Dorothy
Alexander is a poet and storyteller from
Cheyenne, Oklahoma. She has authored four poetry collections, including Lessons From an Oklahoma Girlhood, an ekphrastic collection of
poems and visual art, and two volumes of oral histories. Her poems
and non-fiction prose pieces have appeared in Sugar Creek Review, Blood & Thunder, Cooweescoowee, Sugar Mule
Review, A&U Magazine, Oklahoma Today,
Imaginary Family, Malpais Review, and others.
She is a publisher
of poetry and she facilitates poetry readings at the annual Woody Guthrie Folk
Festival in Okemah, Oklahoma, and the Poetry
@ the Paramount readings in Oklahoma City. Dorothy gratefully accepted the 2013 Carlile Distinguished Service
Award bestowed by The Oklahoma Center for the Book
and Friends of the Libraries in Oklahoma in
recognition of her services to the Oklahoma literary community.
Alan
Berecka’s poetry recently appeared in
the San Antonio Express, and then
shortly thereafter at the bottom of countless bird cages. His latest book With Our Baggage was released by Lamar
University Press in July 2013. He is not sure he can claim that he works for a
living, but he puts in his time as a reference librarian at Del Mar College in
Corpus Christi, Texas.
Timothy Bradford is the author of
the introduction to Sadhus (Cuerpos
Pintados, 2003), a photography book on the ascetics of South Asia, and Nomads with Samsonite (BlazeVOX [books],
2011), a collection of poetry. His poems have recently appeared in Upstairs at Duroc, Interim, and The Fiddleback,
and he has been a visiting writer/lecturer at Marist College and in the Red
Earth MFA program at Oklahoma City University during the past year. Currently,
he is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Oklahoma State University.
James Brubaker
is the author of Pilot Season, a
collection of flash prose pieces published by Sunnyoutside. His manuscript, a
collection of short stories called Liner
Notes, won the 2013 Subito Press Book Prize in Prose, and will be published
later in 2014. James’s stories have also appeared or are forthcoming in Zoetrope: All Story, Michigan Quarterly
Review, Web Conjunctions, Hobart, The Normal School, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and
Indiana Review, among others. James
is currently teaching as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Oklahoma State
University, where he is also the Interim Associate Director of the First Year
Writing Program.
Julie
A. Chappell
is a professor of medieval and early modern literature and creative writing at
Tarleton State University. Besides numerous academic books and essays, her
poetry has appeared in several anthologies including Revival: Spoken Word from
Lollapalooza 94; Agave: A Celebration of Tequila in Story, Song, Poetry, Essay,
and Graphic Art; and Elegant Rage: A
Poetic Tribute to Woody Guthrie. She also has published flash fiction in Cybersoleil: A Literary Journal. Her first poetry collection, Faultlines: One Woman’s Shifting Boundaries, was published by Village
Books Press in October 2013. Her memoir, The
Jail/House Rocked, is in
progress.
Kevin M. Clay
is an Associate Professor at Tarrant County College-SE. He has a BA and MA in
English from Tarleton State University, and a PhD in American Literature from
the University of North Texas. He won the Hoepfner Prize in 2006 from the Southern
Humanities Review for his short story "Cowboys." His fiction and
poetry have appeared in the Southern Humanities Review, The
Sulfur River Literary Review, the William and Mary Review, and the
British journal Staple. He lives in Arlington, Texas with his wife Elizabeth.
