Andrew Abbott is a 31 year-old red-haired artist, whose whereabouts are unknown at the time of this publication. Hopefully he got into graduate school and is getting outstanding grades. If he didn't, he has probably moved to Canada to take advantage of his dual citizenship and get health-care.
Carolyn Adams' art and poetry have appeared in The Alembic, Common Ground Review, Caveat Lector, Fickle Muses, and Mannequin Envy, among others. She is author of Beautiful Strangers (Lily Press, 2006), and the art e-chapbook What Do You See?, available for free at Right Hand Pointing. She is currently an Art Editor for the e-zine Mad Hatters Review.
Tanya Angell Allen has previously published poems and essays in such places as Pivot, The Edge City Review, The Lyric, and The New York Times.
Chuck Augello lives in New Jersey with his wife, dog, three cats, and a growing collection of dust. His work has appeared in Pindeldyboz, Rattle, Word Riot, DoubleThink, Imitation Fruit, The Santa Fe Literary Review, and other journals. He spends his days in a cubicle slowly plotting his escape. Please love him.
Rosaleen Bertolino's fiction has recently appeared online at fictionatwork.com, and Prick of the Spindle, and in print in West Marin Review, Southern California Review, and the Chicago Reader. She lives with her family in Fairfax, California, and recently joined the 21st century at www.rosaleenbertolino.com.
William C. Blome is a writer of short fiction and poetry. He beds down nightly ‘twixt Baltimore and Washington, DC, and is an MA graduate of the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars. His work has previously seen the light of day in such little mags as Amarillo Bay, Prism International, Salted Feathers and The California Quarterly.
Kimberly Bunker recently graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a B.A. in English and Music. She now lives in Rochester, NY, and works for a nonprofit organization that facilitates workshops for incarcerated women. She also writes freelance articles part time for Demand Studios and hopes to get an MFA in creative writing.
Doug Paul Case studies writing, literature, and publishing at Emerson College, where he is an editor of The Emerson Review. Sometimes he remembers to blog at http://dougpaulcase.wordpress.com.
P. Scott Cunningham is the director of the University of Wynwood and O Miami. His poems have appeared most recently in The Harvard Review and Northville Review.
Linda Ferguson’s work has been published in Fiction at Work, Fickle Muses, Four and Twenty, Saranac Review, Square Lake, Fireweed, and Equal Opportunity Magazine. She also teaches creative writing to school children.
Jason Fisk lives in Chicagoland with his children, and dogs. He tries to find time to write between changing diapers and cleaning up doggie doo. You can visit his website at www.jasonfisk.com.
Christopher Gallinari was born on Columbus Day, but his name had already been chosen. A lawyer in Chicago, his work has appeared or is forthcoming in After Hours, Apparatus Magazine, Another Chicago Magazine and state and federal court. His poetry has been anthologized by Virtual Artists Collective and translated into Chinese.
Timothy L. Marsh works as a curriculum developer in Bali, Indonesia. In the last year his writing has appeared in The Evansville Review, The New Quarterly and Connotation Press, among others. His awards include a 2010 fellowship and residency at the Vermont Studio Center, and a 2009 Arts Jury Award from the City Council of St. John's, Newfoundland.
JBMulligan has had poems and stories in dozens of magazines, including most recently Blue Unicorn, Chiron Review, Argestes, Loch Raven Review, Doorknobs & Bodypaint and Aunt Chloe. He has also published two chapbooks, The Stations of the Cross and THIS WAY TO THE EGRESS, and has appeared in the anthology Inside Out: A Gathering of Poets.
Yvonne Osborne is a poet and aspiring novelist. She grew up in the Thumb of Michigan and has recently moved back to the family farm. She has an organic gardening business, a flock of chickens and a full time job in airport security, but she's happiest when deliberating on a word.
David Peak is the author of a novel, The Rocket's Red Glare (Leucrota Press), a book of poems, Surface Tension (BlazeVOX Books), and a chapbook, Museum of Fucked (Warm Milk Press). Other writing has apperaed in elimae, Annalemma, and Pank.
Charles Rafferty received a 2009 NEA Fellowship in Creative Writing, as well as a grant from the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism. His most recent book is A Less Fabulous Infinity (Louisiana Literature Press, 2006).
Michael Ramsburg is currently working on a collection of short stories called "Tiles". He and his wife live in London.
Skye Shirley studies creative writing at Boston College. Her poem "Song of A Lowell Mill Girl" was a finalist in the 2010 Lex Allen Literary Festival Poetry Contest, and "Estonia" was given honorable mention in The Best Undergraduate Writing of 2009 Contest. Her chapbook Opening the Storm Door received the McCarthy Creative Writing Award in 2009.
Sarah J. Sloat lives in Germany, where she works in news. Sarah likes red wine, olives and stinky cheese, rather like Marlon Brando in The Godfather. Her poems have appeared in Juked, Bateau, and RHINO, among other publications. Her chapbook In the Voice of a Minor Saint was published by Tilt Press in 2009.
Phillip Sterling's most recent poetry collection is Abeyance, winner of the Frank Cat Press Chapbook Award 2007. He is the founding coordinator of the Literature In Person (LIP) Reading Series at Ferris State University, where he has taught for many years.
Brett Stout is a 30 year-old artist and writer. He is a high school dropout and former construction worker turned college graduate and paramedic. He creates art, mainly while hung-over, from a small, cramped apartment in Myrtle Beach, SC.
Alexis Stratton is a native of Illinois but has spent her life in many homes, from the Carolinas to Korea. She is currently working, teaching, and writing in Columbia, South Carolina. Her work has most recently appeared in Apparatus Magazine, Soundzine, and Korea Infusion.
J. Tarwood has two books, Grand Detour and The Cats in Zanzibar, and poems published across the range, from American Poetry Review to Main Street Rag to Visions; following the dollar, he has tramped through East Africa and much of the Middle East, with a long dawdle in South America.
Buff Whitman-Bradley has written two books of poems, b.eagle, poet, and The Honey Philosophies. His work has appeared in numerous journals. In addition to writing, he produces documentary videos and audios. His interviews with American GIs who have refused to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan can be heard at www.couragetoresist.org.
Brian Wilkins is the editor of Scarab, a literary magazine for the iPhone. He holds a MFA in Poetry from the University of New Hampshire. His work is available or forthcoming in Two Review, Permafrost, and Sententia.
John Sibley Williams has an MA in Writing and resides in Portland, OR, where he frequently performs his poetry and studies Book Publishing at Portland State University. He is presently compiling manuscripts composed from the last two years of traveling and living abroad. Some of his 60+ previous or upcoming publications include: The Evansville Review, Juked, and Raving Dove.
Kelsey Wollin was born and raised in rural Wisconsin. She lived near the Gila National Forest in Silver City, NM for several years, and has now returned to her hometown in the Midwest. She has had one short story published in Snowy Egret and aspires to continue writing and contributing work to various publications.
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