Tom Triumph is a writer living in Vermont. You can download several of his other works here.

Though Jill Stukenberg lived for a short time in Portland, Oregon, during the heady days of 2006 – 2009, she’s returned now to her native Wisconsin. She teaches at UW-Marathon County, and her work has been published in The Sonora Review, Freight Stories, and Magnolia Journal.

Lisa Sinnett is an immigrant to the middle class—and was dismayed to discover shortly after her arrival that it was being dismantled. She enjoys life on her severely curtailed teacher’s salary, because she’s remembered that she has more friends when she is broke, and is considering going off the grid with her family and anyone she can convince to go with her. She admires bicycle commuters, her urban farmer friends, and fellow Detroit teachers who are hanging in there for Detroit. She adores acoustic musicians.

Long ago and far away, before Kenna Lee spent her nights working as a hospice nurse and her days rooted in her kids’ school garden, she traveled in a larger, email-free world where becoming untethered was easier.  Her book about maternal eco-anxiety will be published later this year.

Mai’a Williams is a visionary and media maker. She has lived and worked in the Middle East, southern Mexico and east Africa with refugee and displaced women under the threat of violence, also she has organized and accompanied communities and persons within the US/Canadian urban landscape, engaging in issues including: race, working poor, sex work, prisons, drug addiction, police brutality, and queer rights. Living in Cairo, Egypt, she is a freelance writer, poet, journalist, zinester, photographer, multi-media performer, and outlaw midwife.

Jenny Forrester is the recent winner of Seattle’s Richard Hugo House New Works Competition with her essay, “An American Trailer Trash Childhood.” She gets lucky from time to time and a short fiction piece morphs out of her life experience and then falls from her pen and onto the page, like the blood that drips onto the red sandstone in the story “A Compatibilist Woman.”

Rebeca Dunn-Krahn lives in Victoria, Canada, with her husband, two children, six chickens and a cat. Every weekday, she composes angsty haiku in her head as she cycles to her office, where she works as a software developer. Previous publications include a chapter rewrite in a book on programming LEGO robots and a dental-fear confessional on hissyfit.com. Rebeca is currently writing a novel based on her experiences as a Canadian child living in central California in the late eighties.