Here are this issue's writers' bios:

Mary Beth Asaro has been published in The Poet's Haven. She grew up in Darlington, South Carolina, and graduated from Francis Marion University with a Bachelor's Degree in English-Liberal Arts and a minor in Creative Writing. Read her poetry here.

C. Thompson Boling is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where she studied English. She currently lives on Nantucket with her husband, cat, and dog. When she is not writing, she spends her time selling real estate and growing daffodils. Read her poetry here.

Jeremy Byars's first poetry collection, Eyes Open to the Flash, was published in 2008, and he's currently working on his next collection, as well as an annotated bibliography of the Towneley plays. His poems and reviews have appeared in many journals, most recently storySouth, Ariel, If Poetry Journal, and Heartland Review. Read his poetry here.

Joshua Conklin earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College in 2005 and since then his poetry has been featured at Inkwell, Foliate Oak, Ocean, A Generation Defining Itself: In Our Own Words, and The Anthology of New England Writers 2008. He is an assistant editor at both JMWW and Slurve, two online literary magazines. A teacher by trade, he is currently a stay-at-home dad. Read his poetry here.

Darren C. Demaree has been published most recently in the South Carolina Review, Meridian, Prick of the Spindle, California Quarterly, and Caffeine Destiny. He is finishing his Masters in Creative Writing at Miami University. Read his poetry here.

Leah Erickson has been published in The Saint Ann's Review, Sub-Lit, Atomjack, Silverthought, and The Stickman Review. She has a piece upcoming at Forge Journal. She lives in Rhode Island with her husband and daughter. Read her fiction here.

Liz Looke lives in the Bay Area and is currently working on her first book of poems entitled When the Deer Bites Back. Read her poetry here.

Tina Higgins , is a recent graduate of the MFA program at Hamline University in St. Paul, MN. She writes both poetry and prose. Read her fiction here.

Terry Miller is a published and award winning poet from Fort Bend County, Texas. His work has been published in anthologies of the Gulf Coast Poets, Sol Magazine and other Texas publications. In January 2010, his poem "The Diagnosis" will appear in the Birmingham Arts Journal. His first book of poetry, "The Day I Killed Superman" will be released in December 2009. He is a member of the Gulf Coast Poets Society, the founder of the Fort Bend Poets Group and the Fort Bend County Poet Laureate Competition. Terry is a professor of eMarketing and holds an Innovation Fellowship at Kaplan University. Read his poetry here.

Yash Parghi is an unpublished writer living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. Parghi was born and grew up in the southern U.S. before heading out west for a change of scene. Read his fiction here.

Martin Willitts Jr recent poems appeared in Blue Fifth, Parting Gifts, Bent Pin, Glass, Flutter, Coal Hill Review, New Verse news, Storm at Galesburg and other stories (anthology), The Centrifugal Eye, Quiddity, Autumn Sky Poetry, Protest Poems, and Sea Stories. His tenth chapbook is "The Garden of French Horns" (Pudding House Publications, 2008) and his second full-length book of poetry is "The Hummingbird" (March Street Press, 2009). Read his poetry here.