Tess. Lotta is finishing her MA in English at California State University, Dominguez Hills while writing poetry and journalism. Her work has appeared in several publications, including Clamor, Bust, and The Stranger. She serves as Poetry Editor for www.poeticdiversity.org, teaches creative writing to high schoolers, and works as a tutor at her university. Visit www.litparlor.com and http://www.myspace.com/tess_lotta

Aldra Robinson is a writer and non-profit grunt with a messianic complex who serves as a Feature Editor for GetUnderground.com. Originally from the Midwest, she currently resides in Long Beach, CA with two horribly behaved dogs and an equally unruly partner complete with a thick, unintelligible Scottish accent. She is frequently found in dive bars, pontificating about the importance of legalizing marijuana and electing Ralph Nader for president.

Peter Schwartz is the editor of eye and the associate art editor of Mad Hatters' Review. His artwork can be seen all over the Internet but specifically at: www.sitrahahra.com. His paintings have been published on such sites as HiNgE, Sutble Tea, and Mastodon Dentist. His paintings are in the print journals Orange Coast Review, Whiskey Island, and the Louisiana Review to name a few. He has over 200 poems published in such journals as Porcupine, Vox, and Sein und Werden. His fiction has been published on such sites as Pindeldyboz and Dogmatika. His last exhibition was through Aesthetica Magazine and featured a projection of one of his digital paintings on a busy street in York, UK. Currently, he is working on paintings for an exhibit at the Amsterdam Whitney Gallery in Chelsea NYC.

Mani Suri is a veteran of the Poetic License crowd in L.A. Poet Daniel Yaryan said, "Mani is known for crafting images out of thin air and exposing a new perspective on every subject he approaches." He is the author of two chapbooks, Poetry My Wife Hates and the Mistresses I Could Have Had Would Have Loved and Reflection: More Poetry My Wife Hates or the Mistresses I'll Never Have Who Might Have Loved It, and has poems published in several anthologies, online and in print.  Mani has read and featured at various venues around Southern California, London's Paddington and Austin's International Poetry Festivals.  He co-hosts a weekly reading at the Rapp Saloon in Santa Monica.

Erin Suyehara is finishing her MA in English Literature at California  State University, Dominguez Hills and aspiring for doctoral studies.  Her interests in literature include Eighteenth-Century British  Literature, feminist literary criticism, the psychoanalytic theories of Lacan and Freud, and post-colonial criticism. She also teaches third grade at Taper Technology Magnet School in San Pedro.

Poet, visual artist, educator, and arts activistImani Tolliver is a graduate of Howard University where she studied English Literature and African-American Studies. During her studies, she was awarded a Lannon Literary Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library, the John J. Wright Literary Award and is a graduate fellow of Cave Canem African-American Writer’s Workshop and Retreat. She has served as a consultant to community organizations, museums and educators. Imani has been a featured poet across the country, including the Nuyorican Poet’s Café, the Smithsonian Institution, Beyond Baroque, the World Stage Performance Gallery, and the Autry National Center , and the Los Angeles Central Library. Find her published poetry in several anthologies and journals, including Cave Canem II, IV, andV, Jones Juke Joint Magic, The Flow: New Black Poetry in Motion, Ghettoes are not Beautiful, Black Love, The Drumming Between Us – A Poetry Journal, Drum Voices Review, Step Into A World- A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature, Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, Beyond the Frontier, Beyond the Valley of the Contemporary Poets, Poetic Diversity.org, Voices  from Leimert Park, SOLO CAFÉ 2:Oppression & Forgiveness, and the forthcoming, The Other Voices International Project and Poetry is not a Luxury: LA Women of Color, and on-line at: www.handtoothnail.com, www.getunderground.com, and www.allaboutjazz.com. To purchase her poetry compact disk Pink, contact her directly at:  imanitolliver@yahoo.com

Ernest Williamson III is a 30 year old self-taught painter and pianist, who has published poetry and visual art in over 100 online and print journals within a time span of 7 years. He holds the B.A. and the M.A. in English/Creative Writing from the University of Memphis. Ernest is now listed in the prestigious Directory of American Poets and Fiction

Writers. Currently, Ernest is a PhD candidate at Seton Hall University in the field of Higher Education.View his website at www.eyeoftheart.com/ErnestWilliamsonIII