By Holly Day

The Weight of Man is a needlepoint piece, approximately 29” x 22” and composed entirely of linen canvas and cotton thread.

The Last Rain is inspired by a photo of mambises posing for the camera moments before a deadly ambush.

Group Study, 2012 (graphite, color pencil and ink on paper,19.75 x 20 inches) is one of a series of drawings in conjunction with Alvarez’s film about high school, The Visitor Owl.

John F. Malta was born in East Cleveland, Ohio, and currently lives and works in Kansas City, Missouri. John studied illustration at the School of Visual Arts’ Illustration as Visual Essay MFA program in New York City and is a recipient of the 2012 Xeric grant. His work has been published in The New Yorker, the New York Times, Esquire Russia, MIT Technology Review, the Boston Globe, The Village Voice, and the Washington Post.

Bobby Neel Adams was born in Black Mountain, North Carolina and
presently resides in Arizona on the Mexico Border.

Louis Staeble lives in Bowling Green, Ohio. His photographs have appeared in Agave, dislocate magazine, Driftwood, Four Ties Literary Review, Gravel, Iron Gall, On The Rusk, Paper Tape Magazine, Tupelo Quarterly, and Up The Staircase Quarterly.

Padma Prasad is a writer and painter. Her fiction has appeared in Eclectica, The Looseleaf Tea, Reading Hour, ETA Journal, and The Boiler Journal. She blogs her poem drawings at padhma.wordpress.com. Her art is mostly figurative and can be viewed at fineartamerica.com. In her writing, she tries to capture stillness; in her painting, she tries to paint narratives. She lives in Northern Virginia and works as a federal contractor in records management.