| Carl Abt is an English major at the Ohio State University. He has been anthologized by Bewildering Stories, and has over twenty previous or forthcoming publications in The Linnet’s Wings; Ginosko; Ink, Sweat and Tears; and other journals. He has fun writing, watching movies, reading, and contra dancing. And not much fun anywhere else. Joe Amaral is a paramedic by trade whose experiences are shaped by the humorous, disgusting and sometimes tragic patients he treats. Lately, he has taken to jumping on airplanes with the giant paychecks he receives as a paramedic to travel to exotic locales and experience Old World culture and soul, including taking Portuguese language classes in Lisbon, exploring the Caribbean, and crawling to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, the tallest mountain in Africa, where he enjoyed a high altitude lager. Joe’s work has appeared in Eclectic Flash and Paradigm. Lis Anna’s short fiction, films, screenplays, and novels have all been nominated and won awards. She is a five-time WorldFest winner, a Wurlitzer Grant recipient, a New Century Writers winner, Second-Place Winner of the Thomas Wolfe Fiction Award, First-Place winner of the 11th Annual Poet Hunt Award, a four- time Accolade Film Competition winner, and a finalist in the Nicholl Fellowships, the Doris Betts Fiction Award, Chesterfield Film Project and the William Faulkner Competition. Her fiction has been published in Word Riot, The Blotter, Petigru Review, Hot Metal Press, The Smoking Poet, and The MacGuffin Literary Review. www.lisannafilms.com or www.lisanna.net Mary Ann Back, of Mason, Ohio, was awarded the 2009 Bilbo Award in Creative Writing by Thomas More College for her short story, Sadie’s Choice. Publication credits include, A Different Shade of Death, Rose Hill Plantation, and The Summer of My Father. James Bloomfield has been writing flash fiction ever since a copy of Stanley Donwoods’s Tachistoscope introduced him to the style. He loves on the outskirts of London, England, and is lucky enough to be in love with both his job as policeman and his flame-haired fiancé for whom he writes. A. J. Brown has frequent headaches that pulse behind his eyes when he is not writing. The pain abates as he pens story after story on the canvas of someone else's skin. His works have appeared at SNM Horror Magazine, Sex and Murder Magazine, Bards and Sages Quarterly, and Allegory, among others. But now he must get back to writing in order to hold off the impending pain. From paranormal fables to steampunk chronicles, Tonia Brown prefers to pen complex plots, often with hilarious as well as sexy consequences. She resides in North Carolina, although her roots spread a bit deeper thanks to a military upbringing. She has been happily married for many years to the world’s kindest man. Aside from her husband, she shares her home with a brood of moody cats, and her likeness with an identical twin sister. Douglas Campbell's fiction has appeared online and in print in publications such as Literary Potpourri, Flash Me Magazine, Every Day Fiction, Slow Trains Literary Journal, and Jabberwocky. His flash fiction, "Accidents," won the 2007 flash fiction contest held by Many Mountains Moving magazine, and his short story "Something Like That River" won the 2008 Dame Lisbet Throckmorton competition sponsored by Coffee House Fiction. Douglas lives in southwestern Pennsylvania. 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 favourite 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. Arthur C. Carey is a former newspaper reporter and community college journalism instructor who lives in the San Francisco Bay area. He is a member of the California Writers Club. His fiction has appeared in Funny Times, Future Mysteries Anthology Magazine, Humor Press, Dark Treasures Anthology, Humdinger Magazine, Another Realm, Electric Dragon Café, Golden Visions Magazine, Darkened Horizons, Suspense Magazine, Still Crazy, Horror House, and Emerald Tales. A native New Yorker, Thomas Carroll is a freelance writer, poet, and photographer specializing in abstract nature photography. He is currently working on the manuscript, Random Sounds, a psychological novel about a man who looks for happiness by reliving his 23rd year. He lives on the south shore of Long Island and has an affinity for strawberry ice cream, the Yankees, pre-revolutionary American history, and the single Windsor knot. Dom Carter is a third-year undergraduate student at Chester University, reading English Literature and Creative Writing. He grew up in Cornwall before moving away to study. His favourite authors include Lord Byron, Emily Dickinson and Thom Gunn. After graduation, he has no real plans. He would love to live in America for a bit to get a taste of the culture, or stay on to study Creative Writing. He doesn't like ice cream. Richard Cody was born in California but is a native of the Dreamtime (just like you). He has been known to write poems and stories, and to take pictures of things marvelous and mundane. He has recently produced two books of poetry and one of short horror fiction, available at http://stores.lulu.com/rcodywrites. His photos can be viewed at http://www.flickr.com/photos/rcody/. He hopes that you are happy. Mariah Daley is a New England native. She now lives and writes in the Texas Hill Country. Her short stories have appeared in Eclectic Flash and Weirdyear. She is working on her first novel. Gordon Darroch lives in Glasgow. He has been writing for several years at the behest of his family, who love the scent of ink-stained paper on the fire. In the rest of his time he runs, reads, plays the cello and sits in an office. He is married with two children and exists on the Internet at gordondarroch.wordpress.com. Jason Deas is an elementary-school art teacher who likes his job three days a week. He is a songwriter, sculptor, and makes a mean pot of chili. Most of his writing takes place at Georgia campgrounds, inside a three-man tent or sitting at an uncomfortable concrete picnic table. He wouldn’t have it any other way. When he sells his first book, he is going to buy a 70’s-model camper and live the rest of his days in luxury. R. J. Dent is a UK-based freelance poet, novelist, translator, essayist and short story writer. His poetry, novellas, short stories, essays and translations have appeared in numerous magazines and journals, including Philosophy Now, Writer’s Muse, Orbis, Acumen, Inclement, Roundyhouse and Chanticleer, to name but a few. His dark erotic novel, Myth, was published in 2006. His translation of Charles Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil was published by Solar Books in 2009. His poetry collection, Moonstone Silhouettes, was published in 2009. He is currently at work on his next book. Michelle Dennis Evans writes to inspire, take people on a journey and escape their world. She is married, with four children. Michelle won NaNoWriMo in 2009, is published in the 12 Days of Christmas by Jim Wisneski, has been nominated for a readers choice award with Friday Flash, writes poetry for Soft Whisperings and enjoys sharing her faith, family, fiction and homeschooling journey at www.michelledevans. blogspot.com and @michelledevans on twitter. Gavin Eyers is a post room worker who lives in Greenwich, South-East London. He is mid-way through a part-time degree in Literature, is working on a novel and also a collection of short stories. A couple of his very short stories have appeared in anthologies by Leaf Books. When not writing he is usually in the gym, swimming, or asleep on the sofa. Rachel J. Fenton is a writer who paints. Originally from the North of England, where she worked with children with behavioural and learning difficulties from low-socio-economic areas. She relocated to New Zealand in 2007 and now lives in Auckland, where she juggles writing around her young family. She has had flash and prose poetry in Ink, Sweat & Tears, as well as poetry and artwork forthcoming in Writer's Eye. She is currently working on a novel, an historiographic metafiction, and can be found blogging at snowlikethought.blogspot.com. Robert Friedman is a full-time freelance writer of whatever pays the bills. His short stories and humor pieces have appeared in Cosmos Magazine, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Wild Child Publishing, Quantum Muse, Full Unit Hookup, Narrative, Story Quarterly, and elsewhere. Sprung from the wet earth of the South, Michael K. Gause now writes in Minnesota. His first self-published chapbook, The Tequila Chronicles, received honorable mention in The Carbon Based Mistake’s 2004 Art Exchange Program Contest. His second chapbook, I Want To Look Like Henry Bataille, was published in 2006 by Little Poem Press, and, to his knowledge, hasn’t won squat. He is the creator and host of The Dishevel’d Salon, a monthly gathering of artists in the Twin Cities. His website is www.thedayonfire.com. Robert C. J. Graves lives in Emporia, KS, where he teaches writing and communications at Flint Hills Technical College. His poetry and fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous literary journals, including 491 Magazine, Anastomoo, Bijou Poetry Review, Boston Literary Magazine, Calliope Nerve's the Muse Thing, Chickenpinata, Clockwise Cat, Crash, Chiron Review, Eleutheria – The Scottish Poetry Review, Haiku Ramblings, Leaf Garden, The New Flesh, Poetry for the Masses, Prairie Poetry, Shoots and Vines, Vox Poetica, Westward Quarterly, and Word Salad Poetry Magazine. A former bartender and freelance sports writer, Robert holds a PhD in English (Rhetoric and Writing) from Bowling Green and an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Wichita State. Liz Haigh lives in the UK. She writes to escape. What she is escaping from she is unsure. She has had work published in The Legendary, Foundling Review, Blink, Bewildering Stories, Delivered and other places. Jim Harrington lives in Huntersville, NC, with his wife and two cats. His stories have appeared in Apollo's Lyre, Camroc Press Review, Every Day Fiction, The Houston Literary Review, Long Story Short, MicroHorror, Flashshot and others. He currently serves as a flash fiction editor for Apollo’s Lyre. You can read more of his stories at www.jimharringtononline.net. Kyle Hemmings lives and works in New Jersey. His work has been featured in Lacuna Journal, Five Fishes, FourLetterPapers, Breadcrumb Sins, Danse Macabre, and others. Greta Igl’s short fiction has been published by an assortment of online and print publications, including Every Day Fiction, Boston Literary Magazine, Falling Star Magazine, and Word Riot. Her short story, "In Limbo," was nominated for the 2009 StorySouth Million Writers award. Lewis J. Kahler is the Dean of the Center for Arts and Humanities at Mohawk Valley Community College; he also is the co-editor and publisher, with his wife Colleen Kahler, of Portrait literary magazine. Lewis is a poet and playwright, and in 2004 received a grant from the New York State Council for the Arts, and the Central New York Community Arts Council, for the production of three original one-act plays as an extension of EXPTHEAT, the Resonance Center’s Experimental Theater project. His poems have appeared in the Resonant Review, Ampersand, Fusion, and The Oracle Literary Journal. Christina Kapp’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous publications, including Barn Owl Review, Pindeldyboz, DOGZPLOT, and Gargoyle. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and daughters, and is currently working on her first novel. Michael A. Kechula is a retired tech writer. His fiction has won first place in 10 contests and placed in 7 others. He’s also won Editor’s Choice awards 4 times. His stories have been published by 119 magazines and 32 anthologies in Australia, Canada, England, India, Scotland, and the U.S. 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 available at Amazon. Kim Klugh and her husband live in Lancaster, PA; all three of their children are college graduates and work in their chosen fields. Kim works in a Catholic high school by day and can attest to recent studies that suggest the teenage brain is years away from full development. She also fosters cats and kittens for the local Humane League and is rarely without a "mews." She has been published in the Lifestyle and Business sections of the Lancaster 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 in the online poetry salon vox poetica. Amanda Kopacz is a Florida Gulf Coast native and graduate of Eckerd College. She is on extended sabbatical from a corporate career in human resources to write, paint, surf, and (ironically) learn to be human again. Her favorite story recipe—one part magic, two parts dysfunction. Len Kuntz lives on a lake in rural Washington State with an eagle and three pesky beavers. His short fiction appears, or is forthcoming, in over thirty lit journals and can also be found at lenkuntz.blogspot.com. Robert Laughlin lives in Chico, California, in a Craftsman bungalow destined to be restored by some well- heeled future owner. He is the creator of the Micro Award, an annual competition for previously published flash fiction. He has published over 100 short stories and poems; two of his short stories are Million Writers Award Notable Stories. His novel, Vow of Silence, is available from Trytium. Mr. Laughlin's author website is at www.pw.org/content/robert_laughlin. Dan Lear lives and writes in St. Louis, two activities he finds to be eerily similar. His wife and three children tolerate him well; his dogs get impatient. His best attribute as a man and as a writer is that he tries. Marie Lecrivain is the executive editor and publisher of poeticdiversity: the litzine of Los Angeles, and is a writer in residence at her apartment. Her prose and poetry have appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, including Aesthetica, Askew Poetry Journal, Luces y Sombras, Poetic Voices Without Borders 2 (copyright 2009, Gival Press), The Poetry Salzburg Review, Re)verb, The Los Angeles Review, The Toronto Quarterly, and is forthcoming in Spillway and Beside the City of Angels: An Anthology of Long Beach Poetry (World Parade Books, Spring 2010). Marie's new poetry collection, Antebellum Messiah, (copyright 2009, Sybaritic Press), is available through Amazon. Annmarie Lockhart is the founding editor of vox poetica. She has been reading and writing since she could read and write. A lifelong resident of Bergen County, NJ, she lives two miles east of the hospital where she was born. Michelle Louis thinks words are neat. She lives in Cambridge, Ontario, with her husband, who helps her divide her time between writing and caring for a variety of creatures, including their two children, some dogs, cats and a couple of dragons. Yvette Managan is a writer who works by day maintaining the chemical integrity of the Banana River. At night, she acts as intermediary between the horses, hound-dogs and husband. She reads to remember, writes to forget and re-enacts the American War Between the States to teach others that war is never healthy. Her work has been seen in Static Motion, Spork, Twisted Tongue, Lyrica, Oysters and Chocolate, The Linnet’s Wings, Killer Works, All Things Girl, Literal Translations, and Sinister Tales. John C. Mannone is a widely-published, award-winning poet nominated for the Pushcart Prize (“Hauntings,” Inglis House Poetry Workshop, 2009) and the 2010 Rhysling Poetry Award (“Layers of Man,” Liquid Imagination). His poetry appears in numerous literary and speculative fiction journals such as the Pirene’s Fountain, Aethlon, Iodine Poetry Journal, The Linnet’s Wings, and Astropoetica. Professor Mannone teaches physics in east Tennessee. He loves to cook, a form of poetry to him, and of course, eat. He’s also an avid amateur astronomer and the senior editor for a radio astronomy journal. (See the August 2009 interview by the ezine Liquid Imagination at http://www.liquid-imagination.com/Interviews/Mannone.html to learn more.) Tara L. Masih is editor of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction (2009) and author of Where the Dog Star Never Glows: Stories (2010). She has published fiction, poetry, and essays in numerous anthologies and literary magazines (including Confrontation, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Natural Bridge, Red River Review, Night Train, and The Caribbean Writer) and several limited edition illustrated chapbooks featuring her flash fiction have been published by The Feral Press. Awards for her work include first place in The Ledge Magazine’s fiction contest and Pushcart Prize, Best New American Voices, and Best of the Web nominations. www.taramasih.com Loren A. Moreno is a full-time journalist and writer living in Honolulu, Hawaii. Thomas Mundt lives in Chicago. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in a number of fine print and online publications, scooped up and served on a platter for your convenience at www.dontdissthewizard. blogspot.com. He is currently working on a short story collection, entitled You Have Until Noon to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe. Theresa C. Newbill is a self-described free spirit and former elementary school teacher turned writer. Her work has been widely published in various print and online magazines, and she has received numerous awards for her writing. Sue Pickard is a married mother of three, living in Surrey, England, 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 been attending a writers circle for the past ten years, which has given her the encouragement to have a go at most things, including poetry, plays and short stories. She’s also kept a diary for the past thirteen years, which has been a kind of love letter to her children, entitled, not very originally, Mum’s Diary. In addition, she’s written two and a half novels. She’s had a few minor successes, winning local writing competitions and being published in poetry, short story anthologies, and online. K. S. Riggin teaches second graders during the day, but during evenings, weekends, and vacations, she transposes alternate realities into words and scenes. She mainly writes science fiction and fantasy novels, but also keeps a portfolio of short stories, essays, poems, and artwork at http://shaara.writing.com/ under the name Shaara. Her short stories have appeared in Spectacular Speculations, Alien Skin Magazine, and in the new Farspace2 Anthology. Wayne Scheer has been locked in a room with his computer and turtle since his retirement. (Wayne's, not the turtle's.) To keep from going back to work, he's published hundreds of short stories, essays and poems, including, Revealing Moments, a collection of twenty-four flash stories, available at www.pearnoir. com/thumbscrews.htm. He's been nominated for four Pushcart Prizes and a Best of the Net. Karen Schindler writes even when she's not writing. A wonderer, a cherisher of life and experiences, she lives with gleeful abandon and pulls others into her wake. Karen’s fiction, poetry and essays have been or are about to be published in Eclectic Flash, Voxpoetica, WeirdYear, Flashes in the Dark, Blink-Ink, InkNode, upcoming Pill Hill Press and Lame Goat Press anthologies, and online and in the print anthology from the 52 Stitches 2010 line up. You can see more of her work at Miscellaneous Yammering. April Schoffstall is a mother of two, special education teacher, and aspiring writer living in rural Indiana. She has been published in Writer's Journal and various other online publications. Robert Scotellaro's flash fiction and prose poems have appeared in a variety of literary journals and anthologies, including Fast Forward (A Collection of Flash Fiction), Eclectic Flash, Houston Literary Review, MicroHorror, Willows Wept Review, Ghoti, Dogzplot, Clockwise Cat, 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 composes poems while running, biking, skiing and race-walking through the forested hills of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, writes them down in old-fashioned ruled composition books, and then types them with his two index fingers. Sharp’s latest published poems are slated to appear at Astropoetica, Caper Literary Journal and vox poetica. T. L. Sherwood lives beside Eighteen Mile Creek in western New York with her second husband. Her work has appeared in The Rambler, Writers’ Journal, and The Vestal Review. She is co-founder of the Ugly Babies Writer’s Group, which meets in conjunction with the Springville Center of the Arts, an organization she's been a part of since 1998. She recently started a bi-monthly blog that can be found at http://tlsherwood. wordpress.com/. Matthew Stern lives in Seattle, Washington, where he divides his time between his family and writing. His fiction has appeared in Thuglit, Mysterical-E, and Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine. J. M. Stockard was born and raised in the tornado lands of Alabama and discovered her love of reading even before she could form correctly-enunciated words, thanks to her mother. She wrote her first poem at the ripe age of six and has been writing poetry ever since. She would describe herself as a mix of neurotic and impetuous, with a bit of extremely awesome and scrupulous thrown in there, as well. She has just come in to the realm of publishing her work, but one of her poems was selected to appear in a scholarly collegiate journal in 2009. Stevie Strang is a ninth generation Southern Californian who has written short stories and poems about the land her grandmother grew up on. Stevie’s recent interests in haiku, haiga, tanka and haibun have added to the romance of that historical era. She also dabbles in free verse and flash fiction, and is currently working on a fiction novel. Stevie has been published in Moonbathing and several online anthologies and webzines. Two of the short stories from her book, The Chapters—A Life of Short Stories, are available on Kindle at Amazon. In addition to writing, Leland Thoburn plays jazz saxophone and flute, and explores old ghost towns and mines in the California desert. Mr. Thoburn is working on one novel, one memoir, and a gaggle of short stories. Harris Tobias lives and writes fiction in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is the author of two novels and dozens of short stories. His second novel, The Greer Agency, is soon to be released by ATTM Press this spring. Mitchell Waldman’s fiction, poetry, and essays have previously appeared in such places as The Rochester Times-Union, Wind Magazine, Moronic Ox Literary and Cultural Journal, Five Fishes Journal, The HazMat Review, Innisfree, Poetpourri, The Advocate, Mobius, the Parnassus Literary Review, Desperate Act, and Poetry Motel. His work has also appeared in the anthologies Beyond Lament: Poets of the World Bearing Witness to the Holocaust and Messages from the Universe. Mitchell is the author of the novel A Face in the Moon, and co-editor of an anthology entitled Wounds of War: Poets for Peace. http://mitchwaldman.homestead.com Lindy Whiton is a writer, photographer and educator who lives in western Massachusetts. She writes about and photographs the edges of life, the places where the challenging and the sublime overlap. Alun Williams is Welsh, a Bukowski lover with a penchant for noir stories and films, and a member of Crittersbar, Zoetrope, and Scrawl: The Writers Asylum. Alun has been published in A Twist of Noir, Secret Attic, Twisted Tongue, Cambrensis, The Legendary, Bonfire, Darkest Before Dawn, and Write Side Up, among others. Mark Wolf rambles about as a logistics gopher at an eco-tour company in Hawaii when he isn't writing. In other incarnations he has snared pigs, built houses, worked oversees as a missionary, fought forest fires and built wilderness trails. His published work has appeared at 69 Flavors of Paranoia, Liquid Imagination, Static Movement, and Aurora Wolf. His web-link is honuio.wordpress.com. William Wolford is a young writer from West Virginia who just so happens to be obsessed with the Miami Dolphins. His work has appeared in Static Movement (October 2009), Horror Through the Ages, and Diamonds in the Rough. |
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