is a native Californian artist, musician, and poet living in San José, California. His work is informed by the diverse and interconnected geo–ecology and human potency of California, the American West, and beyond. His studies in Japanese language, philosophy, and art have expended his participation in the Pacific Rim cultural sphere. His work has appeared in Perfume River Poetry Review, Caesura, The Cape Cod Poetry Review, Newport Review, and Flying fish. 

lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine with his wife and dog. He has taught at Southern Maine Community College since 2004. He earned an M.F.A. from the Stonecoast creative writing program at the University of Southern Maine and a Masters Degree in Theological Studies, with honors, from Andover Newton Theological School. His poetry has been published in literary journals including Off the Coast, The Aurorean, and Idiom. His first collection of poems is forthcoming (spring 2013) from Moon Pie Press.

is a twenty–two year old artist /poet living and working in Glens Falls, NY; a small town in the foothills of the southern Adirondack Mountains. In both his visual art and poetry he tries to capture the tensions between one’s self and one’s external reality, and the inherent connections and paradoxes that arise. He is deeply influenced by the Black Mountain poets and his close friend and mentor, poet Paul Pines, who has gently guided and counseled him throughout his artistic endeavors.    

is a poet from Burlington, Vermont. He has written freelance pieces for the arts section of the Burlington Free Press, as well as a biography of Mohawk Indian poet Maurice Kenny for Scribner’s American Writers series. His poems have appeared in The Salon: A Journal of Poetry & Fiction and Danse Macabre. A chapbook is forthcoming from Burlington–based Honeybee Press.