Postal dude by day, beer-drunk, pen-wielding madman by night. Lester has scattered his poems across the small presses with poems recently appearing in Up the Staircase, Debris Magazine, and Poetry Warrior. He has two books forthcoming from d/e/a/d/b/e/a/t press of California. Visit him at his MySpace.

Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal has a new chapbook out called Garden of Rocks from Kendra Steiner Editions.

Renee Emerson is an MFA student at Boston University. She was born and raised in Eads, TN, and currently resides with her husband and two cats in Malden, MA.

Antony Hitchin is a thirty-one-year-old prose and poetry writer, and co-editor of Eviscerator Heaven. He has recently been a Guild of Outsider Writers Feature Poet and has been published or is forthcoming in Underground Voices, Serious Ink Press (web & spoken-word CD), Fissure, Geeek, The Gut, Origami Condom, Gloom Cupboard, Instant Pussy, a UK Anthology by Forward and many others. Visit Antony at his MySpace.

Drawing on personal experiences of growing up in the Mississippi Delta, William Lusk Coppage takes his readers on a journey through lush landscapes, high school anxieties, and adolescent hell-raising, all the while tackling the internal conflict of identity and responsibility to family. He received his BFA in poetry at the University of North Carolina - Wilmington and is currently enrolled in the MFA program at McNeese State University. Visit him at his MySpace.

Aleathia Drehmer is a writer who has spent the first two and a half decades of her life moving around America with her family like a band of gypsies. She now finds herself settled in the village of Painted Post, NY, with her darling daughter and their crazy cat Carrot. She is a co-editor of Zygote in My Coffee. Her work can be found in print and online in some of these fine journals: Silenced Press, Ottawa Arts Review, Laura Hird Showcase, Cause & Effect, The Cerebral Catalyst, Word Riot, Gloom Cupboard, Cherry Bleeds, Kill Poet, and Lit Up Magazine.

Christine Hamm is a PhD candidate in English Literature at Drew University. She won the MiPoesias First Annual Chapbook Competition with her manuscript, Children Having Trouble with Meat. Her poetry has been published in The Adirondack Review, Pebble Lake Review, Lodestar Quarterly, Poetry Midwest, Rattle, and over ninety others. She has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize, and she teaches English and poetry writing at Rutgers University. The Transparent Dinner, her book of poems, was published by Mayapple Press in 2006. Christine was recently named a runner-up to the Poet Laureate of Queens. Visit her at her blog.

Mitch James was born and raised in Central Illinois, where he received a BA in English with a minor in creative writing from Eastern Illinois University. He currently lives in Pennsylvania, where he just completed his Masters degree in Literature. He has had fiction and poetry published in such journals as Westward Quarterly and The Vehicle, and hopes to be getting his feet wet in a PhD or MFA program in creative writing this time next year.

Oliver Rice has received the Theodore Roethke Prize and twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His poems have appeared widely in journals and anthologies in the United States, as well as in Canada, England, Austria, Turkey, and India. His book of poems, On Consenting to Be a Man, has been introduced by Cyberwit, a diversified publishing house in the cultural capital Allahabad, India, and is available on Amazon.com.

Matthew D’Abate splits his time between his writing desk and the bar he is gainfully employed at. Drinking helps. Art is better. Dating is silly. He has completely accepted his cliché of bartender/writer. Luckily, alcohol makes it all go away. His fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in Thieves Jargon, Dogmatika, Word-Myth, The Pedestal Magazine, Cherry Bleeds, and Zygote in My Coffee. He lives in Brooklyn, NYC.

Theresa Edwards’s poetry has appeared in Triplopia, AdmitTwo, Boxcar Poetry Review, Clean Sheets Magazine, Softblow, Chronogram, and elsewhere. She has an MA in English and an MFA in Creative Writing (poetry). She tutors writing at Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY, and is founder and editor of Holly Rose Review, a new online poetry and tattoo literary journal.

Jason “Juice” Hardung is a late bloomer. After years of trying to live the junkies dream, he decided that junkies’ dreams never come true. He went to rehab and shook the insecurities out of his head and decided to pick up the pen again after a ten-year hiatus. Since then he has been published in Zygote in My Coffee, Lummox Journal, Underground Voices, Covert Poetics, Heroin Love Songs, Thrasher, Polarity, Flutter, The Socialist Women, Matter, Red Pulp Underground, Juice, Thick with Conviction, Iodine Poetry Journal, Sunken Lines, Up the Staircase, Outsider Writers, Straight from the Fridge and many more. He has two chapbooks forthcoming and readings across the country. He is an editor for Matter Journal Front Range Review and managing editor of the Great Ecstatic Reporter. He also is the Beards Minister Of Defense. He resides in Ft. Collins, Colorado, with his cat and they watch mountains out the window.

His name is Justin Hyde. He lives in Iowa where he works with criminals.