Iodine Literary Projects is named after South Carolina's old nickname of The Iodine State. Beaufort was marketed as Lettuce City as well. Iodine occurs in the soil naturally here, and the extra healthful produce was shipped all over the United States, in an effort to prevent goiter. Then iodized salt was introduced. Into the 1980s, old pickup trucks with rusty Iodine State license plates were still out and about. Reason #2 for ILP: Little Iodine, the trouble-making 1930s comic book character.
				Lisa Annelouise Rentz has written many articles, essays and interviews (plus a few stories and illustrations) for plenty of publications, and even radio broadcast and a permanent collection. She is the editor of ArtNews, a print publication of the Arts Council of Beaufort County.
				M.A. Mueller's photography can be found in Skirt! magazine, ArtNews, The Gallery on Bay Street in downtown Beaufort, and her Flickr photostream.
				Gail Westerfield is a well-spoken, well-published editor, writer, actor, and The Writer's SuperHeroine.