Sophie Argetsinger has been
drawing animals, monsters, and imaginary worlds since childhood. Through
her drawings, she enjoys connecting to nature and animals, as well as
escaping into other worlds, and allows the viewer to do the same. She
graduated from Smith College in 2007 and is currently working as an
illustrator and book designer in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Sophie is most
recently the author/illustrator of A Tale From Beginningless Time, a graphic creation story. You can see more of her work on her website.
Martha Amore is an award-winning
author and teaches writing at Alaska Pacific University and the
University of Alaska Anchorage. She achieved her Masters of Fine Arts in
Fiction from UAA, and currently resides in Anchorage with her husband
and three daughters. Her first novella recently came out in the
anthology Weathered Edge: Three Alaskan Novellas. Currently, she is working on an anthology of Alaskan LGBTQ short stories.
JoAnn Anglin, a member of Los Escritores del Nuevo Sol (Writers of the New Sun), has a chapbook, Words Like Knives, Like Feathers (Rattlesnake Press), and poems in The Sacramento Anthology: One Hundred Poems, in Tule Review, Rattlesnake Review, The Pagan Muse, and Voces del Nuevo Sol.
Alyse Bensel is the author of two chapbooks, Not of Their Own Making (Dancing Girl Press, 2014) and Shift (Plan B Press, 2012). Her poetry has most recently appeared in Mid-American Review, Heavy Feather Review, and Ruminate, among others. She serves as the Book Review Editor at The Los Angeles Review and as Co-Editor of Beecher’s.
Sarah Boyle hails from Pittsburgh, PA, where she writes and teaches high school English. Her work has appeared in Menacing Hedge, Storyscape, and elsewhere. She has an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Find her online at impolitelines.com.
Iris Jamahl Dunkle's debut poetry collection, Gold Passage, won the Trio Award and was published by Trio House Press in 2013. Her chapbooks Inheritance and The Flying Trolley
were published by Finishing Line Press. Her poetry, essays and creative
non-fiction have been published widely. Dunkle teaches writing and
literature at Napa Valley College.She received her B.A. from the George
Washington University, her M.F.A. in Poetry from New York University,
and her Ph.D. in American Literature from Case Western Reserve
University. She is on the staff of the Napa Valley Writers Conference.
RJ Ingram lives in Oakland and
Greensboro. He is a poetry and creative nonfiction MFA candidate at
Saint Mary’s College of California and is a poetry and social media
editor at Omnidawn Publishing. His cat Brenda lost a leg protesting war
in the south. Follow him @RJEquality.
Alyse Knorr, guest editor of Sugar Mule Issue 48, is the author of Copper Mother (Switchback Books, forthcoming 2015), Annotated Glass (Furniture Press Books, 2013) and the chapbook Alternates (dancing girl press, 2014). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, Columbia Poetry Review, The Greensboro Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Drunken Boat, The Journal and The Southern Poetry Anthology
(Texas Review Press, 2012), among others. She received her MFA from
George Mason University. She is a founding co-editor of Gazing Grain
Press and teaches at the University of Alaska Anchorage.
Tony Mancus is the author of a handful of chapbooks, most recently Again(st) Membering (Horse Less Press) and City Country
(forthcoming from Seattle Review). He currently works as a technical
writer and lives with his wife Shannon and their two yappy cats in
Arlington, VA.
Scott Montgomery lives in the
Andes of Peru in the sacred valley. It is here that he spends his time
in the community, learning the Quechua language and holding workshops
for children on themes related to self-expression and sustainability. He
is at work on a book of creative nonfiction, which has been funded
through Kickstarter. To follow the project as it takes place, please
visit the project blog at www.footstepsandvoices.com. Scott Montgomery
received his MFA in creative writing (poetry) from Arizona State
University, where he served as poetry editor for Hayden's Ferry Review.
Gina Myers is the author of two full-length poetry collections, A Model Year (Coconut Books, 2009) and Hold It Down
(Coconut Books, 2013), as well as several chapbooks. Originally from
Saginaw, MI, she lives in Philadelphia where she edits Lame House Press,
serves as senior editor for Coconut Magazine, and works in media communications.
BZ Niditch is a poet, playwright,
fiction writer and teacher. His work is widely published in journals and
magazines throughout the world, including Columbia: A Magazine of Poetry and Art; The Literary Review; Denver Quarterly; Hawaii Review; Le Guepard (France); Kadmos (France); Prism International; Jejune (Czech Republic); Leopold Bloom (Budapest); Antioch Review; and Prairie Schooner, among others. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Eva Saulitis' most recent book is Into Great Silence: A Memoir of Discovery and Loss Among Vanishing Orcas. A new poetry collection, Prayer in Wind, will be out in 2015. Her essays have appeared widely, most recently in Orion, OnEarth, Utne Reader, and Ecotone.
A whale biologist as well as a creative writing professor, she teaches
in the low-residency MFA program at the University of Alaska, and lives
in Homer with her partner Craig.
Penelope Scambly Schott's newest book is HOW I BECAME AN HISTORIAN. She lives in Portland and Dufur, Oregon where she teaches an annual poetry workshop.
Born in Seattle in 1979, Julie Marie Wade
completed a Master of Arts in English at Western Washington University
in 2003, a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry at the University of Pittsburgh
in 2006, and a PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities at the University of
Louisville in 2012. She is the author of Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures (Colgate University Press, 2010; Bywater Books, 2014), winner of the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Memoir; Without: Poems (Finishing Line Press, 2010), selected for the New Women’s Voices Chapbook Series; Small Fires: Essays (Sarabande Books, 2011), selected for the Linda Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature; Postage Due: Poems & Prose Poems (White Pine Press, 2013), winner of the Marie Alexander Poetry Series; Tremolo: An Essay (Bloom Books, 2013), winner of the Bloom Nonfiction Chapbook Prize; When I Was Straight: Poems (A Midsummer Night’s Press, 2014); SIX (Red Hen Press, 2015), winner of the To the Lighthouse Poetry Prize; and Catechism: A Love Story (Noctuary Press, 2016). A regular book reviewer for The Rumpus and Lambda Literary Review,
Wade teaches in the creative writing program at Florida International
University. She is married to Angie Griffin and lives in Dania Beach.
July Westhale is a
Fulbright-nominated poet, activist, and journalist. She has been awarded
residencies from the Lambda Literary Foundation, Sewanee, Napa Valley,
Tin House and Bread Loaf. Her poetry has most recently been published in
Adrienne, burntdistrict, Eleven Eleven, WordRiot, 580 Split, Quarterly West, and PRISM International. She is the 2014 Tomales Bay Poetry Fellow.
Laura Madeline Wiseman is the author of more than a dozen books and chapbooks and the editor of Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2013). Her recent books are The Bottle Opener (Red Dashboard, 2014), American Galactic (Martian Lit Books, 2014), Some Fatal Effects of Curiosity and Disobedience (Lavender Ink, 2014), Queen of the Platform (Anaphora Literary Press, 2013), and Sprung (San Francisco Bay Press, 2012). Her newest chapbook is Threnody (Porkbelly Press, 2014). Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Margie, Mid-American Review, Arts & Letters, and Feminist Studies.
Michele Zimmerman received a
BA with a concentration in fiction from Sarah Lawrence College in May
2014. Two of her short stories were Top-25 Finalists for the Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers. She is excited to currently be working as a fiction reader for both Slice Literary and Post Road Magazine. This is her first publication.