writes to be read , and feels honored anytime someone decides to spend their time , which of course could be spent any old way , reading his work .
NANCY GOLD lives and works on the southern shore of Lake Superior . Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Swamp Ape Review , Toad Suck Review , A cappella Zoo , and The Moon City Review . She is currently working on a series of essays about traumatic brain injury .
DANIELLE GRAY has a Bachelor of Social Work and currently works in an elementary school in Northeastern Pennsylvania . She enjoys writing memoir and creative nonfiction , most of which relates to her turbulent upbringing in the foster care system . This is her first publication .
MICHAEL HETTICH ’ s most recent books of poetry include Systems of Vanishing ( University of Tampa Press , 2014 ), The Animals Beyond Us ( New Rivers Press , 2011 ) and Like Happiness ( Anhinga Press , 2010 ). His work has appeared in many journals , among them Poetry East , Ploughshares , Orion , Prairie Schooner and Notre Dame Review . He lives with his family in Miami and teaches at Miami Dade College .
CANDACE HOWZE is an American writer and multimedia artist living in North Carolina . Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Cellar Door , Bop Dead City , Yellow Chair Review , and Glass Poetry Press . She holds a B . A . from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and recently completed her first chapbook , Letters About Losing You .
LESLIE LEONARD is currently an adjunct instructor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville . She teaches English composition and will begin her PhD in fall of 2017 studying nineteenth-century American literature and poetry . Leslie ’ s own poetry is most interested in expressing the experience of the individual as well as personal experience . As a result , many of her works take up issues of personal , feminine , and queer identity and the ways in which such multiple identities intersect . Leslie ’ s creative works make use of first-person narrators and extended metaphors that attempt to represent varying firstperson experiences .
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