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Steve Wright (fiction) is a New Jersey native. He earned his AA from Bergen Community College in 2007 and received a BA in English from Montclair State University in 2008. He publishes as S.F. Wright, and his fiction has appeared in Thieves Jargon. A second year student, he currently works as an English and SAT/ACT tutor.

Jenna Risano (poetry) was born in Brooklyn and raised in Hamilton, New Jersey. After a five year stint in Tampa she is ready to add a new turnpike exit to her repertoire. She received a BA in English-Writing from the University of Tampa in 2008. At UT she was Poetry Editor of the literary magazine, won the Tim O’Connor Award for Writing, and was awarded Best English Graduate and Best Writing Portfolio. When she’s not writing or reading, or writing about reading, her loves include hockey, listening to her records, and watching old movies.

Kevin Catalano (fiction) was born and raised in Chittenango, NY, home of Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum, meaning he grew up surrounded by Oz-themed cafes and stores, yellow-bricked sidewalks, and perfectly normal residents who, every year, dressed as Oz characters for the town’s annual Oz Festival.  He is convinced that this environment has messed with his head in strange, irreversible ways. He received his B.A. in English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, studied reindeer husbandry in Finland, and now lives with his wife and newborn daughter in New Jersey, where he teaches composition at Rutgers-Newark. His fiction has appeared in PANK, Prick of the Spindle, Keyhole Digest, Denver Syntax, The Absent Willow Review Anthology, and other places nobody’s ever heard of.  For two consecutive years his stories made the ‘Notable’ list for StorySouth’s Million Writers Award (2009, 2010).