Issue Thirty-Three: April 2012
Vanessa Blakeslee’s fiction and essays have been published in The Paris Review, The Southern Review, and Green Mountains Review, among many others. She recently completed a novel. Find her online at www.vanessablakeslee.com.
Molly Brodak is the author of the book A Little Middle of the Night (U of Iowa Press, 2010) and the chapbook The Flood (Coconut Books, 2012). She lives in Atlanta and is the 2011-2013 Poetry Fellow at Emory University.
Callie Collins lives and breathes in Austin, Texas. Her other work has appeared in PANK, Avery Anthology, and Everyday Genius. She is the Associate Editor of American Short Fiction.
Jürgen Fauth is a writer, film critic, translator, and co-founder of the literary community Fictionaut. He was born in Wiesbaden, Germany, and received his doctorate from the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi. He lives with his wife, writer Marcy Dermansky, and their daughter Nina. Kino is his first novel. Follow him on Twitter at @muckster.
Adam Gallari is the author of We Are Never as Beautiful as We Are Now. His essays and reviews appear widely both in print and online. He holds an MFA from the University of California, Riverside and is currently a a PhD candidate at the University of Exeter in Southwest England.
Described in the blogosphere as one of the nation's most underrated writers, Kirby Gann is the author of the novels The Barbarian Parade (2004) and Our Napoleon in Rags (2005). He is also co-editor (with poet Kristin Herbert) of the anthology A Fine Excess: Contemporary Literature at Play, which was a finalist for the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award (Anthologies). His work has appeared most recently in The Lumberyard and The Oxford American, among other journals. He is the recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship and two Professional Assistance Awards from the Kentucky Arts Council, and an Honorable Mention in The Pushcart Prize Anthology. Gann is Managing Editor at Sarabande Books, and teaches in the brief-residency MFA in Writing Program at Spalding University.
Tanner Hadfield lives in Boulder, CO, where he studies and teaches creative writing. You can find some of his new and forthcoming fictions at Untoward, Corium, and Annalemma. You can also e-mail him at tanner.hadfield@colorado.edu if you want to talk about the universe or television or something.
Nathan Huffstutter is also a contributor for The Nervous Breakdown and Emprise Review.
Jac Jemc's work has appeared in The Denver Quarterly, Caketrain, Handsome and Sleepingfish, among others. She is the author of a chapbook of stories, These Strangers She'd Invited In (Greying Ghost Press) and the poetry editor for decomP Magazine. Jac blogs her rejections at jacjemc.com.
Tara Laskowski lives in Northern Virginia with her husband, son, and two cats. She is the senior editor for SmokeLong Quarterly (www.smokelong.com) and has had numerous stories published online and in print. This story is part of a collection of "etiquette" stories that she is currently completing. More information about her work can be found at www.taralaskowski.com.
Nancy Reddy’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Anti-, Memorious, The Journal, Boxcar Poetry Review, and elsewhere. Selected for by poet D.A. Powell for Best New Poets 2011 and nominated for a Pushcart, her work has also been included in the Best of the Net 2011. She holds an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she is currently a doctoral student in composition and rhetoric.
Joseph Riippi is author most recently of A Cloth House (Housefire Publishing, 2012) and Treesisters (Greying Ghost Press, 2012). His other books include The Orange Suitcase (2011) and Do Something! Do Something! Do Something! (2009), both from Ampersand Books. He lives with his wife in New York City. Say hello:www.josephriippi.com.
Matt Runkle is a writer, cartoonist, and book artist whose story "Warmth" appeared in The Collagist 29. His writing has also been featured on BOMBlog and is forthcoming in Beecher's. He blogs at matt-runkle.blogspot.com.
Andrew Scott is the author of Naked Summer, a story collection. He holds writing degrees from Purdue University and New Mexico State University, where he was twice awarded a Frank Waters Fiction Fellowship. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Esquire, Ninth Letter, The Cincinnati Review, Mid-American Review, Glimmer Train Stories, The Writer’s Chronicle, and other publications. With his wife, writer Victoria Barrett, he edits Freight Stories, an online fiction journal. He teaches at Ball State University and lives in Indianapolis.
Justin Sirois is a writer living in Baltimore, Maryland. His books include Secondary Sound, MLKNG SCKLS, and Falcons on the Floor, written with Iraqi refugee Haneen Alshujairy. He also runs the Understanding Campaign with Haneen and co-directs Narrow House. Justin has received several individual Maryland State Art Council grants and a Baker "b" grant in 2011.
Mark Staniforth is a writer and journalist from North Yorkshire, England. He is the author of Fryupdale, an e-book of short stories, and editor of Eleutherophobia, a website concerned with world fiction.
Addie Tsai was born and raised in Houston, Texas. She received her Master of Fine Arts from the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina. She has been the recipient of scholarships with the Indiana University Writer's Conference and Tin House's Summer Literary Seminars Contest, and her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her manuscript of poems, and in its place— was finalist in Four Way Books' Larry Levis Prize, and semi-finalist in Tupelo Press’s Dorset Prize. Her writing is forthcoming or has been published in Post Road Magazine, Collective Brightness: LGBTIQ Poets on Faith, Religion, & Spirituality, BORN Magazine, NOON: A Journal of the Short Poem, Caketrain, Forklift, Ohio, American Letters & Commentary, and Yellow as Turmeric, Fragrant as Cloves: A Contemporary Anthology of Asian-American Women's Poetry, among others. Her photography has been shown at Fotofest, Box 13, and Watson Gallery (the second self: a series of self-portraits). She has collaborated twice with Dominic Walsh Dance Theater; first with Victor Frankenstein as co-conceiver and as narrative collaborator on Camille Claudel. She currently teaches Composition and Literature at Houston Community College, where she also is coordinator of a poetry series which highlights nationally-recognized poets of color.
William Walsh is the author of Unknown Arts, Ampersand, Mass., Pathologies, Questionstruck (all from Keyhole Press), and Without Wax: A Documentary Novel (Casperian Books). He edited an anthology of fictional appropriations called RE:Tellng (Ampersand Books). His work has appeared in Annalemma, Artifice, Juked, New York Tyrant, Lit, No Colony, Caketrain, Quarterly West, Rosebud, and other journals. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife and their four children.
Jane Wong received her MFA from the University of Iowa and is a former Fulbright Fellow. She is also the recipient of scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Currently, she is pursuing a Ph.D. in English at the University of Washington and lives in Seattle. Poems have appeared recently or are forthcoming in CutBank, Mid-American Review, Versal, Octopus, Barrow Street, The Journal, Front Porch, and others. She has two chapbooks: Dendrochronology (dancing girl press, 2011) and the forthcoming Impossible Map (Fact-Simile).
xTx is a writer living in Southern California. She has been published in places like PANK, Hobart, Puerto del Sol, Smokelong, Monkeybicycle, Storyglossia, Kill Author, and Wigleaf. Her new story collection, Normally Special, is available from Tiny Hardcore Press. She says nothing at www.notimetosayit.com.
C. Dale Young's most recent collection of poetry is Torn (Four Way Books 2011). He is a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry and lives in San Francisco.