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Max Gutmann

Max Gutmann’s plays have been performed in New York City, Orlando, and the San Francisco Bay Area. He has contributed to more than three dozen journals, including Light Quarterly, Measure, and Cricket for children. His book There Was a Young Girl from Verona: A Limerick Cycle Based on the Complete Dramatic Works of Shakespeare sold several copies.

 

 

Ryan Wilson

Ryan Wilson was born in Griffin, Georgia. His poems, translations, and criticism appear widely, in journals such as 32 Poems, First Things, the Hopkins Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, Measure, and Unsplendid, and he was recently awarded the Walter Sullivan Prize for Promise in Criticism by the Sewanee Review. He holds graduate degrees from The Johns Hopkins University and Boston University, and he is currently a doctoral candidate at The Catholic University of America.

 

 

Leslie Schultz

Leslie Schultz studied creative writing at the UW-Madison and at McNeese State University. She now lives in Northfield, Minnesota, where she helped the Arts and Culture Commission establish Sidewalk Public Poetry in 2011 to publish new work in a truly concrete medium. Her poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared a variety of journals, including Mezzo Cammin, Swamp Lily Review, Poetic Strokes Anthology, Pacific Review, the Northern Review, the Madison Review, the Mid-American Poetry Review, the Midwestern Quarterly, Stone Country, Sun Dog, the Wayfarer, and in a chapbook, Living Room.

 

Stephen Kampa

Stephen Kampa has two books: Cracks in the Invisible (Ohio University Press, 2011) and Bachelor Pad (Waywiser, 2014). He currently lives in Florida.

 

 

Andrea Witzke Slot

Andrea Witzke Slot has published a poetry collection, To Find a New Beauty (Gold Wake Press), and has completed a novel, The Cartography of Flesh: In the Silence of Ella Mendelssohn. Winner of Fiction International’s 2015 short fiction contest and finalist in other recent competitions, she explores ways that poetry, fiction, and nonfiction cross boundaries.

 

Jay Rogoff

Jay Rogoff’s next book of poems, Enamel Eyes: A Fantasia on 1870 Paris, will appear from LSU Press in Fall 2016 and will include three of the poems in this issue. His previous collections include Venera (2014), The Art of Gravity (2011), and The Long Fault (2008), all also from LSU. He has had recent poems in the Hudson Review, Literary Imagination, Salmagundi, the Southern Review, Stand, and Stone Canoe, among other journals.

 

Bruce Bennett

Bruce Bennett is the author of nine volumes of poetry and more than twenty-five poetry chapbooks. His most recent book is Subway Figure (Orchises Press, 2009), and his most recent chapbooks are The Wither’d Sedge (Finishing Line, 2014) and Swimming in a Watering Can (FootHills Publishing, 2014).

 

Meredith McCann

Meredith McCann is the editor in chief of Dappled Things, a quarterly of ideas, art, and faith. She teaches high school Latin in San Jose, where she lives with her husband and son.

 

 

Eric Torgersen

Eric Torgersen’s most recent collection is Heart. Wood. (Word Press, 2012). “With You” is part of a collection of ghazals to be titled In Which We See Our Selves: American Ghazals. He is emeritus Professor of English at Central Michigan University.

 

 

Lane Kareska

Lane Kareska studied writing at Columbia College, Chicago, and his MFA is from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, where he was also awarded a Fellowship to live and write in Ireland. His short fiction has been published in Berkeley Fiction Review, ThugLit, Sheepshead Review and elsewhere.

 

 

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