ISSUE FOUR features poetry and prose by 34 authors, ranging from never-before-published newcomers to seasoned, award-winning professionals. Two $150 Editor's prizes were awarded, and this issue features: 46 poems, 8 short stories, and 2 works of creative nonfiction. Below is a list of the contributors. Read their FULL BIOS.

Under the Waves

Issue Two

FICTION
Scott Bloom
Mustaches
Foust
Wrong Girl
Michael Hayes
Let Fall the Soft Fruits
Vanessa Hemingway
Mercy's Child
Tim Keppel
The Ballad of the Humpbacks
Gary McLouth
Ganado Dreaming
Dennis Must
The Fringe
Fred Skolnik
The Iceman

NONFICTION
Aubrey Hirsch
Five for New Orleans
Mary Lou Andrews Simms
The Half Moon

POETRY
Andrew Barron
Earth Science
Karina Borowicz
Amaryllis
Gathering
Repairs
Brad Buchanan
The Nap Room
Villanelle for the Headstrong and Heartbroken
Kevin Clark
The Night Seems
Philip Dacey
My Bill Holm Story
Last Wish
K. E. Duffin
Galveston
Exorcism
Christy Ferrato
For
Chris Helvey
On the Boulevard
Pain
Vultures
Bruce Henricksen
Veterans Day, 1946
The Poem I Want to Hear
Margaret B. Ingraham
After the Diagnosis
Unraveling the Riddle
What the Mountain Knows
Erin Keane
Lectio Divina of the Tattoed Lady
The Tattooed Lady Falls
The Tattooed Lady Transforms
The Tattooed Lady Watches
The Tattooed Lady's Fear
Joanne Lowery
Grinch of Spring
Fireflies
Stephen Massimilla
Giorgio's San Marco
No Longer a Night Girl
Charlotte McCaffrey
Whet
Soured
Kathleen McCann
Hourglass
Rick McKenzie
Hedge 3.0
Alice Pero
More Barter
Over the Landscape
Daniel Polikoff
Aristotle's Lantern
Rhonda C. Poynter
Lullabye
song for kerouac
dreaming of roethke
Joseph Radke
Mixed With Gall
William Rushton
Roses
Lisa Siedlarz
First Night, Watchtower
Susannah Simpson
Sunday Sonnet
The Souls of San Miguel
The Italians Come to the Table
Kit Williamson
Boarding School Self-Portrait