Akilesh Ayyar is a writer and attorney in Brooklyn.
Caitlin Barasch is an undergraduate at Colorado College. Majoring in English. Loving life in the shadow of Pikes Peak. Enjoys books, horses, laughter, ice cream, Chipotle, running around whilst kicking soccer balls, and the taste of water.
Alex Billedeaux is a college-goer based out of Michigan, who until recently, spent his days traveling the States while searching for inspiration.
John F. Buckley has divided his life between California, where he spent most of his adulthood, and Michigan, where he was born and raised and where he now attends the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, working toward an MFA in poetry. His collections Sky Sandwiches and Poet's Guide to America (with Martin Ott) were released in Fall 2012, as was his second chapbook, Leading an Aquamarine Shoat by Its Tail.
Janet Butler teaches ESL in San Francisco and lives in Alameda with Fulmi, a lovely Spaniel mix she rescued in Italy and brought back with her. Some current or forthcoming publications are The Blue Bear Review, The Chaffey Review, Miller's Pond, and Ascent Aspirations. "Searching for Eden" was published by Finishing Line Press in January, 2012. "Upheaval" was one of three winning selections in Red Ochre Lit's 2012 Chapbook Contest.
Michael Caligaris was raised in Cincinnati, Ohio and now resides in Berkeley, California. He is currently a graduate student at St. Mary’s College of California. He has been published in college journals and strives for much more.
Michael Chaney is the author of Fugitive Vision, the editor of Graphic Subjects, and the walker of a dog named Vegas.
Dane Cobain is an independent poet, musician and storyteller with a passion for language and learning. When he's not in front of a screen writing stories and poetry, he can be found in front of a screen tweeting as @DaneCobain or developing his website.
William Davies Jr. has published in The Cortland Review, Bluepepper, The Wilderness House Review, Gloom Cupboard and others.
He lives with his wife, Theresa, on 10 acres in rural Pennsylvania where they produce their own wine.
Tatjana Debeljački was born in Užice. She writes poetry, short stories, stories and haiku.
Karyn Eisler is a Vancouver-based writer, cross-disciplinary artist, sociologist, and faculty member at Langara, The College of Higher Learning. A 2011 Best of the Net nominee, her stories, poems, images, and collaborations have appeared in a variety of anthologies and journals. Visit her here.
Tom Fillion is the author of many short stories published online and in print. For a complete list please visit here. He is also the author of a novel, The Dream Mechanic, available from Amazon here. Visit him on Facebook and Twitter at @dream_mechanic.
Merlin Flower is a writer and an artist.
Rizwati Freeman is a native of Los Angeles, has studied journalism and psychology, and lived in St. Petersburg, Russia, for several years before returning to the Southland. She now lives in the City of Angels with her two cats, and volunteers in animal rescue.
Philip Goldberg's short stories have appeared in over 20 literary and small press magazines including Foliate Oak, Best of 2007-2008 Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, Straylight, The Griffin, Northwoods Journal and Byline. Philip lives with wife and two cats in Brooklyn, New York.
A.J. Huffman is a poet and freelance writer in Daytona Beach, Florida.
C.E. Hyun’s stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Mirror Dance, The Northville Review, Swamp Biscuits and Tea, The Red Penny Papers, and the British Fantasy Society’s BFS Journal. She currently lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and her website is here.
Jason Hibbitts grew up in Southwest Virginia. His work is forthcoming or appears in the following journals: San Pedro River Review, Sugar House Review, Prime Mincer, Poydras Review, and The Sierra Nevada Review, among others.
Patricia L. Johnson edited The Green Tricycle, during its time as an online literary magazine. She has work in Foliate Oak, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Apollo’s Lyre, Ars Medica, and at the online blog for The Best American Poetry. She is an administrator at The Internet Writers Workshop and writes poetry book reviews.
Bryce Journey teaches composition at Iowa Western Community College and is an English and Creative Writing teacher with Omaha Public Schools. He has a BFA in Creative Writing, a Masters in Education, and a Masters in English with focuses in Creative Nonfiction and American Literature. His creative work has appeared in Blind Man’s Rainbow, Scissortale Review, Apropos, Temenos, Red Clay Review, Fortunates, Aerogram, Paradise Review, Poydras, Hippocampus, and Cigale. When he’s not entertaining his three-year-old son, Luke Ender, he likes watching bad movies with his wife, Laura, satiating his passion for board gaming, and increasing his skills as an amateur yo-yo enthusiast. His literary inspiration is Richard Brautigan and would rather entertain readers than be taken too seriously.
Susan Kirchoff lives and writes in Los Angeles, CA.
Michael Kroesche was born in Salt Lake City, UT. He received his BA from the Univ. of Southern California in 2008 and his MFA in Poetry from the Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas in 2011. His works include a chap book, Summer Hymnals, published by Elik Press in 2004, and his poems have appeared in Interim, The Chiron Review, The Breakwater Review, among others, and have also been incorporated into orchestral pieces. He is recently returned to Salt Lake City after teaching for a year in Guangzhou, China.
Robert Lamon is college educated and a former chemist. In addition to papers in organic chemistry, he has published short stories in print and online magazines, including Aphelion, Toasted Cheese, Epiphany, One Million Stories, The Storyteller, Xavier Review, and The MacGuffin. He’s also contributed four book reviews to Liberty.
Robert Laughlin lives in Chico, California. He has published 100 short stories, 200 poems and one novel, Vow of Silence. Learn more at his website.
Cathrine Lødøen lives in Norway. Her work has appeared in The Blue Print Review, All things girl, Oprah's Breathing Space, In Our Own Words: Generation X, Ed M. P. Weaver.
Joe Marchia is a journalist, creative writer and critic, published in Intellectualyst, Instigatorzine Magazine, Elmore Magazine, The Beatnik and Milk and Sugar Literature.
Lindsey Miller is a printmaker who currently lives in Incheon, South Korea, teaching English. Her hobbies include printmaking, writing, and running.
Michael M. Pacheco's debut novel, The Guadalupe Saints, was published by Paraguas Books in April 2011, and recently won Second Place in the International Latino Book-to-Movie Awards (suspense/mystery category). His novella titled, Seeking Tierra Santa, was released in May 2011. He also has had or will soon have short stories published in Southwestern American Literature, The Gold Man Review, Label Me Latina, The Acentos Review, Boxfire Press, Red Ochre Press, VAO Publishing - Along the River II, St. Somewhere Journal and AirplaneReading (twice). His poetry can be found at "200 New Mexico Poems."
Ken Poyner lives with his power lifter wife in southeastern Virginia. His last book was "Sciences, Social", though he should be doing another shortly. For now, he watches five rescue cats and two fierce fish.
Colleen Purcell is a photographer living in Santiago, Chile. Her photos have appeared in Off the Coast, The Meadowland Review, Anderbo, Subliminal Interiors, KenAgain, and a few other publications.
Cinthia Ritchie lives and runs mountains in Alaska.
Born and raised in New York City, Mia Sara made a reluctant move to Los Angeles to facilitate a career as an actress. Now retired after twenty-five years, she has taken up poetry to stave off insanity. Mia’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Saint Ann’s Review, The Dirty Napkin, Forge, The Kit-Cat Review, PANK, and Cultural Weekly.
Catori Sarmiento is an author who has contributed fiction to Nothing, No One, Nowhere, by Virgogrey Press, to Down the Rabbit Hole, an anthology by Wicked East Press, and will be a featured author in the winter 2012 edition of Crossed Out Magazine where a collection of her works will be published.
Yvette A. Schnoeker-Shorb’s work has appeared in Epiphany Magazine, Dark Matter: A Journal of Speculative Writing, Pedestal Magazine, Slant, Midwest Quarterly, Jelly Bucket, Concho River Review, and others. She is co-founder of Native West Press (which most recently published What’s Nature Got to Do with Me? Staying Wildly Sane in a Mad World).
Mary Shanley is a poet/writer who lives in NYC. Two of her books have been published: Hobo Code Poems by Vox Pop Press and Mott Street Stories and Las Vegas Stories by Sidestreet Press. She publishes online at: Mr. Bellers's Neighborhood, Blue Lake Review, Logos Journal, Hobo Camp Review, StepAway Magazine, Anak Sastra Journal, Shangra-la Magazine., Underground Voices, This Zine Will Change Your Life, Poydras Review Poetry and Prompt Literary Magazine.
Mikaela Shea is an MFA candidate at Columbia College Chicago. To pay her overpriced rent, she is a blogger and a nanny. She has published a short story in Foliate Oak Literary Journal as well as a children’s book. Mikaela is currently writing a novel and sending out various short stories for publication.
Sam Silva has poetry in print magazines including, but not limited to Samisdat, The ECU Rebel, Sow's Ear, The American Muse, St. Andrews Review, Dog River Review, Third Lung Review, Main St. Rag, Charlotte Poetry Review, Parnasus... most (but not all) of these magazines are now defunct.
Emily Strauss is usually a poet but she carries a camera too on her travels and tries to capture unusual building features.
Jessica Tyner is originally from Oregon, a member of the Cherokee Nation, and has been a writer and editor for ten years. Currently, she is a copy writer for Word Jones, a travel writer with Mucha Costa Rica, a writer for TripFab, a copy editor at the London-based Flaneur Arts Journal, and a contributing editor at New York’s Thalo Magazine. She has recently published short fiction in India’s Out of Print Magazine, and poetry in Slow Trains Literary Journal, Straylight Magazine, Solo Press, and Glint Literary Journal.
Holly Vance wrote her first story, The Castle the eighth grade and her first novel, The Gifted, the Cursed, and the Wicked her sophomore year of high school. Twenty-four years, two additional novels, and a few short stories later, she stumbled into nonfiction writing through blogging to promote her fiction. Go figure.
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. His low cholesterol mega monologue play, My Heart And the Real World ran for almost two years in New York City, his story 13 Halloweens was chosen as one of the ten best stories published in 2006 by the super cool folks at Story South. In 2010 My Apartment a "micro-novel" was published by Blueprint Press. A shy, humble man who lives with the cows in Colorado, White, a frequently published, deeply scarred veteran of the tragic and furious litmag scene of the 80s, is now content to live in solitude with his debts and addictions. Recently he was unpleasantly surprised to find an extended family of black and yellow snakes living inside the crack between the steps and his house. He found this out the hard way. You can learn more about Michael here.
Matthew Wilson, 29, is a UK resident who has been writing since small. Recently these stories have appeared in Beyond Centauri, Starline Poets Association and Carillon Magazine. He is currently editing his first novel.
Caitlin Barasch is an undergraduate at Colorado College. Majoring in English. Loving life in the shadow of Pikes Peak. Enjoys books, horses, laughter, ice cream, Chipotle, running around whilst kicking soccer balls, and the taste of water.
Alex Billedeaux is a college-goer based out of Michigan, who until recently, spent his days traveling the States while searching for inspiration.
John F. Buckley has divided his life between California, where he spent most of his adulthood, and Michigan, where he was born and raised and where he now attends the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, working toward an MFA in poetry. His collections Sky Sandwiches and Poet's Guide to America (with Martin Ott) were released in Fall 2012, as was his second chapbook, Leading an Aquamarine Shoat by Its Tail.
Janet Butler teaches ESL in San Francisco and lives in Alameda with Fulmi, a lovely Spaniel mix she rescued in Italy and brought back with her. Some current or forthcoming publications are The Blue Bear Review, The Chaffey Review, Miller's Pond, and Ascent Aspirations. "Searching for Eden" was published by Finishing Line Press in January, 2012. "Upheaval" was one of three winning selections in Red Ochre Lit's 2012 Chapbook Contest.
Michael Caligaris was raised in Cincinnati, Ohio and now resides in Berkeley, California. He is currently a graduate student at St. Mary’s College of California. He has been published in college journals and strives for much more.
Michael Chaney is the author of Fugitive Vision, the editor of Graphic Subjects, and the walker of a dog named Vegas.
Dane Cobain is an independent poet, musician and storyteller with a passion for language and learning. When he's not in front of a screen writing stories and poetry, he can be found in front of a screen tweeting as @DaneCobain or developing his website.
William Davies Jr. has published in The Cortland Review, Bluepepper, The Wilderness House Review, Gloom Cupboard and others.
He lives with his wife, Theresa, on 10 acres in rural Pennsylvania where they produce their own wine.
Tatjana Debeljački was born in Užice. She writes poetry, short stories, stories and haiku.
Karyn Eisler is a Vancouver-based writer, cross-disciplinary artist, sociologist, and faculty member at Langara, The College of Higher Learning. A 2011 Best of the Net nominee, her stories, poems, images, and collaborations have appeared in a variety of anthologies and journals. Visit her here.
Tom Fillion is the author of many short stories published online and in print. For a complete list please visit here. He is also the author of a novel, The Dream Mechanic, available from Amazon here. Visit him on Facebook and Twitter at @dream_mechanic.
Merlin Flower is a writer and an artist.
Rizwati Freeman is a native of Los Angeles, has studied journalism and psychology, and lived in St. Petersburg, Russia, for several years before returning to the Southland. She now lives in the City of Angels with her two cats, and volunteers in animal rescue.
Philip Goldberg's short stories have appeared in over 20 literary and small press magazines including Foliate Oak, Best of 2007-2008 Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, Straylight, The Griffin, Northwoods Journal and Byline. Philip lives with wife and two cats in Brooklyn, New York.
A.J. Huffman is a poet and freelance writer in Daytona Beach, Florida.
C.E. Hyun’s stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Mirror Dance, The Northville Review, Swamp Biscuits and Tea, The Red Penny Papers, and the British Fantasy Society’s BFS Journal. She currently lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and her website is here.
Jason Hibbitts grew up in Southwest Virginia. His work is forthcoming or appears in the following journals: San Pedro River Review, Sugar House Review, Prime Mincer, Poydras Review, and The Sierra Nevada Review, among others.
Patricia L. Johnson edited The Green Tricycle, during its time as an online literary magazine. She has work in Foliate Oak, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Apollo’s Lyre, Ars Medica, and at the online blog for The Best American Poetry. She is an administrator at The Internet Writers Workshop and writes poetry book reviews.
Bryce Journey teaches composition at Iowa Western Community College and is an English and Creative Writing teacher with Omaha Public Schools. He has a BFA in Creative Writing, a Masters in Education, and a Masters in English with focuses in Creative Nonfiction and American Literature. His creative work has appeared in Blind Man’s Rainbow, Scissortale Review, Apropos, Temenos, Red Clay Review, Fortunates, Aerogram, Paradise Review, Poydras, Hippocampus, and Cigale. When he’s not entertaining his three-year-old son, Luke Ender, he likes watching bad movies with his wife, Laura, satiating his passion for board gaming, and increasing his skills as an amateur yo-yo enthusiast. His literary inspiration is Richard Brautigan and would rather entertain readers than be taken too seriously.
Susan Kirchoff lives and writes in Los Angeles, CA.
Michael Kroesche was born in Salt Lake City, UT. He received his BA from the Univ. of Southern California in 2008 and his MFA in Poetry from the Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas in 2011. His works include a chap book, Summer Hymnals, published by Elik Press in 2004, and his poems have appeared in Interim, The Chiron Review, The Breakwater Review, among others, and have also been incorporated into orchestral pieces. He is recently returned to Salt Lake City after teaching for a year in Guangzhou, China.
Robert Lamon is college educated and a former chemist. In addition to papers in organic chemistry, he has published short stories in print and online magazines, including Aphelion, Toasted Cheese, Epiphany, One Million Stories, The Storyteller, Xavier Review, and The MacGuffin. He’s also contributed four book reviews to Liberty.
Robert Laughlin lives in Chico, California. He has published 100 short stories, 200 poems and one novel, Vow of Silence. Learn more at his website.
Cathrine Lødøen lives in Norway. Her work has appeared in The Blue Print Review, All things girl, Oprah's Breathing Space, In Our Own Words: Generation X, Ed M. P. Weaver.
Joe Marchia is a journalist, creative writer and critic, published in Intellectualyst, Instigatorzine Magazine, Elmore Magazine, The Beatnik and Milk and Sugar Literature.
Lindsey Miller is a printmaker who currently lives in Incheon, South Korea, teaching English. Her hobbies include printmaking, writing, and running.
Michael M. Pacheco's debut novel, The Guadalupe Saints, was published by Paraguas Books in April 2011, and recently won Second Place in the International Latino Book-to-Movie Awards (suspense/mystery category). His novella titled, Seeking Tierra Santa, was released in May 2011. He also has had or will soon have short stories published in Southwestern American Literature, The Gold Man Review, Label Me Latina, The Acentos Review, Boxfire Press, Red Ochre Press, VAO Publishing - Along the River II, St. Somewhere Journal and AirplaneReading (twice). His poetry can be found at "200 New Mexico Poems."
Ken Poyner lives with his power lifter wife in southeastern Virginia. His last book was "Sciences, Social", though he should be doing another shortly. For now, he watches five rescue cats and two fierce fish.
Colleen Purcell is a photographer living in Santiago, Chile. Her photos have appeared in Off the Coast, The Meadowland Review, Anderbo, Subliminal Interiors, KenAgain, and a few other publications.
Cinthia Ritchie lives and runs mountains in Alaska.
Born and raised in New York City, Mia Sara made a reluctant move to Los Angeles to facilitate a career as an actress. Now retired after twenty-five years, she has taken up poetry to stave off insanity. Mia’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Saint Ann’s Review, The Dirty Napkin, Forge, The Kit-Cat Review, PANK, and Cultural Weekly.
Catori Sarmiento is an author who has contributed fiction to Nothing, No One, Nowhere, by Virgogrey Press, to Down the Rabbit Hole, an anthology by Wicked East Press, and will be a featured author in the winter 2012 edition of Crossed Out Magazine where a collection of her works will be published.
Yvette A. Schnoeker-Shorb’s work has appeared in Epiphany Magazine, Dark Matter: A Journal of Speculative Writing, Pedestal Magazine, Slant, Midwest Quarterly, Jelly Bucket, Concho River Review, and others. She is co-founder of Native West Press (which most recently published What’s Nature Got to Do with Me? Staying Wildly Sane in a Mad World).
Mary Shanley is a poet/writer who lives in NYC. Two of her books have been published: Hobo Code Poems by Vox Pop Press and Mott Street Stories and Las Vegas Stories by Sidestreet Press. She publishes online at: Mr. Bellers's Neighborhood, Blue Lake Review, Logos Journal, Hobo Camp Review, StepAway Magazine, Anak Sastra Journal, Shangra-la Magazine., Underground Voices, This Zine Will Change Your Life, Poydras Review Poetry and Prompt Literary Magazine.
Mikaela Shea is an MFA candidate at Columbia College Chicago. To pay her overpriced rent, she is a blogger and a nanny. She has published a short story in Foliate Oak Literary Journal as well as a children’s book. Mikaela is currently writing a novel and sending out various short stories for publication.
Sam Silva has poetry in print magazines including, but not limited to Samisdat, The ECU Rebel, Sow's Ear, The American Muse, St. Andrews Review, Dog River Review, Third Lung Review, Main St. Rag, Charlotte Poetry Review, Parnasus... most (but not all) of these magazines are now defunct.
Emily Strauss is usually a poet but she carries a camera too on her travels and tries to capture unusual building features.
Jessica Tyner is originally from Oregon, a member of the Cherokee Nation, and has been a writer and editor for ten years. Currently, she is a copy writer for Word Jones, a travel writer with Mucha Costa Rica, a writer for TripFab, a copy editor at the London-based Flaneur Arts Journal, and a contributing editor at New York’s Thalo Magazine. She has recently published short fiction in India’s Out of Print Magazine, and poetry in Slow Trains Literary Journal, Straylight Magazine, Solo Press, and Glint Literary Journal.
Holly Vance wrote her first story, The Castle the eighth grade and her first novel, The Gifted, the Cursed, and the Wicked her sophomore year of high school. Twenty-four years, two additional novels, and a few short stories later, she stumbled into nonfiction writing through blogging to promote her fiction. Go figure.
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. His low cholesterol mega monologue play, My Heart And the Real World ran for almost two years in New York City, his story 13 Halloweens was chosen as one of the ten best stories published in 2006 by the super cool folks at Story South. In 2010 My Apartment a "micro-novel" was published by Blueprint Press. A shy, humble man who lives with the cows in Colorado, White, a frequently published, deeply scarred veteran of the tragic and furious litmag scene of the 80s, is now content to live in solitude with his debts and addictions. Recently he was unpleasantly surprised to find an extended family of black and yellow snakes living inside the crack between the steps and his house. He found this out the hard way. You can learn more about Michael here.
Matthew Wilson, 29, is a UK resident who has been writing since small. Recently these stories have appeared in Beyond Centauri, Starline Poets Association and Carillon Magazine. He is currently editing his first novel.
