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CONTRIBUTORS
Mandi Cook: Photography is how I fuse my digital interests with my traditional skills. When I began taking
portraits, I wanted the photos to speak loudly. Art must have a soul - I believe our spirits are older and larger than
our limited physical being. Our artistic influences should be larger than ourselves, and draw from an inner tenacity
for life, not just the external world around us. View more of my work here: http://dr34mcrush3r.deviantart.com/
Vinita Agrawal is a Mumbai based, award winning writer and poet. Her poems have appeared in Asiancha,
Constellations, The Fox Chase Review, Pea River Journal, Open Road Review, and Mandala among others. She was
nominated for the Best of the Net Awards 2011, awarded a prize in the Wordweavers Contest 2013 and is the author
of Words Not Spoken. She has a Masters in Political Science with a gold medal and is a full time writer.
Amy Ash is the author of a chapbook, Acme Book of Love (Main Street Rag). Her first full-length collection The
Open Mouth of the Vase (winner of the 2013 Cider Press Review Book Award) is forthcoming in 2015.
Callista Buchen is the author of the chapbooks The Bloody Planet (forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press) and
Double-Mouthed (forthcoming from dancing girl press). Her work has appeared in Arsenic Lobster, Blue Mesa
Review, DIAGRAM, and many other journals.
Lisa Marie Bastile is the founding editor of Luna Luna. She is the author of APOCRYPHAL (Noctuary Press):
a holy, girly, neurotic text obsessed with its own secret world. Her poetry and other work is found in Best American
Poetry, PANK, The Nervous Breakdown, Tin House, Prick of the Spindle and other publications. An MFA recipient
of The New School in NYC, she runs DIORAMA, an intimate literary/music salon.
A.M. Brant’s poems have appeared in Ninth Letter, Harpur Palate, Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere. She
lives in Pittsburgh.
Emily Cabettini is a fiction writer originally from Batavia, IL and received her Ph.D. from the University of
Louisiana at Lafayette. Her fiction has most recently appeared in Noctua Review, and her critical work on Doctor
Who is upcoming in Neil Gaiman in the Twenty-First Century (McFarland, forthcoming). She currently lives in
Maryland.
Moriah Cohen’s poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Hoot: A Mini Literary
Magazine on a Postcard, Baltimore Review, and Narrative where she was runner-up in this year’s “30 Below”
contest. She received her MFA from Rutgers University’s Newark Campus. Currently, she teaches at Ramapo
College.
Emily Rose Cole is a writer, folksinger, and MFA candidate in poetry at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
Her debut solo album, “I Wanna Know,” was released in May of 2012 and is available on iTunes and Amazon. Her
poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Gulf Stream, Weave Magazine, Jabberwock Review, Neon, and Word Riot,
among others. She is working on a collection of persona poems that re-envision The Wizard of Oz.
Chauna Craig’s stories and essays have appeared in magazines such as Prairie Schooner, Fourth Genre, and Flash
Interntional and the anthologies Sudden Stories (Mammoth Press) and You Have Time for This (Ooligan Press). Her
work has been recognized by the Pushcart Prize anthology and Best American Essays. She’s won fellowships to
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Vermont Studio Center, and Hedgebrook Writers Retreat. She teaches
creative writing at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Risa Denenberg is an aging hippie currently living in the Pacific Northwest who earns her keep as a nurse
practitioner. She is a moderator at The Gazebo, an online poetry board; reviews poetry for the American Journal of
Nursing; and is an editor at Headmistress Press, dedicated to publishing lesbian poetry. Her most recent publication
is blinded by clouds (Hyacinth Girls Press, 2014). You can learn more about Risa at:
http://risadenenberg.blogspot.com/
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