bios

Air Formation is an English shoegaze/dream pop band that debuted, which has released several albums, including the heavily acclaimed "Daylight Storms."Their latest album is "Nothing To Wish For (Nothing To Lose)."

Pamela Baker ("No Chances with the Heart") received her MFA from the University of Central Florida in Orlando. Her work has been nominated for two awards, including the Iron Horse Literary Review 2009 Discovered Voices award in nonfiction, and can be read in an upcoming issue of the Georgetown Review. She is currently working as a nurse while completing a novel.

Walter Beck ("Gods of the Green River")  is from Avon, IN and is currently enrolled as a graduate student at Indiana State University in Terre Haute, IN. He is a mainstay of the Terre Haute poetry scene where his confrontational verse and intense performances draw crowds at open mic nights. His work is popular amongst freaks, rock n rollers and camp counselors.

J E Boles ("The Climb") not a pseudonym, grew up in Corvallis, OR, living across the street from the man who would be the model for Bucketts, a character in Malamud's novel "A New Life."  Boles has escaped small town rural traditions, and now lives in Portland, a student at Portland State. Boles was a journalist for seven or eight years, but got out in time. Boles was also a producer of large outdoor music festivals to which the general universe is invited — not an easy task.  Boles lives alone in student housing with a cat.

Kathryn Braid ("Aphrodite Falling") writes poetry and lives in Wellington, Shropshire. She attends a Sixth Form College in Shrewsbury where she is currently in her second year. Poetry is an escape and a release for her, and she hopes you enjoy 'Aphrodite Falling'.

Chuckie Campbell ("Mountain Lion Spotted in Appleton") is the founder and editor of Sunsets and Silencers, an online art, literature and culture journal. He lives and writes in Hattiesburg, MS where he is currently in the last semester of his PhD at the University of Southern Mississippi's Center for Writers. His work can found, or is forthcoming in Squid Quarterly, Our Stories, Word Riot, the2ndhand and many other fine publications. In his spare time, he works for the Dr. Ronald E. McNair Post baccalaureate Achievement Program preparing first-generation and underrepresented college students for doctoral studies by modeling the process of conducting scholarly research.

Grant Clauser ("No Word or Name") works a writer and magazine editor, living inHatfield, PA. His poems have appeared in various journals including The Literary Review, Cortland Review, The Heartland Review and the Painted Bride Quarterly. He is also the 2010 Montgomery County Poet Laureate, selected by Robert Bly.

Roy Dequeant ("Contemplations on Contingencies") is an aspiring poet living in Arab, Alabama. He helps operate Two Monks Farm, a small organic farming business. In his spare time he focuses his efforts on political activism and environmental awareness.

Kelly Jean Egan ("Jungle Song") is a writer, poet and language muse inspired by nature and travel, by geographies and ecologies of the earth as well as the mind.  Originally from New Jersey, she now resides in the Bay Area, tending to gardens and grammar.  She hopes to keep travelling and to spend more time exploring life outside of the developed world.

Glen David Gold is the bestselling author of Carter Beats the Devil and Sunnyside. Gold's fiction has appeared in McSweeney's and he has written for several comic books, including Will Eisner's The Spirit. He received his MFA for Creative Writing from the University of California at Irvine, and is married to author Alice Sebold (The Lovely Bones).

Sam Gridley’s ("Something Might've Happened ") fiction and satire have appeared in numerous magazines in print and online. His novel The Big Happiness is available for download at his website, http://www.gridleyville.com/. A new novel, The Shame of What We Are, is forthcoming from New Door Books (http://newdoorbooks.com/).

Ben Jahn ("Wrong Side of the Radar Gun") grew up in northern California. His fiction has been published in ZYZZYVA, McSweeney's, The Greensboro Review, Torpedo, The Santa Monica Review, and will soon appear in PANK, and in the anthology, Hint Fiction, from WW Norton. He recently received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, which he will use to work on a novel.

Joe Kidd ("Dream of Kings") – Husband to 1, Father to 1, brother to many.  He is a working songwriter - musician in Ann Arbor – Detroit area.  He is a theology major at Sacred Heart Seminary (Detroit).  He studies the dharma at Jewel Heart.  He likes bread, water, sunflowers, Beethoven, Lennon, wine … and is compelled to write, seeking to contribute toward unity between races, cultures, religions & nationalities.

Melissa A. Libby ("Love as Water") is a photographer and writer. Born in 1985 in Texas, she grew up in a small coastal town in Maine. She currently resides outside Portland, Maine where she is pursuing a career in both fields.

Dr. Natasha Lvovich ("Phone Home") is Professor of English at the City University of New York, Kingsborough Community College, where she teaches English as a second language and literature courses. She also teaches at the M. A. English Program at Brooklyn College. Originally from the former Soviet Union, she holds a M.A. in Language and Literature and French Studies from Moscow Linguistic University and a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the Union Institute and University. Natasha Lvovich is herself a writer and an author of an autobiographical book, The Multilingual Self, published by Lawrence Erlbaum in 1997. She has just completed another book of creative nonfiction, sparked by her visit to Russia, which focuses on memory, language, and loss. Several chapters from the manuscript have appeared/are forthcoming in international academic journals (Life Writing, New Writing, Lifewriting Annual) and literary magazines (Big.City.Lit, WHL Review, Post Road).

Larry McCoy ("'Bullshit' Is One Word, 'Performance Review' Two ") worked in newsrooms for more than 40 years in Chicago, New York and Munich. His essay is taken from a so far unpublished memoir, "Everyone Needs An Editor (Some Of Us More Than Others." Later this year a humorous collection of his essays on aging - "Did I Really Change My Underwear Every Day?" - will be published by Sunstone Press.

Ali Shakir, ("The Scent of Rima's Gardenia") Iraqi architect and artist, has been writing articles in English and Arabic published in several newspapers and sites around the world, dedicated meanwhile to writing a book on the confusion of liberal present-day Muslims. Owner of "L'Atelier" art gallery in Baghdad 1996-2003 and had exhibited his art work in different galleries both in Iraq and abroad.

Lindsey Stockton (“Awake”) was born in a tiny Southern Kentucky town 25 years ago and her heart never left there.  She is currently in the Creative Writing MFA program at Eastern Kentucky University. She writes to stay sane and to add excitement to her otherwise standard life. She has too many cats and not enough time to do all the things she wants to do, like ride horses and learn guitar. Her favorite color is blue, though she has never written about it. Someday she hopes to see London and have a husband and a baby or two.

Patterson Willis ("A Letter: Translated ") is in the M.A. Program at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, however currently finds himself teaching ESL in Zaragoza, Spain.  His stories have appeared LITnIMAGE, and Knee-Jerk, Prick of the Spindle magazines.