Wagner Israel Cilio lives on a mattress on the floor of a living room in Lincoln, NE. He blogs here.
Jac Jemc has work forthcoming in Handsome, Gander Press Review, and Dewclaw. Her two very small chapbooks include: Hospitable Madness (featherproof) and A Heaven Gone (mlp). She keeps a very thorough blog of her rejections at jacjemc.wordpress.com.
Tammy Ho Lai-ming is a Hong Kong-born writer currently based in London, UK. She is an assistant poetry editor of Sotto Voce Magazine and a founding co-editor of CHA: An Asian Literary Journal. She loves watching her parents (they live in Hong Kong) on her laptop screen. They do not necessarily know what to do with her. More at www.sighming.com.
Karen Wood Hepner's poetry has appeared in North American Review, Miranda Literary Magazine, The Monterey Bay Poets' Anthology, Folio, and Toyon. She was a finalist for the 2008 Wabash prize in poetry. She recently received her MFA in writing from Vermont college and lives in Portland, OR. She has always fancied the grizzly bear, because of the name.
Kate Wyer has fiction forthcoming in ML Press and Dogzplot. She works as a mental health interviewer for the public health system of Maryland. She says "Okay" when someone tells her his heart runs on atomic energy. Her favorite bears are water bear, but those don't actually count.
Kristen Eliason recently received her MFA in creative writing from Notre Dame where she is currently a writer-in-residence as the 2008-2009 Nicholas Sparks Prize recepient. On the side she freelances for an advertising agency in her native Salt Lake City, UT, and teaches at Indiana University South Bend. Her work is forthcoming from Diagram and Two Review, and can be found in Reed Magazine, Juked, Brownpaper, The Bend, Liquid Magazine, and Inscape.
Nicolle Elizabeth is thrilled to be in Robot Melon baby, thrilled.
Rachel Schramm is a young poet tired of living in dreary Ohio. She digs the cold Artic north, where there are plenty of polar bears, and an abundance of words to describe snow.
Howie Good is a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of eight poetry chapbooks, including Police and Questions from Right Hand Pointing (2008), Tomorrowland from Achilles Chapbooks (2008), The Torturer's Horse from Recycled Karma Press (2009), and Love is a UFO from Pudding House (2009).
Becca Sheehan is a wild child living in the weird city of Louisville, KY. She blogs at swimmingdrunkandnaked.blogspot.com and has been published by Literary Tonic and Spooky Boyfriend.
Adam Showalter lives in Lancaster, PA where he smokes cigarettes and sometimes stares at a fence.
Colleen Barry is most likely a student at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA. Although sometimes she isn't too sure. Probability is good, though.
Juliet Cook has been published here and there. She edits Blood Pudding Press. She once bumped her head on a taxidermied polar bear claw.
Kendrick Daye is a Miami native and has work published in magazines such as The Green Magazine, Farmhouse Magazine, The AUC Magazine, and Upscale Magazine. He co-owns and edits Art Noveau Magazine. He is currently a senior at Morehouse College pursuing a BA in English and Studio Art. He lives in Atlanta.
Christy Call lives and works in Chicago. She is allergic to pineapple, such that she does not eat pineapple here: christycall.com.
Mark Cunningham has three books out: "80 Beetles" from Otoliths, "Body Language" from Tarpaulin Sky, and "71 Leaves," an ebook from BlazeVOX. Lamination Colony has just published a new chapbook titled "Georgic , with Eclogues for Interrogators."
Gena Mowish hides her face behind the camera because she can't bear to face the world.
Greg Lyte is a drawer/photographer/animator from Philadelphia. These photos were taken on a digital elf with a red flash.