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Mike Allen | Mike Allen works as the arts and culture columnist for the daily newspaper in Roanoke, Va., where he lives with his wife Anita, a goofy dog, and three cats with varying degrees of psychosis. In his spare time he does a ridiculous number of things, including editing the critically-acclaimed anthology series Clockwork Phoenix and the long-running poetry journal Mythic Delirium. His own poetry has won and been nominated for many awards.
R. A. Allen | R. A. Allen’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in the New York Quarterly, Boston Literary Magazine, Pirene’s Fountain, The Recusant (UK), Pear Noir!, Word Riot, Dark Sky Magazine, and others. He lives in Memphis. More at http://www.nyqpoets.net/poet/raallen.
Anastasia Andersen | is currently in the University of New Mexico MFA Creative Writing Program. She teaches poetry workshops through the University’s Continuing Education program. Previous publications include Blue Mesa, Heavy Bear, and Puerto del Sol. Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Megan Ayers | Megan Ayers received her MFA from Bowling Green State University where she served as an Assistant Fiction Editor for Mid-American Review. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Red Cedar Review, EDGE, The Emprise Review, and Licking River Review. She lives and teaches in Cincinnati, OH.
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Anne Babson | a Coney Island poet recently transplanted to Mississippi, was nominated for a Pushcart for work in The Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal and Illya’s Honey. She has won awards from Columbia, Atlanta Review, Grasslands Review, and other reviews. She has four chapbooks, over a hundred journal publications, and is featured on one compilation hip-hop CD– The Cornerstone (New Lew Music, 2007). Catch her blog about her North-South culture shock at www.carpetbaggersjournal.wordpress.com.
Sarah Baras | Flamenco dancer born in San Fernando Cadiz, Spain. She has won the Madrono Falamenco of montellano (Seville) and received the Best Female Spanish Dance Performer prize.
Lisa Marie Basile | Lisa Marie Basile is a writer, living in New York, and Editor-in-Chief of Caper Literary Journal . She has had work published in CommonLine, Aphros Literary Magazine, Vox Poetica, and The Medulla Review, among others. She studied English Language and Literature at Pace University in Manhattan, where she received 1st place in PU’s Annual Writing Contest for poetry and fiction. Her web site is www.lisamariebasile.com and www.caperjournal.com.
Rachel Bloom | is an actress, writer and comedian based out of NYC. She graduated from NYU, Tisch School of the Arts in 2009 with a B.F.A in drama, having studied with the CAP 21 musical theater studio, Experimental Theater Wing, and the International Theater Workshop in Amsterdam. At NYU, she was also the director of Hammerkatz, NYU’s premier sketch comedy group. Rachel has studied improv under Shannon O’Neill, Anthony King, Zach Woods, Chris Gethard and Michael Delaney. She has also studied sketch under Eric Drysdale. Rachel performs standup all around New York City and hosts a standup show called “Annette Funicello’s Beach Party” every last Monday of the month at National Underground. She is also a member of the improv group Mastodon Mattingly. She really likes the show “Frasier.” (UCBComedy.com) Join Rachel as she performs stand up at the Moon Milk Review 2010 Mad Hatter Party.
Shimmy Boyle | Shimmy Boyle has a beard and drinks coffee and owns houseplants. He wishes he had a pet duck. When he finishes writing this, he is going to take a nap. While he is doing that, maybe you can visit his website: www.shimmypoetry.com.
Alan Britt | Alan Britt received his Masters Degree from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. He performs poetry workshops for the Maryland State Arts Council and occasionally publishes the international literary journal, Black Moon, from Reisterstown, Maryland, where he lives with his wife, daughter, two Bouviers des Flandres, one Bichon Friese, and two formerly feral cats.
Danielle Rae Bryant | EDITOR IN CHIEF/FICTION EDITOR | Rae Bryant is an M.A. in Writing candidate at Johns Hopkins University. She holds a Bachelors in Humanities, Literature and Teaching from PSU. Her fiction has won Honors and Awards from the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition and Bartleby Snopes as well as being editor-nominated for the Storysouth Million Writer’s Award. You can read her stories now and soon forthcoming in Mississippi Review (now Rick Magazine), PANK, Gargoyle Magazine, Big Muddy, Annalemma, Word Riot, Menda City Review, Pear Noir!, Bartleby Snopes, Weave Magazine, The Medulla Review, Caper Literary Journal, Foundling Review, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, Staccato, Writer’s Bloc (Rutgers), A capella Zoo, and Whidbey Writer’s, among other publications. Poetry forthcoming in Willows Wept Review. She lives in Maryland, between Washington D.C. and Baltimore, with her husband and two children. When not writing, Rae practices an unhealthy obsession with all things Vonnegut. Read more.
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Feng Sun Chen | Feng Sun Chen is an MFA candidate at the University of Minnesota (starting this fall, in poetry), and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in nthposition, Pop Serial, So and So Magazine, Illumination, Vellum, and Paper Skin Glass Bones. Her website is www.fengsunchen.com.
David Cotrone | work published or forthcoming in places such as New Plains Review, Technicolor Magazine, Spilling Ink Review, The Ranfurly Review, Full of Crow, and Defenestration.
Alexis Covato | Alexis Covato, a.k.a LEX, is a gallery painter as well as commercial illustrator. She studied Illustration at Columbus College of Art and Design as well as Fine Arts and Art History at Chatham College. LEX does editorial work for magazines and has worked with advertising agencies here in Pittsburgh. Among her clients are New York MOVES, San Francisco Weekly, Brunner, CalPOP, Point Park University, etc. She loves to exhibit in Pennsylvania but often sells her paintings to collectors in New York, California, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Audiences can also view her work in the book “EdgyCute” available through Random House. Regardless of the client or venue, certain aspects of LEX’s work remain consistent; an abstract stylization of the human form, painterly brush stroke, and fluid line-work. Her paintings often reference history, religions, and philosophy while exploring how humans find purpose—specifically through ritual, myths, and social norms. LEX’s paintings harkens an otherworldly quality, which is inspired by her love of Byzantine Icons and German Expressionism. Though conceptually weighty these images are often darkly humorous, juxtaposing innocence and horror, divinity and obscenity, and beauty with oddity. Alexis Covato currently lives in Pittsburgh and is available for both private and commercial work.
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Salvador Dali | Twentieth-century Spanish painter well-known for his magical realist and surrealist paintings.
Francis DiClemente | is a writer, photographer and video producer in Syracuse, New York. He received a B.A. in communications/journalism from St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York and an M.A. in film/video from American University in Washington, DC. His photographs have been exhibited in small galleries in upstate New York. His artwork centers primarily on nature and landscapes, still life, realism, portraits and abstract images. He strives to discover interesting images amid ordinary surroundings, and in this sense, the work is exploratory in nature.
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Ego Likeness (Steven Archer and Donna Lynch) | Ego Likeness was created in 1999 by artist Steven Archer, a DC native, and writer Donna Lynch in Baltimore, Maryland. Taking their name from Frank Herbert’s classic science fiction novel ‘Dune’, the band began as an experimental/ dark trip hop project. A demo called ‘Songs From a Dead City’, recorded on a four track, was released in 1999.
El Greco | Born in crete, El Greco was a seventeenth-century painter who created many of his well-known works while living in Spain. Picasso attributes his early influences in part to El Greco. Well-known for his his play with perspective.
John Emerson | has work in Critical Quarterly, Tsarina, The Long Story, The Trunk, The East Hampton Star, Laundry Pen, Bathtub Gin, Caffeine, and Saint Ann’s Review. He was a writer-in-residence at Shakespeare and Company in Paris.
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Flight of the Conchords | The former “New Zealand’s fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo.” The band—made up of two long time friends and comedic musicians, Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement—was named Best Alternative Comedy Act (2005) at the US Comedy Arts Festival and Best Newcomer at the Melbourne Comedy Festival. You can find their series Flight of the Conchords, episodes one and two, at HBO.
Foust | Foust received an MFA in creative writing from Spalding University in Louisville in 2008, and a BFA in Illustration from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia in 1985. Her stories have appeared in places like Minnetonka Review, Smokelong Quarterly, Word Riot, and Wrong Tree Review. She lives with Melvyn, her wonderful husband, and Mia, Honey, and Grace, her three spoiled dogs, in the Forest Hill Park section of Richmond, Virginia.
Jim Fuess | Jim Fuess works with liquid acrylic paint on canvas. Most of his paintings are abstract, but there are recognizable forms and faces in a number of the abstract paintings. He is striving for grace and fluidity, movement and balance. He likes color and believes that beauty can be an artistic goal. There is whimsy, fear, energy, movement, fun and dread in his abstract paintings. A lot of his abstract paintings are anthropomorphic. The shapes seem familiar. The faces are real. The gestures and movements are recognizable. More of his abstract paintings, both in color and black and white, may be seen at www.jimfuessart.com.
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Britt Gambino | Britt Gambino lives in New York, NY, at the end of the universe (a.k.a. Washington Heights). Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in anderbo.com, DecomP, Xenith, and The Arava Review. This fall, she will begin pursuing her MFA degree at the New School. She enjoys brunch on a Sunday afternoon, making musical compilations, and rearranging furniture with her partner, Trisha, who has always believed. To read some of Britt’s ramblings, visit her blog at http://gritsforyou.wordpress.com.
Luisa María García Velasco | Luisa lives in Spain where she writes short fiction and poetry. Her poems have received various awards, and some of her stories have appeared in two Best of the Year anthologies published by the Spanish SF and Fantasy Association. Apart from Spain, she has also published in Hungary, Argentina and the USA. A story by her, translated into English by Ian Watson and published by Aberrant Dreams, became finalist for the 2009 WSFA Small Press Award.
Molly Gaudry | Molly Gaudry is the author of the verse novel, We Take Me Apart (Mud Luscious Press, 2009), and the editor of Tell: An Anthology of Expository Narrative (Flatmancrooked, 2010). She curates Walking Man Gallery, edits Willows Wept Press and Willows Wept Review, is a co-founding editor of Twelve Stories, and is an associate editor for Keyhole Magazine. She writes occasional book reviews for East&West Magazine, and she’s currently tweeting a chapter of her new verse novel, FLORA THE WHORE, every few days on Twitter.
Leon Geist | Leon Geist lives in North Carolina with a cat. This is his first published story.
Nikolai Gogol | CLASSICS | Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809-1852) was a Russian novelist, humorist, and dramatist, writing with an eye toward realism and sometimes magic realism. His works often satirized Russian society and government. “The Nose” and “The Overcoat” are two of his most well-known and acclaimed works.
Francisco de Goya | Nineteenth-century Spanish painter, well-known for his dark, mythical images and play on perspectives.
Will Grofic | POETRY EDITOR | Will Grofic is a recent MFA graduate of Bennington Writing Seminars and a published poet. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming from No Tell Motel, Gargoyle, Anti-, and The Coachella Review. He is also Managing Editor of Potomac Review, teaches at Montgomery College, occasionally freelances as a technical writer for The Man, and tries to pitch poetry podcast ideas to his nonpoet friends. Read more.
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Minal Hajratwala | is the author of the award-winning narrative nonfiction book Leaving India: My Family’s Journey From Five Villages to Five Continents (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009). Her creative work has appeared in numerous journals, anthologies, and theater spaces, and has received recognition and support from Pen USA, Lambda Literary, California Book Awards, Sundance Institute, SerpentSource Foundation, and the Hedgebrook writing retreat for women, where she currently serves on the Alumnae Leadership Council. Her solo show, “Avatars: Gods for a New Millennium,” was commissioned by the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco for World AIDS Day in 1999. She is a Fulbright Senior Scholar and will spend the 2010-2011 academic year in India researching a novel.
J. Scott Hardin | J. Scott Hardin graduated from San Jose State University (B.A. 1994, M.A. 1996) in Modern European History before studying and teaching as a Doctoral Fellow at Tulane University and the Freie Universität Berlin. For the past ten years, he has been writing under the starry nights of the American Southwest. His poetry and fiction appear in The Café Review and The Houston Literary Review. His new art column is forthcoming at ragazine.
Berrien C. Henderson | Berrien C. Henderson lives in the deepest, darkest wilds of southeast Georgia with his wife and two children. He teaches high school English, is a long-time martial artist, and has a big geeky spot in his heart for literature, speculative fiction, and comic books.
Christine Herzer | Christine Herzer is a poet and visual artist. She lives in India. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Fence, American Letters & Commentary, The New York Quarterly, Pinstripe Fedora, Elimae, H_NGM_N, Open Letters Monthly, Fogged Clarity, Blue & Yellow Dog, Platform Magazine [India], Upstairs at Duroc [France], Her Royal Majesty, Wood Coin and elsewhere. Her first e chapbook ‘i wanted to be pirate’ is forthcoming with H_NGM_N BOOKS.
Karen Heuler | Karen Heuler’s stories appear Storyquarterly, Alaska Quarterly Review, St. Ann’s Review, Shenandoah, North Dakota Quarterly, Mid-American Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, among other publications. She has published two novels and a short story collection, and has won an O. Henry award. Her latest novel, Journey to Bom Goody, concerns strange doings in the Amazon. She lives in New York City with her dog, Booker Prize, and cat, Pulitzer. Learn more about Karen Heuler at Moon Milk Review’s Author Talk.
Jackie Hoysted | Jackie was born in Dublin, Ireland and has settled in Gaithersburg, Maryland after many years of living and working in the UK, France, Ireland and Florida. Her most recent juried solo shows include Afternoons – Where Drawing Meets Painting at both the Delaplaine Visuals Arts Education Center in Frederick and the Fisher Gallery, Schlesinger Arts Center, Northern Virginia Community College in Alexandria, among others. Read more at www.jackiehoysted.com.
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Russel Jaffe | Russell Jaffe teaches English at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, IA and holds an MFA in poetry from Columbia College in Chicago. His poems have appeared in Shampoo, MiPOesias, The Portland Review, Spooky Boyfriend, Writer’s Bloc, and others. Additionally, he writes a hot sauce review blog called Good Hurts.
Colin James | Colin James lives in Massachusetts but used to live in England. He works in Energy Conservation. He has poems forthcoming in Oysters And Chocolate, Calliope Nerve and The Tower Journal.
Jason Jordan | Jason Jordan holds an MFA from Chatham University. His forthcoming books are Cloud and Other Stories (Six Gallery Press, 2010) and Powering the Devil’s Circus: Redux (Six Gallery Press, 2010). His prose has appeared online and in print in over forty literary magazines, including Hobart, Keyhole, Monkeybicycle, Night Train, PANK, Pear Noir!, and Storyglossia. Additionally, he’s Editor-in-Chief of decomP, accessible at www.decompmagazine.com. You can visit him at his blog at poweringthedevilscircus.blogspot.com.
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Franz Kafka | (1883 – 1924) was born in Prague. He was a novelist and short story writer whose work, “The Metamorphosis,” is perhaps one of the most well-know short stories within the canon of literature. He wrote several novels: The Trial, The Castle and Amerika.
Richard Kostelanetz | Richard Kostelanetz is an author whose works works readily reflect an influence of two or more media. He attended Kings College, as a Fulbright Scholar, Columbia, and Brown University and has published many books, anthologies, collections, booklets, reviews, essays and plays. Typography and Design Intern: Eun-Ha-Paek. Portrait by Leonid Drozner.
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Tom Larsen | Tom Larsen has been a fiction writer for fifteen years with work appearing in Newsday, New Millennium Writing, Puerto del Sol and Antietam Review.
Ben Loory | Ben Loory lives in Los Angeles. His fiction was a finalist in the Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers Contest and his story, “The TV,” appeared in The New Yorker. Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day coming soon from Penguin Books. As a screenwriter, Ben Loory has worked for Jodie Foster, Alex Proyas and Mark Johnson. He is a graduate of Harvard College, holds an MFA from the American Film institute, and is a member of the Writers Guild of America west. Interviews at The New Yorker and The Emprise Review. Non-fiction at TheNervousBreakdown. New fiction coming soon in Moon Milk Review.
Sinead Lykins | fiction has taken 3rd in the Glimmer Train Fiction Open and has won the Arthur Lynn Andrews Prize.
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Penelope L. Mace | Stories appearing and forthcoming in Iconoclast and Love Nailed to the Wall, an anthology, as well as other publications. She was fiction editor for US 1 Worksheets. She coordinates a local upstate NY fiction group called Strictly Fiction. She has also produced and directed several productions of The Vagina Monologues in upstate NY. She is completing a coming of age novel.
Annam Manthiram | stories appear or are forthcoming in Cream City Review, Pank, Smokelong Quarterly, and Chicago Quarterly Review. She is the author of two novels, The Goju Story and After the Tsunami, and a short story collection (Dysfunction), which was a Finalist in the 2010 Elixir Press Fiction Award and received Honorable Mention in Leapfrog Press’ 2010 fiction contest. Her fiction has also been nominated for the PEN/O’Henry Prize and inclusion in the Best American Short Stories anthology. A graduate of the M.A. Writing program at the University of Southern California, Ms. Manthiram resides in New Mexico with her husband, Alex, and son, Sathya. So far, she is quite enchanted. You can visit her online at AnnamManthiram.com.
Corey Mesler | has published in numerous journals and anthologies. He has published two novels, Talk: A Novel in Dialogue (2002) and We Are Billion-Year-Old Carbon (2006), a full length poetry collection, Some Identity Problems (2008), and a book of short stories, Listen: 29 Short Conversations (2009). He also had two novels released simultaneously, March 31, 2010: The Ballad of the Two Tom Mores (Bronx River Press) and Following Richard Brautigan (Livingston Press). He has also published a dozen chapbooks of both poetry and prose. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize numerous times, and two of his poems have been chosen for Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. He also claims to have written, “Judy’s Turn to Cry.” With his wife, he runs Burke’s Book Store, one of the country’s oldest (1875) and best independent bookstores. He can be found at www.coreymesler.com.
Neila Mezynski | Dancer/choreographer turned abstract painter/writer, Neila Mezynski has fiction and poetry published on Kill Author, Snow Monkey, Word Riot, Dogzplot, Mud Luscious, Scrambler, Rumble among several others.
John Minichillo‘s work has appeared in Mississippi Review, Third Coast, the anthology Next Stop Hollywood (St. Martin’s), Monkeybicycle, In Posse Review, and elsewhere. Work forthcoming at Dogzplot, Night Train, Northville Review, Lit Snack, Staccato Fiction, and The Norton Anthology of Hint Fiction. He writes and teaches in Tennessee and is an adviser at Fictionaut.
Adam Moorad | Adam’s writing has recently appeared or is forthcoming in 3 A.M., Elimae, PANK, Pindeldyboz, and Word Riot. He lives in Brooklyn and works in publishing. Visit him here: adamadamadamadamadam.
R. Henry Morris | This is R. Henry Morris’ first publication.
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Megan Norman | Megan is a senior at the University of Iowa majoring in creative writing and theatre. Previous publications include Danse Macabre and The Susquehanna Review. She enjoys strange fashion, playing the piano, and her pet rabbits. Her favorite poet is Emily Dickinson. She would like to thank her fiance Michael Alliss for support and inspiration.
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Edgar Oliver | (born in 1956) is an American stage and film actor, poet, performance artist and playwright. He was born in Savannah, Georgia then moved to New York City in 1977. He is considered “a legend” of the downtown New York theatre scene. A frequent performer/storyteller with The Moth, you can enjoy his work, “The Apron Strings of Savannah.”
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Paul the Prophetic Octopus | German owned invertebrate who predicted World Cup 2010 matches.
Gary Percesepe | Gary Percesepe is Associate Editor of Mississippi Review. His short stories, poems, essays, book reviews, interviews, literary and film criticism, and articles in philosophy and religion have been published or are forthcoming in Salon, Mississippi Review, Antioch Review, Westchester Review, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Review of Metaphysics, Christian Scholar’s Review, New Ohio Review, Enterzone, Intertext, Luna Park, Istanbul Literary Review, Pank, elimae, Wigleaf, Prick of the Spindle, Metazen, Corium, Stymie Magazine, Word Riot, and other places. A former philosophy professor, he is the author of four books in philosophy including Future(s) of Philosophy: The Marginal Thinking of Jacques Derrida. He just completed his second novel, Leaving Telluride. His first novel, an epistolary novel written with Susan Tepper, is called What May Have Been: Letters of Jackson Pollock and Dori G, and is forthcoming from Cervena Barva Press in the fall of 2010.
Pablo Picasso | Ground-breaking twentieth century Spanish painter, well-known for cubism.
Rob Pierce | Rob is the Editor-in-Chief of Swill, and for nine years was one of the editors of Monday Night. His prose has been published or accepted for publication by Swill, Monday Night, Zygote in My Coffee, Five Star Literary Stories, Strange Tales of an Unreal West, and the forthcoming album release by The Ancients.
Sylvia Plath | Twentieth-century writer and poet. One of the confessional poets and professor who drew from her life experiences in the creation of her works.
Vincent Leonard Price II | (1911—1993) an American actor with a distinct dark voice and horror aesthetic. Best known for his performances in Laura, Tower of London, The Invisible Man Returns, The Bribe, House of Wax, The Fly, House on Haunted Hill, several Poe film adaptations—House of Usher, The Raven, The Masque of the Red Death. Due to Price’s distinctive voice, he often performed voice overs in songs—i.e. Alice Cooper’s album, Welcome to My Nightmare, and Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” Price also made appearances in Edward Scissorhands and Scooby Doo. Not as well known, Price was a discrimant art collection, selecting and commisioning works by Rembrandt, Picasso, and Dali.
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Kenneth Radu | Kenneth’s Radu fiction has appeared or is forthcoming online in vis a tergo, Foundling Review, Tattoo Highway20, Danse Macabre, Spilt Milk, The Medulla Review, The Tower, and elsewhere. The author of over a dozen books, his last collection of stories Snow Over Judaea was published by Vehicule Press of Montreal. A new collection of stories is forthcoming this year from DC Press, also of Montreal. He writes or putters about the edges of actual compostion several hours daily and lives in Quebec.
Michelle Reale | Michelle Reale’s works have been published in a variety of venues including Smokelong Quarterly, elimae, Word Riot, Monkeybicycle, Eyeshot and others. Her fiction chapbook, Natural Habitat, will be published by Burning River in April 2010.
Mark Reep | Mark Reep is an artist and writer whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in online and print publications including American Art Collector, Endicott Journal, Gloom Cupboard, Ink Sweat & Tears, Girls With Insurance, Blink/Ink, Art Graphica, Amphibi.us, Prick of the Spindle, Word Riot, Full of Crow, Smash Cake. He lives and works in New York’s Fingerlakes region. Website: http://markreep.net. Blog: http://markreep.blogspot.com.
Gabriela Romeri | ASSOCIATE EDITOR | Gabriela Romeri is an editor for ICF International (formerly, Macro International), working mainly in the field of humanitarian research. She has written for local rags and trade journals in the MD, DE and DC area, and is right now finishing an M.A. in creative writing and literature at Johns Hopkins and an M.F.A. in screenwriting and film studies at Hollins U. You can find her fiction in the most recent riverbabble and upcoming in Gargoyle Magazine. Ms. Romeri is a neurotic political junkie who hopes to change the world, but may have to settle for taking her meds.
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Terry Sanville | Terry Sanville lives in San Luis Obispo, California with his artist-poet wife (his in-house editor) and one skinny cat (his in-house critic). His short stories have been accepted by more than 100 publications including the Fifth Wednesday Journal, Birmingham Arts Journal and Boston Literary Magazine. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for his story “The Sweeper.” Terry is a retired urban planner and an accomplished jazz and blues guitarist—who once played with a symphony orchestra backing up jazz legend George Shearing.
Steven Schutzman | Steven Schutzman has published fiction and drama in many literary journals including The Pushcart Prize, TriQuarterly, Alaska Quarterly Review, Post Road, Cafe Irreal, The Eclectica Magazine, Painted Bride Quarterly, Third Coast, Night Train, Conclave, The Big Stupid Review and Gargoyle. He is also the recipient of five Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Grant Awards. You can read and find out more about his work at stevenschutzman.
Laura Ellen Scott | teaches fiction writing at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and she is Fiction Editor for Prick of the Spindle. Her recent fiction has appeared in Smokelong Quarterly, Corium Magazine, The Northville Review, and Wigleaf. Most of her published work is linked at her blog, Probably just a story. “The Brewsters” comes from her as yet unpublished collection of gothic/paranoid short fiction called Curio.
Jeanne Shannon | Jeanne Shannon writes in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Lee Minh Sloca | Lee Minh Sloca was born in Vietnam, from which he escaped two weeks prior to its collapse and now resides in Los Angeles, CA where he focuses on poetry, prose, and painting.
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Serena Tome | Serena Tome launched an international reading series for African children to connect, learn, and participate in literary activity with students from around the world via video conferencing. She has literary work published and/or forthcoming in, Ann Arbor Review, Breadcrumb Scabs, Word Riot, Calliope Nerve, Counterexample Poetics, The Stray Branch, and other publications. Her first chapbook is forthcoming with Differentia Press. You can find out more about Serena at www.serenatome.blogspot.com.
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Curtis VanDonkelaar | Curtis VanDonkelaar teaches at Western Michigan University, where he earned his MFA. He’s won multiple awards for his writing and worked as a copy editor with New Issues Press.
Luisa María García | lives in Spain where she writes short fiction and poetry. Her poems have received various awards, and some of her stories have appeared in two Best of the Year anthologies published by the Spanish SF&F Association. Apart from Spain, she has also published in Hungary, Argentina and the USA.
Ajay Vishwanathan | Ajay Vishwanathan is mesmerized by the power of words, more now when he sees his two-year olds form them. Two-time Best of The Net Anthology nominee, Ajay has work published or forthcoming in over sixty literary journals, including elimae, The Potomac, DecomP, Drunken Boat, and LITnIMAGE.
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David Wagoner | has published 18 books of poems, most recently A Map of the night (U. of Illinois Press, 2008) and ten novels, one of which, The Escape Artist, was made into a movie by Francis Ford Coppola. He won the Lilly Prize in 1991 and has won six yearly prizes from Poetry (Chicago). He was a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets for 23 years. He has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and twice for the National Book Award. He edited Poetry Northwest from 1966 to its end in 2002. He is professor emeritus of English at the U. of Washington and teaches in the low-residency MFA Program of the Whidbey Island Writers Workshop.
Luke Wallin | holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He has been widely published—novels, stories, and essays—and teaches in the Spalding University MFA program. His newest book is forthcoming from Adams Media. Luke Wallin.
Ian Watson | wrote the screen story for Steven Spielberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence, based on a year’s work with Stanley Kubrick. His most recent books are The Beloved of My Beloved, a volume of crazy stories in collaboration with Italian surrealist Roberto Quaglia, probably the only full-length genre fiction by two authors with different mother tongues, and the erotic satire Orgasmachine, begun almost 40 years ago but only available until now in Japanese; both from NewCon Press (www.newconpress.co.uk).
Vallie Lynn Watson | holds a PhD in fiction writing from the Center for Writers, University of Southern Mississippi. She recently guest-edited the inaugural issue for Blip Magazine (formerly Mississippi Review online). Her manuscript, A River So Long, was first runner up in the 2009 Miami University Press Novella Contest. Excerpts from the work appear or are forthcoming in Pindeldyboz, Product, Journal of Truth and Consequence, Sunsets and Silencers, 971 Menu, Trailer Park Quarterly, Women Writers, Oracle, Staccato, Metazen and Ghoti. New fiction coming soon in Moon Milk Review.
Winona Winkler Wendth | is a peripatetic New Yorker and freelance writer who lives and teaches writing and literature near Boston. So far, her work has appeared in Spectrum Magazine, Third Coast, Falling-Apart.net, The Bennington Review, and The Yale Journal of Humanities in Medicine. She holds an MFA from The Bennington Writing Seminars, is a film buff, not a bad photographer, and a pretty good cook. She spent a couple of years working in a law firm that specialized in corporate defense.
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Brad Yoder | Brad has sold over 6,500 copies of four self-released CDs, including Someday or Never (2007), Used (2002), Talk to Total Strangers (1999), and his 1997 debut disc, Best Sunday Heart. Songs from these recordings have been featured on CBS’s “NUMB3RS,” NPR’s “Car Talk,” the ABC Family Network’s “Beautiful People,” “Dawson’s Creek” 5th season DVD, and as part of the Pittsburgh Regional History Center’s 9-11 Memorial Exhibit. Read more at www.bradyoder.com.