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Larry Crist has poems or short stories appearing or soon to appear in Hawaii Review, J. Journal, Alimentum, Rattle and Floating Bridge Press. He has been published in Pearl, Karamu, Red Rock Review, Slipstream, Nerve Cowboy, Dos Passo Review, Phantasmagoria, Permafrost, Stringtown, Rainbow Curve, Pontoon and many other publications. His poems can be regularly found in Real Change, Seattle's homeless newspaper. Larry has written and narrated a pair of short films by Salise Hughes for the Northwest Film Forum and has also worked as an actor and is a long time active member of Effective Arts.

Stacey Levine wrote a recently published fiction collection, “The Girl with Brown Fur.” She also wrote “My Horse and Other Stories” and the novels “Dra---“ and “Frances Johnson.” A Puschcart Prize nominee, Levine’s fiction has appeared in Fence, Tin House, The Fairy Tale Review, Yeti and other venues. She wrote a libretto for an opera, “The Wreck of the St.Nikolai,” based on battles between the Pacific Northwest Quilyeute tribes and Russian fur traders. She likes to stay at home.

Ilvs Strauss is a Seattle based performer/writer/musician/wizard masquerading as a technical director/lighting designer/stage hand/wizard. She has worked for Left Field Revival, LINGO dancetheater, the Pat Graney Company, Book-It Rep, Velocity, On the Boards and One Reel. She has performed/had work shown at NW Film Forum, Cairo Gallery, On the Boards and Seattle Rep's Leo K Theater (performing slideshows + bicycling + reading)- (not all at the same time)= awesome). Also, check out: hellomynameisilvs.blogspot.com

Storme Webber is a Seattle-born, internationally nurtured poet, writer and performer. She is the founder and director of Voices Rising, which produces quarterly events showcasing the arts and culture of LGBTQ people of color. Her work has been featured in the anthologies “Beyond Borders: Black Women Writing New Worlds,” “Serious Pleasure” and “Voices Rising: 20 Years of Black LGBT Writing.” She was a main protagonist in the documentary “Venus Boyz,” featured on the Sundance Channel, and has worked widely in film, theater and international spoken word scenes in the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, Ireland, Brazil and the United States. Most recently she has been awarded a Janet Hill/Renaissance House Fellowship, and support from Poets & Writers and Seattle Mayors Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs. Storme is presently completing “Wild Tales of a Renegade Halfbreed Bulldagger,” a narrative nonfiction memoir of her Aleut/African American/European family, and developing/presenting multimedia excerpts of the work in performance.