Allison Bagot is 21 years old and from Annandale, Virginia. She currently attends James Madison University, where she is pursuing a BFA in studio art with a concentration in Drawing and Painting.

Gary Beck

Claire Cecil:

Claire Cecil is a 21 year-old college senior from Chantilly, Virginia.  She is majoring in Creative Writing at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

Hugh Fox:

Hugh Fox was born in Chicago in 1932.  He received a  Ph.D. in American Literature from the University of Illinois, studied Latin American Literature at the University of Buenos Aires, and worked as an archeologist in the Chilean Atacama Desert.  Additionally, he taught English and American Literature for almost 50 years at a number of institutions both domestically and abroad.

Rebecca Gerome:

Regina C. Green:

Kenneth P. Gurney:

J. Scott Hardin:

J. Scott Hardin is Senior Editor of The Houston Literary Review and a regular contributor with Ragazine.  His poetry has appeared at Journal of Truth and Consequence, Danse Macabre, The Cafe Review and elsewhere.  Readers are invited to see more at www.jscotthardin.com.

Duane J Jackson:

Duane J Jackson is a 30 year old freelance writer and poet from Kolkata, India. While he is not working as Assistant Manager in a banking organization or writing he enjoys dabbling in the ‘what’s what’ of world, national and social affairs, reading mythology, listening to rock, folk and world music and stocking his aquarium with cichlid fish. His publication credits include Danse Macabre, The Scrambler and Indigo Rising Magazine.

Lauren Joseph:

Andrew Kelly:

Sonja Larsen:

Sonja Larsen tried to write her first book at the age of ten, an epic called Ruth And The Animals, about a girl named Ruth who rescued a lot of animals. Several decades later she is at work on her second book, a memoir about growing up in cults and communes. A native of Wisconsin she now lives in Vancouver, British Columbia where she works with at-risk youth. Her writing has been published in literary magazines as well as the Globe and Mail.

Jenny Ortiz:

Jenny Oritz is a 23 year-old from Queens, New York. When she isn’t pleading with Kurt Sutter via Twitter to be her mentor, she is teaching at St. John’s University, Adelphi University, and LaGuardia Community College. She likes to read Haruki Murakami, and listen to the Broken Bells.

Jun (Julia) Zhou:

Jun (Julia) Zhou was born in Hang Zhou, China, and moved to Canada in 1999 with her family. In pursuit of her interest in art, she has experimented with various mediums including graphite, charcoal, carbon dust, soap stone, feather, watercolour, and acrylic.

Violette Zhu:

Violette Zhu is a high school senior from Chapel Hill, USA who enjoys exploring the “big, wide world” through art.