Poetry
Zach White
Zach was born in Oregon. He studied English and Fine Arts at Warner Pacific College. Dissatisfied with the kind of dialogues surrounding books he loved, and struggling with the meaning writing itself holds for us in relation to our existence, he moved to New York City to study philosophy at the New School for Social Research. He received his MA in philosophy in2012. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn.
Matthew Homan
Originally from Long Island, Matthew just completed a Ph.D. in philosophy at Emory Universityin Atlanta, Ga. His dissertation examined the intersection of Spinoza’s theories of ideas and knowledge. His academic specialization is early modern philosophy, especially the metaphysics and epistemology of 17th century rationalists.
Lindsay Cavanaugh
Lindsay is an undergraduate student at Queen’s University. Despite being told she possesses the mannerisms of a meek grandmother – baking in her spare time, and calling children, and the occasional stranger, ‘Honey’ – she prides herself on being a secret feminist, a hopeful philosopher, and a revolutionary, future teacher. When she is not studying, writing, or baking, she is usually volunteering as a tutor and mentor in the Kingston community. She is extremely passionate about creating experiences and art that challenge complacency, that explore thelimitations of certainty, and that delineate the power of living in a world that we realize everyday through our imaginations.
Melissa Monaghan
Melissa is a graduate of Vanderbilt University, where she studied psychology and sociology. Melissa is an aspiring poet and a currently unemployed bohemian.
Zachary Fogelson
Zachary is an undergraduate at Harvard University, where he studies Computer Science and Philosophy. Zach has an affinity for travel, Flemish Baroque still-life, René Magritte, and other things—some of which are related to literature and others of which are related to laundry.
Danielle Metzger
Danielle was born and raised in South Florida. She is currently a junior studying Anthropology, Marketing, and Writing at Washington University in St. Louis. She is a collector of clichés who likes to spend her time laughing, going on adventures, and working as a peer counselor on campus. Her work has previously appeared in Spires.
J. Ann Craft
J. Ann Craft lives with her two snakes, Kundalini and Nabokov, and spends a lot of time doing nothing of particular interest. She studies taiji.
Tony Magistrale
Tony is Professor and Chair of the English department at the University of Vermont. His first book of poems, What She Says About Love, won the Bordighera Poetry Prize in 2007, and was published in a bilingual edition in 2008 by the Bordighera Press. His second poetry collection, The Last Soldiers of Love, was published in 2012 by Literary Laundry Press.
Kirk Glaser
Kirk’s poetry has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize. His poetry and fiction have appeared in The Threepenny Review, Cerise Press, Sou’wester, Alsop Review, Bloodroot Literary Magazine, Mobius, The Cortland Review, Berkeley Poetry Review, and elsewhere. Awards for his work include an American Academy of Poets prize, C. H. Jones National Poetry Prize, University of California Poet Laureate Award, and Richard Eberhart Poetry Prize. Dr.Glaser earned his Ph.D. in American poetry at the University of California, Berkeley, and his B.A. from Dartmouth College. He teaches writing and literature at Santa Clara University, where he serves as faculty advisor to the Santa Clara Review, and is co-editor of the annual anthology, New California Writing, Heyday Books.
Emily O’Neill
Emily is a proud Jersey girl. Her poetry and fiction has appeared in The Pedestal, Pank, Umbrella Factory, and Nap; it’s also seen stages from Portland to Orlando. She has a degree in the synesthesia of storytelling from Hampshire College and splits her time between Somerville,MA and Providence, RI.
Lauren Fields
Lauren is a twenty-year-old student originally hailing from St. Louis, Missouri. She now resides in Cambridge, where she attends Harvard University as a rising junior at the College. Laurenhas been writing poetry since she was six years old, and has, over that substantial period of time, gone down many roads and explored many modes of expression. She has been fortunate enough to be the recipient of the 2010 River Styx Founders High School Poetry Contest Award, one of the winners of the 2010 Arts In Transit Poetry In Motion Contest, and a recent recipient of the 2012 Edward Eager Memorial Fund Prize given out by Harvard’s English Department.
Dan Abitz
Dan is a graduate student at Georgia State University, where he is pursuing an M.A. in Literary Studies. Dan focuses primarily on the later 19th century (both American and English) but admits that he also possesses an indulgent appreciation of contemporary American fiction.
Karl Neumann
Karl is a German-American living in Portland, Oregon. He lives with his wife Meika and their dog Rilke.
Prose Fiction
Anne Muccino
Anne lives in the Kansas City area and is currently pursuing her BA in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing while drafting her second novel. Anne is a member of several writing groups and is the Writing Group Coordinator for The Writers Place in Kansas City, Missouri
Werner Low
Werner has had a couple dozen stories and poems published in journals, including “Bateau,” “Falling Fountain,” "The Journal" (of Ohio State University), “Lily Literary Review,” “The Literary Review" (of Trinity College, Hartford), “The Pedestal Magazine,” "Slow Trains,” “Spot Literary Magazine,” "The Square Table," “Taj Mahal Review,” “Terrain,”and “Void Magazine.” A novel, “The Prophet of Essaouira,” is looking for an agent, a publisher, or even a friendly face. He live in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with no pets.
Esther Lim
Esther is a recent graduate from the MFA fiction program at Portland State University. A Korean who grew up in Indonesia while being educated at an American school, her writing often reflects her deeply rooted obsession with the multi-cultural. “Band-Aids” is a piece from a collection of interrelated short stories titled Nine Months
Annie Driscoll
Annie is a fourth year in the College at the University of Chicago, studying English. She is currently reading War and Peace because she thought it odd that she could graduate with a literature degree without ever having read Tolstoy.
Drama
Claude Clayton Smith
Professor Emeritus of English at Ohio Northern University, Claude is the author of seven books and co-editor/translator of an eighth. His work has been translated into five languages, including Russian and Chinese. He holds a B.A. from Wesleyan (CT), an MAT from Yale, an MFA from the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa, and a DA from Carnegie-Mellon. Four of his full-length plays have been selected for performance in competition, and one went on to a professional Equity production.
Critical Reflections
Matthew Gasda
Matthew is a writer living in New York City. He is a graduate of Syracuse University, where he studied Philosophy. Matthew's favorite authors include Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Wallace Stevens, and Anne Carson. His preferred writing conditions include a rainy day, a clean kitchen table, and a pot of freshly made green tea.
Jonathan Canel
Jonathan is a poet living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is a graduate of Stanford University, where he majored in history with a focus on early-modern European history. He currently studies law at Harvard.