Tantra Bensko, MFA, teaches Experimental Fiction Writing through UCLA Extension Writing Program and Writers College. Her writing has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and won awards given by organizations such as as Iowa Journal of Literary Studies, Academy of American Poets, and Cezanne's Carrot Magazine. She is also the author of Tantric Metaportals, and has over 200 writing publications, and as many art publiations. She was the Art Director of Mad Hatters Review, a judge or the BTDesign Awards, and World Class Photographer for the Times Journal of Photography.