Elizabeth Parfitt

Elizabeth Parfitt has a BA in English from Penn State University and graduated with an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College in December 2005. She is a creative nonfiction writer with interests in column-writing and personal essays, focusing on themes such as identity and pop culture in America.  Elizabeth teaches essay and research writing at Emerson, and has published articles in State College Magazine,Research/Penn State, and Boston Magazine.

Diane Parisella-Katris

Diane Parisella-Katris is a graduate of School of Visual arts in New York City. She currently resides in New Mexico and her work focuses on the natural abstract perspective. Her work has been featured in numerous publications and most recently on display at the LA center for digital art.

Brian Parkison

Brian Parkison is a junior English major and Philosophy, Religious Studies minor at Ball State University. He currently resides in Muncie, Indiana, where he serves ice cream for a living. He has previously been published in Ball State’s creative writing outlet, The Broken Plate. He hopes to someday make a profession out of doing what he loves—writing.

Beth Partin

Beth Partin’s poetry has been published in Many Mountains Moving, The Potomac Review, Wazee, and elsewhere. Her short novel Microgravity was published in 1998. She lives near Denver and likes to take photographs of the Mile-High City and publish them at Beth at Home and Abroad. In 2011 she and her husband hope to sell their house and spend the next 12 months traveling to 12 cities in the United States.

Sam Peczek

Sam is convinced that she was meant to have been spawned in one of those lovely Scandinavian countries, but something went horribly wrong and she ended up being spat out into the gloriously grim UK instead.  She currently devotes her time to miscellaneous scheming, writing fictitious things and glaring at people who look like they know what they’re doing.  During more hopeful interludes, Sam gets her thrills editing blue-eyed boy bait,  a shiny new lit mag with a deceptively twee name.

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Mihály Flandorffer Peniche

Mihaly Flandorffer Peniche currently resides in Madrid, Spain. His work has been featured at FAIM 07, La Castellana, Instituto Rural de Arte, and Galer�a San Vicente,among others. His art is based on the idea that the artist can implement the idea of “Modern Minimalism” by creating the greatest number of possible parallel realities of a same event or object, and arises from the need a man has to create new things. Every day, it is more difficult to compete against technology (for example the animations by computer, the definition of a digital camera, or the quality of impression), therefore the competition requires new tools to maximize human potential. You can read more of his manifesto at http://penicheart.com.

Leigh Phillips

Leigh Phillips is working towards her PhD at Binghamton University, focusing on contemporary feminisms, political discourses, and experimental poetics. Her poems have appeared in Harpur Palate, Long Shot, Lodestar Quarterly, Shampoo, and Ugly Poets, Beautiful Poems: An Anthology of Fusion. She is circulating her first poetry manuscript, Naked in the Heartbreak House. Leigh also has articles in the Encyclopedia of Third Wave Feminism, and in the forthcoming Encyclopedia of the Modern World.

Anna Lena Phillips

Anna Lena Phillips received an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College in 2006 and moved back south as soon as she could thereafter. She is the recipient of a 2008 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg prize for poetry. She writes, bikes, and plays oldtime banjo in Piedmont North Carolina. Anna Lena is a founding editor of Fringe.

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Joe Plicka

Joe Plicka lives and teaches and pursues some sort of degree in Athens, Ohio. His work has appeared in Anti- and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Cati Porter

Cati Porter is the author of a full-length collection, Seven Floors Up (Mayapple Press, 2008), and small fruit songs (Pudding House, 2008), a chapbook of prose poems. She is an associate editor for the journals Babel Fruit and Protest Poems and is founder and editor-in-chief of Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry. Learn more about her by visiting her website or her blog.

Lea Povozhaev

Lea Povozhaev writes in the genre of creative nonfiction. Her work appears in Ohio Teachers Write and is forthcoming in the anthology Growing Up Transnational and the Akros Review. She has a column in Cleveland State’s Vindicator, and has written for the online literary magazine YACK. She has recently completed a memoir, When Russia Came to Stay, a story of love, multicultural marriage, and the Russian Orthodox Church, showing how the mystery of life, the unexpected way things happen, leads to faith in God and family. She lives in Stow, Ohio, with her husband and their two-year-old and newborn.

Matthew Purdy

Matthew Purdy’s work has previously appeared in Iron Horse Literary Review, Mid-American Review, One Story, and Best New American Voices, 2005.  He is a recipient of a 2003 AWP Intro Journals Award and is currently working toward a PhD in English and creative writing at Texas Tech University.