Issue Two: September 2009
Erik Anderson's work has appeared (or is forthcoming) in The Recluse, American Letters & Commentary, Fou, Sleepingfish, Parcel, Witness, Trickhouse, Dear Camera, The Laurel Review, and others. A former contributing editor at the Denver Quarterly, he co-edits the mail-art magazine Thuggery & Grace.
Jason Bredle is the author of two books and three chapbooks of poetry: A Twelve Step Guide (New Michigan Press, 2004); Standing in Line for the Beast (New Issues, 2007); Pain Fantasy (Red Morning Press, 2007); American Sex Machine (Scantily Clad Press, 2009); and Class Project (Publishing Genius, 2009). Individual poems have appeared in the Knopf anthology Poems About Horses, 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day from Random House, TriQuarterly, and many other places. He lives in Chicago.
Jonathan Callahan is on sabbatical from the Lookings Institute, where he is an Associate Director of Inquiry, in order to complete the final book of his novel, The Consummation of Dirk. He lives in Fukuoka, Japan.
Brian Allen Carr lives near the Texas/Mexico border. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Boulevard, Texas Review, Keyhole, Front Porch and other publications. His reviews have appeared in American Book Review and New Pages. He currently teaches at South Texas College. He can be found online at www.brianallencarr.com.
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.
Elizabeth Crane is the author of three collections of short stories, When the Messenger is Hot, All this Heavenly Glory, and You Must Be This Happy to Enter. Her work has also been featured in numerous publications, anthologies and on NPR’s Selected Shorts. She is a recipient of the Chicago Public Library 21st Century Award, and her work has been adapted for the stage by Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater company, and has also been adapted for film. She currently teaches at UCR Palm Desert’s Low Residency MFA program.
Darby M. Dixon III can be found in the Cleveland, Ohio, area, doing marketing by day, sporadic litblogging by night, and other stuff in between.
Stephen Elliott is the author of seven books including the brand new true crime memoir The Adderall Diaries. He had written for The New York Times, Esquire, The Believer, and others. His work has been anthologized in The Best American Non-Required Reading 2005 & 2007, Best Sex Writing, and Best American Erotica.
Edward Falco grew up in Brooklyn and teaches at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, where he is the director of the MFA program in Creative Writing. He is the prize-winning author of several books including his new and selected stories, Sabbath Night in the Church of the Piranha and, most recently, the highly acclaimed novel, Wolf Point.
Rachel Contreni Flynn's second full-length collection, Tongue, won the Benjamin Saltman Award and is forthcoming from Red Hen Press, and her chapbook, Haywire, is now available from Bright Hill Press. Her first book, Ice, Mouth, Song, was published in 2005 by Tupelo Press, after winning the Dorset Prize. She was awarded a Fellowship from the NEA in 2007. Her work has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and she received an Illinois Arts Council Artists Fellowship in 2005. She is a graduate of the Warren Wilson College MFA Program and lives north of Chicago with her husband and two children.
Elisa Gabbert is the poetry editor of Absent. Recent work can be found in Colorado Review, Diagram, Pleiades, and Typo. She is the author of two chapbooks from Kitchen Press, Thanks for Sending the Engine and My Fear of X (forthcoming). She lives in Boston.
Christopher Kennedy is the author of Encouragement for a Man Falling to His Death (BOA Editions), which received the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award in 2007, Trouble with the Machine (Low Fidelity Press), and Nietzsche's Horse (Mitki/Mitki Press). He is an associate professor of English at Syracuse University, where he directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing.
Sean Lovelace blogs at seanlovelace.com. He teaches writing and editing at Ball State University. His new flash fiction chapbook How Some People like Their Eggs was recently released by Rose Metal Press. He likes to run, far.
Josh Maday lives in Michigan. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in New York Tyrant, Action Yes, Apostrophe Cast, elimae, Barrelhouse, Keyhole Magazine, Word Riot, Lamination Colony, and elsewhere. He is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and can be found online at http://joshmaday.blogspot.com.
John Madera is a member of the National Book Critics Circle. You may find him at elimae, ArtVoice, Underground Voices, Little White Poetry Journal #7, hitherandthithering waters, and My Pet Earworm, and forthcoming at Opium Magazine and Publishing Genius Press. He reviews for The Diagram, The Quarterly Conversation, 3:AM Magazine, New Pages, Open Letters Monthly, The Rumpus, and Word Riot, and edits the online journal The Chapbook Review. He sings and plays guitar for Mother Flux.
Jamaal May has been awarded a Cave Canem Fellowship and an International Publication Prize from Atlanta Review. His poems have appeared in The MacGuffin, Main Street Rag, The Drunken Boat, Verse Daily and elsewhere. He is currently an MFA candidate at Warren Wilson.
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.
Jill Meyers is the editor of American Short Fiction. Her book reviews have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle and Mid-American Review as well as on Bookslut.
Kathleen Rooney is an editor of Rose Metal Press and the author, most recently, of Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object (Arkansas, 2009) and Oneiromance (an epithalamion) (Switchback, 2008). She lives in Chicago. With Elisa Gabbert, she is the co-author of Something Really Wonderful (Dancing Girl Press), That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness (Otoliths), and Don’t ever stay the same; keep changing (forthcoming from Spooky Girlfriend Press).
Angi Becker Stevens stories can be found in recent or future issues of many print and online journals including Barrelhouse, Pank, SmokeLong Quarterly, Storyglossia, Necessary Fiction, Monkeybicycle online, Annalemma, Emprise Review, and more. She lives with her family in Michigan. "Even If You Were Here" was also the winner of the 2009 Jumpmettle Award at Eastern Michigan University.
Keith Taylor's most recent book is If the World Becomes So Bright. He wrote an entry on Hemingway for A New Literary History of America, just published by Harvard University Press. And one of his co-translations of Karyotakis will be in the forthcoming Norton anthology, The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present. This is all making him feel uncomfortably canonical.