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Authors
Cara Blue Adams is an MFA student at the University of Arizona. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in The Chattahoochee Review, Sonora Review and The Believer.
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.
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/.
Katy Admirand has completed her BFA in writing and is currently at work on her first collection of short stories.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Stephany Aulenback lives in Nova Scotia.
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.
Greg Bachar lives in Seattle.
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.
Prema Bangera, a native of Bombay, moved to Massachusetts in 1994. She worked both as an assistant editor for Lake Effect in Erie, Pennsylvania and as the editor in chief for RS Review (Penn State Behrend students journal of arts). She was named poet of the month by Boston Girl Guide. She is also pursuing the realms of theater and visual arts.
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.
David Barringer is the author of There’s Nothing Funny about Design (Princeton Architectural Press, 2009) and is the recipient of the 2008 Winterhouse Award for Design Writing & Criticism. Find him at www.davidbarringer.com.
Claire Barwise is a recent graduate of the MFA program at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Her work has appeared in Elimae and is forthcoming in Fawlt Magazine.
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.
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.
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/.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jami Brandli’s stories have been published in Salt Hill, Other Voices, and Memorious, and her short plays have been produced across the country. A finalist for Disney ABC’s 2008 Writing Fellowship, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband where she’s at work on a novel and scripts for both stage and screen. Jami does the bicoastal thing, teaching dramatic writing at ULCA Extension and Lesley University’s low-residency MFA program.
Andrew Brininstool’s work has recently appeared in Best New American Voices 2010. His stories have also received the 2007 Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award from Mid-American Review, runner-up notation from Playboy’s College Fiction Contest, the Editors’ Prize from New Ohio Review, and have appeared in numerous journals. He lives in Texas and is currently at work on a novel: a fairy tale about professional bass fishing.
Randall Brown teaches at Saint Joseph’s University and Rosemont College, holds an MFA from Vermont College, and is the lead editor at Smokelong Quarterly. He is the author of the award-winning collection Mad to Live (Flume Press, 2008).
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.
Dan Buck’s collection, This Days Wait, was recently published by Highwater Books. He writes for more than 100 publications on a regular basis.
Stace Budzko has recently been published in Southeast Review, Smokelong Quarterly, Long Story Short, The Binnacle, and Diner. His work can be found in Norton’s Flash Fiction Forward and Rose Metal Press’s Brevity and Echo. He was a finalist for the Raymond Carver Short Story Award, the 2006 Richard Yates Short Story Award, and the World’s Best Short-Short Story Contest. He holds an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College where he currently teaches writing. In addition, he is the writer-in-residence at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. At present, he is working on his first novel.
Aaron Burch has stories out recently in New York Tyrant, Barrelhouse, Pank, and Another Chicago Magazine. His chapbook, How to Predict the Weather, should be out soon (if it isn’t already), and he edits Hobart.
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.
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.
Blake Butler is the author of EVER (Calamari Press 01/09) and Scorch Atlas (Calamari Press, forthcoming September 2009). His work has appeared in Ninth Letter, Willow Springs, Quick Fiction, Harpur Palate, New York Tyrant, etc. He lives in Atlanta and edits No Colony and htmlgiant.com.
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.
Kenneth Calhoun has recently published fiction in the St. Petersburg Review, Salt Hill Journal, and the 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 this fall.
Kate Hill Cantrill’s fiction has appeared most recently in Caketrain, Sidebrow, Sleepingfish, and SmokeLong Quarterly. She lives in Brooklyn where she teaches for the Sackett Street Workshop. She is writing a novel as well as a chapbook of flash fiction.
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.
Pamela Hobart Carter earned her MS in geology and lives atop glacial deposits in Seattle, Washington. She has a poem forthcoming in Barrow Street.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
Kim Chinquee’s collection of flash fiction, Oh Baby, was published by Ravenna Press, and her collection of prose poetry and flash, Pretty, is forthcoming from White Pine Press. She lives in Buffalo, New York.
Amy L. Clark is an assistant professor of college composition at Pine Manor College. Her collection Wanting was recently published by Rose Metal Press as part of A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness: Four Chapbooks of Short Short Fiction by Four Women, and her work can be found in Hobart, Action Yes Quarterly, and other journals. Her online home is www.overtimewriting.com. Amy is planning to be a rocket surgeon when she grows up.
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.
Myfanwy Collins has work published or forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, Cream City Review, Agni, Jabberwock Review, Saranac Review, Potomac Review, Mississippi Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, and other venues. Please visit her at www.myfanwycollins.com.
“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.
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.
Thomas Cooper, a 2008 Pushcart Prize nominee, has published short stories in Lake Effect, Beloit Fiction Journal, Night Train, Keyhole Magazine, Opium, and elsewhere. He is at work on a short story collection and novel. Visit him at www.myspace.com/thepapercastle.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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 past lives, Allison deFreese has been a foreign correspondent, a uniprof, and Yule Feast wench. She lives with her dearly beloved in Portland, Oregon.
Tom DeMarchi teaches at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, Florida. When not teaching or sleeping, hes directing the Sanibel Island Writers Conference (www.fgcu.edu/siwc).
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.
Rebecca Donnelly lives on Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. She is working on her master's thesis in literature, and her writing has been published in Watershed and Sandscript.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Elizabeth Ellen is the author of Before You She Was a Pit Bull (Future Tense) and Sixteen Miles Outside of Phoenix (Rose Metal Press). She is deputy editor of Hobart and lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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.
Christen Enos lives and teaches in Boston. Raised in Massachusetts, she studied film as an undergraduate at NYU, and received her MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College. In a past life, she worked as a CBS casting assistant and as a receptionist at a celebrity PR firm. Her work has also appeared in or is forthcoming from The New Orleans Review, Quick Fiction, The Portland Review, and Natural Bridge.
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.
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/.
Susannah Felts is the author of the novel This Will Go Down on Your Permanent Record (Featherproof Books, 2008). Her stories and essays have appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, Quarterly West, The Chicago Reader, Swivel, The Sun, Pindeldyboz, McSweeneys, and other journals and webzines. She currently lives in Birmingham, Alabama with her husband and daughter.
Kathy Fish’s stories are published or forthcoming in Indiana Review, Denver Quarterly, New South, and elsewhere. A collection of her work is now available as part of Rose Metal Press’s A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness: Four Chapbooks of Short Short Fiction by Four Women.
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.
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.
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.
Angela Jane Fountas is a writer-in-residence at Richard Hugo House and runs WriteHabit.org, a website in support of emerging writers. Her work has appeared in Quick Fiction, Sentence, Redivider, Elimae, Diagram.2 (Del Sol Press, 2006), and elsewhere. She earned her MFA in creative writing from the University of Alabama.
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.
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.
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.
Emily Fridlund teaches writing at Washington University in St. Louis. She has fiction upcoming in Boston Review.
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.
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.
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.
Jamey Gallagher is currently working on a collection of short stories. He has an ongoing online project at www.jrnl1.com/365.
Scott Garson has stories in current or upcoming issues of New York Tyrant, SmokeLong Quarterly, Sojourn, Keyhole, No Colony, Avery Anthology, FRiGG, and others. He edits Wigleaf, an online journal of very short fiction.
Clifford Garstangs work has appeared in The Baltimore Review, Potomac Review, GSU Review, and elsewhere. A former globe-trotting lawyer, he now lives in Virginia.
Molly Gaudry is a graduate of the University of Cincinnatis masters fiction program, and her writing appears or is forthcoming in Serendipity, Titular, UpRightDown, Lamination Colony, Robot Melon, and Wigleaf. She is a cofounding editor of Twelve Stories, the editor of Willows Wept Review, and she blogs at greencitynews.blogspot.com.
Luke Geddes lives in Kansas with his girlfriend and cat. His fiction has appeared in Knock and Pindeldyboz, and he is coeditor of Tobybashi, a new literary journal specializing in first-person fiction. He attends Wichita State University, where he has been awarded the Barr Fellowship.
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.
Barry Graham was recently inducted into the Riddle Solvers Society Hall of Fame after solving Einstein’s Riddle in thirty-seven minutes. His debut short-story collection, The National Virginity Pledge, is coming soon. Be ready: it’s mind-numbing. Look for him in Storyglossia, Hobart, Elimae, SmokeLong Quarterly, Pindeldyboz, Wigleaf, and others.
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 NPRs All Things Considered.
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.
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.
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.
Lydia Copeland’s stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Elimae, Glimmer Train, FRiGG, Dogzplot, and others. She is the author of Haircut Stories, available from the Achilles Chapbook Series. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and son.
Hannah Harlow markets other people’s books for a living. She has an MFA from Bennington College and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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.
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.
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.
Mickey Hess is assistant professor of English at Rider University and the author of Big Wheel at the Cracker Factory, which was featured as “Critic’s Choice” in The Chicago Reader, described as “thoroughly humorous” by The Cleveland Plain-Dealer, and mentioned online at The New Yorker, Poets & Writers, and USA Today. Mickey’s stories and essays have been published in Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: Best of McSweeney’s Humor Category and such journals as McSweeney’s, Ninth Letter, Punk Planet, Fourteen Hills, Pear Noir, Opium Magazine, and Foundling Review. He is also the author of three books on hip-hop music and culture.
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.
Elizabeth Hille lives and writes in San Francisco. Her work has also appeared in Glimmer Train and on Nerve.com and Salon.com.
B. J. Hollars, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, is a graduate of Knox College. Currently, he is pursuing an MFA in writing at the University of Alabama.
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/).
Thomas Israel Hopkins has had a kind of love/hate relationship with the island of sleeplessness for decades. Although he is enamored of the idea of a blog that’s only open during business hours, you can learn more online, any time, at tomhop.com.
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.
Yuka Igarashi is earning an MFA in fiction from Columbia University, where she also teaches undergraduate academic writing. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Liesl Jobson is a South African writer. She has authored 100 Papers: A Collection of Prose Poems and Flash Fiction (Botsotso, 2008) and a volume of poetry, View from an Escalator (Botsotso, 2008). She was awarded a grant from the National Library of South Africa (2007), the Ernst van Heerden Creative Writing Award (2006), the POWA Women’s Writing Poetry Prize (2005), and received a special mention in the Pushcart Prize anthology (2008). She is the editor of Poetry International’s South African domain and will be reading at the Frank O’Connor Short Story Festival and Poetry Africa this year.
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.
Toshiya Kamei is the translator of The Curse of Eve and Other Stories (2008) by Liliana V. Blum, as well as selected works by Édgar Omar Avilés.
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.
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.
Stefan Kiesbye is the author of the novel Next Door Lived a Girl and the upcoming story collection The Devil’s Moor. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Sanaz and their dog Dunkin.
Andrea Kneeland has no plans for the future. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in a number of journals, including 580 Split, Hobart, American Letters & Commentary, VOX, Caketrain, Diagram, Alice Blue, Night Train, Lamination Colony, Elimae, and Dogzplot. Her first collection of short stories, Damage Control, is forthcoming from Paper Hero Press.
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.
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.
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.
Charles Lennox lives and loves in Orange, California. He has writing published or forthcoming in Frigg, SmokeLong Quarterly, Robot Melon, Wigleaf, Mud Luscious, and Keyhole, among other fine places. You will find hints of him at www.otherbeasts.blogspot.com.
Ellen Jordis Lewis lives in Portland, Oregon, where she writes advertising copy and stories.
Veronica Liu’s writing, photography, silkscreen prints, and comics have appeared in Broken Pencil, Pax Americana, Promethean, We’ll Never Have Paris, among other journals and zines in Canada and in the United States. She is cofounder of the publishing collective Fractious Press and coeditor of the literary journal [sic].
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.
Sean Lovelace is on a river right now. He has a spinning rod and a beer. Other times he teaches at Ball State University. He recently won the Crazyhorse Fiction Prize, and his works have appeared in Black Warrior Review, Puerto del Sol, Willow Springs, and so on.
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.
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.
Jonathan Mack has stories forthcoming in Quarter After Eight and in the anthology Jungle Crows. He lives in Tokyo.
Nina MacLaughlin lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She works at an alternative newsweekly. This is her first piece of fiction published in print.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jen Marquardt is a PhD candidate in creative writing at the University of Southern Mississippi. She likes red shoes.
Lee Martin is the author of three novels, including Pulitzer Prize finalist The Bright Forever, two memoirs, and a story collection. His short fiction has appeared in journals such as The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, MS., and Glimmer Train. He currently directs the Creative Writing program at Ohio State University.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Michael Meyerhofer’s second book, Blue Collar Eulogies, is forthcoming from Steel Toe Books. His first book, Leaving Iowa, won the Liam Rector First Book Award. He has also published four chapbooks. His work has appeared in Ploughshares, North American Review, Arts & Letters, River Styx, Sentence and, others.
Michael K. Meyers has published fiction in The New Yorker, Fiction, Chelsea, Quick Fiction, Chicago Noir, Word Riot, and forthcoming in Nano Fiction. His audio flash fictions can be found at Madhatter and 2River, and a video at Ninth Letter. An audio CD of flash fiction, Once Again Doctor Freud’s Horse Has Gone Missing, has recently been published. He teaches creative writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His web site is michaelkmeyers.com.
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/.
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.
Mary Millers stories can be found in Oxford American, Mississippi Review, Black Clock, Quick Fiction, and New Stories from the South 2008. Her short story collection, Big World, is forthcoming from Short Flight/Long Drive Books.
Mary Miller’s short story collection, Big World, is forthcoming from Short Flight/Long Drive Books. Her chapbook of flash fiction, Less Shiny, is available now from Magic Helicopter Press. Her stories have been published in the Oxford American, Mississippi Review, Black Clock, Quick Fiction, and New Stories from the South (2008).
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.
Craig Moodie is the author of four novels and three short-story collections, including the young-adult novel, Seaborn, and the forthcoming novel for middle-grade readers, Traps, both from Roaring Brook Press. His fiction and prose poetry have appeared in Quick Fiction, Wavelength, Northeast, Sentence, and elsewhere. You can see more of his work at www.moodiebooks.com or www.wharfratwrites.com.
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.
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.
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.
Taylur Thu Hien Ngo was a PEN/Rosenthal Emerging Voices fellow and has an MFA in creative writing from San Diego State University. She is currently at work on a historical novel. Visit her at taylurthuhienngo.com.
Dylan Nice is from central Pennsylvania and now lives in Iowa, which is easier to spell. He has two short stories in Noon (2009).
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.
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.
Jim O’Loughlin’s fiction has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Flatmancrooked First Winter, North American Review, and The First Line. He is the publisher of Final Thursday Press and coordinates the Final Thursday Reading Series in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
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.
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.
Pamela 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.
Salvatore Pane is a third-year MFA candidate in fiction at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the editor of the literary journal Hot Metal Bridge, and his work has previously been published in Folio.
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.
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.
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.
Kim Parko lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with her husband and dog. Her poetry and fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in 3rd bed, Caketrain, Diagram, Fourteen Hills, Pindeldyboz, ML Press, Ocho, Jubilat, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, The Rest of the World Seems Unlikely, is available through the Achilles Chapbook Series.
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.
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).
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.
G. C. Perry’s fiction has appeared in Hobart, What Happened to Us These Last Couple Years? (Elope Press), See You Next Tuesday: The Second Coming (Better Non Sequitur), Year of the Thief (Thieves Jargon Press), and Small Voices, Big Confessions (Edit Red), as well as numerous places on the internet, including FRiGG, Pindeldyboz, and Noö Journal. He lives in South London.
Jennifer Pieroni is Editor in Chief of Quick Fiction.
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.
Pedro Ponce is the author of Superstitions of Apartment Life (Burnside Review Press). His fiction has appeared previously in Ploughshares, Diagram, Elimae, Many Mountains Moving, Opium Magazine, Quick Fiction, and other publications. His work has also been anthologized in You Have Time for This: Contemporary American Short-Short Stories, PP/FF: An Anthology, Diagram.2, and The Beacon Best of 2001.
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.
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.
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.
James Reed’s fiction has appeared in such magazines as Sou’wester and Bat City Review as well as the anthology Tribute to Orpheus.
Jessica Reed is a writer and artist. She currently lives in Brookly, NY.
On clear evenings, Jeff Reichman dons a reflective vest, grabs two flashlights, and attempts to influence flight patterns from his back patio.
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/.
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.
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.
Andrew Michael Roberts is the author of something has to happen next, selected for the 2008 Iowa Prize for Poetry. He has written two chapbooks, Dear Wild Abandon, selected for a 2007 PSA National Chapbook Award, and Give Up (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2006). His poems can be found in journals such as Tin House, Iowa Review, LIT, Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, and Gulf Coast.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Helen Klein Ross is a veteran advertising copywriter whose fiction and poetry appears in Salmagundi, Mid-American Review, and Bellevue Literary Review, and online at Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood and Tupelo Press Poetry Project. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and two daughters.
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.
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.
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.
Kirsten Rue is a 2008 graduate of the University of Washington’s MFA program, where she specialized in fiction. She is the recipient of a Joyce Waddell fellowship and a nomination for the Best New American Voices anthology. She currently lives and writes in Seattle.
Jake Ruiter’s work has appeared previously in Quick Fiction and online at SmokeLong Quarterly, and Mcsweeney’s Internet Tendency. He now lives in New Hampshire and could certainly use your help stacking the four cords of wood in his driveway. Did he mention there is free coffee and scintillating conversation?
Jim Ruland is the author of the short-story collection Big Lonesome and the host of the Los Angeles–based reading series Vermin on the Mount. He lives in San Diego with his wife, the visual artist Nuvia Crisol Guerra.
Joanna Ruocco lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where she coedits Birkensnake, a fiction journal. Her first book, The Mothering Coven, is forthcoming from Ellipsis Press in Fall 2009.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Kimberly Sanfeliz is an editorial intern with Quick Fiction. She is currently earning her BFA in Writing, Literature and Publishing from Emerson College.
Shuchi Saraswat is pursuing her MFA at Emerson College, where she is working on her first novel, and moonlights as the fiction editor of Fringe Magazine. This is her first publication.
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.
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.
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.
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.
James Scott lives and writes in Boston. His fiction has been published in One Story and American Short Fiction, among other places, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best New American Voices. He received his MFA from Emerson College, where he was the fiction editor of Redivider.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
Peter Jay Shippy is the author of three books, Thieves’ Latin (Univ. of Iowa Press), Alphaville (BlazeVOX Books), and a new novella-in-verse, How to Build the Ghost in Your Attic (Rose Metal Press). His work has recently appeared in The American Poetry Review, Missouri Review, and Shenandoah, among others. He teaches literature at Emerson College in Boston.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Claudia Smith is the author of the flash fiction collections The Sky Is a Well and Other Shorts (Rose Metal Press, 2007) and Put Your Head in My Lap (Future Tense Books, 2009). Her stories have appeared online and in print in such places as Failbetter, Sou’wester, and Norton’s New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories from America and Beyond. She lives and writes in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. More about Claudia and her work can be found at www.claudiaweb.net.
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.
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.
Kelly Spitzer lives in the Pacific Northwest. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Redivider, The Binnacle, Cream City Review, Cezanne’s Carrot, Flashquake, Vestal Review, NOÖ Journal, and other publications. She is a recipient of a 2008 Pushcart Prize nomination. Visit her at www.kellyspitzer.com.
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.
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.
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.
Don Strange lives and writes in Pittsburgh. His fiction has appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review. He is currently working on a novel.
Michael Stutz is the author of The Linux Cookbook, and his work has appeared in McSweeney’s, Wired, Rolling Stone, and in other magazines and books. He’s recently completed a novel and is at work on another.
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.
Stephen Sundin has recently published poems in the Prose Poem: An International Journal, Denver Quarterly, Folio and Luna.
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.
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).
Michael Thurston teaches English at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.
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.
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.
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.
Corinna Vallianatos lives in Iowa City.
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.
Anthony Varallo’s second short-story collection, Out Loud, won the 2008 Drue Heinz Literature Prize (University of Pittsburgh Press). His first collection, This Day in History, won the 2005 John Simmons Short Fiction Award (University of Iowa Press). His stories have appeared in Gettysburg Review, New England Review, Epoch, Black Warrior Review, Shenandoah, Harvard Review, and elsewhere, and have received an NEA Fellowship in Literature. Currently he is an assistant professor of English at the College of Charleston, where he is the fiction editor for Crazyhorse.
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.
William Walsh is the author of Questionstruck (Keyhole Press, 2009) and Without Wax (Casperian Books, 2008). His stories and texts have appeared in New York Tyrant, Caketrain, Lit, Rosebud, Annalemma, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and other journals. A collection called Ampersand, Mass. will be published by Keyhole Press in spring 2010.
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.
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/.
Jensen Whelan’s stories have appeared Quick Fiction, Opium, Elimae, Hobart, and others. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife and two sons, where he is in the MFA Program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is an associate web editor at Hobart and keeps an unremarkable blog at jensenw.blogspot.com.
Luke Whisnant is the author of the story collection Down in the Flood and the novel Watching TV with the Red Chinese, currently being made into an independent film by Blue Water Productions. He teaches creative writing at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, where he also edits Tar River Poetry.
Jacob White’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Georgia Review, The Sewanee Review, New Letters, Third Coast, and other journals. He received a Ph.D. in literature and creative writing at the University of Houston and now lives in upstate New York.
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).
Daniel E. Wickett founded the Emerging Writers Network in 2000 and cofounded Dzanc Books in 2006. He has edited an anthology of short stories, Visiting Hours (Press 53, 2008).
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.
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.
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.
Kevin Wilson is a native of Winchester, TN. His stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, Carolina Quarterly, Shenandoah, Other Voices, and elsewhere.
Blythe Winslow lives in Cincinnati, Ohio and coedits the online literary journal Twelve Stories. She received her MFA from University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and her fiction has appeared in journals such as New Delta Review, Monkeybicycle, Dogzplot, and Night Train. She lives online at www.blythewinslow.com.
Spencer Wise is working on an MA in creative writing at the University of Texas and is associate fiction editor for the Bat City Review. His stories are forthcoming in StoryQuarterly and 3:AM Magazine.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Rachel Yoder has written for The New York Times, The Sun Magazine, Opium Magazine, Cimarron Review, and Pank. Her writing is also forthcoming in Kenyon Review Online. She is an Iowa Arts Fellow in the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa.
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.”
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.
Mike Young coedits Noö Journal. He is the author of two forthcoming chapbooks: MC Oroville’s Answering Machine (Transmission Press) and Real Sturdy Thing (Stormy Petrel Press). His work has appeared in Nerve, Hobart, Elimae, Juked, Online Writing: The Best of the First Ten Years, and elsewhere. Visit him at www.noojournal.com/mike.
Eugenia Lily Yu lives and studies in Princeton Junction, New Jersey. This is her first appearance in print.
Mabel Yu is a native of the Washington, D.C. area and a graduate of Eastern Washington University’s MFA program. Her work has appeared in Knockout and online USA Today, and is forthcoming in Inkwell and Quarter After Eight.
Amy Zipperer recently received her MFA from Georgia College & State University where she worked as the assistant drama editor for Arts & Letters: Journal of Contemporary Culture. Amy continues to teach at Georgia College.