2011
Cezarija Abartis' Nice Girls and Other Stories was published by New Rivers Press. Her stories have appeared in Brain Harvest, Underground Voices, Manoa, Story Quarterly, and New York Tyrant (which also gave her story The Lidano Fiction Award). Recently she completed a novel, a thriller. She teaches at St. Cloud State University.
Garrett Ashley lives in MS and studies English at The University of Southern Mississippi. His work has appeared in over twenty online and print journals including Brain Harvest,Midwest Literary Magazine, The Smoking Poet, and Bloody Bridge Review. He is currently looking for a way out of this very large room.
Paul Beckman is a real estate salesman and writer of short fiction. Sometimes his fiction inadvertently shows up in his real estate ads and vice versa.
Eleanor Leonne Bennett is a 15 year old photographer and artist who has won contests with National Geographic, The Woodland Trust, The World Photography Organisation, Winstons Wish, Papworth Trust, Mencap, Big Issue, Wrexham Science, Fennel and Fern and Nature's Best Photography.
Jack Bretterson lives in Kansas City, MO, which is pretty much the same thing as Kansas City, KS, except in Missouri.
Peter Clarke is a recent law school graduate, keeping busy writing indelicate novels and trying to not be a lawyer. His short fiction has appeared in Hobart, Elimae, Locus Novus,Denver Syntax, and elsewhere.
Virginie Colline is a French translator living in Paris. Her poems have been published inThe Scrambler, Everyday Other Things, Haiku Journal, MOLT, Quantum Poetry Magazineand Kitchen among others.
Francisco Delgado lives in Queens with his fiancee, and teaches at St. John's University and CUNY York College. More often than not, he can be found riding the subways or walking the streets, daydreaming.
Marit Ericson is a poet originally from New England. Her poems have appeared in several literary journals, most recently Defenestration and The Quarterlife Quarterly. She lives and writes in New Jersey.
Brandon Garcia can, in fact, eat seven saltines in one minute. He lives in Nampa, Idaho, with his girlfriend and daughter.
Ricky Garni is a graphic designer living in Carrboro, North Carolina. His work can be found in and about the web. His latest work, JANUARY, is a sequel to his earlier work, DECEMBER. Although it could be the other way around, with a lot of space in between.
A native of Venice, California, Ruth Gooley divides her life among the ocean, the mountains, the desert and the sky. She published her dissertation, The Image of the Kiss in French Renaissance Poetry, and poems in Mali Mirage, The Loyolan, Day Tonight Night Today, and soon in Poecology and Snowy Egret.
Jamie Grefe licks his wounds, hugs his wife and pets his dogs from a high-rise in Beijing, China, where he teaches Literature by day and sips black coffee from a Craven A tin by night. He also, on occasion, creates experimental/improvised music with contact microphones and shortwave radios. His work is online.
Joe Guszkowski is from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He studies English/Creative writing at Loyola University Chicago, where he is the editor-in-chief of Cadence, the school’s annual arts magazine.
Kevin Heaton writes and babysits grandkids in South Carolina. His fourth chapbook, "Chronicles," is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in early 2012. His work has appeared in more than 100 publications including: Pure Francis, The Raleigh Review, elimae, and The Catalonian Review. He is listed as a notable poet at KansasPoets.com.
Kyle Hemmings lives and works in New Jersey. He has been pubbed in Elimae, Nano Fiction, decomP, and Prick of the Spindle. He is the author of several poetry/prose chapbooks including Avenue C and Cat People.
Jack Hodil is an English major and Creative Writing minor at the University of Richmond. His poems have been published in a handful of magazines, such as Word Riot and theCamroc Press Review. His fingers are perpetually crossed, so he (usually) writes with his toes.
Suzanne Marie Hopcroft is a PhD student in Comparative Literature who writes poetry and fiction from New York City. Her work is forthcoming or has recently appeared inGargoyle, LITnIMAGE, elimae, > kill author, and others. Suzanne also teaches developmental reading at a community college in the Bronx and makes a mean lasagna.
Paul Hostovsky's poems have won a Pushcart Prize and numerous poetry chapbook contests. He has been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, The Writer's Almanac, and Best of the Net 2008 and 2009. His new book of poems, A Little in Love a Lot, is forthcoming from Main Street Rag.
Rich Ives is the 2009 winner of the Francis Locke Memorial Poetry Award from Bitter Oleander. The Spring 2011 Bitter Oleander contains a feature including an interview and 18 of his hybrid works.
Meg Johnson's poems have appeared in Slipstream Magazine, U.S. 1 Worksheets, Word Riot, WTF PWM, Blood Lotus, and others. Her poem "Free Samples" was recently nominated for Best of the Net. She blogs here.
Kimberly Karalius is an MFA creative writing student at the University of South Florida. She ironically dreads the Florida sun and instead daydreams about striped scarves and peppermint tea. Even though she is old enough to be considered an adult, she still watches cartoons.
Doug Lane is a transplanted Yankee making his home in Houston, TX. His particular brand of grammatical weirdness has appeared in the anthology Machine of Death, Tales of the Unanticipated and the forthcoming Seasons In The Abyss.
Daniel Lassell is a 22-year-old recent graduate from Marian University planning to attend Marshall University’s Graduate English Program in the fall. He grew up in Eminence, Kentucky, raising llamas and alpacas. Apart from school publications, he is also featured inA Celebration of Young Poets (Fall 2004) and riverrun magazine (May 2011).
Robert McDonald's poetry and prose have appeared in a variety of locations in print and on the world-wide web. He blogs at Lives of the Spiders. He is nearly ready to confront his fear of clowns. Any day now, it's the Big Top.
Sandra S. McRae will probably never be kidnapped and held for ransom, which is one of the big advantages of being a poet. Her poems have appeared in Steam Ticket, Poets Against War, Word Riot and elsewhere. She co-authored the bestselling Weber’s Big Book of Grilling (Chronicle). Learn more about Sandra at wordsruntogether.com.
A Seattle native, Susan V. Meyers has lived and taught in Chile, Costa Rica, and Mexico. Her work has recently appeared in CALYX, Dogwood, Terra Incognita, and The Minnesota Review, and it has been the recipient of several awards, including a Fulbright Fellowship. She teaches writing at Oregon State University.
Jesse Millner has published five poetry chapbooks. His first full-length poetry book, The Neighborhoods of My Past Sorrow, was released by Kitsune Books in March 2009 and won a bronze medal in the 2010 Florida Book Awards. Jesse teaches writing courses at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, Florida.
Eric Victor Neagu lives in Chicago and works as a consultant. He holds degrees from Purdue and The University of Chicago, and spends his free time working on environmental issues in post-industrial communities. Eric is also working on a novel and a documentary about the Great Lakes. He is recently married and has two dogs and several unborn children.
Rod Peckman lives in a beautiful space—on a small lake—in the wonderfully wet Pacific Northwest. He’s worked for a gargantuan library system going on 20 years now, giving out questionable answers to reference queries. He’s grown so fat, even his Yellow Labrador finds it a burden to share his bed anymore.
Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, The New Yorker and elsewhere. For more information, including his essay “Magic, Illusion and Other Realities” and a complete bibliography, please visit his website: www.simonperchik.com.
Dominic Preziosi is a writer, editor and teacher of fiction. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Stephen V. Ramey's work has appeared in a variety of venues, from The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts and Bartleby Snopes to Daily Science Fiction and Strange Horizons. He lives in New Castle, Pennsylvania with his novelist wife and a herd of reformed feral cats.
Christine Jessica Margaret Reilly is currently pursuing her MFA in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence University. Two of her poems will be featured in The Clearing: Forty Years with Toni Morrison, 1970-2010. She has been published in Barely South Review, The Salzburg Review, and twenty other journals. She was named Breadcrumb Scabs' Editor's Pick.
Ryan B. Richey is a Chicago-based artist. His work has led him to perform, make videos, write, paint, sing, sculpt, install and utilize whatever medium that’s necessary to get his ideas across. At the core of his practice, he writes and paints in tandem to breathe life into the stories and experiences of his ancestors, family as well as his own. It is what he knows.
Kevin Ridgeway lives in Southern California in a shady bungalow with his girlfriend and their one-eyed cat. Recent publications include Red Fez, Ray's Road Review, Haggard & Hallo and The Left Coast Review, along with forthcoming work in Breadcrumb Scabs, Full of Crow and Underground Voices Magazine. Mr. Ridgeway is an avid reader and amateur avocado farmer.
Marlena Ryan lives in Chicago but she was born in Tampa, Florida, attended kindergarten in Reno, Nevada, was raised in Sonoma County, California, and currently holds an Arizona driver's license. However, this is still not enough personal information to steal her identity. Sorry.
Keith Seher is a poet living in the Cleveland area. His work will appear in an upcoming issue of Yes, Poetry.
Hilary Sideris's work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as Arts & Letters,The Evansville Review, and Poet Lore, among many others. Her first and third chapbooks,The Orange Juice is Over and Gold & Other Fish, were published by Finishing Line Press, and her second chapbook, Baby, was published by Pudding House Press.
Sarah J. Sloat is a reluctant non-smoker who grew up in New Jersey.
A creative writing major at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Oliver St. John does most of his writing while goofing off in class.
Joannie Kervran Stangeland’s poems have most recently appeared in Iota, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and Crab Creek Review. She is also the author of two poetry chapbooks.
A fiction writer at heart, McLean Swanson is trying his hand at poetry. As an English major and a soon-to-be graduate of the University of California, Irvine, he hopes that the inevitable starving artist stage of life will pass with haste.
Nathaniel Tower writes fiction, teaches English, and manages the online lit magazineBartleby Snopes. His first novel, A Reason to Kill, was published in July 2011. Please visit him at bartlebysnopes.com.
Matthew Vasiliauskas is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago. In 2009, he was awarded the Silver Dome Prize by the Illinois Broadcast Association for best public affairs program as producer of the Dean Richards Show at WGN Radio. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
Marni White has perfected the art of folding a fitted sheet. She lives in Lubbock, TX.
Terry Wright lives in Little Rock, teaches at the University of Central Arkansas, and is associate editor of the Toad Suck Review. His blog features more art and poetry.
Ron Yazinski is a retired English teacher who lives in Northeastern Pennsylvania with his wife Jeanne. His poems have appeared in Mulberry Poets and Writers Association, Strong Verse, The Bijou Review, and elsewhere. He is the author of the chapbook Houses: An American Zodiac (The Poetry Library) and the poetry collection South of Scranton.
Jay Zuker lives in Orlando with his wife and two sons.
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2010
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.
Jeff Alan writes in pajamas while listening to Miles Davis. His prose poems and flash fictions have been published in print and online journals, including The Best of Every Day Fiction 2008, Flashshot, Diddledog, and Boston Literary Magazine. Because it seems that every other writer has one, he has a website: www.bonescribble.com.
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.
Josh Amidon spends a lot of time in the bushes outside your house with night vision goggles and his well-worn copy of the bible.
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.
Chris Brown began writing after his plot to overthrow the Bolivian government was foiled by several, allegedly straight, men in tights. He is currently working on a dastardly new scheme that may or may not involve the Denver Broncos winning the Super Bowl. His secret lair is somewhere in Colorado's mile-high capital.
Born in Flint, MI, raised in the Detroit area, and ripening in California since the fall of 1992, John F. Buckley lives and works in Orange County with his wife, teaching at local colleges and chasing the poetic dragon.
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.
Benjamin Cartwright used to live in Tianjin, China where 99% of his students begged to watch the movie Twilight, except for one boy who yelled "Humans should kill vampires, not kiss them!" Ben's poems and prose poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Sentence and The Stinging Fly.
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.
Clayton Adam Clark hails from St. Louis but currently resides in Columbus where he spends much of his time reading, writing, teaching, and editing. When possible, he likes to travel elsewhere.
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.
Ryan Dilbert is the author of the upcoming novel Time Crumbling Like A Wet Cracker (No Record Press). He does tattoos, teaches writing and wishes his singing voice was more like Otis Redding's. His work has been published in Smokelong Quarterly, decomP, Word Riot and Pear Noir.
Laura M. Dixon is a Michener Fellow in poetry at The University of Texas at Austin, where she also serves as Associate Editor of Bat City Review. Her work has appeared recently or is forthcoming in Wicked Alice, Front Porch, Apparatus Magazine, Innisfree, and Georgetown Review.
Paul Epps would be the first to tell you that Paul Epps does not exist. And you don't either. How annoying is that?
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.
D. Dina Friedman received two Puschart Prize nominations and published widely in literary journals. Her two award-winning novels are Escaping Into the Night, about a girl who lives in the forest during the Holocaust, and Playing Dad’s Song, about a boy who loses his father on 9/11 and heals from his grief through music.
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.
Carol L. Gloor is a 64 year-old attorney. She has been writing for forty years, mostly poetry. In the past few months she has had poetry published in the print journals Calyx and Cram 9: Poetry in the First and in the online journals ADR and ChicagoPoetry.com: STATE OF EMERGENCY.
Paul Hostovsky's poems have won a Pushcart Prize, the Muriel Craft Bailey Award from The Comstock Review, and chapbook contests from Grayson Books, Riverstone Press, Frank Cat Press, and Split Oak Press. He has been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, The Writer's Almanac, and Best of the Net 2008 and 2009. His latest book of poems is Dear Truth (2009, Main Street Rag).
A.K. Jackson was born in Upstate NY but spent much of her life calling Manahawkin, NJ her home. She graduated from Simon's Rock College and Sarah Lawrence College. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in several literary magazines, including Tryst, Right Hand Pointing and Neon. She currently lives in Los Angeles.
Kasandra Larsen's manuscript STELLAR TELEGRAM won the 2009 Sheltering Pines Press Chapbook Competition and is forthcoming in 2010. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize and a Best of the Net award, her poems have appeared in over two dozen journals in the U.S. and the U.K. She lives in New Orleans.
Tennae Maki is a writer and painter living in a refurbished 19th Century hotel in River Falls, Wisconsin. A native of St. Paul, Minnesota, she often explores human emotion and the elements of longevity through her work. Tennae is currently a senior studying journalism and art at the University of Wisconsin River Falls.
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.
Caitlin Moran is a creative writing student at Boston College. She grew up battling long, hard winters in Western New York, and spent a lot of time wrapped in an electric blanket reading books. Her work has appeared in Stylus, Laughing Medusa, and the Susquehanna Review.
JBMulligan has had poems and stories in dozens of magazines over the last 35 years, including recently, Thirty First Bird Review, Imitation Fruit, Doorknobs & Bodypaint, Glint, and Leaf Garden, and 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.
Peg Alford Pursell received her MFA from the Warren Wilson MFA Program for writers. She's been a finalist for the Flannery O'Connor Short Fiction Award, and twice received the The S.C. State Fiction Award. She lives in Sausalito where she curates a reading series and is completing a novel told in stories.
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.
Shiloh Sanchez has many names. Tornline leaves a trace of poetry scrawled on the backs of bathroom stalls, 24 hour diner menus, brick walls, and university bulletin boards. Sanchez writes for local Saginaw, MI hip hoppers @ www.360mainstreet.com. Slaughter works third shift as an operator. A list of publications is contrary to their aesthetic beliefs.
Vincent Scarpa is pursuing a BFA in Writing, Literature, and Publishing from Emerson College. His play, “Hostage,” was put on by Quiet Hours Theater in Boston this Spring, and he has been a part of the Literary Firsts reading series in Cambridge, MA. His work has or will soon appear in Gee I See, Girls With Insurance, and Thread.
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.
Ray Succre lives on the southern Oregon coast with his wife and son. He has had poems published in Aesthetica, Poets and Artists, and Pank, as well as in numerous others across many countries. His novels are widely available in print. Other Cruel Things (2009), an online collection of poetry, is available through Differentia Press.
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.
Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé has edited more than 10 books and co-produced 3 audio books, several pro bono for non-profit organizations. A recipient of the Singapore Internationale Grant and Hiew Siew Nam Academic Award, he also works in clay, his pieces housed in museums and private collections in India, the Netherlands, the UK and the US.
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2009
Josh Amidon lives beneath the biggest skies of them all in a town called Bozeman, where the air is thin and dry and the mountains loom large. He drinks his beers in a place called The Filling Station, but when you visit you'll call it The Filler or we'll know you're from out of town.
Gary Beck has published two chapbooks, Remembrance and The Conquest of Somalia, and his poetry collection Days of Destruction was published in 2009 by Rogue Scholars Press. His original plays and translations have been produced Off Broadway and toured nationally. He currently lives in New York City, where he’s busy writing.
Samantha Bell is a PhD student at the University of Kansas, and has work in DIAGRAM, Emprise Review, Prick of the Spindle, Bird's Eye reView, and elsewhere. She is from upstate New York.
Tobias Amadon Bengelsdorf’s fiction has appeared in elimae, and This Zine Will Change Your Life, and his audio work in Lark(!). He is the generalissimo of Fiction at Work, an assistant editor at The Green Lantern, an instructor at St. Augustine College, and the Quickies! Mascot. He lives in Chicago.
Jack Boettcher lives in Austin, Texas. He's the author of Surveyic Hero (horse less press, 2007) and, most recently, The Deviants (Greying Ghost Press, forthcoming). New and newish writing is out or will be soon in Absent, Diagram, Denver Quarterly, The Hat, Indiana Review, La Petite Zine, Pleiades, and several others.
Eleanor Boudreau studied poetry at Harvard with D.A. Powell and Jorie Graham. She admits to moving around a bit after college, including a year-long stint dry-cleaning on a remote island off the coast of British Columbia, Canada. She also has a Master’s degree in broadcast journalism from Columbia University. She currently works for National Public Radio.
J. Bradley is based out of Orlando, FL. His work recently appeared in November 3rd Club, Poetry Midwest, and Welter and will appear in Ozone Park, Dash Literary Journal, Breadcrumb Scabs and Right Hand Pointing. Check out J. Bradley's official blog, Failure Loves Company, at iheartfailure.wordpress.com.
The Rev. Dr. David Breeden is a poet and parish minister. He has published ten books of poetry and three novels. His website is www.drpoetry.com.
Jeff Calhoun is a graduate student at the University of Michigan and his writing credits include Eclectica, Mannequin Envy, Mimesis, iota, Blood Orange Review, Stirring, and Triplopia. His second digital chapbook was joint-winner of the 2008 Mimesis Chapbook Initiative. Bocce ball and lawn darts are the bees' knees.
Michelle Chen is a freelance writer based in New York City. Her articles and reporting have appeared in various online and print journals including In These Times, Colorlines, and Women's International Perspective.
April Clemens is probably playing music right now, or writing, or shooting the shit with her ten year-old. Or any old thing...
Chip Corwin teaches English and humanities at Heartland Community College in Normal, Ill. He is the editor of Chippens, which publishes poetry chapbooks in pdf format and other writing in weekly blog posts.
Pam Cunningham was the inspiration for the film Citizen Kane, except they changed her name to Rosebud. And made her a sled. She retired from the NHL in 1992, and still holds the league record for cross-checking. Pam's plaintive penalty box ballads led Celine Dion to encourage her to pursue a singing career. Today, Pam is a pop sensation in St. Kitts, less so in Nevis.
Anjanette Delgado is an Emmy award-winning writer and producer. Her first sitcom, “Great in Bed” was bought by HBO Latino in 2002 and is set to be produced in Brazil. Her first novel, The Heartbreak Pill, was published by Simon & Schuster’s Atria Books in 2008. It will be out in Spanish in August 2009 as “La pildora del mal amor.” She lives in Miami, Florida.
John Dutterer is a poet, short story writer, and translator. His work has appeared in Perigee, Radiant Turnstile, Mastodon Dentist, and others. He lives with his expanding family, just outside the orbit of Baltimore, MD.
Jason Fialkovich is a new writer from Pittsburgh, PA, currently living in Rochester, NY. He likes some things, despises others, and has a real problem focusing on a single path in life.
Joseph Goosey is enamored with an actress with a tattoo of a Klimt on her side. He has one chapbook available via Poptritus Press and one forthcoming via Shadow Archer Press. He thanks you for reading.
Brian Anthony Hardie has been writing poetry since the age of seven. Born and raised in Portland, OR, he has been published in numerous journals including The Pebble Lake Review, Conceit Magazine, and Angel Exhaust. He has also toured the West Coast and Midwest as a bass player for the Portland-based experimental rock band Microtia.
Lisa Higgs’ poetry has been published in numerous literary journals and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She was fortunate to be named a participant in the Loft Literary Center Mentor Series in Minneapolis from June 2006 through May 2007. She currently lives in Springfield, Illinois.
William Ashanti Hobbs hails from Atlanta, Georgia by way of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and teaches creative writing at Virginia State University. He was a 2006 VERB literary magazine fiction contest finalist and lives just outside of Richmond, VA with wife Tameka Hobbs, Ph.D. and two sons where he plots, patiently, for a replacement for his dearly departed pit bull, Bruh Man.
Paul Hostovsky has been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and The Best of the Net. He has won a Pushcart Prize, the Muriel Craft Bailey Award, and chapbook contests from Grayson Books, Riverstone Press, and The Frank Cat Press. His first full-length collection, Bending the Notes, is available from Main Street Rag. To read more, visit paulhostovsky.com.
Jason Hune is plotting world domination from his desk in Pittsburgh. He has held numerous jobs: janitor, snow cone slinger, corporate drone, and now, writer.
Dan Kelty is a high school teacher living in St. Louis with his wife and two children.
Kathleen Kenny is a writer of Irish parentage who lives and writes in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. She works as a part-time creative writing tutor at the Centre for Lifelong Learning. Her latest collection of poems, Firesprung, was published recently by Red Squirrel Press.
Jeff Klooger’s poetry has been published in Australian and international online and print journals. Recently his work has appeared in The Liberal, Munyori Literary Journal, Eureka Street, Full Of Crow and Text. His other interests are music and philosophy. His first book, on the ideas of the Greek-French philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis, was published in 2009.
Casey Lafayette is an Oregon writer. Her work has appeared in Poetry Motel, Sight Records, 580 Split, and elsewhere.
Joseph Lambert enjoys staring blank-faced into the post-collegiate black-hole that is no-job-land. After succumbing to the vacuum and safely in a parallel universe, he will rely on his keen ability to whip up the best latte this side of Saturn. He also recently discovered a love for hyphenating words.
When Doug Lane isn't scribbling for himself, he's a full-time marketing writer who's also working on his Journalism Masters degree at Georgetown University. Go Hoyas!
Susanna Lang’s collection, Even Now, was published in 2008 by The Backwaters Press. Her poems have appeared in such journals as Rhino, Kalliope, Green Mountains Review, Jubilat, and Inkwell, where her poem won the 2009 competition. She also won an Illinois Arts Council award for a poem published in The Spoon River Poetry Review.
Eric Lawson's comedic prose and poetry have appeared in such literary magazines as Falling Star, Word Catalyst, and online zines thecynic.org and salon.com. He is the author of the comedy collection entitled Jackassery. He lives in Santa Monica, CA.
Charles Lennox lives and loves in Orange, CA. His stories have been published or are forthcoming in Quick Fiction, Avatar Review, FRiGG, Pear Noir, Keyhole Magazine, ML Press, and other fine places. Visit him at www.otherbeasts.blogspot.com.
Lyn Lifshin’s last two books with Black Sparrow, Cold Comfort and Before It’s Light, won Paterson Review Awards. She has published over 120 books and edited four anthologies. Just out are The Licorice Daughter: My Year With Ruffian and Another Woman Who Looks Like Me. Barbaro: Beyond Brokenness is forthcoming. Her website is: www.lynlifshin.com.
Bruce McRae enjoys talking about himself in the third person. He likes to remind us he's had over 530 poems published in 8 countries, and that he's a musician who has recently put a large number of poems to music. Currently he resides in Victoria, British Columbia, and can be contacted via bpmcrae.com.
Lex Miller is a social worker and writer living near Memphis. She holds an BA from the University of Tennessee, an MA in kicking ass, and a PhD in taking names.
Joseph Murphy has been published in The Externalist, Chantarelle’s Notebook and Flutter Poetry Journal; upcoming work will appear in Umbrella and The Tower Journal.
Ben Nardolilli’s work has appeared in Houston Literary Review, Perigee Magazine, Canopic Jar, Baker’s Dozen, Thieves Jargon, Farmhouse Magazine, Elimae, Poems Niederngasse, Gold Dust, The Delmarva Review, Underground Voices Magazine, SoMa Literary Review, Heroin Love Songs, Shakespeare’s Monkey Revue, Cantaraville, and Perspectives Magazine. In addition, he maintains a blog at mirrorsponge.blogspot.com.
Milos Petrovic is a poet from Serbia, anxious to crack the United States.
Michael Ramsburg is currently working on a collection of short stories called "Tiles". He and his wife live in London.
Patty Russo lives and writes in Philadelphia. By day, she is a lab tech pursuing an MFA in fiction at Vermont College. By night, she sleeps relatively soundly amid the sounds of barking dogs and sirens and helicopters.
Cliff Saunders lives and writes in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. He's been the recipient of an Academy of American Poets prize and has published poems in more than 100 literary journals. His poetry collection Portfolio of Sins is currently seeking a publisher.
Bryan P. Schulz is a California native who lived in Honolulu, HI, for six years before landing in Reno, NV. His writing credits include Spire and Lost Weekend, among others. He teaches college, bikes wherever he can, and writes.
Michael Steffen is a Y2K graduate of the MFA Writing Program at Vermont College. His first book, No Good at Sea, was published by Legible Press in 2002. His second, Heart Murmur, is forthcoming from Bordighera Press. Michael's work has appeared in Poetry, Poet Lore, Two Review and Alehouse, to name a few journals.
Amy Stern works from home, which, luckily, means she rarely has to put on real clothes. She recently completed her MFA in Writing and is determined to be a better Frisbee player than she was last summer.
P.C. Tavarez is an eighteen year-old student and manipulator of the English language.
Mike Theune, an active poet and critic, has published poems, essays, and reviews in journals such as The Iowa Review, The New Republic, Pleiades, and Verse. He is the editor of Structure & Surprise: Engaging Poetic Turns (Teachers & Writers, 2007) and host of the blog structureandsurprise.wordpress.com. Mike teaches at Illinois Wesleyan University.
Charles Thielman is the vice-president of an independent bookstore/performance venue that hosts readings, book-signings and fervent political gatherings. He’s had poems published in several journals, most recently in Heart Lodge and Poetry Kanto. Born and raised in Charleston, S.C., educated at red-brick colleges and on Chicago streets, he’s worked as a corrections counselor, truck driver, big city bus driver and shiny shoe salesman.
Shanti Weiland is author of the chapbook Daughter En Route and received her Ph.D. at University of Southern Mississippi. She has been published in various journals including Mochila Review, Plum Biscuit, and The Cherry Blossom Review. She currently teaches at University of Alabama and is working on her manuscript, “A Beautiful, Fuchsia Hell.”
Irene Westcott is the winner of The Baltimore Review’s 2007 Creative Nonfiction Competition. Her writing has appeared in The Blue Earth Review, The Literary Bohemian and Bullfight Review. She has an M.A. from Northwestern University and has been a resident at the Vermont Studio Center and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
Ernest Williamson is a self-taught pianist and painter whose poetry has been nominated twice for the Best of the Net Anthology. A Ph.D. candidate at Seton Hall University, he is also an adjunct professor at New Jersey City University and an English professor at Essex County College.
Christopher Woods' photographs have appeared recently, or will soon appear, in Anderbo, BAP Quarterly, Public Republic, Newport Review, and Narrative Magazine. He lives in Houston and Chappell Hill, Texas, and shares an online gallery with his wife, Linda: Texana Review Gallery.
