Thom Dawkins
is an M.F.A. candidate at Chatham University, where he also serves as a poetry editor for The Fourth River literary journal. His poetry has been most recently published in The New Formalist. Thom currently lives in Pittsburgh with his wife Alexa, a nonprofit executive.
Rebecca Pendel
Rebecca Pendel: was born and raised in Farrell, Pennsylvania. She was introduced to medium format film photography through friends who used plastic cameras better known as the Holga and Diana. It was the surreal values of these plastic lenses that intrigued her most and defined a dreamscape style she desires today. She has since then assembled a collection of portrait work featuring friends and family and has had work published and exhibited in various Fine Art magazines and juried shows. When not shooting toy cameras, she also uses several Polaroid models and instant film types for equal aesthetics and instant gratification. Her renditions are raw in their expressive power and she wants it that way in both mediums. Her photographs speak candidly, honestly and bluntly, in some cases, but always willing to seek a simultaneous grace in which to show that people and their dreams and feelings, are beautiful and everlasting.
William Teunis Paarlberg
William Teumis Paarlberg: has always taken the road less traveled. In fact, whether it is on the Web or on a snowboard, he usually blazes his own trail off through the bush somewhere. Highlights of his youth include two years of school in Kenya and Uganda, national ranking as a Category 1 USCF cyclist, a M.A. in Cognitive Psychology and the Daughters of the American Revolution eighth grade medal for excellence in the study of history. After brief stints as a waiter, ski-instructor, stone mason, and highway safety researcher, he and a partner created re:Ports. magazine, a weekly arts and entertainment print publication that featured local artists, writers and designers, as well as listing everything to do, every night of the year in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Four years later, after 217 consecutive weekly issues, the magazine was sold at a profit. Since that time, he has run his own design and illustration studio, specializing in architectural rendering, newsletters and drawings of huge mythical creatures destroying local landmarks. He lives in Kittery Point, Maine, with his daughter, various cats, some bonsai trees and a 1968 Sunbeam Alpine.
Padma Thornlyre
resides in the canyon village of Kitteredge, Colorado. His long poem, Mavka, in 51 parts, will appear in 2011.









