Andrew Porter is the author of the short story collection The Theory of Light and Matter, which won the 2007 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, was published in Fall 2008 by the University of Georgia Press, and will be republished in paperback Vintage/Knopf in 2010. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Andrew is [...]

Karen Rigby is the author of the poetry chapbooks Festival Bone and Savage Machinery. Other work has appeared or is forthcoming in Quarterly West, Field, Mid-American Review, Black Warrior Review, New England Review, Swink, Phoebe, Beloit Poetry Journal, Cimarron Review, Crab Creek Review, and other journals. She is a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts [...]

Rachel B. Glaser’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in American Short Fiction, NOÖ Journal, Barrelhouse, Invisible Ear, elimae, 3:AM Magazine, 3rd Bed, Columbia Journal, [sic] journal, CapGun, New York Tyrant, and Unsaid. She’s a student of writing at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Visit Rachel’s website.
The first story I read of yours [...]

Laird Hunt is the author of four novels—Ray of the Star (forthcoming, 2009), The Impossibly, Indiana, Indiana, and The Exquisite. He is also the author of The Paris Stories, a book of short stories, mock parables, and histories. His short fiction has appeared in Conjunctions, Ploughshares, McSweeney’s, Fence, and SmokeLong Quarterly, among other places. He [...]

Jacob Appel has over 80 short stories published or forthcoming in journals such as Agni, Alaska Quarterly Review, Arts and Letters, Boston Review, Confrontation, Florida Review, Fugue, Gulfstream, Harpur Palate, Iowa Review, Inkwell, Michigan Quarterly Review, Missouri Review, Nebraska Review, New Millennium Writings, New York Stories, Passages North, Prairie Schooner, River Styx, Seattle Review, Shenandoah, [...]

Rusty Barnes is the author of Breaking it Down, a collection of flash fiction published in 2007 by Sunnyoutside Press, and the co-founder and publisher of the online literary journal Night Train. His fiction and poetry has been published in many journals, including Post Road, Salt Flats Annual, Staccato, Opium, Thieves Jargon, Temenos, Barn Owl [...]

Susan Woodring is the author of The Traveling Disease and Springtime on Mars: Stories. Her short fiction can be found in Isotope, Passages North, Turnrow, The William and Mary Review, Surreal South, Ballyhoo Stories, Quick Fiction and more. She’s also the recipient of the 2006 Elizabeth Simpson Smith Short Fiction Award, the 2006 Isotope Editor’s [...]

Jessica Lipnack is a writer whose non-fiction work has led to a career as a management consultant. As CEO and co-founder of NetAge, she provides advice, education, and ideas on virtual teams, collaboration, and networking. She is the co-author, with Jeff Stamps, of six non-fiction books on these subjects, including Virtual Teams, Networking, and The [...]

Sequoia Nagamatsu’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Grinell Review, elimae, Underground Voices, Static Movement, and the One World Anthology. He currently resides in Niigata City, Japan, where he teaches English. In the past, Sequoia worked in marketing and as a large scale event planner. He was also the assistant to the producer [...]

CAROL NOVACK is the publisher of the cutting edge multi-media e-journal Mad Hatters’ Review, the author of a poetry chapbook and several collaborative multi-media works, including a CD and two films. She received a writer’s grant from the government of Australia, where she resided during tender years. Carol practiced criminal and constitutional law in her [...]

Thomas White lives in Tennessee, where he runs the historic Miner’s Rest Bed and Breakfast. He is a member of the Tennessee Writers Alliance and the Appalachian Writers Association. You can find his work in Southern Hum, Write Side Up, The Dead Mule, and Muscadine Lines: A Southern Journal. He also has a story forthcoming [...]

Michelle Tandoc-Pichereau grew up in Manila, lived for a time in Los Angeles, and now resides in Bretagne, France. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in GUD Magazine, The Humanist, Eclectica, SmokeLong Quarterly, elimae, Word Riot, Brink Magazine, Raving Dove, flashquake, and other magazines. In addition, Michelle was a finalist for SmokeLong Quarterly’s 2008 [...]

Michael Leone’s work has been published or will be published in Green Mountains Review, the Jabberwock Review, The Ledge, North Atlantic Review, the Southern Review, and the Saranac Review. He is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and writes reviews for the San Francisco Chronicle, the Plain Dealer, and the Kansas City Star. [...]

J.M. Patrick lives in Connecticut where she works for an engineering company. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in NOÖ Journal, The Summerset Review, Pequin, Juked, Night Train, SmokeLong Quarterly, and other places. Visit her online at www.jmpatrick.org.
You’re a young lass. How long have you been writing with an aim toward publication?
I am [...]

Lisa McMann is the author of Wake (Simon Pulse, 2008) and its forthcoming sequel Fade (Simon Pulse, 2009), paranormal young adult novels with a “splash of romance.” Wake is a NY Times Bestseller, a Borders “Original Voices” nominee for the month of May, and is eligible for the Original Voice of the Year award. It [...]

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Gayle Brandeis is the author of Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write (HarperSanFrancisco, 2002), Dictionary Poems (Pudding House Publications, 2003), The Book of Dead Birds (HarperCollins, 2003), winner of the Bellwether Prize for Fiction, and Self Storage (Ballantine, 2007). [...]

Vanessa Gebbie is the author of the short story collection Words from a Glass Bubble, forthcoming from Salt Publishing on March 1, 2008. Having written as a freelance journalist for years, she started writing fiction seriously in 2003. Her work is widely published in print and on the web. Her competition successes include placings [...]

Barbara Jacksha is a co-founder and editor of the online literary journal Cezanne’s Carrot. Her fiction, non-fiction, and poetry have appeared widely, including the Flash Fiction Forward anthology, Per Contra, The Steel City Review, The Summerset Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, Mindprints, Vox, and the The Talking Stick. Her story “In the Neural Zone,” originally published [...]

The 2007 Writer Profile Project was so fun and rewarding that I’ve decided to continue the project in 2008. There will be several changes, however. The first one is this:
The Writer Profile Project wants new voices! If you’d like to participate in the project, please send the following information to kelly@kellyspitzer.com:
–a 10-20 page [...]

Curtis Smith is the author of The Species Crown, An Unadorned Life, and two short story collections published by March Street Press. His most recent novel, Sound and Noise, is forthcoming from Casperian Books in the fall of 2008. Curtis’ stories and essays have appeared in over fifty literary journals, including American Literary Review, Mid-American [...]

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Wayne Lindberg is the author of Cary Malone and Other Stories—part of the Nothing Moments collaborative project in art, literature and design—and the co-founder of Poetry.LA. He lives in Santa Monica, California, where he works as an instructional designer.
The Nothing Moments collection, of which your book Cary Malone and Other Stories [...]

Hilda Weiss is the co-founder of Poetry L.A., an online project featuring videos of poets reading at Southern California venues. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Ekphrasis, Nerve Cowboy, Pacific Coast Journal, Poem, Rattle, Salamander, and Tar Wolf Review, among others. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Hilda now lives in Santa [...]

J.W. Wang was born in Taipei, Taiwan. He currently lives in Tallahassee, Florida, where he attends Florida State University as a Ph.D. student in creative writing. His work has appeared in Backwards City Review, Poet Lore, Hobart, Pindeldyboz, Wandering Amy, and more, though most of it is unpublished and awaits revision, and some of it [...]

Matt Baker grew up in Kansas City. He now lives in Little Rock, Arkansas, where he is the Circulation Director at The Oxford American magazine. His fiction has appeared in FRiGG, Southern Hum, Defenestration, Foliate Oak, Permafrost, The Saint Ann’s Review, Iconoclast and is forthcoming in Mississippi Crow. His non-fiction has appeared in the [...]

Mark Budman’s works have appeared in such magazines as Mississippi Review, Virginia Quarterly, Exquisite Corpse, Iowa Review, McSweeney’s, Turnrow, Connecticut Review, Swink, WW Norton anthology “Flash Fiction Forward,” Chizine, Talebones and elsewhere. He is the publisher of the flash fiction magazine Vestal Review, the interview editor for Web Del Sol, and a book reviewer for [...]

Steven McDermott is the founder and editor of STORYGLOSSIA, the journal recently named best online publication by Million Writers Award. He received an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University, and a BA in English and Philosophy from Western Washington University. His work has been published in such journals as Aethlon: The Journal of Sports [...]

Shellie Zacharia lives with her husband and two dogs in Gainesville, Florida. In print, her work has appeared in Swivel, Hobart, Backwards City Review, Georgetown Review, Washington Square, Emrys, Opium, Tusculum Review, Zone 3, and elsewhere. Online, you can find her in such publications as Juked, flashquake, Rumble, The Summerset Review, Vestal Review, Insolent Rudder, [...]

Randall Brown teaches writing at Saint Joseph’s University. He is a Pushcart nominee and holds an MFA in Fiction Writing from Vermont College and a BA from Tufts University. His stories, poems, and essays have been published widely, with recent work appearing or forthcoming in Dalhousie Review, American Drivel Review, Clackamas Literary Review, Vestal Review, [...]

Andrew Tibbetts is a counselor, professor, web developer, musician, writer, and a gay father of three. His work has been published in the Canadian magazines This Magazine, The New Quarterly, The Fiddehead, and Descant. In the U.S. his work can be found online at SmokeLong Quarterly, The Mini Mag, and Defenestration. Andrew is also an [...]

Alla Michelle was born and raised in Odessa, Ukraine. She now lives near St. Louis, Missouri with her husband and sons. She is an associate editor with the multi-media online publication Mad Hatter’s Review. Her work can be read in Skive, Salome, Long Story Short and other magazines.
I’m curious about your name—Alla Michelle. I [...]