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Contributors
July Westhale (“The Last Five Years”) is a Pushcartnominated
poet, activist, and radical archivist with a weakness
for botany and hot air balloons. She has been awarded
residencies from the Lambda Literary Foundation,
Tin House and Bread Loaf. Her poetry has most recently
been published in burntdistrict, The Journal of Kentucky
Studies, WordRiot, 580 Split, Quarterly West, and PRISM International. Her
poetry can also be found in the recently released anthologies: Women Write
Resistance, and Contemporary Queer Poetry. She was recently nominated
as a Best New Poet for 2012 and 2013, for an AWP Intro Award, and as
a finalist for a Creative Writing Fulbright. www.julywesthale.com
Miles White (“Don’t Start Me Talking”) is the author
of the flash fiction collections Jesus Loves You But Not Today
and Download the Moon from his series the Canvas Sextet.
He is a former staff writer for USA TODAY and the
author of From Jim Crow to Jay Z: Race, Rap and the Performance
of Masculinity, a highly acclaimed socio-historical
study of hip hop music and culture. He holds a PhD in ethnomusicology
from the University of Washington and a B.A. in English from the
Colorado College. He lives in Central Europe with his partner Karin and
their dog Rex.
Paul J. Willis (“Salvatore”) is a professor of English at
Westmont College and a former poet laureate of Santa
Barbara. His most recent collections of poetry are Say
This Prayer into the Past (Cascade Books, 2013) and Rosing
from the Dead (Wordfarm, 2009). Learn more at
www.pauljwillis.com.
Terry Wolverton (“Phrenologist’s Leap”) has authored
ten books of poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction. She’s
just re-released her novel, Bailey’s Beads, in paperback and
e-book. She’s the founder of Writers At Work, a Los Angeles
creative writing studio, and is a member of the Affiliate
Faculty in the MFA Writing Program at Antioch
University Los Angeles. www.terrywolverton.com.
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