LANCE PHILLIPS has published four books of poetry (Corpus Socius, Cur Aliquid Vidi, These Indicium Tales, and Mimer) with Ahsahta Press. His poetry has appeared in New American Writing, TYPO, Fence, Verse, Colorado Review, and has recently been anthologized in the Black Mountain College anthology Far from the Centers of Ambition. His work has received an &Now award and been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He teaches poetry at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and lives in Huntersville, NC with his wife of 20 years and their two children.
ELISA GABBERT is the author of The Self Unstable and The French Exit. L'Heure Bleue, or The Judy Poems is forthcoming next year from Black Ocean. Recent poems and essays have appeared in Jubilat, Harvard Review, Threepenny Review, The Smart Set, The Butter, and Electric Literature.
BETH AYER is the senior poetry editor for the Found Poetry Review. Her poetry has been published in journals including jubilat, Otis Nebula, Epigraph, and Divine Magnet.
JACQUELINE KARI is the author of The Book of Tell {dancing girl press} and Litel Myn Tragedye (forthcoming in 2016 on Birds of Lace). Her poems, visual art and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Action Yes, Caketrain, Tarpaulin Sky, Dreginald, RealPoetik and elsewhere. She lives, studies and works in Athens, GA.
TIM EARLEY is the author of four collections of poetry, Boondoggle,The Spooking of Mavens, Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery, and Linthead Stomp (forthcoming from Horse Less Press in 2017). He lives in Denver, Colorado and teaches online courses in literature and creative writing for the University of Mississippi.
NICO VASSILAKIS wrestles letters to free them of their word scrum. Many of his results can be found online and on his website, Staring Poetics - http://staringpoetics.weebly.com/. Alphabet Noir, a book of texts about visual poetry, is forthcoming from c_L Books. Nico is also vispo editor for COLDFRONT magazine.