AUTHORS andrew miller
Andrew Miller retired from a career that included university teaching and research in endangered species and aquatic habitat restoration . Now he has time to pursue his long-held interest in creative writing . Recent work has appeared in : Literally Stories , Foliate Oak Literary Magazine , The Fair Observer , Gravel : A Literary Journal , Fiction on the Web , and Microfiction Monday Magazine .
kelly neal
Kelly Neal lives , teaches , and writes in central Texas . He received degrees in literature from the University of Texas , and the Bread Loaf School of English . After 25 years of only sharing his poetry with a small sampling of friends , he has had poems published over the last couple of years by The Axe Factory , A Literation , roguepoetry review 2015 , figrootpress , and Viewfinder Literary Magazine . Kelly is currently finishing a project based upon the tarot , “ Arcana ,” with his sister Donna Neal , a digital artist and painter .
130 james b . nicola
James B . Nicola ’ s poems have appeared stateside in the Antioch , Southwest and Atlanta Reviews , Rattle , Tar River , and Poetry East , and in many journals in Europe and Canada . He is the featured poet in the current issue of Westward Quarterly , having once received the same honor from New Formalist . A Yale graduate , he won a Dana Literary Award , a Willow Review award , a People ’ s Choice award ( from Storyteller ), and four Pushcart nominations . His nonfiction book , Playing the Audience , won a Choice award . His poetry collections are Manhattan Plaza ( 2014 ), Stage to Page : Poems from the Theater ( 2016 ), Wind in the Cave ( 2017 ), and Out of Nothing : Poems of Art and Artists ( 2018 ).
vivian faith prescott
Vivian Faith Prescott was born and raised in Wrangell , a community on a small island in southeast Alaska . She lives in Wrangell at her family ’ s fishcamp . She has an MFA from the University of Alaska and a Ph . D . in Cross Cultural Studies from the University of Alaska Fairbanks . Her poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner , Cirque , Yellow Medicine Review and elsewhere . She is the author of a full-length poetry collection The Hide of My Tongue ( Plain View Press ) and four chapbooks .
maggie rosen
Maggie Rosen lives in Silver Spring , Maryland . Her poems have been published in Little Patuxent Review , Waccamaw , Cider Press Review , RiverLit , Blood Lotus , Beltway Poetry Quarterly , Barely South , and Conclave , among other publications . Her chapbook , The Deliberate Speed of Ghosts , was published in 2016 by Red Bird Chapbooks . See more at maggierosen . com .