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THOUGHTS ABOUT PLAYING IN THE MIST
 

I enter the world called real as one enters a mist.
--Julien Green

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it "the Reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the mist
– Edgar Allan Poe

Live free, child of the mist,—and with respect to knowledge we are all children of the mist.
-- Henry David Thoreau

A mist that is like blown snow is sweeping over all,
Valley, river, and elms, under the light of a moon
That seems unlike itself, that seems unchangeable,
A glittering sword out of the east.
-- William Butler Yeats

 
    ANGE TYSDAL, EDITOR

Ange Tysdal lives in the Rocky Mountains and spends all of her time mountain biking, kayaking, snowboarding, hiking, backpacking, and writing about the outdoors. She has recently been published in divide and Prick of the Spindle. She is the managing editor of Marginalia. Her book of poetry, Limning the Life of Spice, is forthcoming. Her agent is currently shopping her novels, a young adult fantasy series, Amy Vanderbrinks, a women's fiction, White Water, and an eco-thriller, Lords of Nature. Ange founded In the Mist to give a voice to all the other female adventurers who need a home for their work.

 
 
 

MARK TODD, POETRY EDITOR

Mark Todd teaches creative writing at Western State College in Gunnison, CO. His first poetry collection, Wire Song, appeared in 2001, with Conundrum Press. His second collection of poetry, Tamped, But Loose Enough to Breathe, appears in fall, 2008, with Ghost Road Press. His poems have appeared in the anthologies The Geography of Hope (1998), Open Windows (2005), and Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West (2007). He stages and emcees several poetry readings each year, and he has performed his work at poetry festivals and events throughout the Mountain States, on the East Coast, and in Berlin, Germany. He is the co-author, with his wife, Kym, of the award-winning comedy-noir novel, The Silverville Swindle, 2006, and the sequel, The Silverville Pantiwyckes, due out in 2010, both also with Ghost Road Press.

 
     

HEATHER CARNAHAN, MANAGING EDITOR

Heather Carnahan graduated from UCCS with a Bachelor of Arts in English with an emphasis in Professional Writing. She is currently working for Anita Kushen, literary agent and has been for about a year. Her career goals are to become an aquisitions editor for a publishing house on the east coast. She's excited for the experience working on In The Mist will provide for her.

 
 
 

MATTHEW D'INCAU, ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Matthew is a wilderness EMT, outdoor adventure guide, and massage therapist who resides on the island of Kauai. He is a native of northern Minnesota where he attended the U of M - Duluth on the shores of Lake Superior. His main passion and inspiration on the island is the blue Pacific that surrounds it.

 
      Photograph headers for the winter issue were taken by Ashlin O'Connell, who is a student at Montana State University. She spent a year studying at a German university and took some time off to explore the beauty of the Alps in southern Germany, Italy, Austria, and Switzerland. Home Page: Montana's Bridger Mountains at sunrise • About Us: Alps ridgeline • Contact Us: Alps switchbacks • Submissions: Liechtenstein castle.