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CONTRIBUTORS Ace Boggess is the author of two books of poetry: The Prisoners (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2014) and The Beautiful Girl Whose Wish Was Not Fulfilled (Highwire Press, 2003). He is an excon, ex-husband, ex-reporter, and completely exhausted by all the things he isn't anymore. His writing has appeared in Harvard Review, Mid-American Review, Atlanta Review, RATTLE, River Styx, Southern Humanities Review and many other journals. He currently resides in Charleston, West Virginia. Queens, NYC, native Audrey T. Carroll is an MFA candidate with the Arkansas Writer's Program and graduated with a BA in Creative Writing from Susquehanna University. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Fiction International, Hermeneutic Chaos, Foliate Oak, The A3 Review, and others. She can be found at http://audreytcarrollwrites.weebly.com and @AudreyTCarroll on Twitter. Bret Norwood lives in Sheridan, Wyoming. His stories and poetry have been published in the Open Window Review, Owen Wister Review, Soundzine, and other journals, and his poetry was recognized in the 2013 WyoPoets National and Members-Only contests. He is a staff blogger for the Sheridan Programmers Guild. Follow his work at bretnorwood.com. Daryl Muranaka was raised in California and Hawaii. He received his MFA from Eastern Washington University and spent three years in Fukui, Japan, in the JET Program. He currently lives in the Boston area with his wife and two children. In his spare time, he enjoys aikido and taijiquan and exploring his children’s dual heritages. Jane Roop is a retired securities broker. She lives in Kennewick, WA, home of the Kennewick Man, at the confluence of three rivers, the Columbia, the Snake and the Yakima. Jane Rosenberg LaForge is the author of an experimental memoir, An Unsuitable Princess: A True Fantasy/A Fantastical Memoir (Jaded Ibis Press, 2014), and four volumes of poetry. "Burnt by the Sun God" is from a series of poems on the Greek myth of Daphne. JC Reilly is the author of La Petite Mort and 25% co-author of a book of occasional poetry, On Occasion: Four Poets, One Year. She has been published most recently in The Citron Review, Compose Journal, Glassworks Magazine, Kentucky Review, and Dirty Chai. She lives in Atlanta. Gyroscope Review 38 !