Robert McMurrer: I was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, and graduated from class of 2000 at Warren Central High School.  I have been a certified nursing assistant, a video store clerk, an usher at a movie theater, a theme park ride operator and warehouse worker. In 2003, I found myself homeless in Los Angeles.  That was when I started working as a background actor.  I have appeared on such shows as: Joan of Arcadia, 7th Heaven, Sky High, Coach Carter, Iron Man, and many, many others. And, oh yeah, I started writing poetry.

Derek McCrea is a US Army Infantry Combat Soldier with two tours in Iraq with the 3rd Infantry Division, and this is his stress relief. He presently resides with his wife, Sheila, of 20 years and his two sons. In 1986 he won 1st place in the Georgia Arts Exhibition. Derek joined the United States Army in 1987 and continued self study and painting on landscape subjects in France, Holland, Germany, Italy andHungary, painting in the plein air style. He has completed over 20 commissions in the past year. His works were most recently placed in the Shoppes on Madison in historic Douglas GA, and at Artsy's on the River Street in historic Savannah Georgia. Derek has donated several artworks to non-profit and charitable organizations in the past.

Joan McNerney’s poetry has been included in numerous magazines, journals and anthologies in the United States. Four of her books have been published by fine literary presses. She has performed at many distinguished venues in New York City, Boston, San Antonio, Houston and the Hudson River Region. Several radio stations and cable television programs have recorded her work. Her latest title is Having Lunch With the Sky, A.P.D., Albany, New York.

Tess. Lotta holds an MA in English and teaches at FIDM and for Spoken Interludes Next. She curates the Literati Cocktail reading series, held annually at the West Hollywood Book Fair, and co-curates The Third Area: Poetry at Pharmaka. Her journalism, poetry, and visual art have appeared in many publications. She slays on bass and vox for the LA-based rock outfit Quality Audio. When not riding her bike, Tess. might be found examining the phenomenon of deep fried Oreo cookies.

Dan Krejci says “a lot of people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch of unconnected incidents and things. They don't realize that there's this, like, lattice of coincidence that lies on top of everything. Give you an example, show you what I mean.  Suppose you're thinking about a plate of shrimp.  Suddenly somebody will say, like, "plate" or "shrimp" or "plate of shrimp" out of the blue, no explanation.  No point in looking for one either...it's all part of the cosmic unconsciousness.” Dan spent seven years as the bassist for c/z recording artists, dirt fishermen, who toured extensively nationally, regionally, and locally in the Northwest. Currently, he runs with many other overeducated and underappreciated bleeding heart liberals who work as bartenders.

Douglas Richardson's first book, Sugar Fish, was published by Sacred Beverage Press in 2007.  A second poetry book, Poems for Loners, and a novel are in the works.

Oritsegbemi Emmanuel Jakpa was born in Warri, Nigeria, studied at the University of Iowa, and is currently living inIreland. His poetry has been published in a number of online and print journals and an Irish-Canadian anthology. He is a Yeats Pierce Loughran Scholar.