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Matt Bell’s fiction has appeared in magazines such as Hobart, Barrelhouse, Caketrain, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency. He was a finalist for the 2007 Storyglossia Fiction Prize and has been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize. He can be found on the web at www.mdbell.com.

Kristin Berkey-Abbott earned a Ph.D. in British Literature from the University of South Carolina. She has published in many journals and was one of the top ten finalists in the National Looking Glass Poetry Chapbook Competition.  Pudding House Publications published her chapbook, Whistling Past the Graveyard, in 2004. Currently, she teaches English and Creative Writing at the Art Institute of Ft. Lauderdale, where she was recently promoted to Assistant Chair of the General Education department.

Ryan Call's fiction appears or is forthcoming in Barrelhouse, Hobart, Avery, Caketrain, and NO COLONY.

Having been fed a steady diet of science fiction and fantasy since she was old enough to read, Janet Cannon dreams of one day flying a dragon through space...or at least publishing a series of books where the main character does so. Currently she teaches computer applications and communication arts to fifth and sixth graders in Southeast Missouri.

In the past, Miles Clark has volunteered at McSweeney's, The Believer and Zoetrope: All-Story, among others. He is now the Editor of No Record Press (www.no-record.com), from which his first novel is now available. He lives in Brooklyn.

Deborah Diemont lives in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico with her husband and three-year-old daughter. She is translating poems by poets from Chiapas State for a bilingual English-Spanish anthology, as well as working as a translator and grant writer for the Mayan Medicine Museum. Her poems have appeared in The Texas Review and on Literarymama.com. She can be reached at d_diemont2-at-yahoo.com.

Robert Duffer’s work has appeared recently in Word Riot, The 2nd Hand, No Touching Magazine, and The Taj Mahal Review. He writes for Chicago Scene, Time Out Chicago, Centerstage Chicago, Rain Taxi Review of Books and for Chicago Public Radio's 848. Visit him and excerpts of his novel at www.robertduffer.com.

Donna J. Essner teaches college English and works for the University Press at Southeast Missouri State University, while finishing her Masters in Creative Writing. For three years she authored monthly gardening articles for the Southeast Missourian newspaper. She writes short stories and poetry. Her work has been published in Journey and Big Muddy.

Rav Grewal-Kök lives in Brooklyn, where he is writing a novel.  His short fiction has appeared in the Santa Monica Review.

Denise Hill has been teaching college English for well over a decade in addition to first writing for then becoming the editor for NewPages. She currently teaches at Delta College in Michigan and is an active member of the AWP 2-Year College Caucus.

Cyan James is a recent MFA graduate from the University of Michigan, where she currently works as a research assistant at the Center for the History of Medicine. She's completing her Hopwood-winning novel, and has been published in The Beloit Poetry Journal, Blackbird, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Oleander Review, among others.

Rachel King is a University of Oregon, Robert D. Clark Honors college graduate. She currently teaches freshman English in Baltimore at MATHS charter high school. Her work has been published in The Birch, a Russian and East European Studies journal at Columbia University. You can contact her at king.rachelsuzanne-at-gmail.com.

Josh Maday lives in Saginaw, Michigan. His writing has appeared in Opium, Rivet Magazine, Barrelhouse, Haggard and Halloo, Thieves Jargon, The Binnacle, and elsewhere. Never having considered the fact that he will die someday, he fully intends to read all those books on his shelves. He can be reached via e-mail at joshmaday-at-sbcglobal.net and found on the web at http://joshmaday.blogspot.com.

Camilla S. Medders lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas. When she isn’t pursuing innovative therapies for her daughter, who has cerebral palsy, or giving moral support to her husband, who is trying to get tenth graders interested in reading, she’s earning her MFA from the University of Arkansas. And if she’s lucky, she finds a little time in there to write short stories and essays.

Stefani Nellen is a psychologist-turned-writer living in Pittsburgh and the Netherlands with her husband. She writes literary fiction and science fiction.

Laura Polley is an MFA student in Poetry at Lesley University. Her poetry has been published in Margie, Autumn Sky Poetry, Crescent Moon Journal, and on the Interboard Poetry Community website. Her essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Mississippi Review, Loch Raven Review, and Alimentum. Contact Laura at Knit30-at-aol.com.

Jessica Powers is a freelance writer who lives in the tiny corner of the U.S. where New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico meet. She may be reached for comments at jlpowers at evaporites.com. You can read her African History column at www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/african_history.

Sarah Sala is the co-founder and current editor-in-chief of the University of Michigan’s literary magazine, Oleander Review. Her work has appeared in Richard Siken's Spork, The Statement, Bear River Review, OffBeat, RC Review, and various others. Her awards and honors include the Marjorie Rappaport Award for poetry, the Academy of American Poets Prize and a Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship.

Jennifer Sinor is the author of The Extraordinary Work of Ordinary Writing. Her essays have appeared in Fourth Genre, Bellingham Review, Green Mountains Review, and elsewhere. She teaches at Utah State University.

Anne Wolfe works at Delta College in their archives and Academic Testing Center. She has an AMLS from the University of Michigan.  Among other jobs, she has been a stringer and radio reporter and published news articles for the Ann Arbor News, the Saginaw News, the Bay City Times, and the Midland Daily News. She can be reached at  wolfe.a-at-sbcglobal.net.

Micah Zevin's poetry has appeared in the Chiron Review. During the past year he has been working on a novel-in -verse about the life of the "Bearded Lady" from adolescence through adulthood  and has just completed his first short film Shelf Life. He also is one of the founding members for a new sketch comedy troupe The Despots. Currently, he is a Librarian in the Queens Library system and lives with his fiancée, a playwright, earning her MFA at Adelphi University. You can read and hear his poetry at
www.somarspoetry.blogspot.com.

 

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