T. J. Forrester’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Harpur Palate, The MacGuffin, The Mississippi Review, and Night Train, among others. He is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, and one of his stories was shortlisted for Storyglossia Fiction Contest 2007.
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Gwendolyn Joyce Mintz is a fiction writer and poet. Her most recent work can be found at Amazon Shorts, SKiVE, Yellow Mama, Long Story Short, Static Movement, Ghoti, Poor Mojo’s Almanac, Lunarosity, and in the anthology In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself, among numerous other places. Her chapbook, Mother Love, is forthcoming [...]

Bill Cook lives in the southern California high desert where he operates a home remodeling and building company. You can read his fiction in such publications as Tin Parachute Postcard Review, Thieves Jargon, Juked, and Verbsap, among other places.
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Xujun Eberlein grew up in Chongqing, China. She moved to the U.S. in 1988 after marrying her American husband, attended MIT, and now lives in the Boston area with her family. Xujun’s essays have appeared in Walrus, Post Road, New American Media, Prism International, Divide, and DragonFire, among other publications. Her fiction can be read [...]

Michelle Garren Flye is the fiction and poetry editor of edifice WRECKED. Her work has appeared in GUD, Opium, Blue Almonds, Salome, SmokeLong Quarterly, Moondance, The Glut, The Shore Magazine, flashquake, In Posse Review, and numerous other publications. You can also find her stories in Horror Library Vol. 1 (2006) and Our Shadows Speak: A [...]

Beth Thomas is originally from New Mexico. She currently makes her living as a technical writer in California, where she lives with her husband and daughter. Her work has appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly, Juked, Word Riot, UR Paranormal, Insolent Rudder, Cezanne’s Carrot, and Pindeldyboz, among other publications.
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Pushcart Prize nominated Kay Sexton has had more than a hundred and fifty short stories published. Recent credits include the anthologies “Mexico, a Love Story,” “Tell Tales III,” and “Tales of the Decongested;” Two Tall Tales and One Short Novel, in which she is one of three authors; and the journals Ambit, flashquake, MiPoesis, Lichen, [...]

Elaine Chiew is originally from Malaysia, but now lives in London with her husband and children. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Hiss Quarterly, Cezanne’s Carrot, Alimentum, Juked, The Summerset Review, In Posse Review, and Verbsap. Her story “Burning Bush,” published in In Posse Review, was a top ten finalist in [...]

Debbie Ann Eis lives in Connecticut with her husband, two sons, and an English Bulldog. Her work has appeared in 3:AM Magazine, flashquake, Word Riot, elimae, Salome, SmokeLong Quarterly, Opium, Quality Women’s Fiction, Pindeldyboz, Wild Strawberries, and Ghoti, among other places. Debbie also writes a column for Madhatter’s Review.
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Joseph lives in Baltimore, where he writes and edits. His fiction and poetry have appeared in such magazines as SmokeLong Quarterly, elimae, Mississippi Review, FRiGG, Exquisite Corpse, Alice Blue, and elsewhere. Visit his micro-fiction blog, very small dogs , and Baltimore Interview, the art blog he co-edits.
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Robert Bradley is an Alexander Technique teacher. He lives and works on Long Island. You can find his stories in taint, SmokeLong Quarterly, Juked, and the Avatar Review, among other publications.
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Gary Cadwallader’s fiction has appeared in such journals as Insolent Rudder, SmokeLong Quarterly, Samizdada, FRiGG, The Binnacle, and flashquake, among others. He has received a Pushcart Prize nomination, and has placed in several contests, including Gator Springs Gazette’s All That Glitters flash fiction contest, Whim’s Place flash fiction contest, Literary Potpourri’s flash fiction contest, and [...]

Katrina Denza is a Pushcart Prize nominated writer whose work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in such journals as Confrontation, Lynx Eye, The Jabberwock Review, New Delta Review, The MacGuffin, RE:AL, Storyglossia,, SmokeLong Quarterly, Word Riot, Staccato, Insolent Rudder, Cranky, elimae, and The Emerson Review, among others. Her story “Snake Dreams” was the first [...]

Edmund R. Schubert is the fiction editor of Orson Scott Card’s journal InterGalactic Medicine Show, and the executive editor of the regional business magazine North Carolina Career Network. His short stories have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Futures Mystery Anthology, Writers Post Journal, Pindeldyboz, Lynx Eye, From the Asylum, The Mechanized Muse, and [...]

Bonnie ZoBell has an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University. She’s held residencies at Yaddo, McDowell, and other colonies, and currently teaches at a community college in San Diego, where she is the Creative Writing Coordinator. She’s the recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship and a PEN Syndicated Fiction [...]

Brian Reynolds is a retired school teacher. His work has been published in a number of reputable online and print magazines, including Event, LICHEN, The New Quarterly, and FRiGG. His story “First Goose” was nominated for The Journey Prize, which honors a short story published in Canada. Brian lives in Woodstock, Ontario.
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Lesley Weston lives in New York City. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ars Medica, Duck & Herring Field Guide, The Green Muse, GUD Magazine, Pisgah Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, UR Paranormal, and other journals. Two of her stories were finalists in Per Contra’s short fiction competition, one of which, “Happiness Runs,” appears in [...]

Roy Kesey was born and raised in northern California, and currently lives in Beijing with his wife and children. His fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in more than fifty magazines and anthologies, including McSweeney’s, The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, PRISM International, Quarterly West, Night Train, the Robert Olen Butler Prize Anthology, The Future [...]

Mitzi McMahon lives in Wisconsin, near the shores of Lake Michigan. Her writing has appeared, or is forthcoming, in JMWW, Houston Literary Review, Insolent Rudder, PanGaia, The Rockford Review, NOÖ Journal, Salome, edificeWrecked, The Citizen, and other journals. Her story “He Answers,” was included in Better Non Sequitur’s See You Next Tuesday Anthology.
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Mary Lynn Reed lives in the Maryland suburbs of Washington D.C. She holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, and works as a mathematician by day. Her fiction has appeared, or is forthcoming, in The MacGuffin, Happy, Karamu, FRiGG, elimae, SmokeLong Quarterly, The Summerset Review, The Angler, Identity Theory, and [...]

Patricia Parkinson is a wife, mother, friend, and writer. She is also a diehard Canadian chick. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Cezanne’s Carrot, SmokeLong Quarterly, Insolent Rudder, Salome, edificeWrecked, Chick Flicks, Clean Sheets, Electica, The Hiss Quarterly, and numerous other journals. Her story, “The Head Nipple Inspector,” will be published in a [...]

Antonios Maltezos is a Pushcart Prize nominated writer whose work has appeared in numerous journals, including Per Contra, The Pedestal, NOÖ Journal, Verbsap, elimae, Mindprints, SmokeLong Quarterly, Night Train, Ink Pot, and Slingshot Magazine, among others. He lives in Montreal with his wife and daughters.
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Dennis Mahagin is the author of “Grand Mal,” a debut poetry collection forthcoming from Three Roads Press, a new imprint of the San Francisco-based Suspect Thoughts Press. His work appears in Absinthe Literary Review, 42opus, Stirring: A Literary Collection, Erosha, FRiGG, Word Riot, Slow Trains, Underground Voices, Mannequin Envy, 3:AM Magazine, Thieves Jargon, Hiss Quarterly, [...]

Darby Larson has had fiction published online at Mcsweeney’s Internet Tendency, Opium Magazine, Eclectica, Monkeybicycle, 3:AM Magazine, Barrelhouse Magazine, Eyeshot, SmokeLong Quarterly, Dicey Brown, Hobart,
In Posse Review, and other journals. In print, he has work in Opium Magazine, Bullfight Review, .ISM Quarterly, and a story forthcoming in Greatest Uncommon Denominator (GUD). He was Guest Editor [...]

Ania Vesenny is a Pushcart Prize nominated writer whose work has appeared in Staccato, flashquake, Grimm Magazine, Cezanne’s Carrot, Per Contra, SmokeLong Quarterly, Verbsap, FRiGG, and other journals. Her story “Love Child” won an honorable mention in the 2006 Binnacle Ultra Short Story Competition, and in November of 2006, she received Per Contra’s Evelyn Sullivan [...]

Mike Young is the editor of NOÖ Journal , a free political and literary journal based in southern Oregon. His writing has appeared in numerous publications, including SmokeLong Quarterly, FRiGG, Pindeldyboz, juked, elimae, and 3:AM Magazine. His story “Ten Gallon Bucket of Fries,” published by Word Riot in September of 2005, earned him a spot [...]

Jason Shaffner graduated from Harvard, magna cum laude, and spent
seven years traveling the globe as a project manager for an IT consulting firm before “retiring” to focus on his writing. He recently completed a literary thriller, and his short fiction can be found in The Shore Magazine and The Beat. In addition, his story “Pink [...]

Jeff Landon teaches creative writing at a community college in Virginia, where he lives with his wife and two daughters. His writing has been published in Other Voices, Crazyhorse, New Virginia Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Phoebe, Night Train, Quick Fiction, and SmokeLong Quarterly, among other journals.
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Mary Miller lives in Mississippi with her husband and dog. You can find her stories online in Barrelhouse, elimae, Vestal Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, Storyglossia, and FRiGG. In print, she has work forthcoming in Swink, KNOCK, and NOÖ Journal.
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Jason Makansi is the President of Pearl Street Inc., a consulting firm which serves the electricity industry. He has many non-fiction and professional publication credits, including three books, the latest, available for pre-order through amazon.com, is titled “Lights Out: The Electricity Crisis, the Global Economy, and What it Means to You.” His fiction has appeared [...]