Allison Adair’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Missouri Review (“Poem of the Week”), Boston Review, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Tahoma Literary Review, the Boston Globe, and the anthology Hacks; and her interactive digital projects have appeared recently at The Rumpus and Electric Literature. She teaches at Boston College and Grub...

Nancy Hewitt’s chapbook Heard was published in 2013 by Finishing Line Press. She earned her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and has maintained a private practice in clinical social work in Salem, MA, for over 30 years. She divides her time between Swampscott, MA, where she is the town’s first Poet Laureate, and...

Katie Booth’s work has appeared in Indiana Review, Mid-American Review, The Fourth River and Vela, where she also edits the “Bookmarked” column. She has earned recognition and support for her work from the Edward Albee Foundation, the Blue Mountain Center and the Massachusetts Historical Society. She teaches writing and journalism at the University of Pittsburgh....

Wendy Cannella’s poetry has appeared in Phoebe, Free Lunch, and Southern Indiana Review; her article “Angels and Terrorists” is featured in The Room and the World: Essays on the Poet Stephen Dunn (Syracuse University Press). She earned her MFA from Vermont College, PhD from Boston College, and has taught at Boston College and Southern New...

Jennifer K. Sweeney is the author of three poetry collections: Little Spells (New Issues Press, 2015), How to Live on Bread and Music, which received the James Laughlin Award, the Perugia Press Prize and a nomination for the Poets’ Prize, and Salt Memory. The recipient of a Pushcart Prize, her poems have appeared in Academy of American...

Claire Guyton is a Maine writer, editor, and writing coach, whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Crazyhorse, Hunger Mountain, The Journal for the Compressed Creative Arts, River Styx, Sliver of Stone Magazine, and the anthology Summer Stories (Shanti Arts Publishing, 2013). Claire has been awarded the Maine Arts Commission’s Literary Fellowship and earned...

Sean Hammer was born in 1988 in Washington, DC and raised in nearby Silver Spring, Maryland. He holds degrees from Boston University and Johns Hopkins, and is beginning his MFA in Fiction at Hunter College in September 2015. His work has been featured in various journals, and his monthly column can be found online at...

Matt Maki writes, teaches, edits, and freedom-fights in tumultuous Kyiv, Ukraine. He has served on the editorial staff of Passages North, on the poetry staff and as fiction editor for Black Warrior Review, and is currently Greatest Lakes Review‘s editor-in-chief and Flywheel Magazine‘s fiction editor. His work appears in literary journals and anthologies, including Dunes...

Cherie Hunter Day’s work has appeared in literary journals such as Moon City Review, Quarter After Eight, SmokeLong Quarterly, and Wigleaf. Her 2014 Fineline entry, “Fisher Scientific,” appears in 35.1 and marks the fifth time she was a finalist and Editors’ Choice in MAR‘s Fineline Competition. She lives in Cupertino, California. Quick! Summarize your piece...

Elisabeth Sharp McKetta has been a gardener of simple herbs, a 9th grade class president, a fairy godmother, and a Cozy Coup driver. She lives with her family in Idaho. Her poem, “Cartography of Human Bridges,” appears in MAR 35.1. Quick! Summarize your poem in 10 words or fewer. Guy gave me the word “caisson.”...