Richard Beban holds an MFA from Antioch University, Los Angeles.  His two books have been published by Red Hen Press.  Scads more about him (even gossipy stuff) at http://www.beban.org.

Joey Damiano was born in Sasebo, Japan to an Italian-American Marine fromMiami 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 Chino Hills, California.           CONGRATS on USC, Joey!! Fight On, Trojans! - MC staff

Jamie Asae FitzGerald's poetry has appeared in both print and web journals, and on public buses. She earned degrees from the University of Southern California—where she was the recipient of an Academy of American Poets College Prize and the Edward G. Moses Poetry Prize—and San Diego State University’s MFA writing program. She has taught creative writing, literature and composition, and has a background in advertising copywriting. Originally from Hawaii, she now works for Poets & Writers in its Los Angeles office.

Jerry Garcia is a poet, photographer, filmmaker and native of Los Angeles. His poetry and photography have been seen in Andwerve, Lily: Literary Review, poeticdiversity, Lounge Lit Anthology, and The November 3rd Club. He has read in the Newer Poets/ALOUD Series at the Los Angeles Public Library and has also been a featured writer at Beyond Baroque, The World Stage, Rhapsodomancy and Skylight Books. He serves as a co-director of the Valley Contemporary Poets and art editor for www.poeticdiversity.org.

Gretta Harley is an artist residing in Seattle. She composes music, teaches music, and directs music portion of plays for a living. She writes poems, reads books, and paints for fun.

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.

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’s Edges, Lounge Lit: An Anthology of Poetry and Fiction by the Writers of Literati Cocktail and Rhapsodomancy andzaum. “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.