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Jen Mueller's favorite color is purple, her favorite number is 7, and her favorite animal is the elephant. She enjoys swinging on swings, dancing in her kitchen, writing paragraphs about herself in the third person, and other pointless exercises in narcissism. She was born, and has been writing ever since. When she's not writing, she's sleeping. She does not live in Australia.
Cordelia Gable is a lawyer. She lawyers things a lot. She enjoys honeycrisp apples, eschews grocery stores, and writes about toothpaste, love, and family.
Vance writes only very serious pieces. Lacking humor completely, he is perfectly formed for the utilitarian rigours of copy editing. Operating with machine-like algorithmic precision, he generates widely varied works as well as scanning others for errors.
Kevin Grijalva is a dude who got into poetry for the money. He fears he might have made a huge mistake.
Noelle Wonder, literary terrorist and ontological saboteur, does not actually exist. She is a figment of some warped imagination.
Cheyenne Varner is a twenty-one year old undergraduate student studying activism through the arts and education as well as creative writing -- you know -- all the things that don't make people any money in the real world. Ever since Mavis Beacon taught her to type on her mother's Mac, she's been an avid devotee of all products Apple. She enjoys Regina Spektor songs, crocheting, The Office, and mismatched socks.
Amy Sarah Weston is an engineer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, where she doesn't write very much. She spends the rest of her time writing short stories and bad poetry, tutoring, watching as many movies as she can find, and scrolling through pictures of whales on tumblr.
Kelsey Gutierrez is a twenty-something gal that spends entirely too much time army-crawling through the dredges of the internet. she also writes, occasionally.
Cole's a want-to-be-writer living in the oh so great city of Austin, Texas and studying English Literature at The University of Texas. He's obsessed with memory and metaphor, folklore and mythology, and occasionally some non-writing stuff like puppies, chocolate, TV, and boys.