Dave Essinger

Leona Sevick is associate provost and associate professor of English at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Maryland. Her poetry appears or is forthcoming in Barrow Street, Bateau, Memoir Journal, Delaware Poetry Review, Orange Coast Review, and Naugatuck River Review.

Dustin W Ballard is an emergency physician in San Rafael, California, the medical director for the Novato Fire Protection District, the chair of the CREST Research Network, and author of over twenty scientific manuscripts. He is also the author of two books and has a regular column with the Marin Independent Journal.

Mary Akers is the author of the short story collections Bones of an Inland Sea (forthcoming) and Women up on Blocks. She co-authored the nonfiction book One Life to Give: A Path to Finding Yourself by Helping Others and is editor of the online journal r.kv.r.y.

Dave Housley