Matt Mareck lives and writes in the Twin Cities.

Martin Barkley's fiction, poetry and reviews have appeared in The Threepenny Review, The Texas Observer,  Arcadia Press, Work Literary Magazine, and Queen Mob's Teahouse. He lives in Austin, Texas.

Craig Ruhland is a poet and all around creative spirit. He's built art sleds for the Powderhorn Art Sled Rally; acted in and supported movies for the 48-hour Film Festival; and wrote Sweet on America: the Twin Cities, a travel guide to bakeries in the Twin Cities. 

Nancy Shih-Knodel grew up in Chicago, Illinois, and received her education at Oberlin College and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her poems have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, The Examined Life Journal, and Yellowjacket Review. She is a faculty member in the English Department at North Hennepin Community College in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota.

Samuel Snoek-Brown is the author of the fiction chapbook Box Cutters (sunnyoutside 2013), the novella In the Pulse There Lies Conviction (Blue Skirt Press 2017), and the historical novel Hagridden (Columbus Press 2014), for which he received a 2013 Oregon Literary Fellowship. He also has been shortlisted in the Faulkner-Wisdom competition, twice for short fiction and once for his novella, and he has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Maggie Rosen lives in Silver Spring, Maryland. Most of her professional work has been as a teacher of English to speakers of other languages. Her poems have been published in Little Patuxent Review, Waccamaw, Cider Press Review, RiverLit, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Barely South, and Conclave, among other publications. 

Daniel Pereyra is a Phoenix, AZ based writer of poetry and fiction whose work has been featured in The Artists Catalogue, Westward Quarterly, Poetry Quarterly, The Avalon Literary Review, Five Poetry, Third Wednesday and more.  His first poetry chapbook, “Sunday Morning Ponderings”, was published by Flutter Press in August 2015.

Andrew Bode-Lang earned his MFA in creative writing at the University of Arizona. His short stories and poems have appeared or are forthcoming in journals including Epoch, The Greensboro Review, Harpur Palate, New Orleans Review, Passages North, Poetry East, and Rattle. He lives in central Pennsylvania with his wife, Katie, and their daughter.

Anika Fajardo was born in Colombia and raised in Minnesota. Her writing has been recognized with awards from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Jerome Foundation, and the Loft Literary Center. Her memoir manuscript was a finalist for the Bakless Literary Prize. Her work has appeared in various publications such as  Los Angeles Review of Books, Literary Mama, Hippocampus Magazine and in anthologies including Brief Encounters: A Collection of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction and Sky Blue Water: Great Stories for Young Readers.

Paul Van Dyke is an Army veteran of Iraq and a recipient of the Purple Heart. His work has appeared in Water~Stone Review, War, Literature, & the Arts, O-Dark Thirty, and Revolver. He is currently working on a memoir about his time in Iraq, and a novel about professional wrestling.