Summer 2011

In this issue:

Trisha Bora is an editor and writer who has been away from her hometown – Assam – for many years now and currently lives in Delhi. She studied English Literature at Delhi University and started a career in publishing immediately after. Her poems have been published at Ultra Violet, nth position, Poetry Super Highway, pyrta journal, with more forthcoming in Asia Writes and Nether Magazine.

Elijah Burrell is currently working toward his MFA in the Bennington Writing Seminars. His poetry has been published in The Sugar House Review, Muscle & Blood, Swink Magazine, The Country Dog Review, Blast Furnace, The Honey Land Review, Under One Sun, and forthcoming in The Penwood Review. Burrell was the recipient of the 2009 Cecil A. Blue Award in Poetry, and a finalist in the 2010 Pinch Poetry Contest. He resides in Jefferson City, Missouri with his wife and two little girls.

Anna Elkins has an M.F.A. in poetry and was a Fulbright Fellow of creative writing in Germany. She has been published in several journals and books and has multiple poems forthcoming in the North Carolina Literary Review and Reunion: The Dallas Review.

Stephen Germic is a poet living in Montana.

Jazmine Green is a Los Angeles based writer who has published poetry and short fiction in numerous independent literary publications. She spends her time writing and editing for for LA Yoga Magazine, blogging about wellness and whole living, and teaching hatha yoga. Jazmine is currently working on her first novel. You can read her blog and other published works at www.jazminegreen.com.

Karen Greenbaum-Maya is, among other things, a clinical psychologist in California. She has placed poems and photographs in many publications, most recently Off the Coast, qarrtsiluni, In Posse Review, Statushat Artzine, Tipton Poetry Journal, Poemeleon, Inlandia, dotdotdash, Waccamaw, and Sow’s Ear Poetry Review. She was nominated for the 2010 Pushcart Prize. Her first chapbook, Eggs Satori, was a finalist of note in Pudding House Publications’ 2010 competition, and will be published in 2011.

Joanne Merriam is a Nova Scotian living in Nashville. Her poetry has appeared in The Fiddlehead, Stand Magazine and Riddle Fence. You can find her online at joannemerriam.com.

George Moore‘s book of poems, Children’s Drawings of the Universe, will be released in Ireland in 2012. He recently completed an artist residency on the island of Paros in Greece, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net and Best of the Web awards.

Ali Wisch is a playwright, poet, novelist, artist and executive producer of Ali Wisch Productions.