MASTHEADEditorLacey N. DunhamFiction EditorsJavy Gwaltney, Sam Ramos, Cherise WolasPoetry EditorsJP Reese, Bill YarrowCreative Non-Fiction EditorsStephen J. West, Javy Gwaltney, Cherise WolasReview EditorErin L. HarwoodInterview EditorMaryAnne KoltonContributing PhotographerTammy Ho-Lai Ming
Lacey N. Dunham
Lacey has written for Ploughshares, The Collagist, The Washington Spark, and The Feminist Review, among others and is a columnist at the Used Furniture Review. She studied writing at Hollins University and recently moved from Washington, DC to Minneapolis, MN, where she works as publicist for Atticus Books. You can find her on Twitter @bookbent.  Javy is an aspiring author, essayist, and screen writer who hails from the almost nonexistent town of Bamberg, South Carolina. He earned his B.A. in English at Winthrop University, and is currently pursuing an M.F.A in Professional Writing at Kennesaw State University. You can find his works in Thumb Smudge Java, The Smoking Poet, and his blog which is updated sporadically. His other talents include reading prodigiously and making a killer oven pizza.
Erin L. Harwood
Erin is a blogger, freelance writer and editor. Her nonfiction has been published in the Agnes Scott Writer's Festival Magazine, The Huntersville Hearld, SilverWoodBooks.com and on her daily blog. In recent years, she has worked as a Writing Center Tutor at Agnes Scott College and as a publisher's assistant at SilverWood Books in Bristol, UK. In 2008, while studying abroad in France and England, she realized that the grass was indeed greener on the other side of the Atlantic, and so she transferred from her small women's college in Georgia to Bath Spa University in England, where she earned a BA in Creative Writing. Happily State-side again, she lives in Decatur, GA with her husband. Visit her at For the Love of Bookshops, where she celebrates independent bookstores, books and book culture.
Tammy Ho Lai-Ming
Tammy is a Hong Kong-born writer currently based in London, UK. She is a founding co-editor of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal.
 MaryAnne is the Interview Editor at THIS Literary Magazine. Most recently her fiction has been chosen to appear in the Lost Children charity anthology, the first print collection of Pure Slush Flash Fiction, Slut, The Toucan Magazine, Wilderness House Literary Review, Anatomy, Larks Fiction Magazine and Connotations among others. You can contact her via thiszine [at] gmail [dot] come or through her blog Echoes and Visions. She can also be found on Facebook.
 Sam Ramos
Sam is from Austin, Texas. He's published two novels and multiple short stories. He's currently seeking his MFA in Fiction at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  JP has flash, fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction published or forthcoming in Corium Magazine, Connotation Press, The Smoking Poet, Silkworms Ink, The Pinch, Forces, Eclectic Flash, Used Furniture Review, Blue Fifth Review, Gloom Cupboard and other online and print venues. Reese has an MFA from The University of Memphis where she won the 2002 Graduate Creative Writing Award and was on the editorial staff of River City. She teaches English at a small college in Texas.
Stephen J. West
Stephen lives and teaches in Morgantown, WV. He studied creative nonfiction at the University of Iowa, and he currently has essays published or forthcoming in Defunct, Prime Number, Zone 3, and PANK. You can follow him on twitter @LOAFbyLOAFWEST, and if you Google him, keep looking--he's on page two. (Apparently Stephen J. West, Esquire from Ottawa demands the entire first page of results.)  Cherise Wolas Cherise is a writer and a reluctant multi-hyphenate: film producer, lawyer, script development expert, and a principal and co-president of a New York-based film company. Her work has been published most recently in Lilith (Vol. 35, No. 3), Negative Suck (www.negativesuck.moonfruit.com), and in Sex Scene: An Anthology (available at www.lulu.com). A sampling of her work can also be found at www.cherisewolas.weebly.com. Her love of reading began young, and libraries are linked in her mind with expletives. At five, a dropped armful of library books taught her the effectiveness of a well-placed swear word. At six, she wrote her first story about a little girl tossing her younger sibling out of her crib; whether accidental or otherwise was left unresolved. Currently at work on a collection of entwined short stories, and a novel, she has temporarily left the bustle of New York City for small-town life where the lake is silvery, the stars shine, and the snow does not yellow.  Bill Yarrow Bill is the author of WRENCH (erbacce-press, 2009) and “Wound Jewelry” (new aesthetic, 2010). His poems have appeared in Poetry International, PANK, DIAGRAM, Confrontation, The Centrifugal Eye, Pif Magazine, Rio Grande Review, BLIP, blossombones, Arsenic Lobster, Mantis, The Antigonish Review, ditch, Ramshackle Review, LITSNACK, Blue Fifth Review, Used Furniture Review, Everyday Genius, Istanbul Literary Review, blue five notebook, and other literary magazines. He lives in Illinois. |