Quick Fiction: Authors

James Tadd Adcox recently completed his MFA in fiction at Purdue University, where he was also the fiction editor for Sycamore Review. He currently lives in Chicago. [In issues 12]

Kim Addonizio’s books include four poetry collections, most recently What Is This Thing Called Love. She has been a National Book Award finalist as well as a recipient of NEA and Guggenheim fellowships. Her first novel, Little Beauties, was published by Simon & Schuster. She lives in Oakland, California, and online at http://kimaddonizio.com/. [In issues 9]

Kathleen Aguero is the author of two volumes of poetry, The Real Weather (Hanging Loose Press) and Thirsty Day (Alice James Books), and co-editor of three collections of multi-cultural literature, A Gift of Tongues, An Ear to the Ground, and Daily Fare. She is an Associate Professor of English at Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. [In issues 2]

Aaron Akira was born in Philadelphia. He is or was a waiter, writer, bartender, art critic, personal assistant, retail clerk, model, and music journalist. By now he lives in Los Angeles. [In issues 10]

Mike Alber is currently finishing up his master’s degree from Eastern Michigan University and his Nintendo Wii bowling average is closing in on 200. Though, in fairness, you should know things weren’t always so idyllic. He is a medical-school dropout; he’s had his heart broken before; he has driven over an hour to eat at a Chick-fil-A. If you’re interested in such things, he has a story due out in spring 2007 from Cloverfield Press. [In issues 11]

Sue Allison was a reporter for Life magazine and the author of a book on the Bloomsbury Group. A graduate of McGill University and Vermont College, she has had short shorts published in Harvard Review, Berkeley Fiction Review, Southeast Review, Quarterly West, Fourth Genre, River Teeth, Gulf Coast, and other journals. [In issues 5, 9]

Steve Almond is the author of two story collections, My Life in Heavy Metal (2003) and The Evil B.B. Chow (2006). He lives and rocks in Somerville, Massachusetts. [In issues 4, 5, 6, 10]

Jack Anderson, poet, prose writer, and dance critic, reads his work throughout the New York City area and was one of the poets who celebrated Poetry Month in April by giving readings in the historic subway cars of the New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn. [In issues 3, 4, 7, 8, 13]

Tom Annese grew up in Los Angeles, studied English at Humboldt State, and now lives in San Francisco, where he does habitat restoration for the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department. This is his first work of fiction in print. [In issues 5]

Édgar Omar Avilés was born in Morelia, Michoacán, in 1980. He is the author of La noche es luz de un sol negro (2007). His stories have appeared in various literary journals and anthologies, including the 2004 and 2005 editions of Los mejores cuentos mexicanos (The Best Mexican Short Stories). In the United States, translations of his stories have appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly, Monkeybicycle, Sleepingfish, Quay, and elsewhere. [In issues 13]

Chris Bachelder is the author of the novels U.S.!, Bear v. Shark, and Lessons in Virtual Tour Photography. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. [In issues 12]

Ed Barrett is the author of Common Preludes (Groundwater Press) and Sheepshead Bay (Zoland Books). He has also authored four chapbooks of poetry, including Watteau Sky (Quale Press). He has produced an off-off-Broadway play, and published several texts on new media with the MIT Press. Presently, he teaches experimental narrative fiction, and game design at MIT. [In issues 1]

David Barringer has written a novel, Johnny Red, and a book of design criticism, American Mutt Barks in the Yard. His latest book is Twisted Fun. Find him at www.davidbarringer.com. [In issues 3, 4, 6, 7, 11]

Beth Bayley graduated from Emerson College with a BFA in Writing, and is now working on a collection of short stories about troublemakers in Central Massachusetts. She is the head copyeditor for Swingset Magazine, and co-founder and contributor to both roundonline.com and tapiocaproductions.com. [In issues 1]

Megan Bedford is currently enrolled in Emerson College’s MFA program. In addition to her studies she moonlights as a waitress and freelance writer. Despite her obsession with Italy, she finds Somerville, Massachusetts a very romantic place to live. [In issues 11]

Joel Best lives in upstate New York with his wife and son, Debra and Noah. His work has appeared in such publications as Quick Fiction, Strange Horizons, Fictitious Force, and Pindeldyboz. More information can be found at http://freewebs.com/jabest123/. [In issues 4, 6, 8, 9]

Ryan Blacketter’s stories have appeared in Image, Alaska Quarterly Review, Clackamas Literary Review, and Other Voices. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he is a recipient of a Tennessee Williams Scholarship, a literary grant from Oregon Regional Arts, and a prison teaching grant from Idaho Humanities Council. [In issues 13]

Elise Blackwell is the author of Hunger, picked by the Los Angeles Times as a best book of 2003, and two novels forthcoming in 2007: The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish and Grub. Her stories have appeared in Witness, Seed, Global City Review, and elsewhere. [In issues 10]

David Booth currently teaches creative writing at the University of San Francisco. His fiction has appeared in The Missouri Review; his poetry, in Transfer and 14 Hills. A story of his will appear in Sudden Stories: A Mammoth Anthology of Miniscule Fiction. His novel, The Itinerants, is forthcoming. [In issues 2]

John Bradley is the author of Add Musk Here, a collection of parables published by Pavement Saw Press. His prose poems have appeared in the Prose Poem: An International Journal, Key Satch(el), Switched-on Gutenberg, and the American Poetry Review. He teaches writing at Northern Illinois University. [In issues 2, 5, 9]

Lisa K. Buchanan’s fiction has appeared in Mademoiselle, Cosmopolitan, Descant, SmokeLong Quarterly, several anthologies, and on public radio. Honors include finalist awards from Glimmer Train and the Moment-Karma Foundation. She holds an MFA from Mills College and lives in San Francisco. [In issues 9]

Aaron Burch edits a small lit journal and, sometimes, writes small fictions. He doesn’t really like, nor is he very good at, talking about himself. [In issues 10, 11, 13]

Brenna Burns’s short prose has appeared in the GW Review, Inkpot, and the zine Bailliwik, and is forthcoming in Orchid. She has an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a B.A. in zoology from the University of Montana. She lives in New Haven, Connecticut, with her husband James. [In issues 8]

Leslie Busler, originally from Texas, received her MFA at Emerson College in Boston, where she still lives. Her work has been published in the online edition of Pindeldyboz. Quick Fiction, issue four is her first print publication. [In issues 4]

Blake Butler’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Caketrain, Diagram, and Sleepingfish, among others. He was short-listed in Best American Nonrequired Reading of 2005. His website is deadwinter.com and he blogs at blakebutler.blogspot.com. [In issues 12]

Robin Caine has lived in Manhattan for the past six years and is currently attending graduate school at the University of South Carolina. Her publications include a short story on OpiumMagazine.com, an essay for Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, and a podcast for Bound Off, a monthly literary audio magazine. [In issues 11]

Kenneth Calhoun has recently published fiction in St. Petersburg Review, Salt Hill, and Ballyhoo Stories’ 50 States Project. He presently lives in North Carolina, where he is a professor of Interactive Media at Elon University. His novel about the Rebel Yell will be completed in the fall of 2007. [In issues 5, 12]

Kate Hill Cantrill’s writing has most recently appeared in Good Foot, Pindeldyboz, Drunken Boat, and Swink (online edition), and is forthcoming from Oyster Boy Review, and Wet Ink. She lives in Austin, Texas, where she teaches for the extension department of the University of Texas. She is writing a novel. [In issues 6, 9]

Ron Carlson is the author of eight books of fiction, most recently his selected stories, A Kind of Flying (2003), the novel The Speed of Light (2003), and the story collection At the Jim Bridger (2003). His short stories have appeared in esquire, Harper’s, The New Yorker, Gentlemen’s Quarterly, Epoch, The North American Review, and other journals, as well as The Best American Short Stories, The O’Henry Prize series, The Pushcart Prize anthology, The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, and dozens of other anthologies. He is foundation professor and regents’ professor of English at Arizona State University. Among his awards area National Endowment of the Arts fellowship in fiction, the Cohen Prize at Ploughshares, and a National Society of Arts and Letters Literature Award. [In issues 10]

Paula Carter is currently pursuing her MFA in fiction at Indiana University, where she recently completed a one-year term as fiction editor for the Indiana Review. She lives in a small house with her large cat, Gertrude. [In issues 10]

Mary Beth Caschetta is a recipient of the Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award. Her stories have appeared in Small Spiral Notebook (forthcoming), Mississippi Review, Seattle Review, and Bloom, among others. She is the author of a book of stories Ms. Magazine called “a spectacular collection . . . of contemporary American life.” [In issues 11]

Tania Casselle’s fiction has appeared in New York Stories, South Dakota Review, The Bitter Oleander, Carve Magazine, Cadenza, Wild Strawberries, Six Little Things, Yankee Pot Roast, the Salt River Review, Insolent Rudder, the anthology Harlot Red, and elsewhere. [In issues 12]

Christopher Chambers lives in New Orleans. His work’s appeared recently or is forthcoming in Washington Square, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Diagram, Quarter After Eight, Epoch, Lit, The Styles, and Exquisite Corpse, and in the anthologies French Quarter Fiction and Best American Mystery Stories of 2003. He is currently working on an old shotgun house. [In issues 4]

Chip Cheek will earn his MFA from Emerson College in May 2007. He is editor in chief of the literary journal Redivider and a fiction reader for Ploughshares. By day he works as an editorial assistant on chemistry and psychology textbooks. He grew up in Houston, Texas. [In issues 10]

Kim Chinquee’s stories have been published in over a hundred places including Noon, Denver Quarterly, Conjunctions, Fiction International, Quick Fiction, Notre Dame Review, Arkansas Review, Mississippi Review, and Pushcart Prize XXXI: Best of the Small Presses. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at Central Michigan University. [In issues 6, 7, 9, 12, 13]

Amy L. Clark is an assistant professor of college composition at Pine Manor College. Her work has appeared in literary journals and anthologies, and her collection Wanting is now available as part of A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness (Rose Metal Press). Her online home is www.overtimewriting.com. Amy is still planning to be an astronaut when she grows up. [In issues 9, 13]

Brian Clements is the author of a collection of poems, Essays Against Ruin (Texas Review Press, 1997), editor of Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics, and coordinator of the new MFA program in professional writing at Western Connecticut State University. [In issues 6]

Myfanwy Collins has work published or forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, Cream City Review, Agni, Swivel, The Jabberwock Review, Saranac Review, Monkeybicycle, Mississippi Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, and other venues. Please visit her at www.myfanwycollins.com. [In issues 13]

“House,” in issue five of Quick Fiction, is an extension to Kirby Congdon’s collection, Novels: Prose-Poems of People. Old Mystic, Connecticut. Sixty-five Years Ago, but was written too late for inclusion in it. A new area for him has been teaching a brief seminar, “Breaking Barriers,” for writers who have any kind of blockage in advancing their ideas or skills. [In issues 2, 3, 4, 5]

Peter Conners is editing PP/FF: An Anthology (Starcherone Books, forthcoming 2006). He dedicates his story “Valentine,” in issue seven, to his wife, Karen, and two children, Whitman and Max. [In issues 2, 7]

Colleen Curran’s fiction has appeared in Jane, Blackbird and The Dictionary of Failed Relationships (Three Rivers Press). Her first novel, We are Young and Out for Glory, is forthcoming from Vintage. [In issues 5]

Michael Czyzniejewski grew up in Chicago and now teaches at Bowling Green State University, where he serves as editor in chief of Mid-American Review. His stories have recently appeared or are forthcoming in American Short Fiction, Another Chicago Magazine, Other Voices, and Pushcart Prize XXXI. [In issues 7, 9, 11]

Robin A. Dare lives in Philadelphia with her three ninnyhammers: two Greyhounds and one large feline. She is currently working on her MFA at Rosemont College. Her poems have appeared in Diagram (No. 4.3) and are forthcoming in Mid-American Review, Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics, and La Petite Zine. [In issues 6]

Lydia Davis is the author of a novel and three collections of short fiction. Her story, "A Different Man" will appear in the forthcoming short story collection, A Strange Impulse, to be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in May 2007. Her most recent translation, "Swann’s Way" by Marcel Proust, was awarded the French-American Foundation’s Translation Prize for 2003. [In issues 10]

Cherie Hunter Day lives in San Diego, California. Her prose poems and flash fiction have been published in Mississippi Review, Mid-American Review, and Quick Fiction (no. 10). [In issues 10, 12]

Mark DeCarteret’s poetry has appeared in numerous reviews including Agni, Chicago Review, Conduit, and Mudlark, and in anthologies such as American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon, 2000) and Thus Spake the Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader 1988–1998 (Black Sparrow Press, 1999). His most recent chapbook is The Great Apology (Oyster River Press, 2001). [In issues 6]

In past lives, Allison deFreese has been a foreign correspondent, a uniprof, and Yule Feast wench. She lives with her dearly beloved in Portland, Oregon. [In issues 7]

Stephen Dixon has three new books forthcoming from Melville House Publishing: two novels, Old Friends (2004) and Phone Rings (2005); and a collection, Selected Uncollected Stories (2005), which includes his story in this issue, “Dream.” Among his novels are Frog and Interstate, which were both finalists for the National Book Award. Other awards include two NEA fellowships, a Guggenheim fellowship, the O. Henry Prize, the Pushcart Prize, and the Paris Review John Train Humor Award. [In issues 1, 2, 3, 6]

William Donnelly’s fiction has appeared in Jump!, a quarterly at the College of William and Mary, and he was recently a finalist in the 2005 Many Mountains Moving flash-fiction contest. He lives, works, and writes in Gainesville, Florida. [In issues 9]

Sean Thomas Dougherty’s sixth book is Nightshift Belonging to Lorca (Mammoth Books, 2004). He is the recipient of a 2004 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellowship for literature and is Assistant Director of the BFA Program in Creative Writing at Penn State Erie. [In issues 5]

Chanel Dubofsky is a New Englander by birth and temperament currently living in Oberlin, Ohio. Her poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction has been published or is forthcoming in Zeek, Big Toe Review, HazMat, the Queens College Journal of Jewish Studies, and by the Hadassah Research Institute on Jewish Women at Brandeis University. [In issues 6]

Blaze Dzikowski was born in 1976 to a member of a girl band and a lyric writer. He has published two novels and a volume of short stories in Polish. Most of his work deals with magical realism, although recently he has tried to steer into “realism so intense it doesn’t feel real anymore.” The “Sharkbait” cycle—to which “Driving through the Night” belongs—is a result of this endeavor. [In issues 13]

Erika Eckart lives in Chicago, with her husband, where she works as a public-high-school teacher. Her first poem in print was featured in Double Room: A Journal of Prose Poetry and Flash Fiction. This is her second published poem. She is currently working on a book of prose poems tentatively titled More Matter, Less Art. [In issues 12]

Pia Z. Ehrhardt lives in New Orleans with her husband and son. Her stories have appeared in McSweeney’s, Mississippi Review, and Narrative Magazine, and have been anthologized in Stories from the Blue Moon Café V and New Sudden Fiction: Short-Shorts from America and Beyond (2007). Her short story collection, Famous Fathers, will be published by MacAdam/Cage in the spring of 2007. She is the recipient of the 2005 Narrative Prize. [In issues 4, 5, 10]

Elizabeth Ellen’s collection of short stories, Before You She Was a Pitbull, will be published by Future Tense in December 2006. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with her daughter Andromeda. [In issues 10]

There is a John Ellingsworth who lives in Philadelphia, goes canoeing, likes to hike, takes excellent photos, has a dog called Max, and keeps a blog (http://john.ellingsworth.org/). This is a different John Ellingsworth. [In issues 9]

Christen Enos lives and teaches in Boston. Raised in Massachusetts, she studied film as an undergraduate at New York University and received her MFA in creative writing from Emerson College. She has work forthcoming from The Portland Review and The New Orleans Review. [In issues 13]

Laura Esckelson is currently pursuing a master’s in reading. Her poetry has appeared in Chelsea, Beloit Poetry Journal, Paragraph, Many Mountains Moving, and is forthcoming in Quarter After Eight. “Latex,” published for the first time in Quick Fiction, was a finalist in Mid-American Review’s 2005 Fineline competition. [In issues 12]

Jonathan Evison’s stories have appeared in Orchid, Knock, StringTown, and The Wandering Hermit Review. He is formerly the writer, producer, and host of Outpatient Radio’s award winning syndicated comedy hour, Shaken, Not Stirred. He lives in western Washington. To view advance praise for his novel, All About Lulu, visit http://jonathanevison.com/. [In issues 9]

Kathy Fish’s stories have appeared or will appear in Night Train, Smokelong Quarterly, Staccato, Elimae, Cranky, Wild Strawberries, FRiGG, Ghoti, Ink Pot, Noö Journal, Temenos, Hobart, Alice Blue, N.O.L.A. Spleen, Duck and Herring Co.’s Pocket Field Guide, Juked, and elsewhere. Her story "Shoebox" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. [In issues 10]

Sherrie Flick’s work has appeared in North American Review, Quarterly West, Northwest Review, Manoa, Puerto del Sol, Prairie Schooner, Quarter After Eight, and Black Warrior Review. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [In issues 2]

Katie Flynn lives in San Francisco and teaches writing and geography at Menlo College. Her fiction has appeared in The Big Ugly Review, Cranky Literary Journal, Pindeldyboz, and Rhapsoidia, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. [In issues 10]

Brian Foley spends his days curating author events as at a local bookstore in Boston. By night, he catalogs alternate histories of town halls and fills out paperwork for his license to play with words. His work has appeared in Night Train, Otolithes, Skyscraper, Chunklet, and Swingset Magazine. [In issues 12]

Angela Jane Fountas writes, teaches, and runs WriteHabit.org. She is also a volunteer at 826 Seattle. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Sentence, Elimae, Redivider, Diagram, and elsewhere. She recently received grants from 4Culture and the City of Seattle and earned her MFA in creative writing from the University of Alabama. [In issues 11]

With the reluctant acceptance of his wife, James Fowler does nothing but write, teach, and occasionally edit poetry. He is a retired Navy senior chief, so they do not starve. They live in Charlestown, New Hampshire. His poems and flash fiction have appeared widely. [In issues 9]

D. Foy’s work has appeared in venues such as Kitchen Sink, Trampoline House, and Berkeley Fiction Review, among others. An excerpt from the middle of his novel, Absolutely Golden, can be read in the latest edition of Evergreen Review, and he has work forthcoming in the Georgia Review. [In issues 11]

Stephen Frech has earned degrees from Northwestern University, Washington University in St. Louis, and the University of Cincinnati. He has published two volumes of poetry: Toward Evening and the Day Far Spent and If Not for These Wrinkles of Darkness. He is founder and editor of Oneiros Press, a publisher of award-winning letterpress poetry broadsides. [In issues 11]

Seth Fried’s stories have appeared in McSweeney’s, the Missouri Review, New Orleans Review, and Ninth Letter. He also serves as an assistant editor at Mid-American Review. [In issues 12]

Elisabeth Frost’s work has appeared in Barrow Street, Boulevard, Denver Quarterly, The Journal, New England Review, Poetry, The Yale Review, and other periodicals. She has been a fellow at the Bellagio Center, the MacDowell Colony, and elsewhere. The author of The Femenist Avant- Garde in American Poetry (Iowa, 2003), she is an associate professor of English at Fordham University. [In issues 4]

Avital Gad-Cykman lives and writes in Brazil. Her work has been published in Michigan Quarterly Review, Glimmer Train, and McSweeney’s among other magazines as well as in various anthologies. She has completed her first novel. [In issues 13]

Scott Garson lives in one of the nation’s many Columbias. His short work has appeared in Juked, Elimae, Ghoti, Storyglossia, Pequin, Quick Fiction, and others. [In issues 9, 12]

David Gianatasio’s work has appeared in the print or online editions of McSweeney’s, The Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, Pindeldyboz, Eyeshot, Uber, Haypenny, Opium Magazine, Dezmin, and many others. [In issues 3]

Jamie Granger grew up on Montserrat, West Indies. His work appeared in Apalachee Quarterly, Black Warrior Review, Exquisite Corpse, and Negative Capability among others, and has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered. [In issues 3]

Arielle Greenberg is the author of Given (Verse, 2002) and the chapbook Fa(r)ther Down: Songs from the Allergy Trials (New Michigan, 2003), the bluegrass story of a real-life murder. She teaches in the poetry program at Columbia College in Chicago. [In issues 4]

James Grinwis’s work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review, Conjunctions, First Intensity, Fugue, Quarterly West, and previously in Quick Fiction. He recently helped launch Bateau, a new literary journal. [In issues 3, 4, 9, 13]

Johnny Gunn’s work has appeared in numerous publications, including Poetry Motel. Now retired, during his long career in journalism he was a reporter, editor, and publisher of several publications. "The Quick Brown Fox, an Update" won honorable mention in ByLine Magazine’s Flash Fiction contest. [In issues 2]

Jen Heller received a BFA in writing, literature, and publishing from Emerson College in Boston and currently lives in San Antonio. She has been published in previous issues of Quick Fiction and in Round, the Emerson Review, and Straight Magazine. [In issues 1, 3, 6]

Bob Heman’s prose poems have appeared in numerous publications, including Sentence, Paragraph, the Prose Poem: An International Journal, First Intensity, Artful Dodge, Caliban, and Key Satch(el), and have been translated into Arabic, Spanish, and Hungarian. He currently lives in Brooklyn. [In issues 8]

E. Ward Herlands is a permanent judge for the Pratt College and University Poetry Prize cosponsored by The Academy of American Poets. His work is featured in McGraw-Hill’s Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry, Drama and the Essay. Other works have appeared in The New York Times and Prairie Schooner. [In issues 3]

Darren Higgins’s stories have appeared in The American Journal of Print, Pindeldyboz, Exquisite Corpse, Eyeshot, and in the anthology The Rendezvous Reader: Northwest Writing. He won the 2001 Richard Hugo House Writing Competition. [In issues 3]

Keith Hood’s fiction has appeared in Blue Mesa Review and his photography has appeared in Ontario Review. He is executive editor of Orchid, a fiction journal (http://orchidlit.org/). He also serves on the board of directors of 826michigan, a nonprofit writing program for students ages six to eighteen (http://826michigan.org/). [In issues 10]

Thomas Hopkins admits that he cannot resist vibrating, fuzzy children's books. They're so cute! When the future hits you upside the head, who among us is able to say, "Hey, future, quit doing that"? Not Thomas Hopkins. See more of how he welcomes this vibrating, fuzzy new world at tomhop.com. [In issues 8]

Shannon Huffman will earn her MFA in creative writing from Emerson College this spring. She will have a story in the forthcoming issue of Redivider. She has earned money writing obituaries, delivering pizza, and selling industrial-strength cleaner door to door. She lives in Ossipee, New Hampshire, with her husband Bill. [In issues 9]

Yuka Igarashi is earning an MFA in fiction from Columbia University, where she also teaches undergraduate academic writing. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. [In issues 13]

Steve Jones, a previous contributor, is a tree farmer and director of the Oregon Writing Project at Willamette University Summer Institute, where teachers joyfully teach teachers. His stories and poems have appeared in Oregon English Journal, Oregon State Poetry Association’s Verse Weavers, Willamette Journal of Liberal Arts, Eloquent Umbrella, The Oregonian, and Northwest Review. [In issues 2, 5, 6, 11]

Dan Kaplan’s work appears recently or is forthcoming in Indiana Review, Third Coast, Pool, the National Poetry Review, Barrow Street, West Branch, and elsewhere. He is Editor of Black Warrior Review. [In issues 2, 4, 5]

Tsipi Keller is a novelist and translator. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Award, the recipient of CAPS and NYFA awards in fiction, and the author, most recently, of the novels Jackpot (2004) and Retelling (2006), both published by Spuyten Duyvil. [In issues 11]

Elizabeth Koch has stories published in the New York Observer, New York Press, Chicago Sun-Times, Columbia Journalism Review, Elle, and Orchid. Her work has appeared online at Yankee Pot Roast, Small Spiral Notebook, Reason, Smith, Hobart, and Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood. She currently lives in San Francisco and is executive editor of Opium. [In issues 11]

Andrew Krewer was born in rural Georgia, and has attended New York University and Interlochen Arts Academy. His work has recently appeared in Hanging Loose and The Interlochen Review. He is currently a student at Oberlin College. [In issues 2]

Jeff Landon lives and teaches in Richmond, Virginia. His stories, online and in print, have appeared in Crazyhorse, Another Chicago Magazine, Other Voices, New Virginia Review, Pindeldyboz, Hobart, FRiGG, SmokeLong Quarterly, Night Train, Quick Fiction, Phoebe, and other places. [In issues 7, 13]

Gian Lombardo is the author of several books--Between Islands, Standing Room, Before Arguable Answers, and Sky Open Again. Focusing mainly on writing prose poetry, his work has appeared in lift, Iowa Review, Denver Quarterly, Puerto del Sol, Quarterly West, Talisman, The Prose Poem, and Verse. He currently teaches at Emerson College. [In issues 2]

Cameron Macauley has worked in international public health for over twenty years. Currently, he is living in Maputo, Mozambique. His work has been published in the North American Review, What If?, Prism International, and the Christian Science Monitor. [In issues 8]

Dan Manchester’s work is in or forthcoming from Good Foot, Mississippi Review, Sentence, and Poet Lore. Originally from Rhode Island, he now lives in Bloomington, Indiana, where he is at work on a full-length collaborative manuscript with Anthony Tognazzini and Julia Story, as well as his own little tinkerings. [In issues 5]

Donald Mangum has published philosophy, poetry, and fiction in a wide variety of publications, including the New Yorker, Auslegung, and Quick Fiction. He teaches English and philosophy in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, where he lives with his wife, son, and daughter. [In issues 4, 6]

Kuzhali Manickavel lives in a small temple town on the coast of South India. Her work can be found at Caketrain, Smokelong Quarterly, Ghoti, and Opium. [In issues 11]

C. R. Manley has recent prose in the final issue of Paragraph and poetry and photography in Arnazella. His writing has also appeared in Bulletin of Volcanology, Farmer’s Market, Iris, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Plainswoman, Riverrun, and South Dakota Review. He lives near Seattle with his wife and daughter. [In issues 9]

Morton Marcus' latest books are Moments Without Names: New & Selected Prose Poems (White Pine Press) and Shouting Down the Silence (Creative Arts). Forthcoming is Bear Prints: New & Collected Verse Poems (Creative Arts), which collects his seven published books of verse. Recent prose and verse pieces appear or are forthcoming in The Denver Quarterly, Hanging Loose, Hotel Amerika, The Portland Review, and Poetry International. Red Wheelbarrow (2002 issue) features poems and a long interview with him. [In issues 2]

Manuel Luis Martinez authored Crossing (Bilingual Press). It was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, the Premio Aztlan Fiction Award, and selected as one of the ten outstanding books by a writer of color by PEN American Center, NY. Forthcoming are his novel Drift (Picador USA), and criticism, Countering the Counterculture: Rereading American Dissent (U. of Wisconsin Press). He is a regular contributor to the Chicago Tribune and an assistant professor at Indiana University. [In issues 1]

Karyna McGlynn’s work has recently appeared in Gulf Coast, Cimarron Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Subtropics, Hotel Amerika, Spinning Jenny, and Typo. A three-time Pushcart nominee, Karyna is the recipient of a Hopwood Award for poetry at the University of Michigan where she is currently pursuing her MFA. [In issues 10]

P. Terrence McGovern is a native of Newtown, Connecticut. He is a former writer for the Harvard Lampoon. He is currently an Alumni Graduate Fellow in the University of Florida MFA program. [In issues 5]

Brian McMullen is Cabinet Magazine’s managing editor and graphic designer. His writing appears on the McSweeney’s website, and his drawings appear in Sonora Review 43 and 44. He lives in Brooklyn. He loves his wife. [In issues 3, 6]

Sean McNally resides in Greenpoint, Brooklyn with a wife, poet Jennifer L. Knox. Originally from Milwaukee, he’s becoming uncertain Wisconsin ever truly existed and finds it increasingly difficult to tell the difference between right and wrong. His work has appeared in Open City, Exquisite Corpse, The United States of Poetry and elsewhere. [In issues 4]

John M. McNamara’s fiction has appeared in Crosscurrents, Old Hickory Review, the Piedmont Literary Review, the Minotaur, Snapdragon, Four Quarters, and Inside Running. In 1999, he received a professional artist residency at the Ox Bow Summer Arts Program for the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Saugatuck, Michigan. [In issues 6]

Jeff McNeil was raised in Mobile, Alabama, and currently lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with his wife and four children. He has a story coming out in the August 2005 edition of Stories from the Blue Moon Café, and has recently finished a novel. [In issues 7]

Jason Mehl lives in Wheaton, Illinois. He is a Fiction Writing graduate student at Columbia College, Chicago. His work has appeared in the print and online version of the2ndhand. [In issues 1]

Corey Mesler has published in numerous journals and anthologies. His novel, Talk: A Novel in Dialogue, was released in 2002. In 2005, his second novel, We Are Billion-Year-Old Carbon will be released. With his wife, whom he loves loves loves, he runs Burke’s Book Store in Memphis, Tennessee. [In issues 1, 7]

Michael K. Meyers has published fiction in The New Yorker, Fiction, Chelsea, Chicago Noir, and Word Riot. Audio flash fictions can be heard online at Mad Hatters’ Review and 2River, and a video at 9th Letter. A CD of audio flash fictions, Once Again Doctor Freud’s Horse Has Gone Missing, has recently been published. He teaches creative writing at the Art Institute of Chicago. His web site is michaelkmeyers.com. [In issues 13]

Lincoln Michel is a young writer whose work can be found in journals such as The Mississippi Review, Cranky, McSweeneys.net, Pindeldyboz, and Vestal Review. He keeps an infrequently updated lit blog at http://lincolnmm.blogspot.com/. [In issues 9]

Ben Miller lives and works in New York City. His prose can be found in recent or forthcoming issues of Agni, The Yale Review, Notre Dame Review, Raritan, and Prairie Schooner. An essay—“Bix and Flannery”—appeared in Best American Essays 2004. Awards include a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. [In issues 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9]

Kelly Miller has been writing since she could clutch a crayon and scribble backwards across her Big Chief tablet. Short-short stories are her first love. [In issues 13]

Mary Miller’s stories can be found in The Oxford American, Mississippi Review, Black Clock, Quick Fiction (no. 12), and New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best, 2008 (forthcoming). She lives in Nashville. [In issues 12, 13]

Szilvia Molnar has published poetry in The Wolf and Smoke: A London Peculiar. She has won awards for short-story writing (Ordfront magazine, 2006) and for translation (of Imre Oravecz from Hungarian into Swedish, BE1lint Balassi Institute, 2006). She recently graduated from University College London. She lives in London. [In issues 12]

Craig Moodie is the author of two novels and three short story collections, including A Sailor’s Valentine and Salt Luck. His novel for younger readers, The Sea Singer, is available from Roaring Brook Press. His fiction and prose poetry have appeared in Quick Fiction, Wavelength, Northeast, and Sentence. [In issues 2, 6, 8, 9]

Dinty W. Moore writes brief fiction and also edits brief nonfiction at brevitymag.com. His quirky memoir, Between Panic and Desire: Notes from a Serial Projectionist, is forthcoming from the University of Nebraska Press. [In issues 2, 10]

Fred Muratori’s work appears in Fiction International, Denver Quarterly, Paragraph, and New American Writing, among others. He is the Bibliographer for Anglo-American and Comparative Literature at the Cornell University Library. [In issues 4]

Christian Nagle’s work has previously appeared in Quick Fiction, The Paris Review, Southwest Review, Partisan Review, Antioch Review, New England Review, and many other journals. He lives in Tokyo, where he is translating the early modernist, Chuya Nakahara. Translations and essays are forthcoming in Southwest Review, Kyoto Journal, The Texas Review, and elsewhere. [In issues 8, 10]

Katherin Nolte’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Glimmer Train Stories, Confrontation, Fence, Blue Mesa Review, Natural Bridge, and the Beloit Fiction Journal. She received an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is currently at work on a novel. [In issues 7]

JoAnna Novak is from the suburbs of Chicago. Her work has appeared in Diagram, Pindeldyboz, and Critiphoria. She studies fiction at Washington University in St. Louis. [In issues 13]

Scott Onak lives and works and writes in Chicago. He has just voted on and approved a nonbinding resolution to write prize-winning works of fiction. "Iceland, My Love" is his first published story. [In issues 10]

Christopher Orlet’s prose poems and flash fiction have appeared in Exquisite Corpse, Wild Strawberries, and Best of storySouth. His fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. [In issues 13]

Painter’s most recent story collection is The Long and Short of It. She is also coauthor of What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers. Her stories have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, the most recent being Flash Fiction Forward, and she has received three Pushcart Prizes. Painter lives in Boston and teaches in the Writing, Literature, and Publishing program at Emerson College. [In issues 5, 6, 8, 11]

Anne Panning has published a book of short stories, The Price of Eggs (Coffeehouse Press), as well as short fiction and creative nonfiction in places such as Beloit Fiction Journal, Bellingham Review, Prairie Schooner, New Letters, The South Dakota Review, Black Warrior Review, and In Short II: An Anthology of Brief Creative Nonfiction (Norton). Anne's novel Carrot Lake, Carrot Cake recently won the Hackney Literary Award. Presently, she is at work on another novel: The Huli-Huli Honeymoon Hour. [In issues 1]

Cami Park's work can be found in publications such as SmokeLong Quarterly, GUD Magazine, No Tell Motel, Opium, Juked, Forklift, Ohio, FRiGG, and Ward 6 Review. [In issues 12]

Jeff Parker’s work has appeared recently in Ploughshares, Tin House, Columbia, Hobart, Another Chicago Magazine, Quick Fiction, and other publications. Jovian Books published his The Drinking Game (stories and instructions) this year. [In issues 6, 7, 9]

John Parras received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship for fiction writing in 2004. Stories and poems of his were published in Salt Hill, CrossConnect, Oasis, the Dominion Review, Fuel, Hanging Loose, Gulf Stream, and other literary journals. Currently Dr. Parras teaches critical and creative writing in the English department at William Paterson University. [In issues 6]

Edith Pearlman’s fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, New Stories from the South, and The Pushcart Prize. She is the author of three story collections: Vaquita (1997), Love Among the Greats (2002), and How to Fall (2005). [In issues 9]

Richard Pearse has published poems and stories in over forty magazines and anthologies, including The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, Fiction, and Sudden Stories. His Private Drives: Selected Poems 1969–2001 was put out by Rattapallax Press. He is retired from professing at Brooklyn College but keeps backsliding into teaching. [In issues 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]

Aimee Pokwatka is currently in the creative writing program at Syracuse University. Her work has been published in or is forthcoming from Other Voices, The Literary Review, The Greensboro Review, and Backwards City Review. [In issues 13]

Pedro Ponce has had fiction published recently in Small Spiral Notebook, Marginalia, Elimae, and DIAGRAM.2: The Second Print Anthology. He teaches at St. Lawrence University. [In issues 1, 3, 6, 9]

Steve Price’s work has appeared in Crazyhorse, Fourteen Hills, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Crescent Review, The Madison Review, Short Story, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, 5am, Red Rock Review, Del Sol Review, Whiskey Island, 42opus, Poetz.com, Slipstream, Nerve Cowboy, Iota, Pebble Lake Review, Burnside Review, Gator Springs, and Whistling Shade. He lives in Phoenix, Arizona, where he teaches writing and yoga. [In issues 10]

Scott Provence is a graduate student in the University of Washington’s creative writing program. His genre-crossing work (a combination of interest and indecision) has appeared most recently in Avery Anthology of New Fiction. [In issues 13]

Matthew Purdy’s fiction has appeared in Iron Horse Literary Review, Mid-American Review, Mississippi Review, One Story, and Best New American Voices. He is currently working on a PhD in English and creative writing at Texas Tech University. [In issues 12]

Rita Rich is a hellcat hiding out in the Midwest. Her writing has recently appeared in Verse, DSQ, and Prose Studies. She dispenses sex advice to singles, newlyweds, committed couples, and cheaters at http://adviceweekly.com/. [In issues 2, 7]

Matt Rittenhouse graduated from Emerson College a short time back, and now lives and writes in New Hampshire. His work has appeared online with Scissorpress and One Thousand Ridiculous Tragedies. He is currently fishing and/or camping with his dog Sam. [In issues 8]

Joe Robb too has AB-negative blood, but he avoids transfusions out of propriety. He was born in Cincinnati, lives in Boston, but wants to be in Blue Hill, Maine, where the ocean freezes in the winter and Spanish flows freely. [In issues 9]

Andrew Michael Roberts is the author of Give Up, a chapbook from Tarpaulin Sky Press. He teaches creative writing in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he is a Juniper Fellow at the University of Massachusetts. He coordinates the UMass Visiting Writers Series and the Juniper Summer Institute for Young Writers. Recent work appears in Tin House, the Iowa Review, LIT, Gulf Coast, and Mississippi Review. [In issues 4, 6, 9, 11]

Susan Jackson Rodgers is the author of The Trouble With You Is and Other Stories. Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Glimmer Train, New England Review, and StoryQuarterly. She is a past recipient of a Kansas Arts Commission Fellowship and teaches creative writing at Kansas State University. [In issues 11]

Laura Rodley has work forthcoming in the anthologies, Blueline and Crossings, and also in the journals, Massachusetts Review, Sahara, Sanctuary (National Audubon magazine), Earth’s Daughters. She is employed as a freelance writer and professional tutor, and is currently in love with the Atlantic coastline, visiting beaches whenever possible. [In issues 2]

Sarah Rogers is a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and still lives in Iowa City with her husband, Bob Hillman. For work, she transforms mild-mannered Iowans into hard-nosed financiers. She is a regular contributor to the blogs Babies Are Fireproof, Earth Goat Journal, and Jane’s Calamity. [In issues 7]

Daniel Rosenblum’s work has appeared in Doorknobs and Bodypaint, Printed Matter, The Kit-Cat Review, Japanophile Magazine, and in the anthology The Broken Bridge (Stone Bridge Press). He is active in the Tunnel Vision Writers’ Project, a non-profit organization that provides support and creative forums for multi-genre writers and writing students. [In issues 2]

Helen Klein Ross is a former advertising copywriter whose fiction and poetry appears in Salmagundi, Mid-American Review, Bellevue Literary Review, and online at Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood and Tupelo Press’s Poetry Project. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and two daughters. [In issues 6, 12]

Forrest Roth is a graduate of the Goddard College MFA program. His fictions appear or are forthcoming in Noon, Paragraph, Snow Monkey, Elimae, and other publications. He lives in Buffalo, New York. [In issues 8]

Beth Anne Royer does not bicycle enough. She enjoys having a glorified English degree (Emerson College), living above a restaurant in suburban Connecticut, writing fiction for New Haven Writer’s Club, and spinach salad with goat cheese. Her chapbook of interesting poems, Radio Dreams (Slipstream Press) came out last year. [In issues 8]

Max Ruback is currently a high-school English teacher and girl’s basketball coach. His most recent work can be found in The Rambler, Frostproof Review, and Upstreet. He has finished a collection of short stories titled The Kindest Light, which seeks representation. He can be reached at maxruback@aol.com. [In issues 2, 8, 12]

Jake Ruiter works as an electrical engineer in a windowless bunker north of Boston. He has forgotten all the things that made him fall in love with his new winter jacket. [In issues 11]

Brian Ruuska, aka “The Total Package,” earned his MFA from Emerson College. Brian and his helper monkey, Mr. Snakko, can be found at Boston bus stops, making sure the busses leave on time. Sometimes they don’t, so Brian sternly shakes his fist while Mr. Snakko screeches and points to his comically oversized wristwatch. It seems to help. [In issues 3, 5, 6]

F. Daniel Rzicznek’s first book of poems, Neck of the World, won the 2007 May Swenson Poetry Award and will be published by Utah State University Press this year. He is also the author of Cloud Tablets (Kent State Univ. Press, 2006), a chapbook of prose poems. He teaches English composition at Bowling Green State University. [In issues 6, 11]

Matthew Salesses has flown off to Korea, the land of his birth, to be with his fiancée. His fiction can be found in Mid-American Review (2007 Fineline winner), Hobart, Monkeybicycle, Boston Literary Review, and elsewhere. He is working on a collection and a novel. [In issues 13]

Kevin Sampsell is the publisher of Future Tense Books, a micropress in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of Beautiful Blemish (Word Riot Press 2005). His fiction and reviews have appeared widely. [In issues 8]

Nina Schneider is completing her MFA at Emerson College and teaches writing at Lasell College. In a previous life, she was director of communications for a regional mental health center and freelance writer for a variety of health care organizations in the Greater Boston area. [In issues 4]

E. M. Schorb’s work has appeared in 3 AM Magazine, Untitled: A Magazine of Prose Poetry, the North American Review, the Southern Review, Notre Dame Review, and the Virginia Quarterly Review, among others. His collection, A Fable and Other Prose Poems, was published by Argonne House Press in 2002. Murderer’s Day was awarded the Verna Emery Poetry Prize and published by Purdue University Press. [In issues 5]

Steven Schrader is the author of three collections of stories, the latest of which is Arriving at Work (Hanging Loose Press). His work has been included in several anthologies and broadcast on National Public Radio’s Selected Shorts. [In issues 4]

David Schuman’s fiction has appeared in The Missouri Review, Conjunctions, Black Warrior Review, The Pushcart Prize XXXI (2007), and many other publications. He lives in St. Louis where he teaches writing at Washington University. [In issues 9, 10, 13]

Daryl Scroggins lives in Dallas, where he works as a teacher. His poems and fictions have appeared in magazines around the country, including, most recently, Quarter After Eight, Potomac Review, and Double Room. Winter Investments, a collection of short stories, was published in 2003 by Trilobite Press. [In issues 5]

Peter Selgin’s stories have appeared in dozens of publications including Glimmer Train Stories, Missouri Review, the Literary Review, the Sun, Salon.com, and the Chicago Sun-Times. His novel, Life Goes to the Movies, was a finalist for the James Jones Fellowship. His story collection, Bodies of Water, was short listed for the Iowa Fiction Award. He is happily married in New York City. [In issues 7]

Don Shea has published more than forty stories in venues such as The North American Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Utne Reader, The Literary Review, The Quarterly, and many others. Twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, his work has been included in numerous anthologies and broadcast on NPR’s Selected Shorts. [In issues 2]

Aurelie Sheehan is the author of a short story collection, Jack Kerouac Is Pregnant (Dalkey Archive Press), and two novels, The Anxiety of Everyday Objects and History Lesson for Girls (Viking/Penguin). She is the director of the creative writing program at the University of Arizona. “Mermaid” is #99 in a sequence of prose pieces called “One Hundred Histories.” [In issues 13]

Ana María Shua has published over forty books in numerous genres. Her writing has been translated into many languages, and her stories appear in anthologies throughout the world. She has received numerous national and international awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship. She lives in Buenos Aires with her family. Her story, “Rumor in the Court,” will appear in the forthcoming book, Microfictions, translated by Steven Stewart, to be published by the University of Nebraska Press in the spring of 2008. [In issues 10]

Gail Louise Siegel’s writing has appeared or will soon appear in Zoetrope: All-Story Extra, Brevity, the Salt River Review, Fiction Fix, Outsider Ink, 3 AM Magazine, Lit Pot, Flashquake, Tattoo Highway, Salamander, Night Train, North Dakota Quarterly, Frigg and Big Water, a nonfiction anthology. She has an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. [In issues 5]

Barry Silesky’s short-short fiction (or prose poetry) is collected in One Thing That Can Save Us (1994) and has been in many magazines. He is editor of Another Chicago Magazine and author of biographies of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and John Gardner. [In issues 2, 3, 10]

Jeffrey Skinner’s short fictions have appeared in Bomb, the American Poetry Review, and the Paris Review. His latest collection is Salt Water Amnesia. This year he is enjoying a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and trying to write plays. [In issues 12]

John E. Smelcer’s novel, The Trap, won the 2004 James Jones First Novel Prize. His stories and poems appear in over 350 magazines such as the Atlantic. He is an enrolled American Indian. His writing is influenced by Native American mythology. [In issues 7]

Claudia Smith’s stories have appeared in several literary journals and anthologies. Her chapbook, The Sky Is a Well and Other Shorts, was featured in Powell’s Daily Dose, and was recently reprinted in A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness (Rose Metal Press). More about Claudia and her work can be found at www.claudiaweb.net. [In issues 13]

Simon A. Smith is the editor of Bruiser Review, a literary journal. His fiction has appeared in Storyglossia, Look-Look, Dogzplot, Volume One, and others. Many of his essays and interviews have aired on Chicago Public Radio. He is pursuing an MFA in language-arts education at Northeastern Illinois University. [In issues 13]

Marcos Soriano is currently in his final semester as an undergraduate creative-writing student at San Francisco State University. This is his first published work. [In issues 9]

Elizabeth Stamford lives in Los Angeles where she teaches freshman composition at various colleges. She holds an MFA in creative writing from New York University and is working on an MA in English at Cal State. She has published short fiction in Snow Monkey, Nieve Roja Review, South Ocean Review, and Moxie. [In issues 11]

Ben Stein teaches English in New England. His work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Cranky, Caketrain, Gargoyle, Harpur Palate, 5_Trope, and River Teeth. [In issues 13]

Rosalind Palermo Stevenson’s novella, Insect Dreams, appears in the 2003 anthology, Trampoline (Small Beer Press). Her short fiction and prose poems have been published in Quick Fiction, Web Conjunctions, River City, Spinning Jenny, Skidrow Penthouse, Washington Square, Eye-Rhyme, Phantasmagoria, Karamu, and others. Her prose poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. [In issues 5, 6]

Steven J. Stewart was awarded a 2005 literature fellowship for translation by the National Endowment for the Arts. His book of translations of Spanish poet Rafael Pérez Estrada, Devoured by the Moon, was a finalist for the 2005 PEN-USA translation award. He currently lives in Rexburg, Idaho, with his wife and two children. His translation of “Rumor in the Court” will appear in the forthcoming book, Microfictions, by Ana María Shua, to be published by the University of Nebraska Press in the spring of 2008. [In issues 10]

Julia Story’s work has appeared in journals such as Salt Hill, Verse, Mississippi Review, the Iowa Review, Good Foot, Cue and Octopus. She lives in Bloomington, Indiana, with her husband and their miniature dachshund, Elizabeth. [In issues 5]

Poems and flash fiction by Wayne Sullins have appeared in Quick Fiction, Poetry East, The Quarterly, Compost, and many other journals. He’s traveled widely and now lives in Boston, raising a son, working on stories about Hanoi. His book Najimi is available at www.wastelandpress.net. [In issues 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11]

Terese Svoboda has published ten books of prose and poetry, most recently the memoir, Black Glasses Like Clark Kent, winner of the 2007 Graywolf Nonfiction Prize. Her fiction has appeared in Bomb, Narrative, The Yale Review, Conjunctions, Lit, and Tin House. She is the McGee Professor at Davidson College for the 2007/08 term. [In issues 13]

James Tate is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Worshipful Company of Fletchers (Ecco Press), winner of the National Book Award; Selected Poems (Wesleyan Univ. Press), winner of the Pulitzer Prize; and The Last Pilot (AMS Press), which was selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. His latest book is Dreams of a Robot Dancing Bee (Verse Press). [In issues 1, 2]

Anthony Tognazzini lives in Brooklyn, New York. His first collection of short fiction, I Carry A Hammer In My Pocket for Occasions Such As These, was published in April 2007 by BOA Editions. [In issues 1, 3, 4, 5]

Jessica Treat is the author of Not a Chance (Fiction Collective Two, 2000) and A Robber in the House (Coffee House, 1993), both story collections. Her fiction has appeared in Ms., Epoch, Black Warrior Review, Web Del Sol, 3rd Bed, and Quarterly West, among others. New work can be found in Double Room, Outsider Ink, and the Brooklyn Rail. She is completing another collection of short-short stories. [In issues 6]

Girija Tropp lives in Melbourne, Australia, and her short fiction has been published in Agni, Boston Review, Best Australian Stories (2005 and 2006), Southword, Sleepingfish, Fiction International, Mississippi Review (prose poem issue), Denver Quarterly, and Re:al; forthcoming in Diagram (all-fiction issue); microfiction and online fiction at Snow*Vigate, SmokeLong Quarterly, Elimae, Margin, and Cafe Irreal; amongst others. She was a finalist in the Faulkner Awards for the Novel 2006 and winner of the Josephine Ulrick Literature Award 2006. [In issues 12]

John Vanderslice holds degrees from the University of Virginia, George Mason University, and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Currently, he teaches writing at the University of Central Arkansas. His fiction has appeared widely in literary journals, including the Seattle Review, Sou’wester, South Carolina Review, Southern Humanities Review, and many more. [In issues 12]

Jodi Lynn Villers is a creative writing student in the MFA program at North Carolina State University. She lives in Raleigh with a beagle named Turtle and has just completed a novella about a rehabilitation camp for girls who have killed their parents. [In issues 10]

Elizabeth Weaver has a Masters of Arts from San Francisco State University. Most recently, her work has apeared in California Quarterly. She is working on a novel titled Animal Wonder. [In issues 2]

Currently inscrutable, J. Marcus Weekley has lifted small children with a single arm. His, not theirs. He likes fried chicken, and Amaretto sours, and strawberry rhubarb pie. Marcus’s writing has appeared in Wild Strawberries, Thieves Jargon, and Clackamas Literary Review, among other places. See his photos at http://flickr.com/photos/whynottryitagain2/. [In issues 6, 8, 10]

Jensen Whelan’s stories have appeared in Hobart, Bullfight Review, Quick Fiction, and many others. He lives in Stockholm with his wife and son. His website is www.jensenwhelan.com. [In issues 8, 11]

Luke Whisnant is the author of Watching TV with the Red Chinese, a novel, and Down in the Flood, a collection of stories. He teaches creative writing at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, where he also edits Tar River Poetry. [In issues 13]

Allison Whittenberg, a winner of the John Steinbeck Award, holds an MA in English from the University of Wisconsin. Her first novel Sweet Thang was published by Random House in March 2006. Allison also published a poetry chapbook, The Bard of Philadelphia (RoseWater Publications, 2003). [In issues 9]

Diane Williams’s story, “Flower,” will appear in her sixth book of fiction, It was Like My Trying to Have a Tender-Hearted Nature, to be published by Fiction Collective Two (FC2) in the fall of 2007. She is the founding editor of Noon. [In issues 10]

Eliot Khalil Wilson won the 2002 Cleveland State Poetry Prize for his book The Saint of Letting Small Fish Go. He is currently a member of the creative writing faculty at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. [In issues 7]

Gary D. Wilson has had fiction published in Glimmer Train, Speak, Quarterly West, Witness, The Baltimore Review, Wisconsin Review, Kansas Quarrterly, Nimrod, Vanderbilt Review, and Sun Dog. He teaches fiction writing at the University of Chicago Graham School of Continuing Studies. [In issues 1]

Kevin Wilson is a native of Winchester, TN. His stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, Carolina Quarterly, Shenandoah, Other Voices, and elsewhere. [In issues 4]

Cecilia Woloch is the author of Sacrifice (Cahuenga Press 1997) and Tsigan: The Gypsy Poem (Cahuenga Press 2002), as well as a new collection of poems slated to be published by BOA Editions in 2003, entitled Late. She is the director of Summer Poetry in Idyllwild, and teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at New England College. [In issues 3]

Susan Woodring completed an MFA in creative writing at Queens University of Charlotte. Her fiction is forthcoming in an anthology published by Main Street Rag. [In issues 8]

Mark Yakich’s next book, The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine, will be published by Penguin in 2008. His web site is markyakich.com. [In issues 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13]

Jeffrey Yamaguchi runs workingfortheman.com, www.bookmouth.com and 52projects.com. He is currently doing research on the lost writings and art of Clayton Lintero. [In issues 4]

Like his character, Professor Hoefler, Bard Young is older than his wife. His screen saver is a photo he shot of her in a skimpy bathing suit while on their honeymoon forty years ago this August. He looks at that photo every day, shakes his head, and says, “Young, you’re one lucky son of a bitch.” [In issues 7]

Gary Young’s books include Hands, The Dream of a Moral Life, Days, Braver Deeds, No Other Life (winner of the William Carlos Williams Award), and Pleasure. He has twice received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and other awards include a Pushcart Prize and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. [In issues 3, 11]

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