| Joe Amaral is a paramedic by trade and loves writing poetry and stories in between running emergency calls on his sometimes endless 48-hour shifts. His inspiration is the colorful and sometimes tragic people he meets while responding to these medical calls. Joe immensely enjoys the outdoors, so much so that he received his college degree in Forestry and Natural Resources Management. On his well-deserved days off, Joe can be found hiking in Big Sur with his wife and their dog. He is also plotting his next out-of-country cultural getaway, which have previously included Portuguese language courses in Lisbon and exploring the Caribbean. Mateo Amaral is a writer from the San Francisco Bay Area currently living abroad in Central America. His work has recently appeared in The California Aggie and The Gnu, where his poetry won the Editor's Pick award for the Winter 2009 Issue. Mateo is currently working on a second novel, as well as a book documenting his experiences traveling through Central and South America for the next nine months. You can keep track of Mateo's travel blog, Complete Spanish Diversion on Glimpse.org and Travelblog.org. He currently lives with his wife in Playa Samara, Costa Rica, but will be moving soon. Sarah Ashwood—a genuine “Okie from Muskogee”—is a full-time college student working towards a B.A. in English with an emphasis on creative writing from American Military University. Her work has appeared in such publications as Art and Prose, Aoife’s Kiss, Flashing Swords Press, Mindflights, Outdoors Spectacular, The Lorelei Signal, Abandoned Towers, New Myths, TeenAge, Silver Blade, Wanderings Magazine, Devozine, The Digital Dragon, Golden Visions, and Strong Verse. As of October 2009, her work is forthcoming from Homeschooling Today, The APUS Eagle, Dunesteef Audio Fiction, and The Opinion Guy. Sarah’s first book, a volume of poetry titled A Minstrel's Musings, was published by Cyberwizard Productions in April 2009. In 2010, Sarah’s young-adult fantasy novel, Knight’s Rebirth, will be published by the same. Along with her cousin, Carol Green, Sarah is co-editor of the fantasy ezine, Moon Drenched Fables. Visit her at www.sarahashwood.com. Kristy Athens writes nonfiction and short fiction that has been published in a number of magazines, newspapers and literary journals, most recently Babel Fruit, Greenbeard, Tonopah Review, and Stone’s Throw Magazine. She has work forthcoming from High Desert Journal. She coordinates the Plein Air Writing Exhibition at the Columbia Center for the Arts, and is a guest blogger for New Oregon Arts & Letters. She has served on the boards of the Hood River County Cultural Trust, Independent Publishing Resource Center, and Northwest Writers. She edited Columbia Gorge Magazine, and ran the Oregon Book Awards and Oregon Literary Fellowships programs of Literary Arts from 1999 to 2006. She also makes text-infused, repurposed collage greeting cards available at http://ithaka.etsy.com. Ellen Black is writing a book that describes growing up in a religious cult in East Texas. She earns a living as a technical writer, and works as an intuitive counselor, while also blogging about life on her web site, www.9elephants.com. Ellen’s poetry has been published in Illya's Honey, Fauquier Poetry Journal, and South Ash Press. In 2005, Ellen won first prize in the Richardson Public Library's annual poetry contest. Ellen writes poetry because unexpected endings are a gift, as are her daughter, friends, and cats. Shane Bondi is a recent graduate of Colorado State University's MFA program in Creative Writing. Her nonfiction has been published in High Country News, Rocky Mountain Nature Association Newsletter, and in an anthology of eco-essays. Leah Browning is the author of three nonfiction books for teens and pre-teens. Her first chapbook, Making Love to the Same Man for Fifteen Years, was released by Big Table Publishing in 2009. Her second chapbook, Picking Cherries in the Española Valley, is forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press. Browning's fiction, poetry, essays, and articles have previously appeared in a variety of publications, including Queen's Quarterly, 42opus, Brink Magazine, and The Northville Review. Her work has also appeared on a broadside from Broadsided Press, on postcards from the program Poetry Jumps Off the Shelf, and in several anthologies. Her personal website is www.leahbrowning.com. Karen Campbell is a final year Creative Writing and English undergraduate student at the University of Chester, and a part-time dental receptionist. She grew up in Wexford, in the southeast of Ireland, and has been writing stories and poetry since childhood. Her favorite authors include Michael Ondaatje, Kurt Vonnegut, and Sylvia Plath. After graduation, she hopes to work in the publishing industry and become a published author in her own right. In her free time, she enjoys live music, travelling, and cycling. She currently lives in Chester with her boyfriend and their cat. Richard Cody, a native Californian, has been known to write poetry and fiction of varying lengths. His work has appeared in many print and online journals. He has recently self-published two volumes of poetry and a collection of short horror stories - look for The Jewel in The Moment, Darker Corners, and This is Not My Heart at http://stores.lulu.com/rcodywrites. Paul Cooper is a writer from Cardiff, currently studying in the University of Warwick and living in Leamington Spa. He is a poet and novelist, boxer and ukuleleist. He has had various short stories and poems published in magazines, but has yet to publish any novels, the genius of which have gone unrecognized by publishers. Alana Dakin is a native of Athens, Ohio, and is currently earning a B.A. in English at Ohio University's Honors Tutorial College. She digs mochas and Bob Dylan on harmonica. Mariah Daley is a former teacher and current changer-of-diapers. She has been writing off and on for years. Bouts of prolific writing have been interspersed with brief periods of not writing due to a focus on revision and submission, and much longer periods of not writing due to a focus on breast feeding and/or reality television. Ms. Daley submits work for publication in an attempt to amass a respectable collection of rejection letters, and not due to any delusional belief that she is an actual writer. She is well aware that real writers do not watch The Bachelorette. Alex DeBonis teaches writing and literature in rural West Tennessee, and his work has appeared in Storyglossia, Review of Contemporary Fiction, no touching, The Novel and Short Story Writer’s Market, and Cincinnati CityBeat. Also, he's often surprised by the amount of old food he discovers on his shirts once he takes them off. Aleathia Drehmer can be found in any direction the wind blows, chasing nature around dark corners. She lives in rural Painted Post in upstate New York with her darling daughter and one crazy cat. Aleathia has been lucky enough to be published in many online and print journals in the small press over the last few years. Aleathia does special edition books for Zygote in my Coffee from time to time. She will share a 69 Flip Book from Tainted Coffee Press called “Empty Spaces/A Quiet Learning Curve” with Dan Provost. Her previously published work can be viewed at www.myabdication.blogspot.com. Helen Dring lives in Liverpool with a dog who likes to eat books. She has work in print at Southpaw Journal, Six Sentences, Queerzinelit, and Four and Twenty. She can be found on the internet at http://www.helendring.co.uk. Robert C. Eccles is a radio news reporter and anchor who enjoys writing short stories. Michelle Filippini's poetry and creative nonfiction have been published in Kanilehua, where one of her poems took the first-place poetry prize; Sierra Nevada Review; Two Hawks Quarterly; Language and Culture; and Suss: Another Literary Journal. Donna Gagnon lives in a bright blue and yellow house in Canada. Her work has appeared in The Fib Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, Every Day Fiction, Short Story Library, Rumble, Bewildering Stories, Pen Pricks Microfiction, Smokebox, Wingspan Quarterly, Twisted Tongue, Gold Dust Magazine, and Gatto Publishing's Short StoriEs e-anthology. Her collection of interlinking prose poems, “Two Double Beds in a Comfort Hotel,” appears in New Writings in the Fantastic, edited by John Grant (aka Paul Barnett), published by Pendragon Press. With her husband, Doug Pugh, Donna co-administers the international online writers' forum, The Write Idea, and co-edits TheRightEyedDeer, a quarterly literary ezine. Diana Gallagher is a writer from Long Island, NY, who's still working on her surfing skills. Her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have been published in Transition, NeoVox, Xenith, and Bright Light Café. Louis Gallo was born and raised in New Orleans, and now teaches at Radford University in Virginia. His work has appeared in American Literary Review, Glimmer Train, Berkeley Fiction Review, Rattle, Contemporary American Voices, Poetry Magazine, New Orleans Review, Texas Review, Missouri Review, The Ledge (pushcart nominee), Raving Dove (pushcart nominee), Xavier Review, Bartleby- Snopes, storySouth, Oregon Literary Review, Tampa Review, Poetry Midwest, Wide Awake in the Pelican State (LSU anthology) and many others. He has two poetry chapbooks forthcoming in early 2010. Steven Anthony George resides in Fairmont, West Virginia, where he works as a life skills coach for a homeless recovery program. He earned a BA in English and has worked as a poetry editor for the literary journal Kestrel. In 2005, he earned a one-on-one adjudication of his work by poet Maggie Anderson. He has twice traveled to Peru, where he wrote an extended travel narrative. He has worked on multimedia projects with visual and performance artists, and he is currently collaborating with photographer Mikeal Béland. Chris Hagen is a bookseller and storyteller. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and son. Randall Horton is a poet originally from Birmingham, AL, now living in West Haven, CT. He is the author of The Definition of Place and The Lingua Franca of Ninth Street, both from Main Street Rag. He has an MFA from Chicago State University and a PhD from SUNY, Albany. Randall is also a Cave Canem Fellow. His poems most recently appeared in Crab Orchard Review and Red Clay Review. He currently teaches at the University of New Haven. Andrew Jones lives in California with his wife and daughter. He works as an editor for a mathematics textbook publisher. His writing has previously appeared in publications such as Farmhouse Magazine, Poetry Midwest, Tattoo Highway, and Red River Review, among others. Bryan Jones’s short fiction has appeared recently in Metazen, DOGZPLOT, Diddledog, Willows Wept Review, and apt: an online literary journal. He lives and works in Texas. Michael A. Kechula is a retired tech writer. His fiction has won first place in 9 contests and placed in 7 others. He’s also won 4 Editor’s Choice awards. His stories have been published by 118 magazines and 32 anthologies in Australia, Canada, England, India, Scotland, and the US. He’s authored two books of flash and micro-fiction stories: A Full Deck of Zombies--61 Speculative Fiction Tales and The Area 51 Option and 70 More Speculative Fiction Tales. E-Book versions available at www.BooksForABuck.com and www.fictionwise.com. Paperback version available at www.amazon.com. Ger Killeen is the author of several books including A Stone That Will Leap Over The Waves (Trask House); A Wren, winner of the Bluestem Award; Signs Following (Parlor Press, 2005); and Blood Orbits (Parlor Press, 2009). His work has been anthologized in From Here We Speak: Oregon Poetry (OSU Press), and in American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie-Mellon University Press). He is a member of the editorial board of Free Verse. His forthcoming books will be translations of the Galician poet Álvaro Cunqueiro, and a new collection of prose poems. He is a winner of the 2006 and 2007 Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative Poetry. Killeen teaches at Marylhurst University in Oregon. Kim Klugh and her husband live in Lancaster, PA, and have three grown children. She has been published in the Lifestyle section of Intelligencer Journal, as well as several regional periodicals including BusinessWoman, “b” magazine, Susquehanna Life, Central PA Magazine, and Lancaster City Living. Most recently, she’s had an essay chosen for inclusion in My Dad is My Hero, an anthology of stories honoring fathers and released by Adams Media in May 2009. Her poetry has appeared at vox poetica. Annmarie Lockhart is the founding editor of vox poetica, an online poetry salon dedicated to bringing poetry into the everyday. She has been reading and writing poetry since she could read and write. A lifelong Bergen County, New Jersey, resident, she lives two miles from the hospital where she was born. Hay Machine (e) is an old Irish poet. He lives in Dublin, by the sea. He writes when he can and every now and then something worthwhile, in his opinion, appears on the page. More Hay Machine (e) at http://www.dreamagic.com/poetry/machine.html. Tim Marsh is an instructor and curriculum developer for Stenden University, Bali. His work has appeared in, or is forthcoming from, The Crab Orchard Review, The Newfoundland Quarterly, The New Quarterly, Waccamaw, Green Hills Literary Lantern, and Toasted Cheese, among others. Doug Mathewson is an editor and writer of short fiction who lives on Connecticut's eastern shore. He is editor of Blink-Ink, contributing editor of MUST, and a participating member of the Harbinger 33 project. Most recently his work can be found at The Boston Literary Magazine, The Binnacle, Callused Hands, e- Muse, Full of Crow, Right Hand Pointing, riverbabble, and Poor Mojo’s Almanac(k). His somewhat more episodic fiction “True Stories From Imaginary Lives” is available at www.little2say.org. Gwendolyn Joyce Mintz is a fiction writer and poet. Her work has appeared in various online and print journals. Her chapbook Mother Love was published by Unlikely 2.0 Press and is available for download at http://www.unlikelystories.org/mintz0607.shtml. Charles Musser writes poetry and short stories for fame and money in Lansing, Michigan. He often travels on lonely and dangerous wilderness trails with his intrepid Golden Retriever and friend, Benjamin, who shamelessly appreciates the biscuit-crisp to the strophe-elegant. His work has appeared in numerous venues, both pixel and print. C.J. Opperthauser is a student at Central Michigan University, majoring in English. He enjoys fishing and the works of Peter Markus and William Carlos Williams. C.J. also listens to an obscene amount of blues music. He has been published in Snakeskin and Identity Theory, and runs a literary website, Five Fishes Journal. Meg Pokrass’s story “Leaving Hope Ranch” in Storyglossia was chosen for Wigleaf ‘s Top 50, 2009. “Lost and Found,” in elimae, was chosen in May 2009 by Storyglossia for the Short Story Month showcase. Meg’s many stories and poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Gigantic, Annalemma, 3AM, The Pedestal, Toronto Quarterly, decomP, Pank, JMWW, Mud Luscious, Juked, Pindeldyboz, SmokeLong Quarterly, Wigleaf, Elimae, Keyhole, Frigg, Wordriot, The Rose and Thorn, Thieves Jargon, Eclectica, Kitty Snacks, Rumble, and various upcoming anthologies of flash, including Dogs: Wet and Dry. Meg serves as a staff editor for SmokeLong Quarterly, and is currently mentoring with Dzanc’s Creative Writing Sessions. Her blog, with prompts and writing exercises can be found at http://www. megpokrass.com. Sue Pickard is a married mother-of-three, and she’s got to the age where it’s polite not to ask. She works as a Careers Adviser, probably because she never had any firm career ideas of her own, but given her time again, would probably go into journalism. She‘d like to say she writes because she has to, but that’s far too pompous. She writes because she likes to and because it makes her life a little less ordinary. She’s had a go at most things—poetry, novels, plays, short stories—with a few very minor successes, enough to keep going. Jonathan Pinnock was born in Bedfordshire, England, and—despite having so far visited over forty other countries—has failed to relocate any further away than the next-door county of Hertfordshire. He is married with two children, several cats and a 1961 Ami Continental jukebox. His work has won several prizes, shortlistings and longlistings, and he has been published in such diverse publications as Litro, Every Day Fiction, and Necrotic Tissue. His unimaginatively-titled yet moderately interesting website is at www.jonathanpinnock.com, and you can follow him on Twitter as @jonpinnock. Kenneth Radu's stories have appeared or are forthcoming online in Foundling Review, Two Hawks Quarterly, Clearfield Review, vis a tergo, Northville Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Quebec. Andrew Rihn is the author of several slim volumes of poetry, including chapbooks forthcoming from Winged City Press and sunnyoutside press. He is twenty-five and lives in Canton, OH. Mark Rosenblum is a New York native who now lives in Southern California, where he misses the taste of real pizza and good deli food. Mark has been published in Mindprints, Tiferet, Thirteen Magazine, Insolent Rudder, AlienSkin Magazine, Boston Literary Magazine, Everyday Fiction, and Six Sentences. He was also awarded Honorable Mention in the 2006 Mindprints Flash Fiction Contest, and his writing appears in the anthology Six Sentences, Volume 2. Karen Schindler writes even when she's not writing. A lover of words her whole life, she is amazed and awed when she can string sentences together that touch the heart/mind/funny bone of another soul. She feels lucky that sometimes she manages to do all three. Karen has been or is about to be published at vox poetica, Weird Year and both online and in the 2010 anthology of 52 Stitches. You can find more of her work at Miscellaneous Yammering. Robert Scotellaro's flash fiction has appeared in numerous literary journals, including: Fast Forward (A Collection of Flash Fiction), MicroHorror, Willows Wept Review, Ghoti, Dogzplot, Clockwise Cat, Drabblecast, mud luscious, Storyscape, Tuesday Shorts, Battered Suitcase, Boston Literary Magazine, and others. He is the author of several literary books and chapbooks, and the recipient of Zone 3’s Rainmaker Award in Poetry. Raised in Manhattan, he currently lives with his wife in California . Ray Sharp lives on America’s northern coast, the rural, rugged and remote Keweenaw Peninsula, where a wild finger of Michigan juts into Lake Superior. Sharp’s poems are shaped by his experiences in the woods and water and snow, the brief and glorious summers and dark, snowy winters that mark the passage of time in the North Woods. Sharp works in public health, and enjoys biking, skiing and hiking with his dogs. Maureen Sherbondy lives in Raleigh, NC. Her two poetry books are After the Fairy Tale and Praying at Coffee Shops. Her short story collection, The Slow Vanishing, was recently released by Main Street Rag Publishing. Find her at www.maureensherbondy.com. Cassie Premo Steele is an award-winning poet and the author of five books and hundreds of poems, essays, and short stories on the themes of mothering, creativity, spirituality and the natural world. She writes a monthly column for Literary Mama's online journal, Birthing the Mother Writer, and she runs creativity and writing workshops in Columbia, South Carolina, and online. www.cassiepremosteele.com. Corinna Underwood originates from the UK but now resides in Atlanta. She has been a published author for ten years. She has previously published short stories in several UK and US magazines, including Lexicon, The Birmingham Review, Virginia Adversaria, Thunder Sandwich, and Suspense magazine. Visit her at www.ambiguousmedia.net. Jason M. Vaughn is a Premium Audit Technician who graduated from the University of Kansas with a BFA in Painting. His work has appeared in The Kansas City Star, Thorny Locust, The River King Poetry Supplement, I-70 Review, The Same, and Green Hills Literary Lantern. He has poetry forthcoming from Blue Unicorn, The Little Balkans Review, and Big Muddy. Jason is also currently working on a novel. Sueann Wells is the adjunct-English-professor-turned-stay-at-home-mom, credited most recently with the editing and publication of Mother Muse (see sueannwells.blogspot.com), as well as many other poetry and prose creations. She blends child's play with academic work daily, and enjoys creative projects of all sorts. Dallas Woodburn is the author of two collections of short stories, a forthcoming novel, and 80 articles in publications including Family Circle, Writer's Digest, and The Los Angeles Times. Her short fiction has appeared in Cicada, Monkeybicycle, flashquake, Palaver, and The Hudson Valley Literary Magazine. Visit www.writeonbooks.org for information about her nonprofit literacy foundation and youth publishing company. Catherine Zickgraf is indebted to Myspace for helping her find her long-lost son whom she placed for adoption two decades ago—thus you can find her blog there: myspace.com/czickgraf. Her poetry has appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Pank, and decomP. She also has work forthcoming in Bartleby-Snopes and GUD Magazine. |
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