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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Bridget Pelkie

Bridget Pelkie, who holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College, credits PBS with her love of learning and reading today.  She has been published in Smokelong Quarterly, Pearl, and What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers, among others.  More of her writing and cartooning can be found at Dabbling Deep.  Bridget lives in Somerville, MA.

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.

Nathaniel Perry

Nathaniel Perry is the author of Nine Acres (APR/Copper Canyon, 2011).  He lives with his family in rural southside Virginia and is the editor of the Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review.

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. Her work appears in BlazeVOX, Open Letters Monthly, the Anthology of Appalachian Writers, and others. She is the recipient of 2008 and 2009 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg prizes for poetry and of a 2011 Emerging Artist grant from the Durham County Arts Council. One of her recent projects is documented at http://theendearments.wordpress.com. Anna Lena is a founding editor of Fringe.

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Rose Mary Pillowwater

Born George Myers, evolved into Amy George, reborn as Rose Mary Pillowwater, the author’s transformation from male-to-female took place during 11 years of monastic solitude; 4 of them bedridden, without a fixed identity, and deluged with visions. In 2004, George & Amy quit believing they were magically becoming RMP and thence began HRT (hormone replacement therapy). Like a zygote to an embryo to a fetus, Rose Mary wove herself into being through a womb of dreams and solitude. Iboga gave the final push on 10/14/10. Out popped Rose Mary Pillowwater, Queen of Heaven. Ms. Pillowwater is a regular contributor to Reality Sandwich. Her blogs include Ask the Dream Queen and Come Skinnydipping with Me.

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.

Gary Presley

Gary Presley has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Salon, and assorted other venues. His first love is creative nonfiction, but he also reviews for The Internet Review of Books and Kirkus. His memoir, Seven Wheelchairs: A Life beyond Polio, reviewed as “painful, powerful, and poetic,” was a 2008 publication of The University of Iowa Press.

Adam Price

Adam Price is a little-known, if not completely obscure, writer from Kansas City, Missouri. Now living in Denver, Colorado, he continues to explore vicissitudes of life and whatever the days may drop dutifully at his doorstep. When he isn’t writing, Adam attends local music venues, enjoys intense games of kickball, and continually samples new and promising hair products.

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Moriah L. Purdy

Moriah L. Purdy is a poet and academic professional currently living on Maryland’s Eastern Shore where she is the Assistant Director of the Writing Center at Washington College and a lecturer in the departments of English and Education. She received an MFA from George Mason University in 2010. Her collaborative project with the ceramic artist Stephanie Rozene, Simultaneous Contrast, has been featured in an exhibit entitled DIS Arming Domesticity, curated by Gail Brown. Her poems have also been featured or are forthcoming in journals such as DIAGRAM, Marginalia, and Word For/Word. Her blog can be found at http://moriahlpurdy.wordpress.com.

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.