Amy Bernays is a painter and writer living and working in Los Angeles, California.  Shortlisted for the Mercury prize in 2006, her work can be seen in galleries in Los Angeles, London and Edinburgh as well as online.



Gary Beck has spent most of his adult life as a theater director. His chapbook 'Remembrance' was published by Origami Condom Press, 'The Conquest of Somalia' was published by Cervena Barva Press, 'The Dance of Hate' was published by Calliope Nerve Media, 'Material Questions' was published by Silkworms Ink, 'Dispossessed' was published by Medulla Press and 'Mutilated Girls' was published by Heavy Hands Ink. A collection of his poetry 'Days of Destruction' was published by Skive Press. Another collection 'Expectations' was published by Rogue Scholars Press and 'Dawn in Cities' is being published by Winter Goose Press. His novel 'Acts of Defiance' is being published by Trestle Press. His original plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes and Sophocles have been produced Off Broadway. His poetry has appeared in hundreds of literary magazines. He currently lives in New York City.



It's well known that an artist becomes more popular by dying, so our pal Steve Cartwright is typing his bio with one hand while pummeling his head with a frozen mackerel with the other. Stop, Steve! Death by mackerel is no way to go!He ( Steve, not the mackerel ) has done art for several magazines, newspapers, websites, commercial and governmental clients, books, and scribbling - but mostly drooling - on tavern napkins. He also creates art pro bono for several animal rescue groups. He was awarded the 2004 James Award for his cover art for Champagne Shivers. He recently illustrated the Cimarron Review, Stories for Children, and Still Crazy magazine covers. Take a gander
 ( or a goose ) at his online gallery: here



Graeme Brasher is an Australian teacher working at an international school in Hong Kong. He enjoys football, cricket and world peace.



Jon Davis is the author of stories, screenplays, and poems. The most recent of his six collections of poetry is Preliminary Report (Copper Canyon Press, 2010). His previous book, Scrimmage of Appetite, was honored with a Lannan Literary Award. In addition to the Lannan Award, he has received two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and the Lavan Prize from the Academy of American Poets. He has taught in the Institute of American Indian Arts’ Creative Writing Program since 1990. 

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

Several of Robert Davis’s short stories have been published in the small press or literary journals including: Rosebud, The Griffin, Armchair Aesthete, Boston Literary Magazine, Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette, NEWN, Peeks and Valleys, Lines In The Sand, Post Road Review and received My Legacy’s Editor’s Choice Award.. He has attended writing workshops at N.Y.U. and New School University and is active in two fiction workshops in Florida. He was previously associated with writing groups in Connecticut. His business career was in television research and sales presentations with Universal Studios and CBS-TV.   
 
CS Dewildt lives in Arizona. His fiction has appeared in Word Riot, Bartleby Snopes, A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, Dogzplot, Short, Fast, and Deadly, and elsewhere. He has a novella out with Vagabondage Press titled Candy and Cigarettes. Please visit here.

James H Duncan is a freelance writer living in New York City, and is the founder of Hobo Camp Review, an online literary 'zine dedicated to the traveling word. A Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee, his poetry and short stories have found homes in dozens of publications, including Pulp Modern, Apt, Red Fez, Haggard & Halloo, Plainsongs, Reed Magazine, Underground Voices, and Poetry Salzburg Review. More here. 


Terry W. Ford’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Chaffin Journal; Grey Sparrow; Meridian Anthology, Our Town, North Canton; and Schuylkill Valley Journal. For over four decades she has taught at Kent State University at Stark where in “retirement” she still enjoys teaching, but now it’s only part-time.

A novelist, screenplay writer, and poet, Deborah George coauthored Ignatius Rising: The Life Of John Kennedy Toole, as well as its screenplay adaptation. She is also sole writer of Into The River, a screenplay based on the life of Navajo visionary artist, David Chethlahe Paladin. By invitation, she has read my work at cultural art centers in Paris, France, in participation with Cecelia Woloch’s Paris Poetry Workshops. A member of poet Cathy Colman’s writers group, she was a finalist in the Beyond Baroque Poetry Contest, fall 2010. She currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband, David Streit.



Danica Green is a UK-based writer with work appearing in over fifty anthologies and literary journals. In other news, it just stopped raining. Oh wait...no, it's raining again.

Mindy Harris is an avid reader and a budding novelist. Harris is known for writing romance and non-fiction short pieces. She has contributed short stories and poetry to Heidelberg College’s Morpheus Literary Magazine and their annual publication: Laughing through the Tears.  Harris’ other writing credits include working for the New London Record and the Heidelberg College Kilikilik newspaper staffs. Most recently, Harris has shared her love of writing with youth, serving as the adviser for the Ravenna High School student newspaper, The Ravenna High Times.
Mindy Harris is a lifelong learner. She attained a bachelor’s degree from Heidelberg College in 2004 and a master’s degree from Bowling Green State University in 2008. She currently lives in Ohio with her husband and two children.

Peter Helff is a fiction writer and produced playwright who also teaches writing at several colleges in New Jersey. He is currently working on a novel and lives with his three cats, Arnold, Reggie, and Brian.


Loren Higbee is a writer, teacher, and occasional karaoke enthusiast. Originally from Utah, he currently teaches at a university in Iraq.




A.J. Huffman is a poet and freelance writer in Daytona Beach, Florida. She has previously published four collections of poetry: The Difference Between Shadows and Stars, Carrying Yesterday, Cognitive Distortion, and . . . And Other Such Nonsense. She has also published her work in national and international literary journals such as Avon Literary Intelligencer, Writer's Gazette, and The Penwood Review. Find more about A.J. Huffman, including additional information and links to her work here and here.

Paul Karaffa is the Founder & Editor-in-Chief of an online & mobile magazine The Washington Pastime, which publishes weekly fiction, articles on the publishing industry, and political & pop-culture satire. He has a pending non-fiction credential in the Journal of Human Dimensions of Wildlife. He has been recently published for his fictional work The End is the Beginning in The Gloaming Magazine (under the pen name Peter Krane), philosophical fiction in The Freethinker, and has several recent articles published in the The Washington Pastime, including Making the Decision, Motivation & Professionalism, and The Query Letter - Novel. He has completed his first novel manuscript, which is being considered for publication. He works in Washington, DC as a Scientist. Learn more about him at here.

Stuart Larner is a chartered clinical psychologist and writer. He was mental health expert for XL for Men magazine and has written self-help material and poems for various magazines and newspapers and local community radio. He has an interest in cricket and has short stories on “abc of cricket” Australian website. As a psychologist he has published numerous articles of a technical nature in scientific journals and at conferences. He has written a novel, a children’s book, and a sports psychology book . Here is his blog.

Ben McNair was born in 1976 in Nottingham, and now resides in Staffordshire, UK.  His writing has appeared in Purple Patch, Raw Edge,  Twisted Tongue, and in Forward Press Anthologies.

Robert Marshall's novel, A Separate Reality, was released in 2006 by Carroll & Graf and was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for Debut Fiction.  His work has also appeared or is forthcoming in Salon, The Michigan Quarterly Review, The Alembic, Event, DUCTS, Stickman Review, Blithe House Quarterly, The Coe Review, and numerous other publications, including the anthologies Queer 13 and Afterwords. In 2007, his investigative feature “The Dark Legacy of Carlos Castaneda” was chosen for “Best of Salon.”




ED Martin teaches high school in Iowa while working on her first novel. Her stories have been published by the Journal of Microliterature, Fiction365, and the 2011 Indiana Horror Anthology. Read more of her works at here.



Chris Menezes has a bachelors degree in creative writing from California State University, Long Beach. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in RipRap, Switchback, Pearl, and Vulcan: A Literary Dis-Allusion. You can e-mail him at here.



Matt Micheli is a transgressive fiction writer out of Austin, TX, author of MEMOIRS OF A VIOLENT SLEEPER: A BEDTIME STORY. His analytical, sometimes satirical, and often times blunt views of love, loss, life, and beyond are expressed through his writing. For him, writing is an escape from the everyday confines of what the rest of us call normal. Recent publications in Red Fez, Linguistic Erosion, SYWeZine

Mark J. Mitchell studied writing at UC Santa Cruz under Raymond Carver, George Hitchcock and Barbara Hull. His work has appeared in various periodicals over the last thirty five years, as well as the anthologies Good Poems, American Places,Hunger Enough, and Line Drives. His chapbook, Three Visitors will be published by Negative Capability Press later this year and his novels, The Magic War and Knight Prisoner will be published in the coming months. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, the documentarian and film maker Joan Juster. Currently he's seeking gainful employment since poets are born and not paid.


Bridget A. Natale is an emerging playwright and novelist in the Seattle area. Her most recent play, Bread of an Everyday Life, was featured in Freehold Theater's New Play Lab Showcase. She also frequently serves as the technical director for Project I-District. In her free time she enjoys dabbling in political activism and teasing her cats.


Bradford Middleton is a 40-year old writer who currently resides in Brighton after coming of age in London and then being somewhat transient for a while during which he lived in both Surrey and Staffordshire. He has been writing for many years, in fact he won a school poetry competition when he was only ten years.




R.W. Nichols has thought like a writer for a long time, but hadn't seriously put pen to paper until about four years ago. She has had a few short stories published and is currently working on a supernatural mystery.

 He has a a collection of short stories available through Amazon Kindle.

James B. Nicola has had over two hundred poems published in publications including Tar River, the Texas Review, The Lyric, and Nimrod. A stage director by profession, his book Playing the Audience won a CHOICE Award. His first chapbook of poems, “Still,” will be out in 2012 from Stasia Press.

Laura Pendell began writing poetry in college and participated in the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Place in New York City from 1967-1970. In 1998, she moved to California and was accepted into the MFA Program at Mills College, studying poetry and book arts, and earning her MFA in 2001.




Paul Piatkowski lives in Winston Salem, North Carolina with his beautiful wife and precocious corgi. He received his MA in English Literature from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His writing has appeared in journals like Fast Forward, Nagautuck River Review, Sheepshead Review, 2River View, Caper Literary Journal, Lines + Stars, Liebamour, Inwood Indiana, Poetry Quarterly, and Tonopah Review.

Walter Pierce, at the age of 81, loves to write and has been for at least the past decade since retiring. For over forty years, he was employed, and managed for over thirty years, the Celebrity Series in Boston. "We presented and still do a variety of distinguished music and dance artists in Boston's concert halls and theaters."Among the artists he has had the honor to present are luminaries like Luciano Pavarotti, Van Cliburn, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and the Bolshoi Ballet. He intends to keep writing and submitting to various magazines and hopefully will publish a collection of stories in the near future.




Jennifer A. Powers was born and raised in Connecticut. She earned a BA in English from the University of Connecticut and will be attending Western Connecticut State University this fall for her MFA in creative writing. She has work forthcoming in The MacGuffin Literary Magazine and Folio Literary Journal. Please visit here for more information. 

Souradeep Roy is a second year student of English literature from Scottish Church College, Kolkata.

Sam Silva has published at least 150 poems in print magazines, including Sow's Ear, The ECU Rebel, Pembroke magazine, Samisdat, St. Andrew's Review, Charlotte Poetry Review, Main Street Rag, and many more. Has published at least 300 poems in online journals including Jack Magazine, Comrades, Megaera, Poetry Super Highway,physik garden, Ken again, -30-, Fairfield Review, Foliate Oak, and dozens of others. 


A.J. Tierney received an MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. She splits her time between teaching and providing taxi services to her violin-toting teenager.

David Van Houten is a former teacher, father of two boys, and currently awaiting the hand of justice to balance the scales as he marks time in the Wynne Unit in Huntsville, Texas for a crime of which he was convicted with NO evidence against him but the outcry of a troubled girl with a crush on him.




Lori White's recent stories can be found online at The Kenyon Review, Spittoon, Necessary Fiction and In Her Place. She teaches English at Los Angeles Pierce College and lives with her partner and their three dogs in a trailer by a lake on the edge of the Los Padres National Forest.

As one half of the semi-legendary playwriting team Broken Gopher Ink, Michael K. White spent his youth tricking and fooling producers into investing their dirty money in his lurching, lumbering plays. Incredibly this led to forty play productions, including fifteen off-Broadway runs that cloaked the author with a bogus literary credibility he misuses to this day. In 2010 "My Apartment" a "micro-novel" was published by Blueprint Press. His work has appeared in BluePrint Review, Foliate Oak, Tongues of the Ocean, Eclectica, Insight Outpost, 5923 Quarterly, Burner Mag, and 6Tales, among others. In January 2012 Lap Lambert Publishing/Just Fiction Books published the full version of “My Apartment.”

Harold  Whit Williams is a native Alabamian working in library cataloging at the University of Texas at Austin. His first chapbook, Waiting For The Fire To Go Out, is available from Finishing Line Press, and his poems have appeared in Atlanta Review, Oxford American, Oklahoma Review, Slipstream, Weave, among others. 

Mukesh Williams is a poet, photographer and university professor living in Japan. His poems have appeared in The Centrifugal Eye, Istanbul Literary Review, Poetry Plaza, Asahi Haikuist, Plankton.



Matthew Wollin is a writer and award-winning filmmaker based in New York City. He has written for multiple publications, including The Awl and Word Riot. His films have shown in the Brooklyn Film Festival and the Columbus International Film and Video Festival. He attended Williams College. Read more of his work here.




Nicky Yurcaba is a 2009 of Bridgewater College, currently working as an adjunct English instructor, substitute teacher, and hired hand on a cattle farm. Her work has been a promoting voice for backwoods feminists everywhere thanks to journals like VoxPoetica, Hobo Camp Review, Referential Magazine, The Bluestone Review, Bridgewater College's Philomathean, The Literary Underground, and See Spot Run Magazine.