Issue Ten: May 2010
Carroll Beauvais is an MFA candidate at Syracuse University and an editor for Salt Hill Journal.
Brad Felver has recently completed his first novel. He writes and teaches writing in northern Ohio.
Kevin Kaiser was born and raised in Orange County, California and has an MFA in Creative Writing from Chatham University in Pittsburgh. His fiction, poetry, and music are internationally published. He lives with the poet Angela Parker.
Born in Memphis & raised in North Texas, Saeed Jones recently received his MFA in Creative Writing at Rutgers University – Newark. He earned his bachelor’s degree at Western Kentucky University where he won the Jim Wayne Miller Award for Poetry. While at Western, he was the poetry editor for Rise Over Run Magazine. He currently teaches in Newark, NJ. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in publications like storySouth, Barnwood Magazine, Splinter Generation, The Adirondack Review, Ganymede, and Mary. His blog For Southern Boys Who Consider Poetry is dedicated to emerging queer poets of color.
A native of a decaying Pennsylvania steel town (the one from the Billy Joel song), Emily Kiernan writes about islands, vaudeville, implacable but unjustified feelings of abandonment, the West, and places that aren’t the way she remembered them. Lately, she’s been living in Los Angeles, where she is pursuing her MFA in creative writing at CalArts, and interning with the literary journal Black Clock.
Michael Lauchlan has lived in and around Detroit for his entire life. His most recent chapbook is Sudden Parade, from Riverside Press. Poems have appeared in many publications including New England Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Victoria Park, The North American Review, Ninth Letter, Natural Bridge, and have been included in Abandon Automobile, from Wayne State University Press and in A Mind Apart, from Oxford Press.
Sandy Longhorn is the author of Blood Almanac (Anhinga Press, 2006), which won the 2005 Anhinga Prize for Poetry. New poems have appeared recently or are forthcoming in The American Poetry Journal, Copper Nickel, diode, Juked, Redactions, and elsewhere. She has also received an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Arkansas Arts Council. Her blog is Myself the only Kangaroo among the Beauty.
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 has 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, “96 Tears.” 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.
Heather Momyer is the Nonfiction Editor of Requited, a fiction reader for Hotel Amerika, and an editor for Slash Pine Press. Her writing appears in journals such as H_NGM_N, Moria, JMWW, trnsfr, and Exquisite Corpse. New work is forthcoming in Ekleksographia.
Jennifer Pieroni is a founder and editor of the literary journal Quick Fiction, which features stories of 500 words or less. Jennifer’s short fiction and prose poetry has appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, Bateau, Guernica, Hobart, elimae, Word Riot, and Wigleaf, among others.
Andrew Richmond lives in St. Louis. His fiction has appeared in Post Road, New Orleans Review, sleepingfish, Agriculture Reader, and Capgun.
Matthew Roberson has published two novels—1998.6 and Impotent—with FC2. His short fiction has appeared in Fourteen Hills, Fiction International, mcsweeneys.net, and others.
Jim Ruland is the author of the short story collection, Big Lonesome, and the organizer of the L.A.-based reading series, Vermin on the Mount. He lives in San Diego with his wife, the visual artist Nuvia Crisol Guerra.
Steve Stern is the author of four novels, four collections of stories, and a novella. His 1999 story collection, The Wedding Jester, won the National Jewish Book Award. He's been the recipient of several grants and fellowships, including a Guggenheim and a Fulbright, and currently teaches creative writing at Skidmore College.
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.
Zoe Zolbrod was raised in Meadville, Pennsylvania, graduated from Oberlin College, and received her MA from the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Program for Writers. After backpacking around Southeast Asia, she co-published the zine Maxine and worked as an editor. She lives in Evanston, Illinois, with her husband, the photographer Mark DeBernardi, and their two children. Currency is her first novel.