| Joe Amaral spends most of his time outdoors spelunking around the central coast of California. He is a paramedic by trade but a world traveler at heart. Joe’s work has appeared in A Handful of Dust, Carcinogenic Poetry, Certain Circuits, Eclectic Flash, Paradigm, Underground Voices and in anthologies by Pill Hill Press and Wicked East Press. He has poetry forthcoming via RED OCHRE LiT as well. Alyson Bannister is currently a glorified secretary, but spends the majority of her time on the clock writing for her blog and sneaking photos of the copy machine repairman. She writes mostly creative nonfiction and has never had anything published, but did once win an essay contest in the fifth grade. The topic was “Why I love my school,” and though it was supposed to be a work of nonfiction, there’s a possibility that it could have doubled as one of Aesop’s fables. She lives in South Carolina and can often be found walking reluctantly up the aisle at someone else’s wedding. Ellen Beals was trained as a journalist but now writes poetry and prose. She recently started a publishing imprint, Weighed Words, and her first book, Solace in So Many Words, was published in May. It is now available on Amazon. Ellen’s work has appeared in lit mags, anthologies, and on the web internationally. Most recently her poem “Between the Sheets” was published in the textbook titled Everything’s a Text (Pearson). P. Keith Boran teaches writing at the University of Mississippi, where he’s happy to be married to his best friend. Kevin G. Bufton is a thirty-two-year-old husband and father-of-one from Birkenhead in the UK. He has been writing short horror fiction since 2009 and is currently compiling his first anthology. Kevin writes stories to keep the demons in his head at bay. Mary Cafferty enjoys the sound of typewriter keys. She is continually sitting on the edge of her seat, as though she is prepared to dash from the room at any given moment. Sandra Crook cruises the French waterways for most of the year, writing fiction and occasional poetry. She loves animals, F1 motor racing, French bread, and her husband, though not necessarily in that order. Most of her working life was spent in Human Resources, but she’s recovering well and is learning to like people again. More of her published work, together with accounts of her travels by boat through France, can be found at http://castelsarrasin.wordpress.com. Letisia Cruz loves flowers, trees, and sand, and enjoys walking, swimming, reading, and writing. Her poetry, madness, and random babble can be found at www.lesinfin.blogspot.com. Michael Davidson (herocious) found his calling in 2011: to make his own books on his kitchen table. His first release, a 162-page novel, is titled Austin Nights. Noah Cicero said, “The novel has a strange epic feel about it. Like something huge is happening, I’m not sure how he does it, but you get the emotion that someone is really trying to live.” Michael Davidson will take this praise and run with it. You can read Austin Nights here: http://theopenend.com/bookstore/. Andre Farant has been a security guard, a project coordinator with an environmental NGO, a male model, a court services officer, a teacher of South Korean students, and a civil servant. He hopes at least one of these positions has or will help inform his writing. He lives in Ottawa, Ontario. Mel Fawcett, biker, father, writer, lives in London. His stories have been published here and there, but not, alas, everywhere. Danica Green is a university student in Wales who looks forward to entering the world of a grumpy and underpaid writer upon her graduation later this year. She has recently been published in 3:AM Magazine and cleaned the bathroom; she will soon be published at PANK Magazine and adopt a cat. That’s roughly as exciting as her life gets. Hall Jameson is a writer and fine art photographer who lives in Helena, Montana. When she’s not writing, Hall enjoys hiking, photographing grain elevators, and cat wrangling. Christina Kapp has published her short fiction, poetry, and essays in numerous publications including Barn Owl Review, Eclectic Flash, Gargoyle, DOGZPLOT, Pindeldyboz, PANK, Anderbo.com, and apt. She has a M.A. in Writing from Johns Hopkins University and is a master’s student in English Literature at Rutgers University. She leads the Franklin Chapter of the New Jersey Writers Society and is currently working on her first novel. Lynn Kennison resides in the sunshine state with her husband, their four dogs, and a demanding gray cat. She loves to write short stories and poetry whenever her cat lets her. Myra King is an Australian writer. She has written a number of prize-winning short stories, including first place in the UK-based Global Short Story Competition, and has a short story collection published by Ginninderra Press. In 2010, her short story, "The Black Horse," was short-listed for the US Glass Woman Prize. Among other publications her work has appeared in Little Episodes, Orbis (UK), Melbourne University Press (AUS), Battered Suitcase, Admit 2, and Heron’s Nest (US). She has upcoming work in UTS Quarterly and Fast Forward Press. Travis King is neither as prolific nor profound as the characters about whom he writes, but that doesn’t stop him from trying. Sometimes gregarious, sometimes withdrawn, you might be able to catch him on Wordpress (http://rexscribarum.wordpress.com) or Twitter (@travisking) if the stars are properly aligned. He’d like to use this space to thank his family and friends for their encouragement and support, and since there’s nothing to stop him, he’ll do just that: THANK YOU! Paula Kirman is… Erik Knutsen dreams of going to other worlds to sell shoes door to door. He figures that in such untapped markets, unaccustomed to modern sales techniques he can make a killing. His blog is erikknutsen.blogspot. com. Robert Laughlin lives in Chico, California, in a Craftsman bungalow that deserves the attention of a well- heeled future owner. His website is at www.pw.org/content/robert_laughlin. Jerome McFadden is new to fiction. He has bummed around the world doing odd jobs such as selling industrial chemicals, surfboards, and crayons, to support his addiction of freelancing and stringing for a wide variety of American magazines and newspapers, but has now settled in Pennsylvania to focus on made-up stories. Natalie McNabb lives and writes in Washington State where her dog, Skookum, and cat, Mo, frolic beneath the trees of her Eden after squirrel tails, exhumed moles, and up-flung mice. She loves red—red dragonflies resting on bamboo stakes, red wine in her glass, red flip-flops on her red-toe-nailed feet—and words that caress, tickle, irritate, or beat against her soul. Please visit her at www.nataliemcnabb.com to peruse more of her work, including award-winning stories and poems appearing in various literary publications, anthologies, and books. Belinda Nicoll is originally from South Africa and recently became an American citizen. She holds a B.A. degree in social sciences and is currently a M.F.A. student at Queens University in Charlotte. Working as a life coach, she also runs creativity workshops for artists and writers. She has completed a memoir and is working on a novel. Belinda and her husband love traveling; their journeys and careers have taken them through large parts of Southern Africa and America, Europe, Ireland, Canada, the Middle East, Mexico, and exotic islands such as Mauritius, Phuket, The Comoros, St. Thomas, and St. John. Chip O’Brien is a writer, musician, and teacher. He lives in Nashville, TN with his wife, Amanda, and their two boys, Gus and Patrick. Rhonda Parrish is… A pixel slinger and code monkey by trade, Jennifer Lyn Parsons is a life-long lover of story, forging a path as a teller of tales. She edits the women’s speculative fiction journal, Luna Station Quarterly, and can be reached through her website, jenniferlynparsons.com. She also plays with yarn and watches too much Doctor Who. Rod Peckman lives on the wet, western side of the Cascade Mountains in Washington State. Surrounded by beauty—he lives on a small lake in the woods—he gets most of his poetic inspiration from the twenty-four- hour, true-crime cable channel. That, and Project Runway. He’s published in many online journals. If interested, use the Google. Carla Pierce is a writer and teacher living in San Diego, CA. Anthony Squiers is a writer, scholar, and literary critic. His debut novel, Madness and Insanity, was published in 2009 by Irish Eye Publishing. He is currently working on a Ph.D. in Political Theory at Western Michigan University. His research is on the social/political philosophy of Bertolt Brecht. His writings have appeared in a wide range of print and online journals including Logos, eFiction Magazine, Recoil and the Orphan Leaf Review. He lives in Portage, MI and Helsinki, Finland. Nancy Stohlman’s first novel, Searching for Suzi: a flash novel (Monkey Puzzle Press, 2009), was up for a Colorado Book Award in 2010 and was recently taught at Denver University. She has a total of five books to her credit, including Live From Palestine and Fast Forward: The Mix Tape, an annual anthology of flash fiction. In 2007 she co-founded Fast Forward Press, a small press dedicated to compressed forms of literature. She’s had work published or forthcoming in over 30 anthologies and journals and her opera, The Monster Opera, debuted in Denver on April Fool’s Day, 2011. Lauren Teffeau is… When riding trains your handwriting gets jolted during movement, & is clear & precise when stopped at a station. Sherlock Holmes used this knowledge to solve a mystery in "The Adventure of the Norwood Builder." Chris Tiefel writes on trains. Joe Whalen is all over the map. He grew up in D.C., attended college in Ohio, drove a taxi in Chicago, couch-surfed in San Francisco, ran with the bulls in Pamplona, rode the Trans-Siberian Railway to China, did volunteer work in Calcutta, climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, brokered trades in New York, covered prep sports for The Washington Post, and married an editor from Boston. He likes sushi, hot fudge sundaes, and shots of tequila. Douglas Wynne is a reformed rock musician living in coastal Massachusetts where he tends to a pack of dogs by day. He is currently seeking a good home for his first novel, The Devil of Echo Lake. His short fiction has appeared in The Absent Willow Review. |