bio

Andrew Valentine’s stories have appeared in Literary Orphans, Chagrin River Review, Pioneertown, Poplorish! and the Shrug, among others. He lives and writes in Eugene, OR.

Ange Mlinko is the author of four books of poetry, including Marvelous Things Overheard, Shoulder Season, which was a finalist for the William Carlos Williams Award, and Starred Wire, a National Poetry Series pick and finalist for the James Laughlin Award. She has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Randall Jarrell Award for Criticism, and served as poetry editor for the Nation. Her essays and reviews have been published in The Nation, The London Review of Books, Poetry, and Parnassus. Educated at St.

Ronald McFarland teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Idaho. His most recent book is a biography of Lieutenant Colonel Edward J. Steptoe (1815–1865) entitled Edward J. Steptoe and the Indian Wars (2016). His book, Appropriating Hemingway (2014), concerns Ernest Hemingway’s appearance as a character in popular fiction and other genres.

Rebecca Lee has been writing since she could pick up a pen. She has published with the Noctua Review, Existere Journal, Cleaver Magazine, and others. Currently, Rebecca lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

N.S. Thompson lives near Oxford, UK. His most recent book of poetry is Letter to Auden (Smokestack, 2010), a verse epistle in rime royal. He is the coeditor with Andy Croft of A Modern Don Juan: Cantos for These Times by Divers Hands (Five Leaves, 2014), a collection of new verse narratives bringing Byron’s hero into the modern world. His collection, Line Dancing, is forthcoming from Red Squirrel and a collection of his translations of Pier Paolo Pasolini, The Ashes of Gramsci, is also planned.

Alexander Pepple founded and edits Able Muse and Able Muse Press, and also founded and directs the Eratosphere online worskshop. His poetry and prose have been or will be published in Barrow Street, River Styx, American Arts Quarterly, Light, Think Journal, Euphony, Per Contra, La Petite Zine, San Pedro River Review and elsewhere.

Born in 1981 near Washington, DC, John Ellis is a writer, editor, and teacher. He has lived, traveled, or studied throughout Western Europe, West Africa, and across the United States and served in the US military. He teaches English Literature in a private school in San Francisco and is a contributing writer and editor for a Northern California nonprofit that serves veterans. Currently, Ellis is a graduate student and teaching fellow in the Master of Fine Arts Program at Saint Mary’s College of California, where he is writing his first book-length work, a memoir.