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Jennifer Ames currently works in the film industry in Post Production, and has been writing fiction for five years. She received a BFA from Bowling Green State University, and though she is not from Ohio, she feels a great affinity for the people of Ohio, after living in Bowling Green, Ohio for four years. (Four and a half years, really.) Also, she graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University at Los Angeles in June 2008.

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Howie Good (goodh@newpaltz.edu), a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of five poetry chapbooks, Death of the Frog Prince (2004), Heartland (2007), and Apocalypse Mambo (forthcoming) from FootHills Publishing, Strangers & Angels (2007) from Scintillating Publications, and the e-book, Police & Questions (forthcoming), from Right Hand Pointing.

Carol Lynn Grellas is a Northern California-based writer. She has been widely published in literary journals including most recently, Chanterelle’s Notebook, Dogzplot and Moondance. She has poems forthcoming in Flutter, The Hiss Quarterly and Up The Staircase. Her chapbook, Litany of Finger Prayers will be released in 2008 from Pudding House Press. Her second chapbook, Object of Desire was recently accepted for publication and will be forthcoming from Finishing Line Press.

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Brian Henry’s screenplay Zak Bedford, Punk Detective is under option to Greg Feldman of Etosha Entertainment and was a top ten comedy finalist in the 2005 Page International Screenwriting Awards and a quarter-finalist in the 2007 Page Awards. His fantasy novel House of Prension was a semi-finalist in the 2008 Amazon.com Breakthrough Novel Award. Finally, his screenplay Utterly Alien was a semi-finalist in the 2004 Scriptapalooza Contest and 2004 American Accolades competition and his script Ill Advised was a semi-finalist in the 2005 Red Inkworks competition.

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Nicole Kuwik likes Chamomile even though the whiskery cat can’t spell it. She spends a lot of time with a fish named Mortimer, and believes flowers on the sides of highways should be given more consideration. She thanks you for reading her work and hopes you like it, at least a little bit.

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Gerry LaFemina’’s most recent book is the prose poem collection Figures from The Big Time Circus Book/ The Book of Clown Baby. His book The Parakeets of Brooklyn received the 2003 Bordighera Prize in Poetry and was published in a bi-lingual edition of English and Italian. His other books include Shattered Hours: Poems 1988-94, Zarathustra in Love (prose poems), Graffiti Heart, (winner of the 2001 Anthony Piccione/MAMMOTH Books Prize in Poetry), and The Window Facing Winter (New Issues, 2004). He’s also co-translator with Sinan Toprak of contemporary Turkish poet Ali Yuce’s Voice Lock Puppet, co-editor with Dan Crocker, of Poetry 30, an anthology of thirty-something poets, and co-editor with Chad Prevost of Evensong: Contemporary American Poets on Spirituality. Currently he directs the Frostburg Center for Creative Writing at Frostburg State University where he is an Assistant Professor of English. You can also read his poem Identity Theft here.

Richard Lighthouse is a contemporary writer, artist, and poet. His work has been published in numerous journals and magazines worldwide.

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Sergio Ortiz grew up in Chicago, studied English literature at Inter-American University in San German, Puerto Rico, philosophy at World University, and Culinary Art at The Restaurant School in Philadelphia. His work has been published in POUI The Cave, Origami Condom, and Poet’s Ink. He is pending publication in Flutter, Ascent Aspirations, Origami Condom, Children, Churches and Daddies, Cause & Effect, and Vagabondage Press.

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Eric Pierzchala is a current Zanesville, Ohio resident and completed his undergraduate work at Kent State University before enrolling as graduate student at The University of Akron. Along with working on his literary career, Pierzchala has pursued a number of diverse activities which included a stint in professional baseball as one of the very few professional knuckleball pitchers.

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Vincent Renstrom (b. 1962) lives with his wife, Sila, in Middletown, Ohio. He is a former adjunct professor of Spanish (Ph.D., Indiana University, 1996) at various US universities, most recently the University of Dayton (2003-2006).

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Angela Simione is a working visual artist in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her BFA with High Distinction in Painting and Drawing from The California College of the Arts in 2008 and is currently represented by HANG Art Gallery in San Francisco.

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Jillian Weise’s first book, The Amputee’s Guide to Sex, was published by Soft Skull Press. A chapbook, Translating the Body, was published by All Nations Press. Poems are forthcoming in Barrow Street, Forklift, Ohio, Pleiades and elsewhere. She is part of a project called “Poetry Everywhere” which debuted in the buses and subways of seven cities in February 2008. Jillian lives in Kentucky.

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