Melanie Hoffert

  So far, Iceland is black lava. So far, Iceland is water of all sorts: glacially tinted ocean, sulfur-soaked hot springs, and sleet-laden rain. So far, Ic...

Kirsten Wasson

During the first few weeks after moving to L.A. for my mid-life crisis, I drove around having no idea where I was. Ever. Some days I ended up in Santa Monica wh...

Sharon Chmielarz

Sharon Chmielarz’s latest books of poetry are Calling , a finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, 2011, and The Sky Is Great the Sky Is Blue. She’s t...

Chad Hanson

Chad Hanson serves as Chairman of the Department of Sociology & Social Work at Casper College. His creative nonfiction titles include Swimming with Trout (U...

J.L. Conrad

J.L. Conrad is the author of A Cartography of Birds (Louisiana State University Press). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Pleiades, Third Coast, Jel...

Theresa D. Smith

Theresa Smith’s poems have appeared in Shenandoah, Crab Orchard Review, Harpur Palate, Verse Daily, and Ascent, among others. While at Purdue University f...

Caroline Sutton

Caroline Sutton’s essays have appeared in The Literary Review, North American Review, and Cimarron Review, among others.  “Missing” marks her second publication...

Philippa Holloway

Philippa Holloway lives and writes in North Wales where she gained an MA in Creative and Critical Writing a few years ago and is now a Creative Writing tutor. S...

Abigail Carroll

Abigail Carroll has published prose in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Huffington Post, and her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in a variety...

Katharine Coles

Katharine Coles’ fifth poetry collection, The Earth Is Not Flat (Red Hen 2013), was written under the auspices of the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Ar...