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J. David Cummings

Poems by J. David Cummings have appeared in the Slapering Hol Newsletter, Poetry Flash, Bellowing Ark, Convergence, and in several issues of The Sand Hill Review. His full length manuscript, Envoy, was a finalist in several national contests, including the National Poetry Series Open Competition and the Red Hen Press…

Anna Scotti

Anna Scotti is a poet, writer, and teacher living in Southern California. She has been the recipient of a number of prizes and honors, including third prize in the Winning Writers War Poetry Contest back in 2010. Anna's first collection of poetry, Bewildered by All This Broken Sky, won the…

Gerardo Mena

My name is Gerardo Mena. I am 28 years old and I'm a decorated Iraqi Freedom Veteran. I was in Special Operations with the Reconnaissance Marines for six years and I was awarded a Navy Achievement Medal with a V for valor for multiple acts of heroism while under enemy…

Les Wicks

Les Wicks' eighth book of poetry is The Ambrosiacs (Island, 2009). Wicks has been a guest at most of Australia's literary festivals, toured widely and been published in over 200 newspapers, anthologies and magazines across 15 countries in 9 languages. He runs Meuse Press, which focuses on poetry outreach projects.

Steven Sparks

Steven Sparks separated from the United States Marine Corps in 2005 after 10 years of service in the signals intelligence field. He served two tours in Iraq. He lives in York, PA with his wife, two boys, and a dog.

Frank Ortega

Frank Ortega has had work published by The Madison Review, Colorado Review, Ferro-Botanica, Seneca Review, Z Miscellaneous, Downtown, Amicus Journal, Paragraph, and most recently in the latest issue of Oberon, as well as by Lost Horse Press in I Go to the Ruined Place, an anthology of human rights poetry.…

Hugh Martin

Hugh Martin is a veteran of the Iraq war and now attends the MFA program at Arizona State. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Alaska Quarterly Review, Narrative, Crazyhorse, Mid-American Review, American Poetry Review, and The Kenyon Review. His chapbook So, How Was the War? (Kent State…

Adrie Kusserow

Adrie Kusserow lives in Underhill Center, Vermont with her husband and two children. She is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at St. Michael's College in Colchester, VT where she teaches courses on Refugees, Poverty, and Culture, Illness and Healing. She and her husband and some of the Lost Boys of Sudan…

Danielle Kessinger

Danielle Kessinger had just graduated with a bachelor's in Literature and a minor in Nonviolence when her twin brother enlisted in the army. She taught in three countries over the course of his enlistment and two deployments in Afghanistan, the second the result of stop loss. In Japan, when they…

Danielle Jones-Pruett

Danielle Jones-Pruett is an MFA candidate at UMass Boston, where she also teaches creative writing. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Abject Press, Breakwater Review, Cider Press Review, First Inkling, Poets Against War, Southern Women's Review, and others. Danielle recently curated a collaborative art project, “The Poetry Dress,”…

Sasha Pimentel Chacon

Born in Manila and raised in Atlanta, Saudi Arabia and the NYC tri-state region, Sasha Pimentel Chacón is a Filipina American poet and author of Insides She Swallowed (West End Press, 2011), winner of the 2011 American Book Award. Her work has appeared in journals such as The American Poetry…

J. Scott Brownlee

J. Scott Brownlee earned his BA in English from the University of Texas at Austin and his MS in Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Hayden's Ferry Review, RATTLE, Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, Writers' Bloc…

Susan Brennan

Susan Brennan's poems appear in various publications. Her manuscript Sweet Demons has been nominated as a finalist for several book awards; her manuscript numinous was a semi-finalist for the 2011 Tupelo Press Award for a First or Second Book of Poetry. Her short script “Order & Accidents” won Bronze place…

Eliot Khalil Wilson

Eliot Khalil Wilson's poems have been published in dozens of journals. He has won a Pushcart Prize, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and awards from the Poetry Society of America and the Academy of American Poets. His first book of poems, The Saint of Letting Small…

Suzanne Roberts

Suzanne Roberts is the author of four collections of poetry: Shameless, Nothing to You, Three Hours to Burn a Body: Poems on Travel, and Plotting Temporality. Her memoir, Almost Somewhere: 28 Days on the John Muir Trail, was published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2012. She holds a…

Eleanor Paynter

Eleanor Paynter has roots in Texas, Rome, and New York, and holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Her brother and sister-in-law serve in the US Army. Eleanor's poems have recently appeared in elimae, Innisfree, New Madrid, Salamander, and Washington Square Review. A teacher and translator, she lives in the…

Nicole

Nicole was born in Stockton, CA, spent most of her life in San Francisco, CA and moved back to Stockton about 7 years ago. While in San Francisco, she produced a small newspaper for many years. Nicole stopped creative writing about 20 years ago, but began writing again 2 years…

Lynn McGee

Lynn McGee's poems are forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, Hawai'i Review, 2 Bridges Review, and Bluestem, and her work is in current issues of Tilt-a-Whirl, Big City Lit, and The New Guard, where one poem was a finalist and one a semi-finalist in the Knightville Poetry Contest judged by…

Robert Hill Long

Robert Hill Long is the author of four books of poems, most recently The Kilim Dreaming (Bear Star Press, Dorothy Brunsman Prize), and of the flash fiction collection The Effigies (Plinth Books). His book of war poems Walking Wounded, forthcoming in June 2012, will include work he has submitted to…

Bruce Lack

Bruce Lack, born and raised in Mid-Michigan, served honorably in the United States Marine Corps from 2003-2007. He deployed twice, spending twenty-one months in Fallujah, Iraq. Returning to his home state in 2007, he was thrilled to find his fiancée and a talent for relating his experiences in war to…

Marilyn Krysl

Marilyn Krysl's poetry has appeared in The Atlantic, The Nation, The New Republic and the Pushcart Prize Anthology, her fiction in Best American Short Stories 2000 and O. Henry Prize Stories. Dinner with Osama won the Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction and Foreword Magazine's 2008 Book of the Year…

Laurie Lee Didesch

My poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Comstock Review, The MacGuffin, Karamu, White Pelican Review, Third Wednesday, California Quarterly, Artword Quarterly, Artisan: A Journal of Craft, The Awakenings Review, Arts Alive! Literary Review, Blood and Thunder, Poetry Cram, Voices on the Wind, Jewish Women's Literary Annual, and Julien's…

Michael Estes

Michael Estes was a high-school teacher and is now in the business of raising daughters. His poems have appeared in Court Green, Margie, and The Southeast Review. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky.

David Cooke

Anti-bio Bio What has David Cooke done but watch a war turn into wars? Two times older than so many of the soldiers, and yet he struggles with this short biography. Frets over words while this past decade over 7,000 soldiers worry no more about biographies nor obituaries. Biography. Obituary.…

Pamela Uschuk

Pamela Uschuk is the author of five books of poems: the award-winning Finding Peaches in the Desert, One-Legged Dancer, Scattered Risks, Without the Comfort of Stars: New and Selected Poems (New Delhi & London: Sampark Press, 2007), and her latest, Crazy Love (Wings Press, 2010), winner of a 2010 American…

Nikki Schulak

Nikki Schulak jumps without a rope in Portland, Oregon. She used to pull pythons out of pillowcases in a world famous zoo. Currently, she writes essays. She's been published in the Bellevue Literary Review, Switched-on Gutenberg, The Yellow Ham, Errant Parent, VoiceCatcher vol. 3 and vol. 5, and hipMama. Nikki…

Marilyn Moriarty

Marilyn Moriarty has fenced individual foil in numerous divisional, regional, and state tournaments including two national championships. Over four decades she has fenced for the University of Florida, the University of California-Irvine, Edinburgh University (Scotland), the Scottish Universities Team, and Hollins University. She currently teaches English literature at Hollins University…

Christine Hennessey

Christine Hennessey is a native New Yorker who currently lives and writes in coastal North Carolina. She earned her MFA from the University of North Carolina Wilmington and currently works as the Manager of Writing & Content Strategy at a global fintech company. Her creative writing has appeared in Joyland,…

Glen Wood

Glen Wood's work has appeared in The Wisconsin Review, Memoir (and), Louisiana Literature, and several others. He was shortlisted in the Faulkner-Wisdom Creative Writing Competition. He has studied with Tom Jenks, Jill McCorkle, Randall Kenan, and many others. In his spare time he enjoys classic and modern literary fiction, hard-bop…

Nicole Nelson

Nicole Nelson is a fiction writer and poet who recently mustered the courage to send her work into the world. She lives in Virginia with her husband and three boys and is currently enrolled in the MFA program at National University for Creative Writing. While writing has always been her…

Jason Bellipanni

Jason Bellipanni was born and raised on a ranch in Colorado. After graduating from the College of the Holy Cross, he studied culinary arts in Florence, Italy and began to write fiction. From 1998 through 2006 he received an M.A. in English from the University of Colorado, Boulder, a fellowship…

Candace Jaffe

Candace Jaffe is a recent graduate of Lesley University's MFA Program in Nonfiction. She has been coaching and mentoring young athletes in track and field and cross country running for eighteen years. Through sport, she is inspired to write about the camaraderie, emotion, and personal achievement that competition has to…

Scott Winkler

Scott Winkler's fiction, poetry, and academic work have appeared in journals ranging from Elysian Fields Quarterly to Aethlon to the Journal of Popular Culture. His book The Wide Turn Toward Home was published in 2008 by Pocol Press and collects seven baseball-themed short stories and the title novella. In his…

Michael Woods

Michael Woods teaches English and Drama in Malvern, Worcestershire. His work has appeared in several magazines and anthologies. His first collection, Absence Notes, was published by Templar Poetry in 2011. He has researched the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins and written on several poets including Gillian Clarke, Carol Ann Duffy…

Sarah Sala

Sarah Sala currently lives in Manhattan and serves as a varsity assistant coach at Row New York. She earned her MFA in Poetry from New York University. Her honors and awards include: an Academy of American Poets Prize, the Marjorie Rapport Award for poetry, an Avery Hopwood Award for nonfiction,…

Dale Ritterbusch

Dale Ritterbusch is the author of two collections of poetry, Lessons Learned (1995) and Far From the Temple of Heaven (2005). He is a Professor of Languages and Literatures at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater where he teaches creative writing and literature. Currently he is the Distinguished Visiting Professor in the…

Michael Levan

Michael Levan received his MFA in poetry from Western Michigan University and PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of Tennessee Knoxville. Currently he is an Instructor of Writing at California University of Pennsylvania. His work can be found in recent or forthcoming issues of Natural Bridge, Mid-American…

Chris Joyner

Infatuated with weightlifting and chewy words, Chris Joyner considers himself a “meathead poet”. He is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Miami, but his heart resides in Virginia. In 2011 he was recipient of the Alfred Boas Poetry Prize and performed movie-telling at O, Miami. His work has…

Harry Bauld

Harry Bauld was twice first-team All-Ivy League shortstop at Columbia University. As a freelance journalist he has written articles about sports, the arts, wine, and other topics for various magazines. His poems have won the New Millennium Writings Award and the Milton Kessler Poetry Prize and appeared in Nimrod, Southern…

Starkey Flythe

Starkey Flythe served with the army in the Middle East and Africa, has three books of poetry, two of fiction (Furman University's '96' Press, University of lowa Press and Snake Nation Press). He won the 2010 Inkwell Poetry Prize from Manhattanville College, was co-winner of Shenandoah's 2011 short story award,…

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