JAKE SKILLINGS lives in Minneapolis, Mn. He works in a very large hospital as a Psychiatric Associate. His work has been published in: The Los Angeles Review, Ampersand Review, Revolver, Spork Press and others. He is currently writing a book based on his experiences working on an ITC psychiatric unit.

CAMERON MORSE taught and studied in China. Diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2014, he is currently an MFA candidate at UMKC and lives with his wife, Lili, in Blue Springs, Missouri. His poems have been or will be published in over 30 different magazines, including The New Territory, I-70 Review, South Dakota Review and TYPO.

GARY GLAUBER is a poet, fiction writer, teacher, and former music journalist. His works have received multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations. He champions the underdog to the melodic rhythms of obscure power pop. His collection, Small Consolations (Aldrich Press) is available through Amazon, as is a chapbook, Memory Marries Desire (Finishing Line Press). A new poetry collection, Worth the Candle, is forthcoming from Five Oaks Press in 2017.

ISAIAH PERRY is a student at Johnson State College.

SABRINA OLSEN is a student at Johnson State College.

EMILY LING is from Greenwood, South Carolina. She is currently a high school senior at the Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities. She enjoys riding her bike and watching the Food Network channel with her dog, Lola.

TIM CROCKER is a student at Bellows Free Academy. He lives in Vermont.

EMILY LING is from Greenwood, South Carolina. She is currently a high school senior at the Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities. She enjoys riding her bike and watching the Food Network channel with her dog, Lola.

DUNCAN GAMBLE is a poet-farmer studying neuroscience and music at the University of Vermont. He pretends he is a real adult and aspires to be a real artist. Every poem he has ever written is a love poem. Ask him. He loves rain, gardening, running, heartbeats, muddy feet, and blue pens. He is fond of writing letters; dogs; a good chef’s knife; and sunwarmed leather. He dreams about building his own house in the mountains. His work can be found elsewhere in back-issues of the Sandy River Review.

ASHLEY SLAYTON is a student at Johnson State College.

PETER LEIGHT lives in Amherst, Massachusetts. He has previously published poems in Paris Review, AGNI, Antioch Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, FIELD, and other magazines.

Born in Sadec, Vietnam in the aftermath of war, Samantha Lê immigrated to San Francisco when she was nine. She now lives amongst the foothills and vineyards of California’s central coast where she paints, hikes and reinvents old, family recipes. A recipient of the James D. Phelan Literary Award and the Donor Circle for the Arts Grant, Lê holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San José State University. Her publications include Corridors and Little Sister Left Behind. Her poetry has appeared in Able Muse Review, Bacopa Literary Review, Colere, Reed Magazine and other fine literary journals.

DARRELL DELA CRUZ‘s poems have appeared in The William & Mary Review, Hawaii Pacific Review, Rock & Sling, OCA Enizagam, and Thin Air. He has a blog where he analyzes poems: retailmfa.blogspot.com. He graduated with an MFA in Poetry from San Jose State University.

MARTY MCCONNELL lives in Chicago, Illinois, and received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Her first full-length collection, “wine for a shotgun,” was published by EM Press, and her first non-fiction book, “Gathering Voices: Creating a Community-Based Poetry Workshop,” is forthcoming in 2018 on YesYes Books.

EMMA TESTERMAN is a student at Johnson State College.

D.A. LOCKHART is a member of the Moravian of the Thames First Nation and lives in Windsor, ON Canada. He is the author of Big Medicine Comes to Erie (Black Moss Press 2016). His work has received numerous grants from the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.

HUNTER MALLETTE is a student at Johnson State College.

ELENA BOTTS grew up in the DC area, lived abroad briefly in Johannesburg and Berlin and currently studies at Bard College. She’s been published in fifty literary magazines over the past few years. She is the winner of four poetry contests, including Word Works Young Poets’.

SARAH KOENIG lives in Seattle, WA. Her poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Hummingbird, Tinderbox and Calyx. At press time she was job searching, and feels that if inspiration can be found in Help Wanted ads, it can be found anywhere.

Leah Duckett is a student at Johnson State College.

Changming Yuan, 9-time Pushcart nominee, published monographs on translation before moving out of China. Currently, Changming edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan in Vancouver, and has poetry appearing in Best Canadian Poetry, BestNewPoemsOnline, Threepenny Review and 1229 others across 38 countries.

MARY JULIA KLIMENKO obtained her BA & MA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University where she taught Creative Writing for two years before returning to school to get a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology. She divides her time between her private psychotherapy practice and writing. She has a chapbook published by Spire Press, Source Vein, is published in numerous literary journals and has three limited edition books in print in collaboration with artist, Manuel Neri. She’s been his primary model and collaborator for the past four decades.

BENJAMIN HARNETT, born 1981 in Cooperstown, NY lives in Brooklyn with his wife Toni. He holds an MA in Classics from Columbia University, and works as a digital engineer for The New York Times. His poetry, short stories, and essays have appeared in Pithead Chapel, Brooklyn Quarterly, Tahoma Literary Review, and (some of his best work) on Twitter, @benharnett.

PAULA MARAFINO BERNETT’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, Clackamas Literary Review, Fourth Genre, The Louisville Review, Margie, Nimrod International Journal, Rattle, Tar River Poetry, and, Whiskey Island, among others. She is the recipient of the St. John’s College 2011 Essay Prize, and holds an M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and an M.A. from St. John’s College. She is the recipient of two nominations for the 2013 Pushcart Prize.

RICKY GARNI was born and raised in Miami and Maine. He works as a graphic designer by day and writes music by night. COO, a tiny collection of short prose printed on college lined paper with found materials such as coins, stamps, was recently released by Bitterzoet Press.

BENJAMIN ALESHIRE is an artist based in New Orleans. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Boston Review, Burlington Free Press, and many others. He is a recipient of a Creation Grant from the VT Arts Council, and the Chighizola Award from the University of New Orleans. Ben founded Honeybee Press, a traditional book-arts publishing cooperative, and he serves as assistant poetry editor for the Green Mountains Review. Ben makes his living writing poems for strangers in the street on a manual typewriter.

SCOTT PENNEY lives in Bradford VT. Recent publications have appeared in Artful Dodge, basalt, Faultline, Fugue, Salon(VT), BlazeVox, and The Opiate. In 2014, he was a resident of the MacDowell Colony.

MICA EVANS is a Bennington College graduate, poet, and musician based in Chicago.

MARC BERMAN is a business executive originally from Boston. He is a member of the adjunct faculty at The University of Massachusetts/Amherst where he teaches “The Business of Media.” He is immediate past President of The New England Public Radio Foundation, licensee of the regions’s NPR radio/media stations.

LEAH DUCKETT is a student at Johnson State College

EILEEN HENNESSEY’s poems and short stories have been published in numerous literary journals. Her two book-length collections of poems are This Country of Gale-force Winds, published by NYQ Books in 2011, and Places Where We Have Lived Forever, published by Off The Park Press in 2015. She is a translator of legal and commercial documentation and books on art history into English from several other West European languages, and teaches in the translation studies program at New York University.

ELIZABETH CONARD is a 2015 BFA graduate from Johnson State College, where she studied creative writing and served as an intern for Green Mountains Review. She is currently pursuing teaching licensure and exploring
the ever-exciting world of MFA programs, appropriately priced car insurance, and vegetarian cooking. Pamplemousse is her first publication.