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Jameson is a writer by trade, a writer by profession. From his Kansas City home base, he travels a lot in an effort to keep the Muse happy and entertained, finding the small hideaways most intriguing. He is a Roving Correspondent for Poetrybay http://www.facebook.com/poetrybay.1152611418123138 and the Co-Curator for the April 2017 KC Poetry Throwdown http://www.spartanpresskc.com/throwdown His work has been published in numerous literary journals and magazines and his solo work “legends of doe hoe” was released by Spartan Press in Feb 2017. Follow Jameson at http://www.facebook.com/dharmabum1945 and https://jamesonbayles.wordpress.com

Ashley is the 2016 winner of the Paul G. Quinnett Lived Experience Writing Prize. She an essayist & mental health advocate specializing in suicide prevention & obsessive-compulsive disorder education. On Twitter @OCDwrangler On Instagram OCDwrangler Her personal blog documenting her experience as a self-proclaimed “OCD wrangler” is http://TheBraveOnes.org/

Dese’Rae is the 2015 winner of the Quinnett Prize. She is an award-winning artist, suicide awareness activist, & public speaker. After struggles with self-injury, a suicide attempt, losing friends to suicide, & an abusive relationship, Dese’Rae was inspired to create Live Through This, a collection of portraits & true stories of 180 suicide attempt survivors. LTT has received extensive media coverage, including features in the NYT, Associated Press, & more. Dese’Rae speaks at universities, conferences, & events nationwide. http://lLiveThroughThis.org/

Submissions for the 2017 Quinnett Prize are accepted online through February 27. More info & past prize winning essays are at http://www.suicidology.org/writing-contest

Rudy is a public speaker, writer, and vlogger who shares his story of living with bipolar. He travels the country to work with the National Alliance on Mental Illness, Project Semicolon, This is My Brave, and Active Minds. Interviewed for the Fall 2016 edition of BP Magazine. Creates video content for HealthyPlace.com. Featured on “The S Word” (documentary) blog. Rudy has proudly lived in San Pedro, CA his entire life. Follow him on Twitter @RudyCaseres and on Facebook www.facebook.com/rudycaseres

Harriet is one of America’s most respected relationship experts, and the author of numerous scholarly articles and popular books, including the New York Times bestseller The Dance of Anger, which has sold several million copies. Newest book, WHY WON’T YOU APOLOGIZE?: Healing Big Betrayals and Everyday Hurts, shows us how much the apology matters and why we so often muck it up. Harriet provides a unique perspective on what the good apology requires and how we can restore compromised and broken relationships. More at www.HarrietLerner.com

Jameson is a writer by trade, a writer by profession. From his Kansas City home base, he travels a lot in an effort to keep the Muse happy and entertained, finding the small hideaways most intriguing. He is a Roving Correspondent for Poetrybay http://www.facebook.com/poetrybay.1152611418123138 and the Co-Curator for the April 2017 KC Poetry Throwdown http://www.spartanpresskc.com/throwdown His work has been published in numerous literary journals and magazines and his solo work “legends of doe hoe” was released by Spartan Press in Feb 2017. Follow Jameson at http://www.facebook.com/dharmabum1945 and https://jamesonbayles.wordpress.com

Jenny is a poet who teaches at the U of Central MO. She is Co-editor of Pleiades www.PleiadesMag.com/ Her poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, Poetry International, North American Review, Copper Nickel, Best New Poets, and other publications. Her debut poetry collection, Marvels of the Invisible, won the 2014 Berkshire Prize and is now available through Tupelo Press www.tupelopress.org/product/marvels-of-the-invisible/ More about Jenny at www.JennyMolberg.com

Scott is a poet who loves solo bicycling & motorcycling trips. He enjoys all the parts of publishing a journal & other people’s books through Main Street Rag Publishing Company. MSRP is the biggest publisher of poetry in NC. His poetry has appeared in such places as The Asheville Poetry Review, Iodine Poetry Journal, Southern Poetry Review, and Sundog and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He also received an Emerging Artists Grant from the NC Arts & Science Council in 2001 which was used to publish his first book of poetry, Auditioning for Heaven. Other books include Balancing on Two Wheels (2003), STEEL WOMB Revisited (2005), and most recently, Hard to Love (2012). In 2006, he was the recipient of the Irene Blair Honeycutt Legacy Award. In 2010 the Poetry Council of NC awarded him a Certificate of Dedication. His cover design work has won two PICA Awards along with several Indie Press nominations. Follow his adventures at www.facebook.com/MScott.Douglass and http://MainStreetRag.com/

John is a white American male who is not complacent! Currently lives in Brooklyn, NY, where the garbage can smell like roses if you wish on it hard enough. Author of poetry: The Noose Doesn’t Get Any Looser After You Punch Out (Six Gallery Press 2008), Glass City (Low Ghost Press, 2010), In The Year of Everything Dying (Camel Saloon, 2012), Starting with the Last Name Grochalski (Coleridge Street Books, 2014); and novels: The Librarian (Six Gallery Press 2013), and Wine Clerk (Six Gallery Press 2016). Writers & more are urged to email John at [email protected] to be included in the blog reflecting the Trump days, http://WineDrunkSideWalk.blogspot.com/

Daniel is a poet of the April 2017 Kansas City Poetry Throwdown. He shares openly & with dark humor about real life, mental health challenges & all. His poetry collections “Like a Fish” & “The One Where I Ruin Your Childhood” are from www.SundressPublications.com His work has appeared in New World Writing, The Los Angeles Review, The Chiron Review, The Mas Tequila Review, Night Train, Juked, Nerve Cowboy, & more. He’s the co-editor of “Trailerpark Quarterly” and the host of the podcast “Sanesplaining” http://Sanesplain.com

Matt performs slam poetry across the country, because “Words are the expression of the spiritual.” Part of The P.O.E.T. Movement, Matt co-hosts several live-streamed P.O.E.T. Radio shows. Matt lives in Topeka, KS while completing a business degree at Washburn University. He hosts “The Faces by Mayfield Poetry Series” monthly in Topeka. His poetry collection from Spartan Press will be released May 2017. For info on P.O.E.T. Radio and more, www.IAmPoet.org or [email protected]