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Here are this issue’s writers’ bios:

Randall Compton currently lives in Longview, Texas where he teaches writing and literature at LeTourneau University. His poetry has recently appeared or been accepted in Southwestern American Literature, Inscape, Triggerfish Critical Review, and Lumina.

Justin Dodd was born and raised in central Virginia. He moved to Manhattan in 2001 and now resides in Brooklyn with his four cats. Dodd is a book designer for HarperCollins and a photographer and illustrator in his free time. His work has previously appeared in Western Humanities Review, Fourteen Hills, DIAGRAM Magazine, Phoebe, Word for/Word, The Powhatan Review, Bateau and Heliotrope, and is forthcoming in EBB:FLO. He was one of fourteen finalists for the 2007 Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books. In 2004, he was nominated for a Pushcart prize and was invited by the Center for Book Arts to attend the Letterpress Printing & Fine Press Publishing Seminar For Emerging Writers. The Center also produced a broadside of one of his poems in a limited edition. While at Columbia’s School of the Arts, he received the Corrente Fellowship and an internship with the Academy of American Poets.

Robert Klein Engler lives in Oak Park and Des Plaines, Illinois and sometimes New Orleans. Many of Robert’s poems and stories are set in the Crescent City. His long poem, The Accomplishment of Metaphor and the Necessity of Suffering, set partially in New Orleans, is published by Headwaters Press, Medusa, New York, 2004. He has received an Illinois Arts Council award for his “Three Poems for Kabbalah.” Some of his books are available at Lulu.com. Visit him on the web at RobertKleinEngler.com.

E. Farrell Son of the Midwest, present resident of the great Commonwealth of Massachusetts, sometime ditch digger, retail manager, salesman, international executive, teacher, chaplain, student, consultant, security guard, orderly, father, husband, poet, singer. Full time human.

Samara Golabuk is a self-employed graphic designer, living with her husband, her son, and a dog in a house with a garden in Gainesville, FL. She is a BA in Creative Writing candidate at Southern New Hampshire University. Her work has appeared in such publications as Quincy Writers Guild, Strong Verse, 322 Review, and others. She’s pretty sure the garden thing gives you the wrong idea about her.

Heidi Hart received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College in 2000 and currently teaches creative writing at Westminster College in Salt Lake City. Her published work includes the memoir Grace Notes: The Waking of a Woman’s Voice (University of Utah Press, 2004) and the four-poet collection Edge by Edge (Toadlily Press, 2007). She has received a Pushcart Prize for poetry, a Utah Arts Council Established Artist Grant, an Honorable Mention in the New Letters essay competition, and a Jentel Foundation Residency Award. Her poetry and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Harpur Palate, Lumina, Cimarron Review, Pleiades, Quarterly West, Monkscript, Pilgrimage, Western Humanities Review, BrokenPlate, Ellipsis, Dialogue, CityArt, Irreantum, The Cortland Review, Friends Journal, The Salt Flats Annual, Northern Lights, Isotope, and qarrtsiluni.

Eric Kocher currently lives in Houston, TX. Some of his work is forthcoming or has appeared in Boston Review, DIAGRAM, Catch-Up, Octopus, The Offending Adam, and Washington Square Review.

Sean Lyon was born/raised in Texas and educated in Boston. He has since relocated to New York City.

Kelly Nelson lives in Tempe, Arizona. Her poems have appeared in Bellowing Ark and Blue Guitar and are forthcoming in nibble and Sandcutters. She’s been nominated for a Pushcart and teaches at Arizona State University.

Allan Peterson Omnivore was recently released from Bateau Press after winning their BOOM chapbook competition. All the Lavish in Common, his last full-length collection, won the 2005 Juniper Prize. Recent print and online appearances include: Gulf Coast, Northwest Review, Blue Fifth, Oranges & Sardines, Notre Dame Review. Work forthcoming in Shenandoah, Denver Quarterly, Paris Review. Recent prizes include the 2009 Dos Cosas Award, the 2008 American Poet Prize.

Molly Prentiss lives and writes in San Francisco, where she is currently pursuing her MFA in Creative writing at the California College of the Arts. She has been published in La Petit Zine, Glossolalia Flash Fiction Review, The Plaid Review, Saveur Magazine, and is soon to be featured in Miracle Monacle, The City Reader and OneDedCow. She is the editor of a zine titled Bummer City and a co-director of an arts and writing collective called factorycompany. Molly also enjoys working in visual art, and both her writings and drawings can be found at: mollyprentiss.blogspot.com..

Liza Sparks is from Lafayette Colorado and graduated from The Colorado College in 2009. Her poetry has appeared in The Leviathan, Home (this – a literary webzine), Poets online, and will be appearing in Issue Three ofBennington’s Plain China (Best Undergraduate Writing 2009).

Austin Tally is a junior at Johns Hopkins University in the Writing Seminars department. His work has appeared in Northern Stars Magazine, Down in the Dirt and the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Justin Webb has been reading and writing poetry since he was first introduced to the writings of e.e. cummings in 2002. Currently a senior studying English and Philosophy at the State University of New York at Fredonia, he is always seeking new avenues of self-expression, and he experiments with form as a means to enhance the poem’s message. After graduation, Justin hopes to pursue an MFA Creative Writing in poetry.