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Alexander Pepple

Alexander Pepple founded and edits Able Muse and Able Muse Press, and also founded and directs the Eratosphere online worskshop. His poetry and prose have been or will be published in Barrow Street, River Styx, American Arts Quarterly, Light, Think Journal, Euphony, Per Contra, La Petite Zine, San Pedro River Review and elsewhere.

 

John Ellis

Born in 1981 near Washington, DC, John Ellis is a writer, editor, and teacher. He has lived, traveled, or studied throughout Western Europe, West Africa, and across the United States and served in the US military. He teaches English Literature in a private school in San Francisco and is a contributing writer and editor for a Northern California nonprofit that serves veterans. Currently, Ellis is a graduate student and teaching fellow in the Master of Fine Arts Program at Saint Mary’s College of California, where he is writing his first book-length work, a memoir.

 

Amit Majmudar

Amit Majmudar is a widely published poet, novelist, and essayist. He is also a diagnostic nuclear radiologist and the state of Ohio’s first Poet Laureate. His latest book is Dothead (Alfred A. Knopf, March 2016).

 

 

Daniel Brown

Daniel Brown’s poems have appeared in Poetry, Partisan Review, PN Review, Parnassus, the New Criterion and other journals, as well as a number of anthologies including Poetry 180 (ed. Billy Collins) and The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets (ed. David Yezzi). His work has been awarded a Pushcart prize, and his collection Taking the Occasion won the New Criterion Poetry Prize. A new collection, What More?, was published this year.

 

 

Paul Soto

Paul Soto lives in Austin, where he studies, writes, and loves. He grew up in Venezuela, San Antonio, and the Rio Grande Valley, and looks to work with children for some time before heading up to graduate school. He is grateful for the support of his loved ones and the inspiration of his heroes, J.D. Salinger, Kendrick Lamar, and Louis C.K. His work has been featured in Unbroken Journal, Analecta, the Nocturnal, and Corvus Review.

 

 

Athar C. Pavis

Athar C. Pavis grew up in New York City, attended Mount Holyoke College and studied literature in France. She lives both in Maine and in France where she teaches at the University of Paris. Her poems have been published in the UK (New Poetry, Candelabrum) and in magazines in the United States in Measure, the Eclectic Muse, the Comstock Review, Slant, Oberon, the Raintown Review, Tule Review, and Trinacria, among others. She is currently working on a collection of poetry to be entitled Pulled Pork.

 

 

Elise Hempel

Elise Hempel’s poems have appeared in many places over the years, including Able Muse, Measure, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Poetry, the Midwest Quarterly, and Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry. Her chapbook Only Child was published by Finishing Line Press in 2014, and in 2009 she won an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award for a sonnet that appeared in Spoon River Poetry Review. She grew up in suburban Chicago and now lives in central Illinois.

 

 

Autumn Newman

Autumn Newman is a graduate of the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA program and has the great fortune of teaching English composition and creative writing at College of San Mateo to amazing, eclectic students. She has published in Cider Press Review, Suisun Valley Review, and Louis Liard Magazine. She is currently working on her first book of poems, a (mostly) autobiographical account of domestic violence.

 

 

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