JON ANDERSON

lives in Cardiff, UK where he works as a Lecturer in Human Geography at Cardiff University. His research focuses on the relations between culture, place, and identity and he is particularly interested in the geographies, politics and practices that such relations produce. He is also interested in the variety of ways these relations can be articulated and relayed to different audiences. He has recently published a book Understanding Cultural Geography: Places & Traces (2010).

NÉSTOR BRAVO

lives in Tepoztlán, Mexico where he is a professor of semiotics and photography. His work touches on various themes including war, landscape and environmental degradation with images from Cuba, Mexico, Quebec and Venezuela. He taks in the style of portraits of Emmanuel Levinas– understanding a facial profile as the horizon from which one can observe infinity. Currently he is combining his photography with his budding work as a poet.

HANNA A. COY

received her undergraduate degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Arizona in 2002. She has since spent time as a research technician and a painter. She is particularly interested in the public perception of water issues, which she explores through both painting and writing. Hanna is currently seeking a graduate degree in Ecohydrology and Watershed Management while working for the U. S. Geological Survey.

KATY DARBY

grew up in England, Holland and Belgium and now lives in London. Her work has been read on BBC Radio, won various prizes, and appeared in magazines including Stand, Slice, The London Magazine and Mslexia, as well as anthologies from Arvon, Fish and Tindal Street Press. She has a BA in English from Oxford University and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, and her plays are published by Samuel French. She edits the literary magazine Litro, teaches short story and novel writing at London’s City University, and by night runs the actors’ and writers’ live fiction event Liars’ League.

SATHYA HONEY VICTORIA

was born in Guadalajara, Mexico in 1986. She is a photographer, a writer and a traveler. She studied Art at the University of Guadalajara and is currently attending the University of Arizona, where she studies Photography and Translation and Interpretation. Her photographs have been exhibited in Guadalajara and Tucson. Her most recent work explores the use of Russian plastic cameras in combination with 19th century printing processes.

CALEB IZDEPSKI

practiced photography while traveling to agricultural communities in Central America alongside the underfunded though charismatic nonprofit SOS (1993-2007). Native to New Orleans, Louisiana and presently working as a field ecologist in the lower Mississippi River Delta, by hobby photographs the meeting point of nature and human creation.

BONNIE KASERMAN

painted the images featured in this issue while living at 49° 15’ 45” N 123° 8’ 10” W. Her interest in the tensions between science and art began while working as an undergraduate in a spatial analysis research lab. From that point on, she began to note when remotely sensed images were displayed for their aesthetic value. Beyond this interest in science/art, Bonnie writes about graduate school culture for Academic Matters; her blog “(un)becoming academic” can be found on the magazine’s website.

CHAVAWN KELLEY

lives at 7,200 feet in Laramie, Wyoming. Her poems, essays and short stories have appeared in Creative Nonfiction, Quarterly West, Hayden’s Ferry Review, High Desert Review and Terrain.org, among others, and in numerous anthologies. She has received fellowships from the Wyoming Arts Council, the Ucross Foundation, the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation and Can Serrat International Arts Center (Spain).

EMMA KLEINER

is studying History and Art History at the University of Arizona as a Flinn Scholar. She serves on the staff of Persona, the undergraduate literary journal, and is active in the Undergraduate Art History Club. She is an intern at the University of Arizona Museum of Art and previously worked as a research assistant for a professor of English at the University of Arizona.

CHRISTINA LOVIN

is the author of What We Burned for Warmth and Little Fires. A two-time Pushcart nominee and multi-award winner, her writing has appeared in numerous publications. Southern Women Writers named Lovin 2007 Emerging Poet. She has served as Writer-in-Residence at Devil’s Tower National Monument, the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest in Central Oregon, and most recently as inaugural Poet-in-Residence at Connemara, the NC home of the late Carl Sandburg. Lovin’s work has been generously supported with grants from Elizabeth George Foundation, Kentucky Foundation for Women, and Kentucky Arts Council, including the Al Smith Fellowship. She currently resides in Central Kentucky.

CATHERINE McGUIRE

is a writer and artist with a deep interest in philosophy, the big “Why we are here?” questions. She has had more than 150 poems published, including on a bus for the nationally-known Poetry In Motion project, and has a chapbook Joy Into Stillness: Seasons of Lake Quinault. She lives in Sweet Home, Oregon with her chickens and large garden.

IFMILLER

was born in New York City and currently lives in Chicago. He was educated at New York University, Purdue University, and the University of Michigan. He taught and administered programs at Polytechnic Institute of NYU, University of Illinois at Chicago, and University of Akron. A casual poet for most of his life, he began writing seriously in 1995. His work is primarily free verse, inspired by the memories evoked by his surroundings. His work has appeared in Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, The Aurorean, Poetica Magazine, Free Lunch, Boston Literary Magazine, in several group chapbooks, and on several websites. His solo chapbook, “Moonburn”, was recently published in the Big Table Publishing Company Chapbook Series.

BEN NARDOLILLI

is a 24 year old writer currently living in Arlington, Virginia. He has been published in Quail Bell Magazine, Perigee, Elimae, and the Poetry Warrior. His poem was inspired by a very real set of events from his job, working for an online encyclopedia. Ben maintains Mirror Sponge blog.

TYRA OLSTAD

is a Doctoral Candidate in Geography at Kansas State University. Having spent several years wandering around beautiful wild places in the West, she has nurtured an interest in human perceptions of the natural environment. She uses her work -- which includes creative non-fiction essays, photographs, and hand-drawn maps -- to explore the process of place-creation.

LISA ANNELOUISE RENTZ

lives and works with her husband Irby on the South Carolina coast in an inspiring neighborhood full of limb-dropping trees, armadillos, and grave yards. After spending her formative years moving around the United States, studying German, and reading good and trashy books, her work can be found in galleries, combining visuals and text, in publications from Philadelphia to Australia, and in rural Beaufort County schools where she defines creative writing as any writing that is not boring. She archives her literary and teaching artist work at Eat Good Bread.

N. A'YARA STEIN

was born in Memphis in 1971 and is a Romani-American poet and writer living on a chicory farm. She holds an MFA from the University of Arkansas and is a grant recipient of the Michigan Art Council and the Arkansas Arts Council and was the former editor of the arts quarterly Gypsy Blood Review. She’s published in America, The New Orleans Review, The Birmingham Poetry Review, The Oxford American, California Quarterly, Chiron Review, Crossroads: a Journal of Southern Culture, Great Midwestern Quarterly, and Poetry Motel among others. Ms. Stein lives near Chicago with her husband and sons.

LAURA VERNON-RUSSELL's

fascination with the natural world is her constant companion. Her series of photographic works have such titles as Making Tracks; the award-winning Avian Landscape; and A Study of Urban Crows. Her recent series of encaustic paintings, The Hidden Forest, combine the elements of photography, drawing, and painting. She received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and lives, not far from the Chesapeake Bay, in Baltimore, MD with her husband and son.

PAMELA VILLARS

lives in Austin, Texas and aspires to be the female Dog Whisperer as well as a poet. Pamela was born in New Mexico, traveled in childhood throughout South America, and has driven across most of the continental US. To treat her non-profit burnout, she started writing; she uses dreams, media, and angst as inspiration. Pamela has been published in Integral Yoga Magazine, Tiny Lights Flash in the Pan, Drash Pit, Scalped Magazine, Wanderings Magazine, and Literary Mama. For additional work, check out Flutter and Muse.