Issue Seven, February 2010
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.
Nicelle Davis lives in Southern California with her husband James and their son J.J. Her poems are forthcoming in Caesura, FuseLit, Illya’s Honey, Moulin, The New York Quarterly, Redcations, and Transcurrent. She’d like to acknowledge her poetry family at the University of California, Riverside and Antelope Valley Community College. She runs a free online poetry workshop at: http://nicelledavis.wordpress.com/.
Mark Edmund Doten's writing has appeared in Conjunctions, Guernica, Lamination Colony, and The Believer. He’s the managing editor of Soho Press.
M.T. Fallon lives in Colorado with his wife and son. His recent fiction appears or is forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, New York Tyrant, Quarter After Eight, Sleepingfish, and Unsaid.
Lily Hoang's short novel Changing (Fairy Tale Review Press) received at 2009 PEN/Beyond Margins Award. Her first book Parabola won the 2006 Chiasmus Press Un-Doing the Novel Prize. She is also the author of the forthcoming novels The Evolutionary Revolution (Les Figues Press, April 2010) and Invisible Women (StepSister Books, late 2010 and the short story collection Unfinished (Jaded Ibis Press, 2011). With Blake Butler, she co-edited the anthology 30 Under 30 (Starcherone Books, 2011). She is Associate Editor of Starcherone Books and Editor of Tarpaulin Sky. She currently lives in Canada.
Henry Kearney IV is from Robersonville, North Carolina. He holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College. His work occasionally appears.
Diane Leach's essays and reviews appear regularly on PopMatters.com and January Magazine. A Detroit native, she now lives in Northern California. She can be reached via e-mail at Dianesleach@gmail.com.
John Madera edits Big Other and The Chapbook Review. He has been published most recently in The Brooklyn Rail, Opium Magazine, and Rain Taxi Review of Books, and forthcoming in The Review of Contemporary Fiction and Corduroy Mountain. He is editing a collection of essays on the craft of writing. www.johnmadera.com
Dawn Raffel's most recent book is Further Adventures in the Restless Universe, coming in March 2010 from Dzanc Books. "Watch" is part of a newly completed memoir in vignettes.
Patrick Rosal is the author of My American Kundiman, winner of the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award, and Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive, winner of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop Members’ Choice Award. His poems and essays have been published widely in journals and anthologies including Harvard Review, American Poetry Review, Ninth Letter, Brevity, and Language for a New Century. He has taught creative writing in prisons, community workshops, Kundiman and writing programs at Centre College, the University of Texas, Austin and, currently, Drew University. In 2009, he was awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholar Research Fellowship to the Philippines.
Peter Schwartz's poetry has been featured in The Columbia Review, Diagram, and Opium Magazine. When not dreaming of literary conferences he’s writing or taking photos or thinking of who he should get for the next issue of DOGZPLOT, where he is art editor. Learn more about his work at: www.sitrahahra.com.
Lucas Southworth has stories forthcoming from Mid-American Review and Wigleaf. Other fiction has recently appeared in CutBank, Harpur Palate, Willow Springs, and Web Conjunctions. "The Glass Coffin" is an excerpt of a novel-in-progress.
Amber Sparks has appeared or is forthcoming in New York Tyrant, PANK, Annalemma, Wigleaf, Necessary Fiction, and various other publications. She lives in Washington, DC, and can be found online at www.ambernoellesparks.com. This story is part of a fiction collection she's working on about figures and tropes from myth and legend.
John Yohe lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan and teaches composition at both Jackson and Washtenaw Community Colleges. He holds a MA in Written Communication from Eastern Michigan University and a MFA in Poetry Writing from The New School for Social Research. Samples of his fiction, poetry and non-fiction can be found at: www.johnyohe.com.
Kate Zambreno lives in the Midwest, where she teaches gender studies and keeps the literary blog Frances Farmer Is My Sister at francesfarmerismysister.blogspot.com/. She is an editor at Nightboat Books. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The Believer, Bookforum, and Rain Taxi, among others.