Kurt Remington was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1981. With a name like his you are either born rolling in a pile of old money, or the progeny of coal miners and bourbon swiggers. His father sold pot to put him through Montessori school. That’s the extent of his privilege. He won’t deny the chip on his shoulder but he’ll abandon it for now. He’s been writing and working for a long time but has just begun to publish. He’s been a painter, a dishwasher. He’s worked on farms and in warehouses. He learned to write well while in graduate school at Cleveland State University which is to say that he learned how not to write. He owes them a sizeable chunk of his ass despite having quit just before graduating. He has no wife and no child. He is a Midwest writer regardless of where he lives.

Jack Henry is a writer/poet/publisher living in S/E California. Recent publications include the anthology SCRAWL, a chapbook called CHASING SCREAMING MONKEYS W/O ANY CLOTHES, as well as journal publications in Cause & Effect, CP Journal, Off Beat Pulp and others. He has upcoming pieces in cc&d, Static Movement, Instant Pussy, Winamop, Clockwise Cat, Gloom Cupboard, and Oak Bend Review.

April Michelle Bratten is an English major at Minot State University in Minot, North Dakota. She will remain there until she hears the sounds of the city once again call her name. April both admires and writes confessional poetry, a style of writing which she feels is (sadly) slowly dwindling in popularity. April co-edits the literary zine Up the Staircase.

Juliet Cook is a poet and the editor of Blood Pudding Press. A few of her recent publication credits include DIAGRAM, OCTOPUS, Sein Und Werden, ditch, and Prick of the Spindle. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and currently has a poem representing in Sundress Publications Best of the Net 2007 anthology. Her latest print chapbook, Planchette, can be procured from Blood Pudding Press. Her first e-chapbook, Projectile Vomit, will be published soon by Scantily Clad Press. More chapbooks and a full-length are slinking around, mewling and hissing and seeking peculiar homes.

Suzanne Nielsen, a native of St. Paul, Minnesota, teaches writing at Metropolitan State University. Her poetry, fiction and essays appear in literary journals nationally and internationally; So’ham Books released her first collection of poetry titled East of the River, in December 2005, a collection of short fiction titled The Moon Behind the 8-Ball & Other Stories, in 2007, and will release her new collection of poetry titled I Thought You Should Know in 2008.

Phill Provance writes poetry when he’s not working on his newest invention: The Universal Syphilitic Cattle Converter (Patent Pending). He also enjoys spending time with his pet eel, Louis, and his three wives, Sally, Tamika and Lin.... Sometimes, sadly, he prefers Louis’s company to his wives’. But, he says, the converter should fix these problems when completed.