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’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 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.
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 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.
