Stacey Teague is 24 and is from Auckland. Natalie Chin is 21 and is from Singapore. They met in September 2012 after the two of them moved to England and they are putting their poetry together in a chapbook titled "while we wait on this side of the water" (July 2013).
Ashley Opheim has been published in Thought Catalog, Pop Serial, Illuminati Girl Gang, Weijia Quarterly, Shabby Doll House, amongst others. She edits literature for Metatron, writes a literary blog for The Rover, and operates the reading series This Is Happening Whether You Like It Or Not with Guillaume Morissette. She has three e-novellas published online: How To Be a Rainbow, Aura Halo and oh, inverted universe. She lives in Montreal, Quebec where she is pursuing a magical, free existence.
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Monica Wendel is the author of No Apocalypse. She was the writer in residence at the Jack Kerouac Project of Orlando, Florida.
Gabby Bess has work appearing in [PANK] Magazine, 3AM Magazine, The Scrambler, Two Serious Ladies, Thought Catalog and various other publications. She is the author of Alone With Other People, forthcoming July 2013 via Civil Coping Mechanisms.
Zachery Wood does mostly video related things in NYC. Please add him on Facebook and in your prayers.
Some mornings, Mark Cugini wakes up and thinks to himself, "I'm the hottest poet in the game right now." Follow him on Twitter.
Austin Islam can be found when the sun cannot. His writing is sometimes quippy, sometimes pensive, sometimes self-indugent and melodramatic. In fact, he owns a t-shirt (self-screened) which reads "you can't spell melodrama without 'emo'". You can find him in corners of the internet such as Shabby Doll House, Moire Mag, Meat Confetti, Sadcore Dadwave, and Have U Seen My Whale. He also exists as a meme: http://quoteaustinislam.tumblr.com
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Theo Thimo lives in Worcester, MA and is 18 years old.
Amelia Gillis studies theater in Detroit and hangs out at The Mall.
Carolyn DeCarlo likes witches. Jackson Nieuwland likes unicorns. They live in New Zealand, where they edit UP Literature and work at a primary school together. They have written an ebook, Twilight Zone. This talk poem is part of their next collection.
Sarah Swan has recently moved back to Ohio. She is debating learning how to swim. She would like to thank Eddie Olschansky for his help with the video.
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John Mortara was transported to an alternate dimension. He spent his entire life trying to figure out what was different about the new dimension. He died unsatisfied. It was just like this dimension.
stephen michael mcdowell (b. 1988) is also known as buttercup and curates:
Sky Deer is Jeannette Gomes. She's the daughter of the ocean and lives inside a lake in a city of wild onions. She is the co-editor of Love Symbol Press, Co-Curator of the Poetry Made of Diamonds Reading Series, Assitant Editor at Artifice Magazine.
Adam J. Kurtz is a boring stupid jerk that nobody cares about. He claims to be a “graphic artist and media designer,” which could really mean anything. Some people also think he is a blogger, but who isn't? He wrote this myself... wait, fuck.
Jamiee Shim is a sophomore year undergraduate General Fine Arts student at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
DJ Berndt is some kid living in Pennsylvania. He made a website called PANGUR BAN PARTY. He has an ebook forthcoming from HOUSEFIRE. He looks better in real life.
Jacob Steinberg remains enmeshed. Maybe some day he will leave.
Paige Elizabeth Gresty is a 23-year-old filmmaker and writer living in London. She has two ebooks: Every September Since 2005 and Imaginary Conversations With Myself. She has been published in have u seen my whale, HOUSEFIRE, and on Internet Poetry, and her work has been reviewed by Dennis Cooper, Beach Sloth, I Am Alt Lit, and Banango Street.
