Maura Gage Cavell ----- three poems

Maura Gage Cavell is Professor of English and Director of the Honors Program at Louisiana State University Eunice.  She resides in Crowley with her family. She has recently  published poetry in California Quarterly, Poem, Louisiana Literature, Boulevard, and The Louisiana Review. 

Maura loves and appreciates the beauty she finds in nature, people, animals, and the world.  Her friends tell her she is a "positive person," one who slants all experiences to find for the best qualities in most moments and in people, staying upbeat and always smiling, riding out what's painful as best she can.

Poetry ---- Alison Mandaville

Bio: Alison Mandaville writes far more poetry than ever sees the light of day. She has published poetry in such venues as Skidrow Penthouse, Knock, Off the Coast, Chrysanthemum, and Fifth Wednesday. She lives in Fresno and Seattle and sometimes Azerbaijan and tries hard to remember where she is when she wakes up in the morning.

Donald Gasperson ----- poetry

   I am sixty one years old and happily retired.   I have an Masters degree in Clinical Psychology which has not hindered me as much as common wisdom would lead you to expect.  I have had the good fortune to work  in a number of counseling and therapeutic positions; they are out there.  I had a good education and am an insightful person.  I try  to use some of that in my poetry , without being narcisstic or self-involved.  I in no way attempt to write any thing as autobiographical.  I read my poetry  and I like it.  I can recognize it, as being particularly mine.   I hope some one else will like it too.

Dr. Ann Reitan

Dr. Ann Reitan was raised in Seattle area under the cloud-skies and senseless rain, where she learned to accept bad weather. She lived on Mercer Island from the age of six to twenty-one years, and her family deviated from outward appearances of respectability in that they had colored Christmas tree lights on a small maple tree outside of their house all year long.  Ann now lives with her three cats, Oskar, Bella and Emmy, in a quirky, small apartment near the Tower District in Fresno, California. This area of Fresno is culturally diverse and gathers to itself creative individuals, including musicians, artists and writers. Ann has published many essays and poems. She currently writes a blog for Psychology Today, and she has also written over thirty articles for the website, Brainblogger.com.  Ann Reitan has written and published a book entitled, Illuminating Schizophrenia, Insights into the Uncommon Mind.  This book is published under the name Dr. Ann Olson.  

Sparrow, a book of poems by Bethany Reid

Short Story ----- Sondra Kelly-Green

BIO – Sondra Kelly-Green

SONDRA KELLY-GREEN received her MFA in creative writing from Antioch in 1999. Her fiction has appeared in Peregrine’s 20^th Anniversary Issue, Pearl’s 2011 all-fiction issue, FLASHPOINT!, North Central Review, Spire, The Wilderness House Literary Review, and Margin; Exploring Modern Magical Realism .  Her literary awards include the Lorian Hemingway Competition, New Millennium Writings, Pearl’s 2011 Literary Awards, FLASHPOINT! and Writer’s Digest’s annual short story competition.

Her novella, The Masque of Pierrot, has been produced as a two part podcast by the historical fiction audio magazine, Tales of Old.(http://www.talesofold.org/archives/689).  She is a contributor to Forever Families, the third book in the Forever Trilogy edited by Shelagh Watkins. (Mandinam Press, UK, 2012.)   Kelly-Green lives in Oregon’s Willamette Valley.  She is currently seeking representation for a novel, Between Lives, and a collection of short stories, Burning Mary.

David Fewster ---- poetry

It was 27 years ago this October that David Fewster moved to Pugetopolis, a place that in his mind runs from Olympia to Vancouver, BC. Hos work has appeared in the anthologies Seattle Poems by Seattle Poets (Poetry Around Press), Revival: Spoken Word from Lollapalooza 95 (Manic D Press), Thus Spake the Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader Vol. 2 (Black Sparrow Press), and 20/20: Tacoma In Images and Verse (Peter Serko). His book of poetry, Diary of a Homeless Alcoholic Suicidal Maniac & other picture postcards, was published with a 2003-2004 TAIP grant from the Tacoma Arts Commission.