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AUTHORS Heather Sweeney Heather Sweeney earned an MFA in Creative Writing and Po- etics at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. Her poetry has been published in Dusie, Shampoo, canwehaveourballback?, Summer Stock and Bombay Gin. I live in San Diego with my husband and beloved dog, Dexter. John Sweeder John Sweeder is a retired university professor from La Salle University in Philadelphia, PA. A poet and memoirist, he has had poems published in the Burningword Literary Journal, Haiku Journal, The Opening Line Literary ‘Zine, and Ancient Paths Online, among other venues. He has completed a chapbook entitled, Wonderwheel Dreams & Nightmares: 26 poems to Charm and Alarm (2016) and is presently self-publishing Breathing through a Straw: A Memoir for Baby Boomers and Neurotic Catholics, one chapter per month, at jsweeder.wordpress.com Louie Crew Clay Louie Clay, 80, has 2,700 publications, including Letters from Samaria: The Prose & Poetry of Louie Crew Clay, NYC: Morehouse, 2015. He has been a fellow at the Ragdale and Wurlitzer foundations. He’s a professor emeritus at Rutgers and lives in East Orange, NJ with Ernest Clay, his husband for 43 years. Robert Beveridge Robert Beveridge makes noise (xterminal.bandcamp.com) and writes poetry just outside Cleveland, OH. Recent/upcoming appearances in Dime Show Review, Communicators League, and Mad Swirl, among others. 106