Simon Perchik ----- Poetry

Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, The Nation, Poetry, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. His most recent collection is Almost Rain, published by River Otter Press (2013).  For more information, free e-books and his essay titled “Magic, Illusion and Other Realities” please visit his website atwww.simonperchik.com.

Andrena Zawinski -------- Haibun (poetry)

Andrena Zawinski is a teacher of writing and is Features Editor at PoetryMagazine.com. She has authored two full collections and four chapbooks of poetry - her latest, Something About from Blue Light Press in San Francisco, was awarded  a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award. She compiled and edited Turning a Train of Thought Upside Down: An Anthology of Women’s Poetry from Scarlet Tanager Books in Oakland, CA where she founded and runs a Women’s Poetry Salon. Her work appears widely at publications including Bloodroot, Blue Collar Review Journal of Progressive Working Class Literature, Haight Asbury Literary Journal, Pacific Review, Progressive Magazine, Psychological Perspectives Journal of Jungian Thought, with work widely anthologized. 

http://andrenazawinski.wordpress.com/category/poetry

Mary Lou Nielsen

Mary Lou Nielsen writes:

"Seattle is my spiritual home as both parents were born there and I had close ties with grandparents in West Seattle. My son was born there. I have always loved to travel, and at a late stage in my life joined the Peace Corps to teach English in Bulgaria. Before age nine lived in several States: Idaho, where I was born, Illinois, Washington, Indiana, New Jersey, Kentucky, and ultimately California. Currently working on a novel, a historical romance (or is it "an historical romance")? Always had an ambition to write but having to work to support myself and other obligations got in the way."