Jefferson Navicky
has had work appear or is forthcoming in Octopus Magazine, Horse Less Review, Smokelong Quarterly, Birkensnake, and Hobart. His essay about Battery Steele on Peaks Island recently won the Maine Community Foundation’s “A Place in Maine” essay contest. He teaches English at Southern Maine Community College and lives in Portland with his wife and tennis partner, Sarah.
John McKernan
grew up in Nebraska and is now a retired comma herder after teaching at Marshall University for many years. He lives mostly in West Virginia and edits ABZ Press. He has published poems in many places from The Atlantic to Zuzu’s Petal. His latest book is Resurrection of the Dust.
Petar Matovic
was born in 1978, Serbia. He graduated in Serbian Literature at the University of Belgrade. He has published three poetry collections: Cameral Pieces, The Suitcases of Jim Jarmusch (1st prize for poetry of the publishing house Treci trg), Where Do Beavers Come From (Gaude Polonia fellowship). His poems have been included in several poetry anthologies in Serbia and abroad and translated into Polish, English, German, French, and Catalan.
Nancy Jean Hill
is a grandmother from Stratham, New Hampshire. She is an active participant in the Seacoast poetry community and the author of a chapbook, Beryllium Diary (Pudding House, 2007) that depicts the far–reaching and personal effects of industrial disease. Her poems have also appeared in several literary journals and anthologies including Slipstream; Calyx, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women; Compass Rose; Phoebe; Notes; and Omphalos.

