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Mercedes Lawry’s work has previously appeared in such journals as Poetry, Natural Bridge, Nimrod, and Prairie Schooner. She has published two chapbooks (There are Crows in My Blood and Happy Darkness), short fiction, and stories and poems for children. A finalist for the 2017 Airlie Press Prize and the 2017 Wheelbarrow Book Prize, Ms. Lawry is the recipient of the Vachel Lindsay Poetry Prize from Twelve Winters Press and her manuscript, Small Measures, will be published in 2018. She has received honors from the Seattle Arts Commission, Jack Straw Foundation, Artist Trust and Richard Hugo House, been a threetime Pushcart Prize nominee and held a residency at Hedgebrook. Irene Meklin lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her short story “Rubber Lizards of Concord” was published in The SmokeLong Quarterly in 2017 and her flash fiction piece “I Guess We Are Too” in Fictional Pairings. The Ravsak Hebrew Poetry Contest winner (2016), she is fluent in Russian, English, Italian and Hebrew but prefers writing poems and short stories in English. Mitchell Nobis is a teacher and writer in Metro Detroit where he lives with his wife and young sons. Recently, his manuscript was a semi-finalist for the Philip Levine Prize. His poems appear in the English Journal and Language Arts Journal of Michigan with poems forthcoming in Rockvale Review and STAND Magazine. Mr. Nobis participated in the June 2017 cohort of the Tupelo Press 30/30 Project. His co-authored professional text for teachers, Real Writing: Modernizing the Old School Essay, was published in 2016. Kemal Onor has an MFA in Writing from The Solstice MFA in Writing Program at Pine Manor College. His work has been featured in Fictive Dream, 365 Tomorrows, West Texas Literary Review, The Chronicle, and Pamplemousse. His work is also forthcoming in The Tishman Review. He has twice won the JSC/VSC Fellowship. He lives in Michigan. James Owens’s most recent collection of poems is Mortalia (FutureCycle Press, 2015). His poems, stories, and translations appear widely in literary journals, including publications in The Fourth River, Kestrel, Adirondack Review, Tule Review, Poetry Ireland -60-
Review, and Southword. He earned an MFA at the University of Alabama and lives in Indiana and northern Ontario. Kate Peper’s chapbook, Dipped In Black Water, won the New Women’s Voices Award from Finishing Line Press, 2016. Her poems have been nominated five times for a Pushcart and have appeared in The Baltimore Review, Cimarron Review, Gargoyle, Rattle, Tar River Review and others. She lives just north of San Francisco with her husband and semi-feral dog, Hannah. Kenneth Pobo had a book out in 2017 from Circling Rivers called Loplop in a Red City. In addition to West Texas Literary Review, his work has appeared in: Mudfish, Colorado Review, Nimrod, Hawaii Review, and elsewhere. Tanyo Ravicz lived for many years in Alaska, where much of his writing is set. His indie book Alaskans: Stories is a selection of his short fiction from literary magazines. His novel A Man of His Village relates the odyssey of a migrant farm worker from Mexico to Alaska. He is currently at work on companion books, fiction and nonfiction, that emerge from his years on Alaska’s Kodiak Island. Erin Schalk is a visual artist and emerging poet. She has published poetry and non-fiction, as well as exhibited art throughout the United States and Japan. More work may be found at www.erinschalk.com. Harvey Silverman is a retired physician and writes primarily for his own enjoyment. Ron Stottlemyer lives in Helena, Montana. After a career of teaching/scholarship in college and universities across the country, he is returning to his life-long love of writing poetry. Along with writing, he has a passion for amateur astronomy, Mid-Eastern cooking, and for living with the moment. He believes that real poetry has its sole origin in corner-of-the-eye surprise, lives only in metaphor, and has graceful syntax, the stone of its memory. After starting to send poems this past spring, he has recently published in The Alabama Literary Review, The Sow’s Ear, Streetlight, and The American Journal of Poetry. -61-
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