Tyurina Allen
Tyurina Allen no longer uses the name Tyurina Allen. She is almost a grown up now. She lives somewhere in the Midwest where she is pursuing a PhD in English and teaches writing and literature at two local universities. Doing all this leaves her little time for anything else, but she loves her job every day. She is the co-author of Especially the Deer, which was first published in 2003 and was re-released in paperback in 2011.
Marcel Brouwers
Marcel Brouwers is the author of the chapbook, The Rose Industrial Complex (Finishing Line Press, 2009). He lives in Knoxville, TN, with his wife, LA Hoffer, and works at the University of Tennessee. A lecturer in the English Department, he is currently the Acting Director of the Writing Center and teaches creative writing, literature, and composition classes.
Daniel Crocker
Daniel Crocker is the author of two collection of poetry, a collection of short stories, and the novel The Cornstalk Man. His third collection of poetry, Like a Fish, was released by Sundress Publications in 2011. Crocker is a graduate from The Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi, and he currently lives in Leadwood, MO, where he works as a short order cook and substitute teacher.
Emily Janowick
Emily Janowick writes poems and makes big abstract paintings in a hundred-year-old Victorian house in Knoxville, Tennessee. Against her better judgement, she surrounds herself with an abundance of animals and people at all times. Her chapbook, The Rule of Threes, is forthcoming from Sundress.
Jan LaPerle
Jan LaPerle (married name Matthews) is originally from a small town in northern New Hampshire, but currently lives in East Tennessee with her husband and poet, Clay, daughter, Winnie, and dog, Mortimer H. Matthews. She received her MFA from Southern Illinois University. She teaches English at Tusculum College (Tennessee's oldest college). She has poetry and fiction published in Rattle, Dislocate, Subtropics, 42opus, Boxcar Poetry Review, Tar River Poetry Review, and elsewhere.
Mary Beth Magin
Mary Beth Magin was born in Seoul and adopted and raised in upstate New York. She earned a degree in Economics with a focus on Asian Studies from the University of Pittsburgh in 2004, all the while maintaining a covert affection for critical theory, linguistics, film studies, and feminist art. She currently resides in Memphis, Tennessee with her husband and two cats. Her favorite writers include John Ashbery, Alice Notley, Issa, George Herriman, and Gina Berriault. She is the co-author of Especially the Deer, which was first published in 2003 and was re-released in paperback in 2011.
T.A. Noonan
T.A. Noonan is the author of two hybrid-genre collections, The Bone Folders (Sundress Publications) and Petticoat Government (Gold Wake Press), as well as the chapbooks Darjeeling (Ahadada Books) and Balm (Flaming Giblet Press). Her work has appeared in Ninth Letter, Verse Daily, The Superstition Review, RHINO, specs, Phoebe, and many others. She is the founder and managing editor of both Flaming Giblet Press and grain short/grain long. Currently, she lives on Florida's Treasure Coast with her husband.
Christine Jessica Margaret Reilly
Christine Jessica Margaret Reilly attended the MFA program at Sarah Lawrence College. She has been published in over 40 journals. She has been nominated for the Best New Poets prize, among others. Reilly is currently working on a novel and lives in New York City.
Julie Ruble
Julie Ruble lives in Charlotte, NC with a poodle and an aquatic turtle. She teaches middle school language arts and writes Willow Bird Baking, a food blog. She wrote the poems found in Especially the Deer while in high school and at Davidson College, where she was awarded both the Patricia Cornwell Creative Writing Scholarship and the Vereen Bell Memorial Award in poetry. She is the co-author of Especially the Deer, which was first published in 2003 and was re-released in paperback in 2011.
Charity Stebbins
Charity Stebbins grew up in Ghana and Colorado and currently lives in Iowa City. She is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop in poetry. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in New American Writing, Hannah, Lumina, and the St. Sebastian Review. Her chapbook, Isla, is forthcoming from Sundress.
Letitia Trent
Letitia Trent's work has appeared in the Denver Quarterly, The Black Warrior Review, Fence, Folio, The Journal, Mipoesias, Ootoliths, Blazevox, and many others. Her chapbooks are Splice (Blue Hour Press) and The Medical Diaries (Scantily Clad Press), and her third chapbook, You aren't in this movie, will be out from dancing girl press in 2012. Her first full-length collection, One Perfect Bird was released from Sundress Publications in 2012.
Trent was the 2010 winner of the Alumni Flash Writing Award from the Ohio State University's the Journal and has been awarded fellowships from The Vermont Studio Center and the MacDowell Colony.