Robert Boucheron is an architect in Charlottesville, Virginia, (website: boucheronarch.com). His academic degrees are Harvard, B. A. in English, and Yale, M. Arch. His stories, essays and book reviews appear in Atticus Review, Bangalore Review, Cossack Review, Digital Americana, North Dakota Quarterly, Outside In Literary & Travel, Poydras Review, and other magazines.

 

Kevin Brown is a Professor at Lee University.  He has published three books of poetry:  Liturgical Calendar: Poems (forthcoming from Wipf and Stock); A Lexicon of Lost Words (winner of the Violet Reed Haas Prize for Poetry, Snake Nation Press); and Exit Lines (Plain View Press, 2009).  He also has a memoir, Another Way: Finding Faith, Then Finding It Again, and a book of scholarship, They Love to Tell the Stories:  Five Contemporary Novelists Take on the Gospels.  He received his MFA from Murray State University.

 

Arminée Chahbazian has been a practicing artist for the past 30 years; her MFA is from Yale, where her focus was sculpture. The content and thrust behind her most recent 2-dimensional work is based on observations of environmental shifts, with a thematic focus on the aesthetics and power of water. Nature's self-described vulnerability, endurance, beauty and drama are all present, yet it is the human response to nature's continuity and mystery that drives Arminée's work. Abstraction joins representation to suggest a somewhat surreal environment where questions outweigh answers. Hers is a quiet, introspective process.

 

Robin Chapman is the author of nine 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, Dappled Things (Paris: Revue K), and One Hundred White Pelicans. 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.

 

Arkava Das lives in Delhi, India with his wife Nidhi, and his father. His poems owe something to the fact that the poet is bilingual- a condition that involves always already balancing two possible worlds, like science and poetry, or an Ibn Sina with a Whitehead. His major influences include Will Alexander, Simon Jarvis, Jibanananda Das, Joy
Goswami, Vasubandhu, Allen Fisher, Deleuze, and Merleau-Ponty. He is currently pursuing an MA  in English Studies at JNU, New Delhi.

 

Trina Gaynon has poems in the anthologies Saint Peter’s B-list: Contemporary Poems Inspired by the Saints, Obsession: Sestinas for the 21st Century, A Ritual to Read Together: Poems in Conversation with William Stafford, Phoenix Rising from the Ashes: Anthology of Sonnets of the Early Third Millennium, Bombshells and Knocking at the Door, as well as numerous journals including Natural Bridge, Reed and the final issue of Runes.  Her chapbook An Alphabet of Romance is available from Finishing Line Press.

 

Richelle Gribble works in traditional media such as painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture as well as new media such as Internet art and video experimentation.  She uses art as a tool to compile cross-disciplinary research, reveal intersections in art and science, and inspire collaborative thinking and action.  Gribble's primary research explores networks to visualize virality, group dynamics, and social trends that connect us all.  Her projects evolved from making comparisons between networks (i.e. molecular systems, social networks, neural pathways, freeways systems, etc.) into a deep analysis of an important question: what does it mean to be connected?  Richelle Gribble's research and art is summarized in her TEDxTrousdale presentation “What is our role within a Networked Society?” as well as various publications and exhibitions.

 

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 had a book of verse about Antarctica, South x South, published in April 2013 by Ohio University Press.

 

Rebecca Kamen’s work explores the nexus of art and science.  She has investigated scientific rare books and manuscripts at the libraries of the American Philosophical Society, the Chemical Heritage Foundation, and Cajal Institute in Madrid, utilizing these significant scientific collections as a muse in the creation of her work. Additionally, Kamen has exhibited and lectured both nationally and internationally.  She has been the recipient of a Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Professional Fellowship, a Pollack Krasner Foundation Fellowship, two Strauss Fellowships, a Travel Grant from the Chemical Heritage Foundation, and an artist residency in the neuroscience program at National Institutes of Health. 

 

Katharina Kayß studied Comparative Religion and Modern History in Germany and Britain. Her artwork, essays and poetry have appeared in literary magazines, journals and anthologies in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the United Kingdom, Italy, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. Sarah is a recipient of the Austrian-VKSÖ Prize (2012) and winner of the manuscript-award of the German Writers Association for her poetry and essay collection Ich Mag Die Welt So Wie Sie Ist (published by Allitera, Germany, Aug 2014). She edits the bilingual literature magazine The Transnational (www.the-transnational.com) and works on her doctorate at King's College London.

 

Elise Liu, the peripatetic child of two biologists, grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania surrounded by cicadas and stapled stacks of JAMA and Cell, studied economics at Harvard, and has worked as a management consultant to US and European companies and one African government. Recent poetry and fiction appear in Rattle, theNewerYork, and The Found Poetry Review. Links plus unprompted musings and the occasional novel passage can be found at www.eliseliu.com.

 

Jane Long studied Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology – as well as art – at Yale University. Over the years, she has worked in nanoscopy research, made many things, and confused a lot of ideas and definitions. She boasts the unofficial title "Silent Thunder," as bestowed upon her by a great painting professor. Long is now studying Digital Media at the Rhode Island School of Design. 

 

Thomas Piekarski is a former editor of the California State Poetry Quarterly. His poetry and interviews have appeared in Nimrod, Portland Review, Kestrel, Cream City Review, Poetry Salzburg, Boston Poetry Magazine, Gertrude, The Bacon Review, and many others.  He has published a travel guide, Best Choices In Northern California, and Time Lines, a book of poems. He lives in Marina, California.

 

Joelle Renstrom teaches writing and research with a focus on science and technology at Boston University. She maintains a blog, www.couldthishappen.com, about the relationship between science and science fiction, for which she received a 2012 Somerville Arts Council Fellowship Grant and a 2013 Nonfiction Fellowship from the Writers’ Room of Boston. She's a staff writer for Giant Freakin Robot, and her work has appeared in Slate, Guernica, Carousel, Briarpatch, Sycamore Review, and others. She enjoys chapstick, the color orange, and all things geeky, especially science fiction.

 

Phillip Gregory Spotswood was born in Alabama into a Catholic family and turned out queer. He graduated from the University of Alabama with a degree in English and Creative Writing, and currently lives in Louisiana. He is addicted to running in the dark. Recently he discovered that he shares his birthday with the formation of the polar vortex. He is in a committed relationship with the last scientist.  

 

Louis Staeble lives in Bowling Green, Ohio. His photographs have appeared in dislocate magazine, Driftwood, Iron Gall, Paper Tape Magazine, Petrichor and Tupelo Quarterly. He has been influenced by a range of artists including Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Rene Magritte, Georgia O'Keeffe and Jackson Pollock. 

 

Julian Voss-Andreae (website: www.JulianVossAndreae.com) is a German sculptor based in Portland, Oregon.. After starting out as a painter, he changed course  to study physics, mathematics, and philosophy at the Universities of Berlin, Edinburgh and Vienna, and eventually pursued graduate research in quantum physics. Voss-Andreae’s sculpture, often inspired by his background in science, has captured the attention of multiple institutions and collectors in the United States and abroad. Recent institutional commissions include large-scale outdoor monuments for the University of Minnesota and Rutgers University (New Jersey). Voss-Andreae's work has been featured in print and broadcast media worldwide.