Alley S. Greymond --- poetry (3 poems)

Alley Greymond previously published under the name Teresa Bachman, where she was seen in several literary journals including Rain City Review, Trestle Creek Review and the short-lived Urban Spelunker .  In the 1990s she served on both the Washington Poets Association and the Red Sky Poetry Theater Boards and graced the stages of Bumbershoot.

Joe Musso --- fiction (two stories)

Joe Musso lives on the east coast. His stories have appeared

in various small press magazines. His book I Was Never Cool

was published by Goldfish Press.

Changming Yuan -- poetry

 Changming Yuan, 7-time Pushcart nominee and author of Chansons of a Chinaman (2009) and Landscaping (2013), grew up in rural China but currently tutors in Vancouver, where he co-publishes Poetry Pacific with Allen Qing Yuan and operates PP Press. With a PhD in English, Yuan has recently been interviewed by [PANK], and had poetry appearing in Best Canadian Poetry (2009; 2012), BestNewPoemsOnline, Exquisite Corpse, London Magazine, Threepenny Review and 769 other literary journals/anthologies across 28 countries. 

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Koon Woon -- poetry

Koon Woon is the author of The Truth in Rented Rooms and Water Chasing Water, two full volumes of poetry from Kaya Press. He is also the author of the chapbook The Burden of Sanity and Other Poems. Koon has published his poems in many small journals in the US and abroad. He is an anthologist as well as a poet anthologized internationally. Having been born in China and lived mostly in the US, he he able to bridge two cultures as well to offer an intimate knowledge of Chinatown, USA. Thus, his work is studied in universities for Asian-American studies for Chinatown studies, cultural hybridity and simply for the poetry.

Joanna Sit -- poetry

"Joanna Sit is a poet working in Brooklyn. Her poems have appeared in California Quarterly, Tonopah Review, and other literary journals. Her translations have appeared in Senenca Review and Ezra On-Line Literary Journal.  Her recent book of poems, My Last Century, was published by Spuyten Duyvil. Her upcoming book, In Thailand with the Apostles, is coming in 2014. Her PSC-CUNY funded project, The Reincarnation of Red, is an oral narrative on Chinese immigrants and Cantonese Opera."

John Burgess - - poetry

JOHN BURGESS grew up in upstate New York, worked on a survey crew in Montana, taught English in Japan and now lives and works in Seattle. He has three books of poetry from Ravenna Press: Punk Poems(2005), A History of Guns in the Family (2008) and Graffito (2011).

Thaddeus Rutkowski -- fiction

Thaddeus Rutkowski is the author of the novels Haywire, Tetched and Roughhouse. All three books were finalists for an Asian American Literary Award, and Haywire won the Members’ Choice Award. He teaches at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn and at the Writer's Voice of the West Side YMCA in Manhattan. His writing has appeared in The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, The New York Times,The International Herald Tribune, Fiction, Fiction International and other publications. He recently received a fiction writing fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. 

Ryler Dustin -- poetry

A native of Bellingham, Washington, Ryler Dustin is a winner of the Inprint Paul Verlaine $10,000 Poetry Prize, a 2011 Ruth Lilly Fellowship finalist, and has competed on the final stage of the Individual World Poetry Slam. He holds an MFA from the University of Houston, where he edited Gulf Coast. He is the author of Heavy Lead Birdsong from Write Bloody.