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Colette Tennant is the author of two poetry collections: Commotion
of Wings (2010), and Eden and After (2015). Her poems have
appeared in various journals, including Southern Poetry Review,
Dos Passos Review, Christianity and Literature, and the most recent
issue of Prairie Schooner. Her poetry was nominated for a Pushcart
Prize in 2015.
S.A. Volz lives in Evansville, Indiana. His writing has appeared
or is forthcoming in the Red Earth Review, the Foliate Oak Literary
Magazine, The Offbeat, and Sand Hills Literary Magazine.
Peter Waldor is the author of Door to a Noisy Room (Alice James
Books), The Wilderness Poetry of Wu Xing (Pinyon Publishing),
Who Touches Everything (Settlement House), which won the National
Jewish Book Award, The Unattended Harp (Settlement
House), State of the Union (Kelsay Books) and Gate Posts with No
Gate (Shanti Arts). Waldor was the Poet Laureate of San Miguel
County, Colorado from 2014 to 2015. His work has appeared in
many journals, including the American Poetry Review, Ploughshares,
The Iowa Review, The Colorado Review, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily and
Mothering Magazine. Waldor lives in Telluride, Colorado.
Brian Phillip Whalen’s writing appears in The Southern Review,
Spillway, Mid-American Review, North American Review, Cherry Tree,
Fiction International, Poets.org, and elsewhere. Brian received his
PhD from SUNY Albany and is a lecturer in the English Department.
He was a finalist in this year’s River Styx Microfiction Contest
and his forthcoming micro-essay “To Shoot Straight in a
Gunfight” was awarded second runner-up for the Chautauqua
Editors Prize. Brian lives with his wife and daughter in upstate
New York where in his spare time he teaches creative writing
workshops in public libraries (this year with a grant from Poets &
Writers).
Beth Oast Williams is a student with the Muse Writers Center
in Norfolk, Virginia. Her poetry has appeared recently in Lou Lit.
A former librarian, she spends most of her time still trying to
make order out of chaos.
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