Crowd launched it’s first online issue February 6th and we have had a great response to it thus far, in large part due to the awesome writers whose prose and poetry are featured. We wanted to take a few minutes to introduce them to you and if you haven’t yet read their works please do so, let us know what you think and give them props for their fabulous writing!

Marvin Bell

Marvin Bell’s nineteenth book was the wartime collection, Mars Being Red (Copper Canyon, 2007). His twentieth is a collaboration titled, 7 Poets, 4 Days, 1 Book (Trinity University Press, 2009), co-authored with poets from Hungary, Malta, Russia and Slovenia, as well as the U.S. Long a member of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop faculty, he teaches now for the brief-residency MFA program based in Oregon at Pacific University. A song cycle, “The Animals,” commissioned by the composer David Gompper, premiered in Oct., 2009. A back-and-forth with the songwriter, Marvin Tate, appears in the current issue of Make. He is at work on a new book of dead man poems and a collaborationwith the photographer, Nathan Lyons.

Shawn Vestal

Shawn Vestal’s stories have appeared in Tin House, McSweeney’s, Ecotone, The Southern Review, Quarterly West, CutBank and other journals. A graduate of the Eastern Washington University MFA program, he lives in Spokane, Wash., with his wife and son.

Jeremy Halinen

Jeremy Halinen is a coeditor and cofounder of Knockout Literary Magazine. Some of his recent poems appear in Best Gay Poetry 2008, Crab Creek Review, Dos Passos Review, Ganymede, New Mexico Poetry Review, and Poet Lore. He resides in Seattle.

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