in these cups | Hilda Weaver, Kristin Koester, Nicci Mechler, & Wendy Creekmore

Wendy lives in Kentucky and has an MA in Integrative Studies from Northern Kentucky University. Her work has been published in Sugared Water and Journal of Kentucky Studies. Kristin Koester spends her time battling forest fires in her brain and making art out of life. She is proud to be Kentucky-born and finds refuge in a nook where the Ohio and Licking Rivers meet, opposite of Cincinnati. Her poetry appears in Licking River Review. Nicci Mechler splits her time between exploring, telling tales, and painting girls with inky tattoos. Her most recent work appears in Lines+Stars, Arroyo Literary Review, Booth, Rose Red Review and Yew. Deep in Flesh, her chapbook of poetry, is forthcoming (dancing girl press). She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio with a pack of roomies & rescue animals specializing in troublemaking and joy. Nicci runs Porkbelly Press and blogs at damnredshoes.wordpress.com.  Hilda Weaver graduated from Miami University (Ohio with a BA in English), and later got a