Henry Whittlesey is a writer, translator and editor. He co-founded and edits perypatetik, an international aesthetic project dedicated to the potential of an alternative perspective based on process-oriented production in harmony with nature. His work has been published in journals, magazines and books such as *Comparative Literature and Culture (at Purdue University)*, *Two Lines World Writing in Translation (Vol. 17)*, *Brooklyn Rail* and many others. He is also the co-author of *Peripatetic Alterity*, the aesthetic ideology for the perypatetik project. David Vonderheide is a writer and medical school student at the University of Pennsylvania whose work has been featured in Every Day Fiction and the Colored Lens. Izaskun Gracia Quintana (Bilbao (Spain), 1977, studied Basque Philology and Graphic Design, among others. She works as a freelance translator, proofreader, editor and graphic designer and she writes articles as well as literary criticism for various media.

She was editor and co-founder of the poetry publishing-house Masmé dula and she lives in Berlin (Germany) since 2011. Krista Beucler is originally from Colorado and currently pursuing an MFA in creative writing from Drexel University. Krista is a winner of the Julia Peterkin award, and her creative work has been published in *Kelp Journal*, *Mulberry Literary*, and *South 85 Journal,* among others. James Cato is an MFA candidate at the Iowa Writer' s Workshop, and his chapbook " Becoming Roadkill" is now available from Red Bird Chapbooks. James and David have been writing together for years with work featured in Andromeda Spaceways and other venues and have known one another since the ages of three and four. Joel' s artistic and professional areas of interest are in neurological and phenomenological causes for the intersection of mysticism and existentialism within consciousness. Joel spends most weekends hiking and enjoying the outdoors with his wife and children. He is passionate about travel and exploring new cultures as well as new ways of being.

Dedicated to his darling wife Emily, without whom nothing that he dreamed would be real, and nothing real would make him dream. Eric St. Pierre is an author, expressionist painter, and songwriter who lives and creates in New Orleans, LA.