Jayne Marek

Jayne Marek is an author, photographer, and teacher. She has taught at colleges and universities in Illinois, Washington, Wisconsin, and Indiana and in Hungary, where she was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in English at the University of Debrecen. Currently, she teaches creative writing, literature, film studies, and other topics at Franklin College. She holds both a Ph.D. in English and American Literature and an MFA in Creative Writing.

Lylanne Musselman

She is the arts blogger forWheresthecat.com, and she also blogs at Writing Prompt Pit Stop.She is an occasional correspondent on WFHB radio’s BloomingOUT, with her feature “L” WordS. Lylanne’s poems have been published or are forthcoming in Wilderness Review Literary Journal, Umbrella, PANK, New Verses News, Tipton Poetry Journal, Art & Poems, Thread, Flying Island, Bird’s Eye reView, The Prose Poem Project, many Outrider Press Anthologies, among others. She was a winner of the Eli Jenkin’s Five & Country Senses Poetry Competition in September 2009, and she was runner-up in Indy’s Masterpiece in a Day in 2005 & 2006, and won 3rd place in 2008.

Mary Sexson

Indianapolis resident, Mary Sexson, is the author of the book 103 in the Light, Selected Poems 1996-2000, published in 2004. The book was nominated by the Indiana Center for the Book for a Best Books of Indiana award in poetry in 2005. Her poems have appeared in Flying Island, Borders Insight Magazine, Grasslands Review, and the Tipton Poetry Journal.