Issue Five: December 2009
Stace Budzko has been anthologized and/or published in Night Train, Monkeybicycle, Snow Monkey, Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction, Flash Fiction Forward, Brevity & Echo, Quick Fiction, SmokeLong Quarterly, Long Story Short, Southeast Review, Carve Magazine and others. At present, he the writer-in-residence at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. His work is forthcoming in Hint Fiction: Norton Anthology of Stories.
Todd Cantrell lives in Lithia Springs, GA with his wife and two boys, but is originally from Texas. His short fiction has appeared in Pif Magazine.
Anna Clark's writing has appeared in The American Prospect Online, AlterNet, Blood Lotus, Utne Reader, Common Dreams, Women's eNews, Religion Dispatches, The Women's International Perspective, ColorLines, Bitch Magazine, Writer's Journal, RH Reality Check, truthout, and many other publications. She edits the literary and social justice website, Isak. She lives and writes from Detroit, MI.
Chella Courington teaches writing, fiction and poetry at Santa Barbara City College. Considering herself a writer who crosses borders, she loves language that moves in and out of time. Her recent work appears or is forthcoming in NOP Magazine, Pirene’s Fountain, Past Simple, DMQ Review, and Gargoyle Magazine.
Robert Fanning is the author of American Prophet (Marick Press, 2009), The Seed Thieves (Marick Press, 2006) and Old Bright Wheel (Ledge Press Poetry Award 2003). His poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Poetry, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, The Atlanta Review, The Hawaii Review, and other journals. A professor of Creative Writing at Central Michigan University, Fanning's writing awards include a Creative Artist Grant from ArtServe Michigan, the Inkwell Poetry Award, and the Foley Poetry Award. His website is www.robertfanning.com.
Scott Garson's American Gymnopédies will be out early next year from Willows Wept Press. He has stories in or coming from Unsaid, Quick Fiction, Hobart, American Short Fiction, and others. He edits Wigleaf.
Anastasia Hobbet lived in the Middle East for five years between the two Gulf wars, where she studied the language, art and culture of the Islamic world, and traveled widely around the Middle East, India and North Africa.
Dave Housley's collection of short fiction, Ryan Seacrest is Famous, was published in 2007 by Impetus Press. His work has appeared in Columbia, Nerve, Pindeldyboz, Wigleaf, and some other places. He's one of the founding editors and all around do-stuff people at Barrelhouse magazine. He keeps his stuff at davehousley.com.
Jennifer Howard has published fiction in VQR, the Blue Moon Review, and in the anthology D.C. Noir (Akashic Books). A former contributing editor of the Washington Post Book World, she writes about publishing, libraries, archives, and humanities for the Chronicle of Higher Education. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband, the writer Mark Trainer, and their two children and two cats. She can be found online at www.jenniferhoward.com.
Ethan Joella is an assistant professor at Albright College where he directs the ESL program and teaches creative writing. He is a 2008 Eric Hoffer Award finalist, and that story appears in Best New Writing 2008. His work has also appeared in Perigee, The International Fiction Review, Tiferet, Retort, Paradigm, and Stickman Review. He lives in Pennsylvania with his wife and daughters.
John Madera found it pickling in a crack in the living room floor. It wasn’t the stench that brought him to it. It wasn’t its subaqueous squish. Sprawled on the floor, the thing having wormed in his ear, wriggled through his body’s branches, John, with some anguish, watched the snowflakes—each one a doily with day’s eyed convolutions—drop past the windowpanes. He marveled at the sky gone pink and wondered who would find him first. www.johnmadera.com.
Lindsay Merbaum studied her MFA at Brooklyn College, where she was a recipient of the Himan Brown Award. Her work has appeared in Best of the Web 2009, Our Stories, and Sojourn, among others. Currently, she lives in Quito, Ecuador and is at work on a collection of stories.
Stacy Muszynski writes. Her recent work appears at elimae, Opium, Everyday Genius, The Rumpus, more. She web edits American Short Fiction and co-hosts Five Things Austin.
Ryan Ridge is writing The Anatomy of American Homes. Other pieces of the project have appeared in DIAGRAM & The Mississippi Review Online. He lives in an apartment in Orange County.
Max Ross's writing has appeared in The Onion, The Rumpus, The Harvard Review, and The Star Tribune, among other publications. He lives in New York.
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
Candy Shue’s writing has appeared in Washington Square, Switchback, The Southern California Anthology, VerbSap.com, Follymag.com, Poemeleon, Pif Online, The Short Story Review, Kingfisher, Paragraph, and other publications. Currently in the MFA Program at the University of San Francisco, she’s working on a collection of poems as well as an article, “Playing with Paradox: Poetry as Tantra.”
Sheera Talpaz is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Michigan, where she received a Hopwood Award in poetry. She earned her BA with Honors in Comparative Literature from the University of Chicago and has since returned to the city, where she currently works and writes. Her humor pieces have appeared in The Rumpus, and her poetry is forthcoming in Euphony.
Kristine Uyeda is a Kundiman Fellow whose work has appeared in Boxcar Poetry Review, Cyphers, Rattle, and The Asian Pacific American Journal.