poets. She works as a writer and an editor. She and her husband have voyaged around the world
five times, with Lynn writing all the way.
john sweet, b. 1968, still numbered among the living. A believer in sunlight and surrealism, not so
much in reality tv or politicians. Most recent collection is THE CENTURY OF DREAMING
MONSTERS (2014 Lummox Poetry Prize winner)
Ed Werstein, Milwaukee, WI, spent 22 years in manufacturing and union activity before his muse
awoke and dragged herself out of bed. His sympathies lie with poor and working people. He
advocates for peace and against corporate power. A member of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets
and The Hartford Avenue Poets, his poetry has appeared in Verse Wisconsin, Blue Collar Review,
Mobius: Journal of Social Change, and Stoneboat Literary Journal among others, and has been
anthologized in several publications. His first chapbook, Who Are We Then?, was published in 2013
by Partisan Press.
Laryssa Wirstiuk lives in New Jersey with her mini dachshund Charlotte Moo. Laryssa’s
collection of short stories, The Prescribed Burn, won Honorable Mention in the 21st Annual
Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards. Her poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction have been
published in Gargoyle Magazine, Word Riot, Barely South Review, and Up the Staircase Quarterly.
http://www.laryssawirstiuk.com
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