Here are this issue's writers' bios:

Cameron Dick is a first year English student at Glendon College, the bilingual faculty of York University. To date, his poetry has appeared in the literary annual, Challenger International, as well as Ascent Aspirations and the Glendon publication, ProTem. Read his poetry here.

Kerry Donoghue's short story, “The Pearl,” won first place in the 2008 Southern Gothic Shorts Writing Competition and was published in the anthology, Southern Gothic Shorts. Another story, “The Hungry,” was recently published by The Fiction Circus and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She received a MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco in 2008. Read his fiction here.

Joel Fry's work has appeared in POEM, The Melic Review, Stirring, Acorn, Eclectica, and Poetrysz. He lives in Alabama, and his favorite twentieth-century poet is T.S. Eliot. Read his poetry here.

Lenora Goldman is a writer and psychotherapist from New York who currently makes her home on the coast of Maine. She studied psychology and literature at Bryn Mawr and Yale and attended the doctoral program in clinical psychology at NYU. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in the Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin, Twofold Press, Tipton Poetry Journal, Oak Bend Review, Hudson View Poetry Digest, and Flutter Poetry Journal. She lives in a crooked, leaky old farmhouse with her two chocolate labs, who (when they are feeling generous) let her share their bed. Read her poetry here.

Stephen Kopel is a teacher, cyclist, art collector and blatant wordsmith; his work resides in Margie, Free Lunch, Aethlon, Red Cedar Review, Harpur Palate, Birmingham Poetry Review, Comstock Review. He is the author of Spritz and Tender Absurdities; a nominee for Pushcart Prizes series XXV & XXXIII; and a nominee for San Francisco Poet Laureate 2009/2010. Read his poetry here.

Caitlin M. Lord is a restless townie currently residing in Western Mass, where she lives with her mooney son and her partner, a 1965 Columbia Torpedo she lovingly calls "Betsy." Read her poetry here.

Caroline Misner is a graduate of Sheridan College of Applied Arts & Technology with a diploma in Media Arts Writing. Her poems have appeared in Ideals magazine as well as Penwomanship, Quills, Leaf Press, Poetry Canada and others, and she is currently a member of The Canadian Federation of Poets. Read her poetry here.

George Moore has recently had collaborative exhibitions of his writings with artists in Spain, Iceland, Portugal and Canada, and his poetry has been published there as well as in England, Ireland, and France. His most recent manuscript was a finalist for the 2007 Richard Snyder Memorial Prize from Ashland Poetry Press, and earlier work was selected for the finals of The National Poetry Series, The Brittingham Award and The Anhinga Prize. Recent work has or will appear with Temenos, Bathhouse, Zone, Diode, International Zeitschrift, Diagram, Stickman Review, and previously with The Atlantic, Poetry, Northwest Review, and the Colorado Review. His most recent collection, Headhunting, was published by Edwin Mellen in 2002, and he has an eBook, All Night Card Game in the Back Room of Time, available from Poetschapbooks.com (2008). Moore teaches literature and writing with the University of Colorado, Boulder. Read his poetry here.

Carolyn Srygley-Moore is an award-winning graduate of the Johns Hopkins University's Writing Seminars, in Baltimore, and a Pushcart nominee; her digital chapbook Enough Light on the Dogwood is available at www.mimesispoetry.com. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Cartier Street Review, Antioch Review, Eclectica, Mimesis, Three Candles Journal, and two anthologies: Identity (Gold Wake Press) & the antiwar anthology Cost of Freedom. Other publications are available through Googling. She lives in Upstate New York with her husband & daughter. Read her poetry here.

Mark A. Murphy's poems have been published in over a dozen countries, including the U.S., Canada, England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany, Austria, Finland, Turkey, Australia and New Zealand. He studied philosophy as an undergraduate and poetry as a post-graduate, and had a small book of poems published in 1996 by Spout Publications, UK. Read his poetry here.

Amy Shearn is the author of the novel How Far is the Ocean From Here (Shaye Arheart/Crown). She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter. Read her fiction here.

Eduardo del Valle is a writer born in Havana, and now living in New Jersey. Read his fiction here.

Vincent Quentin Wolfram has been writing poetry for nearly three years. He enjoys watching movies, reading novels, kayaking, and skiing, but poetry writing is his favorite hobby. Read his poetry here.

Mabel Yu is a writer who grew up in the Washington D.C. area and received her MFA from Eastern Washington University. Her work has appeared in Knockout, Quarter After Eight, and Inkwell, and is forthcoming in Cream City Review, Clackamas Literary Review,, and Quick Fiction. Read her poetry here.