About the Contributors

Vanessa Raney is an MA student in Writing & Consciousness at New College of California in 
San Francisco. Her poems have recently appeared in The Scholar & Feminist Online, Muse 
Apprentice Guild, and the Nature in Literature and Story newsletter. As for poetry, she 
believes it expresses how we relate to the world around us.

Dan Burnstein is a member of Barbara Helfgott Hyett’s Publishing Poets Workshop. Dan was
a lawyer and currently is a photographer and teaches at Gibbs, a two-year college in Boston.

Ojimgba Uko is 38 years old. A Nigerian living in Spain, he formally studied Industrial Chemistry.
In secondary school, he studied Literature. "Lately in the year 1993, after reading poems of 
famous poets, I discovered my poem-writing ability. I have written over 100 poems, which I am 
yet to publish. The poem is a mixture of fiction and my belief in the Christian faith."

Karl Miller graduated from the University of Florida, lives in Coral Springs, FL and works in 
insurance. "I've had fiction and poetry published over the last ten years in a variety of literary 
and regional publications."