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Lauren Davis Lauren Davis is a poet living on the Olympic Peninsula in a Victorian seaport community. She holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars, and her work can be found in numerous publications such as Prairie Schoo- ner, Spillway, and Split Lip Press. She has received a residency at Hypatia-in-the-Woods. She also teaches at The Writers’ Workshoppe in Port Townsend, WA, and works as an editor at The Tishman Review. Sharon Denmark Sharon Denmark is a self-taught artist who lives in the wild hinterlands of southeastern Virginia. In her work, she is as interested in shadows as she is the thing itself. www.460arts.com olivia dunn Olivia Dunn is a Visiting Assistant Professor of writ- ing at Skidmore College and a creative writing instruc- tor at the Arts Center of the Capital Region. She holds an MFA from the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program. She’s happy to be back in the Capital Region, where she grew up. Her essays have appeared recently in Tinker Street, The Pinch Journal and McSweeney’s. C. Fidel Espinoza C. Fidel Espinoza was born and raised along the Texas/ Mexico border where he currently lives, writes, and plays cumbias. His poetry, essays, and short stories have ap- peared in Spry, Border Senses, Pilgrimage, The Rift, Chrysalis and elsewhere. He is the Editor of the Barrio Panther Literatura Magazine and he contributed to the ed- iting of Andres Montoya’s posthumous collection of poetry, A Jury of Trees. He holds a Bilingual M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Texas at El Paso. Thomas Gillaspy Thomas Gillaspy is a photography has been cluding the literary and Brooklyn Review. examples of his work northern California photographer. His featured in numerous magazines in- journals: Compose, Portland Review Further information and additional are available at: http://www.thomasgillaspy.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomasmichaelart/ 109