Calla Devlin’s work has appeared in anthologies and literary journals, including The MacGuffin Watchword, Five Fingers Review, Visions, Square Lake, Wilderness House Literary Review, Work: A literary Journal, The Burnside Reader, among others. Her story “Borderlines” won honorable mention as one of the year’s most notable publications in Dave Egger’s Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003 and her story “Bird’s Milk” was a finalist in Glimmer Train’s 2009 fiction competition. She was included in two anthologies, Lost on Purpose: Women in the City and Because I Love Her: 34 Women Writers Reflect on the Mother-Daughter Bond, for which she was featured in the San Francisco Chronicle. Currently, she is at work on a novel.

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Peter Kline's poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Tin House, Poetry, Crazyhorse, and other journals. He is the recipient of a 2008 Wallace Stegner Fellowship and the 2010 Morton Marr Prize from the Southwest Review. He lives in San Francisco.

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Jim McGarrah’s poems and essays appear frequently in many literary journals and magazines including Bayou Magazine, Café Review, Connecticut Review, Elixir, North American Review, Poetry Southeast, Southern Indiana Review, and Under the Sun. He is a Pushcart Prize nominee and the author of two award-winning books of poetry, Running the Voodoo Down (Elixir Press, 2003) and When the Stars Go Dark, (Main Street Rag, 2009), two memoirs, A Temporary Sort of Peace (Indiana Historical Society Press, 2007), which received the 2010 Eric Hoffer Award for Legacy Nonfiction and was a finalist for the Montaigne Medaland his newest book of nonfiction, The End of an Era (Ink Brush Press, 2011). He is editor, along with Tom Watson, of the anthology Home Again: Essays and Memoirs from Indiana (Indiana Historical Society Press, 2007). McGarrah holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and an MA in Liberal Studies from the University of Southern Indiana.

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Patricia Caspers is a poetry editor for Prick of the Spindle. She has work forthcoming from Spillway.

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Katherine Hoerth received her MFA at the University of Texas Pan American. She is the author of Among the Mariposas (Mouthfeel Press, 2010), a chapbook of poems, and the recipient of the Nuestra Voz Prize for border women poets. Her work has been included in numerous publications, including Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Front Porch and Word Riot. Katherine currently lives in Edinburg, Texas near the US/Mexico border and works at the University of Texas Pan American as an English instructor through the Upward Bound program, serving migrant farm-workers and first generation college students. She has also worked as an English teacher with recent immigrant children, and has served as chief editor of UTPA’s Gallery Magazine. Her future plans include pursuing a PhD in poetry and continuing to serve the global community as an educator and advocate for human rights. Visit her online at http://www.katiehoerth.blogspot.com.

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Angie Macri's recent work appears in Adanna, Cave Wall, Connotation Press, and Ecotone, among other journals, and is included in Best New Poets 2010. A recipient of an individual artist fellowship from the Arkansas Arts Council, she teaches in Little Rock.

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Rad Thie is from Cincinnati. His work has been published in Haven.

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Danielle Fontaine is currently a working writer pursuing her MFA at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her work received an honorable mention in the Academy of American Poets Writing Competition and has been featured on NPR’s “Here and Now” website. Her poems have appeared in Juked Poetry, Front Range, Prick of the Spindle and others. She writes both conventional and performance poetry and has featured at various venues in the Boston area.

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Lou Gaglia's stories appear in many publications, including JMWW, FRiGG, Blueline, Foliate Oak, and Prick of the Spindle. He teaches English in upstate New York and is a long-time T'ai Chi Ch'uan practitioner.

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