David Keith is a professional writer, editor, and photographer. He lives and works in Wichita, Kansas, near the eastern border of South Dakota with two phenomenal females: his wife Elizabeth and a collie named Belle. Dave is an unrepentant Hippie nature child who still firmly believes in such outdated concepts as peace, love, sustaining our Earth, and Freedom, including the inviolable right of the First Amendment. His works of adventure and erotica can be found on Smashwords.

Barbara Pelt McLay retired in 2008 from teaching at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida and now spends her time traveling, writing, and editing. While employed, she wrote a humor column for an on-line academic publication. Her current writing projects include a self-help book co-authored with her adult daughter, several short stories, a mystery novel co-authored with a friend and one solo novel. Editing projects include novels, academic papers and dissertations, and academic books.

Kaleigh Maguire is an author of short stories and flash fiction. She has recently won the August and October 2011 flash fiction awards at www.WritersType.com and a November 2011 short memoir (vignette) award at www..MidlifeCollage.com. She also has work forthcoming in Black Petals Magazine and in  The Daily Flash: 366 Days of Flash Fiction (Pill Hill Press). She lives in Ohio and is a distance student in the UCLA Graduate Certificate in Fiction Writing Program.

Janna Vought graduated summa cum laude from American Public University in May 2011 with a BA in English. She is currently an MFA graduate student at Lindenwood University in Saint Charles, Missouri.  She attends school online from her home in Colorado Springs, Colorado where she lives with her husband, two daughters, and two dogs. Her interests include feminist literature and paranormal and occult works. Her nonfiction work has been published in Imperfect Parent Magazine and her poetry has been featured in The Eagle Literary Journal. She currently has several works in all genres submitted for publication.

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Mary Kirk Bolden lives in Birmingham, Alabama, where she has decided that it is about time she writes her own lines. She gives a cookie to Reese the Pekingese if he listens to her read them. If her husband Stan listens, she gives him two cookies. If Stan says he likes them, he gets three. Reese gets three anyway.

Susan Reichert is a native Southerner, married to a Wisconsin Green Bay Packer Football Fan. They have four grown daughters, four grandsons, three great-grandsons and one great-granddaughter. In 2010, Susan started a Christian writers group, CCWriters2 in Collierville, TN and got back into writing. Two months later, she started a Writers Night group and started teaching writing. In March of 2011, Susan and three friends created a magazine called

James Graham is a United Methodist Minister. He has a BA in Communications from the University of Arkansas and is a member of the Collierville Christian Writers. When he is not busy writing sermons, Jim loves to write crime and adventure novels and short stories. He and his wife Debbie, a professor, live in the Memphis Metropolitan Area. They have four grown children and two grandchildren.

John Ottley, Jr. is an accomplished writer whose poetry has appeared in Arizona Literary Magazine, Bay Area Poets, California State Poetry Quarterly, Catalyst, Dan River Anthology, Georgia Journal, Gray's Sporting Journal, Howling Dog, Impetus, Manifestations, Mountaineer Times, Nectar Connection, Parnassus, Poetalk, The Old Red Kimono, The Reach of Song, The Rising Cost of Getting By, Trout, Red Mountain Rendezvous, Shout