Contributors

Cyndi Gacosta was born and raised in San Diego, California. She spent a few years of her early childhood in Sorsogon, Philippines. She studied literature at UC Santa Cruz. Her work has appeared in other literary journals such as The Walrus, Monongahela Review, The Toucan, and Vanilla.


Born in Detroit, Steven Gulvezan has worked as a journalist and a librarian. His fiction and poetry have appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Scythe, Red Fez, Danse Macabre, Heavy Bear, Gutter Eloquence, The Absent Willow Review, Battered Suitcase and many other literary publications.


Katie Lattari is a Master’s candidate and teaching assistant in the English Department at the University of Maine, Orono, where creative writing in fiction is her concentration. Katie, who is a native of Brooklyn, New York, has been previously published in The Maine Review and Pennsylvania English. She currently resides in Winterport, Maine.


Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, Michael Constantine McConnell is a writer, singer, musician, and 15-year resident of the awesomeness that is Denton, Texas. A devout student of the 20-button Anglo concertina, piano, upright bass, and autoharp, he and his prose, poetry, and palindromes have appeared or are forthcoming in such publications as Style, The Bitter Oleander, Ars Medica, Diet Soap, and Electric Velocipede. Glory to the Clan McShite.


Geordie de Boer, a rambler and wrangler of rhyme (internal), lives in southeast Washington (state). He’s been published most recently by Muddy River Poetry Review, The Meadowland Review, Mobius, Miller‘s Pond, and The Centrifugal Eye. Visit him at Cockeyed Fits (geedeboer.wordpress.com).


Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé has edited more than 10 books and co-produced 3 audio books, several pro bono for non-profit organizations. Trained in book publishing at Stanford, with a theology masters in world religions from Harvard and fine arts masters in creative writing from Notre Dame, Desmond is a recipient of the Singapore Internationale Grant and Dr Hiew Siew Nam Academic Award. He has recent or forthcoming work in Caper Literary Journal, Cricket Online Review, Dark Sky, Fence, Grey Sparrow, Presence, Nano Fiction, Notes from the Gean, Spilling Ink Review, Spork Press, Sugar Mule, and Write From Wrong Magazine. Also working in clay, Desmond sculpts commemorative ceramic pieces for his Potter Poetics Collection. These works are housed in museums and private collections in India, the Netherlands, the UK and the US.


Carol Gore grew up in Whiteville, NC. She received an MFA in writing from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Her work has appeared in The Momo Reader, Vanilla Magazine, and Poetry Quarterly. She’s married with one dog, and is currently working on her first novel.


Winnona Elson Pasquini is a poet living in Tampa, Florida, whose recent publications include “After the Silence on Darien” in The Chronicle of Higher Education Online. She is also the winner of both the 2008 Estelle J. Zbar and the 2008 Bettye Newman Poetry Awards. She is a devoted Italophile and when not writing poetry, spends her time planning her next trip to her favorite city, Venice, Italy.


Nathan Ingham studies writing at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. His work has appeared in Right Hand Pointing, Breadcrumb Scabs, and The Legendary. He once played Bagheera in a youth production of the Jungle Book.


Robert James Russell co-founded the indie comic book publisher Saint James Comics in 2009 (www.WhoisSaintJames.com). He is a member of Year Zero Writers, and has had work featured by Like Birds Lit, Greatest Lakes Review, The Legendary, and is currently working on his debut novel, excerpts of which appear on his website (www.robertjamesrussell.com). He recently edited his first anthology, entitled Sex Scene: An Anthology, which is available as a free download. Robert lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.