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Kara Arguello was born and raised in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania and now lives, works and writesin San Jose, California. Her work has appeared in Allegheny Literary Journal and Snail MailReview.Boyd W. Benson has recently moved to Everett, WA. He has worked as a cook, a janitor, a deliverydriver, a bum, an instructor of English, and taken a stab at various other lives. In 2007,his twenty-poem manuscript “The Owl’s Ears” was included in Volume 1 of the LOST HORSEPRESS NEW POETS SERIES: NEW POETS SHORT BOOKS, edited by Marvin Bell. His poemshave appeared in The Iowa Review, Ascent, Free Lunch, and other publications and anthologies.Melodie Bolt lives and works in Flint, Michigan. She’s earned an M.A. in English Compositionand Rhetoric from University of Michigan-Flint, an MFA in Writing from Pacific University inPortland, Oregon, and is currently a candidate for the MAT TESOL from the University of SouthernCalifornia. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in magazines like Verse Wisconsin,Yellow Medicine Review, Gutter Eloquence, WORK Literary Magazine! and Tales of the Unanticipated.Jan Bottiglieri lives and writes in Schaumburg, Illinois. Some of her previous publications includeRattle, Margie, Harpur Palate, Court Green, and the anthology Brute Neighbors. Jan is anassociate editor with the literary journal RHINO and a freelance writer, and the most recent thingshe baked was chocolate chip banana bread.Lisa Coffman draws her writing from landscapes and experiences that have shaped her—particularlythose from her native East Tennessee and from her current home on the Central Coast.She has received fellowships for her poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, the PewCharitable Trusts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and Bucknell University. Her firstbook of poetry, Likely, won the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize from Kent State UniversityPress.Elliot D’Antin has loved to paint from the instant his brush touched the canvas. He is currentlyattending Cal Poly Pomona for a baccalaureate degree in general anthropology, and someday hewill attain his doctorates. In his spare time, he enjoys playing guitar recreationally, and for hisunnamed band.Juan Delgado’s collection of poetry, Green Web, received the Contemporary Poetry Series Awardand was published by the University of Georgia Press. El Campo was published by Capra Press,and A Rush of Hands is in its second printing with the University of Arizona Press.41