Where the Map Is
Adam Clay’s most recent collection is Stranger (Milkweed Editions, 2016). His work has appeared recently in Georgia Review, Tin House, and jubilat. He teaches in the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi and edits Mississippi Review.
John Cho
Originally from Brooklyn, Dan Chu holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Houston, where he was a recipient of the Inprint Verlaine Prize. He has poems forthcoming in Fence, Prairie Schooner, and Grist.
Hotel Room
Holli Carrell is a writer originally from Utah, now based in Queens. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Bennington Review, Blackbird, The Florida Review, Poet Lore, Fugue, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and other places. She has received generous support from the NY State Summer Writers Institute and is a graduate of the MFA program in poetry at Hunter College, where she was a recipient of the Colie Hoffman Poetry Prize and a Norma Lubetsky Friedman Scholarship.
[If all the love we’ll know is the kind of love]
Monica Berlin’s recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Crazyhorse, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Cincinnati Review, TriQuarterly, Ninth Letter, Witness, DIAGRAM, The Southeast Review, Third Coast, RHINO, The Missouri Review, Fourteen Hills, New Orleans Review, and Passages North, among others. Collaborations with Beth Marzoni have been published in Colorado Review, New Orleans Review, DIAGRAM, Quarterly West, Vela, TYPO, Better: Culture & Lit, ellipsis…, and others. She is the project director for The Knox Writers’ House digital archives of contemporary literature, and was the nonfiction editor at Fifth Wednesday Journal (2011-13). An Associate Professor of English at Knox College, Berlin also serves as Associate Director of the Program in Creative Writing.
Egg and Ash
Anne Barngrover earned her MFA at Florida State and is a current PhD student at the University of Missouri. Her first book of poems, Yell Hound Blues, is forthcoming with Shipwreckt Books later this year, and her chapbook, Candy in Our Brains, co-written with poet Avni Vyas, is forthcoming in 2014 with CutBank. Anne’s poems have appeared in Indiana Review, Ninth Letter, Meridian, and others.
Fusion
Laura Wang is a writer and educator in New York City public schools, where she teaches human beings about molecules.
Fishing for Mermaids
Kate Tighe-Pigott earned her MFA at the University of Kentucky. Her short fiction is recently published (or forthcoming) from Blackbird, Passages North, River River, and Willow Springs. Earlier work has appeared in Literary Mama and Apocrypha and Abstractions. She lives in Brooklyn.
I Haven’t Always Been the Walt Whitman Service Area on the New Jersey Turnpike
Rob Roensch’s collection of stories, The Wildflowers of Baltimore, won the 2012 International Scott Prize for Short Stories from Salt Publishing. He lives in Oklahoma City and teaches at Oklahoma City University. His website is sites.google.com/site/robroensch.
Nuthatch
Olivia Postelli is a writer from Chicago. She is currently an MFA candidate in fiction at Oregon State University, and her work has been featured in Kenyon Review Online.
Cinderella
Sarah Harshbarger is an MFA candidate at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana. She is originally from Woodbine, Maryland. Her fiction has also appeared in So to Speak.