Kyle Apgar is a poet from the Lehigh Valley, PA. His poetry has been published in various magazines across the country. He is always amazed that people continue to read his work.​

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Olga Ast is a conceptual interdisciplinary artist and curator. One of Ast’s main goals is to investigate connections between space, time, and information. Ast’s projects have combined different media to find the interconnecting threads between divergent fields such as art, poetry, philosophy, science, and technology. Ast has exhibited and lectured in the U.S. and abroad, presenting her work at Rutgers, New York, Goettingen, Moscow and Michigan Universities, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Kloone 4000 International Art/Science Project, the Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of the Imagination at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, New Media Caucus, the Pushchino Research Centre of the Russia Academy of Science and NYC Future Salon. In 2009, Ast organized the ArcheTime Conference and Exhibition (the Tank Space for Performing and Visual Arts, New York) dedicated to exploring artistic, academic and scientific concepts of time (www.archetime.net) and published Fleeing from Absence, a book of four essays that explores the nature and interpretations of time (www.fleeingfromabsence.com). More recently Olga Ast collected ArcheTime papers and artworks and designed a book titled Infinite Instances: Studies and Images of Time  (www.infiniteinstances.com).

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Eleanor Leonne Bennett is a 16-year-old internationally award winning photographer and artist who has won first places with National Geographic, The World Photography Organisation, Nature's Best Photography, Papworth Trust, Mencap, The Woodland Trust, and Postal Heritage. Her photography has been published in the Telegraph, The Guardian, the BBC News Website, and on the covers of books and magazines in the United states and Canada. Her art has been exhibited in London, Paris, Indonesia, Los Angeles, Florida, Washington, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Canada, Spain, Germany, Japan, Australia, etc.

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Dave Bonta is a poet, editor, and web publisher from the eastern edge of western Pennsylvania. His long-running literary blog Via Negativa has provided material for several books, including Odes to Tools (Phoenicia Publishing, 2010), Breakdown: Banjo Poems (Seven Kitchens Press, forthcoming), and a book of cartoons, Words on the Street: An Inaction Comic (Bauble Tree Books, 2012). A cycle of eight ekphrastic poems appeared in The Book of Ystwyth: Six poets on the art of Clive Hicks-Jenkins (Carolina Wren Press, 2011).

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Kurt Brown founded the Aspen Writers' Conference, and  Writers' Conferences & Centers. He is the author of six chapbooks and six full-length collections of poetry, including his newest Time-Bound, due out from Tiger Bark Press in 2013. He is currently an editor for the online journal MEAD: The Magazine of Literature and Libations and has edited ten anthologies of poetry, including his newest (with Harold Schechter) Killer Verse: Poems about Murder and Mayhem. His memoir, Lost Sheep: A Portrait of Aspen in the 70s, was published by Conundrum Press in 2012. He taught for many years at Sarah Lawrence College in New York and now lives in Santa Barbara, California. 

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Andrew Carnie is an artist and academic. He is currently part of the teaching team in Fine Arts at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, England. He studied chemistry and painting at Warren Wilson College, North Carolina, then zoology and psychology at Durham University, before starting and finishing a degree in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London. He completed his Masters degree in the Painting School, at the Royal College of Art. In 2003 he was the Picker Fellow at Kingston University. Carnie's artistic practice often involves a meaningful interaction with scientists in different fields as an early stage in the development of his work. There are also other works that are self-generated and develop from pertinent ideas outside science. The work is often time-based in nature, involving 25 mm slide projection using dissolve systems or video projection onto complex screen configurations. In a darkened space, layered images appear and disappear on suspended screens; the developing display absorbs the viewer into an expanded sense of space and time through the slowly unfolding narratives that evolve before them.

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Robin Chapman is the author of seven books of poetry, including the award-winning Images of a Complex World: The Art and Poetry of Chaos (with physicist J.C. Sprott), The Dreamer Who Counted the Dead, Abundance, and, most recently, the eelgrass meadow. Her work has appeared recently in the Alaska Quarterly Review, Nimrod, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and Wilderness. She is recipient of the 2010 Appalachia Poetry Prize. Chapman also helps co-ordinate the Chaos and Complex Systems Seminar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she is a retired professor of communicative disorders and researcher on children’s language development and disorders.

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William Doreski’s work has appeared in various e and print journals as well as in several collections, most recently City of Palms (AA Press, 2012).

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Jenny Earnest is a graphics design student at California Institute of the Arts in Valencia. She is an avid photographer who has been published sporadically online.

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Eleanor Gates-Stuart is the Science Art Fellow at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) – Australia’s premier scientific research and technology organisation. She has been awarded the Centenary of Canberra Science Art Commission, StellrScope, that is supported by the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Government and the Australian Government. A prolific artist, having received numerous awards, grants, and commissions in her career, Eleanor maintains an active international artistic profile continuing her own research, project management and roles such as curator and director of media arts events. She is a regular contributor to numerous professional associations, having published since 1985 and presented papers at various conferences in the UK, USA, Taiwan, and Australia. Eleanor, a Fellow of the Australian National University 08-09 (ANU) and Visiting Researcher at National ICT Australia (NICTA) 08-11. She was involved with the e-Government Research Project as part of the Australian e-Government Technology Cluster and successfully played a major part in the Australian Science Festival 2010 as the Deputy Director. Eleanor was made an Honorary Research Professor at the University of California Santa Cruz  (UCSC) having successfully completed an International Residency at UCSC and exhibition of her 'Finger Codes' Collection.

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Ira Joel Haber lives in Brooklyn, New York. He is a sculptor, painter, book dealer, photographer, and teacher. His work is in the collections of The Whitney Museum Of American Art, New York University, The Guggenheim Museum, The Hirshhorn Museum, and The Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Over the years, Haber has received three National Endowments For The Arts Fellowships and two Pollock-Krasner grants. In 2004, he received The Adolph Gottlieb Foundation grant and in 2010, he received a grant from Artists' Fellowship Inc. Currently, Haber teaches art at the United Federation of Teachers Retiree Program in  Brooklyn.

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Dave Hardin is a Michigan poet and artist.  His poems have appeared in 3 Quarks Daily, Literary Kicks, Pocket Thoughts, The Drunken Boat, Epigraph Magazine, Bullworth, Loose Change and Detroit Metro Times.   He contributes to Scrum, http://scrumsideup.blogspot.com, a blog of poetry and satire.

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Shawn Hoo lives in Singapore and studies at Victoria Junior College. He enjoys poetry and choral music.

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Charles Hood once dropped out of an American Studies PhD program. He ate live ants in the Amazon, taught Shakespeare in London, and worked as an ecological consultant, documenting gnatcatchers. Hood recently won a national poetry award and will have a book about Antarctica published in April 2013 by Ohio U Press.

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Bill Knott, originally known as Saint Giraud, was born in Carson City, Michigan. He is an associate professor at Emerson College in Boston. He first received recognition with The Naomi Poems published in 1968. Knott published The Naomi Poems under the pseudonym Saint Geraud (a figure who, it was claimed, lived from 1940 to 1966). Poet Thomas Lux wrote of the collection: “The best poems in this first collection … confront the reader with their directness and imagination …. They’re poems of anguish and frustration because the poet takes responsibility.” Knott’s poems are sometimes surreal, with startling juxtaposed images. Critic Meghan O’Rourke noted the variety of forms in Knott’s poetry, identifying the simple style of some poems and the “highly-torqued syntactic compression” of others. In The Unsubscriber, she found “the mode alternately heroic and vernacular, the subjects ranging from ecocide to the degradations of age to meditations on the sword of Damocles and Rilke’s archaic torso.”

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Deborah Kreuze makes a living as an editor and writer in Somerville, Massachusetts. Her poetry has been published in a smattering of online literary magazines and been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize.

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Lucy Merriman is a sophomore at Kent State University studying Theatrical Design and Technology. Her work has previously appeared in Teen Ink, Touching the Future, and Pif.

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Richard Nester has twice been a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and has published poems in a number of magazines and journals including Ploughshares, Seneca Review, Sycamore Review, and Tikkun.

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Due to her love of back country skiing, hiking, backpacking, art, and a man, Linda Peer lives in a state of vagabondage between New York City, Pine Hill New York, Salt Lake City and Torrey, UT. During part of the year she is a faculty member of the Fine Arts Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.

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Shana Ritter is a writer and educator. A long time resident of Bloomington, Indiana, she is originally from New York. Shana is a three time recipient of the Indiana Individual Artist Grant. Ritter publishes in numerous literary magazines, reads in local venues and on the radio, and her chapbook, Stairs of Separation, is available from Finishing Line Press. The only science course she ever took during her college years was Physics for Poets. It left a lasting impression.

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Francesca Samsel is a visual artist who uses her background in printmaking and public art to create installation videos on large scale tiled displays addressing current environmental issues from a perspective both artistic and scientific. She has just accepted an Assistant Research Faculty Position at the University of Texas at El Paso where she has been working with Dr. Craig Tweedie on work based on his climate research in the Arctic and New Mexico Desert.  Work starts soon with the research visualization team at Los Alamos National Labs.

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Fabio Sassi lives in Bologna, Italy, and has been a visual artist since 1990, using the stenciling technique on canvas, board, old vinyl records, and other media to make acrylics.​ More works from his portfolio can be viewed at http://fabiosassi.foliohd.com/.

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Jessamyn Smyth​’s​ writing has appeared in Red Rock Review, American Letters and Commentary, Best American Short Stories/100 Distinguished Stories of 2005, Nth Position, MiCrow, and many other journals and anthologies. She has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, her book Kitsune is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press’ New Women’s Voices Series (May 2013), and she has recently finished several other collections which she hopes will be in your hands soon. Her dog, Gilgamesh, is epic.