Louis Ellenwood Barlowe (Curtis M. Harrell, Jr.) has published two books, Cathedral of the New Age and Seven Angels, and has three upcoming book projects in the works. urtis M. Harrell, Jr. is a native Chicagoan, born and raised on the Near North side of the city – in the very shadow of the Cabrini-Green Housing Projects.

George Pereny has been published in The English Journal, The Aquarian, and The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow.  In 1977 he began Footwork magazine which became The Paterson Literary Review.  Pereny has been nominated for the Pushcart and Editor's Choice prizes and has  received two Honorable Mention prizes from The World of Poetry.

Michael D. Brown, American author/poet of 18 books including 7 volumes of poetry; recipient of the New York State Senator's award for poetry; international lecturer and literary reviewer; currently teaching English in China at Nanjing Agricultural University; Published in numerous literary journals including the Tower Journal; Mad Swirl, Munyori Literary Journal, and EPW- Every Writer.

Donna Pucciani has won awards from the Illinois Arts Council, Poetry on the Lake, and the National Federation of State Poetry Societies. Her fifth and most recent collection is Hanging Like Hope on the Equinox (Virtual Artists Collective).

Steven Joyce has published a book on G. B. Shaw entitled Transformations and Texts as well as a number of poems in literary journals including Kimera and Red River Review and Minimus.  His award winning book of essays entitled The Winds of Ilion appeared in 2011 and a book of poetry, The Apostate Djin, appeared in 2013.  He holds a Ph. D. in comparative literature from UNC-Chapel Hill and has published a number of articles on literary theory and criticism.

Lois Marie Harrod’s 13^th and 14th collections Fragments from the Biography of Nemesis and How Marlene Mae Longs for Truth were just published.  The Only Is won the 2012 Tennessee Chapbook Contest. Brief Term, teaching poems, was published in 2011.  She teaches Creative Writing at The College of New Jersey.

Yoko Danno's poems have appeared internationally in various e-journals and magazines, including Otoliths, Pinstripe Fedra, ekleksographia, Shampoo, Innisfree Poetry Journal, Big Bridge, Pirene’s Fountain, a glimpse of (in English and in Greek), and in anthologies such as New Directions International Anthology of Poetry and Prose, poem, home: ars poetica, Sunrise from Blue Thunder, 4W, Poetry Kanto among others. Among her books, "Aquamarine" was published by Glass Lyre Press (USA, January 2014).(http://www.glasslyrepress.com/),

Dai Sil Kim-Gibson is a renowned independent filmmaker/writer, known for championing the compelling but neglected issues of human rights. All of her films garnered many awards, including the Kodak Filmmaker Award, and were screened at numerous festivals worldwide, in addition to national broadcast on PBS and on the Sundance Channel in the United States. She has received grants from the Rockefeller and MacArthur Foundations.

Hongvan Nguyen is the author of two poetry books, Under the Stone and The Chickadees. Her 1^st book was chosen as the Award Finalist in the 2011 Readers Favorite Book Contest. Her 2^nd book won 1^st Place Award with Five Stars Publications for its 2011 Royal Dragonfly Book Competition.

Derold Sligh has appeared in journals  such as American Poetry Journal, Mythium, Chamber Four, Konundrum Engine, Saw Palm, Pudding House Press, Switchback Magazine, Central Review, Web del Sol, and Gemini Magazine He has taught creative writing workshops for San Diego State University, Gear Up and King/Chavez/Parks and was also a guest poet at the Theodore Roethke Memorial where he ran a workshop for African American fathers and sons.He is currently a member of the English faculty at Daegu University in Daegu, South Korea.

Jennifer Lagier has been published online and in print, most recently in Avocet, Trajectory, Word Riot, Nerve Cowboy, Harbinger Asylum Review, Backstreet Quarterly, The Clark Street Review, Centrifugal Eye, Wilderness House Literary Review, PKA’s Advocate, Amoskeag, The Rockford Review, Sugar Mule, Snail Mail Review, Steam Ticket, Song of the San Joaquin and The Homestead Review and has published seven books of poetry

d.n. simmers is an on line editor with fine lines. He is on the current Poetry Salzburg. He is in an anthology in Bulgaria, in English and Rumanian and Spanish. He is in or will be in Red River Review, The Storyteller, Nomad's Choir, Poetry Pacific, Prairie Journal. He has been in Van Gogh's Ear, Splizz Wales, Poetry New Zealand, and other international magazines.

Christopher Roe has written nineteen volumes of poetry as well as his memoir, "Dead Rainbows". His poems have appeared in Vox Poetica, The Monarch Review, The Forge Journal, Apollo's Lyre, Black Heart Magazine and Your Daily Poem among others. His paintings are in private collections in the United States, Canada and Europe.

Kislay Chauhan's poems have been published in many reviews, journals and magazines.Some of them are – Fowl Feathered Review, The Artistic Muse Poetry, Eastlit, Earthborne, Carcinogenic Poetry, Out of Our, Nano Nostrovia Poetry, Sprout Magazine, Melbrake etc. He has written four poetry books “ Takhir,” “ The Vague,” “ Once And For All” and “The Edges Of The Spirit”.

Poet and painter Ann Holmes's poetry memoir, Shards, about a Japanese pottery village, was published by Turn of River Press in 2005.  A Leaf Called Socrates was published by iUniverse in 2011. Her poems have appeared in The Asian Pacific American Journal, Japanophile, Red Wheelbarrow, Connecticut River Review and other journals.

Steven Schmelz is a graduate of Bates College of Lewiston, Maine.
He has been writing poetry for many years and is the President of Sea View Chrysler Jeep and Sea Breeze Ford in Monmouth County NJ.

Steven Pelcman is a writer of poetry with books of poems titled, WHERE THE LEAVES DARKEN and LIKE WATER TO STONE. He has been published in a number of magazines including: The Baltimore Review, The Windsor Review, The Innisfree Poetry Journal, Fourth River magazine, enskyment.org, River Oak Review, Salzburg Poetry Review and many others. He has been nominated for the 2012 Pushcart Prize. His most recent acceptance is in the upcoming issue of Warwick Review.

Joseph Crow Riley's life is a never ending tug of war between the priest and the poet–the priest wants to be austere and puritanical; the poet wants to be raging mass of self-indulgence. He has won awards for both his fiction and poetry. He has been published in many periodicals for poetry, essays, fiction,& historical, theological, and political analysis.

Rina Ferrarelli ‘s poems have been published in many anthologies and journals, print and online. The Bread We Ate, a collection of original poetry, was published in 2012 by Guernica.  She has also published two other works of original poetry, Dreamsearch (malafemmina) and  Home is Foreign Country (Eadmer), and two bilingual editions of translations, I Saw the Muses (Guernica), and Winter Fragments (Chelsea).

Elisha Porat, Israeli poet and writer, who writes in Hebrew, in translation here, has published 21 volumes of fiction and poetry, since 1973. Honored many times, he is world renowned, and justifiably.

David Chorlton's books include:A Normal Day Amazes Us (Kings Estate Press), 2004 Waiting for the Quetzal (March Street Press), 2006 The Porous Desert (Future Cycle Press), 2007 The Devil's Sonata (Future Cycle Press). He has also twice won the Slipstream Chapbook Contest, most recently for From the Age of Miracles in 2009, and in 2008, won the Ronald Wardall Award from Rain Mountain Press for The Lost River.

Ned Randle has published poems in literary publications such as The Spoon River Quarterly, Circus Maximus, Seven Stars Poetry, Poydras Review, Emerge Literary Journal, Barnwood International Poetry Magazine, The New Poet and Hamilton Stone Review (Sept. 2012). His chapbook, Prairie Shoutings and Other Poems, was published by The Spoon River Poetry Press, (Bradley University).

William Wright Harris's poetry has appeared in twelve countries in such publications as The Cannon’s Mouth, Poetry Salzburg Review, Ascent Aspirations, generations and Write On!!!

Susan Terris’ books include THE HOMELESSNESS OF SELF, CONTRARIWISE, and FIRE IS FAVORABLE TO THE DREAMER. Her work has appeared in many journals, including The Southern Review, The Journal, and Ploughshares. A poem of hers appeared in Pushcart Prize XXXI. She is the editor of Spillway Magazine and poetry editor of In Posse Review and of Pedestal. In recent years, she has won both the George Bogin Award and the Louis Hammer Award from the Poetry Society of America.

Glen Sorestad is author of over 20 volumes of poems, has appeared in countless literary magazines and ezines throughout North America and elsewhere. His poems have appeared in over 50 anthologies and textbooks, as well as having been translated into a half-dozen languages, including the bilingual, English/Spanish edition of his latest poetry volume, A Thief of Impeccable Taste. Sorestad has received many awards, including the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal (2012) and has been made a Member of the Order of Canada, his country’s highest non-military honour.

Afzal Moolla was born in Delhi, India while his parents
were in exile, working as anti-Apartheid activists for the African National Congress. 
   Afzal subsequently travelled wherever his parent's work took them. He still feels that he hasn't stopped travelling
   Afzal currently works and lives in Johannesburg, South Africa and shares his literary musings with his most strident critic - his 12 year old cat.

Dibyendu Saha is a works in an educational Institution of Himmatnagar, Gujarat, India.
  He passed his boyhood at the suburb of Calcutta and at the age of 19 started writing poetry in Bengali, his mother tongue. Several were published in local publications.
  Now writing in English, he has had his poetry published in various venues.