Barry Basden lives in the Texas hill country with his wife and two yellow Labs. His writing has appeared in many fine places. He is coauthor of CRACK! AND THUMP: WITH A COMBAT INFANTRY OFFICER IN WORLD WAR II and edits Camroc Press Review.
Allie Marini Batts is an alumna of New College of Florida, meaning she can explain deconstructionism, but cannot perform simple math. Her work has appeared in over 100 literary publications that her parents haven't heard of. Her chapbook, "With This Ring" was a 2012 finalist for the Casey Shay Press annual Mary Ballard award. Her short story, "Two Pounds, Two Ounces" was recognized as a Story of Distinction in the 2012 E.M. Koppel Short Fiction Awards and she is a 2012 poetry nominee for the Sundress Press "Best of the Net" Award. Allie lives in Tallahassee with her husband, where she feeds and befriends opossums and treefrogs. She is a research writer and is pursuing her MFA degree in Creative Writing through Antioch University Los Angeles. Allie's publications can be found on her author's blog, here, or to read her book reviews and literary blogging, visit Bookshelf Bombshells at here.
Gary Beck has spent most of his adult life as a theater director. His chapbook 'Remembrance' was published by Origami Condom Press, the '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, 'Mutilated Girls' was published by Heavy Hands Ink and 'Pavan and other poems' is being published by Indigo Mosaic. 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' and 'Assault on Nature' are being published by Winter Goose Press. His novel 'Acts of Defiance' is being published by Trestle Press and 'Extreme Change' is being published by Cogwheel 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.
Robert Boucheron is an architect in Charlottesville, Virginia, website boucheronarch.com. He writes articles and fiction on housing, cities, gardens, communities, electric motorcycles, and love gone wrong. His work appears in Blue Lake Review, Cerise Press, Cossack Review, Dark Matter, Mouse Tales Press, Niche, Northern Virginia, Piedmont Virginian, Prime Number, Rider, Streetlight, Talking Writing, 34th Parallel, Virginia Business, and Zodiac Review.
Richard Crowley is a college student studying accounting.
John Domenichini is a technical writer living in Monte Sereno, California. His work has appeared in Bartleby Snopes and Mysterical-E.
Jeff Dupuis writes poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. His work has appeared in Bare Hands, The River Journal, The Acta Victoriana, Rolling Thunder Quarterly, Blood Lotus Journal, the University College Review, Turbulence, Driftwood Poetry and The Healthy Ninja among others. Jeff currently lives and works in Toronto, Canada.
Amanda Ellis is among other things, a student who likes to write. She has been published in The Nervous Breakdown and enjoyed her experience as a student editor of The Foliate Oak. She also scored a spot in the Foliate Oak's Best of Print Edition, 2011.
Neil Ellman lives and writes in New Jersey. Hundreds of his poems appear in such journals as Alba, Anemone Sidecar, Bolts of Silk, Counterexample Poetics, ditch and Rusty Truck, among others.
Brian Fanelli's poems have appeared in Red Rock Review, The Portland Review, Word Riot, Boston Literary Magazine, Harpur Palate, Third Wednesday, Solstice Literary Magazine, and elsewhere. He is the author of the chapbook Front Man (Big Table Publishing), and his first full-length collection will be published in 2013 by Unbound Content. He currently resides in Pennsylvania and teaches at Keystone College. Find him online here.
Leah Given's photographs have appeared in journals including The Colored Lens, The Bellingham Review, and Red Fez. Her work was recently included in a juried exhibition at the St. Louis Artists' Guild. She received her M.D. from Washington University in St. Louis and has been involved in medical research.
Alejandra Guerra is a sophomore studying multimedia journalism at Lynn University. With an incessant passion for writing and photography, Guerra aims to pursue a career in the field of communication. She was photo editor and staff writer for her college newspaper last semester and continues to write for the newspaper today. She has won numerous awards for her photography and original poetry and one of her pieces was featured in an art gallery in Maryland. Guerra is ambitious to pursue her passion of being a renowned worldwide journalist in New York City. She also hopes to publish a book at some point in her life.
Joey Dean Hale is a musician and writer in the St. Louis area. He received his MFA from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and has published stories in several magazines, including Temporary Infinity Press, Marco Polo Arts Mag, and Octave Magazine, which also has his song “High Noon” posted online. In September 2012 he was the featured writer in Penduline Press - Issue 6 “WTF” - which included four flash fiction pieces and an interview with the author. He has stories forthcoming in The Dying Goose and Fried Chicken and Coffee
Steve Karas lives in Chicago with his wife and daughter. His short stories have appeared in several print and online publications, including Foliate Oak. He also writes reviews for The Review Review. You can visit his website and follow him on Twitter @Steve_Karas.
Bud Kenny is a performance poet who has published five books of poetry. Learn more at Kenny’s website.
Darian Lane was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, raised in Bethesda, Maryland. Graduated Arizona State University with a degree in Communication. He currently has one published novel.
Kate LaDew is a graduate from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a BA in Studio Art.
Carol Martindale-Taylor is a comparatively new freelance writer who studied creative writing at the University of New Mexico with Tony Hillerman, author of the modern-day Navajo mystery series. Her interests are varied as seen by articles published on both a tourist site and the paranormal.
Heather McDonald grew up in North Carolina and has her MFA in writing from the University of San Francisco. Her fiction can be found in The Big Ugly Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, The Wordstock Ten, Opium Magazine, and This Great Society. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, Derek, and their four bikes.
Sayeed Mehmood has been capturing the world around him for over 20 years. Although he will photograph anything that he finds interesting, in recent years his primary interests have been landscapes and nature, conceptual photo art, the human figure, and photo-based digital art. His work has been published in a number of photography and art magazines.
Gwendolyn Joyce Mintz is a writer and aspiring photographer. She loves trees. She blogs about life here.
Tami Nadeau is currently an undergraduate at Bristol Community College, Fall River, Mass. Upon graduation I will transfer to The University of Massachusetts, for a degree in Writing, Rhetoric and Communications.
Leonard Owens III is a humble student at Daytona State College who likes sleep, but gets very little, so he stays up and writes instead. Poems of his can be found at Daily Love, Dead Flowers: A Poetry Rag, and Downer Magazine, and short stories of his can be read at Fiction365, Every Day Fiction, and Free Flash Fiction. Hopefully, more of his stuff will be accepted by various journals of awesomeness soon. If not, he’ll just keep writing anyway.
Christopher Pascale is an accountant from Long Island.
Andrew Pei is a high school English teacher. He has published two short stories and a few academic articles.
Jennifer A. Powers was born and raised in Connecticut. She earned a BA in English from the University of Connecticut and is attending Western Connecticut State University for her MFA. She has short stories published or forthcoming in The MacGuffin, Foliate Oak, Wild Violet, Linden Avenue, Prairie Wolf Press Review, and Folio literary journals. Please visit here for more info.
Colleen Purcell is a photographer living in Santiago, Chile. Her photos have appeared in Off the Coast, The Meadowland Review, Anderbo, Subliminal Interiors, Ken Again, and a few other publications.
Charles Rafferty's poems have appeared in The New Yorker and The Southern Review, and his stories have appeared in Sonora Review and Cortland Review. His most recent chapbook of poems is Appetites (Clemson University Press). Currently, he directs the MFA program at Albertus Magnus College.
Charles Rammelkamp's collection of poems about missionaries in a leper colony in Vietnam during the war, entitled Fusen Bakudan (“Balloon Bombs” in Japanese) was published in 2012 by Time Being Books. He edits an online literary journal called The Potomac and is a fiction editor for The Pedestal.
Greg Riley sells bubble wrap to eat, and writes for fun.
Douglas Rudoff lives in Seattle with his wife Margaret and his seven-year-old son Liam. In his long career as a software engineer, you may have unwittingly directly or indirectly used his work if you ever analyzed Tass articles during the Cold War, requested a taxi online in Paris, had your cell phone account suspended, had your power restored after Hurricane Katrina, or just wasted time on the internet.
Wayne Scheer has locked himself in a room with his computer and turtle since his retirement. (Wayne's, not the turtle's.) To keep from going back to work, he's published short stories, essays and poems, including Revealing Moments, a collection of flash stories available here. He's been nominated for four Pushcart Prizes and a Best of the Net. Wayne lives in Atlanta with his wife and can be contacted at [email protected].
Mary Ellen Shaughan calls herself an “accidental poet”, since her goal was to write exquisite short stories. Her poetry has been published in Mid-America Poetry Review, Timber Creek Review, Words of Wisdom Magazine, Peregrine: The Journal of Amherst Writers & Artists, Foliate Oak, Long Story Short, Daily Palette/Iowa Writes, and Silkworm. She is a native Iowan who now calls Western Massachusetts home.
Zachary Solomon is a freelance writer based out of Cambridge, Mass. At the moment, he writes for a nonprofit in the city and is applying to graduate programs in creative writing. His work has most recently appeared the Crack the Spine Summer 2012 anthology.
Louis Staeble lives in Bowling Green, Ohio. He has had photographs appear in Trigger, Camera Obscura, This Literary Magazine, OVS and The Fine Line. His "Industrial Strength Nation" was a part of the 93rd Toledo Area Artists Exhibition, The Toledo Museum of Art. A few of his pictures are available on Etsy.
Mark Tarallo is a D.C.-based journalist. His fiction and poetry have been published in Abbey, Asphodel, Angelface, Beltway, Innisfree Poetry Journal, Red Mountain Review, Vine Leaves, and the anthology Cold Shoulders. He has received an Artist Fellowship Award from the D.C. Commission on Arts and Humanities, and has won the Washington Writing Prize.
Michael Ugulini is a freelance writer from the Niagara Region, Ontario. He is a published writer of newsletter articles, feature articles, SEO articles, and corporate profiles. Creative writing works include short scripts, short stories, and poetry. His short screenplay PARCHED won First Place in the 2006 American Gem Short Screenplay Competition.
Matthew Whalan is a writer from Great Barrington, MA. He is seventeen years old and devoted to his craft. He has been published the The Red Crow News, Aberration Labyrinth, soon in The Rusty Nail, and others. He is wrapping up a book on a Death Row inmate in Alabama, and for more information on that you can look online, many articles are available. He is also currently at work on a novel.
Raised in conservative Bangladeshi society, Shoilee SA White was driven into an early marriage. Her manuscript is about the salvation she found in America’s wilderness away from her unhappy married life. Currently, she is a graduate student at the University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.
Her writing has been published in numerous academic papers, in University’s newspaper, and in Bangladesh magazines.
Allie Marini Batts is an alumna of New College of Florida, meaning she can explain deconstructionism, but cannot perform simple math. Her work has appeared in over 100 literary publications that her parents haven't heard of. Her chapbook, "With This Ring" was a 2012 finalist for the Casey Shay Press annual Mary Ballard award. Her short story, "Two Pounds, Two Ounces" was recognized as a Story of Distinction in the 2012 E.M. Koppel Short Fiction Awards and she is a 2012 poetry nominee for the Sundress Press "Best of the Net" Award. Allie lives in Tallahassee with her husband, where she feeds and befriends opossums and treefrogs. She is a research writer and is pursuing her MFA degree in Creative Writing through Antioch University Los Angeles. Allie's publications can be found on her author's blog, here, or to read her book reviews and literary blogging, visit Bookshelf Bombshells at here.
Gary Beck has spent most of his adult life as a theater director. His chapbook 'Remembrance' was published by Origami Condom Press, the '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, 'Mutilated Girls' was published by Heavy Hands Ink and 'Pavan and other poems' is being published by Indigo Mosaic. 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' and 'Assault on Nature' are being published by Winter Goose Press. His novel 'Acts of Defiance' is being published by Trestle Press and 'Extreme Change' is being published by Cogwheel 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.
Robert Boucheron is an architect in Charlottesville, Virginia, website boucheronarch.com. He writes articles and fiction on housing, cities, gardens, communities, electric motorcycles, and love gone wrong. His work appears in Blue Lake Review, Cerise Press, Cossack Review, Dark Matter, Mouse Tales Press, Niche, Northern Virginia, Piedmont Virginian, Prime Number, Rider, Streetlight, Talking Writing, 34th Parallel, Virginia Business, and Zodiac Review.
Richard Crowley is a college student studying accounting.
John Domenichini is a technical writer living in Monte Sereno, California. His work has appeared in Bartleby Snopes and Mysterical-E.
Jeff Dupuis writes poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. His work has appeared in Bare Hands, The River Journal, The Acta Victoriana, Rolling Thunder Quarterly, Blood Lotus Journal, the University College Review, Turbulence, Driftwood Poetry and The Healthy Ninja among others. Jeff currently lives and works in Toronto, Canada.
Amanda Ellis is among other things, a student who likes to write. She has been published in The Nervous Breakdown and enjoyed her experience as a student editor of The Foliate Oak. She also scored a spot in the Foliate Oak's Best of Print Edition, 2011.
Neil Ellman lives and writes in New Jersey. Hundreds of his poems appear in such journals as Alba, Anemone Sidecar, Bolts of Silk, Counterexample Poetics, ditch and Rusty Truck, among others.
Brian Fanelli's poems have appeared in Red Rock Review, The Portland Review, Word Riot, Boston Literary Magazine, Harpur Palate, Third Wednesday, Solstice Literary Magazine, and elsewhere. He is the author of the chapbook Front Man (Big Table Publishing), and his first full-length collection will be published in 2013 by Unbound Content. He currently resides in Pennsylvania and teaches at Keystone College. Find him online here.
Leah Given's photographs have appeared in journals including The Colored Lens, The Bellingham Review, and Red Fez. Her work was recently included in a juried exhibition at the St. Louis Artists' Guild. She received her M.D. from Washington University in St. Louis and has been involved in medical research.
Alejandra Guerra is a sophomore studying multimedia journalism at Lynn University. With an incessant passion for writing and photography, Guerra aims to pursue a career in the field of communication. She was photo editor and staff writer for her college newspaper last semester and continues to write for the newspaper today. She has won numerous awards for her photography and original poetry and one of her pieces was featured in an art gallery in Maryland. Guerra is ambitious to pursue her passion of being a renowned worldwide journalist in New York City. She also hopes to publish a book at some point in her life.
Joey Dean Hale is a musician and writer in the St. Louis area. He received his MFA from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and has published stories in several magazines, including Temporary Infinity Press, Marco Polo Arts Mag, and Octave Magazine, which also has his song “High Noon” posted online. In September 2012 he was the featured writer in Penduline Press - Issue 6 “WTF” - which included four flash fiction pieces and an interview with the author. He has stories forthcoming in The Dying Goose and Fried Chicken and Coffee
Steve Karas lives in Chicago with his wife and daughter. His short stories have appeared in several print and online publications, including Foliate Oak. He also writes reviews for The Review Review. You can visit his website and follow him on Twitter @Steve_Karas.
Bud Kenny is a performance poet who has published five books of poetry. Learn more at Kenny’s website.
Darian Lane was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, raised in Bethesda, Maryland. Graduated Arizona State University with a degree in Communication. He currently has one published novel.
Kate LaDew is a graduate from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a BA in Studio Art.
Carol Martindale-Taylor is a comparatively new freelance writer who studied creative writing at the University of New Mexico with Tony Hillerman, author of the modern-day Navajo mystery series. Her interests are varied as seen by articles published on both a tourist site and the paranormal.
Heather McDonald grew up in North Carolina and has her MFA in writing from the University of San Francisco. Her fiction can be found in The Big Ugly Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, The Wordstock Ten, Opium Magazine, and This Great Society. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, Derek, and their four bikes.
Sayeed Mehmood has been capturing the world around him for over 20 years. Although he will photograph anything that he finds interesting, in recent years his primary interests have been landscapes and nature, conceptual photo art, the human figure, and photo-based digital art. His work has been published in a number of photography and art magazines.
Gwendolyn Joyce Mintz is a writer and aspiring photographer. She loves trees. She blogs about life here.
Tami Nadeau is currently an undergraduate at Bristol Community College, Fall River, Mass. Upon graduation I will transfer to The University of Massachusetts, for a degree in Writing, Rhetoric and Communications.
Leonard Owens III is a humble student at Daytona State College who likes sleep, but gets very little, so he stays up and writes instead. Poems of his can be found at Daily Love, Dead Flowers: A Poetry Rag, and Downer Magazine, and short stories of his can be read at Fiction365, Every Day Fiction, and Free Flash Fiction. Hopefully, more of his stuff will be accepted by various journals of awesomeness soon. If not, he’ll just keep writing anyway.
Christopher Pascale is an accountant from Long Island.
Andrew Pei is a high school English teacher. He has published two short stories and a few academic articles.
Jennifer A. Powers was born and raised in Connecticut. She earned a BA in English from the University of Connecticut and is attending Western Connecticut State University for her MFA. She has short stories published or forthcoming in The MacGuffin, Foliate Oak, Wild Violet, Linden Avenue, Prairie Wolf Press Review, and Folio literary journals. Please visit here for more info.
Colleen Purcell is a photographer living in Santiago, Chile. Her photos have appeared in Off the Coast, The Meadowland Review, Anderbo, Subliminal Interiors, Ken Again, and a few other publications.
Charles Rafferty's poems have appeared in The New Yorker and The Southern Review, and his stories have appeared in Sonora Review and Cortland Review. His most recent chapbook of poems is Appetites (Clemson University Press). Currently, he directs the MFA program at Albertus Magnus College.
Charles Rammelkamp's collection of poems about missionaries in a leper colony in Vietnam during the war, entitled Fusen Bakudan (“Balloon Bombs” in Japanese) was published in 2012 by Time Being Books. He edits an online literary journal called The Potomac and is a fiction editor for The Pedestal.
Greg Riley sells bubble wrap to eat, and writes for fun.
Douglas Rudoff lives in Seattle with his wife Margaret and his seven-year-old son Liam. In his long career as a software engineer, you may have unwittingly directly or indirectly used his work if you ever analyzed Tass articles during the Cold War, requested a taxi online in Paris, had your cell phone account suspended, had your power restored after Hurricane Katrina, or just wasted time on the internet.
Wayne Scheer has locked himself in a room with his computer and turtle since his retirement. (Wayne's, not the turtle's.) To keep from going back to work, he's published short stories, essays and poems, including Revealing Moments, a collection of flash stories available here. He's been nominated for four Pushcart Prizes and a Best of the Net. Wayne lives in Atlanta with his wife and can be contacted at [email protected].
Mary Ellen Shaughan calls herself an “accidental poet”, since her goal was to write exquisite short stories. Her poetry has been published in Mid-America Poetry Review, Timber Creek Review, Words of Wisdom Magazine, Peregrine: The Journal of Amherst Writers & Artists, Foliate Oak, Long Story Short, Daily Palette/Iowa Writes, and Silkworm. She is a native Iowan who now calls Western Massachusetts home.
Zachary Solomon is a freelance writer based out of Cambridge, Mass. At the moment, he writes for a nonprofit in the city and is applying to graduate programs in creative writing. His work has most recently appeared the Crack the Spine Summer 2012 anthology.
Louis Staeble lives in Bowling Green, Ohio. He has had photographs appear in Trigger, Camera Obscura, This Literary Magazine, OVS and The Fine Line. His "Industrial Strength Nation" was a part of the 93rd Toledo Area Artists Exhibition, The Toledo Museum of Art. A few of his pictures are available on Etsy.
Mark Tarallo is a D.C.-based journalist. His fiction and poetry have been published in Abbey, Asphodel, Angelface, Beltway, Innisfree Poetry Journal, Red Mountain Review, Vine Leaves, and the anthology Cold Shoulders. He has received an Artist Fellowship Award from the D.C. Commission on Arts and Humanities, and has won the Washington Writing Prize.
Michael Ugulini is a freelance writer from the Niagara Region, Ontario. He is a published writer of newsletter articles, feature articles, SEO articles, and corporate profiles. Creative writing works include short scripts, short stories, and poetry. His short screenplay PARCHED won First Place in the 2006 American Gem Short Screenplay Competition.
Matthew Whalan is a writer from Great Barrington, MA. He is seventeen years old and devoted to his craft. He has been published the The Red Crow News, Aberration Labyrinth, soon in The Rusty Nail, and others. He is wrapping up a book on a Death Row inmate in Alabama, and for more information on that you can look online, many articles are available. He is also currently at work on a novel.
Raised in conservative Bangladeshi society, Shoilee SA White was driven into an early marriage. Her manuscript is about the salvation she found in America’s wilderness away from her unhappy married life. Currently, she is a graduate student at the University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.
Her writing has been published in numerous academic papers, in University’s newspaper, and in Bangladesh magazines.
