Brent Jon Barber is a pediatric cardiologist who practices and teaches at the University of Arizona in Tucson, where he also rides his bike and does some birding with his wife and three sons. His work has appeared in Harmony Magazine, where his non-fiction won the Mathiasen Award.
Raina Joines is a writer and educator from the Midwest. Her work is out or forthcoming in Chattahoochee Review, Crab Orchard Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, I-70 Review, and Valparaiso Poetry Review. She lives in Denton, TX, and still worries that just one suitcase full of books won’t be enough for the whole trip.
Angelica Lai is a writer based in Seattle. Her works have appeared in the book collection Six Words Fresh Off the Boat, Columbia Journal, Paper Darts, Firewords, and Literature for Life. She is also an associate editor for Slant’d and a reader for Moss, a journal of Pacific Northwest writing.
Justin Maxwell was awarded an ATLAS-BoR grant for his play Palimpsests of Agrippina Minor. His short play “Now Maybe Sunbeam” recently premiered online. His plays are widely produced. His prose has appeared in many journals. Justin is an associate professor teaching playwriting at the University of New Orleans.
Yara Omer holds a BA in Journalism and Masters in Deaf Education. She is fluent in Arabic, English, and American Sign Language. Yara writes in Arabic and English and enjoys reading and Astronomy. Published (Mizna - Saint Paul Almanac). Participated in “I am Deliberate and Afraid of Nothing” sponsored by the Poetry Coalition.
Allen M. Price is a writer from Rhode Island. He has an MA in journalism from Emerson College. His fiction and nonfiction work appears or is forthcoming in Transition Magazine, Hobart, The Masters Review, upstreet, Zone 3, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Entropy, Juked, Bayou, River Teeth, The Fourth River Tributaries (chosen by guest editor Ira Sukrungruang), Jellyfish Review, Sou’wester, Cosmonauts Avenue, Gertrude Press, The Adirondack Review, The Saturday Evening Post, among others. An excerpt of his screenplay ‘Dark Ocean Night’ appears in The Louisville Review. His chapbook ‘The Unintended Consequences of Haitian Reparation’ appears in Hawai’i Review.
