Holaday Mason is the author of Towards the Forest and two chapbooks: Light Spilling From Its Own Cup and Interlude.  Her manuscriptDissolve was a finalist for the 2005 Autumn House Press prize, Backwater Press & Tupelo Press awards. Her poems appear in Poetry International,American Literary Review, The Laurel Review, Pool, and Smartish Pace. She lives in Venice and sometimes serves as artist in residence for Beyond Baroque, for whom she co-edited the anthology Echo 681.

 

 

Born and raised in Los Angeles,Amelie Frank received her degree in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis from U.C. Irvine. She founded The Sacred Beverage Press with poet Matthew Niblock and produced the acclaimed and respected literary journal Blue Satellite. The author of five poetry collections, she has featured at most of the key venues in Southern California, including the Newer Poets Series, the Los Angeles County Museum, and MOMA. She has served as a Co-director of the Valley Contemporary Poets, is a Trustee on the Board of Trustees of Beyond Baroque, and is the new Events and Marketing Coordinator for Red Hen Press. In 2002, she organized The Big Picture, the historic gathering of nearly 300 poets at Beyond Baroque for a documentary photograph. In 2003, she was awarded the Spirit of Venice Award for coordinating a reading at the Abbot Kinney Festival, and, in 2004, she served on the arts grants awards committee for the City of Ventura.

 

 

Sabrina Edwards resides in Long Beach, and work has appeared in poeticdiversity: the litzine of Los Angeles, Heart in the Balance, and Heroin Love Songs. She has performed and featured at variious open mics around Los Angeles. Her debut chapbook, PsychoBabEL, is available through Lummox Press.

Douglas Richardson is the author of the poetry collections Sugar Fish (Sacred Beverage Press 2007) and Out in the Cold, Cold Day (Weak Creature Press 2009). A third book of poetry,Poems for Loners, and a novel, The Corruption of Zachary R., are awaiting publication.