Born in Princeton, New Jersey, S. L. Baker is a life-long resident of the Trenton area and a recently retired NJ public school teacher. She has written poetry all her life.  She has two adult children and two grandchildren.  She lives in Lawrenceville, New Jersey with her husband, who is a professional musician and songwriter. 

Zachary Crabtree writes for Hey! and is a poet, prose writer and musician. He lives somewhere between Baltimore and Chattanooga. 

Jessica Dotson is a Catonsville native with a background in graphic design and creative writing who will make any excuse to study words, from typography to poetry. She studied under the esteemed Dr. Gary Blankenburg at Catonsville High School and was a Linehan Artist Scholar at UMBC. She is currently taking a break from school while working in several restaurants, and thinks you should be more kind to the people serving your food. 

Ben Hoke learned the technical side of photography from photographer Adam Hartzler and the books of Ansel Adams. Recently he has been inspired by photographers Walker Evans and Robert Polidori.  His current work focuses on natural and urban landscapes, how they share identity, development, and time, and how that affects our own perception of them. 

David Hollenbach grew up in Salisbury, Maryland and received his BFA in illustration from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Since then he has been making illustrations for magazines, book, and album covers. He also just makes pictures. In his spare time he has remained a fairly lucky blackjack table novice in Atlantic City. David currently lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Sarah Jane Miller is a librarian by day, bartender by night, and a writer every space between.

After graduating from Towson University, Jeff O’Dell found himself unemployed, homeless, hungry and happy. He adores sunshine and long distance walking. His poetry has been published in Grub Street, Oracle, and The Chesapeake Reader. His first book of poetry, "Food and Maps" was released in April of 2010. You can find more of Jeff at solidaritea.tumblr.com. 

Noah Siela is an MFA candidate in poetry at University of Maryland, College Park, where he also teaches poetry workshops and rhetoric classes.  He grew up on a farm in Iowa and completed his undergrad at The University of Iowa, where he learned under Dean Young at The Undergrad Writer's Workshop. 

Lucia VanDyke is a Baltimore writer, dedicated to finding the truth. She enjoys good books, delicious food, and beautiful music. Lucia has been previously published in Grub Street and Schmear, and hopes to publish her first poetry manuscript in 2010. 

Ryan Webb is a native Memphian with a passion for Southern culture and folklore. His writing focuses on the Mississippi Delta, its many different facets as a region, and the myriad of characters that inhabit it. A graduate of Tulane University with a degree in creative writing, he is influenced greatly by the Mississippi River and its role in the historical and continued formation of the culture of the American South and the lives of the people who live within the shadows of its levees. In his writing, Ryan explores the first person narrative and the freeing form of local dialect and voice. He writes of a South that is attempting to write its own history at its own pace and not content with its often-negative portrayal from the outside: one aware of its transgressions, but eager to show its finer side, like a mud encrusted diamond in need of only a good polishing.

L.H. Wiley is a wannabe writer, dream traveler, and passion dweller. Currently, she lives in Baltimore, MD.