Writers
Matt Baker lives in Little Rock, Arkansas where he’s the Circulation Director at The Oxford American. His work has appeared in The Saint Ann’s Review, Permafrost, Kansas City Star, Philadelphia Inquirer, Ghoti, Storyglossia and elsewhere. His novel, Drag the Darkness Down, will be published in 2008. You can read “Landing on the Moon” and “Knuckleball” in FRiGG.
Randall Brown teaches at Saint Joseph’s University. He holds an MFA from Vermont College and a BA from Tufts. Over 125 poems, essays, and short fiction pieces have appeared or are forthcoming in a variety of journals, including Hunger Mountain, Connecticut Review, The Saint Ann’s Review, The Evansville Review, The Laurel Review, Dalhousie Review, Stand Magazine, and others. He has received numerous Pushcart and Best of Web nominations—–and his work has appeared in several anthologies, both here and abroad. Also, as an editor with SmokeLong Quarterly, he has had the pleasure of publishing short shorts by Dan Chaon, Steve Almond, Stuart Dybek, Sherrie Flick, Robert Shapard, Melanie Rae Thon, and many other exceptional writers. He’’s recently finished a collection of (very) short fiction, “Mad To Live” and is currently working on a post-MFA Certification in Picture Book Writing through Vermont College’s Writing for Children and Young Adults Program.
Aaron Burch edits a small lit journal and, sometimes, writes small fictions. He doesn’t really like, nor is he very good at, talking about himself. If he MUST be more specific, he edits Hobart, and recent short shorts have appeared in Quick Fiction, elimae, Opium, and SmokeLong Quarterly.
Dave Clapper edits SmokeLong Quarterly.
Xujun Eberlein
Xujun Eberlein grew up in Chongqing, China, moved to the US in 1988, and received her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from MIT in 1995. Her stories and personal essays can be found in AGNI, Walrus, PRISM International, StoryQuarterly, Meridian, Stand (UK), Kwani (Kenya), among other magazines. She is a nominee for the Pushcart Prizes and several Best American series.
Kathy Fish’s stories are published or forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, New South, Indiana Review, Quick Fiction, Sleepingfish and elsewhere. A collection of her work is now available from Rose Metal Press in a book entitled “A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness: Four Chapbooks of Short Short Fiction by Four Women”. She is an Assistant Editor for Narrative Magazine.
Alicia Gifford grew up in the Los Angeles area where she still lives with man, son and dogs. She has a Bachelor of Science Degree in nursing, and in a former life she was a Critical Care Nurse Specialist. She writes primarily short fiction that has been published or is forthcoming in a number of journals and anthologies including Alaska Quarterly Review, Narrative Magazine, Confrontation, The Barcelona Review, Storyglossia, Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories 2005, Best American Erotica 2005, and more. She is the Fiction Editor of the literary journal Night Train.
Steven Douglas Gullion
Read “Old Maids” in Barcelona Review.
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 Dictionary of America and New Sudden Fiction 2007. His story “Wait,” first published in The Kenyon Review, was recently chosen to appear in Best American Short Stories 2007. His dispatches and essays appear at reasonably regular intervals on the McSweeney’s website, at The Nervous Breakdown, and in the Columns section of That’s Beijing; he also maintains a blog-like entity at MySpace. He’s the author of Nothing in the World, a novella published by Bullfight Media in 2006, and of All Over, a collection of short stories that appeared as Dzanc Books’ debut title in October 2007.
Carrie Kilgore
Writer, mom, wife, grandma (eek!)…well on my way to either tribal wise woman or old crone.
Darby Larson has had fiction published online at Monkeybicycle, Mcsweeney’s Internet Tendency, Opium Magazine, Eyeshot, Pindeldyboz, Smokelong Quarterly, Insolent Rudder, Hobart, In Posse Review, 3AM Magazine and Word Riot. And in print at .ISM Quaterly #6, Opium Magazine #1 & #3, Barrelhouse Magazine #1 and Bullfight Review #3. He lives in Northern California.
Ellen Meister is the author of two novels, “Secret Confessions of the Applewood PTA” (William Morrow) and “The Smart One” (William Morrow, 7/07).
Stefani Nellen’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Inkwell, Apex Digest, Cosmos Magazine, FRiGG, SmokeLong Quarterly, Mad Hatters Review, Hobart web and more. Her stories have been included in Dzanc Books’ Best of the Web 2008 Anthology and shortlisted for the 2008 Fish Short Story Prize. Stefani splits her time between the US and the Netherlands.
Poetry L.A. and the Redondo Poets, featuring the uber talented Hilda Weiss.
Mary Lynn Reed lives and writes in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C.. Her short fiction has recently appeared in The MacGuffin and Happy, and will appear soon in Karamu and See You Next Tuesday, Volume 2, an anthology of sex-themed shorts. Recent online publications include three stories in FRiGG, and Take Me To The Cheetah in Temenos. Her short story “Photophobia” was one of 10 winners of the 2nd Annual Per Contra Prize in Short Fiction. Mary Lynn has completed two novels: “Once You’ve Been To Siberia” (literary fiction), and “In My Brother’s Skin” (Young Adult).
Beth Thomas is originally from the high plains of eastern New Mexico. She currently makes her living as a technical writer in California, where she lives with her husband and daughter. She writes flash fiction and the occasional short story (but never ever on the company dime, wink wink). You can read “Quake” at SmokeLong Quarterly, “A Tiny White Lie” at juked, “In the Shadow of Sangre de Cristo” at Word Riot, “Eating Skulls” at UR Paranormal, and “Fracture” at Insolent Rudder. Oh, and her fingernails are always a mess.
Ann Walters is a physical anthropologist who put her professional career on hold to raise her two children. She began writing with the birth of her second child almost four years ago and shows no sign of slowing down. Ann is also an avid knitter and reader who loves to curl up with a good book and a ball of yarn. She chronicles her adventures frequently on her blog Field Notes. Her poetry has appeared most recently in Strong Verse, Tilt, and edificeWrecked. You can also hear her read some of her poems at The Adroitly Placed Word. Recent fiction publications include “Love is the Firmest Foundation” in edificeWrecked and “Three Hundred Stones” in flashquake.
Joseph Young
Joseph lives in Baltimore, Maryland, where he works as a freelance editor. His fiction and poetry have appeared in such magazines as Smokelong Quarterly, elimae, Mississippi Review, Eleven Bulls, Exquisite Corpse, Blue Moon Review, and elsewhere.
Mike Young lives in Massachusetts. He edits NOÖ Journal, a free political/literary magazine. His fiction and poetry have been nominated for a Pushcart and appeared in a variety of independent publications, including Pindeldyboz, Hobart, Juked, elimae, Lamination Colony, and others. A chapbook of poetry, MC Oroville’s Answering Machine, is forthcoming from Transmission Press. He spreads himself too thin: visit his blog and his site. Oh my.
Shellie Zacharia teaches in Gainesville, Florida, where she lives with her husband and two dogs. Her work has appeared in print in a number of journals, including Hobart, Swivel, Backwards City Review, Opium, Washington Square, and The Pinch. Online stories can be found in Rumble, Juked, Verbsap, and elsewhere. She has stories forthcoming in Potomac Review, Inkwell, and Tusculum Review.
Randall Brown teaches at Saint Joseph’s University. He holds an MFA from Vermont College and a BA from Tufts. Over 125 poems, essays, and short fiction pieces have appeared or are forthcoming in a variety of journals, including Hunger Mountain, Connecticut Review, The Saint Ann’s Review, The Evansville Review, The Laurel Review, Dalhousie Review, Stand Magazine, and others. He has received numerous Pushcart and Best of Web nominations—–and his work has appeared in several anthologies, both here and abroad. Also, as an editor with SmokeLong Quarterly, he has had the pleasure of publishing short shorts by Dan Chaon, Steve Almond, Stuart Dybek, Sherrie Flick, Robert Shapard, Melanie Rae Thon, and many other exceptional writers. He’’s recently finished a collection of (very) short fiction, “Mad To Live” and is currently working on a post-MFA Certification in Picture Book Writing through Vermont College’s Writing for Children and Young Adults Program.
Aaron Burch edits a small lit journal and, sometimes, writes small fictions. He doesn’t really like, nor is he very good at, talking about himself. If he MUST be more specific, he edits Hobart, and recent short shorts have appeared in Quick Fiction, elimae, Opium, and SmokeLong Quarterly.
Dave Clapper edits SmokeLong Quarterly.
Xujun Eberlein
Xujun Eberlein grew up in Chongqing, China, moved to the US in 1988, and received her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from MIT in 1995. Her stories and personal essays can be found in AGNI, Walrus, PRISM International, StoryQuarterly, Meridian, Stand (UK), Kwani (Kenya), among other magazines. She is a nominee for the Pushcart Prizes and several Best American series.
Kathy Fish’s stories are published or forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, New South, Indiana Review, Quick Fiction, Sleepingfish and elsewhere. A collection of her work is now available from Rose Metal Press in a book entitled “A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness: Four Chapbooks of Short Short Fiction by Four Women”. She is an Assistant Editor for Narrative Magazine.
Alicia Gifford grew up in the Los Angeles area where she still lives with man, son and dogs. She has a Bachelor of Science Degree in nursing, and in a former life she was a Critical Care Nurse Specialist. She writes primarily short fiction that has been published or is forthcoming in a number of journals and anthologies including Alaska Quarterly Review, Narrative Magazine, Confrontation, The Barcelona Review, Storyglossia, Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories 2005, Best American Erotica 2005, and more. She is the Fiction Editor of the literary journal Night Train.
Steven Douglas Gullion
Read “Old Maids” in Barcelona Review.
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 Dictionary of America and New Sudden Fiction 2007. His story “Wait,” first published in The Kenyon Review, was recently chosen to appear in Best American Short Stories 2007. His dispatches and essays appear at reasonably regular intervals on the McSweeney’s website, at The Nervous Breakdown, and in the Columns section of That’s Beijing; he also maintains a blog-like entity at MySpace. He’s the author of Nothing in the World, a novella published by Bullfight Media in 2006, and of All Over, a collection of short stories that appeared as Dzanc Books’ debut title in October 2007.
Carrie Kilgore
Writer, mom, wife, grandma (eek!)…well on my way to either tribal wise woman or old crone.
Darby Larson has had fiction published online at Monkeybicycle, Mcsweeney’s Internet Tendency, Opium Magazine, Eyeshot, Pindeldyboz, Smokelong Quarterly, Insolent Rudder, Hobart, In Posse Review, 3AM Magazine and Word Riot. And in print at .ISM Quaterly #6, Opium Magazine #1 & #3, Barrelhouse Magazine #1 and Bullfight Review #3. He lives in Northern California.
Ellen Meister is the author of two novels, “Secret Confessions of the Applewood PTA” (William Morrow) and “The Smart One” (William Morrow, 7/07).
Stefani Nellen’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Inkwell, Apex Digest, Cosmos Magazine, FRiGG, SmokeLong Quarterly, Mad Hatters Review, Hobart web and more. Her stories have been included in Dzanc Books’ Best of the Web 2008 Anthology and shortlisted for the 2008 Fish Short Story Prize. Stefani splits her time between the US and the Netherlands.
Poetry L.A. and the Redondo Poets, featuring the uber talented Hilda Weiss.
Mary Lynn Reed lives and writes in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C.. Her short fiction has recently appeared in The MacGuffin and Happy, and will appear soon in Karamu and See You Next Tuesday, Volume 2, an anthology of sex-themed shorts. Recent online publications include three stories in FRiGG, and Take Me To The Cheetah in Temenos. Her short story “Photophobia” was one of 10 winners of the 2nd Annual Per Contra Prize in Short Fiction. Mary Lynn has completed two novels: “Once You’ve Been To Siberia” (literary fiction), and “In My Brother’s Skin” (Young Adult).
Beth Thomas is originally from the high plains of eastern New Mexico. She currently makes her living as a technical writer in California, where she lives with her husband and daughter. She writes flash fiction and the occasional short story (but never ever on the company dime, wink wink). You can read “Quake” at SmokeLong Quarterly, “A Tiny White Lie” at juked, “In the Shadow of Sangre de Cristo” at Word Riot, “Eating Skulls” at UR Paranormal, and “Fracture” at Insolent Rudder. Oh, and her fingernails are always a mess.
Ann Walters is a physical anthropologist who put her professional career on hold to raise her two children. She began writing with the birth of her second child almost four years ago and shows no sign of slowing down. Ann is also an avid knitter and reader who loves to curl up with a good book and a ball of yarn. She chronicles her adventures frequently on her blog Field Notes. Her poetry has appeared most recently in Strong Verse, Tilt, and edificeWrecked. You can also hear her read some of her poems at The Adroitly Placed Word. Recent fiction publications include “Love is the Firmest Foundation” in edificeWrecked and “Three Hundred Stones” in flashquake.
Joseph Young
Joseph lives in Baltimore, Maryland, where he works as a freelance editor. His fiction and poetry have appeared in such magazines as Smokelong Quarterly, elimae, Mississippi Review, Eleven Bulls, Exquisite Corpse, Blue Moon Review, and elsewhere.
Mike Young lives in Massachusetts. He edits NOÖ Journal, a free political/literary magazine. His fiction and poetry have been nominated for a Pushcart and appeared in a variety of independent publications, including Pindeldyboz, Hobart, Juked, elimae, Lamination Colony, and others. A chapbook of poetry, MC Oroville’s Answering Machine, is forthcoming from Transmission Press. He spreads himself too thin: visit his blog and his site. Oh my.
Shellie Zacharia teaches in Gainesville, Florida, where she lives with her husband and two dogs. Her work has appeared in print in a number of journals, including Hobart, Swivel, Backwards City Review, Opium, Washington Square, and The Pinch. Online stories can be found in Rumble, Juked, Verbsap, and elsewhere. She has stories forthcoming in Potomac Review, Inkwell, and Tusculum Review.
