The Editors

CL Bledsoe

CL Bledsoe was raised on a catfish farm in eastern Arkansas. He played around in punk bands Maria Static and Shizknit and DJed in student radio while working on his Bachelor’s from the University of Arkansas. He then studied playwriting for a year before transferring to Hollins University for his M.F.A. He also worked as an editor at Exposure, the University of Arkansas literary journal, and as an assistant editor for the Hollins Critic. His work has been published in over two hundred journals and anthology including Margie, Natural Bridge, Nimrod, Story South, The Cimarron Review, The Arkansas Review, Clackamas, and Eyeshot. A past winner of the Blue Collar Review Working People’s Poetry Contest, he's also been nominated for 3 Pushcart prizes. His first full length collection, Anthem, is forthcoming from Cervena Barva Press in 2008. A chapbook, _____(want/need) was just published by Plan B Press. Buy it here.

Jillian Bledsoe

received her undergraduate degree from George Mason University, where she studied with Eric Pankey and Jennifer Atkinson, among other fabulous folks. She worked her butt off and earned her M.F.A. from Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. Her poems have appeared in Phoebe, Poetry Southeast and other journals. Her first manuscript, Leaving Newfound is done, and she loves it. She thanks her thesis advosor, Thorpe Moeckel, and highly recommends checking out his writing!

Donna Epler

also completed her MFA at Hollins University. She lives with her partner, Steph, two elderly cats and one seperation anxiety plagued dog in Albuquerque, NM, where they enjoy 360 days of sunshine and amazing sunsets. As an undergrad she worked on the fiction editorial board for Blue Mesa Review, was fiction editor for Conceptions Southwest and is currently co-editor of Ghoti Magazine.

Christopher Fullerton

graduated with a BA in English/Creative Writing from the University of Arkansas, where he twice received the Baucum Fulkerson Award for Fiction and Drama. Rather than grad school, he pursued a career in poverty and bar room shenanigans, before settling down in Oklahoma, then Virginia, then back to Oklahoma, and now, temporarily, in Gainesville, Florida. He has been published in a few nifty places, and rejected from even more. He is currently indulging himself with the pursuit of independent films at Wait, Do I Work Here? Productions.

Antony Grow

lives in North Carolina where he is pursuing his MA in English Literature and gathering short stories for his first collection. He is the Asst. Book Review Editor at Trillium Literarary Journal and a regular contributor. He plans on writing an essay on palindromic authors, yet after researching William Carlos Williams and Ford Madox Ford, he has run out of material. He loves ludic poems of constraint, fiction that makes you feel like someone is holding your hand, and essays that remind you that sex is only second to the most intimate convergence: the transference of knowledge. You can find Antony at http://combingmyhair.blogspot.com