Lesley Yalen’s writing has appeared in jubilat, The Massachusetts Review, Denver Quarterly, Octopus, Everyday Genius, Better, and elsewhere. Her two chapbooks, This Elizabeth and The Beginning In are hard to find copies of. Her first book, The Hearts of Vikings, is coming out from Natural History Press in 2014. She lives in Western Mass and works at the Yiddish Book Center.

Vincent Zompa's first full-length collection Heard Animal will be published by Dusie Press this winter. He is the author of several chapbooks and lives in New York City.

Seth Landman is the author of "Sign You Were Mistaken" (Factory Hollow Press, 2013) and "Confidence" (Brooklyn Arts Press, forthcoming). He lives in Northampton, MA.