Home PageElizabeth Eslami is the author of the novel Bone Worship. Her work has appeared in over a dozen publications, including Bat City Review, Minnesota Review, Crab Orchard Review, Matador, and The Millions, and she is a regular contributor to The Nervous Breakdown. She currently lives in Connecticut with their big, black dog.
Sean Beaudoin is the author of Going Nowhere Faster, Fade to Blue, and You Killed Wesley Payne. His stories and articles have appeared in numerous publications including Narrative, Glimmer Train, the Onion, The San Francisco Chronicle, Barrelhouse, and The New Orleans Review. www.seanbeaudoin.com
Chia Evers woke one morning with a dozen words ringing in her head and the sure knowledge that Swill was the only fit home for them. She is a freelance writer and practicing attorney who lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband, and hopes her mother never reads this story.
Wendy Sumner Winter has been a chef, gallery owner, photographer, painter, curator, dancer, singer, and community organizer, among other things she has blocked out. She has served as an editor in various capacities, including managing editor, for The Pinch. Her nonfiction, poetry and fiction have appeared in flashquake, The Pinch, Word Riot, The Missouri Review, Fourth Genre, Switchback, and Monkeybicycle. She teaches writing at The University of Memphis, and cooking wherever invited.
By day, Catherine Schaff-Stump is an English professor at a community college. In the evening and on the weekends, not only does Catherine fight crime, but she also writes speculative fiction. You can find out more about Catherine and her work at her website Writer Tamago.
Allison Landa is a Berkeley, Calif.-based fiction and memoir writer whose work has been featured in CherryBleeds, CleanSheets, Word Riot, Defenestration and Pindeldyboz. A MacDowell Colony resident, she has also held residencies at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts and The Julia and David White Artists' Colony. She received her MFA in creative writing from St. Mary's College of California. Stalk her at allisonlanda.com.
Z.Z. Boone holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College, and teaches at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut. His fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and has appeared (or is scheduled) in Smokelong Quarterly, Annalemma, The MacGuffin, Third Wednesday, FRiGG, Wigleaf, decomP, Word Riot, Pank, and other terrific places.
Jasmine Paul is the author of the novel A Girl, in Parts and co-author of the poetry book The Ghosts of Anne & Sylvia. She has far too many degrees to be of any use to anyone and too few dogs to ever be truly happy. To learn more, visit jasminepaul.com
A writer living in Connecticut, Craig Hartglass has worked as a tin-knocker, roofer, and carpenter. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in: One Story, Quarterly West, The South Carolina Review, The Distillery, Hardboiled, The Chaffin Journal, and others. He lives with some plants, the ashes of his cat, and a brain filled with spirochetes. He can be reached at CraigHartglass@aol.com .
John Shirley is the author of numerous novels and collections of short stories including the seminal cyberpunk work City Come A-Walkin', the popular allegorical horror novel Demons, and the Bram Stoker Award winning story collection Living Shadows. He is a screenwriter (eg, The Crow), and songwriter as well, having written lyrics for himself and the Blue Oyster Cult. His newest story collection is Living Shadows; his newest novels are Bleak History from Simon and Schuster and Black Glass: The lost Cyberpunk Novel from Elder Signs Press. Blog at www.john-shirley.com/blog
W.G. Kelly is a former rock climbing bum who lives in Olympia, Washington. He is currently studying literature at the Evergreen State College and, as of last week, he is the proud owner of a thirty year old sailboat of uncertain virtue. He believes that when the dust settles and the great American novel is finally chosen, it will be noir.
Brian Haycock lives in Austin, Texas, where he has worked mainly for nonprofit organizations. He enjoys running (especially in the summer heat), hiking and reading stories of all kinds. His stories have appeared in Thuglit, Nefarious, Yellow Mama, Crime and Suspense, Blazing Adventures, Pulp Pusher and other publications. Unlike the people he writes about, he is law-abiding and reasonably sane. Really.
Steve Young lives in Phoenix, AZ where he works construction and drinks too much while listening to the U.S. Bombs. He has had poetry published in heaven, and his short stories appear frequently in hell. He is a co-editor at Thieves Jargon, an extremely handsome son of a bitch, and is constantly barking up the wrong tree.
Gene Hines is a legal aid attorney in Asheville, NC, representing victims of domestic violence and indigent claimants for unemployment benefits. His stories have appeared in Black Petals, The Story Teller, the e-zine Combat, Catfish Stew (the 2006 anthology of the South Carolina Writers' Workshop), The Petigru Review (the 2007 anthology of the SC Writers' Worshop), and Wanderings. Stories will also soon appear in The North Carolina State Bar Journal, and Twisted Tongue.
Sam J. Miller is a writer and a community organizer. His work has appeared in numerous zines, anthologies, and print and online literary journals. He lives in the Bronx with his partner of six years. Visit him at samjmiller.com, or drop him a line at samjmiller79@yahoo.com
William Peacock’s poetry and stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Bat City Review, ESC! Magazine, Diet Soap, and elsewhere. A Louisiana native, he was recently released from detention in Leavenworth, Kansas, for biting two 13-year-old girls at a bat mitzvah to which he was not invited. “Damn it, those little custard pies were begging for it!” Peacock maintains.
Ben Cheetham lives in Sheffield, Yorkshire, UK, and his fiction has been published or is forthcoming in The London Magazine, Dream Catcher, Transmission, Escape Velocity, Skive Magazine, Volume, Espresso Fiction and Cause & Effect.
Ross Cavins is 36, twice divorced and lives with his cat. He writes because his cat is whiny and can't hold a decent conversation. His goal in life is to become a household name like Oreos, Liquid Drano and Tampax. He strives to be as famous a writer as Stephen Kingsley, his neighbor down the street that edits the Obituaries column on Sundays. He likes long walks in the woods, preferably with mosquito repellent and a crooked walking cane made from a broken branch. He adores oatmeal creme pies, is fascinated by cleavage, and is easily amused by kittens playing and traffic snarls. And more importantly, he is currently single in every way, without an agent, a publisher or a significant other.
Robert N. Jennings moved all over the country growing up, but landed in North Carolina in 1995 after graduating high school and never left. After earning a bachelor's degree from UNC-Wilmington and a law degree from UNC-Chapel Hill, he got a job and moved to a little town called Mebane, where he lives with his wife, his son and one dog.
Mark Vanner is 29 yrs old and wakes up most mornings to find he is still in the same city in which he fell asleep. Nottingham. He survives on a strict diet of cheap lager, cigarettes and filthy pot noodles. His poems and stories have appeared in magazines, anthologies and ezines worldwide, including Thieves Jargon, 3:AM, Laura Hird's Showcase, Dogmatika, Poetry Monthly, Anchor Books, Remark, The Truth Magazine and Zygote In My Coffee. In 2004 his poem 'It Only Hurts When You Walk Away' was short listed for the Forward Top 100 award. Website: www.markvanner.com
Andrew Killmeier was raised in Louisville, Kentucky and Southern Indiana. He currently lives in Los Angeles, California where he works in the motion picture industry. Recent work has been accepted by: Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Midnight Times, Swill Magazine, Zygote in My Coffee. Anthology of Concert Stories, Dark Reveries. Andrew's story "Death's Janitor" was nominated for BEST OF 2007 ANTHOLOGY on Sundress.
Jen Michalski lives in Baltimore, Maryland. She graduated from St. Mary's College of Maryland with a BA in English in 1994 and received her MS in Professional Writing from Towson University in 1999. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in McSweeney's, Failbetter, storysouth, The Summerset Review, Word Riot, Pindeldyboz, The Pedestal, The Potomac, Hobart, Monkeybicycle, Fringe, The Houston Review, Zygote in My Coffee, Split Shot, Swill Magazine, Ink Pot, Unlikely Stories 2.0, Apt, 55 Stories, The Swamp, Fiction Warehouse, Lily, Gold Dust Magazine, Thieves Jargon, Litvision, SubtleTea, 13th Warrior Review, The Harrow, Conte Online, Rokovoko, Bending Spoons, and Scrivener's Pen. Her collection of short stories, Close Encounters, is available from So New Media. This is her first attempt at respectability.
Nina Alvarez works as a freelance copywriter, copy editor and designer in Philadelphia, currently focusing on Web copy and nonprofit grant writing. Nina’s short stories have been published in 21 Stars Review, Twisted Tongue, Dark Reveries, and Swill. Her poetry will be published in Grasslimb Literary Journal and Contemporary Rhyme. She runs the small publishing company Inconnue Press (formerly Inconundrum) and its new imprint for Buddhist literature Phantom City Press. Her master’s thesis engages the third space of culture in South Africa and South African literature.
Doug Draime was born in Vincennes, Indiana in 1943. He started writing in his early teens, but didn't publish anything until the late 1960's, while living in Los Angeles. Current works in print include: Slaves Of The Harvest (Indian Heritage Publishing, 2002), Unoccupied Zone (Pitchfork Press, 2004), Spleen, an ebook, (Poetic Inhalation, 2004) and Spiders And Madmen (Scintillating Publications, 2005). His writing has appeared in hundreds of print and online magazines. He currently lives in Oregon, with his wife Carol.
Owen Roberts lives in Toronto/Canada with his wife and three children. Bottle of Smoke Press published a collection of his poems in 2003: My Best Years are Probably Behind Me. He just finished assembling a new anthology, AGGRESSIVEBEHAVIOR, all copies handmade and for sale through www.bospress.net. It features A.D. Winans, Justin Barrett, Neeli Cherkovski, Henry Denander and many others. He has started a new press publishing anthologies, broadsides. If you are a writer and interested in submitting, please check out... Compulsive Press.
Giano Cromley has published his writing in The Threepenny Review, Literal Latte, the German edition of Le Monde Diplomatique, The Externalist, and Swill Magazine. He is a graduate of the fiction MFA program at the University of Montana. He teaches English at Kennedy-King College in Chicago.
Sam Roman is married to illustration but writing will always be her dirty little mistress. She covets sarcasm, intelligence, and big orange cats. Sam is 23, lives in Connecticut, and writes/draws comics as both a passion and a career.
Corey Mesler’s novel-in-dialogue, Talk, was published by Livingston Press in 2002. Raves from Lee Smith, Robert Olen Butler, Steve Stern, Debra Spark, Suzanne Kingsbury, Frederick Barthelme and John Grisham. His new novel, We are Billion-Year-Old Carbon, is also from Livingston Press. Kind words this time from George Singleton, Marshall Chapman, Marshall Boswell and others.
Bucky Sinister is a poet and comedian. He is the author of King of the Roadkills (Manic D Press, 1995) and Whiskey and Robots (Gorsky Press, 2004) and All Blacked Out & Nowhere to Go (Gorsky Press). His debut CD, What Happens In Narnia Stays In Narnia, came out in 2007 on the Talent Moat label.
my name's Delphine Lecompte,i'm 30 (born 22nd january 1981),i'm an expat,i was born in east london,but i moved to belgium when i fell in love with a flemish singer/songwriter (we are no longer together),i'm an orphan,i was brought up by wolves,i stack milk bottles for a living,before that i worked in a seedy coastal pub,and before the seedy coastal pub i was a hooker;i write eight hours a day,i have no creative writing degree (and no other degree for that matter),i do have a restraining order.
A retired library information specialist, Mark Scheel now writes full time and helps edit Kansas City Voices magazine. His stories, articles and poems have appeared in numerous magazines, and his most recent book, A BACKWARD VIEW: STORIES AND POEMS, won the J. Donald Coffin Memorial Book Award from the Kansas Authors Club.
Dan Donche was born in Columbia, South Carolina in 1979, but he doesn't remember any of it. He attended high school in Casper, Wyoming, where he also attended Casper College twice for about three weeks each time. He is a loser in a major way. He joined the United States Air Force in 2002 and is now serving time at Fort Drum, which is in Watertown, New York, for anyone who is interested.
Keith Rutledge is slowly but surely becoming a librarian. He can feelit coming, the change, in his bones; another three semesters and he'll have the degree to prove it. It is inescapable, inevitable, undeniable. Already the musty smell of old newsprint provokes untoward physical manifestations. Look: www.keef.org.
Russell Bittner lives in Brooklyn, New York, USA. Some of his poems have been published on paper; many more, on the Net. Ditto for his prose. If what you’ve read here piques your curiosity, just give a little Google. If not, no sweat. It’s just fiction and a little poetry.
Chicago-based writer and critic Spencer Dew is the author of Songs of Insurgency, editor of the web-based publication Religion and Culture Web Forum, a regular reviewer for Rain Taxi Review of Books, a frequent contributor to Chicago Artists' News, and a member of the fiction staff of the Chicago Review. His fiction, poetry, essays, and reviews have appeared in scores of publications.
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