Editors
Randall Horton (Chicago, IL) is originally from Birmingham, Alabama. His most recent poetry appears in Tigertail, Dance the Guns to Silence, and Versal. His manuscript, The Idyll Concept, was a finalist for the Main Street Rag Book Award and selected to be published in the Editor’s Select Series in 2007. He received his undergraduate education from both Howard University and The University of the District of Columbia. He has an MFA in Creative Writing with an emphasis in Poetry from Chicago State University. Randall received an Archie D. and Bertha H. Walker Foundation Summer Scholarship to Fine Arts Workcenter at Provincetown, 2005. He is also a Cave Canem Fellow.
Patricia Biela is a native of Maryland and is a graduate of the University of Virginia with a BA in Psychology. She is currently studying English courses through Open Yale Courses, Yale University. A first generation American, she is of Angolan paternal and Haitian maternal descent. Biela is an Assistant Editor of Reverie: Midwest African American Literature and Assistant Poetry Editor of Willow Books, A Poetry Imprint of Aquarius Press. She is a member of the Poetry Society of Virginia. Biela is a recipient of the 2010 Margaret Bean Scholarship from The Muse Writers Center, Norfolk, Va. She participated in the 2010 inaugural Cave Canem South Poetry Workshop. Biela participated in the 2009 Lyrical City Writing Workshop, Washington, D.C. She participated in the 2008 Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop. Biela is a 2007 Archie D. and Bertha H. Walker Foundation Scholarship recipient from the Fine Arts Work Center Summer Poetry Workshop. She is a 2006 Hurston/Wright Workshop Alumna. Biela was a poetry venue review columnist for the Spring/Summer 2004 One Heart Publication – Holistic Journal. She has a poem exhibited in Epiphany Salon and Spa, Washington, D.C. Her poems appear in the book Cracking Walnuts and Other Goodies by Arlene Carter-Pounds, The Other Journal, The Chemistry of Color: Poems Responding to Art Anthology, Berkeley Poetry Review, Sketchbook- A Journal for Eastern & Western Short Forms, Drumvoices Revue, Warpland, Stanford University’s Black Arts Quarterly, The Caribbean Writer, Void Magazine (on-line), Howard University’s The Amistad (on-line), and X Magazine.
Qiana Towns received a MFA in poetry from Bowling Green State University and is a 2007 recipient of the Cave Canem fellowship. She holds a MA from Central Michigan University where she served as poetry editor for the online literary journal Temenos. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Nubian Chronicle, The Mochila Review, Prick of the Spindle and Pindeldyboz.
