BIO Rachel Blum is a mother and reiki practioner living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her poetry is to be found at the web site www.rachelblumpoetry.com. . PRAYER Somewhere in the future is a flame. A cup of ash and blue light or a mirror spark of conception. Perhaps we precede it as the soul precedes the…
BIO Mohamed Elramady is an Egyptian poet who lives in Alexandria. He has published five collections of poems: أتَوضأُ بِنُورِ عَينيكِ [I Wash in the Light of Your Eyes], 2011; العشق بعد المداولة [Love after Deliberation], 2010; رَمَادِيَّاتٌ وأَلْوَانٌ أُخْرَىٰ عَام [Ramadyat and Other Colors], 2009; حِينَ يَتَكَلَّمُ النَّبْضُ [When the Pulse Speaks], 2009; and…
BIO Maritza Luza Castillo is a Peruvian writer and journalist with experience in radio, television, and the printed medium. She lives in Lima and is a member of the Peruvian Society of Poets and the Society of Poets World-Wide. Her poems and short stories have been widely published and garnered prizes. Two recent anthologies with…
BIO Howie Good’s latest poetry collections include Fugitive Pieces from Right Hand Pointing Press and The Cruel Radiance of What Is from Another New Calligraphy. Tomorrow Never Happens Whichever phone number I call, the suicide hotline rings. That’s the part I don’t get. Then the scene changes – a burned girl, about 10, hooked up…
BIO Okla Elliott is currently an Illinois Distinguished Fellow at the University of Illinois, where he works in the fields of comparative literature and trauma studies. He also holds an MFA from Ohio State University. His nonfiction, poetry, short fiction, and translations have appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, Harvard Review, Indiana Review, The Literary Review,…
BIO Jennifer Lobaugh lives in Southampton, NY with her dog and too many Halloween decorations. Her poems have recently appeared in The Knicknackery and Rust + Moth. Her chapbook squall won the Oklahoma Writers’ Federation, Inc. 2014 Best Book of Poetry award and is available from dancing girl press. Black Bear Creek it was…
BIO Hedy Habra was born in Heliopolis, Egypt and is of Lebanese origin. She is the author of two poetry collections; Tea in Heliopolis (Press 53, 2013), winner of the 2014 USA Best Book Award and finalist for the International Poetry Book Award and Under Brushstrokes (Press 53, 2015). She also authored a story collection, Flying Carpets (Interlink, 2013),which…
BIO John Sibley Williams is the author of eight collections, most recently Controlled Hallucinations (Future Cycle Press, 2013). Four-time Pushcart nominee, he is the winner of the HEART Poetry Award and has been a finalist for the Rumi, Best of the Net, and The Pinch Poetry Prizes. John serves as editor of The Inflectionist Review…
Bio Nick Carbó is the author of four books of poems, the latest being Chinese, Japanese, What are These? (Pecan Grove Press, 2009). He has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. His work has been featured on NPR and PBS. . . Dinner…
BIO R. W. Haynes writes and teaches in South Texas. He is working on a second book on playwright/screenwriter Horton Foote. A list of some places he has published is online at http://www.pw.org/content/r_w_haynes . . Chemistry Wins Again His girlfriend Sophie had a brainstorm And changed her major, she had so much fun Listening to…
BIO Sarah Marcus is the author of BACKCOUNTRY (Finishing Line Press, 2013) and Every Bird, To You (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2013). Her other work can be found at NPR’s Prosody: Pittsburgh Radio for Contemporary Literature, The Huffington Post, McSweeney’s, Cimarron Review, CALYX Journal, Spork, Luna Luna, and Marie Claire, among others. She is an editor at Gazing Grain Press and a spirited Count Coordinator for VIDA: Women in Literary Arts. She holds…
Jean L. Kreiling is the author of the recently published collection, The Truth in Dissonance (Kelsay Books, 2014). Her work has appeared widely in print and online journals, including American Arts Quarterly, The Evansville Review, Measure, and Mezzo Cammin, and in several anthologies. Kreiling is a past winner of the String Poet Prize and the…
