| A to G Sanford Allen is a musician and former newspaper reporter from San Antonio, Texas. He gave up on journalism after he found out it’s more fun to tell lies than to uncover the truth. More than two dozen of his horror and dark fantasy stories have been featured in magazines, web publications and anthologies. His band, Boxcar Satan, recently released its fifth full-length CD. Josh Amidon lives and works in Chicago, trying mainly to capture the essence of his better years through writing. He has a wife and a dog. Most of his socks have holes in them. Larissa Amir is a reformed stockbroker. She lives, writes and edits in Seattle with her husband and son. Her work appears in the anthology New Sudden Fiction (W. W. Norton), The Portland Review, and eye~rhyme. She is an Assistant Editor for Narrative Magazine, and she holds an MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Her bio is longer than many of her stories. Bim Angst lives with a pack of dogs in Saint Clair, Pennsylvania.
Thom Atterton grew up in western Mississippi with his four brothers and six dogs. He attended the University of Wisconsin and received his bachelor's degree in Anthropology, and then spent three years in Gobo, Japan studying architecture and its affect on culture and customs. He is currently enrolled in a distance learning program for a Master's degree in Gerontology from Kansas State University. Upon graduation, Atterton plans to return to Gobo to open a senior center and retirement community catering to retired professional badminton players.
Michael Balatico studies fiction in the graduate writing program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Tom Barlow's other stories may be found in The Apalachee Review, Hobart, The Duck & Herring Pocket Field Guide, Hiss Quarterly, Thieves Jargon, the Steel City Review, and other magazines, and in the print anthologies Book of Dead Things, Desolate Places, and Hard-boiled Horror. His story "My Daughter of Many Colours" was recently named a Notable Story for 2007 by the Million Writer's Award, and "Call Me Mr. Positive," which appears in the anthology "Best of the Intergalactic Medicine Show," was called "brilliantly sardonic" by Publisher's Weekly. He is a graduate of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Workshop. Barry Basden writes mostly short pieces. Some have been published in various online venues. Some have not. Ogden Belfret is a retired media executive who dabbles in fiction, videography, teaching and consulting. Eric Bennett lives in New York with his wife and four children. He likes the silence between previews at the movie theater and the quiet between songs on vinyl records. His work appears in numerous literary and art journals including Foliate Oak, Bartleby Snopes, Ghoti Magazine, LITnIMAGE, and PANK. Rosaleen Bertolino's stories have recently appeared in the Chicago Reader and Prick of the Spindle and are forthcoming in Tiferet and Southern California Review. She works as an office manager in northern California. Doug Bond has endured life in Manhattan and along the Western fault lines, most recently in San Francisco in loving, creative partnership with his wife, daughter, Ben (a Lab), and assorted other hungry creatures. His short stories and poems have appeared or are forthcoming in: The Northville Review, Camroc Press Review, Blink Ink, dispatch litareview and metazen. Mel Bosworth is the author of When the Cats Razzed the Chickens (Folded Word Press, 2009). He likes tea and music and hot dogs with natural casing. Crunch, yo. Visit him at http://eddiesocko.blogspot.com/. J. Bowers is a writer and teacher working in Columbia, MO. She holds a B.A. in English and creative writing from Goucher College, and an M.A. in the same from Hollins University. Her work has appeared in 3:AM, The Allegheny Review, Zaum, Zone 3, and is forthcoming in Fringe. J. Boyer teaches in the Creative Writing Program of Arizona State University. Charlie Britten lives in the English countryside with her husband, daughter and cat. She is presently working on a novel about the Cold War, which has the working title "And the Wall Came Tumbling Down". In real life, she is a college lecturer, specialising in IT. Anne Brooke has twice been the winner of the DSJT Charitable Trust Open Poetry Competition. She has also been shortlisted for the Harry Bowling Novel Award, the Royal Literary Fund Awards and the Asham Award for Women Writers. Her latest poetry collection is A Stranger's Table and her latest novel is Maloney's Law. Both are available from Amazon. Her work is represented by agent, John Jarrold, and she has a secret passion for birdwatching. More information can be found at www.annebrooke.com and she keeps a terrifyingly honest journal at http://annebrooke.blogspot.com.
Gavin Broom lives in the Scottish countryside with his wife and his cat. As at the time of writing, he doesn't own a house at the beach. Further evidence can be collected at www.gavinbroom.co.uk
John Bruce's writing has appeared recently, or will appear, in Backhand Stories, Byline Magazine, Cantaraville, The Cynic Online, Dark Sky Magazine, DOGZPLOT, Hobson’s Choice Zine, Holy Cuspidor, The Journal of Truth and Consequence, Literal Translations, Pear Noir!, Press 1, and Written Word. He has degrees in English from Dartmouth College and the University of Southern California.
Devin Bustin grew up in Canada and at 28, he still dreams about playing professional hockey. Once a day, he hears the color commentators in his head. They praise his goaltending. He writes songs for Asher Lev and on Sundays, he leads evangelicals in worship. Cathleen Calbert is the author of three books of poetry: Lessons in Space (University of Florida Press), Bad Judgment (Sarabande Books), and Sleeping with a Famous Poet (WordTech). Her awards include The Nation Discovery Award, a Pushcart Prize, and the Tucker Thorp Professorship at Rhode Island College, where she directs the Creative Writing Program. Heather Calomese lives in Oak Park, IL. Michael Campos is a senior Creative Writing major at the University of Southern California. He spends his time between Los Angeles and Orange County and teaches creative writing to elementary school students. His favorite authors include Haruki Murakami, Dave Eggers, David Foster Wallace, Aimee Bender, Denis Johnson and Charles Bukowski.
Joe Cappello currently has two pieces online at Humor Press. The first is “The Red Mark” under August/ September 2008 Honorable Mentions (at the bottom of the page), and “Office Clown” under October/November 2008 Honorable mentions (also at the bottom of the page).
Patrick Allen Carberry lives in Chicago and teaches English at Harper College. He is a frequent contributor to the reading series The Encyclopedia Show, has been featured on Chicago Public Radio’s website and was a finalist for the This American Life internship. He hopes he will one day get paid for being a writer. Angela Carlton has also published other stories in Burst Magazine, Every Day Fiction, Pedestal Magazine, Longstoryshort, Pindeldyboz, Storyglossia,The Dead Mule and Coastlines. In addition, she won the Reader's choice award with Pedestal Magazine in 2006. Currently, her story "The Beach Cottage," can be found in the anthology Best of Every Day Fiction 2008. Steve Cartwright has done art for several magazines, newspapers, websites, commercial and governmental clients, books, and scribbles - but mostly drools on - tavern napkins. He also creates art pro bono for several animal rescue groups. He was awarded the 2004 James Award for his cover art for Champagne Shivers. He recently illustrated the Cimarron Review cover, and regularly does art for Skyline magazine, Stories For Children, and many others. Take a gander (or a goose) at his online gallery. Louisa Casanave is openly a schizophrenic, a Neo-pagan, a bisexual and a college drop-out. She is 21 and lives in Brooklyn. She has been previously published by Breadcrumb Scabs, DOGZPLOT, and The Medulla Review. Her forthcoming work will soon appear in Short, Fast and Deadly and The Bloody Bridge Review. She has a poetry blog. Christine Catalano majored in English Lit., then slipped into publishing through the back door of graphic art. Norman Thomas Cooper enjoys telling his friends and family that he is a writer, despite working long hours in real estate property management in Houston, TX. Much to the surprise of those who know him, Norman has had two short stories and a prose poem published online. For more information about Norman, please visit www.normancooper.wordpress.com Jeff Crouch is an internet artist in Grand Prairie, Texas. Google him.
Billy Cryer was raised in Austin, TX. In college he studied English literature and the Romance languages and is now beginning his first year of graduate studies at Indiana University. Derenz lives and works in Scotland; captures moments in poems, scripts and stories - hones word skills by learning from others - particularly love Stephen King's book On Writing. Robyn Detterline is mediocre in several disciplines, except curing hiccups, at which she excels. Find the secret here. Spencer Dew is the author of 'Songs of Insurgency' (Vagabond Press, 2008) and a regular reviewer for 'Rain Taxi Review of Books.' His website is www.spencerdew.com. Matthew Dexter is an American freelance writer living in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. He writes novels, memoirs, poetry, journalism articles, short stories of literary fiction, short stories of narrative nonfiction, and everything else in between. When Matthew is not writing he enjoys life by the ocean; beautiful beaches, breathtaking views, reading, and being inspired. But never candlelit dinners on the beach. He’s afraid of Pirates. E.K. Entrada's fiction has appeared in many print and online journals, like Keyhole, Monkeybicycle, Johnny America, and others. The agony of adolescence makes for great stories, so her fiction often features young protagonists like poor Owen Greene. She's currently working on her second young adult novel. For more: www.erinkentrada.com. David Erlewine's work appears in places like Fiction at Work, Thieves Jargon, SmokeLong Quarterly, and Literal Latte. He edits flash fiction for JMWW when he's not being a bureaucrat, sitting in his office, scheming like Carl. Linda Ferguson’s work has been published in Fickle Muses, Four and Twenty, Saranac Review, Square Lake, Mad Poets Review, Fireweed, and Equal Opportunity Magazine. She also teaches creative writing to school children and wants to be a ballerina when she grows up. Brad Field is 80 years old, unemployed. Most success as a writer with plays: productions in Madison, Chicago, South Bend, Kalamazoo, Ann Arbor, Pittsburgh, New York City...Some short fiction in The Sun, Arachne, Blue Line, Bellingham Review among others. Kevin Fink is a 2009 graduate of the School of the Art Institute's MFA Writing program. He also writes recaps of "Desperate Housewives" and "The City" for the website TVGasm. Brendan Garbee is a writer and painter in Oakland, California. Someone he loves told him this story. Kalman Gayler is originally from Vallejo, California now resides in Santa Ana. After reading (in Spanish) the novelists of the Latin American Boom for 20 years, he read and wrote poetry in English until finding himself in the short shorts. Greg Gerke lives in Buffalo. His work has or will appear in Gargoyle, Rosebud, Fourteen Hills, Night Train, Flash Forward Press 2009 Anthology and others. There’s Something Wrong With Sven, a book of short fiction has been published by Blaze Vox Books. His website is www.greggerke.com. Alan Girling writes bits of short fiction and poetry, mainly. However, he had a play produced once and would be willing to write a novel if the right idea came along. He writes in Richmond, British Columbia.
Jennifer Gravley's work has appeared in Ellipsis, Redivider, Fifth Wednesday Journal, H_ngm_n, and Puerto del Sol, among other journals. Kimberly Grey's work has appeared or is forthcoming in DIAGRAM, Opium Magazine, Dear Sir, The Dirty Napkin, and elsewhere. She currently lives in New York City where she is completing her first book of poems entitled <i>The Opposite of Robot is Light</i>. She blogs here: www.kimberlygrey.blogspot.com. | | H to M Mary Hamilton lives in Chicago where she is an optician and writer-type. Her work has previously appeared in Eclectica, Word Riot, Pindeldyboz, and Rumble. Mary is also the co-founder and co-host of Quickies! a Chicago reading series. Sometimes she blogs and posts pictures of her cat at thedukegoesonreading.blogspot.com.
Chris Lin and Ryan B. Richey have been working on a project for about a year now. They formed a band, Hannis Pannis, where music, videos, art, writings and performances are produced.
Baird Harper holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MA from the University of Montana. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in CutBank, Tin House, Mid-American Review, and the Best New American Voices anthology. He lives in Chicago.
Jim Harrington is a retired librarian embarking on a new journey. His writings have appeared in Apollo's Lyre, Baker's Dozen Literary Review, Bent Pin Quarterly, Long Story Short, MicroHorror, Static Movement and others. His story, “Sons of their Fathers,” was chosen for inclusion in the Bewildering Stories’ 2007 Quarterly Review. You can read more of his stories at www.jimharringtononline.net. Michael Hart resides in Chicago, where he works, writes, sleeps and plays. Whenever possible, he travels. He infrequently blogs about all of it at likeaspecter.blogspot.com. John Harty III is working on a novel about the Navy in Vietnam entitled FOUL WEATHER PARADE. He taught English at various colleges. Lindsay Hunter is a writer living in Chicago. Her work has previously been published in Nerve, Featherproof, MAKE, and Smokelong Quarterly, among others. All that she wants is another baby--he's gone tomorrow, but all that she wants is another baby. Originally from Seoul, Korea, Soyon Im likes to eat kalbi and kimchee for breakfast. She is the writer of Pet Society Anonymous, a serious blog about a silly game. Gary F. Iorio was raised in Brooklyn and Massapequa, NY and works as a real estate attorney. His recent and upcoming publications include a previous issue of Fiction at Work, The East Hampton Star and Front&Centre. He is currently completing a play, being written in collaboration with actress/playwright Moira Keefe. A D Jameson is a writer, video artist, and performer. His fiction has appeared in the Denver Quarterly, Fiction International, Brooklyn Rail, elimae, Lamination Colony, and elsewhere. His prose collection "Amazing Adult Fantasy" is forthcoming from Mutable Sound in 2010. He lives in Chicago where he's currently hard at work on two novels. Jac Jemc writes, sells books and makes monsters in Chicago. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming from Caketrain, Opium, No Colony, Hotel St. George, Sleepingfish, Handsome, Bird Dog, Circumference, Tarpaulin Sky, Zoland, 5_trope, The Denver Quarterly, Prick of the Spindle and elimae. You can view a blog of her recent rejections at jacjemc.wordpress.com. Christopher Matthew Jensen lives in Minneapolis, MN. His writing has appeared in the Star Tribune, City Pages, Vita.mn and Pulse of the Twin Cities. He is also the Creator and Editor in Chief of Go Negativ, a limited edition literary/arts compendium. Rory Jobst is a slow reader with a short attention span, so naturally he gets high on this flash fiction thing. Relatively new to prose, he is also a playwright, actor, poet, film critic, tv host, weekend disc changer, and probably a student again at some point. His performance work has been produced at MMC, Lunar Cabaret, 13th Street Rep, Link's Hall, and the Prop Thtr. Rory received his MFA in writing from SAIC and currently lives in Chicago. Brad Johnson has two chapbooks Void Where Prohibited and The Happiness Theory available at puddinghouse.com. Miriam Polli Katsikis's fiction credits include publication and a fiction award from PEN SYNDICATED FICTION PROJECT. Short stories published in PLAYGIRL magazine, CIMARRON REVIEW, PLAINSWOMAN, PRIMAVERA, ST. ANTHONY’S MESSENGER, EAST HAMPTON STAR, LONG STORY SHORT and other literary magazines. She has also published articles in the New York Times, and Newsday.
Last year she was the winner of the 11th ANNUAL ROBERT FROST POETRY CONTEST. Her poetry has appeared in the EARTHWISE POETRY JOURNAL, RIPPLES, ANEMONE PRESS and other literary magazines. She also won the LIVE POETS Competition, and received an honorable mention in the WORLDS GREATEST SHORT SHORT STORY Competition (She mentions this because there were several thousand entries).
She taught creative writing at Hofstra University’s College of Continuing Education and at Dowling College when she lived on Long Island.
Michael A. Kechula is a retired tech writer. His flash fiction has won first place in seven contests and second and third place in five others. He’s also won Editor’s Choice awards four times. His stories have been published by 107 magazines and anthologies in Australia, Canada, England, and US. He’s authored a book of flash and micro-fiction stories: “A Full Deck of Zombies--61 Speculative Fiction Tales.” eBook available at BooksForABuck and fictionwise. Paperback available at Amazon. Mr. Kemp is 84 years old and is a member of the Chattanooga Writers' Guild, and a frequent contributer of his stories. Sara Kitamura is a Seattle-based photographer. Erik Knutsen is not available to come to the phone right now. Please leave a message with your name and number and he will get back to you as soon as possible. Louise Krug has an MFA from the University of Kansas and will be starting the doctoral program there in the fall. Len Kuntz lives on a lake in rural Washington State with an eagle and three pesky beavers. His short fiction appears in over thirty lit journals and at lenkuntz.blogspot.com Richard Ladson is computer geek, providing consulting services for business and government. Details about his persona, his profession, and his stories can be found here. Karla Lammers works as a corporate lawyer and has written several academic articles. She has recently turned her pen toward literary fiction and is a contributing blogger at www.worldswellwritten.com. She has taken a few writing courses and enjoys applying new techniques to her wordsmithing. She lives in the Midwest with her husband, daughter, labrador and beta fish. Sara Lippmann's work has appeared in Word Riot, Nanoism, Scribblers on the Roof, All Things Girl, Fiction Circus, Slice, Raleigh Quarterly, Fourth Genre, Carve and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn. David Luoma has a BSN from the University of Central Missouri and an MFA from the University of San Francisco. His fiction is forthcoming in SLAB. Conor Robin Madigan contributed to SmokeLong Quarterly, elimae, Storyglossia, and No Posit. Cutthroat, a journal of the arts accepted chapter the first of a novel as finalist for the 2007 Rick Demarinis Award and Conor will appear in The New York Tyrant issue V, and Lamination Colony with more excerpts. He currently listens to Patsy Cline, and The Main Ingredient while composing an album of pop, alt country, R&B, soul/funk, and songs for elevators with his brother Brian Madigan. Diana Magallón is an experimental artist. Tom Mahony is a biological consultant in California with an M.S. degree from Humboldt State University. His fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in dozens of online and print publications, including Surfer Magazine, Flashquake, The Rose & Thorn, Pindeldyboz, In Posse Review, Boston Literary Magazine, 34th Parallel, Diddledog, Foliate Oak, and Decomp. His short fiction collection, Slow Entropy, was published by Thumbscrews Press in 2009. He is looking for a publisher for several novels. Visit him at tommahony.net. Amanda Marbais received her MFA in Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has appeared in Fictionville, Main Street Rag, Curbside Review and elsewhere. She lives in Chicago and teaches at Columbia College and Loyola University. She recently founded Requited Journal (http://www.requitedjournal.com/) for innovative, hybrid and trans-genre writing. David Massengill lives in Seattle, where the issue is the gray and not the rain. His short stories and flash fiction have appeared in StringTown, The Raven Chronicles, 3 A.M. Magazine, Eclectica Magazine, Parva Sed Apta, Tonopah Review, Boston Literary Magazine, and Swell, among other literary magazines. His Web site is www.davidmassengillfiction.com. Fiona Mc Cashin lives in Belfast where she runs her own (unofficial) mobile library. Membership is compulsory, as is a full discussion of each book borrowed. She also collects snowglobes. Terry McKee lives in southern Florida with her husband, three dogs, two horses, six dragonflies and a variety of little lizards. Margaret McMullan has written six novels including In My Mother's House (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's 2003), When I Crossed No-Bob (Houghton Mifflin 2007), Cashay (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009), and theupcoming Sources of Light (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010). Her work has appeared in Glamour, the Chicago Tribune, Southern Accents, the Indianapolis Star, TriQuarterly, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Greensboro Review, The Southern California Anthology, Other Voices, Boulevard, Ploughshares, The Pinch, and The Sun, among others. Steve McPherson is a recovering musician and former boyfriend. His music journalism has appeared in many places, his fiction in fewer. Heather McShane hails from Omaha (not Oklahoma [sometimes people mishear her because she mumbles]), Nebraska, and lives in Chicago. She is in graduate school for writing. She also works for an encyclopedia company where she enjoys imagining conversations between people who are alphabetically on the same page.
Lois McShane is a writer living in the Huntington, NY area. She is working on her first novel, One Season.
Robert Michael was educated in survival: in a tenement childhood with absentee parents; in U.S. Army, serving with the Army Chief of Staff in the Pentagon and in a combat outfit (in Bitburg, Germany, C Battery, 4th Missile Battalion, 6th Artillery Regiment, 7th Army); as an editor in New York City publishing. He trained in chi gung under Master Wu, in tai chi under Dr. Lam, and in ju jitsu and Kempo karate under Sifu Bill Aguiar of the Black Dragon Fighting Society; in fiction under Michael Cunningham, Amy Bloom, Margot Livesey, Maria Flook, Michael Klein at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown; in poetry under Robert Pinsky and Billy Collins. His creative non-fiction saw print in Black Belt Magazine, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Jewish Magazine and his 2006 book HOLY HATRED was nominated for a National Jewish Book Award. His short stories MR. CHRISTIAN will be published in POETICA, and STUDENTS in WORD CATALYST. His poetry has seen print as "God Wrestling" in Exploding Ink (2005); "Moshiach," "All My Directions," "My Soul," in Whispers of Inspiration (2005); "Easter, 1903" and "I don't want to die before I die" in Menorah Review; and "Apostasy" in Journal of Ecumenical Studies.
Rupert Merkin: After leaving Manchester a lifetime ago, Rupert has now settled in London with a quill, two dogs, and a monkey. But sadly no ink. Born and raised in Queens, New York, Matt Mok moved to New Hampshire when someone offered him a wheelbarrow full of cash to work for them. After about a year into a renewed reading habit, he decided to take a crack at writing because he had nothing else to do. Since then, he has started many stories and finished few, but resolves to one day come up with a brilliant, awe-inspiring idea which he will turn into a completed novel. He currently resides in Hampton, NH, where trees and fresh air still scare him. Heather Momyer lives in Chicago where she teaches writing and literature and acts as the Nonfiction Editor of Requited. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in H_NGM_N, Moria, keepgoing, ghoti, A cappella Zoo, Robot Melon, and other journals. Adam Moorad’s writing has recently appeared or is forthcoming in 3 A.M. Magazine, Johnny America, PANK, Storyglossia, and Underground Voices. His story "Star-Spangled Enterprise" is/was a nominee for Best of the Net 2009. He is the author of an ebook, The Nurse and the Patient (Pangur Ban Party, 2009). He lives in Brooklyn and works in publishing. Visit him here. C.G. Morelli was born in Philadelphia and now resides somewhere in the back woods of North Carolina. His work has appeared in Highlights for Children, SI.com, The Love of Sports, and The Reading Eagle/Times. He is the author of a short story collection titled In the Pen (2006). Michael Neal Morris has published online and in print in Borderlands, Lynx Eye, The Concho River Review, Illya’s Honey, The Distillery, Dogwood Tales Magazine, The GW Review, Liberty Hill Poetry Review,The Mid-South Review, Chronogram, Contemporary Rhyme, Haruah, T-Zone, Flash-Flooding, Glassfire Magazine, Mouth Full of Bullets, and Sniplits. He lives with his wife and children just outside the Dallas area, and teaches Eastfield College. Gary Moshimer has stories in Storyglossia, Word Riot, Pank, Smokelong Quarterly, Necessary Fiction, and others. Ira S. Murfin writes words and makes theatre in Chicago and, occasionally, elsewhere. Christina Murphy lives and writes in a 100 year-old house along the Ohio River. Her work has been published in Modern Short Stories, Blue Fifth Review, Counterexample Poetics, Crescent Review, Greensboro Review, Mirror Dance, Descant, and Storyscape, among others, and has received an Editor’s Choice Award and Special Mention for a Pushcart Prize. | | N to Z Jasmine Neosh's fiction and poetry has appeared in THE2NDHAND, The Story Week Reader, and the One Night Only Magazine, among others. She currently lives and works in Chicago. Brendan O’Brien writes from Wisconsin. He realized the power of artistic expression at the age of 11 on a family vacation when his aunt, on a whim, and with no previous gangster rap experience, picked up his walkman, put on the big foam earphones and heard Naughty By Nature sing about trigger hiccups. His fiction has appeared in a variety of places including Storyglossia and Dogzplot. You can read more of his work at http://huntnpeckhero.blogspot.com/. Jenny Ortiz is a 22 year old writer living in New York, reading massive amounts of Haruki Murakami. She dreams of one day visiting New Orleans and owning a porch. Jenny Ortiz is a 22 year old writer who awaits with joyous anticipation for Tekken 6 to be released for the XBOX 360. In her spare time she teaches intro to creative writing and feeds her cat, Melissa. Jenny Ortiz is a 22 year old writer who likes to use twitter as a way to spread the awesomeness of Korean drama and her new found love for swamp pop, specifically CC Adcock. When she isn't working or writing, she is using the local library's wi-fi to watch True Blood or reading Marguerite Duras. Heather Palmer writes to fuse reality in word. She uses minimal syntax in short fiction form to “drop” readers into character. Her language minces guttural, and often succinct, dialogue, because she prefers action and motive to direct character, with dialogue as aftermath. She studies for her Masters of Fine Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and has published in elimae, No Posit, Unlikely Stories, and Lark Magazine. Hannah Pass has a BA in English from University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. She lives and writes in Portland, Oregon, and her work has appeared in Poor Claudia and Storyglossia among others. She has a website. Theresa Ann Pecoraro lives in her Uncle's house in Long Beach Island, NJ. Works at the movie theater. And pretends she is retired at the age 23.
Ryan Pendell is currently in the MFA in Writing program at the Art Institute of Chicago. He has just published his first chapbook, Say To These Bones, Live!, which is available through Ice Box Press. Cassidy currently lives in Connecticut and has had works accepted for publication by Pequin, Clockwise Cat and Static Movement. Caroline Picard is the Founding Director of The Green Lantern Gallery & Press, and a Co-Editor for the literary podcast & reading series The Parlor. Her writing has been published in a handful of publications including the Philadelphia Independent, NewCity, Proximity Magazine, AREA Chicago and she has a forthcoming essay in Chicago ArtJournal Review.
Kenneth Pobo has a new book of poems out from WordTech Press called Glass Garden. Recent fiction by him can be read at Galleon (print journal) or Bent Pin (online).
Christof Pryor is a writer, photographer, and filmmaker who believes in the United States, lovely blonde women, and walking at night for escapism. He is currently a creative writing student at the University of Southern California. Dan Purdue lives approximately in the middle of England and writes fiction in various lengths. He is currently some way short of what could be described as a mildly impressive body of work, but has managed to get a few short stories chosen for publication online and in print. He will probably get around to setting up a blog of some kind sooner or later. Michael Ramsburg is currently working on a collection of short stories called "Tiles". He and his wife live in London.
Francis Raven is a graduate student in philosophy at Temple University. His books include 5-Haifun: Of Being Divisible (Blue Lion Books, 2008), Shifting the Question More Complicated (Otoliths, 2007), Taste: Gastronomic Poems (Blazevox 2005) and the novel, Inverted Curvatures (Spuyten Duyvil, 2005).
Ryan B. Richey stays in Chicago unleashing text, paintings and songs with Hannis Pannis.
J. D. Riso's fiction and travel writing have appeared in numerous publications, including Red Fez, Frostwriting, The Foliate Oak, and Identity Theory. Her first novel, Blue (Murphy's Law Press), was published in 2006. She was last seen traveling through Eastern Europe in the company of a Frenchman and the March Hare.
Frank Roger was born in 1957 in Ghent, Belgium. His first story appeared in 1975. Since then his stories appear in an increasing number of languages in all sorts of magazines, anthologies and other venues, and since 2000, story collections are published, also in various languages. Apart from fiction, he also produces collages and graphic work in a surrealist and satirical tradition. By now he has more than 650 short story publications (including a few short novels) to his credit in 27 languages. Matt Rosen was born in Upstate New York. He is currently lost in the woods somewhere in Southern California. He hopes to find his way out soon.
A recent graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s MFA Creative Writing program, Sarah Terez Rosenblum works as an actor, figure model, and barista, and also writes theatre reviews for Centerstage.com, an online division of the Chicago Sun Times. She’s at work on her first novel which will not have anything to do with abused rabbits.
Barnali Saha is self-taught creative writer from Kolkata, India. Currently she lives in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. She enjoys writing short stories, travelogues and articles on social issues. Her works have been published in various newspapers and magazines in India and also in the United States. Evan Schaeffer's fiction and satire have appeared in numerous publications, including Artful Dodge, Runner's World, and the Chicago Tribune. He lives in St. Louis.
Wayne Scheer has been locked in a room with his computer and turtle since his retirement. (Wayne's, not the turtle's.) To keep from going back to work, he's published hundreds of short stories, essays and poems, including, Revealing Moments, a collection of twenty-four flash stories, available here. He's been nominated for four Pushcart Prizes and a Best of the Net. Wayne can be contacted at wvscheer@aol.com. Anthony Schneider's fiction has appeared in McSweeney's, BoldType, The Believer, The Encyclopedia of Exes and Mid-American Review, among others. He lives in New York City. He likes summer.
Robert Scotellaro's flash and micro fictions has appeared in numerous literary journals, including: Fiction at Work, Fast Forward (A Collection of Flash Fiction), Tuesday Shorts, Willows Wept Review, Houston Literary Review, Ghoti, Dogzplot, LITSNACK, mud luscious, Storyscape, Battered Suitcase, Boston Literary Magazine, and others. He is the author of several literary books and chapbooks, and the recipient of Zone 3’s Rainmaker Award in Poetry. He currently lives with his wife in California.
Tom Sheehan’s latest books are Brief Cases, Short Spans, November 2008 from Press 53 of NC; From the Quickening, January 2009 from Pocol Press of VA; a proposal for a collection of cowboy stories, Where the Cowboys Ride Forever, is in the hands of a western publisher. His work is currently in or coming in Ocean Magazine, Perigee, Rope and Wire Magazine, Qarrtsiluni, Green Silk Journal, Halfway down the Stairs, Ad Hoc Monadnock, Hawk & Whippoorwill, Eden Waters Press, Milspeak Memo, Milspeak Mentoring, Ensorcelled, Canopic Jar, SFWP, Eskimo Pie, Lyrical Ballads, Lock Raven Review, Indite Circle, Northville Review, Pine Tree Mysteries, and in the books coming from Press 53, Home of the Brave, Stories in Uniform, and Mentoring Anthology. He has 10 Pushcart nominations, a Noted Story of 2007 nomination, the Georges Simenon Award, and will be included in the Dzanc Best of the Web Anthology for 2009. Kelly Stapleton lives in Denton, Texas. She has no fancy writing credits to her name but is working very hard to change that. Teresa Stenson is 28 and lives in the north of England. She's had short stories published in a variety of anthologies and journals, and blogs here. Amy Stern lives in Chicago and works in California. Ok, technically she works in her apartment in Chicago for people in California which (lucky for her) means she rarely has to put on real clothes. She draws and writes comics and would really like to be better at Frisbee. Phillip Sterling's fiction has appeared in Silent Voices, Short Story, The Fiction Review, and The MacGuffin, among others. He is the founding coordinator of the Literature In Person Reading Series at Ferris State University, where he has taught for many years. Jack Swenson is a scribbler and teacher now living in the great state of California. He has stories in Ghoti, Staccato, Boston Literary Magazine, Fiction at Work, & Camroc Press Review. His story “Estranged” has been accepted by Wigleaf. Lehua M. Taitano attends the University of Montana, where she is a Master of Fine Arts candidate in the creative writing program. She was born in Yigo, Guam, United States. She has a short story forthcoming in Versal Magazine. Jeanette Testu is a fifth generation Seattle-ite which may have more to do with being lazy and unimaginative than kayaking and mountain-climbing. Knows how to follow directions and a sucker for ugly animals. Parker Tettleton is an English major at Kennesaw State University. His work is featured in or forthcoming from Short, Fast, and Deadly, Right Hand Pointing, The Toucan and > kill author, among others. His chapbook Same Opposite was recently published by Thunderclap Press. He blogs. Alex Thornber is living, studying and writing in London, England. He keeps a blog at www.alexthornber.webs.com. Janet Thorning’s work has been published in numerous literary magazines both online and in print. Recent publications include The Fevered Spring Anthology, The Frequent & Vigorous Quarterly, and The League of Laboring Poets. Upcoming publications include, The Battered Suitcase, Faraway Journal, and ocean diamond. She is currently working on her first novel. Emma Törzs was raised in Massachusetts, is now living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and will soon be moving to Missoula, Montana, where she will pursue her MFA in fiction from the University of Montana. After that perhaps she will move to a place that does not begin with M, but only time will tell. Nathaniel Tower writes fiction and teaches English. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Cantaraville, Mud Luscious, Bottom of the World, Inscribed, Skive, Toasted Cheese and many others. He is also the founding editor of the online literary magazine, Bartleby Snopes (www.bartlebysnopes.com). He currently lives in St. Louis, MO with his wife. Dana C. Verdino initially went to school for business but went crazy in her cubicle, so then she got an M.A. in Education, and now works as an ESL teacher. Her storieshave appeared in Boston Literary Magazine, Postcard Shorts, and Chemistry and Numbers 2. Aside from teaching, cooking, and watching horror movies with her husband in South Carolina, Dana is currently working on a memoir. The author works with bugs he cannot see. Ajay Vishwanathan’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Times of India, Bartleby Snopes, The Houston Literary Review, Boston Literary Magazine, Cantaraville, Mid-Day, Counterexample Poetics, Bewildering Stories, Khabar, The Afternoon Despatch & Courier, Six Sentences, Static Movement, Short Humour Site, and Little India. Craig Wallwork lives in West Yorkshire, England. You can find his stories at Gold Dust Magazine, Sideshow Fables,Cherry Bleeds, Black Lantern Publishing, Troubadour 21, Colored Chalk, Theives Jargon, Laura Hird, Beat The Dust, The Beat, and Nefarious Muse. He's currently considering learning the ukulele. Maureen O'Leary Wanket is a teacher and writer living in Sacramento with her husband and two daughters. Her fiction also appears in Issue 11 of Esopus magazine. Bill West lives in Shropshire, England. He is a member of the Shrewsbury Scribblers Writers' Group, I*D Books Writers' Group and a number of on-line Writers' Communities. His work has appeared in FlashQuake, Foliate Oak, Heavy Glow, Boston Literary Magazine, Every Day Fiction, Right Hand Pointing, Shine and other places.
Dawn West is a young writer living in Ohio. Her work has appeared in Four and Twenty. Phoebe Wilcox is a lifelong resident of Eastern Pennsylvania. The first chapter of her novel, Angels Carry the Sun, has been published in “Wild River Review,” and an excerpt from a second novel-in-progress, The Use of Flower Symbolism in Feminist Art and Literature, has been published in “Wild Violet.” Her story, “Carp with Water in Their Ears,” published in “River Poets Journal” has been nominated for this year’s Pushcart Prize and recent poetry may be found in “Blue Collar Review,” “Word Riot,” and in a forthcoming River Poets chapbook. She has also been the recipient of a James Michener Scholarship award. Jeff Wood is a writer currently living in Pueblo, Colorado. He's been previously published in Java Journal, New York Press, Boston Phoenix, Bellowing Ark, Grey Rock Review and Six Sentences. More of his writing can be found at The Oort Cloud (http://the-oort-cloud.blogspot.com/) Elizabeth Wylder's writing credits include poetry and flash fiction in California Quarterly, SLAB, Poetry Motel, and elsewhere. In the past, she has painted children to look like Dalmatians at Walt Disney World, delivered hot dogs, and taught a college course on Clint Eastwood Movies. She currently lives in Chicago. Bonnie Yarry was born in the South Bronx and has kept a diary every night for half a century. John Zackel lives and teaches in Portland, Oregon. His work has appeared in The Oyez Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Quick Fiction, and others. He is currently working on a novel. | |