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Mary M. Brown is a retired creative writing professor, a Hoosier, not by birth, but by residence and temperament. You can read her work on the Poetry Foundation website, in American Life in Poetry, Quiddity, Four Chambers, and Third Wednesday.
Chad Lutz was born in Akron, Ohio, in 1986 and raised in the neighboring suburb of Stow. A 2008 graduate of Kent State University’s English program, his writing has been featured in Diverse Voices Quarterly, Kind of a Hurricane Press, Haunted Waters Press, and Sheepshead Review. Chad still balls hard in his hometown of Stow and currently works in North Canton writing content for an online job resource site. He also manages an online magazine called AltOhio.com. Chad runs competitively and won the Lake Wobegon Marathon in May 2015, setting the course record by nearly three minutes in a time of 2:33:59. He aspires to qualify for the Olympic Trials.
Marc Janssen would like to be a poet full time, but he also likes to eat. His work is scattered around the internet and in print at such periodicals as Sediments Literary-Arts Journal, Vine Leaves Literary Journal, Off the Coast, Cirque Journal, and The Ottawa Arts Review as well as the anthologies Manifest West, Green is the Color of Winter and The Northern California Perspective. You can find him toiling for the State of Oregon and occasionally eating on the job.
George Perreault has a new collection of poetry, Bodark County, featuring poems in the voices of characters living on the Llano Estacado due out Fall 2016 from Grayson Books. He has previously published three books of poetry, including All the Verbs for Knowing (Black Rock Press). He has received a fellowship from the Nevada Arts Council and an award from the Washington Poets Association, and has served as a visiting writer in New Mexico, Montana, and Utah. His poems have been selected for nine anthologies and dozens of magazines; recent work can be found in High Desert Journal, Wildcat Review, Literature Today, Twisted Vine, and Sleet.
Jim Richards poems have been nominated for Best New Poets 2015, two Pushcart Prizes, and have appeared recently in Prairie Schooner, South Carolina Review, Juked, Comstock Review, Poet Lore, Texas Review, among others. He lives in eastern Idaho’s Snake River valley, and in 2013 he received a fellowship from the Idaho Commission on the Arts.
To read more of his work visit www.jim-richards.com.
Sofia Lago recently graduated from Stockton University with a B.A. in historical studies. She previously published her poem “Yard Sale for Dreams” in Folio, and intends to name her future cat Toulouse.
A.D. Hurley lives the mountains of North Georgia with her husband, five children, and dog. She takes inspiration for her photography from the gorgeous landscape and local foliage. When she isn’t snapping pictures, she can be found tapping away at her keyboard working on the next great American novel. Her photography has been published in Under the Hat magazine, *82 Review’s December 2014 and March 2015 issues, Sonder Review, Brain of Forgetting, Vine Leaves Literary Journal Issue #14, and their “Best of 2015” Anthology.
Suzanne Edmonson is a California based artist and a native of Texas. Her interest in art was sparked at an early age and she started taking art & painting lessons to unleash her creativity on canvas. Her early work was recognized and led to several art honors in high school. She continued to study art in college at the University of Texas at Arlington, where she earned a BFA, and Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Her art education and expertise led her to a professional and successful career in advertising as an Art Director where her artistic sensibilities and vision were critical to creating ad campaigns for major brands.
During her advertising career, she never abandoned her love of painting and always found time to create, finding inspiration in the art of Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol & Jasper Johns. Their visions of ordinary things, scenes, etc. in life were transformed into extraordinary works of art and Suzanne’s work reflects that inspiration as it looks at objects, scenes, and animals, and gives them an important statement in life, sometimes with just a whirl of whimsy.
William C. Crawford is a writer & photographer living in Winston-Salem, NC. He was a a combat photojournalist in Vietnam. He later enjoyed a long career in social work. Crawdaddy also taught at UNC Chapel Hill. He photographs the trite, trivial, and the mundane. Crawford developed the forensic foraging technique of photography with his colleague, Sydney lensman, Jim Provencher.
His photo here embodies this approach. They feature extensive shooting of everything encountered. The images are then selectively presented with heavy contrast & saturation.Their technique borrows heavily from Stephen Shore and his color post cards from Amarillo. Main Street Americana (and elsewhere!) comes alive in its most base, everyday state. The photographic DNA of Walker Evans on the move (foraging?) also leaves its indelible mark. The genre uses minimal computer manipulation. Forensic foraging also accentuates funk which is easily identified because it just looks funky.
Crawdaddy’s writing for decades focused on hard hitting editorials on behalf of the powerless. His written advocacy tracked his long career in social work. More recently, he branched out into fiction and memoirs. His first book is due out in May, 2016. The working title is: ” Just Like Sunday On The Farm: Crawdaddy Remembers The Nam After 50 Years”.