CHARACTERS AVERAGE AMERICAN: Female or male. In the depths of poverty. BULLY: Ruler of America if not the world. Impossibly wealthy. Despicably egocentric. JOSEWULF: A citizen of Mexico. Courageous. Fearless. Heroic. Honorable. Strong. Wise. Good. TIME The future. PLACE Washington, D.C., and Mexico on the
Carolyn Kras is a writer whose awards include the Hamptons International Film Festival Screenwriters Lab, Alfred P. Sloan Screenwriting Award, Visionary Playwright Award, and a Fulbright LUSK Grant to the United Kingdom. She has been a writer-in-residence at Ucross Foundation, Hawthornden Castle, Sell a Door
Katie Darby Mullins teaches creative writing at the University of Evansville. In addition to being nominated for the Pushcart Prize twice and being the associate editor of metrical poetry journal Measure, she’s been published
Anna Sandy received her BA in English from the University of Memphis. She then relocated to Atlanta, GA, where she is now a third-year MFA candidate at Georgia State University. She currently teaches English
Richard Robbins was raised in California and Montana but has lived continuously in Minnesota since 1984. His Body Turn to Rain: New and Selected Poems is due in 2017. He currently directs the creative writing
Laurie Posner recently returned to the San Francisco Bay Area from San Antonio, Texas. She works in the field of educational and environmental equity and inclusion. Posner holds a MPA from the
Six-C motherfucker—you have a way of sucking all the oxygen out of a room. Egyptians and Sumerians recognized you first, Lavoisier gave you a place at the Table. We frantically measure your parts per million, but you don’t care either way. Hot button hustler, poised
Thomas Martin teaches First Year Composition at West Virginia University where he is also an MFA candidate in fiction. His stories and poems have appeared in Kyler Martz’s Niteswimmer, a few issues of The Radvocate, the horror
Daniel Jackson, a poet from New York, has received his bachelor’s degree from Hunter College, New York and is currently an MFA candidate