ESSAYS

DIANE SEUSS (“Hub”)’s second collection, Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open, received the Juniper Prize for Poetry and was published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2010. Her poems and brief essays have appeared in a range of literary magazines, including The Missouri Review, Tar River Poetry, Brevity, Poetry, and Valparaiso Poetry Review. She received a Pushcart Prize for a poem that originally appeared in Blackbird in 2012. She is Writer in Residence at Kalamazoo College.

JOSHUA WHEELER (“Your Sad Heart Foams at the Stern”) is from Alamogordo, New Mexico.  He currently lives, writes and washes his truck in Iowa.  

STEPHEN J. WEST (“We Would Ask”)’s essays have recently appeared or are forthcoming in The Baltimore Review, Ninth Letter, PANK, and Zone 3, among others, and he edits essays for THIS Literary Magazine. He is not protected by copyright.

POETRY

SARA DENIZ AKANT (“Obilatron”) lives in Iowa City. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Cutbank, The Claudius App, SuperArrow, petri press, and Lana Turner.

LES GOTTESMAN (“The Humiliations”)has a chapbook coming out from Finishing Line Press in January. His poem “Rain” appeared in Wag's Revue Issue 11. See more of his work at lesgottesman.com.

ANNIE CHRISTAIN (“Pretending to Go and Come from Heaven by Fire”) is an assistant professor of English for the New York Institute of Technology in China. Her poems have appeared in The Lifted Brow, Seneca Review, and Bombay Gin, among others. Homunculi's Baptism, her poetry music group, produces spoken word songs that feature Korean drumming, electronica, and rock guitar.