Issue Twelve: July 2010
Gabriel Blackwell's fiction has appeared in Conjunctions and The Collagist, and is forthcoming in Puerto del Sol.
Jonathan Callahan is still on sabbatical from the Lookings Institute, where he has been provisionally relieved of his Associate Directorship pending demonstration of minimal progress toward his stated goal of "getting the beer thing under control." While we have not been in direct communication with and in fact have not even received the courtesy of so much as a postcard from Callahan in upwards of several months now, we have no compelling reason to believe he would not still be living in Fukuoka, Japan, assuming he was ever there in the first place. We are hopeful that he continues to be hard at work on his novel, The Consummation of Dirk, and will choose to interpret the recent appearance of a number of his so-called "fictions" in places like Unsaid, PANK, and Underwater New York as indications of an ongoing dedication to his developing craft, rather than signs that he's basically pitched the novel-writing towel onto the mat in despair. We wish him well.
Anya Groner's reviews, fiction, and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in Bookslut, FlatManCrooked, Word Riot, Nano, Memphis Magazine, and others. She recently received her MFA from the University of Mississippi where she held a Grisham fellowship in fiction. She continues to teach and write in Oxford, Mississippi.
David Hollander is the author of the novel L.I.E. His work has appeared in McSweeney’s, Post Road, The New York Times Magazine, The Black Warrior Review, Poets & Writers, and Unsaid, and has been frequently anthologized, most recently in Best American Fantasy 2008. Hollander teaches writing at Sarah Lawrence College, where he is revered as a God.
B.J. Hollars is an MFA candidate at the University of Alabama where he's served as nonfiction editor and assistant fiction editor for Black Warrior Review. He has work published or forthcoming in Barrelhouse, Mid-American Review, Fugue, The Southeast Review, DIAGRAM, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Puerto del Sol, Hobart, among others. He has edited the book You Must Be This Tall To Ride: Contemporary Writers Take You Inside The Story.
Perry Janes currently attends the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he is the recipient of four Hopwood Awards for fiction and poetry. His work has recently appeared in Salt Hill..
Subhashini Kaligotla is a graduate of Columbia University’s MFA program in poetry and was awarded a Fulbright fellowship to India for literary translation. Her poems have appeared in Catamaran, Crab Orchard Review, The Literary Review, New England Review, Western Humanities Review, and in poetry collections in India, the United Kingdom, and the United States. She lives in New York City, where she is a Kundiman fellow and a Ph.D. candidate in South Asian art.
Joshua Mohr is the author of the San Francisco Chronicle bestselling novel, Some Things That Meant the World to Me. He lives in San Francisco and teaches writing.
Sarah Rose Nordgren's poems have appeared recently or are forthcoming in Quarterly West, Hayden’s Ferry, Cincinnati Review, American Literary Review, Mid-American Review, Puerto del Sol, and other journals. She was a 2008-2009 Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and holds an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She currently lives and writes in Chapel Hill, NC.
Kimberly King Parsons's writing has appeared in Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, elimae, 360 Main Street, Everyday Genius, Suddenly, Time Out New York, and The Chapbook Review. She lives in Queens and is at work on a short story collection about liars.
Hannah Pass's work has appeared in Poor Claudia and Storyglossia among others. She lives and writes in Portland, Oregon, where she will be beginning her first year in the MFA in Writing program at Pacific University. She is currently at work on a collection of linked fictions. You can find her online at http://hannahmpass.blogspot.com.
Jon Pineda new book is Sleep in Me, a memoir, due out from the University of Nebraska Press. He is the author of the poetry collections The Translator’s Diary, and Birthmark.
Ben Segal is the author of 78 Stories (No Record Press) as well as chapbooks from ML Press and Publishing Genius. His short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in various publications including Gigantic, Eyeshot, elimae, and the collection Tell: An Anthology of Expository Narrative. He is also the co-editor of The Official Catalog of the Library of Potential Literature and is a founding contributor at Ghost Island.
A. Wolfe is elusive: Unsaid, The Pinch, Quarterly West, The Rumpus. SPAM her at PeninsulasNow [at] gmail.com.