Deadly Chaps

Nicole Callihan

Nicole Callihan’s work has appeared in PANK, Forklift, Ohio, American Poetry Review, Painted Bride Quarterly and as a Poem-a-Day selection from the Academy of American Poets. Her books include SuperLoop, a collection of poems published in early 2014, and A Study in Spring, a chapbook which she co-wrote with Zoe Ryder White and which was released in November 2015. Find her on the web at www.nicolecallihan.com.

Anthony Cappo

Anthony Cappo’s poems have appeared or will appear in Prelude, Connotation Press – An Online Artifact, Stone Highway Review, Pine Hills Review, Yes Poetry, The Boiler, and other publications. He received his M.F.A in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Anthony lives in New York City. You can find him at: www.anthonycappo.com.

 

Rebecca Nison

Rebecca Nison's fiction and poetry can be found in Pank, Copper Nickel, Gargoyle, Weave, The Bushwick Review, and Short, Fast, and Deadly. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and received her MFA from The New School. She teaches at Parsons The New School for Design. You can find her at: www.rebeccanison.com.

Joanna C. Valente

Joanna C. Valente is sometimes a mermaid and sometimes a human. She is the author of Sirs & Madams (Aldrich Press, 2014) and received her MFA at Sarah Lawrence College. Her full-length collection Marys of the Sea is forthcoming from ELJ Publications in 2016. She also has a chapbook, Xenos, forthcoming from Imaginary Friend Press. Some of her work appears in The Huffington Post, Columbia Journal, among others. She founded Yes, Poetry in 2010,and is the Managing Editor for Luna Luna Magazine. Her ghost resides at her website: joannavalente.com.

Sophia Starmack

Sophia Starmack received an M.A. in French and Francophone Literature from Bryn Mawr College, and an M.F.A. in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. A 2014-15 Writing Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Sophia's work has appeared in Best New Poets 2012; Short, Fast, and Deadly; Her Kind; and other journals and anthologies. Sophia lives in Brooklyn, where she teaches elementary school students. (photo credit: D. S. Mattison)

Denver Butson

Denver Butson has published three books of poetry:triptych (The Commoner Press, 1999), Mechanical Birds (St. Andrews Press, 2000) and illegible address (Luquer Street Press, 2003).  His poems have appeared in dozens of literary journals, including Yale Review, Ontario Review, Quarterly West, Willow Springs, and Caliban, in anthologies edited by Billy Collins, Garrison Keillor, and Agha Shahid Ali and on NPR’s Writer’s Almanac.  He frequently collaborates with visual artists, musicians and performers.