Erin Castaldi This book conquers some commonly held beliefs by people of the simplicity and lackluster of the haiku poem.

Gregory Loselle has won awards at The University of Michigan, won The Academy of American Poets Prize, the William van Wert Fiction Award from Hidden River Arts, and The Ruby Lloyd Apsey Award for Playwriting.

Frederick Lowe has been a Pushcart nominee twice. Often collaborating with graphic artists to produce folios, broadsides, and artist books.

Gloria Nixon-John has published poetry, fiction, essays and pedagogical articles and chapters in small and mainstream presses. She is author of The Killing Jar, the story of one of the youngest Americans to serve on death row.

g emil reutter is a writer of poems and stories. He has been published widely in the small and electronic press. Eleven collections of his fiction and poetry have been published. He is a contributing editor at North of Oxford and published The Fox Chase Review. He can be found at: https://gereutter.wordpress.com/about/

Carter Vance is a writer and poet from Ottawa, Ontario. His work has appeared in The Vehicle, Contemporary Verse 2 and A Midwestern Review, among others.