Jeremiah Walton
BIO: Jeremiah Walton graduated High School the spring of 2013, and hit the road hitchhiking the following fall, traveling to promote passion and creativity through poetry. He is founder of W.I.S.H. Publishing, The Traveling Poet, and Nostrovia! Poetry. He blogs at Gatsby’s Abandoned Children as he travels the country managing Books & Shovels, a pop-up bookstore.
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John Thomas Menesini
BIO: John Thomas Menesini is the author of The Last Great Glass Meat Million (Six Gallery Press 2003), e pit ap h (Six Gallery Press/Convergence 2007), endo Poems and Sketches 2007 – 2011 (Six Gallery Press 2011) and the forthcoming Gloom Hearts & Opioids New & Selected Poems 1996 – 2014 (Six Gallery Press 2015). He also appeared in the anthology Honeysuckle, Honeyjuice: A Tribute to James Liddy (Arlen House 2006). He lives in the Bronx.
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Holly Holt
BIO: Holly Holt is the Managing Editor of Walking Is Still Honest. She is also a member of The Southern Collective Experience. Since August of 2013, she has been published under the name H. Holt by various magazines and blogs; among them: Literary Orphans, The Song is…, and Of/With. Additionally, she has been accepted by Negative Capability Press, who will be including her in their Anthology of Georgia Poetry in 2015. She lives in the luscious mountains of North Georgia, where she spends her time helping students achieve their dreams of higher education.
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Sosha Pease & Amy Springfield Bender
BIO: Sosha Pease is the Head Apprentice for The Southern Collective Experience. She was born among the corn in Illinois, where there wasn’t much inspiration. Her mother was an artist and she would sit and look at her drawings for hours learning every line. Art became her reality. As a child, she dreamed of going to art school and becoming a proper artist, but realized that was not her path. Her path has many potholes, but it is the path that allows her to reach her full artistic potential. Her conviction: I am living art.
BIO: Amy Springfield Bender is also an Apprentice for The Southern Collective Experience. She swims in the deep end, questioning and reevaluating life in her search for truth. While compassionate, she is a fierce advocate of her children and those with special needs. She has written as an extension of self expression since she was 8 years old. Her poetry has been published in The Write Side Up Magazine as well as several online publications.