Ron Koppelberger is new to the field of art but began drawing about 12 years ago. He has over seven hundred pieces of art now. He loves to create and nothing thrills him more than seeing his work in print. He has published 48 pieces at several magazines and web sites. He has published in Dark Gothic Resurrected, Blood Moon Rising, Fan Art Central, Death Head Grin, O Sweet Flowery Roses, Seinundwerden, The Poet’s Haven ,The Stray Branch and Ghost Kangaroo. Ron says, “The creative process is a thrill for me as is influencing the viewer in a positive way, in a thought provoking way. One of my primary goals involves touching the viewer and giving them a gift, the gift of a long forgotten memory or perhaps a special insight that may not have been apparent.” If you’d like to view some of his artwork he has it posted on Facebook. Just type in will806095@bellsouth.net.

Leila A. Fortier is a writer, artist, poet, and photographer currently residing on the remote island of Okinawa Japan. Her rich interplay of mediums from macro photography, to oils, acrylics, water colors, pastels, and digital techniques, are then layered and arranged to invoke the viewer into raw, emotional experience. Her restlessness is expressed in her passion to make manifest the formless in what she calls Painting Emotion. Her work has been featured in tandem with her poetic works, published in numerous literary magazines, journals, and reviews both in print and online. She has been selected to appear as the cover or featured artist of many virtual galleries and publications including Diverse Voices Quarterly, Cave Moon Press, and Pink Panther Magazine to name a few. A complete listing of all her works can be found at: www.leilafortier.com

[d]avid : [t]omaloff (b. 1972) | racine, WI, US | author, LIONTAMER’S BLUES (six eight press) | likes: jazz | hates: jazz | photography: yes | his work has also appeared in: Ditch Poetry, Otoliths, elimae, and/or, Counterexample Poetics, BlazeVOX 2KX, the Delinquent, and Calliope Nerve | see: davidtomaloff.com

Jennifer L. Tomaloff (b. 1972) | author, bending light into verse (put it down) | takes: pictures | likes: animals | hates: people | see: bendinglightintoverse.com

[d]avid : [t]omaloff (b. 1972) | racine, WI, US | author, LIONTAMER’S BLUES (six eight press) | likes: jazz | hates: jazz | photography: yes | his work has also appeared in: Ditch Poetry, Otoliths, elimae, and/or, Counterexample Poetics, BlazeVOX 2KX, the Delinquent, and Calliope Nerve | see: davidtomaloff.com

Megan Kennedy has been forging dark art for over ten years, and hopes one day it will make her an oracle. Her work has been featured in SNAP! and Vicious Magazine, Fantastic Horror Magazine, as the cover art for numerous local and international bands, as well as an upcoming release from Random House Australia.

Jane Røken believes in coloured lanterns and old tractors. She has been a saxhorn player in a brass band, a research technician in a secret lab, and a member of the Fourth International. Now past sixty, she has not yet decided what she wants to be when she grows up. In the meantime, she writes weird stories and spooky poems. For you. Yes, you.

Jennifer L. Tomaloff (b. 1972) | author, bending light into verse (put it down) | takes: pictures | likes: animals | hates: people | see: bendinglightintoverse.com

Megan Kennedy has been forging dark art for over ten years, and hopes one day it will make her an oracle. Her work has been featured in SNAP! and Vicious Magazine, Fantastic Horror Magazine, as the cover art for numerous local and international bands, as well as an upcoming release from Random House Australia. 

Keith Higginbotham's poetry has appeared recently or is forthcoming in The Beatnik, Cricket Online Review, ditch, Eratio, The Montucky Review, and Otoliths. He is the author of Carrying the Air on a Stick (The Runaway Spoon Press), Prosaic Suburban Commercial (Eratio Editions), and Theme From Next Date (Ten Pages Press).

Eryk S. Wenziak is a drummer and teaches management at the graduate level.  His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in:elimae; Short, Fast, and Deadly; Thunderclap Press; Used Furniture Review; Negative Suck; Psychic Meatloaf; Dark Chaos; Guerilla Pamphlets; Deadlier Than Thou (anthology); 52|250; Long River Run.  Currently, he is working on a chapbook, the flowers were trying harder, a collection of prose poems, each accompanied by a photograph. 

[d]avid : [t]omaloff (b. 1972) | racine, WI, US | author, LIONTAMER’S BLUES (six eight press) | likes: jazz | hates: jazz | photography: yes | his work has also appeared in: Ditch Poetry, Otoliths, elimae, and/or, Counterexample Poetics, BlazeVOX 2KX, the Delinquent, and Calliope Nerve | see: davidtomaloff.com

Personal photograph taken in the Grapevine off I-5. Circa 2010.

Helen Vitoria’s poems can be found and are forthcoming in: elimae, PANK, MudLuscious Press, >kill author, Foundling Review, FRIGG Magazine and Dark Sky Magazine and many others. She is the author of four chapbooks and a full length poetry collection: Corn Exchange is forthcoming from Scrambler Books. Her poems have been nominated for Best New Poets & the Pushcart Prize. She is also an angsty photographer and math and sports make her cry. She is the Founding Editor and Editor in Chief of THRUSH Poetry Journal & THRUSH Press. Find her here: http://helenvitoria-lexis.blogspot.com/

Richard Cody, a native Californian, has been known to write poetry and fiction. He also takes pictures. Lots of pictures. He is the author of The Jewel in the Moment, Darker Corners, and This is Not My Heart – all available cheap at Lulu.com and/or Amazon

Becca Thorne is currently based in Leicester, UK, where she works from home in her spare room studio, creating hand printed pieces in linocut, screenprint and wood engraving. The above linocut was inspired by "Red Within" by Steve Taose.