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A cappella Zoo (ISSN: 1945-7480) is a semi-annual fiction and poetry magazine with a focus on magic realism & slipstream. The Spring 2013 issue, BESTIARY, is a special collection of the best of the inaugural demi-decade of A cappella Zoo, with selections by GUEST EDITOR Gina Ochsner. FOUNDING EDITOR: Colin Meldrum. FICTION EDITOR: Amanda DiSanto. POETRY EDITOR: Lisa McCool-Grime. COVER & SECTION ILLUSTRATOR: Anna Bron. FICTION by Rachel Adams, Anton Baer, A. A. Balaskovits, Walter Bargen, Redfern Barrett, Edmond Caldwell, Theodore Carter, Bernard Cox, Julie Day, Maria Deira, Josh Denslow, Roxane Gay, Nancy Gold, Danya Goodman, Collin Blair Grabarek, Micah Dean Hicks, Tina Hyland, Joe Kapitan, Jack Kaulfus, Emily Lawrence, Claire Massey, Adam McOmber, Andrew Mitchell, Hayes Moore, Nicole Myashiro, Kurt Newton, John Jasper Owens, Pedro Ponce, Sandra Kate Riedel, Lora Rivera, Julia A. Rosenthal, Eric Schaller, Randolph Schmidt, Amber Sparks, Robert Edward Sullivan, Chantel Tattoli.POETRY BY Margaret Bashaar, John F. Buckley, Charlene Logan Burnett, Mary Lou Buschi, Alana I. Capria, C. E. Chaffin, Feng Sun Chen, Robin Patric Clair, Benjamin Clark, Nicelle Davis, Joseph Harrington, William Keener, Ali Lanzetta, Lindsay Miller, Kristine Ong Muslim, John Myers, Elizabeth O'Brien, Martin Ott, Jeff Pearson, Daniel Porder, M. P. Powers, Michael Schmeltzer, Prartho Sereno, Linda Ann Strang, Patrick Sugrue, Caitlin Thomson, Margaret Walther, Colin Winnette, Jessica Young, Shellie Zacharia, Felicia Zamora.CONTRIBUTING ILLUSTRATORS: Cheryl Gross, Gavin Faherty.