Kim Peter Kovac
Kim Peter Kovac works nationally and internationally in theater for young audiences with an emphasis on new play development and networking. He tells stories on stages as producer of new plays, and tells stories in writing with lineated poems, prose poems, creative non-fiction, flash fiction, haiku, haibun, and microfiction, with work appearing or forthcoming in print and on-line in journals from Australia, India, Dubai (UAE), the UK, and the USA, including The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Red Paint Hill, Elsewhere, Frogpond, Mudlark, and Counterexample Poetics.
He is fond of avant-garde jazz, murder mysteries, contemporary poetry, and travel, and lives in Alexandria, VA, with his bride, two Maine Coon cats, and a Tibetan Terrier named Finn. www.kimpeterkovac.tumblr.com

James Brush lives in Austin, TX where he teaches high school English. He is the author of Birds Nobody Loves, A Place Without a Postcard, and numerous scraps of paper around his house.
Cynthia Anderson lives in the Mojave Desert near Joshua Tree National Park. She is the author of four poetry collections—In the Mojave, Desert Dweller, and Shared Visions I and 2 (in collaboration with her husband, photographer Bill Dahl). She is co-editor of the anthology A Bird Black as the Sun: California Poets on Crows & Ravens. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in journals such as Askew, Waypoints, Dark Matter, Whale Road, and Eternal Haunted Summer.
JoyAnne O'Donnell is a poet from Pennsylvania. Her poems appeared in various online and print poetry places including Poetic Medicine, UpEnder, Enclave and more.
Veronica Matsuda ♦
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in Shift, River And South and Flights. Latest books, “Bittersweet”, “Subject Matters” and “Between Two Fires” are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in Levitate, Writer’s Block and Trampoline.
Sara Norja dreams in two languages and has a predilection for tea. Born in England and currently settled in Helsinki, Finland, she is pursuing a PhD in English linguistics.
Guy Traiber was born and raised in the sweltering middle-east and found love in the cold mountains of the Alps. After a decade of traveling extensively throughout India, South-East Asia & Europe he is now pitched again on the soil of his youth. He studies Sociology & Political Science and Chinese Medicine and finds that they all relate.