Pete Simonelli lives in New York City. He also writes poetry.

• A Poem Under the Influence: Morandi’s Natura Morta, No. 86

Pat Daneman writes poetry and short fiction. She has published in Off the Coast, qarrtsiluni, Blood Orange Review, Cortland Review, Fresh Water and other print and on-line magazines. Her poem "Thanksgiving", in The Apple Valley Review, was selected for the 2009 Best of the Net Anthology. She lives in Kansas City.

• Waking in Her Father’s Bed

Aichlee Bushnell is a first year graduate student in poetry at Mills College. A Philadelphia native, Aichlee graduated in 2009 from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in English. Before moving to Oakland, California to pursue her MFA, Aichlee lived in Salvador, Brazil where she worked on her most recently completed project, O que é que a baiana tem?--a collection of photographs and poetry about Brazil in the foreign imagination.

• War logic / on Supper with Botero’s Cerberean army

Anna Claire Hodge is a MFA candidate at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is a nominee for AWP's Intro Journals project, and her work has previously appeared in the journal So To Speak.

• Greystone

Ben Heins is an avid reader and writer of poetry, mentored by the late Dr. Len Roberts. His work has appeared in several publications over the past three years, including White Pelican Review and Wild Violet, and his poem, "Stone's Weight," took first place in the Lindsay R. Hannah Poetry Contest in April, 2007. His writing group, The Winged Poets, has been meeting regularly since 2005. In 2008, Ben earned a BA in professional writing with a minor in English literature from Kutztown University. He is currently enrolled in a poetry MFA program at Rosemont College.

• Twenty-One Guns

Kasandra Larsen's first chapbook, Stellar Telegram, is forthcoming in 2010 from Sheltering Pines Press; her poems have appeared in The Watermark, Short Fuse: The Global Anthology of New Fusion Poetry, Poems-for-All, 100 Poets Against the War, Babylon Burning: 9/11 Five Years On, Look! Up in the Sky!, Ballard Street Poetry Journal (for which she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize), and SLAB, as well as online at The November 3rd Club (for which she was nominated for a Best of the Net award), Poetic Diversity, nthposition, Osprey Journal, The Lipstick Pages, Full of Crow, tinfoildresses, and The Nervous Breakdown.

• On The Peace To Be Found While Vacuuming

Molly McGuire received a BA in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where her senior creative writing thesis won a UW Bookstore Academic Excellence award and the Cy Howard Prize. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at UMass Boston.

• La Llorona

Julie L. Moore is the author of Slipping Out of Bloom, forthcoming from WordTech Editions, and the chapbook, Election Day (Finishing Line Press). Moore is a Pushcart Prize nominee and recent recipient of the Rosine Offen Memorial Award from the Free Lunch Arts Alliance in Illinois, the Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize from Ruminate: Faith in Literature and Art, and the Judson Jerome Poetry Scholarship from the Antioch Writers' Workshop. Moore has contributed poetry to Alaska Quarterly Review, Atlanta Review, CALYX, Chautauqua Literary Review, Cimarron Review, Dogwood, The MacGuffin, Sou'Wester, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and others.

• Blue

Heather Napualani Hodges is pursuing various inertias. She is currently working on a collaborative visual art/writing installation project entitled Pieces in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with visual artist Julie Jansen. Each day something is created, placed carefully, then left behind.

• Our Relation to Marine Mammals and Bivalve Molluscs

Jon Ballard's poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Flint Hills Review, Two Review, Oklahoma Review, River Oak Review, and Valparaiso Poetry Review, among many others. He is the author of four poetry chapbooks, most recently Such Small Rain (Pudding House, 2009). Currently he lives in North Carolina.

• Daybreak

S.D. Mullaney is currently pursuing his MFA in Poetry at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. His first full-length collection of poems, Follow the Wolf Moon, appeared in January 2005. His poems have appeared and/or will appear in The New York Review, Breakwater, and Hoi Polloi. He is a regular contributor to the online political journal Pemmican. His poetry has been featured as part of the Unitarian Universalist Association's celebration of marriage equality in Massachusetts. Other work has been featured on WOMR 92.1 FM, Radio Provincetown and WERS 88.9 FM, Boston. He's been working on a spoken-word album for a couple of years.

• Night Dust Tears

Rebecca Coffey is a documentary videographer and radio commentator (Vermont Public Radio), who writes both nonfiction and fiction. Her documentaries have won major awards. Her nonfiction book Unspeakable Truths and Happy Endings won recognition from the American Library Association's Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book. She is an occasional contributor to Discover Magazine, and has had short fiction published in JMWW, Miranda, and Narwhal.

• Animal Truths

Robert Paul Moreira lives and writes in South Texas. His written works have appeared or are forthcoming in Storyglossia, Bartleby Snopes, Aethlon: The Journal of Sports Literature, Interstice Literary Journal, The Quay, and The Acentos Review.

• Born in Blood

Dominic Saucedo, a native of Los Angeles, now happily resides in Minneapolis. He has received fellowships from the Minnesota State Arts Board, SASE/Jerome Foundation, and The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. "Omar, Then Elias," is one story from a collection, Knowing You in Snow. The title piece appears in "Fiction on a Stick": Stories by Writers from Minnesota (Milkweed Editions, 2009).

• Omar, Then Elias

Jesse Goolsby is an author and poet currently teaching composition, literature, and creative writing in Colorado. His work has appeared in Harpur Palate, Storyglossia, Breakwater Review, Vestal Review, War, Literature & the Arts, Oak Bend Review, and various anthologies. His short story "Derrin of the North" won the 2009 John Gardner Memorial Award in Fiction. He serves as the Fiction Editor for War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal.

• Touch