggalo on the Twitter.
Shannon Barber is a 41-year-old author from the Pacific Northwest. Their work has appeared recently in Wear Your Voice Magazine, Ravishly and Witchcraft Magazine. They are the author of the poetry book, Gasoline Heart by Lark Books available now. For more please visit their website at shannonbarber.com.
Laurence Li is a recent graduate from Yale and now lives in Beijing. His senior year, he completed a poetry portfolio, "The Nixon Scenes" with Louise Glück. His work has appeared in the Yale Daily News Magazine and the Yale Literary Magazine's online section.
Leah Mueller is an indie writer from Tacoma, Washington. She is the author of two chapbooks, “Queen of Dorksville” (Crisis Chronicles Press) and “Political Apnea” (Locofo Chaps) and three books, “Allergic to Everything”, (Writing Knights Press) “Beach Dweller Manifesto” (Writing Knights) and “The Underside of the Snake” (Red Ferret Press). Her work appears in Blunderbuss, Summerset Review, Outlook Springs, Crack the Spine, Atticus Review, Your Impossible Voice, and other publications. She was a featured poet at the 2015 New York Poetry Festival, and a runner-up in the 2012 Wergle Flomp humor poetry contest.
Stacey Tran is a writer from Portland, OR. She is the creator of Tender Table, a storytelling series about food, family, identity. Her writing can be found in BOMB Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, and diaCRITICS. She is the author of Soap for the Dogs (Gramma, 2018).
Bunkong Tuon is the author of Gruel (2015) and And So I Was Blessed (2017), both poetry collections published by NYQ Books, and a regular contributor to Cultural Weekly. He is also an associate professor of English and Asian Studies at Union College, in Schenectady, NY.
Gary Charles Wilkens’ first book, The Red Light Was My Mind, won the 2006 Texas Review Breakthrough Poetry Prize. His manuscript Fayetteville was a Finalist in the 2014 Moon City Review Poetry Contest. His poems have appeared more than 70 journals and anthologies, including The Texas Review, Moon City Review, Passages North, the Adirondack Review, James Dickey Review, Melancholy Hyperbole, and Midwest Quarterly. His fiction has appeared in Drunk Monkeys, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, and Pale Ghosts Magazine. His day job is Associate Professor of English at Norfolk State University in Norfolk, Virginia.
Joshua Lindenbaum’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in HEArt Online, Breadcrumbs, West Texas Literary Review, Typishly, Five2One Magazine, Silhouette Press, Mistake House, The Bangalore Review, 3Elements Review, and several other publications. He’s currently pursuing a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature at Binghamton University and will become a full-time professor despite a dismal job market. The pen has been his companion for quite some time, but it’s still waiting for him “to put a ring on it.”
Wesley Civilz lives in Vermont. His writing has appeared in journals such as The Antioch Review, The Threepenny Review, PANK, and Green Mountains Review. His website is wescivilz.com.
Adam Strauss lives in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Most recently, poems of his appear or are forthcoming in the Colorado Review, Typo, Queen Mob's Teahouse, Fence, and Upstairs at Duroc. Favorite poets include, among many, Gwendolyn Brooks, May Swenson, Harryette Mullen.
