Alaina R Alexander is an essayist, pod caster and opera singer. She holds degrees from theCollege of Santa Fe and Inver Hills Community College. Alaina re-discovered her love for essay writing after an unplanned exodus from law school. Currently, she is holed up in her apartment writing and recording her essays. Check out her website: www.alainaralexander.com

Joey Damiano was born in Sasebo, Japan to an Italian-American Marine from Miami and a Hong Kong cocktail server.  Joey is presently finishing the requirements for a MA in Literature from Cal State University, Dominguez Hills.  He’s held several esteemed titles throughout the years, including pharmacy clerk, discount shoe salesman, marine infantryman, data entry drone, document editor for the CSU Chancellor’s office, and administrative assistant for a VA Hospital.  After earning his MA, he plans on pursuing a MFA in fiction.  Joey currently resides in Long Beach, California. 

Armine Iknadossian lives in Glendale, California and teaches high school English. She received her BA from UCLA and an MFA from Antioch University Los Angeles. She has just completed her first manuscript, Gnosis. Publications include Pasadena City College‘s Inscape, UCLA’s Wisteria, Cal State Northridge’sEdges, Lounge Lit: An Anthology of Poetry and Fiction by the Writers of Literati Cocktail and Rhapsodomancy and zaum. “The Return” was a finalist in Backwards City Review’s annual poetry contest. “March Eulogy”, winner of Prose Poems at Work, and “Bodies of Water,”a featured poem of the month, can be viewed at www.writersatwork.com. Her poetry can also be viewed on line at www.litparlor.com, www.poeticdivesity.org,www.poetsagainstwar.org.

Dan Krejci says “a lot of people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch of unconnected incidents and things. They don't realize that there's this, like, lattice of coincidence that lies on top of everything. Give you an example, show you what I mean.  Suppose you're thinking about a plate of shrimp.  Suddenly somebody will say, like, "plate" or "shrimp" or "plate of shrimp" out of the blue, no explanation.  No point in looking for one either...it's all part of the cosmic unconsciousness.” Dan spent seven years as the bassist for c/z recording artists, dirt fishermen, who toured extensively nationally, regionally, and locally in the Northwest. Currently, he runs with many other overeducated and underappreciated bleeding heart liberals who work as bartenders.

Marie Lecrivain is the executive editor and publisher of poeticdiversity: the litzine of Los Angeles. She playfully, though metaphorically moonlights as an 8th-level whip wielder in Dante's Inferno, and is a writer in residence at her apartment. Her prose and poetry will appear in a number of literary journals, including: Ancient Heart Magazine, Animus, Bleeding Quill, The Los Angeles Review, and Subtle Tea. Marie is a contributing writer for Subtle Tea, the fiction editor for the upcoming publication Magnapoets, and her debut collection of short stories, Nihilistic Foibles, was released in Summer 2006 by Sybaritic Press. Her short story, "The Word Thief,"  which appeared in the anthology Silent Voices, Vol. II, was nominated for a 2007 Pushcart Prize by Ex Machina Press.

Jacqueline Lesko began her career in the film industry in 1994 at Mel Gibson’s company, Icon Productions, during which she worked as Mr. Gibson’s assistant while in post-production on Braveheart.  While at Icon, she worked on the film 187 (1997)—

as the Assistant to Producer, Steve McEveety—from story development through post-production, public screen tests and release.  From there, Jacqueline moved to television as Executive Assistant to Paul Reiser on MAD ABOUT YOU until the show’s end in 1999.  From 2000 to 2001, she worked with Director/Writer Blake Edwards. And in 2002, she joined comedy Director Tom Shadyac’s team at Shady Acres Entertainment. Presently, Jacqueline is working alongside feature film Writer/Producer Craig Mazin as his Executive Assistant. Jacqueline balanced these demanding positions while producing the short film, THE TEMPLE OF PHENOMENAL THINGS (1997) and as Executive Producer on the award-winning GEORGE LUCAS IN LOVE (1999). Jacqueline then went on to Co-Produce, Co-Write and Co-Direct the feature length documentary KISS MY GRITS: THE HERSTORY OF WOMEN IN PUNK AND HARD ROCK (2001). In 2004, Jacqueline completed the 35 mm short film THE VISION, starring Sheeri Rappaport and Jason Lewis. She wrote, produced and directed THE VISION through her company, Community Productions. Then in 2006, she produced the one-woman play MY JOURNEY TO BECOMING A SUPER WOMAN starring Nafeesa Monroe.  Currently, Jacqueline is working as Writer and Director on two documentary feature filmsART HEALS and SHUT UP & SMILE PRETTY.