CAOLAN MADDEN shares an apartment in Brooklyn with a computer programmer and a preschooler. She has an MFA from Johns Hopkins (where she first encountered Final Fantasy XII's Necrohol of Nabudis) and is currently a PhD candidate in English literature at Rutgers. Recent poems and essays have appeared in Anthropoid, Black Warrior Review, Bone Bouquet, Posit, Split Lip, and WEIRD SISTER. Her chapbook VAST NECROHOL is forthcoming from Hyacinth Girl Press.
NICHOLAS GULIG is a Thai-American poet from Wisconsin.
ERIN SLAUGHTER is currently pursuing an MFA at Western Kentucky University, where she teaches undergraduate writing classes. She has been nominated for a Best of the Net Award and a Pushcart Prize. You can find her writing in River Teeth, the Bellingham Review, Sundog Lit, and Gravel, among others. She is the author of a poetry chapbook, Elegy for the Body (Slash Pine Press, 2017).
ZACHARY EVANS is a poetry MFA candidate at Colorado State University. He edits CALAMITY and his poems have appeared in Cloud Rodeo, Sundog Lit, Alien Mouth, Fourteen Hills, Potluck Magazine, and elsewhere. He is the author of the chapbook UNLIMITED, forthcoming from H_NGM_N Books.
EMILY CARR says she “writes murder mysteries that turn into love poems that are sometimes (by her McSweeney’s editors, for example) called divorce poems.” She has lived all over the world and is the author of several collections and chapbooks of poems. After she got an MFA in poetry from the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, she took a doctorate in ecopoetics at the University of Calgary. These days, she’s the program director of the low-residency MFA in creative writing at Oregon State University-Cascades. Her newest book, Whosoever Has Let a Minotaur Enter Them, Or a Sonnet—, is available from McSweeney's. It inspired a beer of the same name, now available at the Ale Apothecary.
ROBIN MCLACHLEN is co-host of Literary Landscape on CKCU. He lives in Kanata, ON with his wife and 2 children. "Manipur" is the 3rd of the 7 sub-poems that compose Body Electric, a recently-completed (March, '17) book-length poem that he's been working with for the past 8 years.