Tony Dekker is the lead singer and songwriter of the Toronto-based band Great Lake Swimmers.

Great Lake Swimmers are a Canadian folk-rock band formed by lead singer and songwriter Tony Dekker. They have released four albums: Great Lake Swimmers (2003), Bodies and Minds (2005), Ongiara (2007), and Lost Channels (Nettwerk, 2009)

Anne Champion recently finished her MFA in Poetry at Emerson College. She has work previously published in Our Time is Now, The Minnetonka Review, Pank Magazine, The Aurorean, Glass Poetry and Breadcrumb Scabs. She was also a 2009 recipient of The Academy of American Poets Prize. She currently teaches Freshman Composition at Emerson College, Pine Manor College, and Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.

Michael Tyrell is a poet living in New York. His poems have appeared in Agni, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and The Yale Review. With Julia Spicher Kasdorf, he edited the anthology Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn.

Kirsten Clodfelter is the Associate Editor of Pif Magazine and an MFA fiction candidate at George Mason University. Her work can be read in Perigee, Word Riot, Forge, Dark Sky Magazine, and Bayou Magazine, and is forthcoming in The Iowa Review. She was a finalist for Cutthroat Magazine’s 2008 Rick DeMarinis Short Story Award and The Tampa Review’s 2009 Danahy Fiction Prize. She currently lives in Virginia.

Scott Hightower teaches at NYU and has taught poetry, non-fiction, and the art of translation at Drew, F.I.T., Fordham, and Poets House. A native of central Texas, he lives in New York City and sojourns in Spain. His translations from Spanish have garnered him a Willis Barnstone Translation Prize. His third collection, Part of the Bargain, received the 2004 Hayden Carruth Award.

Jack Kristiansen is a poet existing in the composition books of William Aarnes. Kristiansen’s poems have appeared in The Tipton Poetry Journal, Stone’s Throw Magazine, FIELD and Sunsets and Silencers. Aarnes’ poetry has appeared in The American Scholar, Poetry, The Southern Review and Measure, among others.

Labokoff is an artist, photographer and graphic designer based in Paris.

Jon MacNair earned a BFA in illustration at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. His illustrations have been featured in editorial publications such as Hyphen Magazine, Pittsburgh City Paper, Baltimore City Paper, Urbanite, Baltimore Magazine, Rockpile and The Riverfront Times. His fine art has been exhibited in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York, Portland and San Francisco. He currently lives and works in Michigan.

Jeremy Geddes is an artist living and working in Melbourne, Australia. Having studied painting in the early 90s, Jeremy initially worked in video games as an art director. In 2003 he returned to painting full time and has since had his paintings published and exhibited around the world; most recently an exhibition in Hong Kong with Ashley Wood. He has received multiple awards including the Spectrum Gold Award for his comic cover Doomed #4.

Jenny Gillespie is a musician and poet living in Chicago.

Marc Petersen is a poet and photographer living in Santa Clara, CA. His work has appeared in Narrative, The Nebraska Review, The Georgia Review, The Sun, and elsewhere.

Sam Ramos was born and raised in Austin, Texas and is currently a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Ian Link is a folk singer living in Detroit.

Steven Kunert , who grew up on the Texas-Mexico border and got literary training in the vast nowhereness of the desert and intense somewhereness of back streets in El Paso and Juarez, has published prose and poetry stretching back for 30 years in publications such as The Starving Artist Times, Dude, Rio Grande Review, The Oregonian, and more recently in Word Riot, decomP, Six Sentences, American Satellite Magazine and Poetry Super Highway.