John McFarland has published short fiction and essays everywhere from The Next Parish Over: A Collection of Irish-American Writing to Cricket Magazine and The Book Group Book. He also regularly contributes reviews on business, economics and social policy titles to, Shelf Awareness. He lives in Seattle, Washington, and more details of his writing life can be found at http://johnmcfarlandwriter.multiply.com.
Sasha Nealand is an art student at San Francisco City College's Fort Mason Art Campus. She enjoys the humorous possibilities and luminous colors of watercolor. She created an illustrated book, Wild Celery that is for sale on Blurb.com.