
Len Sousa is a poet, essayist, translator, critic, and music journalist who has contributed work to The Mercury, Skope Magazine, Ducts, Performer, Slant Magazine, The Pulse, Literary Traveler and other sundry publications.

Jeanine Stevens raised in Indiana. Currently living in Northern California. Graduate degrees in Anthropology and Education. Poems have appeared in The Suisun Valley Review, Poesy, Alehouse, The Tule Review, Poetry Depth Quarterly, South Dakota Review, Ruah, Wavelength, Timber Creek Review, Bardsong, Pegasus, and Valparaiso Review, among others.

Gloria Mindock is editor of Cervena Barva Press. She is the author of two chapbooks, Doppelganger (S.Press), Oh Angel (U Soku Stampa) and has a poetry book forthcoming called, Nothing Divine Here (U Soku Stampa). Gloria has been published in numerous journals including River Styx, Phoebe, Poet Lore, Blackbox, Ibbetson St., WHLR, and UNU: Revista de Cultura in Romania with translations by Flavia Cosma.

Magdalena Ball runs The Compulsive Reader. Her short stories, editorials, poetry, reviews and articles have appeared in a wide number of printed anthologies and journals, and have won local and international awards for poetry and fiction.