Daniel D. Adams
is the co-author, with the late Philip Jose Farmer, of the short novel The
City Beyond Play (PS Publishing, 2007). Some of his shorter work has appeared or is forthcoming in Abyss & Apex,
Appalachian Heritage, Asimov's, the Clinch Mountain Review, Ideomancer,
Not One Of Us, Paradox, Star*Line, Strange Horizons, and Weird
Tales. He is currently wrapping up a four-volume historical fiction series called the Shenandoah
Saga. Daniel and his wife Laurie live deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia with however many cats in their area need rescuing at any given time.
“The Lighthouse
of Ajax Mountain” • Vol. 21, No. 2
Sarah Ahmad
is a photographer living in Pakistan. She had solo exhibitions of her work in 2007 and 2008, and won the 2009 Sony World Photography Award as well. Her photography blog: tornabyss.blogspot.com.
Tangled • cover art for Vol. 21, No. 1
Boyd Bauman
grew up on a small ranch in northeast Kansas and is now a writer and a teacher in the Kansas City area. His work has appeared in Plainsongs, The South Dakota Review, The Rockhurst Review, Heartlands, and Barbaric Yawp, but for some reason The New Yorker keeps turning him down.
“Bailout” • Vol. 20, No. 4
Paul K. Binford
Originally from Arcadia, a suburb of Los Angeles, Paul spent his early adult years hitchiking around various parts of the U.S. and Canada. When he got that out of his system, he went back to academia and earned a B.A. in English Literature from California State University. After working for several years in the L.A. school system, he moved to Nagoya, on the east coast of Honshu, Japan’s largest island. He teaches at a university, travels, reads a lot, writes, and reflects on the vast divergence between East and West. He’s published a couple of dozen short stories, articles, and essays in various publications in Japan. "Additives" is his first published story in the U.S. He likes to spend his summers in the Pacific Northwest.
“Additives” • Vol. 20, No. 4
Jennifer
Hollie Bowles
writes to prolong breathing. She is the editor
of The Medulla Review, a venue that caters
to edgy, surreal, slipstream writing, and as of March 2010, her writing
has been accepted for publication in twenty-five literary journals,
including Echo Ink Review, Thieves Jargon, The
New York Quarterly, Word Riot, and The Ampersand
Review. Jennifer doesn’t own a TV or a
watch.
“Heather” •
Vol. 21, No. 2
Lawrence Buentello
His poetry has appeared in The Wallace Stevens Journal, Avocet, Paradigm, The Writer's Journal, and other publications. He lives in San Antonio, Texas.
“American Odyssey” • Vol. 20, No. 4
Peter Callesen
A Danish-born artist with architectural training,
he has created many extraordinary installations around the world, including
floating castles; one was in Hamburg harbor where he lived and reigned
for a week (a returning theme in his work is the reinterpretation of
classical fairytales). Recently he has worked almost exclusively with
A4 white paper in different objects, paper cuts, installations and
performances. petercallesen.com.
18.2 cm Tall Tower
of Babel • cover art for Vol. 21,
No. 2
Rob Carney
is the author of two books—Weather Report (Somondoco Press, 2006) and Boasts, Toasts, and Ghosts (Pinyon Press, 2003), winner of the Pinyon Press National Poetry Book Award—and two chapbooks, both winners of national contests: New Fables, Old Songs (Dream Horse Press, 2003) and This Is One Sexy Planet (Frank Cat Press, 2005). His work has been published in American Poetry Journal, Mid-American Review, Mobius, The National Poetry Review, Quarterly West, Redactions: Poetry & Poetics, and other journals, as well as Flash Fiction Forward (W.W. Norton, 2006). You may write to him at rob.carney@uvu.edu.
“Going All-In” • Vol. 21, No. 1
“A Million-and-One Things Missing, Plus a Couple Items Found” • Vol. 20, No. 3
“Recommended Daily Allowance” • Vol. 20, No. 1
Andrés Castro
was born in Brooklyn soon after his family arrived
from Puerto Rico, and raised in the South Bronx. After receiving a
bachelor’s degree in psychology and working as a rehabilitation counselor,
he fell in love with poetry and completed a second BA in English. He
received his MFA from Brooklyn College. He is a PEN member, listed
in the Directory of Poets and Fiction Writers, and, after a couple
of years of teaching high school English in the Bronx for the NYC Dept.
of Ed., including at the school he graduated from in `76, resigned
to found The Teacher’s Voice. Andrés has had a variety of
jobs (including Special Security Officer at The Met Museum of Art)
but, having kept his USPTA certification since 1985, he now finds himself
happily working at an Upper Eastside Manhattan tennis club with time
for poetry. He lives in Kew Gardens, Queens with his wife; his son
and daughter are both high school teachers.
“The Late Watch at The Metropolitan Museum of Art” •
Vol. 21, No. 2
Earl Coleman
Two short stories nominated for Pushcarts XXIII and XXVII and one short story nominated for Best American Short Stories. His first book of poetry, A Stubborn Pine in a Stiff Wind (Mellen Poetry Press) was published in 2001. Earl Coleman’s Greatest Hits was published by Pudding House as part of their poetry chapbook series in 2004. In April 2007 a collaboration with his son, Like Father, Like Son, was published.
“Diet of Worms” • Vol. 20, No. 2
Geoff Collins
lives in Marshall, a small farm town on the eastern end of Dane County. He writes, gardens, plays with his kids, and teaches science at the local middle school. His work has recently appeared in Main Channel Voices, Free Verse, Slant, Blue Earth Review, and Willow Review.
“Falling Apart” • Vol. 20, No. 2
CS DeWildt
has two jobs and writes stories. He is a teacher by paycheck but prefers the title "corrupter of youth". His hobbies include changing dirty diapers and preparing warm bottles of milk. He can usually be spotted with his nose in a book. His stories have appeared in Bartleby Snopes, Static Movement, The Horror Press, and now Mobius. Contact him at myspace.com/csdewildt.
“They Speak Mexican Down on the South Side” • Vol. 20, No. 3
Ken Dickerson
is a writer living in Asheville, NC. He has traveled widely through Africa and the United States. He attended the University of Colorado and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His work appeared in the March 2009 issue of The Long Story.
“Digital Gitmo” • Vol. 20, No. 2
Jonathan
Dubow
is a recent graduate of Oberlin College with
degrees in English and Creative Writing. He has work forthcoming in
the Boston Literary Magazine and Vox
Humana. He currently teaches English
in Ecuador.
“The Thirteenth
Day.” •
Vol. 21, No. 2
Sharon Erby
Sharon’s creative work has appeared or is forthcoming
in Kaleidoscope, Feminist Studies, Writers’
Bloc, and Touch: The
Journal of Healing, among others. She is currently an Adjunct Professor
of English at Wilson College, Chambersburg, PA, a small liberal arts
college dedicated to the education of women. She lives on a farm
near Chambersburg with her husband, two teenagers, a beagle, and
varying numbers of itinerant cats. Two older children live close
enough to be pestered. Here, she happily cultivates her own gardens—of
flowers, herbs, vegetables—and words.
“Parts of
Speech” •
Vol. 21, No. 2
Alejandro Escudé
lives in Santa Monica, California and teaches high school English. His second collection of poems, Unknown Physics, was published in 2007 by March Street Press. He is originally from Argentina. Interested readers can go to alexescude.com for more information.
“After Bush” • Vol. 20, No. 2
Kevin Finnerty
lives and writes in Minneapolis and seeks to do justice as an attorney in St. Paul. He previously did some of those same things in New Jersey, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Seattle. His story "Mercy" appeared in the summer 2009 issue of Parting
Gifts. He is working on a novel called Death and Near Death.
“The Happiness
Gene” •
Vol. 21, No. 2
Stacia M. Fleegal
is the author of Anatomy of a Shape-Shifter (WordTech, forthcoming 2010) and the chapbooks The Lines Are Not My Friends (second place, Červená Barva Press chapbook competition, 2009) and A Fling with the Ground (Finishing Line Press, 2007). In 2009, individual poems appeared or are forthcoming in Fourth River, The Louisville Review, Skidrow Penthouse, Pemmican, Blue Collar Review, The Kerf, Prick of the Spindle, New Verse News, and Babel Fruit. She received her MFA in writing from Spalding University, is co-founder and managing editor of Blood Lotus, and recently co-founded Imaginary Friend Press (named after Thomas McGrath’s Letter to an Imaginary Friend) with her partner, the poet Dan Nowak.
“Saving the World?” • Vol. 20, No. 4
Anthony Frame
is an exterminator who lives in Toledo, OH with his wife and their spoiled cat. Recently, his poems have been published in or are forthcoming from La Fovea, Splinter Generation, Versal, Perigee, The Ambassador Project, and New Plains Review, among others. He is also co-editor of the online journal Glass: A Journal of Poetry. He likes bad TV and even worse music. You can google him, but god only knows what you'll find.
“Thirteen Things My Military Students Tell Me That They Can't Tell Their Parents” • Vol. 21, No. 1
Jim Fuess
uses Liquitex paint which he dilutes and Golden fluid paints. Mixing them together takes a long learning curve. Some colors overwhelm others and some produce spectacular effects. See more work at jimfuessart.com.
Breathng Fire #2 • cover art for Vol. 20, No. 2
Wade German
writes journalism by day and weird poetry by night. He currently lives in Prague, Czech Republic. His recent poems have appeared in or are upcoming in Dark Horizons, Dreams and Nightmares, Illumen, Space and Time, Star*Line, and Strange Sorcery, among others.
“Kropotkin's Universal Bread Distribution Apparatus” • Vol. 20, No. 3
Thomas Girshin
once cooked a Gobhi Matar Rasedar, indescribably good, and declared himself the new Iron Chef. He ran a 5k at a roughly eight-minute-mile split and began considering the Olympic marathon. Sometimes he has brilliant thoughts he’s sure no one else has ever fathomed. He is humbled by writing, by its complexity, constantly humbled and sometimes awed by the complexity of life in general.
“The Official Sour Cabbage of United Russia” • Vol. 21, No. 1
Roland Goity
lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. His stories appear in numerous literary publications, including Fiction International, Scrivener Creative Review, Underground Voices, Talking River, Bryant Literary Review, and Word Riot. He is fiction editor of the online journal LITnIMAGE.
“Next Available Flight” • Vol. 20, No. 2
J.M. Hall
has had poetry published in various literary journals including Ibbetson St. Press, The Penwood Review, and Hazmat Review. He was born and raised in Birmingham, AL, has a M.A. in philosophy from Penn State, and is currently finishing his Ph.D. at Vanderbilt University. He is also a classically-trained violinist and Latin dance instructor and choreographer.
“Say something about the imposition” • Vol. 20, No. 3
Elizabeth T. Hansen
has been writing poems and stories since she was ten. Some appeared in the small lit mags of the '80s and '90s. She has written and produced radio and television commercials for local stations and worked as assistant editor for 10 years at Forest Press in Dublin, Ohio, a division of Online Computer Library Center. She lives in a rural area in upstate New York, in the shadow of Helderberg Mountains. On a clear day, she can see forever.
“Friday Night at the Movies in Buffalo, N.Y.” • Vol. 21, No. 1
William Locke Hauser
After military and business careers, he is engaged in a 'third career' of writing fiction. "The Ridge" is his eighteenth published story. He and his wife Helen Alexandra, an ardent gardener (he being an avid bicyclist), live in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, spending their summers in Reston, Virginia near the homes of their two adult sons.
“The Ridge” • Vol. 20, No. 1
Roy Haymond
was born in Mississippi but spent much of his life in the Carolinas. After a hitch in USMC, he took a degree from the University of South Carolina. Until he retired, he stood in front of high school classrooms instructing in several disciplines. A string of side jobs included commercial tenor saxophone, all-night groceries, grass cutting, and even a shot at selling cemetery lots. After escaping the classroom, he worked for a time as writer and then editor of a weekly newspaper. Some forty pieces have been published in literary journals in eleven states and Canada, mostly straight objective narrative—he prefers to let psychological insight emerge from what the characters do and say. He now lives in a rural enclave (no traffic lights or sidewalks, but there is a herd of goats). His (second) wife writes in between her attempts to cover the earth with flowers. He writes and continues a love affair with the tenor saxophone—"in my dreams I am Lester Young and I wow the ladies in retirement homes."
“Maria's Escape Hatch” • Vol. 20, No. 2
David Highsmith
is the proprietor of Books & Bookshelves in San Francisco. Recent poems appear in the Antioch Review, foam:e, Right Hand Pointing, Shampoo, and Sawbuck. His books include Poison in the System, Fragments from Bernard, The Chatterley Stanzas, and Catalina Island. dkhighsmith@gmail.com.
“Something You Believe In” • Vol. 20, No. 1
Ferdinand E. Hintze
Ferdi is a software developer who also writes fiction. His stories address the profit-oriented elements of human nature, romance from a male point of view, and when the two merge, both. He is putting the finishing touches on his novel, Balls, about a fifteen-year-old who gets testicular cancer, and in his brush-with-death epiphany, re-invents himself as a drug dealer and invests the profits in the stock market.
“Cover My Shorts” • Vol. 20, No. 4
Kelli Hoppmann
is a long-time Madison, WI, artist. An accomplished figurative painter, her work is informed by myth. See more work at kellihoppmann.com.
Adam and Eve • cover art for Vol. 20, No. 3
Sally Houtman
is an American-born writer who lives in Wellington, New Zealand. She is the author of the non-fiction book To Grandma's House, We ... Stay, and has been widely published in the areas of fiction and poetry. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Rustblind, flashquake, Takahe, Bravado, Viola Beadleton's Compendium, Eclecticism, and Touch: The Journal of Healing.
“A Different Tribe” • Vol. 20, No. 3
John Jansen
has been a teacher for thirty years. For decades, when work was done, he set about poetry into the small hours. He loves gardening, reading, friends, relatives. His motto is, "If it moves, talk to it,"—and still the world goes on. He weeds now, avoids travel, adheres to the incomparable folly of poetry. He's always lived in the Milwaukee area. The life of his dear partner of 44 years was changed 1½ years ago.
“Homage to Antonio Machado” • Vol. 20, No. 4
LaToya Jordan
is a poet from Brooklyn, NY. She lives with her
English-teacher husband and two cats in a tiny apartment with an infestation
of books. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University–Los
Angeles.
“America is
15 times the size of Afghanistan” •
Vol. 21, No. 2
Willie James
King
is a native of Orrville, AL. His poetry appears or
is forthcoming in Alehouse, America, Appalachian
Heritage, English Journal, Hawaii Pacific Review, New Contrast (South
Africa), Orbis (UK), RATTLE,
Sierra Nevada Review, The Caribbean Writer, Urthona Poetry Magazine (UK),
and in many others. His book The House in the Heart, with a
foreword by Cathy Smith-Bowers, was published by Tebot Bach in 2007. wll3ki@aol.com.
“In My Hand” •
Vol. 21, No. 2
Michael Kriesel
is a poet and reviewer from rural central Wisconsin and a part-time janitor at the rural elementary school he once attended. His work has appeared in Small Press Review, Library Journal, Nimrod, Rosebud, and the Progressive. He won the 2003 Lorine Niedecker Poetry Prize from the Council for Wisconsin Writers and has had nine Pushcart nominations. mkriesel@wausau.k12.wi.us.
“Original Sin” • Vol. 20, No. 1
Geoffrey A. Landis
A scientist and science-fiction writer, he also sometimes writes poetry. His poem "Search" won the 2009 Rhysling Award for best long SF poem of 2008, and his first collection of poems, Iron Angels, was published by Van Zeno Press in 2009. http://www.geoffreylandis.com/
“'Abd al Muqeet” • Vol. 21, No. 1
Susanna Lang
has published original poems and essays, and translations from the French, in such journals as The Baltimore Review, Kalliope, Southern Poetry Review, World Literature Today, Chicago Review, New Directions, Green Mountains Review, Jubilat, and Rhino. Book publications include translations of Words in Stone and The Origin of Language, both by Yves Bonnefoy. She lives with her husband and son in Chicago, where she teaches at a Chicago public school.
“My Mother’s Names for Me” • Vol. 20, No. 3
Sean Lause
teaches courses in Shakespeare, The American Short Story, and Composition at Rhodes State College in Lima, Ohio. He lives with his son Christopher in Bluffton, Ohio.
“Camera Obscura” • Vol. 21, No. 1
Eric D. Lehman
is a senior lecturer in English at the University of Bridgeport and has had short stories, essays, reviews, and poems published in dozens of journals and magazines, such as Nexus, Hackwriters, Identity Theory, Cause and Effect, Switchback, Umbrella, and Entelechy. His first book, Bridgeport: Tales from the Park City, is available from The History Press.
“Last Walk on Silver Lane” • Vol. 20, No. 3
Robert Lietz
Over 500 of his poems have appeared in more than one hundred journals
in the U.S. and Canada, in Sweden and U.K, including Agni
Review, Carolina Quarterly, Epoch, The Georgia Review, The Missouri Review,
The North American Review, The Ontario Review, Poetry, Shenandoah, and
many webzines. Seven
collections of poems have been published, including Running
in Place (L’Epervier
Press,). At Park and East Division (L’Epervier Press,) The
Lindbergh Half-century (L’Epervier Press,) The
Inheritance (Sandhills Press,) and
Storm Service (Basfal Books). Basfal also published After
Business in the West: New and Selected Poems.
“Breaking In” •
Vol. 21, No. 2
Sandra Lindow
After twenty-five years working in a treatment center for emotionally disturbed adolescents, Sandra Lindow is semi-retired and living on a hill in Menomonie, Wisconsin where she plants vegetables and perennials and communes with a twenty-pound rototiller. Presently she works to prepare education students for their Praxis test. She has six published poetry collections. Touched by the Gods, her most recent, was published in the fall of 2008. Her webpage can be found at wfop.org/poets/lindowsa.html.
“Cinderella Story” • Vol. 20, No. 1
John Lovik
is a graduate of the University of Oregon with a BA in English and Political Science. He currently lives in the mountains outside of his hometown of Sweet Home, Oregon where he spends his time between his books and his woodshop. His poetry has appeared in The Speakeasy, The Storyteller, and Desert Voices. He can be contacted at jlovik2@gmail.com.
“The Thorns Where Snakes Once Grew” • Vol. 20, No. 3
Peter Magliocco
writes from Las Vegas, Nevada, and has poetry in The Smoking Poet, A Hudson View Poetry Digest, Zygote in My Coffee, Heeltap, and elsewhere.... His new novel is The Burgher of Virtual Eden from Publish America. He was Pushcart-nominated in 2008.
“Moon Angels in the Trailer Park” • Vol. 20, No. 4
Robert I. Mann
Born May 29, 1952, Burbank, California, he is presently head of the English Dept. at Polimoda, International Institute of Fashion, Florence, Italy. He received a BA in Humanities from the University of California at Berkeley and an MA in English Literature from California State University at Northridge; in short, a product of the public education system of California. His Masters thesis was an analysis of Freudian-oriented biographies of Ernest Hemingway (of which there are several, Hemingway being big game for psychoanalytic critics.) He has published fiction in the new renaissance and The Bitter Oleander. He is married to a native Florentine and has two teenage daughters.
“Welcome to the Icebox” • Vol. 20, No. 1
Greg Markee
makes a practice of conceptual improvisation. He writes poems in Madison, Wisconsin, and materializes at gregmarkee.com.
“phantoms and lunatics and sponges” • Vol. 20, No. 2
Gerald A. McBreen
U.S. Postal Service (retired). Pacific Poet Laureate 2009. Certified by NIA (Newspaper Institute of America). Published in anthologies and magazines. "I try to write something that people will want to read because it
elevates their own experiences to a level of passsion they feel and helps them to articulate it in their own words. Sometimes I write just for fun. I like to see people smile, and if they laugh, that's okay, too."
“pre divorce/post divorce” • Vol. 20, No. 4
G.D. McFetridge
neo-postmodern writer and revolutionary, lives in Montana's beautiful Bitterroot Valley and ponders the snowcapped mountain peaks and his six unpublishable novels. His latest novel, The Jesus Genome, will not be appearing any time soon.
“Far from Everywhere” • Vol. 20, No. 2
Ralph Murre
has had, so far, about 30 occupations and as many obsessions
and addresses. He is learning to spell dilettante. He currently lives in
Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin, where he practices his writing and also draws
with pen and ink. He thinks there should be an apostrophe in Baileys
but there is, officially, not.
“All Right” • Vol. 21, No.
2
Tom Neale
Poetry Editor Emeritus of Mobius, Tom is with us in Spirit—in Spirit Township, on the north fork of the Spirit River. Originally a Jersey boy, he lived in Madison, Wisconsin, for over 30 years. In the summer of 2007 he and his wife moved to a smallholding on Spirit Creek in the southeastern corner of Price County, about an hour northwest of Wausau. He continues to chase poems and songs around in his imagination. Now and again one allows itself to be caught. He then share them with others, to mixed reviews, which can be shared with him in turn at strongdogs@gmail.com.
“Hafiz Reflects on Abundance” • Vol. 20, No. 1
Sergio Ortiz
grew up in Chicago, studied English literature at Inter-American University in San German, Puerto Rico, and philosophy at World University. He was an ESL teacher most of his life but also worked with the elderly blind population as a Daily Living Skills Instructor for the El Paso Lighthouse for the Blind, and the Texas Lions Camp. He studied culinary art at The Restaurant School in Philadelphia and became a chef. His work has been published in Salt River Review, Modern English Tanka, and Yellow Medicine, among others.
“In Line” • Vol. 20, No. 3
Douglas Alan
Pearce
former lifeguard, taxi driver, cartographer, and haunted
woods guide, learned screenwriting from some of Hollywood’s most talented
creative minds. He has a degree in screenwriting and has written professionally
since 1996. This is his first published fiction piece. Authonomy.com’s
Ten Most Successful Talent Spotters have called his writing funny, kick-ass,
and Steinbeckian. With two novel manuscripts under his belt, Doug is building
a platform (whatever that means) by blogging at DouglasAlanPearce.Blogspot.com and posting excerpts, cover art, and maps at DAPearce.com. Inexplicably,
though he is surrounded by beautiful blondes, Doug can usually be found
alone behind drawn blinds, hunched over a laptop, mercilessly axing paragraph
after paragraph of prose he previously thought was brilliant.
“Earl” •
Vol. 21, No. 2
Simon Perchik
is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, The New Yorker, Mobius: The Journal of Social Change and elsewhere. Rafts (Parsifal Editions) is his most recent collection. Family of Man (Pavement Saw Press) is scheduled for Fall 2009. For more information, including his essay “Magic, Illusion and Other Realities” and a complete bibliography, please visit his website at www.geocities.com/simonthepoet.
“Just off the ground
and the mower” • Vol. 20, No. 3
Michael Pikna
is a mental health therapist by trade. He works with people who have severe mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and have been working in this field for twenty-five years. He grew up in northern New Jersey and moved to Colorado at twenty-one, where he put himself through school at the University of Colorado–Denver and completed his BA and, eventually, his MA in psychology. Recent publishing credits include thieves jargon, Nuvein Magazine, Bryant Literary Review, and The Furnace Review.
“Teeth” • Vol. 20, No. 2
Aaron Rowley
holds a degree in Ancient Greek and currently lives in Mississippi with his wife.
“John Geld” • Vol. 20, No. 2
Leanne Ryan
lives and writes in snowy New England. She sold her business and left the golden sunshine of California for the wilds of Vermont in 2006 where she now has time to write. She is currently working on an historical novel set during the California gold rush but, acting on flashes of inspiration, she sometimes escapes from the novel to short stories. "Anything You Want" is the result of such an break and is the first piece of fiction that she has had published.
“Anything You Want” • Vol. 21, No. 1
Robert H. Sachs
is a writer and retired lawyer living in Louisville, Kentucky. He has a B.S.C. from DePaul University, a J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law, and an M.F.A. in Writing from Spalding University (2009). His story “Blue Room With Woman,” won Honorable Mention in the Glimmer Train November 2009 Short Story Award for New Writers. His story, “A Mistake in the Parking Lot of the Sarasota-Bradenton Airport,” will be published later this year. While a graduate student, he won awards in college writing contests . He has also won two awards for his photography.
“Marvin Kessler’s Shoes” • Vol. 21, No. 1
R.L. Sanford
You can take the boy out of the eighteenth century but you can't take the eighteenth century out of the boy.
“Executive Profile” • Vol. 20, No. 2
M. A. Schaffner
has poems recently published or forthcoming in Stand (UK), the Beloit Poetry Journal, The Hollins Critic, ARC (CA), and The North (UK), has authored the collection, The Good Opinion of Squirrels (Word Works, 1997) and the novel, War Boys (Welcome Rain, 2002).
“Window Shops” • Vol. 21, No. 1
Dave S. Shearer
is from Suffolk County, NY. He is a graduate of Dowling College. In addition to writing you can find him fishing, practicing martial arts, drinking cheap whiskey, scaring his cats, and hotly debating his friends on trivial matters.
“Blood and Revelation” • Vol. 20, No. 2
Myra Sherman
is a clinical social worker who lives in Northern California. Her fiction has appeared or will appear in The Blotter Magazine, Fifth Wednesday Journal, 10,000 Tons of Black Ink (web), Workers Write—Tales from the Couch, 580 Split (web), Another Sky Press Horror Anthology, Thuglit (web) and others. Her nonfiction will appear in the winter issue of Ars Medica. “Third Strike” is part of her recently completed collection of linked jail stories. She is now working on a novel about a homeless, once-middle-class woman.
“Third Strike” • Vol. 20, No. 3
Carol Smallwood
Her work has appeared in English Journal, Poesia, Michigan Feminist Studies, The Writer's Chronicle, The Detroit News, 13th Moon, and anthologies. The Published Librarian: Successful Professional and Personal Writing is forthcoming from the American Library Association.
“What Are the Chances” • Vol. 20, No. 2
Timothy Smith
wants to be mysterious.
“The Gatekeeper” • Vol. 20, No. 1
Scott T. Starbuck
He is the Interim Creative Writing Coordinator at San Diego Mesa College. His poems can be read at poetryfish.com or heard at Fogged Clarity. His essay, "Another Short Ode to Kurt Cobain in the Time of Decay of the American Empire," is currently at Drunken Boat and his new chapbook, The Warrior Poems, will soon be published by Pudding House.
“Initiation Poem” • Vol. 21, No. 1
Alice Stern
is a violinist writing, living, and teaching
in upstate New York. She has been published in The Louisville Review,
Primavera, Chicago Quarterly Review, Harpur Palate, Cottonwood, and
many others.
“I Hear You Talking” •
Vol. 21, No. 2
Robert David Stetten
is a Professor Emeritus in psychology at Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA. Although his scholarly interest always centered upon the white rat, he finds humans the more fascinating species. His four radio dramas were produced by a National Public Radio affiliate, then made available for all NPR member stations nationwide. Three full-length stage plays of his were produced by the American Theatre of Actors in New York City. He has just recently taken up the short story form and another of his stories has been accepted for publication by Art
Times magazine.
“The Colliery” •
Vol. 21, No. 2
Thomas Sullivan
is the author of Life In The Slow Lane, a memoir about a hair-raising summer spent teaching driver's education to teenagers (available at lulu.com/content/paperback-book/life-in-the-slow-lane/1085674). A collection of his short essays is also forthcoming from Coolbeat Audiobooks. Thomas's writing has appeared in 3AM Magazine, The Externalist, and Dogmatika, among others.
“Ready to Retire” • Vol. 20, No. 3
Richard Swanson
Slightly bi-polar in Madison, Wisconsin, he writes an approximately equal number of nature and social commentary poems.
“Corporate” • Vol. 20, No. 2
Joel E. Turner
His fiction has appeared in Ambit, Proof, 3AM Magazine, and New Millenium Writings. His first novel, Generation 'Dex, is about the securitization of human potential, and is seeking a publisher. He is working on a novel about an Anglo-Saxon riddle passed down since the fourteenth century from a monk in the Abbey at Malmesbury. He lives near Philadelphia and designs analytic software for banks. joeleturner@comcast.net.
“The Interview” • Vol. 20, No. 3
Mary Turzillo
won a Nebula for her 1999 novelette, “Mars Is no Place for Children,” and her 2007 short story, “Pride,” was on the final Nebula ballot. Her novel, An Old-Fashioned Martian Girl, was serialized in Analog. Recent books include Ewaipanoma, Dragon Soup (with Marge Simon), and Your Cat & Other Space Aliens, a Pushcart nominee which appeared on the preliminary Stoker ballot. Her work has appeared in Analog, Asimov's, F&SF, Cat Tales, Fast Forward 1, and other anthologies and magazines in English, Italian, and German. She is working on a novel, Isidis Rising. She lives near the Cleveland Airport with her husband, NASA scientist and science fiction writer Geoffrey Landis. Her son, Jack Brizzi, is an artist. maryturzillo@earthlink.net.
“Rat” • Vol. 20, No. 1
James Tyler
holds a BA in English from Austin Peay State University. He spends most of his time either writing or reading. This story is the first he has ever had accepted. He's spent time with the homeless in downtown Nashville where he was inspired to write this story. He's also spent time as a patient in mental institutions where he gained insight on the human condition. He completed and is revising three novels and going over many short stories.
“Nothing to Lose” • Vol. 20, No. 4
Wendy Vardaman
From Madison, Wisconsin, she has a Ph.D. in English from University of Pennsylvania. She is the new co-editor of the Wisconsin poetry journal Free Verse. Her poems, reviews, and interviews have appeared in a variety of anthologies and journals; a collection of poetry, Obstructed View (Fireweed Press), is due out Summer, 2009.
“Golden Jubilee” • Vol. 20, No. 2
Jean Vermette
is a native Mainer, a 55-year-old self-employed woman electrician, sometime educator, social activist, and story writer. Besides writing, her biggest project at the moment is clearing the wooded lot that she and her partner bought to build their house on.
“Dream Weavers” • Vol. 20, No. 4
James P. Wagner
is a young writer about to earn his B.A. from Dowling College with a major in English Creative Writing and a Minor in Literature. He has been writing since he was 12 years old and intends on going to graduate school for creative writing in the fall. His ultimate goal is to earn his Ph.D. and become a college professor for writing and literature. He has published short stories in several magazines including Riverrun, Struggle Magazine and Golden Visions and has been a featured poet for Long Island's Performance Poetry Association. In addition to writing, which he does every day, James is an active martial artist, painter, linguist and musician.
“The Hunt” • Vol. 20, No. 1
Naomi Beth Wakan
A poet and personal essayist, she has written/compiled over thirty-five books, including Haiku—one breath poetry (Heian International), an American Library Association selection. Recent titles are Segues, Late Bloomer—on writing later in life, Compositions: notes on the written word, and Book Ends: a year between the covers, all from Wolsak and Wynn. Naomi is a member of Haiku Canada, Tanka Canada, The League of Canadian Poets, and Poetry Gabriola. Her poetry and essays have been printed in numerous magazines including Geist, Room of One's Own, Moonset, and Red Light, and have been read on CBC. She lives on Gabriola Island with her husband, the sculptor Elias Wakan.
“Keeping Clothes White” • Vol. 21, No. 1
Ed Werstein
is from Milwaukee and spent 22 years in manufacturing
and the last 15 years as a workforce development professional helping job
seekers. Ed practiced writing sporadically over the years, but only recently
has started to write more regularly and to submit his work to public scrutiny.
Ed's work has appeared in the 2009 Mark My Words collaborative art show
in LaCrosse and in the collection Vampyr Verse (Popcorn Press,
2009).
“The Way Philanthropy
Works” •
Vol. 21, No. 2
Casey Wiley
The 2009 Emerging Writer Fellow at Penn State Altoona, he is a 2009 Creative Nonfiction MFA graduate of George Mason University. His nonfiction and fiction has been published, or is forthcoming, in Pindledyboz, Emerson Review, Monkeybicycle, Word Riot, and Fringe, among others, and was selected for a Finalist for Glimmertrain’s Short Story Award for New Writers. He is working on a book about Social Humor, comedy and why he’s not very funny. He lives in Vienna, Austria.
“Boxer” • Vol. 21, No. 1
James Wilk
is a practicing physician in Denver, Colorado, specializing in medical disorders complicating pregnancy. His work has appeared in Measure, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Blue Unicorn, Barefoot Muse, The Raintown Review, The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine and others. My 2007 chapbook, Shoulders, Fibs, and Lies, is available through Pudding House Press.
“Hands” • Vol. 20, No. 3
Keith S. Wilson
is a Kentucky poet and recent graduate of Northern Kentucky University. Many of his poems express his love for his family and explore his experiences as a biracial (black/white) man. His poetry has appeared in the journals NKUExpressed and Appalachian Heritage.
“gambit” • Vol. 20, No. 4
Sandra Yagi
is a painter who lives and works in San Francisco, California. She attended the University of Colorado at Denver, graduating with an MBA. After 25 years working in commercial banking risk management at a large financial institution, she bailed out of her job to pursue a full-time art career. Her work is fueled by contemporary culture, and a curiosity for the macabre. She uses a combination of imagery that is drawn from modern symbols and icons merged with religion, mythology and science. Her paintings can be found in the collections of Ben Stiller, Paul Ruscha, Axl Rose, Robert Williams, and other important art collectors. Recent works may be viewed at Bert Green Fine Art in Los Angeles, CA and at her website.
Jeanne d'Arc • cover art for Vol. 20, No. 4