contributors


Joe Amaral (“Retrograde” and “Old Man Melvin”) lives on the Central Coast of California, where he enjoys the numerous outdoor opportunities the area has to offer. He is a paramedic by trade and a world traveler by choice. Joe's poetry has previously been published in Eclectic Flash.

Thomas Fox Averill (“First Fruit”) is writer-in-residence and Professor of English at Washburn University of Topeka.  His collection of stories, Ordinary Genius, was the inaugural book in the Flyover Fiction Series at the University of Nebraska Press in 2005.  Recent stories have appeared in New Letters, New Mexico Poetry Review and North American Review.

Paul Barrow (“A Party”) is a student who hopes to begin work on a Classics degree in a London university next year. He is currently drifting around his hometown of North West England, while saving money and plotting a glorious escape.

Eric Bennett (“The Truth about Love”) lives in New York with his wife and four children.  He loves trees without leaves and beginning sentences with the word “and.”  His work appears in numerous literary and art journals including Prick of the Spindle, Bartleby Snopes, Ghoti Magazine, LITnIMAGE, and PANK.    

Kevin Del Principe (“Winged Man with Odd Light Source”) originally hails from Buffalo, and currently resides in the greater Cincinnati area with his wife and two dogs. There, he writes and teaches. His play "Radio Waves" recently premiered in Louisville and "The Man Who Carried Away the Mountains" before that in Buffalo. He also has poems forthcoming in Leaf Garden and The Stray Branch.

D.P. Epiphane (“Boxwood”) lives in Orlando, Florida. Her literary work has previously appeared in The Alchemist. A recent graduate from the University of Central Florida, she spends most of her time editing the stories and academic essays of others. She hopes with a little focus, a bit of prayer, and a lot of caffeine, she'll complete her first novel next year.

Jesse Goolsby (“Devil’s Garden”) is an author, poet, and photographer living in Colorado Springs. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Harpur Palate, Storyglossia, Breakwater Review, Vestal Review, Stirring, War, Literature & the Arts, Oak Bend Review, and various anthologies. His short story “Derrin of the North” won the 2009 John Gardner Memorial Award in Fiction. His various projects can be viewed at jessegoolsby.blogspot.com.

Nathan Gower (“Heather”) lives in Charlestown, Indiana with his wife and daughter, both brilliant. An MFA graduate from Spalding University, he currently teaches composition and creative writing at Ivy Tech Community College. A writer of short fiction, critical essays, several failed-but-attempted screenplays, and an occasional poem, his work has previously appeared in the literary journal Connections.

Mike Hampton (“Subject Seventy-Two”) holds an M.F.A. in Writing from Spalding University. His work has previously appeared in McSweeney’s, The Southeast Review, and The Rio Grande Review among other publications. He currently lives in Cincinnati with his wife Allison, and children Ella and Luke. He serves as an English faculty member at The University of Cincinnati Clermont College and Northern Kentucky University.

Ronan Hyacinthe (“Dance 9”) studied in both London and Paris, as well as lived in Rome where he started to write. He is now working in Lisbon, Portugal.

Jason Irwin (“Rooms of My Life”) grew up in Dunkirk, New York. His first book Watering the Dead was published in 2008 by Pavement Saw Press. His chapbook “Some Days It’s a Love Story” was published by Slipstream in 2005. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife Wendi Lee.

Hardy Jones’s (“Learning More than Spanish”) nonfiction and fiction has appeared in over twenty journals and his writing has been awarded two grants. His novel Every Bitter Thing is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press in May 2010. He teaches creative writing at Cameron University.

Alisha Karabinus (“Castles”) is currently pursuing a BA in English from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, where she also serves as editor of the student literary magazine. Her short fiction has appeared in Flashquake, Pindeldyboz, Staccato Fiction, and the wastebasket beside her desk.

Brandon Lingle’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in The North American Review, Narrative, Mississippi Review, Anderbo, War, Literature & the Arts, CutBank, Redivider, Juked, Drunken Boat, Crash, Platte Valley Review, and Airman Magazine, among others. A series of his photographs recently won the 2009 CutBank online contest. He teaches in Colorado, and is currently the Art Director of War, Literature & the Arts.

Jim Meirose's (“The Last Train”) short work has appeared in many literary magazines and journals, including Alaska Quarterly Review, South Carolina Review, New Orleans Review, and Witness. His chapbook will be published by Burning River.

Jonathan Neihart (“This Pen”) has been writing poetry for twenty years. From the beginning, he has sought to give a voice to the natural world and his surroundings. A lifelong New Hampshirite, Jonathan writes about his experiences as a fixture in the state, and for the past five years, his work has turned toward his inner struggle while dealing with the ghosts of PTSD. She has been published is in the Rockford Review, The Larcom Review, and has twice been featured on NPR’s Here and Now Program.

Max Ogles (“On Chess”) is currently studying English at Brigham Young University in Utah.  His particular literary interest is the "loose sally of the mind,” the essay. His favorite essayists, aside from the classics, include Michael Martone, Scott Russell Sanders, and Brian Doyle.

Kevin Phoenix (“From the Telescope a Marble Eye”) was born in Syracuse, New York in 1992. A student, he studies existence, dreams, and the beyond, on Earth, but has no interest in getting a Master’s in it. He has no influences, nor does he “learn” poetry. He digs poetry as the true window and language to individual beings, thus existing beyond earthly interpretation or form. Someday, he wishes to either be a guest on the Colbert report, or work as the voice of the “surfer fish” on the critically acclaimed, Spongebob Squarepants.

Priyanka Sacheti (“Melancholia and Old Buildings”) is a freelance writer and journalist based in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman. Having been writing poetry and fiction for many years, she now takes active interest in pursuing literary non-fiction. She is currently working on a historical novel but also hopes to publish a collection of essays in the future as well.

Chris Tarry's (“The Cardboard Ship”) short stories, articles, and reviews have appeared in ink and online in numerous places, including The G.W. Review and Opium Magazine. He makes his living playing bass in New York City and has just completed a novel, The Wedding King of Vermont. He is originally Canadian and has won a bunch of Juno Awards which are like Grammies, but pointier.

Jack Torry covers Congress, the Supreme Court and politics for the Washington bureau of the Columbus Dispatch. Henderson’s Light is his second book, while his first was Endless Summers: The Fall and Rise of the Cleveland Indians, published in 1995. Torry and his wife Saundra live in Leesburg, Virginia.

Katie Vermilyea (“Plan B”) received her M.A. in English from the College of St. Rose and attended the New York State Summer Writers Institute in 2008. At present, she teaches technical writing at the Sage College of Albany, NY and resides in the Capital District. She blogs about her love of all things camp and kitsch at Tabloid Mags, and her work has previously appeared in Ruined Music.

Megan Zeigler (“Bastard Plant from Hell”) is from Princeton Junction, New Jersey. She graduated from Rutgers University in 2007 with degrees in both English and Information Technology and Informatics. She lives and works in northern New Jersey.