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Corey Mesler has published in numerous journals and anthologies. He has published two novels, Talk: A Novel in Dialogue(2002) and We Are Billion-Year-Old Carbon (2006). His first full length poetry collection, Some Identity Problems (2008), is out from Foothills Publishing and his book of short stories, Listen: 29 Short Conversations, appeared in March 2009. He also has two novels set to be published in the next year. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize numerous times, and one of his poems was chosen for Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. He has two children, Toby, age 20, and Chloe, age 13. With his wife, he runs Burke’s Book Store, one of the country’s oldest (1875) and best independent bookstores. He also claims to have written “Your Auntie Grizelda.” He can be found at www.coreymesler.com.

Rich Murphy was born in Lynn, Massachusetts and received his undergraduate degree and his graduate degree in creative writing from Boston University. He studied with the late George Starbuck and Derek Walcott. For 21 years, he has taught writing and literature and directed undergraduate writing programs at Bradford and Emmanuel Colleges.

 

His credits include a book of poems The Apple in the Monkey Tree by Codhill Press; chapbooks Great Grandfather by Pudding House Publications, Family Secret by Finishing Line Press, and Hunting and Pecking by Ahadada Press; poems in Rolling Stone, Poetry, Grand Street, Trespass, Feile-Festa, New Letters, Pank, Segue, Big Bridge, Pemmican, foam:e, Aesthetica, The Argotist, West 47, Creature Magazine, and Confrontation; and essays in Fulcrum, The International Journal of the Humanities, Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning, Reconfigurations: A Journal for Poetics Poetry / Literature and Culture, Fringe, and Big Toe Review.

 

During his writing and teaching career, he raised four children. He now teaches writing at VCU and lives in Marblehead, Massachusetts, where he is collaborating with a video artist in a project on the creative process.

 

Eric Burke  was born and grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. After getting an undergraduate degree in philosophy from Xavier University, he moved north to Columbus, where he earned an MA in classics from The Ohio State University. He remained in Columbus and lives there still, many years later, with his wife and family. He currently works as an IT manager. More of his work can be found in elimae, Right Hand Pointing, Alba, Spillway Review, JMWW, Tipton Poetry Journal,Otoliths, nibble, Haibun Today and miller's pond. Work is forthcoming in The Driftwood Review.

 

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