Raul Palma is an assistant professor in Ithaca College's Department of Writing. His work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Chattahoochee Review, Greensboro Review, Sonora Review, Smokelong Quarterly, and elsewhere. He's at work on a novel titled A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens.
Robin Carstensen's (she/her/hers) poetry manuscript, In the Temple of Shining Mercy received the annual first-place award by Iron Horse Literary Press in 2016. Her poems are recently published in Voices de La Luna, Fiolet and Wing: An Anthology of Domestic Fabulist Poetry, and many more. She directs the creative writing program at TAMU-CC where she is senior editor for Windward Review: Literary Journal of the South Texas Coastal Bend, and co-founding, senior editor for Switchgrass Review: Literary Journal of Health and Transformation.