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Jack Cooper is author of the poetry collection Across My Silence (World Audience, Inc., 2007). His poetry, flash fiction, essays, and mini-plays have appeared in more than 70 publications, including bosque, Bryant Literary Review, Connecticut River Review, North American Review, Rattle, Santa Fe Literary Review, Slab, Slant, The Briar Cliff Review,... The MacGuffin, The Main Street Rag, and The South Dakota Review. Recent awards include Grand Prize Winner in Crosswinds Poetry Journals 2016 poetry contest, and the poem was published in their Spring 2017 issue. Coopers poetry has also been selected for Ted Koosers American Life in Poetry and Tweetspeak Poetrys Every Day Poems, and his work has been nominated four times for a Pushcart Prize. One of his micro-fictions ( Options , re-published here in Issue 3) was selected in April 2015 as winner of the annual String-of-10 Contest, sponsored by Flash Fiction Chronicles. His play, That Perfect Moment (with co-writer Charles Bartlett), was a headliner at the NOHO Arts Center in North Hollywood and The Little Victory in the 2009-10 seasons. Steve Davenport is author of the poetry collections, Overpass and Uncontainable Noise ; and two chapbooks, Murder on Gasoline Lake (originally published in Black Warrior Review and listed as Notable in Best American Essays 2007), and Nine Poems and Three Fictions (available in The Literary Reviews Summer 2008 chapbook issue). A story in The Southern Review earned him a Special Mention in Pushcart Prizes 2011. In June 2012, Massachusetts Review published three installments from his Black Guy Bald Guy series of fictions. Kika Dorsey is a poet, fiction writer, and educator who lives with her two children, husband, and Border Collie in Boulder, Colorado. She wakes up every morning and crafts poetry out of dreams, myths, her body, and her travels. While finishing her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in Seattle, Washington, she performed her poetry with musicians and artists. Her poems have been published in The Denver Quarterly, The ...Read More