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Remy Braun lives in New York City, where she is pursuing a BA in storytelling. |
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Kelly Cherry’s most recent publications are Girl in a Library: On Women Writers & the Writing Life (BkMk) and The Retreats of Thought: Poems (L.S.U.). Boson Books will bring out her collection The Woman Who: Stories in 2010. |
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Jerome Charyn lives in New York and Paris. His most recent novel is The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson. He is currently working on a novel about Abraham Lincoln. His study of Joe DiMaggio, Joe DiMaggio: The Long Vigil, will be published by Yale University Press in April 2011 in its American Icon series. |
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Moira Crone is the author of four books of fiction, most recently the collection What Gets Into Us (2007). Her works have appeared in over forty journals including The New Yorker, Image, Mademoiselle, and Oxford American. In 2009, she won the Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction from the Southern Fellowship of Writers. She lives in New Orleans and “Do Over” is part of collection in progress, working title, Reconstruction, about the reconstitution of New Orleanians and their city since 2005. For many years, she directed the writing program at Louisiana State University. |
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Frank Dineen has been a self-employed writer nearly all his working life, turning recently to fiction. His stories have been shortlisted for the UK-based Bridport Prize in 2008 and 2009, and longlisted for the Ireland’s Fish Prize in 2010. He’s also the author of a novel, Immortal Longings, and wrote and composed three produced musicals. In 2008, his song lyrics were featured at the Los Angeles Festival of New American Musicals. He holds an MS in Journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School. |
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Denise Gess was the author of two novels, Good Deeds and Red Whiskey Blues (both Crown) and co-author, with William Lutz, of the non-fiction book Firestorm at Peshtigo (Henry Holt, 2002). An essayist and short story writer, Denise was a contributing editor to StoryQuarterly and Philadelphia Stories. She taught at Rutgers University and was an Associate Professor of English at Rowan University. She lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, until her death on August 22, 2009. |
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Mathew Goldberg’s fiction has appeared in Shenandoah, the Mississippi Review, and American Short Fiction, among other journals. He earned an engineering degree from Duke University and an MFA from the University of Arkansas. He is currently a member of the English faculty at Missouri University of Science and Technology. |
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Tiffany Hawk is a former flight attendant and a writer whose essays have appeared in such publications as The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The Potomac Review. |
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John Oliver Hodges lives in Flushing, New York. His short stories have appeared or will be appearing in Cream City Review, Echo Ink Review, The Literary Review, Redivider, and elsewhere. |
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Jane Hoppen currently resides in Brooklyn, NY, and has published fiction in various literary magazines, including The Dirty Goat, PANK, Western Humanities Review, Forge Journal, Superstition Review, Room of One’s Own, and Cantaraville. |
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Kyle Lang is a native Oregonian who has written poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. His work has appeared in M Review and Going Down Swinging. |
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Bill Lawrence is the author of the plays Feed My Sheep, The Gatekeeper and The Marmot Speaks, which were produced regionally in Colorado and Los Angeles. His most recent play, The Fighting Jardiniers, was commissioned by St. Mary’s College of Notre Dame, Indiana and was produced at The Moreau Center for the Arts to celebrate the Feast Day of Father Basil Moreau. An original member of The Foundry Theatre Works-LA, he has had short work published in the Creede Magazine and Static Movement. He participated in workshopping Frank Pierson’s Ain’t that America, for the Sundance Screenwriters Lab and has been a guest artist for Pam Houston’s summer writing workshops. He hails from Salt Lake City, Utah and currently lives in Santa Monica, California. |
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Paul Lisicky is author of Lawnboy, Famous Builder, and two forthcoming books, The Burning House (2011) and Unbuilt Projects (2012). His work has appeared in Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, Black Warrior Review, Gulf Coast, The Seattle Review, Prairie Schooner, and many other magazines and anthologies. He has taught in the graduate writing programs at Cornell University, Rutgers-Newark, and Sarah Lawrence College. He currently teaches at NYU and in the low residency MFA Program at Fairfield University, and serves on the Writing Committee of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. |
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William Lutz is Emeritus Professor of English at Rutgers University. He was married to Denise Gess. |
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James Marcus is the author of Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot-Com Juggernaut and six translations from the Italian, including works by Leonardo Sciscia, Goffredo Parise, and Oriana Fallaci. He has contributed to The Atlantic Monthly, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, Salon, Newsday, Lingua Franca, The Nation, and many other publications. |
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Staci Stokes Morgan teaches writing and literature at an international school in China and previously taught in New Orleans and Hawaii. She is at work on her first novel. |
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Eileen Mullane co-wrote and starred Off-Broadway in Fess Up and Mull it Over, and has read and performed her stories, plays, and essays at such theaters as The Magnet and UCB in NYC, and The Groundlings Theater in Los Angeles. She recently completed her first screenplay, Snake VS. Hawk, and is at work on a book about parties (as in social gatherings). She lives in Topanga, California. |
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Bonnie Nadzam has published fiction and poetry in several journals. Her first novel, Lamb, is forthcoming from The Other Press. |
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David Naimon is a writer, naturopathic physician, acupuncturist, and host of the radio show Healthwatch in Portland, Oregon. His story, “The Golem of Orla Shalom,” appeared in issue 84 of ZYZZYVA. |
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Kirk Nesset is author of two books of fiction, Mr. Agreeable and Paradise Road, as well as The Stories of Raymond Carver (nonfiction), Saint X (poems, forthcoming), and Alphabet of the World: Selected Works by Eugenio Montejo (translations, forthcoming). He was awarded the Drue Heinz Literature Prize in 2007 and has received a Pushcart Prize and grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, Kenyon Review, Southern Review, American Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner and elsewhere. He teaches at Allegheny College. |
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Nicole Pearce holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. While there, her work was selected to represent the school in both the AWP Intro Journal Awards and the Best New American Voices for 2009. Her short fiction has also earned finalist status in three Glimmer Train fiction competitions. Most recently, her story, “Falling from Trees,” made the top 25 in Glimmer Train’s Very Short Fiction Award (February 2009). Contents May Have Shifted will be her first published story. |
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Adam Peterson lives in Houston where he co-edits The Cupboard, a prose chapbook series. His series of short-shorts, My Untimely Death, is available from Subito Press at the University of Colorado, and his fiction has recently appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Cincinnati Review, and Indiana Review among other journals. |
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Bethany R. Reece recently received her M.F.A. from Washington University in St. Louis. She was awarded a third year fellowship there, as well as having received several other fellowships for her writing over the years. She is currently (happily) mired in the production of several larger composite pieces, and is employed at an elder and disability law firm in Denver, Colorado. |
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Kendra Langford Shaw grew up on an Alaskan island and a Montana ranch. She has a B.A. in creative writing from the University of Montana, and her fiction has previously appeared in The Antioch Review. She and her husband Johnathan live in Montana where Kendra is at work on a collection of short stories and a memoir about two years spent teaching English in Japan. |
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Vic Sizemore is a 2009 graduate of the MFA program in fiction at Seattle Pacific University. He has fiction published or forthcoming in Connecticut Review, Southern Humanities Review, Portland Review and elsewhere. He won the summer 2009 New Millennium Writings Award for fiction and was a finalist for the 2008-2009 Sherwood Anderson Award. He lives in Lynchburg, Virginia with his wife and three children. He teaches writing at Central Virginia Community College. Sizemore is a former Marine who served in Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm. |
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Gerald Stern is the author of 15 books of poetry, including, most recently, Save the Last Dance (Norton, 2008) and Everything is Burning (Norton, 2005), as well as This Time: New and Selected Poems, which won the 1998 National Book Award. The paperback of his personal essays titled What I Can’t Bear Losing, was published in the fall of 2009 by Trinity University Press. He was awarded the 2005 Wallace Stevens Award by the Academy of American Poets and is currently a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. He is retired from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Early Collected: Poems from 1965-1992 was published by W. W. Norton in the spring of 2010. “Comedy” is part twenty-one of his new manuscript in prose, titled The Stillness After. |
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Laura L. Sullivan has an English degree from Cornell University. Her novel Under the Green Hill was published in Fall 2010 by Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, with the sequel, Guardian of the Green Hill, following this fall. |
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Frank Tavares is a writer and Professor of Communication at Southern Connecticut State University. His work has appeared in a variety of literary journals including Louisiana Literature, The Connecticut Review, GW Review, and others. Listeners to NPR recognize his as the “Support-For-NPR-Comes-From-NPR-Member-Stations” voice heard at the end of national network news and information programs. Tavares also writes and consults about public broadcasting issues and is one of the founding editors of The Journal of Radio and Audio Media. |
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Eliza Victoria was born in 1986. Her fiction and poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in various publications based in her native Philippines and abroad, including the Philippines Graphic, Philippines Free Press, Philippine Speculative Fiction IV and V, Expanded Horizons, Cantaraville, elimae, and The Houston Literary Review. In 2009, she received an award for her poetry collection Reportage from the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature - considered the Philippines’ most prestigious literary contest. |
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Jesse Waters
was a winner of the 2001 River Styx International Poetry Contest. His fiction, poetry and non-fiction work has appeared in such journals as 88: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry, The Adirondack Review, Coal Hill Review, The Cortland Review, Cimarron Review, Concrete Wolf, Iowa Review, Plainsongs, Magma, River Styx, Slide, Sycamore Review and others |
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Marc Watkins is finishing his last semester at Texas State University’s MFA Program, where he holds the W. Morgan and Lou Claire Rose Fellowship in Fiction. He has published several stories, and won Boulevard’s “Short Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers.” His first book, a novel set in the Ozarks, is nearing completion. |
