James Croal Jackson
James Croal Jackson is the author of The Frayed Edge of
Memory (Writing Knights Press, 2017). His poetry has ap-
peared or is forthcoming in FLAPPERHOUSE, Rust + Moth, The
Bitter Oleander, and elsewhere. He edits The Mantle and
is a former winner of the William Redding Memorial Poetry
Contest. Find him in Columbus, Ohio or at jimjakk.com.
Julian jackson
Formerly an American photo-journalist for the Times News
of Hendersonville, North Carolina, Julian moved to Chi-
na with his wife, author Cathy Adams in 2012. His recent
photography has centered on Southeastern Asian subject
matter from Angkor Wat to the northern gardens of Thai-
land to the Great Wall of China. He specializes in street
photography, with a flair for putting locals at ease when
capturing their dynamic images. Julian currently lives in
the northern Chinese city of Shenyang, Liaoning, where he
is often found tooling about the city with his camera.
Steve Klepetar
Steve Klepetar lives in Saint Cloud, Minnesota, but is
currently a visiting scholar at the University of No-
tre Dame, Australia, in Fremantle. His work has appeared
widely in the U.S. and abroad, and has received several
nominations for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize,
including four in 2016. He is the author of twelve poetry
collections, the most recent of which are “A Landscape in
Hell” (Flutter Press), “Family Reunion” (Big Table), and
“How Fascism Comes to America” (Locofo Chaps).
Jon Kvassey
Jon creates imagery to express the ideas that stick to
his subconscious, unshakable frustrations, loneliness,
and guilt. Creating work that attempts to find it’s own
space between the natural and manmade places uncomfort-
ably placed on top of each other. The work is an attempt
to keep up the exhausted effort of a consciousness that
is always arguing with itself. Always attempting to fill
a gap and to find a path that feels like fulfillment. Jon
spent most of his life in and around Los Angeles. He cur-
rently resides in Cleveland, Ohio.
Alex Lanz
Alex Lanz grew up in Portland, Oregon, and currently
works as a transcriber in Brooklyn. Their work has ap-
peared in Atticus Review, Entropy, and The Seventh Wave.
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