Born in Detroit, Michigan, a lifelong interest in art became the grounds for


Terri Thomas’ pursuit of a career in the fashion industry. Over time she became progressively more concerned with the commoditization of beauty, the industry’s emphasis on physical perfection and society’s obsession with achieving this standard. Soon she was unable to decipher if her work in fashion was empowering or if it was contributing to a growing contemporary problem. In 2001, Terri decided to give up her 15- year career in fashion and pursue an art


degree. She graduated from Corcoran College of Art & Design with honors in 2004. Influenced by the work of artists like Cindy Sherman, Douglas Gordon, Jenny Saville, Marc Quinn, Jeff Koons and Vanessa Beecroft, Terri’s work with large-scale, cinematic painting, sculpture, photography and video challenges preconceptions about beauty, femininity and sexuality and explores how the utopian promises of the media both feed and reconcile anxieties about the self. Her work has been shown in multiple group and solo exhibitions throughout the country. The artist is represented by Lyons Wier Gallery in Chelsea, New York and she currently lives and works in Austin, Texas. www.territhomasart.com


Press, 2011), winner of the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize, and the chapbook Little Spells (GOSS183, 2008). She has been a featured author at the O, Miami Poetry Festival, the Miami Book Fair International, and the Palabra Pura Series at the Guild Literary Complex in Chicago. Her work has appeared in the 2010 Best of the Net Anthology


Emma Trelles is the author of T , The Rumpus, Verse Daily Miami Herald, Newsday


clock” is a phrase adapted from T http://www.emmatrelles.com/


, the Palm Beach ArtsPaper ender Buttons, by Gertrude Stein. For more, visit


Marc Vincenz was born in Hong Kong to Swiss-British parents during the height of the Cultural Revolution. Later, he lived and worked in Shanghai for many


years. More recently, he moved to Iceland where he works as a freelance journalist, poet, translator and literary critic. He is Poetry and Non-fiction Editor for the international webzine Mad Hatters’ Review . Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Spillway


Lantern Review, MiPOesias , elimae and Inertia . His poems are regularly featured at October Babies . A poetry chapbook, Upholding Half the Sky , was published by GOSS183: Casa Menendez (2010). A new chapbook, The Propaganda Factory , is to be released by The Argotist ebooks later this year.


Helen Vitoria lives and writes in Effort PA. Her work can be found and is


forthcoming in over fifty online and print journals including: elimae, PANK, MudLuscious Press , >kill author , MiPOesias , Commonline, FRIGG Magazine and Dark Sky Magazine . Her chapbooks: The Sights & Sounds of Arctic Birds and Random Cartography Notes are both available as e-chaps from Gold Wake Press, 2011. She has been thrice nominated for Best New Poets Anthology 2010. She is completing her first full length collection: Corn Exchange. Find her here: http://helenvitoria-lexis.blogspot.com/


Debbie Yee’s poems have appeared in 32 Poems , Fence , OCHO and The


Best American Poetry 2009 , among others. She is a recipient of a 2011 grant in literary arts from the San Francisco Arts Commission. A Kundiman fellow and graduate of U.C. Berkeley, Debbie lives in San Francisco where she is in-house legal counsel for one of the national banks and periodically teaches writing and printmaking classes. linocat.com/ .


Find her at http:// , Poetry Salzburg Review, Poets & Artists, Nth Position,


Bryan Willette was born in 1965 in Paducah Ky and grew up in


mid Michigan. He graduated from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia in 1988. While in Collage he worked as an apprentice for two stained glass studios, Morgan Bockius Studio and then Beyer Studio where he remains to this day. Willette’s work life is divided into two shifts. A day shift at Beyer Studio, designing and fabricating stained glass windows with liturgical subjects for Churches and a night shift, where he produces oil paintings and stained glass windows of a darker more personal nature.


His current


work reflects his interest in the mystical and arcane religious subjects. Willette’s work has been shown in galleries in Philadelphia and Toledo Ohio. He has been featured in Stained Glass Quarterly, The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News.


Bryan Willette’s stained glass work is installed in Churches through out the mid Atlantic states, Texas, Florida, Mississippi and Alabama. Bryan Willette lives and works in


relative obscurity, outside Philadelphia, with his beautiful wife and two children.


ropicalia (University of Notre Dame


Ken Taylor lives and writes in North Carolina. His poems have


appeared or are forthcoming in The Chattahoochee Review, The Stony Thursday Book, The Fish Anthology, elimae, MiPOesias, Whale Sound, Eclectica Magazine, The New Guard, Red River Review and OCHO. He is the winner of the 2011 Fish Publishing Poetry Prize.


, Gulf Stream, 3:AM Magazine, MiPOesias, the , and Organica. “Courage and the


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