Contributors' Notes

Issue Fourteen: September 2010


 

Gabriel Blackwell's short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Conjunctions, Web Conjunctions, The Collagist, Puerto del Sol, and Uncanny Valley. More about him at his infrequently updated blog.

Darby M. Dixon III can be found in the Cleveland, Ohio, area, doing marketing by day and other stuff at night. For unknown reasons, his blog is called Thumb Drives and Oven Clocks.

Joseph Harrington is the author of Things Come On: An Amneoir (forthcoming 2011 from Wesleyan University Press' poetry series) and Poetry and the Public (Wesleyan 2002). His e-chapbook earth day suite is forthcoming from Beard of Bees Press (www.beardofbees.com). His creative work also has appeared recently in Hotel Amerika, ISLE, Otoliths, Fact-Simile, With+Stand, and P-Queue, amongst others. He teaches at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, USA.

Tina May Hall’s first story collection, The Physics of Imaginary Objects, will be published in the fall of 2010. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in 3rd bed, the minnesota review, Quarterly West, Black Warrior Review, Water-Stone Review, Fairy Tale Review, and other journals. Her novella in prose poems, All the Day's Sad Stories, was published by Caketrain Press in the spring of 2009. She lives with her husband and son in upstate New York in a skinny old house with a mouse in the pantry and a ghost in the furnace who knocks on their dreams all night long. www.tinamayhall.com

Jessica Fordham Kidd lives, writes, and plays in the woods in Coker, Alabama with her husband Kevin Waltman and their dog Henry. She is the associate director of  First-year Writing at the University of Alabama. Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Crab Creek Review, and Six Little Things.

Robert Kloss is found online at rkbirdsofprey.blogspot.com.

David LeGault is an MFA candidate at the University of Minnesota where he is the nonfiction editor for the journal dislocate. His work appears and is forthcoming in cold-drill, PANK, and Black Warrior Review.

Alexander Lumans is originally from Aiken, South Carolina. His poems have been published in or are forthcoming from Poet Lore, Southern Humanities Review, South Carolina Review, Redheaded Stepchild, Off Channel, Northern Lights, and the anthologies Poets on the Object and Say It Loud! He recently graduated from the M.F.A. Fiction Program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and currently lives in Boulder, Colorado.

Erin Lyndal Martin is a poet, fiction writer, and music journalist. Her work has recently appeared in Typo and H_ngm_n, and is forthcoming in Diagram and abjective.

Elizabeth Onusko is co-founder and co-publisher of Guernica: a Magazine of Art and Politics. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, featured on Verse Daily, and published in 42opus, Poetry East, The Briar Cliff Review, Poet Lore, and Coal Hill Review.

Susannah Elisabeth Pabot has lived in France, England, Scotland and Austria. She is currently in the MFA program at Brown University.

Nick Ripatrazone is the author of Oblations (Gold Wake Press 2011), a book of prose poems.  His recent work has appeared in Esquire, The Kenyon Review, West Branch, The Mississippi Review, Caketrain, Abjective, Annalemma and Beloit Fiction Journal.

As a young man, David Rhodes worked in fields, hospitals, and factories across Iowa, nurturing his love of reading along the way. After receiving an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 1971, he published three novels in rapid succession:The Last Fair Deal Going Down (Atlantic/Little, Brown, 1972), The Easter House (Harper & Row, 1974), and Rock Island Line(Harper & Row, 1975). A motorcycle accident in 1976 left him paralyzed from the chest down, which brought a temporary halt to his publishing career. In 2008, he returned to publication with Driftless, which has been heralded as a critical success and the “best work of fiction to come out of the Midwest in many years” (Chicago Tribune). He lives with his wife, Edna, in rural Wisconsin.

J.A. Tyler is the author six novel(la)s including INCONCEIVABLE WILSON (scrambler books, 2009) and the forthcoming IN LOVE WITH A GHOST (willows wept press, 2010). His work has appeared recently with Diagram, Sleepingfish, Caketrain, Fairy Tale Review, elimae, and others. He is also founding editor of Mud Luscious Press. Visit: www.mudlusciouspress.com.

Kyle Winkler lives and writes in northern Indiana. His work has previously appeared in Juked, Super Arrow, Web Conjunctions, and We Are Champion. He's currently working on a collection of stories, Every Day You'll Get Up and Go to Work, and a novella, Boris Says the Words.