A. Minetta Gould
A. Minetta Gould was raised in The Mittens by a beautician and crane operator. She is the author of four chapbooks, most recently from FAMILY (Black Warrior Review, 2013) and the forthcoming MASS. (The New Megaphone, 2014). A. Minetta recently transplanted herself from Boston, MA to Denver, CO and is the managing editor for Black Ocean.
A. Zachary lives in Toronto. Their first novel is The End, by Anna, out now with Metatron.
Aaron Nielsen's writing has appeared in the following publications Mythym (PictureBox, 2008), Userlands: New Fiction Writers from the Blogging Underground (Akashic Books, 2007), Instant City, Fresh Men 2: New Voices in Gay Fiction (Carroll & Graf, 2005), Mirage #4 Period(ical) and The Chabot Review. He has been featured on KQED’s podcast The Writer’s Block and was the editor of the short lived but critically acclaimed ‘zine Jouissance. Aaron holds a Bachelor’s in English Literature and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. He lives in San Francisco, California.
Adam DeGraff was born in Missouri, raised in Kansas, moved through Denver to San Francisco and now lives in Queens. His most recent book, Wherewithal, selected poems 1994-2014, was edited by Anselm Berrigan for Subpress. He hosts the reading series Kith & Kin with Tyler Burba at the SculptureCenter in Queens.
Adam Fleming Petty
Adam Fleming Petty is the author of the novella Followers (Etchings Press, 2016). His writing has appeared in Electric Literature, the Millions, the Los Angeles Review of Books and the Paris Review Daily. He lives in Indianapolis with his wife and two daughters, and recently completed a novel about Dungeons & Dragons in Iraq.
Adam Ganderson has written for the Village Voice, Art Forum, and Terrorizer UK among others.
Adam Good is an interdisciplinary artist whose work focuses on appropriation and remixing of cultural materials. His performances and installations emphasize participation and interaction with systems of knowledge. He has performed in, or created experiences for: Ignite DC, Washington Project for the Arts, Porch Projects, the Phillips Collection, the Textile Museum, Pulse Miami, (e)merge, and the Transmodern Festival. He lives on a communal farm in Pittsboro, NC with his wife and son.
Adam Lampton currently teaches photography at Massachusetts College of Art and Emerson College in Boston. He received his MFA in photography from Massachusetts College of Art.
Artist born in NYC, works in a wide variety of media but with an emphasis on video. Recently, has exhibited at Derek Eller Gallery (NYC), Sandroni Rey (LA) and the Musee de Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. In addition, has organized the lecture series "Passing Time" at Tracy Williams ltd. and three nights of screenings at the Whitney Museum at Altria. He is also the editor of the self-published "Into the Abyss" (2003). Is currently being represented by Sandroni Rey gallery.
Adam Putnam's work can be viewed at http://www.sevenseven.com
Adam Robinson runs Publishing Genius Press and lives in Atlanta, where he plays softball.
Adam Rokhsar is an artist, psychologist, and software developer whose work focuses on making the invisible visible.
Adam Shemper was born in Hattiesburg, Mississpi. He earned his masters from The University of California at Berkeley. He has published with Time, the Oxford American, Salon, The San Francisco Chronicle, etc. Selected photographs from his Sardis Lake series were included in the 2003 International Center of Photography's on-line exhibition, Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self. He is currently working on a series of images of the people and spaces of Hong Kong.
Adam Tedesco is a founding editor of REALITY BEACH, and contributing editor for Drunk In A Midnight Choir. His recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Funhouse, Souvenir, Prelude, Hobart, The Nervous Breakdown and elsewhere. He is the author of several chapbooks, most recently Heart Sutra (REALITY BEACH), and ABLAZA, forthcoming from Lithic Press.
Adam Underhill is a producer, writer, and traveler living in New York City. He has worked in television and radio for seven years, first as an intern on The Late Show with David Letterman and later on such programs as Last Call with Carson Daly and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. As a writer, Adam has been published on NBC.com, McSweeneys.net, and TheFanzine.com. Links to his other works can be found on his website,LittleEarthquake.com.
Adriana Green is currently a student in the MFA in Writing and Activism Program at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. She is working on her first manuscript and writes about race, death, grieving, and America.
Alain Ginsberg (they/them) is a transgender author and performer from Baltimore City, MD. Their work has been featured or is forthcoming with Lambda Literary, Shabby Doll House, Metatron, and elsewhere as well as in the chapbooks "Until The Cows Come Home" (Elation Press, 2016) and "Loathe/Love/Lathe" (Nostrovia! Press, 2017). Alain is a barista, a bartender, and a Taurus.
Alan Gilbert’s writings on art, poetry, culture, and politics have appeared in a variety of publications, including Artforum, Time Out New York, and the Village Voice. Recent poems have appeared in The Baffler, Brooklyn Rail, and Chicago Review. A collection of his critical writings entitled Another Future: Poetry and Art in a Postmodern Twilight was published in the spring of 2006 by Wesleyan University Press.
Alejandro Miguel Justino Crawford
Alejandro Miguel Justino Crawford is a poet, video artist, & game designer living in Brooklyn, NY. http://amjc.tv
Alex Cuff lives in Brooklyn where she teaches at a public high school and edits No, Dear magazine.
Alex Higley has been published by, or has stories forthcoming from, New World Writing, PANK, Hobart, The Adroit Journal, Burrow Press Review, and elsewhere. He contributed text to Alec Soth's The Frank Album. A graduate of the Northwestern University MFA program, he lives and works in Phoenix.
Alex Kalamaroff is a writer in Boston, MA. His articles and essays have appeared in The Millions, The Rumpus, Lambda Literary, and elsewhere. He is the Book Reviews Editor for Entropy. @alexkalamaroff
Alex Manley was born and raised in Montreal. He graduated from Concordia University's creative writing program in 2013. His work has appeared at Shabby Doll House, Everyday Genius, Banango Street andMaisonneuve magazine, among others. He is left-handed.
Alexandra Hemrick is a graduate of Georgia Tech in Atlanta, GA as a Public Policy major and completed two years with Teach for America teaching Visual Art in the Mississippi Delta May 2012. Her work has appeared at the Delta Bohemian and Downright Fiction.
Alexandra Wuest is a writer and poet based in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in The Bohemyth, Reality Hands, Mr. Beller's Neighborhood, and Hobart. Her online home can be found at bagelcat.tumblr.com
Alexandro Segade is a founding member of the performance group My Barbarian, and has presented solo video and performance work at LAXART, Artist Curated Projects, Anthology Film Archive, and Sundown Salon. His multi-media gay science fiction theater piece, “Replicant VS Separatist,” will be included in the 2010 New Original Works Festival at the REDCAT, Los Angeles. Segade has written for publications including Art Lies, The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, ArtUS, and Useless. Segade curates The Imaginary Film Festival at Imprenta, Los, Angeles, has a blog, The Universal Separatist. Segade received an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studio Art from UCLA in 2009.
Alissa Nutting received her MFA degree from the University of Alabama, where she served as Editor for the Black Warrior Review. Her writing has appeared in Tin House, Fence, BOMB, the fairy tale anthology My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me, and many other journals. She is the author of the short story collection Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls (Starcherone, 2010). Alissa is currently a PhD candidate at UNLV, where she has received Cobain and Schaeffer Fellowships in Fiction. She is fiction editor of the literary journal Witness and managing editor of Fairy Tale Review.
Allison Grimaldi-Donahue’s work has appeared in places like Electric Literature, The Brooklyn Rail, Words Without Borders, Dead King Magazine, Cosmonauts Avenue and Funhouse Magazine. She is fiction editor at Queen Mob’s Teahouse and associate translation editor at Drunken Boat. Her chapbook Body to Mineral was published in October 2016 by Publication Studio Vancouver.
Ally Harris lives, writes, and works in Portland, OR. She has a chapbook called Her Twin Was After Me (Slim Princess Holdings, 2014) and another called Floor Baby (dancing girl press, 2011). You can read other poems by her in Sixth Finch, CutBank, Tarpaulin Sky, Sink Review, TYPO, and elsewhere.
Alyssa Pavley attends college and lives in New York. She spends her time writing things, drawing things, reading various other things and listening to French electronic music. Her artwork has been exhibited in a couple of small towns in New Jersey. She currently covers art for Fanzine's New York section.
Amabel Barraclough lives and works in London. She has written for The Independent and Variety. She is currently working on her first children's novel.
Amanda Goldblatt's work has been published or is forthcoming in NOON, Fence, Hobart, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Chicago, and teaches creative writing at Northeastern Illinois University and StoryStudio Chicago. More info is available at amandagoldblatt.com.
Amanda McCormick is an outdoorswoman / poet / cook / founding curator of Ink Press Productions in Baltimore.
Amanda Mills is a deep believer in the affective change that DIY media brings. Her work is entrenched in this belief. She is the Executive Director of Murmur Media, a community resource for DIY and ephemeral media. Her organizing experience includes the Atlanta Zine Fest, Atlanta Zine Library, and--in the past--Faces of Feminism. She also runs local tape label, Big Blonde Records. She eagerly awaits your email about a potential collaboration (yes, you, dear reader!).
Amber Sparks is the author of the short story collection May We Shed These Human Bodies, and co-author (with Robert Kloss and Matt Kish) of the hybrid text novella The Desert Places, just published by Curbside Splendor. You can find her most days on Twitter at @ambernoelle, or read her work at ambernoellesparks.com.
Ambika Thompson has been living in Berlin, Germany for the past 10 years. She is currently focused on writing short stories, and playing guitar, and singing in the band The Anna Thompsons.
Amelia Saul is a Brooklyn-based artist from Seattle. Her work, including performance, video, drawing and audio, has been exhibited in New York, Hiroshima, Paris, and Lisbon.
Amy Gerstler is a writer of poetry and nonfiction living in Los Angeles. Her most recent books of poems are GHOST GIRL, MEDICINE, NERVE STORM and CROWN OF WEEDS. She teaches in the Writing Seminars MFA program at Bennington College, in Bennington Vermont, and at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA.
Amy Lukau is the daughter of African immigrants from Angola. She graduated from Arizona State University with a B.S. in Molecular Biosciences & Biotechnology and B.A. in Religious Studies. Amy is the Executive Director of Girls Education International, a not for profit organization based in Colorado that supports educational opportunities for underserved females in remote and underdeveloped regions of the world ( girlsed.org ). She is currently an MFA candidate in the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University.
Amy McDaniel runs 421 Atlanta, a center of literary attention and chapbook press. Her stories, poems, and essays have appeared in Tin House, PANK, The Agriculture Reader, Saveur, H_NGM_N, and elsewhere. She also edits EAT GENIUS, the annual food edition of the online literary journal Everyday Genius. Her most recent chapbook is Collected Adult Lessons.
Amy Meyerson is a writer currently living in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in The Bloomsbury Review, JMWW, Obit Magazine, The Denver Syntax, and the Aspen Times.
Ana Carette is the author of Baby Babe.
Analeah Loschiavo is a writer living in Chicago by way of Miami. Her work can also be found at Queen Mob's Teahouse.
André Babyn's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Little Brother, Maisonneuve, Hobart, Grain, Pank, and elsewhere. In 2015 he was the recipient of the Adam Penn Gilders Scholarship in Creative Writing, and in 2010 he won the Norma Epstein Award for Creative Writing. He is also the Fiction Editor of the Puritan.
Andrea Kneeland's work has appeared in more than 50 journals and anthologies. She likes kittens, cheesecake and Werner Herzog. More info at www.andreakneeland.com.
Andrea Lambert is the author of Jet Set Desolate, Lorazepam & the Valley of Skin and the chapbook G(u)lit. Her work has appeared in HTMLGIANT, 3:AM Magazine, Entropy Queer Mental Health, and Enclave. She has been anthologized in Writing the Walls Down, Off the Rocks #16, The L.A. Telephone Book, You’ve Probably Read This Before, and Chronometry. She is a visual artist and CalArts MFA. She is currently working on a memoir called Diary of a Hollywood Hedgewitch, an autobiographical fantasy called Scaffolding, and a poetry manuscript called Bleed Almond. Find her online at andreaklambert.com
Andrea Rexilius is the author of Half of What They Carried Flew Away (Letter Machine, 2012) and To Be Human Is To Be A Conversation (Rescue Press, 2011). She is an Assistant Professor of English at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, where she is also the Summer Writing Program Coordinator, the Editor-in-Chief of Bombay Gin Literary Journal, and the Co-Founder and coordinator (with Michelle Naka Pierce) of the biennial conference [Dis]Embodied.
Andrew Berardini recently graduated with an MFA in Writing from the California Institute of the Arts. He has done work for Afterall, interReview, and Artforum.com. He is currently Assistant Editor at Semiotext(e) Press and finishing a novel set in French West Africa. His most recent project is a revised translation of Jean Baudrillard's In the Shadow of the Silent Majority, forthcoming in Spring 2007.
Andrew Duncan Worthington
Andrew Duncan Worthington is the author of the novel Walls [CCM, 2014] and the poetry e-book HOT DOGS! [NAP, 2014]. He is also the founding editor of Keep This Bag Away From Children [keepthisbagawayfromchildren.com]. He lives in Brooklyn, NY and works as an English and special education teacher. More: andrewduncanworthington.com
Andrew Haley is a business reporter for the Salt Lake Enterprise. His poems, translations and short stories have appeared in Girls With Insurance, Zone, Otis Nebula, Quarterly West, Western Humanities Review, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Sugar House Review and Stop Smiling. He is currently at work on a collection of short stories called Signals.
Andrew K. Peterson
Andrew K. Peterson is the author of three books of poetry, most recently some deer left the yard moving day (BlazeVox 2013). His chapbook bonjour meriwether and the rabid maps (published by Fact-Simile, 2011) was recently featured in an exhibition on poet's maps at the University of Arizona's Poetry Center. He edits summer stock, an online literary journal, and lives in the Boston area.
Andrew Lewis Conn
Andrew Lewis Conn is the author of P (Soft Skull Press, 2003)
Andrew Miller is author of the addiction and mental health focused essay collection "If Only the Names Were Changed" (Civil Coping Mechanisms 2016) and an MFA candidate at Miami University. His next book on Traumatic Brain Injury and returning Veterans, "Turn the Lights On", will be available later this year. Andrew-Miller.com.
Aneesa Davenport lives in San Francisco. Her work has appeared in Beeswax Magazine, Kitchen Sink, Monday Night, After Hours, Spectrum, and The South Carolina Review.
Angel Dominguez is a Latinx Los Angeles born writer and performance artist forming Dzonots with notebooks along the California coast. He is the author of Black Lavender Milk (Timeless Infinite Light, 2015), an experimental lyric-novel that functions as an extended meditation on writing in relation to the body; time, loss, ancestry, ritual and dreaming His work can be found in The Berkeley Poetry Review, The Bombay Gin, and online at Open House Poetry and spiralorb.com, with work forthcoming in FENCE. He was the co-founding editor of Tract/Trace: an investigative journal, and presently curates the ongoing series: Bodies/Pages. Along with Hannah Kezema, he co-founded the performance art collaborative: Dream Tigers.
Anhvu Buchanan is the author of The Disordered (sunnyoutside press 2013) and Backhanded Compliments & Other Ways to Say I Love You (Works on Paper Press 2013). He received an Individual Artists Grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission. His poems have also appeared or are forthcoming in Columbia Poetry Review, Cream City Review, Harpur Palate, The Journal, kill author, The Minnesota Review, Parthenon West Review, word for/ word, Vinyl Poetry, and ZYZZYVA. He currently is a Teaching Artist for WritersCorp.
Anna Crews (b.1995) is a writer living in Melbourne.
Anna Vitale writes through wealth, poverty, sex, race, bodies, and the city; she writes through dreams and song and performs associative patterns of the unconscious, offering something like psychoanalytic practices as part poetic practice. Her dissertation is about suicide and language. Some of her short books include Unknown Pleasures (Perfect Lovers) and Anna Vitale’s Pop Poems (OMG). The still above is from a short video called “Street View Lyric,” which hinges on Jodeci’s “Come and Talk to Me,” is online at Gauss PDF.
Anne Boyer is a poet who lives in Kansas.
Anne-Marie Kinney is the author of the novel Radio Iris (Two Dollar Radio), and her shorter work has appeared in Black Clock, The Collagist, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Rattling Wall, Entropy and elsewhere.
Annie Liontas' debut novel, LET ME EXPLAIN YOU, is forthcoming from Scribner in 2015. Her story “Two Planes in Love” was selected as runner-up in BOMB Magazine’s 2013 Fiction Prize Contest and was published by BOMB in December. She is the recent recipient of a grant from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund for her newest work BADEYE, which also received Honorary Mention in the 2013 Dana Awards. Annie will be attending the 2014 Disquiet International Literary Program and WritingxWriters Conference in Tomales Bay on fellowship. She is a graduate of Syracuse's MFA Program, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of SALT HILL. Annie currently co-hosts the TireFire Reading Series in Philly.
Antarah Crawley is Washington, D.C.-born verse and prose writer and artist. He studied English at The George Washington University and is currently writing and painting out of Brooklyn. His work at large concerns human understanding of human and non-human systems, and he is composing a Syllabus to that end.
Anthony Madrid & Mark Fletcher
Anthony Madrid lives in Victoria, Texas. His poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2013, Boston Review, Fence, Harvard Review, Lana Turner, LIT, and Poetry. His first book is called I AM YOUR SLAVE NOW DO WHAT I SAY (Canarium Books, 2012). Mark Fletcher is an illustrator and cartoonist. His work has been published in Boston Review, B O D Y and Poetry. Mark earned his BFA and BA in Art History from the University of Colorado. He lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Ashley Bethard is a writer whose work has appeared in The Rumpus, PANK Magazine and Hobart, among others. She lives on the internet at ashleybethard.com and tweets at @ashleybethard.
Ashley Hutson lives in rural Maryland. Her work has appeared in Wigleaf, Fiction International, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, matchbook, SmokeLong, Conium Review, and elsewhere. Read more at aahutson.com.
Find more of her at augustevans.com
Aurelia Guo (b. 1989, Harbin, China) is a poet living in Melbourne.
Avren Keating is a poet and visual artist who lives in the East Bay Area. They're keeping busy pursuing an MFA at Mills College in Oakland, raising a new puppy, and interviewing other transgender and gender-variant poets for their podcast “Waves Breaking.” You can find Avren at @MxAvren on Twitter and the podcast at wavesbreaking.com
Barbara Browning has a PhD in comparative literature from Yale. She teacahes in the Department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. She's also a poet and a dancer. She lives with her son in Greenwich Village. The Correspondence Artist is her first novel. Photo credit: Jonathon Conklin
Barrett White is an editor for Tagvverk.
Becca Schuh is a writer based in Brooklyn. Her reviews and interviews have recently been published in Bookforum, 3:AM Magazine, and Electric Literature. She is working on a memoir about dissolving social boundaries through alternative education based on her time at an interdisciplinary program in California. Follow her on Twitter @tamingofdeschuh.
Becca Yenser is a writer of fiction and poetry who finds herself in New Mexico. She is a recent graduate of the Independent Publishing Resource Center in Portland, Oregon, and will join the MFA Creative Writing program at Wichita State University in the fall 0f 2017. Her work appears or is forthcoming in 1001 Editors, Paper Darts, Hobart, The Nervous Breakdown, Eclectica Magazine, decomP, HOOT, Swimmers Club, CHEAP POP, Entropy, Metazen, and Filter Literary Journal. Find her newest poems at Ink Node.
Ben Bush has contributed to the San Francisco Chronicle, The Believer, Poets and Writers, Bitch, XLR8R, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Portland Mercury, Alternet and Whatcha Mean, What's a Zine? from Houghton-Mifflin. He is currently an assistant editor at The Fanzine.
Ben Estes is an artist, a poet, and ½ of The Song Cave. He lives in Western Massachusetts.
Ben Fama is the author of New Waves, Aquarius Rising, and the artist book Mall Witch. He is the co-editor of Wonder. His work appears in The Brooklyn Rail, Action Yes, Jubilat, notnostrums, LIT, Poor Claudia, Denver Quarterly, Maggy, and on the Best American Poetry Blog. He lives in New York City.
Ben Gross's poems/fictions/essays have appeared in Everyday Genius, Word Riot, Keep This Bag Away From Children, Witch Craft Magazine, and Hobart, where he edits fiction for the website (www.hobartpulp.com).
Ben Mirov is the author of Hider Roser (Octopus Books, 2012). He is also the author of Ghost Machine (Caketrain, 2010). He grew up in Northern California and lives in Oakland.
Benito del Pliego
Benito del Pliego (Madrid, 1970) has lived in the States since 1997. He was a member of Delta Nueve, a poetry and visual artists group that worked in Madrid the last half of the 90´s. Fisiones (Fissions) was his first book of poetry; it was published in Madrid in 1997. The 2nd. one, Alcance the la mano (Reach of a hand) appeared in New Orleans one year later. In June 2001 a symphonic poem, composed by Gustado David Pineda based on poems of the author, was presented at the Atlanta High Museum of Art. One of his object-poems received the 2003 “City of Badajoz” Experimental Poetry Award. A year after, Índice, his third book of poems, obtained the “Gabriel Celaya” International Poetry Award. He has collaborated with Autogiro, Solaria, Animal Stories Magazine, El Mono Adivino, Tse-Tse and Hispanic Poetry Review. He is a professor at Appalachian State University´s Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures in North Carolina.
Benjamin Allocco lives and teaches in Upstate New York. He received his MFA from Minnesota State University, Mankato. His work has appeared in The Conium Review, Prick of the Spindle, and Fiction Southeast. For more on his work, check out www.benjaminallocco.com.
Benjamin Strong lives in Brooklyn.
Benoît Lelièvre is the owner/editor in chief of Dead End Follies (www.deadendfollies.com) and the host of basketball podcast Hardwood Radio. He lives in Montreal with his better half Josie and his dog Scarlett.
Bett Williams is the author of Girl Walking Backwards and The Wrestling Party. She currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Blake Bergeron is a poet living in Florence, MA. He is currently attending the MFA Program in Creative Writing at UMass Amherst.
Blake Butler's most recent book is 300,000,000 (Harper Perennial). He lives in Atlanta.
Bobby Power lives in Durham with his wife, son, and daughter and co-owns the Geographic North imprint. His writing has appeared in AdHoc, Decoder Magazine, Thump/Vice, Creative Loafing, Flagpole, and Tabs Out.
Bogdan Petcu is an emerging poet and currently a double major in history and philosophy at the University Babes-Bolyai in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. His poems appear in various Romanian publications, including eCreator and Revista Timpul. Most recently, his prose won the first prize in a competition organized by the magazine 'Revista Cuvinte' and his poetry was awarded the 'Ars Poetica' prize by the Cultural Centre Jean Bart in Tulcea.
Bonnie Ellman is a native New Yorker who studied Literatures of Modernity at the University of London. She enjoys drawing, photography and comic books. Her work has been featured on OffManhattan.com and MrBellersNeighborhood.
Brad Lapin is a self-described gentleman of letters, Los Angeles born and bred, who divides his time between Atlanta, Ga and Rome, Italy. He is currently working on a novel entitled "The Man Who Invented History" which has absorbed his attention for the past decade. In past incarnations, he has been, among other things, a radio show talk host, a theatrical director, an author, columnist and journalist as well as the publisher, editor and founder of both Damage Magazine and Pug, an E-zine. A raconteur, round-table wit and all-around permanent absurdity, Lapin remains dedicated to the proposition that, all things being equal, diamonds are a girl's best friend.
Brad Phillips is an artist and writer, born in 1974. He lives and works in Kingston, Jamaica.
Bradford Nordeen is a writer and curator who, in January 2011 launched Dirty Looks, a monthly platform for queer experimental film and video, and in July 2012, Dirty Looks: On Location, a month of queer interventions in New York City spaces. Nordeen has organized screenings internationally at venues like PARTICIPANT INC, The Kitchen, the Hammer Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, White Columns, Artists Space and Judson Memorial Church. His writing has been published in Art In America, the Huffington Post, Lambda Literary, Little Joe, X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly and Butt Magazine, amongst others. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Bradyn Sloan is a recent University of Washington graduate with a degree in art history and communication. She works as the director of a non-profit arts center near Seattle, and thrives off of black coffee, great art experiences, and the people with whom she shares them.
Brandi Wells is the author of Please Don’t Be Upset (Tiny Hardcore Press) and This Boring Apocalypse (Civil Coping Mechanisms). In the fall, she’ll be a PhD candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California.
Brandon Brown is the author of three books, The Persians By Aeschylus, The Poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus, and most recently Flowering Mall. He is an editor at Krupskaya, and occasionally publishes small press materials under the imprint OMG! In 2014, Roof will publish a new book, Top 40.
Brandon Caro is the author of the debut novel, Old Silk Road (Post Hill Press, October 13, 2015). He was a Navy corpsman (combat medic) and advisor to the Afghan National Army in Afghanistan from 2006-2007. He holds a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Texas State University, and is currently pursuing an MFA in Fiction Writing from The New School. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Daily Beast, Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, and elsewhere. He lives in Austin, Texas.
Brandon Scott Gorrell
Brandon Scott Gorrell (b. 1984) is the author of during my nervous breakdown i want to have a biographer present, a poetry book published by Muumuu House in 2009, and a forthcoming novella titled my hair will defeat you. Brandon has been featured at NYLON, Plan B, the Poetry Foundation and more. He is co-founder of a copywriting service called Fresh Copy and currently blogs at Thought Catalog. He lives in Seattle.
Brandon Shimoda was born in California. His books include Evening Oracle (Letter Machine Editions, 2015) and To look at the sea is to become what one is: An Etel Adnan Reader, which he co-edited with Thom Donovan (Nightboat Books, 2014). He lives and travels with the poet Dot Devota.
Brandon Stosuy, Stereogum’s Senior Writer and a Contributing Editor at The Believer, writes a metal column at Pitchfork called Show No Mercy. "Formulas Fatal To The Flesh," his essay for Matthew Barney's exhibition at Sammlung Goetz this past fall, was named after a Morbid Angel album, though he doesn't think the gallery realized it. He's currently at work on a book-length oral history of non-Scandinavian black metal. He lives in New York.
Brett Ortler is a writer and an editor from the Twin Cities. His essays and humor pieces have appeared on Yahoo! Parents, Fatherly, Salon, Babble, ScaryMommy, PopSugar and The Nervous Breakdown, and in a number of literary magazines. He’s written several non-fiction books and is the editor of Knockout Literary Magazine and the founder of Left Hooks (lefthooks.net), a website dedicated to politics and nonfiction with a puncher’s chance.
Brett Price is a poet and editor. He’s been a curator for the Friday Late Night Series at The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in New York City and the general manager for Ugly Duckling Presse, for which he now serves on the advisory board. He lives in Cincinnati these days, where he serves beer on the weekends and teaches at the Art Academy of Cincinnati during the week. Recent work can be found in Big Bell #9 and Portable Boog Reader #9.
Brian Allen Carr
Brian Allen Carr's most recent book, The Last Horror Novel in the History of the World, is out with Lazy Fascist Press this May. His short fiction has run in Ninth Letter, McSweeney's Small Chair, Hobart, Boulevard and others.
Brian Fitzpatrick lives and works in Washington, DC, where he writes poetry and comedy pieces. His work has appeared in-print and online in places like Rattle and on DC's Pink Line Project.
Brian Foley is the author of The Constitution, which will be available from Black Ocean in April, 2014. His poems have recently appeared in The Boston Review, The Volta & The Paris American. He lives in Northampton, MA.
Brian Howe's arts and entertainment journalism appears regularly in Pitchfork Media, North Carolina's The Independent Weekly, The Fanzine, and Paste Magazine, where he is a Senior Contributing Editor. His poems and sound art have appeared in many print and online journals, including Fascicle, Soft Targets, Cannibal, Octopus, Effing, and MiPOesias. He is the author of three chapbooks: Guitar Smash (3rdness Press; 2006), Foreign Letter (Beard of Bees; 2008), and This is the Motherfucking Remix (Scantily Clad; forthcoming), which was written in collaboration with Marcus Slease. Howe is a member of the Lucifer Poetics Group, a blogger at the collective mp3 blog Moistworks.com, and the creator of the multimedia Glossolalia project (http://glossolalia-blacksail.blogspot.com/).
Brian Joseph Davis
Brian Joseph Davis is an artist and writer based in Toronto. He's the author of Portable Altamont (Coach House), the novel I, Tania (ECW), and the upcoming short fiction collection, Ronald Reagan, My Father. L.A. Weekly recently declared, “Davis has an amazing head for aural experiments—creating expansive compositions out of found sounds and computer manipulations—that are smart on paper and fascinating in execution.” Slate.com called I, Tania, “The book of your fever dreams.” He is the co-founder of Joyland.ca.
Brian Oliu is originally from New Jersey & currently lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He is the author of So You Know It's Me, a collection of Craigslist Missed Connections, Level End, a series of lyric essays about videogame boss battles, & the forthcoming Leave Luck to Heaven, an ode to 8-bit video games. He played trivia on Sunday by himself & lost, badly, under the name 'Stone Cold Jane Austen'.
Brian Pera is the author of Troublemaker (St. Martin's Press) and the writer/director of the feature film Other Way Round. He lives in Memphis, TN.
Brian Warfield writes short stories and fake reviews. He lives in Philadelphia.
Bridget Talone lives in Ridgewood, Queens and is co-curating the Segue reading series for February and March. Recent poems have appeared in The Volta, No, Dear, and Prelude.
Brooke Ellsworth is author of the forthcoming poetry collection, Serenade, from Octopus Books in 2017. She lives and writes in Peekskill, NY. For more information:brookeellsworth.com.
Bryan Woods is a computer programmer from Brooklyn, New York who is slowly working on a collection of personal essays. His writing has recently appeared in Potluck Magazine, Queen Mob's Tea House, and on Twitter: http://twitter.com/bryanwoods
Bud Smith grew up in NJ, and currently lives in NYC with a bunch of records and VHS he bought at the flea market for $1. His books are the short story collection, Or Something Like That, the novel Tollbooth and the poetry collection Everything Neon. His writing has appeared at The Nervous Breakdown, Wordriot, Metazen, TheNewerYork, the Bicycle Review, among others. He hosts The Unknown Show; edits at Jmww and Uno Kudo; works heavy construction in power plants and refineries.
C. A. Kaufman
C. A. KAUFMAN’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Green Mountains Review, Southeast Review, Wigleaf, Hobart, Everyday Genius, and elsewhere. She is currently an editor at Bedford/St. Martin’s and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Calum Lockey is an artist based in Australia and the co-director of Suicidal Oil Piglet.
Candace Williams's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Hyperallergic, Lambda Literary Review, Copper Nickel, and the Brooklyn Poets Anthology (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2017), among other places. She’s earned a MA in Elementary Education from Stanford University, a Brooklyn Poets Fellowship, Pushcart and Best of the Net 2016 nominations, and scholarships from Cave Canem. Her first chapbook, Spells for Black Wizards, is a winner of the TAR Chapbook Series and will be published in 2017 (The Atlas Review).
Carla Murphy is a freelance journalist based in Brooklyn. Since she’s originally from Barbados, she sometimes craves fresh fish from Oistins, a good wuk up and the smell of ripe bay grapes. She has edited or written for Sable LitMag and O, The Oprah Magazine and is a graduate of New York University and the London School of Economics. She comments on geopolitics, race and gender relations and culture at seemurphy.blogspot.com.
Carlos Kotkin is a comedian/writer based in Los Angeles, California. He performs spoken word shows regularly at The Comedy Central Stage in Hollywood, California and stand-up around the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area, including Seattle, Washington. He also wrote, directed and starred in the short film Overcoming Shyness, which has been viewed over 35 times on Youtube.
Carolyn DeCarlo lives in Wellington, New Zealand, where she runs the reading collective Food Court. She is the author of two chapbooks, Strawberry Hill (Pangur Ban Party 2013) and Green Place (Enjoy Journal 2015), and co-author of Twilight Zone (NAP 2013) and Bound: An Ode to Falling in Love (Compound Press 2014), with Jackson Nieuwland. She has an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Maryland College Park. Her writing has been published by or is forthcoming from PANK, Heavy Feather Review, The Lit Pub, West Wind Review, Sweet Mammalian and elsewhere.
Carrie Lorig is the author of The Pulp vs. The Throne (Artifice Books), which is her first full-length work. Her chapbooks include nods. (Magic Helicopter), Reading as a Wildflower Activist (H_NGM_N), stone poems (with Sara Woods, Solar Luxuriance), and Labor Day (with Nick Sturm, Forklift Ohio).
Casey Michael Henry
Casey Michael Henry has previously published in The Huffington Post, had plays produced in New York, and is currently a PhD candidate in English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is also presently at work on a novella entitled The Topiary.
Cassandra Troyan will release two books in 2014: "BLACKEN ME BLACKEN ME, GROWLED," from Tiny Hardcore, and KILL MANUAL (Kept In Lacerated Light) from Artifice Books.
Charity Coleman is the author of Julyiary (O'clock Press, 2015). Her work can be found in BOMB, Dolce Stil Criollo, Joans Digest, No, Dear, and elsewhere.
Chelsea Hodson is the author of the forthcoming essay collection Awful Form and the chapbook Pity the Animal.
Chelsea Hodson & Jon-Michael Frank
Chelsea Hodson is the author of two chapbooks: Pity the Animal (Future Tense Books, Emily Books) and Beach Camp (Swill Children). She is an MFA candidate at Bennington College and was a 2012 PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellow. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Jon-Michael Frank is the author of two chapbooks: Diana Ross & The Supremes (Birds, LLC & Black Cake Records) and Here It Is My Beautiful Fucking Heart (El Aleph Press). He is the acquisitions editor for the small press BIRDS, LLC and runs a reading series called Fun Party. More at jonmichaelfrank.com.
Chika Onyenezi is a writer living in United States. Born in Owerri, Nigeria, he holds two degrees, including an MA from European Peace University. His work has appeared, or is forthcoming in Identity Theory, Litro Magazine, Ninth Letter Magazine, and elsewhere. He received Honorable Mention in the 2016 Glimmer Train Fiction Open. He spends most of his time daydreaming, and collecting wish trinket from sea waves. His website is: www.chikaonyenezi.com.
CHRIS HOLDAWAY is a poet / editor / linguist from New Zealand. He directs Compound Press, & is a candidate in the MFA programme at Notre Dame. He received his MA(Hons) in linguistics from the University of Auckland, where he also studied cosmology & astrophysics. Work (to) appear(s) in Prelude, Requited, & Small Po[r]tions.
Chris McCreary is the author of four books of poems, the most recent of which is [ neüro / mäntic ] (Furniture Press). Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Elderly and Lungfull! and online at Philadelphia Review of Books.
Chris Okum lives in Los Angeles, California. His work has appeared at McSweeney's, Metazen, The Olentangy Review, The Alarmist, and others.
Chris Toll was a poet and collage maker. He lived in Baltimore, Maryland. He co-curated the Benevolent Armchair Reading Series. Chris passed away in 2012.
Chris Vitiello is a freelance arts, performance, and hockey writer and poet in Durham, NC. He is a chief contributor for the Independent Weekly, organizer of the Mixtape reading and performance series, and creative writing teacher in a variety of settings. His poetry books include Nouns Swarm A Verb (Xurban, 1999), Irresponsibility (Ahsahta, 2008), and Obedience (Ahsahta, 2011). Father to two terrific daughters, he also performs toy plays and writes custom poems on demand on a manual typewriter as the Poetry Fox.
Christian TeBordo has published three novels and a collection of short stories. "Things to See in Uglahoma" is an excerpt from a book called Toughlahoma, which will be published as part of Rescue Press's Open Prose Series in the spring of 2015. He lives in Chicago where he is the director of the MFA program at Roosevelt University.
Christian Williams writes about comic books, regular books, video games, rock music, and movies from Washington, DC where he was assistant city editor of The A.V. Club's local branch, but now mostly reviews things and scribbles on great works of literature.
Christina Chalmers (b. Edinburgh) is a poet based in New York. Her poems have appeared in and on The Claudius App, Hi Zero, SCREE, and Asphodel. She is the author of WORK SONGS (Shit Valley Press, 2014) and WILLINGNESS (Materials, 2017).
Christina Lee is a freelance writer based in Atlanta, where she’s still trying to find a venue she likes more than D.C.’s 9:30 Club. She once drank Ted Leo’s beer (by accident), shook Mannie Fresh’s hand, and watched Gucci Mane read a press release when he was released from prison in 2010. Her writing has appeared in eMusic, New York, Washington City Paper, and Paste.
Christine Shan Shan Hou
Christine Shan Shan Hou is a poet and artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her publications include Accumulations (Publication Studio 2010) and CONCRETE SOUND, a collaborative artist's book with Audra Wolowiec (2011). Additional poems and/or artwork appear in iO: A Journal of New American Poetry, Weekday, Bone Bouquet, Belladonna*, Gwarlingo, ILK, LIT, The Atlas Review, tender, Lemon Hound, and Two Serious Ladies amongst others. She has received awards from Key West Literary Seminar, The Flow Chart Foundation/The Academy for American Poets, and Naropa University. More info at: christinehou.com.
Christopher Bundy is the author of essays, short fiction, and the novel Baby, You’re a Rich Man. He lives in Atlanta, GA.
Christopher James lives, works and writes in Jakarta, Indonesia. He has previously been published online in many venues, including Tin House, McSweeney’s, Smokelong, and Wigleaf. He is the editor of Jellyfish Review.
Christopher Parks’ work has appeared or is forthcoming in Rattle, Touchstone, Collagist, Red Cedar Review, and others. He is a psychologist who works with people who are homeless in Detroit, MI.
Christopher Rey Pérez
Christopher Rey Pérez is a poet from the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. This excerpt is from a simulated forum that sets up a personal curriculum of angelology in preparation for a forensic investigation of a series of crimes. Part of his forthcoming book, gauguin’s notebook (&Now Books) that's slated for a Fall 2016 release, this forum begins to write through Gauguin’s Tahitian journal that chronicles an intense period of artistic, amorous, and fundamentally colonialist production for the painter.
Christy Crutchfield is the author of the novel How to Catch a Coyote (Publishing Genius, July 2014). Her work has appeared in Mississippi Review, Salt Hill Journal, Juked, The Good Men Project, and others. She writes and teaches in Western Massachusetts.
Chuck Young is less the worst today than he was yesterday and less the worst yesterday than he was the day before that and he hopes to die the least worst he has ever been. He has published online and in print with various journals and is currently working on two children's books.
Cynthia Arrieu-King wrote People are Tiny in Paintings of China (Octopus 2010), Manifest (Switchback 2013), and collaboratively wrote Unlikely Conditions (1913 Press 2016) with the late Hillary Gravendyk. She lives on the East Coast and sometimes Kentucky.
Claire Donato (http://www.somanytumbleweeds.com) is the author of Burial (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2013), a not-novel novel, and The Second Body (Poor Claudia, 2016), a collection of poems. Recent work has been published or is forthcoming in Poetry Society of America, PLINTH, BOMB, BOAAT, and Ninth Letter. At Babycastles Gallery in Manhattan, she co-curates WordHack, a monthly series focused on digital language art. Currently, she is working on a collection of interconnected short stories about love, death, vegetarian cooking and the cloud called Gravity and Grace, The Chicken and the Egg, or: How to Cook Everything Vegetarian, along with an accompanying series of vegan new media edible language sculptures calledMaterial Studies (http://www.vimeo.com/clairedonato). She lives in Brooklyn, is a 2016-2017 Digital Studies Center Fellow at Rutgers University, and teaches in the Architecture and BFA Writing Programs at Pratt Institute.
Coda Wei lives in Philly and does mostly nothing. She has a chapbook from Perfect Lovers Press. She likes making unusual trades. Email her at wei.coda5 [at] gmail [dot] com.
Colette Arrand currently lives in Athens, Georgia, where she is a student at the University of Georgia. Her work has appeared in Gigantic Sequins, The Atlas Review, CutBank, and elsewhere, and her criticism can be found online at Fear of a Ghost Planet.
Cornelia Barber is a New York writer working on developing strategies for radical intimacy in poetry, friendship, and community. She edits the online journal Queen Mobs Teahouse, curates two reading series, Segue and Garden Series. Her writing is published in Prelude, The Felt, Berfrois, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Weird-Sister, Entropy and more. Her Chapbook Unconditional is forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press in June.
Courtney K. Bambrick
Courtney K. Bambrick is the poetry editor at Philadelphia Stories. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in such journals as Apiary, Certain Circuits, Dirty Napkin, Philadelphia Poets, Mad Poets Review, and the Schuylkill Valley Journal. Courtney currently teaches composition, creative writing, and literature at Holy Family University, Philadelphia University and Rosemont College.
Courtney Kersten’s Moon is in Aquarius. Her Mars trines Venus, her Sun is in Aries, and her Jupiter is in the 12th house. She studies in the University of Idaho’s MFA in Creative Writing program.
Courtney Maum is the author of the critically acclaimed debut novel, I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You, from Touchstone Books/Simon and Schuster, and an essay contributor to the New York Times bestseller, Worn Stories. The humor columnist behind the “Celebrity Book Review” on Electric Literature and an advice columnist for Tin House, she lives in the Berkshire mountains of Massachusetts.
Cristine Brache is an artist and poet. She lives and works in London. http://cristinebrache.info/
Cristine Brache & Jesse Darling
Cristine Brache is an artist and poet. She lives and works in London. Jesse Darling is an artist living and working mostly in london if u can call this living but i guess it's working.
Dagmar Mimi Harlow
Dagmar Mimi Harlow refuses to wear a chastity belt for her thoughts. She is currently a BA candidate in Contemporary Critical Theory and Visual Studies at Bard College.
Dallas Hudgens is the author of the novel Drive Like Hell and Season of the Gene.
Dalton Day is the author of two chapbooks, FAKE KNIFE & Tandem, & an editor for Freezeray Poetry. His poems have been featured in PANK, Hobart, Columbia Poetry Review, and Everyday Genius, among others. He can be found at myshoesuntied.tumblr.com, & on Twitter @lilghosthands.
Packard is an underground indie filmmaker/editor/DP who has written, produced and directed a prolific body of work over the past three decades. His films, including Reflections of Evil, a wide variety of festivals, venues, galleries and cinemas including the NYFF, American Cinemtheque, Tate Modern and Union Galleries London, Australia, Belgium, Germany, and many many more.
Dan Magers’s first book of poems, Partyknife, is published by Birds, LLC. He is co-founder and co-editor of Sink Review, an online poetry journal, founder and editor of Immaculate Disciples Press, a handmade chapbook press focused on poetry and visual arts collaborations. He lives in Brooklyn.
Dana Ward is the author of Some Other Deaths of Bas Jan Ader (Flowers & Cream), The Crisis of Infinite Worlds (Futurepoem), and This Can't Be Life (Edge Books). He lives in Cincinnati, OH.
Daniel Beauregard lives in Atlanta, where he works for a local newspaper. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ilk, NAP, Brown God, Keep This Bag Away from Children, Gesture, Poor Claudia, H_NGM_N, Jellyfish, Stoked and elsewhere. His chapbook “Before You Were Born” is available from 421 Atlanta. A subsequent chapbook titled, “HELLO MY MEAT” will be released in fall 2014 by Lame House Press. Follow him @666ICECREAM.
Daniel Hamilton is a writer from Massachusetts living in Los Angeles.
Daniel Lamb is an Atlanta-based musician, writer, and performer. He is the cofounder of the new literary journal, gutwrench., and his work has appeared in Paste, Edge Media Atlanta, Scene Missing Magazine, Write Club Atlanta's print anthology, Tender Bloodsport: Volume 1., and in the forthcoming flash fiction anthology from The Five Hundred.
Daniel Owen is a writer and member of the Ugly Duckling Presse editorial collective. He is the author of Toot Sweet (United Artists Books) and the chapbook Authentic Other Landscape (Diez). His writing has appeared in Hyperallergic, Elderly, Lana Turner, A Perimeter, The Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere.
Daniel Poppick's poems have recently appeared in BOMB, Granta, The New Republic, The Volta, Prelude, and elsewhere. His first book, The Police, is forthcoming from Omnidawn in 2017. He lives in Brooklyn, where he co-edits the Catenary Press with Rob Schlegel and Rawaan Alkhatib.
Daniel Torday is the author of a novella, The Sensualist, winner of the 2012 National Jewish Book Award for Outstanding Debut Fiction. His first full-length novel, The Last Flight of Poxl West, will be published by St. Martin’s Press in winter 2015.
Daniel Vidales (M. Music, University of Houston) is a teacher, musician, and developing scholar. His thesis, "'Open Your Door': Alternative Tunings of Three Texas Bluesmen" can be found in the deepest, least frequented sections of the University of Houston's vast library, or upon request via email. Though currently based in Seattle, Daniel is set to move to parts unknown. Contact him about doing a music podcast at email@example.com
Danielle Wheeler is the author of Teenage Exorcists (Slim Princess Holdings), her first chapbook. She can be found online at dcwheeler.blogspot.com.
Danniel Schoonebeek’s first book of poems, American Barricade, was published by YesYes Books in 2014. His work has appeared in Poetry, Tin House, Iowa Review, Fence, BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, jubilat, and elsewhere. He hosts the Hatchet Job reading series and edits the PEN Poetry Series. In 2015, Poor Claudia will release his second book, a travelogue called C’est la guerre.
Danny Jock, Fanzine's chief Illustrator, travelled through Southern California, the Midwest and Upstate New York for five years before returning to New York City. His drawings are a hilarious odyssey through suburbs, dive bars, theme parks, vets clubs and all-you-can-eat buffets. From envelope-sized snapshots of strangers on the streets to large, collage-like pieces, his subject is hunger - for food, drink or love - and the mess of a world created whilst fulfilling those hungers. For more see www.dannyjock.net and you can contact Mr. Jock at firstname.lastname@example.org.
Darius James has authored some books published in the U.S. and Europe. He cannot recall their titles as they are out of print. Currently, he is developing a documentary exploring the impact of Voodoo on American popular culture with film-maker Oliver Hardt. He is really glad he missed the Bush years in the U.S. as he was living in Berlin at the time. He made some great friends there and he misses them much.
Photo credit: Graham Hains
Darren Bader lives in New York City. He's published art-books with Rivington Arms Gallery, New York: coai(t)ag:(hd-di(0058)):gtcte, "bis,"acil,cp AKA James Earl Scones (2005) and 2nd Cannons L.A.: “pulturebook” (Spring 2008 release). He is also represented by Rivington Arms Gallery, New York. He frequently curates too. In his spare time, he writes and is working on “exquisite corpse gaming”.
David Berridge is a writer based in London. He curates VerySmallKitchen. Essays, poetry, and fiction appear in fillip, jacket, Syntax, Raft and others. He has two books forthcoming in 2011: P.Z.T.C (The Knives, Forks and Spoons Press) and Lemonade (LemonMelon). A play I DID NOT KNOW THAT LENIN WAS LENIN is currently part of the Merzman Festival in Manchester, England. In 2010 he curated DEPARTMENT OF MICRO-POETICS, exploring connections of language and art practice, at the AC Institute, New York. email@example.com
David Moscovich is a Romanian-American writer whose novella of one-page fictions, You Are Make Very Important Bathtime, available from Journal of Experimental Fiction, was nominated for an &NOW Award. A finalist for the 2013 Eric Hoffer Award for Best New Writing, Moscovich lives in New York City and runs Louffa Press, a micro-press dedicated to printing innovative fiction.
David Peak is the author of a horror novella, The River Through the Trees, and a book of short stories, Glowing in the Dark. He lives in Chicago.
David Rice is a writer and animator living in New York. His stories have appeared in Black Clock, The Collagist, The New Haven Review, Birkensnake, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. He's online at: www.raviddice.com.
David Schuman teaches writing and directs the MFA Program at Washington University in St. Louis. His writing has appeared in Catapult, Joyland, Conjunctions, Missouri Review, the Pushcart Prize Anthology and other magazines and anthologies. On Twitter @d_schuman.
Deirdre Sugiuchi is writing her fundamentalist Christian boot camp captivity narrative, Unreformed. She’s been interviewed about her reform school by Newsweek, the Raw Story, and NUVO. Sugiuchi's work has been featured in Electric Literature, Guernica, the Rumpus, and other places. She lives in Athens, GA with her husband and son, where she curates the New Town Revue music and literature series. She’s also a school librarian.
Dennis Cooper is the author of the 5 novel George Miles Cycle, as well as My Loose Thread, The Sluts, and most recently God Jr. He is also a poet, playwright, critic, curator and a journalist. Born in LA, he is currently based in Paris, France. For more info and his blog see his website at http://www.denniscooper.net.
Fanzine will be launching a publishing imprint in the coming months. A limited edition of Cooper's latest poetry collection The Weaklings (with accompanying art by Jarrod Anderson) is in the design stage of production and will be the first book published by Fanzine Books. To preorder write firstname.lastname@example.org.
Dennis James Sweeney
Dennis James Sweeney hails from Cincinnati, Ohio. He's the author of the chapbook What They Took Away and writing that has appeared in Alice Blue, DIAGRAM, Juked, and Unstuck. Find him in Corvallis, Oregon.
Derek McCormack is the author of Grab Bag, The Haunted Hillbilly, and The Show That Smells, ETC. He lives in Toronto.
Derick Dupre is a founding editor of The White Elephant. His work has appeared in publications including Hobart, Untoward, Neutrons Protons, and the New Orleans Review. He lives in Los Angeles.
Desiree Burch is a Yale Graduate and NYC-based actor, writer, comedian and New York Neo-Futurist. One of New York magazine’s “10 New Comedians that Funny People Find Funny,” Desiree has supplied laughter for MTV, VH1, NBC News, NY Post, Comedy Central, Huffington Post and her acclaimed solo show “52 Man Pickup” has toured theaters in New York, New Orleans, Hollywood, London and Edinburgh. She is the creator of four full-length solo works and and various monologues for women and has also blogged for the Huffington Post. www.desireeburch.com
Devin Kelly earned his MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and co-hosts the Dead Rabbits Reading Series in New York City. He is the author of the collaborative chapbook with Melissa Smyth, This Cup of Absence (Anchor & Plume) and the forthcoming collection, In This Quiet Church of Night, I Say Amen (ELJ Publications). He has been nominated for both the Pushcart and Best of the Net Prizes. He works as a college advisor in Queens, teaches poetry at Bronx Community College, and lives in Harlem. You can find him on twitter @themoneyiowe.
Devon Magee left his native Seattle to find functioning, mass urban transportation. Today, to his exaltation, he spends hours underground on the metro in his adopted Paris. A red-nosed wine enthusiast, he pours glasses in a Paris bar à vin. He is the author of numerous unpublished essays and short stories, including one novel, Calle San Antón 4.
Dianna Dragonetti is an artist, activist, & angel boy. He can be found at @aliteralwerther and at http://angelboyangelboy.tumblr.com/.
Dina Hardy, author of the limited-edition chapbook Selections from The World Book (Convulsive Editions), has earned fine art degrees from Pratt Art Institute and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and a Pushcart Prize nomination. Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals, including Agni, Black Warrior Review, Transom, Lo-Ball, and Meridian's Best New Poets anthology. She and her husband recently moved from Los Angeles to Dubai. She welcomes you to follow her observations at spfoneten.com : Dubai in broad spectrum.
Dodie Bellamy's is a poet and novelist whose latest book is the buddhist (from Publication Studio). She is also the author of Academonia, from Factory School Press. Other books include Pink Steam (Suspect Thoughts Press, 2004) and The Letters of Mina Harker (reprinted by the University of Wisconsin Press, 2004). Her book Cunt-Ups (Tender Buttons) won the 2002 Firecracker Alternative Book Award for poetry. She blogs at http://dodie-bellamy.blogspot.com/
Dodie Bellamy's Writing Workshop
For the purpose of not confusing our sometimes quirky database admin, we had to group all of these fine writers, all students of Dodie Bellamy, under one name for a group project/ode to Kevin Killian's Amazon Reviews. You can read the individual bios of participants Jasson Flick, Lee Stegner, Maria Suarez, Megan O'Patry, Michele Hayes, Jim Nelson, Radhika Sharma, Tom Andes, Renato Escudero elsewhere on this page.
Donal Mosher is a filmmaker, photographer, writer, and occasionally a musician living in Portland, OR. His award winning film October Country (directed with Michael Palmieri) is based on his photographs and essays. His visual work has been shown in Los Angeles, New York, Portland, and San Francisco's SF Camerawork. His fiction and nonfiction writings have appeared in Instant City, Satellite, Frozen Tears, Life as We Show it––Writings On Film, and the Lambda Award-winning Portland Queer Anthology. He is currently working on a new documentary involving pharmaceuticals, God, suicide and Bigfoot. Selections of his writing and photographic work can be found at ghosttype.blogspot.com.
Donald Dunbar lives in Portland, Oregon. He edits poetry for draft: The Journal of Process, helps run If Not For Kidnap, and writes the column POEMHACK. He is author of Eyelid Lick (Fence Books) and Slow Motion German Adjectives (Mammoth Editions).
The Poet Dot Devota was taking notes last night in Greater St. Mark Family Church in Ferguson, MO while Rev. Osagyefo Sekou, Rev. Starsky Wilson Cornel West, Bree Newsome, Marc Lamont Hill, Rev. Traci Blackmon, Rev. Renita Lamkin, Rev. Michael McBride, and Min. Rahiel Tesfamariam spoke on the anniversary of Mike Brown's death. Afterwards, St. Louis County cops aggravated crowds and shot another black American.
Savage is Fanzine's chief executive designer, currently resides in Spain developing a cure for narcolepsy, and one day hopes it possible to return to the Great Satan. He can be contacted at pyko.net.
Drew Dickerson is a writer living in Chicago. He has written previously at The Onion and ClickHole, and his fiction has appeared at Queen Mob's Tea House.
As a baby, Drew Jennings was found abandoned in a field of bluebonnets during the hottest Texas summer in history. He writes fiction, essays, and poetry, and his work has been featured in Vice, Revolver, Atticus Review, and The San Antonio Current among others. He is at work on a novel. Find more of his stuff at DrewJennings.org.
Drew Kalbach is from Philadelphia. He holds an MFA from the University of Notre Dame and writes about contemporary poetry and media for Actuary Lit. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Fence, Tarpaulin Sky, Whole Beast Rag, and others.
Drew Toal is a freelance writer and photo booth operator. He currently resides in Brooklyn. Some of his tattoos were featured in the 2010 book, The Word Made Flesh: Literary Tattoos From Bookworms Worldwide.
Duncan B. Barlow
duncan b. barlow is the author of The City, Awake (Stalking Horse 2017), Of Flesh and Fur (The Cupboard 2016) , and Super Cell Anemia (2008). His work has appeared in The Denver Quarterly, The Collagist, Banango Street, Calamari Press, Word Riot, The Apeiron Review, Meat for Tea, Matter Press, and Masque and Spectacle. He teaches creative writing and publishing at the University of South Dakota, where he is publisher at Astrophil Press and the managing editor at South Dakota Review. He has also edited for Tarpaulin Sky and The Bombay Gin, among others.
Dylan Angell is a North Carolinian, a musician, a writer and is currently based in Queens, New York. In 2016 he released the book "An Index of Strangers Whom I Will Never Forget A-Z," via his Basic Battles Books imprint. In early 2017 he released "I'll Just Keep On Dreaming And Being The Way I Am," a collaboration with the photographer Erin Taylor Kennedy.
Dylan Byron is a poet from New York.
Ed Luker is a poet and writer based in London. He is finishing a PhD on the poetry of JH Prynne. He organises the sporadic reading series RIVET. He is currently seeking a publisher for his latest chapbook ‘Compound Out the Fractured World’. You can see his work at www.edluker.co.uk.
Ed Steck is the author of The Garden: Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulation (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2013) and sleep as information/the fountain is a water feature (The Center for Ongoing Research and Projects, 2014). His writing has appeared in Deluge, Brooklyn Rail, Intercourse, and No Infinite.
Eîlot Tuerie lives in Seale, Alabama.
Elaine Kahn is the author of A Voluptuous Dream During an Eclipse (Poor Claudia, 2012), Customer (Ecstatic Peace Library, 2010), and Radiant Bottle Caps (Glasseye, 2008). She performs music under the name Horsebladder with releases previous and forthcoming from Night People, Ecstatic Peace, Yod Tapes, and Hot Releases. Elaine is the managing editor of Flowers & Cream press and lives in Oakland, California.
Eleanor Jane is a writer who lives in New York.
Eleanor Levine’s work has appeared in The Evergreen Review, Fiction, The Denver Quarterly, Midway Journal, The Toronto Quarterly, The California State Quarterly, Prime Mincer, Happy, Penumbra, The Coachella Review, OVS Magazine, Gertrude, Atticus Review, fortyouncebachelors.com, Lunch Ticket Magazine, The Red Booth Review, Educe Journal, Milk and Honey: A Celebration of Jewish Lesbian Poetry, Downtown Poets (anthology), New York Sex (anthology), The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Blade and other publications. She has work forthcoming in Northwind Magazine and the Bicycle Review. In 2007 she received an MFA in Creative Writing from Hollins University in Roanoke, VA. Eleanor is currently a copy editor and lives in Philadelphia, PA.
Eli S. Evans
Eli S. Evans is a writer no longer living in a barn
Elizabeth Ellen is the author of the story collection Fast Machine, a book of poetry Bridget Fonda, and a couple other books to be released later this year.
Elizabeth Mikesch is the author of Niceties: Aural Ardor, Pardon Me (Calamari Press). Her work has appeared in Unsaid, Bomb, Spork, and elsewhere.
Elizabeth Searle is perhaps the only 'literary fiction' author ever to appear on ESPN Hollywood. She is the author of three books of fiction and the librettist of Tonya & Nancy: The Rock Opera. Her Rock Opera, based on the Harding/Kerrigan skating scandal, premiered in 2008 with Tonya Harding in enthusiastic attendence and with national media attention from Good Morning America, FOX, CBS, ESPN Hollywood, MSNBC, the AP, National Public Radio and CNN. She was interviewed by Jaime Clarke for his premiere Fanzine 'Talk Show.' Her books are A Four Sided Bed, My Body To You, forthcoming in paperback, and most recently Celebrities in Disgrace, forthcoming from Bravo Sierra as a short film. Searle's website is www.elizabethsearle.net.
Ella Longpre is the author of the chapbook, The Odor of the Hoax Was Gone (Monkey Puzzle Press 2013). Her writing has appeared in elimae, Everyday Genius, and elsewhere. She is the 2013 recipient of the Anne Waldman Fellowship at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Colorado.
Elle Nash is the author of the poetry chapbook i can remember the meaning of every tarot card but i can’t remember what i texted you last night (Nostrovia Press, 2016). She is a founding editor at Witch Craft Magazine and a fiction editor at Hobart Pulp. Her novel, Animals Eat Each Other, is forthcoming from Dzanc Books this fall.
Emcee C.M., Master
Emcee C.M., Master of None, grew up in a family of six boys, played outside a lot, studied linguistics, Russian and sculpture, worked in a Siberian village school, got interested in foraging and homesteading, worked on a goat farm, and then moved to New York to start doing odd jobs and voluntary work sometimes regarded as art. This year he co-organized a tree planting, storytelling circle, boulder field and legendary boat installation at i-park in East Haddam, CT, and was named a 2011 resident at the Center for Book Arts in New York.
Emilie is a graduate student (who knew you could get an MS in publishing?) living in Brooklyn. She enjoys crossword puzzles, picking up heads-up pennies, writing and Fanzining.
Emily Carter's fiction has been published in The New Yorker and been included in The Best American Short Stories of 1998, and her book Glory Goes and Gets Some was included in Barnes & Nobles best new authors of 2000. During her career Carter's work has received The National Magazine Award for short fiction and the Whiting Foundation Award. Recently her non-fiction, for which she has won a Minnesota Journalist Association award for Best Article, appears monthly in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. She currently lives in New Haven, Connecticut with her partner Johnnie.
Emily Kendal Frey
Emily Kendal Frey lives in Portland, Oregon. She is the author of several chapbooks and chapbook collaborations, including FRANCES, AIRPORT, BAGUETTE, and THE NEW PLANET. THE GRIEF PERFORMANCE, her first full-length collection, won the Norma Farber First Book Award from The Poetry Society of America in 2012. Her second collection, SORROW ARROW, was published in 2014 by Octopus Books and won the Oregon Book Award in 2015.
Emily Schultz is the co-founder of Joyland. Her novel, Heaven Is Small, was published by House of Anansi Press in Canada in 2009, and is forthcoming in the United States for fall 2010. She has recently published in Black Warrior Review and the Noir anthology series by Akashic Books.
Emily Toder is the author of Science (Coconut Books, 2012) and the chapbooks Brushes With (Tarpaulin Sky, 2010), I Hear a Boat (Duets, 2012), and No Land (forthcoming 2013 from Brave Men Press). A graduate of the MFA Program at UMass Amherst, she also holds degrees in literary translation and library science. She lives in Brooklyn.
Emily Vizzo is a San Diego poet, journalist, and educator whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in FIELD, Blackbird, The Journal, North American Review, The Normal School, and the Los Angeles Times. Her essay, “A Personal History of Dirt,” was listed as a notable essay for Best American Essays 2013. A San Diego Area Writing Project fellow, Emily Vizzo serves as assistant managing editor at Drunken Boat, volunteers with VIDA and Poetry International, and teaches yoga at the University of San Diego. An August 2013 Vermont Studio Center resident, she completed her MFA at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.
From the Author's Private Collection (Birds, LLC) is the debut book from Eric Amling.
Eric G. Wilson
Eric G. Wilson has recently placed fiction in The Collagist and The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review and prose poetry in decomP and apt. He has published several books of creative nonfiction, including Against Happiness and Keep It Fake (both from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux), and his essays have appeared in The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Oxford American, The Georgia Review, Salon, and The Paris Review Daily. He teaches at Wake Forest University.
Eric Gelsinger is an ex-pat from Buffalo who currently lives in the Osa Peninsula. He is a translator and poet, and he's just completed two poetry novels. He is also the editor of Poets' Fiction which publishes fiction & translations by poets.
Eric Nelson is a fiction writer and critic living in Queens and the author of The Walt Whitman House and The Silk City Series. His e.p. of recorded stories "They Make a Wasteland, They Call It Pastiche" is forthcoming from Diabetic Koala in late spring of 2013.
Eric Wallgren lives in Chicago, IL and plays bass for mtvghosts. He's online at ericwallgren.tumblr.com.
Erica Peplin a writer from Detroit. She has been published by Hobart, The Brooklyn Rail and McSweeney’s. She lives in Brooklyn.
Erin M. Bertram
Erin M. Bertram is the author of several chapbooks, most recently Memento Mori, and her work has appeared in Handsome, So to Speak, Fourteen Hills, and Diagram as a finalist in their 2013 Essay Contest. She's working on a PhD at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and also interns at Outlinc, an LGBTQ advocacy organization.
Erin Wisti decided to move to Los Angeles while on the vacation mentioned in this essay and currently resides in East Hollywood. She has an MFA in nonfiction from Columbia College Chicago and her work has previously appeared in The Butter, Role Reboot, Bayou Magazine, Chicago Literati, and other places. She started writing around the age of three, when her father informed her becoming a pot belly pig when she grew up was impossible. Erin retains a love of pigs to this day, as well as cats, Tom Waits, Alice Munro, and doing a Vince Vaughn impression people either find hilarious or incredibly off-putting. You can follow her on Twitter: @ErinWisti.
Ernesto is a Venezuelan living in Barcelona, Spain. He worked for a big dotcom and is now currently working for a design studio as a web developer. Heavily addicted to all kind of video games, but kind of frustrated of not having enough time to play anymore, he was Fanzine's chief programmer at inception.
Ethan Saul Bull
Ethan Saul Bull currently lives and works in Portland, Oregon. Ethan is boring. Ethan studied poetry at The University of Arizona. His formative years were spent in Indiana, England and Mexico. His first book of poems, entitled Inside Narratives, came out from BlazeVOX Books in 2010 and his work has been a finalist in the Omnidawn 1st/2nd Book Contest and a semi-finalist for the Sawtooth Poetry Prize and Slope Editions. His poems have appeared in Exquisite Corpse, EOAGH, Octopus, The Delinquent, Sub-lit, Spring Gun, Diode and others, and his chapbook In the Hour and a Bedroom Later came out from Slash Pine Press in 2012. His newest collection, Shut Off the Flowers, is forthcoming from Pavement Saw Press, eventually.
Eugene Lim is the author of the novels Fog & Car (Ellipsis Press, 2008), The Strangers (Black Square Editions, 2013) and Dear Cyborgs (FSG Originals, 2017).
Evan Lavender-Smith is at www.el-s.net.
Ezra Carlsen lives in Portland. He received his MFA from the University of Oregon. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in TriQuarterly, Fogged Clarity, The Masters Review, and Southern Humanities Review. Read more at ezracarlsen.com
Felix Bernstein & Vanessa Place
Fiona Helmsley is a writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. Her writing can be found in various anthologies like Ladyland and The Best Sex Writing of the Year and online at websites like The Weeklings, The Hairpin, PANK, and The Rumpus. Her book of essays and stories, My Body Would be the Kindest of Strangers is forthcoming this year.
Fitz Fitzgerald once beat Oprah in a footrace. His reviews have appeared in Octopus, Real Pants, First Intensity and elsewhere.
Florencia Walfisch (translated by Alexis Almeida)
Florencia Walfisch was born in Buenos Aires. She writes and makes textile art. She has participated in various individual and group shows, interdisciplinary projects, and poetry readings. With Ana Lafferranderie, she curates the reading series at Fedro, a bookstore and cultural center in San Telmo. Her poetry has appeared in various journals and anthologies. In 2004, Sopa de Ajo y Mezcal received the Jaime Sabines prize from Coneculta in Chiapas. She lives and works in her hometown.
Fortunato Salazar lives in Los Angeles.
Frances E. Chiem writes fiction and essays. Her works has appeared in various places online and in print.
G. Pascal Zachary
G. Pascal Zachary (www.gpascalzachary.com) is a professor of practice in science and technology studies at Arizona State University. He is the author of four books, most recently Married to Africa (2009, Scribner). Zachary has made 30 research trips to sub-Saharan Africa since 2000, including visits to Ghana, Uganda, Kenya, Nigeria, Botswana, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Malawi and Zambia. More of his writings on African affairs can be found at www.africaworksgpz.com.
Gabby Bess is the author of the poetry and short story collection, Alone With Other People. Her essays on feminism, digital art, and culture have been published in Dazed and Confused Magazine, Paper Magazine, The Daily Beast, Topical Cream, and various other places in print and online.
Gabe Durham is the author of Fun Camp and the editor of Boss Fight Books. He lives in Los Angeles.
Gabriel Blackwell is the author of three books, the most recent of which is The Natural Dissolution of Fleeting-Improvised-Men. His fiction and essays have appeared in Conjunctions, Tin House, DIAGRAM, the Kenyon Review Online, and elsewhere. With Matthew Olzmann, he edits The Collagist.
Gabriel Gudding is the author of Literature for Nonhumans (Ahsahta, 2015), Rhode Island Notebook (Dalkey Archive Press, 2007) and A Defense of Poetry (Pitt, 2002). His essays and poems appear in such periodicals as Harper’s Magazine, The Nation, and Journal of the History of Ideas, in such anthologies as Great American Prose Poems, Best American Poetry, Best American Experimental Writing, and &Now: Best Innovative Writing. His translations from Spanish appear in anthologies such as The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry, Poems for the Millennium, and The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry.
Gabriel Ojeda-Sague is a Latino queer Leo living in Philadelphia, PA. His first collection, Oil and Candle (Timeless Infinite Light, March 2016), is a set of writings on Santeria, war, and the precarity of Latino-American lives. He is also the author of the chapbooks JOGS (2013), a re-writing of The Joy of Gay Sex, Nite [Chickadee]'s (GaussPDF, 2015), a collection of Cher's tweets on systematic racism and violence, and Where Everything is in Halves (Be About It, 2015), poems against death through The Legend of Zelda. His work can be found here.
Gail Hosking Gilberg
Gail Hosking Gilberg is the author of Snake's Daughter: The Roads in and out of War, published by University of Iowa Press. Her essays and poems have appeared in literary journals and newspapers for years. She has an MFA from Bennington College and teaches writing at Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York.
GARETT STRICKLAND is the editor of .PLINTH., ICHNOS, and other publications of the Unwin-Dunraven Literary Ecclesia. He is the author of a long-poem, WHOA DONT CARE (Jerkpoet, 2015), and UNGULA (forthcoming from Solar▲Luxuriance). He's an ordealist.
Garret Travis is a writer from Louisiana currently pursuing his MFA at the University of Notre Dame. He's writing a novel, and he's on twitter @garrettravis.
Gary J. Shipley
Gary J Shipley’s latest books are Gumma Homo (Blue Square, forthcoming), and You With Your Memory Are Dead (Civil Coping Mechanisms, forthcoming) More details can be found at Thek Prosthetics.
Gary Sheppard co-edits Kitty Snacks Magazine and The Yalobusha Review. He lives in Oxford, Mississippi where he is a Grisham fellow at the University of Mississippi. His fiction and poetry can be found in upcoming issues of New York Tyrant, Requited Journal, and Corium Magazine.
GB Gabbler is the editor/annotator and partner to the author/narrator of a href="https://circodelherreroseries.com/vol-1/">THE AUTOMATION, vol. 1 of the Circo del Herrero series, a mythpunk novel which puts a postmodern spin on how we interpret myth and literature. They are on facebook, twitter, tumblr, goodreads—oh, and Vulcan’s shit list. Gabbler’s work typically explores ways in which robots and religion intersect. You can read more of their work at circodelherreroseries.com.
Gean Moreno is a Miami-based artist.
Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle has been published in Aufgabe, Beaubourg/Pompidou Editions, The Boston Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Fence, Jacket, The Paris Times, Purple, and Verse, etc. His film credits included Tremors (Universal), Finding Forrester (dir. Gus Van Sant), and Our City Dreams (dir. Chiara Clemente).
George Barber has studied Chinese and spent time in China, where he taught and studied.
Ginger Ko writes from Wyoming. Her poetry collection MOTHERLOVER is forthcoming from Coconut Books.
Gordon Massman is the author of The Essential Numbers 1991 - 2008, from Tarpaulin Sky Press. He lives in Medford, MA, and Frenchboro, ME.
Grace Krilanovich is the author of The Orange Eats Creeps, published by Two Dollar Radio and excerpted twice in Black Clock. She has been a MacDowell Colony Fellow, a finalist for the Starcherone Prize and was selected as one of the National Book Foundation's "5 Under 35" honorees for 2010.
Grace Shuyi Liew
Grace Shuyi Liew's work can be found in West Branch, cream city review, Twelfth House, Puerto del Sol, Madison Review, H_ngm_n, TYPO, Winter Tangerine Review, PANK, and others. She reads for Waxwing magazine. She is from Malaysia.
Graham Foust is the author of six books of poems, including To Anacreon in Heaven and Other Poems (Flood Editions 2013), a finalist for the Believer Poetry Award, and Time Down to Mind (Flood Editions, 2015). With Samuel Frederick, he has also translated three books by the late German poet Ernst Meister, including Wallless Space (Wave Books, 2014). He works at the University of Denver.
Grant Maierhofer is the author of Ode to a Vincent Gallo Nightingale, Marcel, and The Persistence of Crows.
Grant Weber has created a world that revolves around reading, running, writing and grilling on the weekends.
Greg Gerke's fiction and non-fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Tin House, LA Review of Books, Film Comment, The Kenyon Review Online, Denver Quarterly, and Mississippi Review. Queens Ferry Press will publish a book of short stories, My Brooklyn Writer Friend, in September 2015.
Gregg Murray is Assistant Professor of English at Georgia State University and Editor-in-Chief of Muse /A Journal. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Minnesota and has written essays for The Huffington Post, Continent., The Chattahoochee Review, Real Pants, KurzweilAI, and others. He also writes poetry.
Guillaume Morissette is a Canadian fiction writer and poet based in Montreal, Quebec. His most recent book is New Tab.
Guillaume Morissette and Tyler Crawford
Guillaume Morissette is the author of the novel New Tab (Vehicule Press, 2014). He lives in Montreal. Tyler Crawford is a single dad with no kids based out of Montreal. He works as an audio engineer and tweets like a teen at http://www.twitter.com/tech4thestarz.
Guy Benjamin Brookshire
Guy Benjamin Brookshire was born in Searcy, Arkansas in 1977, got covered in fire ants in 1980, and traveled widely. He studied poetry at The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins, where he met and later married librarian Amanda Choi. They have two girls, Beatrix and Blythe, and live in Northern California. He is the author of The Universe War and New Oldestland.
Haley Markbreiter lives in New York and works in a bakery. You can read her poems in The Hypocrite Reader and The Kenyon Review.
Hanif Abdurraqib & Mike Young
Hannah Gamble is working on her second book of poems. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from the American Poetry Review, The Believer, POETRY, Black Warrior Review, Court Green, and a chapbook from coldfront magazine, featuring new work from the authors of readers' favorite poetry collections of 2012. She lives in Chicago, where she is developing an arts-based learning workshop at the Museum of Science and Industry for a team of innovators seeking to address the city's problem of urban nutrition.
Heather Christle is the author of three poetry collections, most recently What Is Amazing. She lives in Yellow Springs, Ohio, where she is working on a book about crying.
Henry Hoke was a child in the south and an adult in New York and California. His work appears in Electric Literature, PANK, Gigantic, Birkensnake, Entropy, and is forthcoming in The Synchronia Project. His plays have been produced on the west coast and at the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival and published by Snail Press. He co-created and directs ENTER>text, a living literary journal in Los Angeles. 3 years, a book about ENTER>text, is out now.
Hez Stalcup is an Atlanta-based Dance Artist. They are currently a Leap Year Resident with MINT Gallery.
Hilary Leichter's writing has appeared in The Southern Review, American Short Fiction, Electric Literature, n+1, Tin House, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from The Edward F. Albee Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Hilary Plum is the author of They Dragged Them Through the Streets (FC2, 2013). She is an editor with the Kenyon Review and co-edits Rescue Press’s Open Prose Series. She lives and teaches in Philadelphia.
Howie Good, a journalism professor at SUNY New Paltz, is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Cryptic Endearments from Knives Forks & Spoons Press. He has a number of forthcoming chapbooks including Elephant Gun from Dog on a Chain Press, The Death of Me from Pig Ear Press, and Strange Roads from Puddle of Sky Press.
Hugh Sheehy is the author of The Invisibles (University of Georgia Press). He teaches Creative Writing and Literature at Ramapo College of New Jersey.
Isabel Balée received her MFA from Brown in 2015. Her work has appeared in Blazevox, Alice Blue Review, A Bad Penny Review, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing at Tulane University.
Isabelle Davis is an editor and writer for probably crying review and avid drinker of boxed wine. Her work has appeared or is upcoming in Skydeer Helpking, glitterMOB, Quaint, the NewerYork, and others.
Jac Jemc lives in Chicago where she writes fiction and poetry. Her first novel, My Only Wife (Dzanc Books) was named a finalist for the 2013 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction and winner of the Paula Anderson Book Award. Her first full-length collection of stories, A Different Bed Every Time, came out in October 2014, also from Dzanc.
Jace Brittain lives in Los Angeles or Berlin or Indiana. He is a retired radio DJ. His writing has appeared in The Destroyer, Deluge, and elsewhere. He is currently a MFA candidate at the University of Notre Dame.
Jackie Wang is the author of Against Innocence (Semiotex(e)), as well as the zines On Being Hard Femme, Memoirs of a Queer Hapa, The Adventures of Loneberry, and The Phallic Titty Manifesto. In her critical essays she writes about queer sexuality, race, gender, the politics of writing, mixed-race identity, prisons and police, the politics of safety and innocence, and revolutionary struggles. She is currently working on a book or two. She blogs at Ballerinas Dance with Machine Guns and @Loneberry on Twitter.
Jackson Nieuwland likes unicorns.
Jacob Perkins lives in Brooklyn, NY where he runs Mellow Pages Library with Matt Nelson. His writing can be found in NonCanon Quarterly, Hobart Web, and forthcoming in Hobart 15 and SP CE.
Jacob Sunderlin received his MFA from Purdue University, where he worked for Sycamore Review. He is a 2012-2013 poetry fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. Poems appear or are forthcoming from Forklift, OH, Caketrain, and La Petite Zine. He is from Lafayette, IN.
Jacqueline Waters's One Sleeps the Other Doesn't was published by Ugly Duckling Presse. She is the author of one previous collection, A Minute without Danger (Adventures in Poetry), and edits The Physiocrats, a pamphlet press.
Jaime Fountaine was raised by "wolves." Her work as appeared in PANK, Monkeybicycle, and 3:AM Magazine.
Jamalieh Haley lives in Portland, Oregon where she co-curates If Not For Kidnap and teaches writing. Her work has appeared in Interrupture, Sink Review, Everyday Genius, Sixth Finch, Queen Mob's Teahouse, and she is the author of Strange Tarot (Poor Claudia, 2014).
James Gendron is the author of Sexual Boat (Sex Boats) and the chapbook Money Poems. Weirde Sister is forthcoming from Octopus Books.
James Greer is the author of the novels Artificial Light (LHotB/Akashic 2006) and The Failure (Akashic 2010), and the non-fiction book Guided By Voices: A Brief History, a biography of a band for which he once played bass guitar. He is a Contributing Editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books.
James Yates is an MFA Candidate in Creative Writing at Roosevelt University in Chicago. He works as a Fiction Editor for Longform.org and as a bookseller. His fiction has appeared in Hobart, and his nonfiction has appeared in/ is forthcoming in The Chicago Reader and Necessary Fiction. He lives in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago.
Jameson Fitzpatrick’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, Poetry, and elsewhere. He is the author of the chapbook Morrisroe: Erasures (89plus/LUMA Publications) and teaches writing at NYU.
Jamie Gadette is a writer and music editor living in Salt Lake City. Her work has appeared in VenusZine, Blurt, Harp and Salt Lake City Weekly. She dreams of one day riding in the Cash Cab.
Jamie Iredell is the author of, most recently, I Was a Fat Drunk Catholic School Insomniac.
Jamie Perez lives in Baltimore and works in DC. He was part of Narrow House for years, an independent small press in Baltimore putting out occasional books and more. His work as appeared in a variety of places online and in print. He plays bass and other instruments in the Casual Band (and in Sweatpants before that). He blogs at www.verymostgood.com.
Jan Wiezorek writes from Chicago. His fiction has appeared at TheWriteMag.com, CommuterLit.com, RustyNailMag.com, PressboardPress.com, Ozone Park Journal, Picayune Magazine, Steel Toe Review, Midwestern Gothic, CracktheSpine.com, Seeds Literary Arts Journal in Chicago, Sleepytown Press, AbsintheRevival.net, Our Day’s Encounter, Blinking Cursor, and The April Reader. He is author of Awesome Art Projects That Spark Super Writing (New York: Scholastic, 2011). For many years his feature stories of unsung heroes appeared in the Chicago Tribune. He holds an M.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts Education from Columbia College Chicago and a B.A. in Journalism from Iowa State University. Jan also studied fiction writing at Northeastern Illinois University. He enjoys biking along the backroads of Michigan’s Harbor Country. Visit him at teachwrite.net.
Jana du Plessis
Jana du Plessis is a copywriter, lecturer and author living in Cape Town, South Africa. She has co-written, directed and produced a stage play and is the author of two popular fiction novels, Vat ’n gap (2011) and Mieke rock uit (2012) (both NB Publishers). Her poetry and fiction have appeared in various publications, and she is currently obsessed with her spirit-sisters, Lidia Yuknavitch, Kate Zambreno, Michelle Tea and Chris Kraus.
Jane Wong holds an MFA from the University of Iowa. She has been awarded a U.S. Fulbright Fellowship to Hong Kong and scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and the Fine Arts Work Center. Poems have appeared in Mid-American Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Salt Hill, The Volta, CutBank, Best New Poets 2012, and others. She lives in Seattle and teaches at the University of Washington and the Richard Hugo House.
Janey Smith lives in San Francisco and edits Metazen. She is writer of The Snow Poems and Animals. In 2014 Civil Coping Mechanisms will publish her writing in 40 Likely To Die Before 40: An Introduction to Alt Lit.
Janice Lee is the author of KEROTAKIS (Dog Horn Press, 2010), Daughter (Jaded Ibis, 2011), Damnation(Penny-Ante Editions, 2013), Reconsolidation (Penny-Ante Editions, 2015), and The Sky Isn’t Blue (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016). She is Editor of the imprint #RECURRENT for Civil Coping Mechanisms, Founder & Executive Editor of Entropy, and Assistant Editor at Fanzine. After living for over 30 years in California, she will be moving to Portland, Oregon this summer to teach at Portland State University.
Janice Lee & Michael du Plessis
Janice Lobo Sapigao is a Pinay poet, writer, and educator born and raised in San José, CA. Her first book microchips for millions will be forthcoming from PAWA, Inc in Fall 2016. She is also the author of the forthcoming chapbook toxic city (tinder tender press, 2015). She earned her M.F.A. in Critical Studies/Writing at CalArts. She co-founded an open mic in Los Angeles called the Sunday Jump. She lives in the Bay Area and teaches at Skyline College and San José City College. Please visit her website: janicewrites.com
JARETT KOBEK is an American author and essayist living in California. His book ATTA (Semiotexte, 2011) is a fictionalized psychedelic biography of the lead 9/11 terrorist and If You Won’t Read, Then Why Should I Write? was published in 2012 by Penny-Ante Editions. His most recent criticism, «Je suis devenu un magicien noir», was published as a catalogue essay by White Cube of London. His new novel BTW is forthcoming in November.
Jason Jude Chan
Jason Jude Chan has written for Flavorpill, Flavorwire, GOOD, Time Out, and Interview. He maintains a blog (Trafficjamsandtea.com) from his bare apartment in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint area and has pondered, in an effort informed by his Polish environs, changing his name to Jaslowiczanka.
Jason McBride is an editor at Toronto Life magazine and has written for Cinema Scope, the Village Voice and The Believer. He's currently working on his first novel. He is also writing Fanzine's Toronto event listings.
Jaswinder Bolina is an American poet and essayist. His first book Carrier Wave was awarded the 2006 Colorado Prize for Poetry and published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University in 2007. His second book Phantom Camera was awarded the 2012 Green Rose Prize in Poetry by New Issues Press and will be published in Spring 2013. Bolina earned an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan in 2003, and a Ph.D. in English from Ohio University in 2010. He teaches in the M.F.A. Program at the University of Miam.
Jay Deshpande is the author of Love the Stranger, forthcoming from YesYes Books. His poems have appeared in Boston Review, Sixth Finch, Blunderbuss, Atlas Review, Forklift Ohio, Handsome, and elsewhere. Essays have been published in Slate, The New Republic, The Millions, and Jacket 2. A winner of the Scotti Merrill Memorial Award and Narrative’s Annual Poetry Contest, he lives in Brooklyn. Read more at www.jaydeshpande.com.
Jayme Russell is the author of two chapbooks: PINKification (Dancing Girl Press, 2017) and PINKpoems (Adjunct Press 2017). Her writing can also be found in Black Warrior Review, Diagram, Fairy Tale Review, and elsewhere. She received her M.A. in Poetry from Ohio University and her MFA in Poetry from The University of Notre Dame.
Jeff Alessandrelli is the author of the full-length collection THIS LAST TIME WILL BE THE FIRST. Other work has appeared in Denver Quarterly, DIAGRAM, Gulf Coast, Boston Review and four chapbooks. The name of Jeff’s dog is Beckett Long Snout. The name of Jeff's micro-press is Dikembe Press.
Jeff Jackson is the author of the novel Mira Corpora, which was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize. His short fiction has appeared in Guernica, Vice, and The Collagist. Five of his plays have been produced by the Obie Award winning Collapsable Giraffe theater company.
Jeff T. Johnson
Jeff T. Johnson’s writing has appeared in The Encyclopedia Project, Kitchen Sink, Coldfront, and Pitchfork; his poetry is forthcoming or has appeared in 1913 a journal of forms, Boston Review, Slope, VOLT, Caketrain, and The Laurel Review, among other publications. He lives in Brooklyn, and is on the editorial staff at LIT and Dewclaw.
Jen May makes drawings and books and a lot of her drawings are words written. Coffee and popcorn are very important to her, and she loves it when people say "You go, Girl!" in a genuine way. She is a Scorpio, and really likes Neil Young and Patti Smith. Jen illustrates the rock and roll blog Strawberry Fields Whatever.
Jenna Le's reviews have been published in the past by such venues as The Rumpus, Pleiades, Poetry Northwest, and The Pharos, while her poetry has appeared widely, including two published poetry collections, Six Rivers (NYQ Books, 2011) and A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora (Anchor & Plume Press, 2016).
Jennifer Blowdryer, nee Waters, grew up in a town that will never ever want her back, but has successfully bullied her way into the social life of New York City and, at times, San Francisco. Her most recent book was killed by Harper Perennial, a dubious distinction, but the happily published Good Advice For Young Trendy People of all Ages (Manic D Press, SF) retains an eternal half life on the internet sales machines. She hopes to make a documentary of the 86ed project, which for now can only be found by typing in this entire URL: WWW.86edstories.com - bon chance!
Jennifer Calkins is an evolutionary biologist and writer who lives in Seattle. Her website is http://thequaildiaries.com.
Jennifer Krasinski is a writer who lives in los angeles.
Jennifer Militello is the author of A Camouflage of Specimens and Garments (Tupelo Press, 2016), Body Thesaurus (Tupelo Press, 2013), and Flinch of Song, winner of the Tupelo Press First Book Award. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, The New Republic, The North American Review, The Paris Review, and Best New Poets. She teaches in the MFA program at New England College.
Jennifer Nelson is a postdoctoral fellow at the Michigan Society of Fellows and assistant professor in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She formerly edited poetry at Epiphany and Washington Square Review. She holds degrees from Yale University, New York University, the Courtauld Institute, and Harvard College. Aim at the Centaur Stealing Your Wife is her first full-length book of poems.
Jennifer BARRRRFFFF Tamayo is a New York-based performer, writer, and activist. JT is the author of three collections of art and writing; her latest book YOU DA ONE is forthcoming from Coconut Books (Fall 2014). Her work has most recently appeared in Poetry, Angels of the Americlypse: An Anthology of New Latin@ Writing (Counterpath), and is forthcoming in Best American Experimental Writing 2014 (Omnidawn). JT lives in Brooklyn and since 2010 has served as the Managing Editor of Futurepoem. www.jennifertamayo.com
Jerimee Bloemeke was born in Fort Lauderdale, FL, 1987. His work has been published in the following journals and magazines: Novembre, Artifice, The Claudius App, NOÖ Journal, Hinchas de Poesia, and The Iowa Review (forthcoming, December 2013), among others. He is also the author of the recent chapbooks, 25¢ CASH (Slim Princess Holdings, 2013) and Cosmic Latte (Floating Wolf Quarterly, forthcoming, September 2013). He has a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He lives in Iowa City.
Jess Shaefer lives, eats, and drinks in Barcelona, where she happily and incessantly indulges her addiction to stinky cheeses, cured meats, and vino tinto. Some days the whole "Mediterranean thing"—i.e . sun, beach, beer, music, sex, and generally too much happiness—gets to be a bit much and she glares at people, hides under her babushka [see photo] and reads Tolstoy with the curtains drawn. But the rest of the time she's into it. Jess is currently starting up Esentia Tours, a culinary tour company, in the hopes that she can make eating, drinking and traveling into a viable profession. She is also learning how to drive a large motorcycle.
Jesse Bransford is a Brooklyn-based artist whose drawings and wall works are exhibited internationally. He is also a visiting assistant professor at the Department of Art at NYU. He is represented by Feature Inc. in New York.
Jesse's art can be viewed at http://www.sevenseven.com
Jesse Hudson is a writer from Colquitt GA. His first novel is forthcoming on Dennis Cooper's Little House on The Bowery Series on Akashic books.
Jessica Berger is a Chicago-based writer and a founding editor of Grimoire Magazine. Her work has been featured (or is forthcoming) in Pank, Ninth Letter, trnsfr, Gamut, The Spectacle, Maudlin House, Moonsick, Shirley Magazine, Midwestern Gothic, and elsewhere. She may or may not belong to an elite and secret group of Andrzej Żuławski enthusiasts.
Jessica O. Marsh is a graduate of New York University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming with Flying Object Press, Lana Turner, Vinyl Poetry, Patient Presses and Prelude. She resides on Long Island.
Jim Nelson's work has appeared or will soon appear in SmokeLong,
Watchword, Transfer, Red Wheelbarrow, and other publications.
He lives in San Francisco's Tenderloin and has yet to be mugged.
Jim Ruland is a veteran of the U.S. Navy and the author of the novel Forest of Fortune, the short story collection Big Lonesome and co-author with Scott Campbell, Jr. of Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch of Giving the Finger. He is currently collaborating with Keith Morris on My Damage: 40 Years in the Trenches of Punk Rock. He runs the Southern California-based reading series Vermin on the Mount, now in its eleventh year.
JoAnna Novak is the author of I Must Have You (Skyhorse Publishing 2017) and Noirmania (forthcoming from Inside the Castle 2018). Her fiction, essays, poetry, and criticism have appeared in publications including Salon, Guernica, BOMB, The Rumpus, Conjunctions, and Joyland. A co-founder of the literary journal and chapbook publisher, Tammy, she lives in Los Angeles.
Joe Fritsch is a poet and critic. His writing has appeared in Underwater New York, Mad House Journal, and elsewhere.
Joe Hall is the author of three books of poems: Pigafetta Is My Wife, The Devotional Poems, and, in collaboration with Chad Hardy, The Container Store Vols I & II. He lives with fellow poet Cheryl Quimba in Buffalo, New York where he is currently studying waste flows (piss and shit).
Joe Jock was born an hour from Yankee Stadium in Connecticut and is a fan of all things New York, but resides in Southern California, as he is also a fan of the sun. His field is Human Resources, but his passions include writing - for which he has gained accolades from the English Department of his college - and History. Joe plans to attend UC-Santa Barbara in the Fall as a History major.
Joseph Pfister’s fiction has appeared in PANK, Juked, decomP, Right Hand Pointing, among others, and was long-listed by The Wigleaf Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions 2013. He is a graduate of the MFA Writing program at Sarah Lawrence College, and lives in Brooklyn with his wife and their dog, Roary. He is currently at work on his first novel. Visit him online at josephspfister.com or @joe_pfister.
Joe Wenderoth has numerous numerous publications. Numerous. He teaches at UC Davis, where police keep order with pepper spray. he is invisible.
Joel Westendorf has done lots of things. Some of which you might be interested in, some.. not so much. His work has appeared in the magazines Spin, Index, and Detour, been displayed at Marianne Boesky Gallery in NYC and Sister Gallery in Los Angeles, and can be found on the covers of 7 novels. Currently he likes taking and working with photographs of anything that isn't man-made, especially animals. His graphics have been featured on Fanzine from the site's inception
Johannes Göransson is the author of five books, including most recently Haute Surveillance (Tarpaulin Sky, 2013), and the translator of several more, including works by Aase Berg, Johan Jönson and Henry Parland. He edits Action Books and Action, Yes, writes for Montevidayo.com and teaches at the University of Notre Dame. This poem is from his forthcoming book The Sugar Book (Tarpaulin Sky, 2015).
John Beer is the author of The Waste Land and Other Poems (Canarium, 2010), which received the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. Last year brought the chapbook Lucinda I-IV (Spork) & the edited volume Poems (1962-1997) by Robert Lax (Wave); the full-length Lucinda will appear in 2016. He teaches creative writing at Portland State University.
John Farley is a writer from Ellicott City, Maryland. He currently lives in Mexico City, where co-edits the literary zine Call of the Void. His fiction and journalism have appeared in Full-Stop, Hologramma, Outpost Journal, PBS.org, Tell Us a Story and elsewhere.
John Henry Fleming
John Henry Fleming is the author of The Legend of the Barefoot Mailman, a novel, Fearsome Creatures of Florida, an eco-conscious literary bestiary, The Book I Will Write, a novel-in-emails originally published serially, and Songs for the Deaf, his recent story collection. His short stories have appeared in journals such as McSweeney’s, The North American Review, Mississippi Review, Fourteen Hills, Kugelmass, Better: Culture and Lit, Atticus Review, and Carve
john mortara is a sad unicorn shivering in boston, ma. john mortara is an assortment of 'fun size' candies. john mortara has a new collection called 'some planet' forthcoming from yesyes books. john mortara is less funny and more bone. they have a website called johnmortara.com. john mortara is the exact amount of time it will take for neil armstrong's 'one small step' footprint to have eroded away from the sea of tranquility completely. john mortara is poet laureate of FEELING VERY UNCOMFORTABLE.
John Rufo reads and writes poetry at Hamilton College. His work has been previously published, or is forthcoming, in Ploughshares, Prelude, Entropy, Queen Mob's Tea House, and HTMLGiant. He interns for Maggy and co-runs Red Weather, a literary arts magazine, with Zoë Bodzas. You can hang out with him online at dadtalkshow.tumblr.com.
John Russell was a teenage hustler who’d been pimped out as a cross-dressed prostitute by his mother at truck stops throughout the South, until he landed on the streets of San Francisco in the early-to-mid-nineties. He is now an artist, curator, editor of the Frozen Tears book series, and football fan based in London.
John Trefry is the author of the novel PLATS, the caprice THY DECAY THOU SEEST BY THY DESIRE, and the forthcoming APPARITIONS OF THE LIVING, proprietor of Inside the Castle press, contributor to entropymag.org and minorliteratures.com, architect with the work.group @ sisyphean.com. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas.
John Venegas is a half-Mexican writer and editor, living in the San Fernando Valley, with a BA in creative writing from California State University at Northridge. He is the Lead Editor and Book Review Editor for Angel City Review and assistant editor for the #Recurrent series at CCM. He sells pool supplies, works as a handyman, and tutors students to pay the bills. He likes long walks on the beach, going to the opera, and really stupid dad jokes.
Johnny Drago is an Atlanta-based performer and writer. His first novel, co-written with poet EC Crandall, is available at www.executiveprivilegebook.com.
Jon Cone lives in Iowa City. He recently completed the script for a comic book series to be called LIMINAL: SHADOW AGENT.
Jon Cone & Rauan Klassnik
Jon Cone lives in Iowa City. He recently completed the script for a comic book series to be called LIMINAL: SHADOW AGENT. Rauan Klassnik is the author of Holy Land and a few other books. Most recently he helped edit ALL THE MESSIAHS for Schism Press.
Born and raised in NYC, Jon Frosch has lived in Paris for the last 4 years, where he currently works at the International Herald Tribune. His NYU Masters thesis was on "The New French-Jewish Cinema," and his work has appeared in the International Herald Tribune, the Boston Globe, The Stranger, Santa Fe Reporter, Pasadena Weekly, Film Journal International, AlterNet, GoGo Magazine, Time Out Paris, Paris Voice, Courrier International (translated into French), Variety, Willamette Week, PopMatters, The Portland Mercury, and the District Weekly.
Jon Leon is a New York based poet and novellaist. His books include The Hot Tub with Dan Hoy's Glory Hole (mal-o-mar editions, 2009), Hit Wave (Kitchen Press, 2008), and Right Now the Music and the Life Rule (Hathaway, 2006). In Italy, La Camera Verde brought out a translation of his Diphasic Rumors in 2008. He is an occasional contributer to Art in America.
Waiting for his real bio, while we get his first piece up, but he's a big sports fan, lives in New York and is a friend of Danny Jock's and I hope this is him in the pic I grabbed from a private myspace page by the same name (ha!).
From 1987 until 2007, Jonathan Rosenbaum was principal film critic at the Chicago Reader. His books include Moving Places, Placing Movies, Film: The Front Line 1983, Midnight Movies (with J. Hoberman), Greed, Dead Man, Movies as Politics, Movie Wars, Abbas Kiarostami (with Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa), Essential Cinema, Discovering Orson Welles, and, as editor or coeditor, Orson Welles and Peter Bogdanovich's This is Orson Welles and (with Adrian Martin) Movie Mutations. His web site is at jonathanrosenbaum.com
Jordan Castro (b. 1992 / @jordan_castro) is the author of YOUNG AMERICANS (2013) and if i really wanted to feel happy i'd feel happy already (2014).
Jos Charles is a southern California writer and founding-editor at THEM—a trans* literary journal. Jos is also a founding-editor of Sol&Res. Their work has appeared in BLOOM, Radioactive Moat, and variously online. They are making amends with their situation.
Josalyn Knapic lives in Chicago, IL. She is editor of South Loop Review and the assistant fiction editor of Another Chicago Magazine. Her writing has been featured in DIAGRAM, South Loop Review, and other venues. Contact her at email@example.com.
Joseph Houlihan lives and writes in Minneapolis, MN.
Joseph Mosconi is a writer and taxonomist based in Los Angeles. He codirects the Poetic Research Bureau and coedits Area Sneaks. He is the author of Fright Catalog (Insert Blanc Press, 2013) and Demon Miso/Fashion in Child (Make Now Press, 2014).
Josh Bell's next book of poems comes out, from Copper Canyon, in early 2016. He teaches creative writing at Harvard and is the author of No Planets Strike.
Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
Joshua Jennifer Espinoza is a trans woman poet living in California. Her work has been featured in The Offing, PEN America, The Feminist Wire, and elsewhere. Her first full-length collection THERE SHOULD BE FLOWERS was published by Civil Coping Mechanisms in August 2016.
Joshua Jones is a writer and animator residing in Maryland. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Necessary Fiction, The Tishman Review, Juked, Cleaver Magazine, and elsewhere. Find him on Twitter @jnjoneswriter.
Joyelle McSweeney is the author of Salamandrine: 8 Gothics (Tarpaulin Sky) and Percussion Grenade (Fence). She edits Action Books, contributes to Montevidayo, and teaches at Notre Dame.
Judyth Emanuel has short stories published in Overland Literary Magazine, Electric Literature Recommended Reading, Intrinsick, STORGY, One Page and forthcoming in PULP Literature. Her story TARTS is a finalist in The Raven Short Story Contest. Her story Treacle Eyes has been longlisted in The Margaret River Short Story Competition. www.judythemanuel.com
Julia Cohen's most recent book is a hybrid collection of lyric essays, I Was Not Born (Noemi Press, 2014). Her other books are Collateral Light (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2014) and Triggermoon Triggermoon (Black Lawrence Press, 2011). Her work appears in journals like DIAGRAM, Colorado Review, Entropy, The Destroyer, and Kenyon Review Online. She's currently translating with Jens Bjering the Danish poet Theis Ørntoft. She lives in Chicago and is looking for snowpants.
Julia Dixon Evans
Julia Dixon Evans is the author of the novel Other Burning Places, forthcoming from Dzanc Books. Her work can be found or is forthcoming at Paper Darts, Barrelhouse, Monkeybicycle, and elsewhere.
Julian Modugno is a writer and filmmaker from Atlanta, GA. His films have appeared in a variety of film festivals, as well as being featured in a vitriolic hate-rant on The O'Reilly Factor. He would trade it all for one shot at being a wizard in the Iron Kingdoms fantasy setting. For more of Julian’s film work, please visit http://www.blandhack.com
Born and raised on the banks of the Hudson River, Julie Perini now makes her home in Buffalo, NY where she recently received her MFA in Media Study from the University at Buffalo. She is about to relocate to Portland, OR so's to indulge in "some kind of hippy fantasy" (quote uncertain). Julie’s artwork in video, film, installation, mail, and performance has been exhibited nationally and internationally at a variety of theaters, galleries, clubs, sidewalks, warehouses, hotels, and living rooms.
Julie Reverb is the author of No Moon (Calamari Press).
Juliet Escoria is the author of Black Cloud (CCM/Emily Books, 2014) and Witch Hunt (Lazy Fascist, 2016). She lives in West Virginia. For more, go to julietescoria.com.
Justin Caguiat is co-director of Manila Institute & is based in Chinatown, NYC.
Justin Dobbs lives in Seattle. Author of Billy's Room.
Justin Stewart's writing on cinema has appeared in the L Magazine, Reverse Shot, Film Comment and elsewhere.
K. Silem Mohammad
K. Silem Mohammad is the author of several books of poetry, including Deer Head Nation (Tougher Disguises Press, 2003), Breathalyzer (Edge Books, 2008), and The Front (Roof Books, 2009). He is a professor of creative writing at Southern Oregon University.
Kaptain Carbon writes for Tapewyrmmetal.com, Hollywoodmetal.com, and is a moderator for Reddit’s r/metal, r/vintageobscura, and r/exotica.
Kara Vernor’s fiction has appeared in Wigleaf, Hobart, No Tokens, Green Mountains Review, and elsewhere and has been included in Wigleaf’s Top 50 Very Short Fictions, the Best Small Fictions finalists, and Outpost 19’s Golden State 2017 anthology. She has received scholarships from the Elizabeth George Foundation and the Mendocino Coast Writer’s Conference, and her fiction chapbook, Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song, is available from Split Lip Press.
Kari Larsen (@karileelarsen) is a writer and editor dwelling on the banks of the mighty Susquehanna. Her book Lessons for Girls is coming soon from Lost Angelene Press. For more information see www.cold-rubies.com.
Karsten Krejcarek is Brooklyn-based artist who works primarily in sculpture and video. He is a level-two boundary disillusionist, with apparent leanings toward the fourth quadrant.
Katherine Botten is an Australian interdisciplinary artist. Her works are primarily voiced in the first person, often blurring the distinction between artist and object of study. “Katherine Botten” as performed by Katherine Botten explores the construction and destabilization of identity in Post Capitalist conditions, and the distress of living and consuming. She is represented by Suicidal Oil Piglet and currently squats instagram.com/katherinebotten1er.
Katherine Osborne is a writer in Massachusetts and editor of Little River. She is the author of Fire Sign.
Kati Heng is a writer living in Chicago. Her work has been featured in CityPages.com, The Newer York and Where Magazine.
Katie Burke is a writer living in Chicago. She is a reviewer for Probably Crying and her work has been published by Electric Cereal. You can find her on twitter @STOKEDabtbutts.
Katie Ebbitt is a poet and social worker living in New York City. Her chapbook, ANOTHER LIFE, was published by Counterpath Press. Her work has appeared in Tarpaulin Sky and Queen Mobs.
Katie Foster was born and raised in Denver, Colorado. She recently adopted a grey cat after a lifetime of living with dogs. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
Katie Jean Shinkle
Katy Mongeau lives in Providence, RI where she is an MFA candidate in Literary Arts at Brown University. She is assistant editor at Caketrain, a journal and press.
Kaya Oakes’ nonfiction book, Slanted and Enchanted: The Evolution of Indie Culture, was published by Henry Holt in June of 2009. She’s also the author of a collection of poetry, Telegraph, which received the Transcontinental Poetry Prize from Pavement Saw Press. Kaya was the co-founder and senior editor of Kitchen Sink magazine. Since 1999, she’s taught writing at the University of California, Berkeley. Kaya has been the recipient of teaching fellowships from the Mellon Faculty Institute and the Bay Area Writing Project, as well as writing awards from the Academy of American Poets. She’s also twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in nonfiction. Her website is www.oakestown.org.
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Kent Shaw (born August 4, 1971) is a contemporary American poet.
Kevin Catalano is the author of The Word Made Flesh (firthFORTH Books). His stories have appeared in PANK, Gargoyle Magazine, storySouth, Monkey Bicycle, and other places. He teaches film and writing at Rutgers University-Newark. www.kevincatalano.com
Kevin Killian, one of the original “New Narrative” writers, has written three novels, Shy (1989), Arctic Summer (1997), and Spreadeagle (2012), a book of memoirs , and three books of stories. He has also written two books of poetry, Argento Series (2001), and Action Kylie (2008). A third will appear in March 2014—Tweaky Village, from Wonder Books. Recent projects include The Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater 1945-1985, edited with David Brazil; Tagged (2013), edited by Darin Klein, introduction by Rob Halpern, Killian’s intimate photographs of poets, artists, writers, musicians, filmmakers and intellectuals; and forthcoming, with Dodie Bellamy, The Nightboat Anthology of New Narrative Writing 1975-1995.
Kevin Maloney is the author of Cult of Loretta (Lazy Fascist Press, 2015). His fiction has appeared in Hobart, Barrelhouse, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and a number of other lit journals. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his girlfriend and daughter.
Kevin Paul Giordano
KEVIN PAUL GIORDANO has written for the New York Times and the New York Post. He previously taught journalism at Brooklyn College. He currently lives in Orlando, Florida, where he teaches at the University of Central Florida.
Kevin Sampsell is the author of a memoir, A Common Pornography, which has been praised by both Penthouse and Harper's Magazine. He lives in Portland, Oregon, which is like the red light district/smut capital of the west coast.
Kim Yi-deum has earned degrees in German and Korean Literatures. She teaches at Gyeongsang National University. She has written five books of poetry - including Star-Shaped Stain, Cheer up, Femme Fatale, Inexpressible Love, Song of Berlin, Dahlem, Hysteria - and one novel, Blood Sisters. Her writing has been used in scripts for a play (The metamorphosis, 2014) and independent film (After school, 2015). She has received numerous literary awards for her work, including Poetry and the World Literary Award, Kim Daljin Changwon Literary Award, Outstanding Poem of the Year Award, and the 22th Century Prize of Literature. She read at the Stockholm International Poetry Festival in 2014 and Biennale Internationale des Poètes en Val-de-Marne 2015. Her radio show, "Poems Selected by Kim Yi-deum," ran for about a year at Jinju KBS. Now she is working as an editorial staff of several organizations such as Society of Korean Poets, the magazine Poetry&Expression and the magazine Poem Poem.
Kimberly King Parsons
Writing by Kimberly King Parsons has been published or is forthcoming in New South, Black Warrior Review, Time Out New York, Gigantic, Fiction Southeast and elsewhere. She lives in Queens with her partner and two young sons.
Kina Viola is the managing editor for chapbooks at Big Lucks Books. She also makes handmade books for Garden Door Press in Ithaca, NY with her partner & fellow poet Marty Cain. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in DREGINALD, Witch Craft Magazine, Jellyfish, and other journals. Find her online @kinamv.
Kirkwood Adams has no bio.
Kory Calico was born at Grady hospital in Atlanta. He is an avid fan of rap music, poetry and prose. In 2011 he helped organize Poets for Change: Atlanta and is the current co-curator of the ALEF reading and performance art series with Puma Navarro.
Kristen Felicetti is the editor of The Bushwick Review. She also wrote and recorded The New York Crimes, a modern radio play.
Kristen Gallagher’s books include We Are Here (Truck Books, 2011) and Florida (a ms looking for a home). Online you can find "Dossier on the Site of a Shooting," a multiplatform digital work on Gauss PDF, "Untitled Rosewood Trip," text with screenshots in Printed Web 3, and a chapbook "Florida" from Well Greased Press. Her essays on the work of Tan Lin appear in Criticism: A Journal for Literature and the Arts, Jacket2, and the collection Reading the Difficulties from University of Alabama Press. Her essay “Teaching Freire and CUNY Open Admissions” was recently anthologized in Class and the College Classroom: Essays on Teaching and can be found online thru Radical Teacher. She is a Professor of English at City University of New York–LaGuardia Community College in Queens, New York.
Kristen Iskandrian has new work forthcoming in Zyzzyva and Ploughshares. Other stories have appeared in Tin House, Crazyhorse, Joyland, Epoch, and many other places. Her first novel MOTHEREST will be published in August 2017 by Twelve/Hachette.
Kristen Steenbeeke is a fiction writer and poet. Her poetry has appeared only in publications that begin with a "P": Pacifica Literary Review, Pleiades, and Poetry Northwest. Her fiction appears in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and Tin House Flash Fiction Fridays; also, one of her stories was aired on NPR’s Snap Judgment as a radio play. She is the marketing manager at Hugo House, a place for writers in Seattle.
Kyle Beachy's first novel was The Slide (The Dial Press) and this excerpt comes from a second, forthcoming. His short stories and essays can be found elsewhere. He is a professor at the MFA program at Roosevelt University, in Chicago.
Kyle Minor is the author of Praying Drunk. www.kyleminor.com
Ladan Osman earned a BA at Otterbein University and an MFA at the University of Texas at Austin. Her chapbook, Ordinary Heaven, appears in Seven New Generation African Poets (Slapering Hol Press, 2014). The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony (University of Nebraska Press, 2015) is the winner of the 2014 Sillerman First Book Prize. Her work has appeared in Apogee, The Normal School, Prairie Schooner, Transition Magazine, and Waxwing. Osman has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, Cave Canem, and the Michener Center for Writers. She is a contributing editor at The Offing and lives in Chicago. More info at ladanosman.com Twitter: @OsmanLadan
Lana Spendl's chapbook of flash fiction, We Cradled Each Other in the Air, is forthcoming in February 2017 from Blue Lyra Press. Her work has appeared in The Cortland Review, Hobart, The Greensboro Review, Lunch Ticket, Quarter After Eight, Fiction Southeast, storySouth, Monkeybicycle, Prick of the Spindle, Gargoyle, and other magazines. She can be found online at lanaspendl.com.
Larissa Szporluk was raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan and earned degrees at the University of Michigan, the University of California-Berkeley, and the University of Virginia, where she was a Henry Hoyns fellow. Her books of poetry include Dark Sky Question (1998), which won the Barnard Poetry Prize; Isolato (2000), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize; The Wind, Master Cherry, the Wind (2003); Embryos and Idiots (2007); and Traffic with Macbeth (2011). She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and currently teaches at Bowling Green State University.
Larry O’Connor is a journalist and author of Tip of the Iceberg, a memoir that was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing in 2003, and the novel, The Penalty Box. His essays have been widely published and his radio commentaries have been broadcast on NPR’s “All Things Considered.” He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, the novelist Mary Morris, and their daughter, Kate.
Laura Eve Engel
Laura Eve Engel's work has appeared in The Awl, Boston Review, Crazyhorse, Tin House and elsewhere. A recipient of fellowships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, she is the Residential Program Director of the UVa Young Writers Workshop.
Laura Jane Faulds
Laura Jane Faulds is a Toronto-based writer of French-Moroccan descent. Her work has been featured in Storychord, Shelf Life, Maximumrockandroll, and Chelsea magazines. Her short story "Everyone Loves A Person Who Doesn't Give A Fuck About Anything" was published in Cal Morgan's Forty Stories, and she is a regular contributor to Knox Road. Laura Jane now runs Strawberry Fields Whatever, a thoughtful and rabble-rousing blog about rock and roll music with longtime collaborators Elizabeth Barker and Jen May. Her favorite Beatle is John, and her favorite Rolling Stone is Keith.
Laura Page is a graduate of Southern Oregon University, where she studied English and Sociology. Her work has appared in numerous literary publications, most recently in Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Dead King Magazine, and Kindred. Her debut chapbook, "Children, Apostates" is forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press. A second chapbook, "Sylvia Plath in the Major Arcana," is forthcoming from Anchor & Plume Press.
Laura Pérez Muñoz
Laura Pérez Muñoz is an MFA in Writing candidate at Pratt Institute. Their work currently involves multilingual translations and the language of the untranslatable body.
Laura Theobald is a journalist, editor, and creative writer originally from the Florida Keys and currently living in Atlanta, Georgia. She recently graduated cum laude from The University of Tampa. She is the recipient of the 2011 Robertson Poetry Prize from the University of Houston.
Coach is an education writer and editor in D.C. She took the GRE at Howard University, and hopes to go back some day, and take it again. When she’s not training for an imaginary sports event, she enjoys making some gay-ass flyers for queer dance parties.
Lauren Traetto is a poet and journalist who has done a lot of different kinds of jobs. She lives in Atlanta, but she used to live in Athens, GA, where she studied linguistics and performed with an Afro-Cuban horror punk band called "Los Meesfits."
Lee Stegner has published stories in The Madison Review, Cream City Review and ZYZZYVA. She received her MFA in creative writing at San Francisco State University.
Leesa Cross-Smith is a homemaker and writer from Kentucky. She is the author of Every Kiss a War (Mojave River Press, 2014). Her short story collection was a finalist for both the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction (2012) and the Iowa Short Fiction Award (2012). Her short story "Whiskey & Ribbons" won Editor's Choice in Carve Magazine's Raymond Carver Short Story Contest (2011) and was listed as a notable story for storySouth's Million Writers Award. Her work has appeared in places like SmokeLong Quarterly, The Rumpus, Little Fiction, Longform Fiction, Carve Magazine, Monkeybicycle, Pithead Chapel, Gigantic Sequins, Folio, Midwestern Gothic, Juked, NANO Fiction, Word Riot, Sundog Lit, and many others. She and her husband Loran run a literary magazine called WhiskeyPaper (http://whiskeypaper.com/).
Leslie Burnette is a short fiction writer and hair stylist who resides in South Philly by way of Arizona. Recent domain name purchases include leslieburnette.com and myass.biz. One of those should be a website very soon.
Linda Franklin (Barkinglips) is a Baltimore artist writer who uses shadows, stains, fossils, bones, reflections, smears and half-sensed remnants to help her prove reality. Otherwise she is too emotional, and too crazy. See one of her blogs, www.gobbledegoogle.blogspot.com that tells how she uses phrase searches for occasional writing.
Lindsay Hunter is the author of the story collections Daddy's (featherproof) and DON'T KISS ME (FSG Originals). Her first novel, Ugly Girls (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) is out November 4th, 2014.
Lindsay MaHarry's work has appeared in The New York Observer, Noisey, Gawker, Spin, New York Magazine's Bedford+Bowery, BULLETT, and budding culture site The Kind, among others. She recently made a twitter @lindsay_maharry
Lisa Ciccarello is the author of five chapbooks, including the recent Sometimes there are travails (Hyacinth Girl Press) and the forthcoming (the shore in parts) (Greying Ghost Press). Her poems have appeared in Tin House, Denver Quarterly, Handsome, Leveler, Everyday Genius, Poor Claudia, and Corduroy Mtn., among others. She is also the poetry editor at draft: The Journal of Process.
Lizzy Acker’s work has been published in Nano Fiction, Eleven Eleven, Joyland, Hobart and elsewhere and she is a blogger for KQED Arts. She has read with Bang Out, RADAR, Quiet Lightening and others. Her first book,Monster Party, was released in December of 2010 by Small Desk Press.
Lonely Christopher is the author of several poetry chapbooks and the volume Into (with Christopher Sweeney and Robert Snyderman). As a librettist and playwright, his dramatic works have been published, staged in New York City and internationally, and released in Mandarin translation. He is a founding member of the small press The Corresponding Society and an editor of its biannual journal Correspondence. He lives in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.
Lorenzo de Los Angeles
Lorenzo De Los Angeles has shown his drawings, sculptures, light shows,
and art collaborations throughout the U.S. and abroad. He likes to
look and learn about old things, and enjoys drinking at the Lenox
Lounge in Harlem, The Sideshow at Coney Island, and the Oyster Bar in
Grand Central Station.
Lorian Long is a 29 year old secretary living in Columbus, Ohio.
Louis Chude-Sokei is a writer and scholar currently teaching in the English Department at the University of Washington, Seattle. His book The Last Darky: Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora was a finalist for the 2005 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award.
Lucy Tiven is reluctantly repaying her debt to society. She has been published on Word Riot, UP, NAP 3.5, Plain Wrap's Quarter 01, Cutty Spot, and Metazen. Her chapbook I am not all water is available from NAP.
Luis H. Francia
Luis H. Francia is the author of several books. His poetry collections include Museum of Absences and The Arctic Archipelago and Other Poems. A chapbook, The Beauty of Ghosts, is due out this summer, as well as A History of the Philippines: From Indios Bravos to Filipinos. His Eye of the Fish: A Personal Archipelago (2001) won both the 2002 PEN Center Open Book and the 2002 Asian American Writers literary awards. He edited Brown River, White Ocean: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Philippine Literature in English, and co-edited Fiippin’: Filipinos on America, and Vestiges of War: The Philippine-American War and the Aftermath of an Imperial Dream, 1899-1999. He has written for The Village Voice, the Nation, and other periodicals. He teaches Philippine-American Literature at Hunter College and Tagalog Language and Culture at New York University.
Luke B. Goebel
Luke B. Goebel is the author of the debut novel Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours (FC2, September 2014), for which he received the Ronald Sukenick Prize for Innovative Fiction, and the recipient of the Joan Scott Memorial Fiction Award. He earned a BA from the University of San Francisco and an MFA in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He worked as an editor with a NYC-based literary journal and independent publishing house. An assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Texas at Tyler, he was born in Ohio and grew up in Portland, Oregon.
Luke Kokoszka is a writer and musician living in the Fraser Valley, British Columbia. He can be found eating bánh mì and exploring the vast roads of Canada. His fiction has appeared at carte blanche, Cheap Pop, Potluck Magazine, and elsewhere.
Lynn Mundell's work has appeared in Portland Review, The Sun, Five Points, Tin House Flash Fidelity, The Airgonaut, Jellyfish Review, and many other swell literary journals. Her story "Again," from Superstition Review, was recently long listed for The Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2017. She lives in Northern California, where she co-edits 100 Word Story.
M Kitchell is learning how to levitate through staring at the sun. He likes houses painted black and perfect geometry. His room is filled with rocks & succulents. He believes in the following ensemble of apparently sovereign behaviors: ecstasy, intoxication, erotic effusion, laughter, sacrificial effusion & poetic effusion. He lives & works in the Bay Area. Find out more at http://topologyoftheimpossible.com.
Megan Milks has published fiction in 30 Under 30: An Anthology of Innovative Fiction by Younger Writers; Wreckage of Reason; and Fist of the Spider Woman, as well as many journals. Her second chapbook, Twins, is available through Birds of Lace Press. She lives and teaches in Jacksonville, Illinois.
Maggie Millner's poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Two Serious Ladies, GlitterMOB, Prelude, and elsewhere.
Magus Magnus is the author of The Re-echoes (Furniture Press Books, 2012), Idylls for a Bare Stage (twentythreebooks, 2011), Heraclitean Pride (Furniture Press Books, 2010), and Verb Sap (Narrow House, 2008). Current projects include a book on the ancient Roman emperor Heliogabalus and a conceptual writing/theater piece utilizing various government documents on unmanned combat air vehicles, titled drone: poetic monologue for monotone. Several of Magnus’ poems and an idyll have been anthologized in Pearson Longman’s university-level English textbook, Literature.
Mairead Case lives in Colorado. She is an English/Creative Writing PhD student at the University of Denver, coordinator at the Naropa Summer Writing Program, and a teacher at DU, Naropa, and the women’s jail. Mairead wrote the novel See You In the Morning (featherproof) and Tenderness, a poetry chapbook from Meekling Press.
Maisie Wilhelm is a Midwestern girl at heart, even though she has been living abroad for 3 of the last 4 years, Italy and France. Just like Madonna, she escaped from a factory town in Michigan. She received a degree in Italian Studies from Brown University, and became a freelance journalist after moving to Paris in pursuit of the clichéd dream of writing a novel in smoky cafes. She has published in the International Herald Tribune, Paris Voice, regularly in Paris Notes, and in various travel publications. She worked as a journalist in Munich during the FIFA World Cup 2006, and is the Fashion assistant at the International Herald Tribune, having traveled on business to Morocco, Italy, and Denmark. She also writes the Paris Events listings. Read about What Maisie Knew (what's shaking in Paris) in the blogosphere at http://maisie.typepad/com/whatmaisieknew
Malina Saval is the author of The Secret Lives of Boys: Inside the Raw Emotional World of Male Teens (Basic Books, 2009). She's been a featured guest on NPR's "Talk of the Nation," Fox News, the Patt Morrison show and the Tavis Smiley show on PBS. As a journalist, her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times,Glamour, LA Weekly, Heeb, Forward, the Jerusalem Post, Flaunt, Premiere and Variety, for whom she pens celebrity profiles and entertainment features. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in Palehouse, True Romance, The Truth About the Fact and Now Write! Nonfiction: Memoir, Journalism and Creative Nonfiction Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers. She's a graduate of Cornell Universityand USC School of Cinematic Arts and is currently at work adapting Boys as a TV show.
Manuel Arturo Abreu
manuel arturo abreu (b. 1991, Santo Domingo) is a poet and artist from the Bronx. Their work has appeared in MCA Sydney, Tactic Cork, ACLA, The New Inquiry, Gauss PDF, et al. @Deezius.
Marcel Inhoff is finishing a doctoral dissertation at Bonn University (Germany). His publications include a volume of poetry (Prosopopeia, Editions Mantel, 2015), as well as individually published poems in both English and German. He has written and published essays on Derek Walcott, Thomas Bernhard, Ingo Schulze, Robert Lowell, Tracy K. Smith, and Elizabeth Bishop, and translated fiction into both English and German. His own blog is at shigekuni.wordpress.com.
Margaret Patton Chapman
Margaret Patton Chapman received her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her novella Bell and Bargain will be published by Rose Metal Press in November, 2014 as part of the collection My Very End of the Universe. Her short fiction has appeared a number of journals including Wigleaf, The Collagist, Elimae, and the anthology The Way We Sleep. She is prose editor for decomP magazine, and lives in Durham, NC.
Maria Flaccavento studied at Temple University in Philadelphia and is currently pursuing an MFA at the University of California San Diego. Her work can be found in The Apiary, Bedfellows, and online.
Maria Suarez is finishing her MFA at San Francisco State University, where she also teaches. Her fiction has appeared in Story Quarterly. Once, in a forest of trees, her eyes each looked at a different thing.
Marie Buck is the author of Life & Style (Patrick Lovelace Editions, 2009) and the chapbooks Amazing Weapons (Scary Topiary, 2012) and Doom Balloon (Abraham Lincoln, forthcoming). Her work has been anthologized in Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing and translated into Italian for the magazine Abbiamo le Prove. She lives in Detroit, where she is completing a dissertation about the literature of the Black Power and Women's Liberation movements.
Mario Dzurila is the editor of MGZN and the art director of the Prague Literary Review. A prolific media artist, his design work, articles and photographs have appeared in /zionmag.com/ and /dorfdisco.de/, among other places. Born in Slovakia, he currently resides in Prague, where he is a founding member of the multimedia art collective DeaFactory.
Marisa Crawford is the author of the poetry collection The Haunted House (Switchback, 2010), and the chapbook 8th Grade Hippie Chic (Immaculate Disciples, 2013). Her writing has recently appeared in Fanzine, The Hairpin, and Bitch, and is forthcoming in Electric Gurlesque (Saturnalia, 2016) and The &NOW Awards 3: Best Innovative Writing (&NOW, 2015). Marisa is founding editor of the feminist blog WEIRD SISTER, and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Mariusz Zubrowski can be found biking around South Brooklyn. If spotted he'll grant three wishes and a year's supply of lukewarm luck.
"Mark Asch was for several years an editor at in Brooklyn, and is now studying at the University of Iceland."
Mark Baumer is a human with an internet presence, but his internet presence isn't quite a perfect representation of his earth presence. He started working on a novel three minutes ago called, "the internet presence that wasn't a perfect representation of an earth presence." The main character in this novel is named Mork. He is only four years old, but his web history dates back almost fifteen years to 1996 when he registered his first email address at hotmail.com.
Mark Baumer & Lorian Long
Mark Budman was born in the former Soviet Union. His writing appeared in Five Points, PEN, American Scholar, Huffington Post, World Literature Today, Daily Science Fiction, Mississippi Review, Virginia Quarterly, The London Magazine (UK), McSweeney's, Sonora Review, Another Chicago, Sou'wester, Southeast Review, Mid-American Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Short Fiction (UK), and elsewhere. He is the publisher of the flash fiction magazine Vestal Review. His novel My Life at First Try was published by Counterpoint Press. He co-edited flash fiction anthologies from Ooligan Press and Persea Books/Norton.
Mark Francis Johnson
Mark Francis Johnson lives in Philadelphia, where he is the proprietor of Hiding Place, a book / record shop that also hosts a reading series. His most recent publications include YELLOW HIGHLIGHTER (Troll Thread, 2015) and AFTER SUCH KNOWLEDGE PARK (Make Now, 2015). Several of his mixes can be found on Gauss PDF.
Mark Leidner is the author of Beauty Was the Case that They Gave Me (Factory Hollow Press, 2011) and The Angel in the Dream of Our Hangover (Sator Press, 2011).
MARTIN ROCK is the author of Residuum (2015 CSU First Book Competition, Editor's Choice Award) and the chapbooks Dear Mark (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2013) and Fish, You Bird (Pilot, 2010), which he cowrote with Phillip D. Ischy. His poetry and translations from Japanese have appeared in journals such as Asymptote, AGNI, Black Warrior Review, Conduit, DIAGRAM, Forklift, Ohio, Hayden's Ferry Review, Third Coast, The Journal, The Tampa Review, The Missouri Review, and Best New Poets 2012. With Kevin Prufer and Martha Collins, Martin co-edited the volume Catherine Breese Davis: On the Life and Work of an American Master (Pleiades Press, 2015).
Mary Breaden is an Oregonian native living in Brooklyn. By early morning light, she writes, and during business hours, she works for a social services nonprofit. She and Andrea Janda founded an experimental literary journal (www.visitantlit.com) in 2016. Mary's work has been published in Education Week, Persistent Visions, The Mondegreen, the Portland State Vanguard, Portland Book Review and in Queen Mob's Teahouse. She was selected as an Emerging Writer in the Lamprophonic Reading Series and nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2015.
Masha Tupitsyn is a writer, critic, and multi-media artist. She is the author of several books like LOVE DOG, LIKE SOONE IN LOVE: AN ADDENDUM TO LOVE DOG, LACONIA: 1,200 TWEETS ON FILM, BEAUTY TALK & MONSTERS, and co-editor of the anthology, LIFE AS WE SHOW IT: WRITING ON FILM. Her fiction and criticism has been published widely in journals and anthologies. In 2015, she completed the film LOVE SOUNDS, a 24-hour audio-essay and history of love in English-speaking cinema. Her new durational film, DECADES, a study of time using film sound, is forthcoming in 2017. She teaches film, literature, and gender studies at The New School and Pratt in New York City. Her Tumblr, is LOVE DOG: mashatupitsyn.tumblr.com.
Mathias Svalina is the author of three books, most recently The Explosions from Subito Press. With Alisa Heinzman, Hajara Quinn & Zachary Schomburg he co-edits Octopus Books. Big Lucks will release his book Wastoid in 2014.
Matt Bell is the author of How They Were Found, a fiction collection forthcoming in Fall 2010 from Keyhole Press, as well as The Collectors, a novella, and How the Broken Lead the Blind, a chapbook of short fiction. "Greyson, Griffin, Guillermo" is from a recently completed novella titled Cataclysm Baby, other excerpts of which are forthcoming in American Short Fiction, Unsaid, Sleepingfish, and Puerto del Sol. He is also the editor of The Collagist and can be found online at www.mdbell.com.
Matt Crowley is a writer and comedian living in Los Angeles.
A contributing writer at Noisecreep and Trick With a Knife, he’s a freelance writer on occasion. His fiction has been published in many places and his most recent chapbook Congratulations! There's No Last Place if Everyone is Dead made people laugh in its intended way. His internet home is Words for Guns. Matt's been intoxicated on television three times.
Matt Lundy is a graduate student of journalism at the University of Western Ontario. His work has appeared in The London Free Press, The Tyee, Monday Magazine, and various other publications. His all-time favourite NBA players are Charles Oakley, Sam Cassell, and Larry Bird when he had a blonde mustache.
Matt Roberts received his BA in Continental Philosophy from DePaul University, and he will receive a PhD in Comparative Literature from Emory University in May 2013. His research focuses on contemporary European theater and performance, as well as avant-garde aesthetics. Additionally, he has contributed to Write Club Atlanta, Hyde Atlanta, and soon Frontier Psychiatrist. He is a dramaturge, having worked with several Atlanta based theater companies and performance groups. Finally, he is the Subject Librarian for Comparative Literature and French and Italian Studies at Emory University's Woodruff Library.
Matt Salyer is an Assistant Professor of English at West Point. His work has appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Poetry Northwest, Narrative, Hunger Mountain, New Orleans Review, The Common, Massachusetts Review, Florida Review, and numerous other journals. He was a 2015 Pushcart nominee, a 2016 finalist for the Iowa Review Prize, and a semifinalist for the Brittingham and Pollack Prizes. His first book, Ravage and Snare, is forthcoming in 2017.
Matthew Dexter is an American author living in Cabo San Lucas. His fiction can be found in hundreds of literary journals. He writes abhorrent freelance pieces for exorbitant amounts of pesos to pay the bills while drinking cervezas in paradise with tourists. He is the author of the novel The Ritalin Orgy (Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing). His second novel, Hero Custodian, will be published in 2019.
Matthew Jent is a writer of fiction, comics and TV. He lives in America.
Matthew O’Shannessy is a writer who recently relocated from Melbourne to California.
Sculptor Matthew Ronay was born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1976. After initially making brightly colored sculptures of combined objects that illuminated social subjects such as: an exit strategy for the Iraq war, the fall of the United States empire as envisioned through Caligula, and a theoretical uprising in the United States lead by the throw-aways of technology and weakened gene pool, he changed. Years of trying to capture an explanation of the human condition through popular culture and material objects has shifted to using environments, performance, costuming, and devotional objects to allude to the immaterial. His website is www.hideamongthetrees.com.
Matthew Simmons is the author, most recently, of the novella A Jello Horse (Publishing Genius Press). He maintains a blog called The Man Who Couldn't Blog, edits interviews for the journal Hobart, and is a regular contributor to HTML Giant. He lives in Seattle with his cat Emmett.
Matthew Stokoe was born in England and is currently living in the Southern Hemisphere. He is the author of three novels: Cows, High Life, and Empty Mile. His new novel is called Colony of Whores.
Matthew Vollmer is the author of Gateway to Paradise, inscriptions for headstones, and Future Missionaries of America. With David Shields, he co-edited Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts. He also edited the anthology A Book of Uncommon Prayer, an anthology of invocations by over 60 writers. He teaches at Virginia Tech.
Matty Byloos is the editor of the literary quarterly Smalldoggies, a currently dormant zine made in Los Angeles. A graduate of Art Center's MFA program, Byloos is also a painter whose work has been exhibited at SolwayJones in Los Angeles, among other venues. As a fiction writer, his work has been published in Fishwrap, Schtick, and Undershorts, and in 2004 he was included in the UCLA Hammer Museum's New American Writing series.
Maw Shein Win
Maw Shein Win is a Burmese-American poet, editor, and educator who lives and works in the Bay Area. Her writing has appeared in various journals including Cimarron Review, Ping-Pong, Eleven Eleven, and most recently, the anthology Cross-Strokes: Poetry Between Los Angeles and San Francisco (Otis Books/Seismicity Editions). She is a poetry editor for Rivet and was an Artist In Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts. Her collaborative book with paintings by Mark Dutcher,Ruins of a glittering palace, was published by SPA/Commonwealth Projects. Along with composer Amanda Chaudhary, she is part of musical duo Pitta of the Mind which combines poetry with abstract electronic music. She is a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto.
Max Winter's reviews have appeared in The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Times, and elsewhere; he is an illustrator for The Rumpus and Cosmonauts Avenue; he is the co-editor of Solid Objects and one of the Poetry Editors of Fence Magazine. He has published two books of poetry: Walking Among Them (Subpress, 2013) and The Pictures (Tarpaulin Sky, 2007).
Megan, a filmmaker from California, fled the arid smogbowl of LA for the cool, wet streets of Berlin. When she’s not cooking soup or riding her bike she can be found inventing new recipes, writing short stories and covering events for Fanzine.
Megan Martin is the author of Nevers, forthcoming from Caketrain in spring 2014, and Sparrow & Other Eulogies (Gold Wake 2011). She lives in Cincinnati for now, with her boyfriend and a bunch of cats.
Megan McShea is the author of A Mountain City of Toad Splendor (Publishing Genius Press). She lives in Baltimore, MD.
Megan Nare is a writer and art historian living in Atlanta, Georgia. Her research interests include outsider art, folk art, and southern culture. She also dabbles in vinyl records, tries hard at yoga, and is considered by some to be a consultant on proper etiquette.
Megan O'Patry lives in San Francisco. She is an avid consumer
Megan Broughton is an artist, arts educator, writer, and cellist. Her writing has been featured in Entropy Magazine, Enclave, and Fanzine. You can view her artwork here: http://cargocollective.com/meganbroughton.
Meghan Lamb currently lives with her husband in St. Louis, where she is a fiction MFA candidate with the Washington University Writing Program and a Graduate Assistant with the Modern Literature Collection. She is the author of Silk Flowers (Birds of Lace) and Sacramento (Solar Luxuriance).
Meghan Privitello is the author of A New Language for Falling Out of Love (YesYes Books, Fall 2014). Work has appeared or is forthcoming in Kenyon Review Online, Gulf Coast, Boston Review, Best New Poets 2012 and elsewhere. She currently serves as co-editor of The New Megaphone. You can follow her on twitter @meghanpriv.
Mel Bosworth is the author of the novel FREIGHT. His work has appeared in Tin House, New World Writing, and Hobart, among others. Visit him at melbosworth.com.
Melissa Broder is the author of three collections of poems, most recently Meat Heart (Publishing Genius, 2012) and the forthcoming <emScarecrone (Publishing Genius, 2014). Poems appear in The Iowa Review, Fence, Guernica, The Missouri Review, et al. She lives in Los Angeles.
Melissa is a graphic designer and professional concert attender.
Melissa Pritchard has published six books of fiction and a biography. Her awards include the Flannery O'Connor and Carl Sandburg Awards, NEA, Hawthornden and Howard Foundation Fellowships, several Pushcart Prizes, O.Henry Awards and citations in Best American Short Stories. Stories from a newly completed collection, The Odditorium, appear in Agni, Conjunctions, Image, Boulevard, and (forthcoming) in a A Public Space. Melissa teaches at Arizona State University.
Mellow Pages Library
The Mellow Pages Library is a library in Brooklyn. (http://mellowpageslibrary.tumblr.com/)
Meredith Alling is a writer living in Los Angeles. Her website is meredithalling.com and she is on Twitter @meremyth
Meredith Maltby is from Chicago, Illinois. She was a featured poet at Design Cloud Chicago’s HERE / NOW event. Meredith has previously published her work in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The Chicago Tribune, Vending Machine Press, Gravel Journal, Prairie Margins, among others.
Micah Gottlieb is a 23-year old writer and filmmaker living in New York City. His work has appeared in BlackBook and Tiny Mix Tapes
Michael Busk is a PhD student in the University of Southern California's Literature and Creative Writing Program. His writing appears in Gettysburg Review, Fiction International, Florida Review, and other journals. He lives in Long Beach, and while he doesn't count himself among Hamid Karzai's inner circle, the two do speak on occasion.
Michael du Plessis
Michael du Plessis is the author of the chapbook, Songs Dead Soldiers Sing (Transparent Tiger Press, 2007) and the novel, Memoirs of Jonbenet by Kathy Acker (Les Figues 2012). Among other projects, Michael is currently working on a collection of poems about decapitation in film and televison with Janice Lee.
Michael Hessel-Mial is a poet and scholar based in Atlanta, Georgia. He is webmaster of Internet Poetry and coeditor (with Penny Goring) of the image macro anthology, MACRO, forthcoming from Boost House at the end of the year. He is the author of several ebooks, including mspaint and heartbreak, VITA NUOVA II and 14 Sonnets for Money. @mikehesselmial
Michael J. Seidlinger
Michael J Seidlinger is the author of a number of novels including The Fun We’ve Had, The Laughter of Strangers, My Pet Serial Killer, and The Sky Conducting. He serves as the Reviews Editor for Electric Literature as well as Publisher-in-Chief of Civil Coping Mechanisms, an indie press specializing in innovative fiction and poetry.
Michael Keenan’s first book of poems, "Translations On Waking In An Italian Cemetery," was released by A-Minor Press in 2014. He currently talks to people at Columbia University and the New School.
Michael Kimball is the author of seven books, including Galaga, Big Ray, Dear Everybody, and Us. His work has been translated into a dozen languages, and featured on NPR’s All Things Considered and in Vice, as well as in The Guardian and Bomb.
Michael Kai Louie is one part of the founding editors of Fanzine, although he is also a writer, provocateur, letterpress printer, and an admiral of a fictional vessel of poor sea-worthiness. He has written for various publications in the past, including Giant Robot, Maximum Rock 'n' Roll, Punk Planet, the SF Bay Guardian, Clamor, several skateboarding magazines, and some zines. Send emails to firstname.lastname@example.org
Michael Miller is an editor and writer at Time Out New York. He lives in Brooklyn.
Michael O'Hara studied poetry at the University of Iowa. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Be About It, Keep This Bag Away From Children, and DUM DUM ZINE, and his translations from the Chinese have appeared in Cha. This poem comes from a manuscript entitled Dungeoneering. He likes talking about poetry, cooking, and wizards on his facebook, and encourages you to contact him there (facebook.com/michael.j.ohara).
Michael Seymour Blake
Michael Seymour Blake is the author/illustrator of 12 Days of Santa Crying. His work has appeared in Entropy, Paper Darts, People Holding, Autre, and Reality Beach. He has painted various murals around NYC, including one that was prominently featured at Silent Barn in Brooklyn, home to the new Mellow Pages Library. He lives in Queens. www.michaelseymourblake.com
Michael Thomsen has written for ABC World News, Nerve, n+1, IGN, The Faster Times, Gamasutra, The Escapist, and Edge. He lives in New York City.
Michele Hayes lives in Oakland with her fiancee and pet fish Mr. T. She is finishing her MFA at San Francisco State University and spends entirely too much time in front of the television.
Michelle Lyn King
Michelle Lyn King is a Florida native who now lives and works in Brooklyn. Her writing has appeared in Shabby Doll House, Catapult, and The Rumpus. Contact her at email@example.com or on twitter @MichelleLynKing.
Mike Corrao is a young writer working out of Minneapolis. He was a 2016 artist-in-residence for Altered Esthetics and his work can be found in publications such as Entropy, decomP, and Cleaver.
Mike Ingram is one of the founding editors of Barrelhouse magazine. His work has appeared in a number of journals, including EPOCH, The Southeast Review, and Monkeybicycle. He lives in Philadelphia, where he teaches at Temple University and co-hosts the Book Fight podcast.
Mike Meginnis is the author of Fat Man and Little Boy (Black Balloon Publishing, 2014). His stories have been published or are forthcoming in Best American Short Stories 2012, Hayden's Ferry Review, Hobart, The Collagist, The Lifted Brow, Atlas Review, PANK, and many others.
Mike Powell works in Manhattan as a fact-checker, and from a desk in Brooklyn as a freelance writer for Stylus, Pitchfork, the Oxford American, the Village Voice, Wire, and Paper Thin Walls. He also serves on the board of Esopus magazine.
Mike Young is the author of three books and a chapbook: Sprezzatura (forthcoming poems), Who Can Make It (chapbook of poems), Look! Look! Feathers (stories), and We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough (poems). He edits NOÖ Journal, runs Magic Helicopter Press, and writes for HTMLGIANT. Find him in the snow in Northampton, MA and online at http://mikeayoung.blogspot.com
Mira Gonzalez is the author of i will never be beautiful enough to make us beautiful together.
Molly Brodak is the author of A Little Middle of the Night (University of Iowa Press, 2010) and three chapbooks of poetry. She lives in Atlanta.
Morgan Parker is the author of Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night (Switchback Books 2015), selected by Eileen Myles for the 2013 Gatewood Prize, and There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé (Coconut Books 2016). A Cave Canem fellow and poetry editor for Coconut Magazine, she also contributes writing to Weird Sister. She lives in Brooklyn and at www.morgan-parker.com.
Moss Angel is author & designer of five books, most recently Sea-Witch v. 1: May She Lay Us Waste & Sea-Witch v.2: Girldirt Angelfog, from their ongoing cross-genre fucked-up fantasy series Sea-Witch. Their work has been published in Black Warrior Review, Gulf Coast, Puerto del Sol & Denver Quarterly. You can support their work & see their newest writing & art at http://patreon.com/monstr & see & buy books/merch at http://undying.club. They live with their wife Døgtail Nørth in Oregon.
Nada Gordon consists of a head, neck, torso, two arms and two legs. Since reaching adulthood, her body has consisted of close to 100 trillion cells, the basic unit of life. These cells are organised biologically to form her whole body. She is the author of Folly, V. Imp, Are Not Our Lowing Heifers Sleeker than Night-Swollen Mushrooms?, foriegnn bodie, Scented Rushes, and Vile Lilt. Her poems have been translated into Japanese, Hebrew, and Burmese.
Nalini Edwin's work appears in journals including Gigantic, NOÖ, No, Dear, and extramural; her installations have shown in various cities on the East Coast and in Paris. Her first chapbook is forthcoming this summer from Awst Press. She lives in Brooklyn.
Nancy Keefe Rhodes
Nancy Keefe Rhodes writes about film, photo and visual arts from Syracuse. A member of the national Women Film Critics Circle, she was on the film staff at Stylusmagazine, was film reviewer & a producer/host for the three-time Clarion Award-winning Women’s Voices Radio at NPR-affiliate WAER Syracuse, and covers arts & culture for the Syracuse City Eagle weekly which carries her regular DVD review column, Make it Snappy. She is an alum of the first class of the Goldring Arts Journalism Masters Program at the Newhouse School, Syracuse University. Her reviews are archived at www.MovieCrossRhodes.blogspot.com.
Nat Baldwin is a writer and musician living in Portland, Maine. His fiction has appeared in PANK, Sleepingfish, Alice Blue, Timber, Deluge, and The Spectacle. He has released several solo albums and plays bass in Dirty Projectors. He is currently pursuing a BA in English at the University of Southern Maine.
Natalie Eilbert's first book of poems Swan Feast is forthcoming next year from Coconut Books. She is the author of two chapbooks,Conversation with the Stone Wife (Bloof Books 2014) and And I Shall Again Be Virtuous (Big Lucks, forthcoming). Her poems and criticism have appeared in or are forthcoming from The Kenyon Review, Tin House, Philadelphia Review of Books, Guernica, and elsewhere. She is the founding editor of The Atlas Review.
Natalie Lugo lives in Detroit, where she works in a veterinary clinic. This is her first publication.
Natalie Lyalin is the author of Blood Makes Me Faint, but I Go for It (Ugly Duckling Presse 2014), Pink & Hot Pink Habitat (Coconut Books 2009), and a chapbook, Try A Little Time Travel (Ugly Duckling Presse 2010). She is the cofounder and coeditor of Natural History Press. She lives in Philadelphia and teaches at Philadelphia University.
Natalie Shapero is the Professor of the Practice of Poetry at Tufts and an Editor at Large of the Kenyon Review. Her first collection of poetry is No Object (Saturnalia, 2013), and her second is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press.
Nate Logan is from Indianapolis, Indiana. Some of his reviews can be found in Luna Luna, Queen Mob's Teahouse, and Weird Sister. He's editor and publisher of Spooky Girlfriend Press.
Nate Waggoner’s work has appeared in KQEDPop, SFWeekly, and Sparkle & Blink. He is a co-founder and contributing editor at the-tusk.com. He competes regularly at Write Club SF. He is the author of a comic book called “A Lifetime of Free Haircuts.” He and his ex-girlfriend host a romance advice podcast called Invitation to Love, which is available on iTunes. He will get his MFA in Fiction at San Francisco State University in May.
Nathan Knapp's essays and fiction have appeared in Blue Mesa Review, The Millions, Tin House online, Yalobusha Review, and elsewhere. He founded The Collapsar and currently lives in Tulsa.
Nathaniel Popkin is a writer who lives in Philadelphia. His latest book is the novel Lion and Leopard (The Head and The Hand Press). He is also the author of Song of the City (Four Walls Eight Windows/Basic Books) and The Possible City (Camino Books). Popkin is co-founder and co-editor of the Hidden City Daily and senior writer and script editor of the Emmy-winning documentary series “Philadelphia: The Great Experiment.” He is also the fiction review editor of Cleaver Magazine. Popkin contributes to the Wall Street Journal Weekend Review, Public Books, The Smart Set, and theDactyl Review. Much of his work is at nathanielpopkin.net.
Nic Lawrence teaches poetry at Marshall University in West Virginia. Some of her work can be found in Hobart and the Appalachian Still: The Journal.
Nicholas Boggs is a Brooklyn-based writer whose work has appeared in the anthology James Baldwin Now, Callaloo, and Mary: A Literary Quarterly. The recipient of fellowships and residencies from Yaddo and MacDowell, he’s currently writing a book about his search for the untold story behind James Baldwin’s collaboration with the French artist Yoran Cazac. He teaches at Columbia University.
Nicholas Bredie is the author the novel Not Constantinople, from Dzanc Books, Summer 2017. With Joanna Howard, he is the translator of Frédéric Boyer’s novella Cows, published by Noemi Press. His writing has appeared in The Believer, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Fairy Tale Review, LitHub, Puerto del Sol, Electric Literature and elsewhere. After living and working in Istanbul, Turkey, he is now in Los Angeles with his wife, Nora Lange.
Nicholas Grider is the author of the story collection Misadventure (A Strange Object), which was longlisted for the Frank O'Connor Prize, and the experimental book Thirty Pie Charts (Gauss PDF), and his work has appeared in Caketrain, Conjunctions, DIAGRAM, Guernica and elsewhere.
Nicholas Rys writes, teaches and makes music. His writing has appeared in Entropy Mag, Enclave blog and Shotgun Honey. His music can be heard @ www.soundcloud.com/normadesmondmusic and myideaoffun.org/normadesmond. He currently lives in rural Ohio.
Nichole L. Reber
Nichole L. Reber has won a couple of awards for her nonfiction about art, architecture, travel, and cultural politics. She heads a nonfiction writers group in Columbus and writes a PANK column on international literature. Her work has appeared in World Literature Today, The Atticus Review, and EastLit.
Nick Attfield is a Lecturer in Music at Worcester College, University of Oxford, UK. He has published journal articles and book chapters on German music and politics over the past hundred years, and on late nineteenth-century French opera; American alternative rock of the eighties and nineties is an equally strong, if perhaps tangential, interest.
The author of North of Order and Book of Lake, Nicholas Gulig is a Thai-American poet from Wisconsin.
Nick Sturm is the author of the poetry book, How We Light, published by H_NGM_N in 2013. His work has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Typo, Jubilat, PEN, and Best American Nonrequired Reading 2014.
Nick Sylvester lives in New York City.
Nicole Steinberg is the author of Getting Lucky (Spooky Girlfriend Press, 2013) and three chapbooks, most recently Undressing (dancing girl press, 2014) and Clever Little Gang, winner of the Furniture Press 4X4 Chapbook Award. Her work has been featured or reviewed in the New York Times, Newsweek, Flavorwire, Bitch, Hyperallergic, and elsewhere. She's the founder of New York's EARSHOT reading series and she lives in Philadelphia.
Nicoletta is a native of Queens, NY and will become an Egyptologist. Until then she finds herself lingering in the communities of Urban Word NYC/Studio Museum in Harlem, and exploring her Eastern European gypsy roots. She is also currently assisting at the Fanzine Brooklyn office.
Nicolette Polek is from Cleveland, Ohio. She attends Bennington College, where she was recently awarded the 2015 MFA Undergraduate Fellowship in Fiction. Her recent work has been published in The Pacifica Literary Review, and forthcoming in The Chicago Quarterly Review.
Niina Pollari is the author of Dead Horse (Birds, LLC 2015) and the translator, from the Finnish, of Tytti Heikkinen's The Warmth of the Taxidermied Animal (Action Books 2012). She tweets @heartbarf.
Nik De Dominic
Nik De Dominic writes poems, teaches, and lives in Los Angeles.
Nikki Wallschlaeger’s work has been featured in DecomP, Word Riot, Spork, Likewise Folio, Horse Less Review, Storyscape Journal, Coconut ,The Account, & others. She is also the author of the chapbook THE FROGS AT NIGHT (Shirt Pocket Press) and the chapbook, I WOULD BE THE HAPPIEST BIRD (Horseless Press). She’s also an Assistant Poetry Editor at Coconut Poetry. She lives in Milwaukee, WI and you can reach her at nikkiwallschlaeger.com.
Extracts from Zao Dha Diet - Nina Cristante’s ongoing work and health consultation system.
Nina Oteria is a poet from North Carolina living in Harlem. She is a candidate of the Pratt MFA in Creative Writing and Activism.
Nina Puro is a poet, human, & queer weirdo whose writing is in The Atlas Review, Guernica, the PEN Poetry Series, & others. A member of the Belladonna* Collaborative; author of two chapbooks (Argos Books and dancing girl press); recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Barbara Deming Fund, & Syracuse University (MFA 2012), Nina cries and works in Brooklyn.
Noelle Kocot is the author of six books of poetry, most recently, Soul in Space (Wave Books, 2013). She also translated some of the poems of Corbiere, and they comprise a book called Poet by Default (Wave, 2011), as well as a limited edition discograpy, Damon's Room (Wave 2010). She has received awards from The Academy of American Poets, The American Poetry Review, The Fund for Poetry and The National Endowment for the Arts, as well as a Lannan Literary Foundation Fellowship. She grew up in Brooklyn, and now lives in New Jersey and teaches writing in New York
Originally from Milwaukee, WI, Nora Hickey now lives in Albuquerque, NM. A graduate of Kalamazoo College and University of New Mexico, her poetry has appeared in Court Green, the Massachusetts Review, Mid American Review, DIAGRAM, and other journals. She is member of the Dirt City writers collective.
Norman Feliks studied History at York University in Toronto before getting a Fiction MFA from the City College of New York. He makes a living driving film production trailers and does most of his writing during long days on-set in an old diesel. He has been published in Promethean, Keep This Bag Away From Children, and Weijia Quarterly. He lives in Toronto and Brooklyn.
O.B. De Alessi
O.B. De Alessi is a visual artist, performer and writer from Italy and currently based in Paris. She obtained a MFA from Chelsea College of Art in London and she has exhibited widely in Europe, Russia and South America. She is currently working on a children’s novel.
Oki Sogumi was born in Seoul, Korea and currently resides in Philadelphia. She is the author of The Island of Natural History (forthcoming from Publication Studio), and a chapbook, Salt Wedge. Her poetry has been included in HiZero (UK), LIES Journal, 11x11, and appears in little boxes on the internet sometimes.
Olena Jennings completed her MFA at Columbia University and her MA at the University of Alberta. Her translations from the Ukrainian have been published in Poetry International, Poetry International Web, and Chelsea. Her feature articles and book reviews can be found on KGB Bar Lit.
Oliver Strand lives in Rhode Island, where he works as a woodworker. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Anomalous, Poor Claudia, the Brooklyn Review, Spoon River Poetry Review and Synecdoche.
Oliver Zarandi is a writer and editor. He edits Funhouse, a magazine about the body and his latest work appears in Hobart, The Quietus and Vol 1 Brooklyn. Contact him on @funhousemag or @zarandi.
Oscar d'Artois is an American poet from Paris, France. He is the author of the poetry book Teen Surf Goth (Metatron, 2015) & the prose chapbook Ramen, a finalist for the 2016 Newfound Prose Prize. Visit oscardartois.wtf for more info.
P. I. Navarro
P. I. Navarro lives, writes, and plays music in Atlanta, GA. He earned his B. A. in Humanities from New College of Florida, and his M. A. in Literature from Georgia State University. He plays in the bands Lacuna M. and Imagination Head, and sometimes updates his blog strangerthan.org
Paddy Johnson is an artist and author of the popular blog Art Fag City. She is currently working on an infomercial which promotes new and exciting innovations such as The Noodler, The Salad Tosser, and most recently Pants. As a clothing item, they really seem to have caught on. She also has, in the past, written NY listings for Fanzine.
Pasha Malla is the author of The Withdrawal Method (stories) and All Our Grandfathers Are Ghosts (poems, sort of).
Patrick Culliton is. Just kidding.
Patrick Wensink is the author of three books, most recently the novel Broken Piano for President (Lazy Fascist Press). He is the 103rd most popular humorist in America. Discover all things wentastic: www.patrickwensink.com
Paul Asta was born in South Korea. He is bookbinder and writer from the Chicago Suburbs. He currently serves as a Poetry Editor for Hobart. Follow him on twitter @impossipaul
Paul Cunningham manages Radioactive Moat Press and edits Deluge. He is the translator of two chapbooks by Sara Tuss Efrik: Automanias: Selected Poems (Goodmorning Menagerie, 2016) and The Night’s Belly (Toad Press, 2016). His own writing has appeared in publications including Spork, Bat City Review, LIT, Smoking Glue Gun, DIAGRAM, Witness, Tarpaulin Sky, and others. He holds a M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Notre Dame. He co-curates the Yumfactory Reading Series with poet Jake Syersak in Athens, Georgia.
Paul Longo lives in Portland, OR. He works as a biomedical engineer at a startup developing treatments for traumatic bleeding. His work has appeared in Best New Poets and is forthcoming in Fence.
Paula Bomer's latest book is Inside Madeleine.
Penny Goring lives in London. She makes things.
Pete Hausler edits nonfiction for Post Road magazine, is a contributing editor to Field: New Sports Journal, and writes book reviews for a large, daily financial newspaper. He lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. and Milanville, Pa. with his wife, two daughters, and a dog named Boo. He is (and forever shall be) working on a bar memoir.
Pete Hausler and Michael Louie
Pete Segall is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was a Truman Capote Fellow. His fiction has appeared in Necessary Fiction, decomP, Forge Lit, and elsewhere. He lives in Chicago with his wife, the writer Kim Brooks, and their children.
Peter Davis' books of poetry are Hitler's Mustache, Poetry! Poetry! Poetry!, and TINA. He live in Muncie, Indiana and teaches at Ball State University. More info at artisnecessary.com
Peter Jacoby's writing has appeared in Mother Jones, The New York Press, The Colorado Springs Independent, Raging Face, and Gompers/Night Moves/Big Uns, among other publications.
Peter Markus & Robert Lopez
Peter Richards is the recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant in Poetry, an Iowa Arts Fellowship, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and the John Logan Award. His poems have appeared in Agni, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence, The Yale Review, and other journals. He is the author of OUBLIETTE(Verse Press/Wave Books, 2001), which won the Massachusetts Center for the Book Honors Award; NUDE SIREN (Verse Press/Wave Books, 2003); and HELSINKI (Action Books, 2011). He has was taught poetry at the University of Montana(Richard Hugo Visiting Poet) Harvard University(Briggs-Copeland Lecturer), Tufts University, Museum School of Fine Arts, and Brown University.
Peter Thompson has written for HUSTLER, Cheri, Finally Legal, Modern Drunkard, The Weekend Standard, Vegas Seven, LA Weekly, Reno News & Review, Chico News & Review, Sacramento News & Review, Tucson Weekly, Santa Cruz Weekly, Baltimore City Paper, Washington Post, Utne.com, AlterNet, Sacramento Bee, Nevada Appeal, Tahoe Daily Tribune, High Society, others. Eyes: Hazel-green. Biggest turn ons: conversation, hot tubs, money, mountains, sleeping late. Biggest turn offs: silence, cold baths, food stamps, valleys, waking up early.
Philip Dinolfo is a California native who recently moved from Los Angeles to San Francisco, where he is working on a collection of science-fiction stories. He tweets @pgdinolfo.
Philippa Snow is a London-based writer and editor at Modern Matter and Hexus journal. She has written for i-D, the Guardian, E.R.O.S. journal, and the Quietus, among others.
Phoebe Glick left her heart in Massachusetts. She's a candidate in the Pratt MFA in Writing and Activisms and is a co-founder of The Felt, journal of otherworldly poetics. Her chapbook Period Appropriate is forthcoming from dancing girl press in Spring 2016.
Precious Okoyomon is a Brooklyn based poet and artist. She is the author of Ajebota (Bottlecap Press, 2016). Her writing has been published in Lit Magazine, Fanzine, New York Tyrant and elsewhere. She loves her sweet toy poodle rainbow and is a Leo that is very low key evil. She’s currently working on a book or two. http://preciousokoyomon.com/
Rachel Allen is the assistant managing editor of Guernica. Her work has appeared in Nerve, Mask, DAME, Highway, and Human Parts. She lives in Brooklyn; she is a Pisces; her website is goddibar.tumblr.com.
Rachel Ellison is an artist and writer based in Chicago. Current independent projects include Tru Touch: Spa of guided conversation and hosting the radio program We're All Dying Radio Hour: A Show About Care on Chicago's WHPK 88.5FM (the pride of the South Side). She works independently and also collaborates with Cassandra Troyan and others as JIMMYBROOKS, and they are currently in residency at Flying Object in Hadley, MA. You can find her at @YesJewess.
Rachel Lyon's work has appeared most recently or is forthcoming in Joyland, The Toast, McSweeney's, Iowa Review, and elsewhere. A copywriter by day, she teaches fiction for Sackett Street Writers Workshop by night. Her first novel is slowly making its way out of her head and into the world. You can find her at www.rachellyon.work.
Rachel McLeod Kaminer
Rachel McLeod Kaminer grew up in the Appalachians & lives in Los Angeles. Work appears in OR, The Laurel Review, Open Review Quarterly, and limited-edition letterpress chapbooks from Archteype. She also writes at racheldoinglines.tumblr.com, Wet Crossing, and Partial Tongues.
Rachel Pafe is a writer, researcher and freelance editor based in Amsterdam.
Rachel Sherman is the author of the The First Hurt (Open City Books, 2006), a book of short stories. The First Hurt was a finalist for The 2006 International Frank O’Connor Short Story Award, short-listed for the 2007 Story Award, and was chosen as one of the 25 Books to Remember from 2006 by the New York Public Library. Her fiction has appeared in McSweeney's, Open City, Post Road, Conjunctions, n+1, and Story Quarterly, and in the book Full Frontal Fiction: The Best of Nerve Anthology (Three Rivers Press, 2001), among other publications. She holds an MFA from Columbia University.
Rachel Springer is a poet and statistician living in Portland, OR. She is the author of Hive Mind, out with Poor Claudia, and Summer of Tequila, forthcoming from Similar Peaks Press.
Radhika Vyas Sharma
Radhika Sharma is a writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Fiction at the San Francisco State University.
Rae Gouirand’s first collection of poetry, Open Winter, was selected by Elaine Equi for the 2011 Bellday Prize, won a 2012 Independent Publisher Book Award and the 2012 Eric Hoffer Book Award, and was a finalist for the Montaigne Medal, the Audre Lorde Award, and the California Book Award for poetry. Her new work has appeared most recently in American Poetry Review, ZYZZYVA, VOLT, The Brooklyner, The Rumpus, Hobart, The California Journal of Poetics, The Hat, and in a Distinguished Poet feature for The Inflectionist Review. She is currently at work on her third collection of poems and a collection of linked essays.
Raul Alvarez is the author of There Was So Much Beautiful Left (Boost House, 2015). He holds an MFA from Columbia College Chicago and works for the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project in Seattle.
Rayvon Pettis is a 23 year old writer from Ft. Payne Alabama currently living and working in Atlanta Georgia. He graduated with a Radio Television and Film degree from Auburn University and has won several awards for short film including 3rd prize at the 2009 Jay Sanders Film Festival. His work has been published in Auburn's The Corner News and The F-Word, a bi-annual feminist zine. He is also a commissioned officer in the Alabama National Guard and writes country music under the pseudo-name Tratt McDunkitt.
RC Miller lives in Metuchen, NJ. He is the author of Mask With Sausage (Schism), Surviving Beyond Recognition and the impending Abstract Slavery (Dostoyevsky Wannabe), co-written with Gary J. Shipley.
Rebecca Bligh & Caspar Heinemann
Rebecca Fishow's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Tin House, Joyland, Room Magazine, The Believer Logger, Smokelong Quarterly, The Tishman Review, and other publications. She holds an MFA from Syracuse University and lives with her husband in western Maryland. She teaches fiction and playwriting at Barbara Ingram School for the Arts.
Rem + Rom
The feral twin brothers Rem + Rom come to you born from the headwaters of the Columbia River, fathered by a rogue member of the «Clueless + Lark» expedition and reared by a she-wolf. They currently «ride» A Raft Manifest (Calamari Archive, 2017) + guest-blog about their riding process on 5cense.com.
Renato Escudero is in the MFA program in creative writing at San Francisco State University, where he earned his MA degree last year. His fiction and poetry have appeared in Cipactli. He was a fiction finalist in the New Letters Literary Awards 2005.
Renic Lee is Fanzine's current News Blogger Anchor. Known in some circles as "The Lassie from Tallahassee" (could add "sassy" to that thread....anyway, actually she's been on a walk-about from Melbourne since she was 18 and has never returned). She'll get the scoop - or by God - rewrite it better!
Reynard Seifert is a writer, radio producer, music maker, photographer, filmmaker, painter, teacher, forager, and farmer. He lives in Ashland, Oregon.
Rhoads Stevens was born in Baltimore, grew up in Honolulu, and lives in Providence.
Richard Chiem is the author of YOU PRIVATE PERSON, a collection of short stories published by Scrambler books. His work has appeared in Thought Catalog, elimae, and Everyday Genius, among other places. He is currently living in Seattle with his girlfriend and their loud cat.
Richard Henderson is a writer, music editor and occasional music supervisor for feature films. Born in Detroit, he leads a nomadic existence in California. His film credits include Brüno, Borat, Into The Wild and The Life Aquatic; his writing has appeared in The Wire, Billboard, The Beat and Murder Dog.
Richard Parks lives in Oakland. A former community newspaper editor (of the Martinez News-Gazette and the Benicia Herald), Parks writes about books, music, and baseball for various online and print publications. His nonfiction writing has appeared in No Depression (RIP), Oxford American, mcsweeneys.net, Fiddler, Pleiades, Mid-American Review, Elysian Fields Quarterly, Spitball, and elsewhere. He recorded for a while under the moniker Potions Made By Children. His drawings have appeared in The Believer and his short fiction at elimae.
Rico Frederick is an award-winning performance poet, and graphic designer. He is the author of the book Broken Calypsonian (Penmanship Books, 2014), 2016 Poets House Emerging Fellow, Cave Canem Fellow, a MFA candidate at the Pratt Institute and the first poet to represent all four New York City poetry venues (Nuyorican, Urbana, LouderArts, and Intangible) at the National Poetry Slam (2010 and 2012 Grand Slam Champion). His poems, artistic work, and films have been featured in the New York Times, Muzzle, No Dear Magazine, The Big Apple Film Festival, and elsewhere. Rico is a Trinidadian transplant, lives in New York, loves gummy bears, and scribbles poems on the back of maps in the hope they will take him someplace new.
Rita Bullwinkel's writing has appeared or is forthcoming in NOON, Heavy Feather Review, Paper Darts, The Brooklyn Rail, Two Serious Ladies and the book Gigantic Worlds: An Anthology of Science Flash Fiction. She is currently an MFA candidate at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
Rob Halpern's most recent book of poems and prose is Music for Porn (Nightboat Books). Common Place is forthcoming early next year from Ugly Duckling Presse.
Rob Tennant writes about books, food, theatre, and societal ills from the comfortable distance of Salt Lake City. His recent resurrection of an old hard drive might mean that novel gets done, too.
Rob Walsh is the author of Troublers, a collection of stories. His website is rob-walsh.com.
Robert Kloss is the author most recently of The Revelator. He lives in Colorado.
Robert Lopez is the author of two novels, Part of the World and Kamby Bolongo Mean River and a story collection, Asunder.
Robin Brasington is a visual artist who has a particular interest in the moving image. In 2006 she earned an MFA degree from SUNY University at Buffalo's Media Study Department. She recently relocated from Brooklyn, NY (with partner Casey McKinney) to Atlanta, Georgia, not far from the country town she grew up in. Here she continues her introspective manipulations of images through video and photography, producing studies which are inevitably internationally conscious in theme, even if her shoes still proudly retain the red stain of her native Georgia clay.
Robyn Weisman is a freelance writer who lives in Los Angeles.
Rodney Wilhite is a native of rural Northeastern Oklahoma. His poems have appeared in Pleiades, 14 Hills, The Idle Class, Cartographer, The Puritan, and Splash of Red. He teaches at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith and lives in Fayetteville with his wife and infant daughter.
Ronaldo V. Wilson
Ronaldo V. Wilson, PhD, is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man (University of Pittsburgh, 2008), winner of the 2007 Cave Canem Prize, Poems of the Black Object (Futurepoem Books, 2009), winner of the the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry and the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry. His latest books are Farther Traveler: Poetry, Prose, Other (Counterpath Press, 2015) and Lucy 72 (1913 Press, 2016). CoFounder of the Black Took Collective, Wilson is an Associate Professor of Poetry, Fiction and Literature in the Literature Department at U. C. Santa Cruz.
Ross Robbins is the founder of Bone Tax Press and the Bone Tax Reading Series. His poems have appeared in Hobart, Vinyl Poetry, and Ampersand Review. A chapbook, All in black blood my love went riding, is available from Two Plum Press, and his full-length debut, Mental Hospital: A Memoir, will be released by YesYes Books in 2015. Visit Ross online at rossrobbinspoetry.tumblr.com.
Ross Simonini is the interviews editor for The Believer. Right now he's living in Seattle, spending most of his time making music and writing, which is nice, since those are his favorite things to do. He currently plays with Trespassers William, Tunnel-Tunnel, New Villager, and rooos!
Ruby Brunton is a New Zealand-raised writer, poet and performer who now lives in Brooklyn. She's had poems in 4 Poets, Hobart, Witchcraft and Metatron where she is the New York coordinator, and essays in Hazlitt, Real Life, The New Inquiry and Mask Magazine where she is a contributing editor. She spends a lot of time thinking about intimacy, resistance, how to create community and education alternatives. Find her on twitter & tumblr @rubybrunton.
Ryan Craig Bradford
Ryan Craig Bradford edits BLACK CANDIES, a literary horror journal. His writing has appeared in Quarterly West, Paper Darts, Vice, Monkeybicycle and [PANK]. He lives in San Diego.
Ryan Ridge writes and teaches in Southern California. He is the author of the story collection Hunters & Gamblers, the poetry collection Ox, and the novella American Homes.
Ryan Ridge & Mel Bosworth
Mel Bosworth is the author of the novel Freight and the poetry chapbook Every Laundromat in the World. A former series editor for the Wigleaf Top 50, he is the creator & curator of the Small Press Book Review. Mel lives, breathes, writes, and works in Western Massachusetts. Ryan Ridge is the author of the story collection Hunters & Gamblers and the poetry collection Ox, as well as the chapbooks Hey, it’s America and 22nd Century Man. The University of Michigan Press released his latest book, American Homes, in 2015. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky, where he edits Juked.
Sabra Embury is a book critic for The L Magazine. She lives in Brooklyn.
Sade Murphy is a poet and artist from Houston, TX. Sade is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, the author of Dream Machine (co-im-press, 2014), and a columnist at Real Pants (Lonely Britches and What's the Tea). They are pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing and Activism at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. They are the new chapbooks editor for Horseless Press and a co-curator for a reading series at Pete's Candy Store in Williamsburg. .
Safy-Hallan Farah is a writer from Minneapolis, MN. She has written for Paper Darts, Thought Catalog, This Recording, VICE, Geez Magazine, The Feminist Wire, Gawker and her blog Fatwas and Fanboys, among other places.
Sally Rodgers lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama with her poorly-trained dog and her well-trained boyfriend. In her spare time she teaches creative writing to fourth graders and plans poetry fashion shows. She also has a moss garden. You can find more of her work at sporkpress.com.
Sam DiBella is a freelance editor and designer from Rhode Island. He currently lives in Brooklyn.
books out through lazy fascist press. Instagram.com/sam_pink_art & twitter.com/sampinkisalive
Sam Riviere is the author of the poetry collections 81 Austerities (2012), Kim Kardashian's Marriage (2015), and most recently True Colours (2016). He lives in Edinburgh and runs the micropublisher If a Leaf Falls Press. Safe Mode, an ambient novel, will be published by Test Centre later this year.
Sam Sacks' book reviews also appear in the New York Press, Las Vegas Weekly, and the Columbia
Journal for American Studies. He lives in New York City, cobbling together tutoring work while he writes.
Sam Virzi lives in Northampton, Massachusetts. He was the first resident at Camp Uranus, at Luke Goebel's ranch in Tyler, Texas. He's published writing in The New York Tyrant, Spork Press, and Hobart.
Samantha Culp followed her love of Wong Kar-Wai movies to Hong Kong after college, and currently teaches there at a university near the 10,000 Buddhas Monastery. Apparently there are monkeys living on campus but she has yet to see one. Her Cantonese is still very bad but she recently managed to discourage a cellphone stalker from calling back by telling him: "Gingchaak wuih jouh yeh ge la!" ("The police will do something!") and was pretty psyched about that. When not grading papers or traveling, Samantha writes on art and culture for two Hong Kong newspapers and American magazines (NY Arts, The Blow-Up, The Fader), and is also working on a short film set in the future.
Samantha Zighelboim’s poems and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in POETRY, Boston Review, Circumference: A Journal of Poetry in Translation, the PEN Poetry Series, and Stonecutter, among others. She lives in New York City and teaches creative writing at Rutgers University.
Samuel Rafael Barber
Samuel Rafael Barber is an M.A. candidate in English at Columbia University. Recent work has appeared in Puerto del Sol and DIAGRAM. According to life expectancy tables, he will live another 52.7 years.
Sandra Simonds is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently The Sonnets (Bloof Books) and Steal it Back (forthcoming, Saturnalia Books). Follower her on Twitter: @sandmansimonds
Sara Finnerty has essays and stories in Black Warrior Review, Joyland, Brevity, The Weeklings and others. She is from Queens, NY and lives in Los Angeles where she co-curates The Griffith Park Storytelling Series and lives with her husband and daughter. Her website is www.sarafinnerty.com
Sara Jaffe is a writer and musician living in Portland, OR. Her novel Dryland was published by Tin House Books in 2015. She's currently working on a collection of short stories. www.sarajaffewriter.com
Sara Kachelman is a college student from Alabama. She has fiction forthcoming in DIAGRAM and the Portland Review. A full list of her stories can be found here: https://sarakachelman.wordpress.com.
Sarah Bridgins lives in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in Buzzfeed, Tin House, Luna Luna, Sink Review, Big Lucks, Thrush, and Two Serious Ladies among other journals.
Sarah Certa was born in Germany in 1987. She is the author of RED PAPER HEART, a limited edition chapbook from Zoo Cake Press (2013). Her poems have been published in Narrative, B O D Y, Connotation Press, and elsewhere. She lives and writes in Minnesota.
Sarah Gallien raises two small children in the Northwest near a National Park and former Hudson Bay Company outpost. She studies Education. She works for the district. She cofounded and edits alice blue and over the years there's been stuff—work. There's more work—recent, forthcoming—in Shotgun Wedding and Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. I don't know. She's writing a novel, I guess.
Sarah Jean Alexander
Sarah Jean Alexander is the author of Wildlives (Big Lucks Books, 2015) and LOUD IDIOTS (Second Books, 2016) and has been featured in the Quietus, the Fader, Noisey, Dazed Digital, Lenny Letter and elsewhere. She is the poetry editor of Shabby Doll House and tweets @sarahjeanalex.
Sarah Maclay is a poet currently living in Venice, California. Her books include Music for the Black Room, The White Bride, and Whore (UT Press), and her poems and criticism have appeared in APR, Ploughshares, FIELD, Poetry Daily, Slope, The Laurel Review, Ninth Letter, The Writer’s Chronicle, The Best American Erotic Poems: From 1800 to the Present, and many other spots, including Poetry International, where she has long served as book review editor. She also served as artistic director of The 3rd Area, a gallery-based reading series in Downtown L.A. and Bergamot Station. She teaches creative writing and literature at LMU and conducts workshops at Beyond Baroque.
Sarah Maria Griffin
Sarah Maria Griffin is a writer from Dublin, Ireland, based in San Francisco. Her work has appeared in The Irish Times, The Rumpus, and The Stinging Fly, and she has read multiple times on RTE Radio’s arts program, Arena. She is co-editor of Bare Hands International Poetry Journal. Her first collection of poetry, Follies, was published by Lapwing in 2011, and her collection of essays, Not Lost, will be released by New Island in Winter 2013.
Sarah Rose Etter
Sarah Rose Etter lives in South Philadelphia. She's the author of Tongue Party (Caketrain Press). Her work has appeared in The Black Warrior Review, Salt Hill Journal, Hobart, and more.
Sarah V. Schweig
Sarah V. Schweig is the author of Take Nothing with You (University of Iowa Press, 2016). Her poems have appeared in BOMB, Boston Review, Tin House, The Volta, and elsewhere. She studies philosophy at The New School for Social Research and lives and works in New York City.
Sasha Banks is a poet whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in RHINO, Kinfolks Quarterly, Alight, Poor Claudia, Austin IPF, B O D Y Literature, The Collagist, and has been performed in Tulane University’s Vagina Monologues. Sasha is the creator of Poets for Ferguson and a MFA candidate at the Pratt Institute. She lives in Brooklyn, NY, where she is learning to be Black and spectacular at the same damn time.
Sasha Fletcher is author of the novella When All Our Days Are Numbered Marching Bands Will Fill the Streets & We Will Not Hear Them Because We Will Be Upstairs in the Clouds [mud luscious press, 2010], and several chapbooks of poetry including the forthcoming dear gloria, dear madeline, dear siobhan, dear ethel, dear eloise, dear wendy, dear becky, dear lisa, dear liza, dear michelle, dear tamika, dear tanya, tonight [Big Lucks Books, 2014]. With Leigh Stein, he runs The Book Report Reading series.
Sasha Fletcher & Monica McClure
Saxon Baird has written for Guernica, Slate, Vice Sports, Gothamist, Blunderbuss, Large Up and other places. He also works as a bartender.
Schi (Ski) O'Malley has had a storied "newsman's" career, with fights and firings and a lot of workman's comp dental work. It's rumored he might have broken more bones in that old Irish bag of his than the great stuntman Hooper played by Burt Reynolds, if Hooper actually existed. Schi's injuries have accrued playing rugby, golf, tennis, sailing, hockey, football (both American style and as the rest of the world refuses to call it, soccer). He's even been stabbed with a dart. Schi's currently the Sports Guy on the Blog portion of Fanzine, which he does for free, because, "damn it," he cares...
Author of The History of Luminous Motion, Greetings From Earth: New and Collected Stories, and, most recently, Good Girl Wants it Bad and Hot Animal Love: Tales of Modern Romance, both available from Carroll & Graf. A Professor of English at University of Connecticut, his (too) numerous stories, essays and reviews have appeared in TLS, The New York Times Book Review, The London Review of Books,Triquarterly, Fence, and Bookforum.
Scott Bradley co-edited The Book of Lists Horror (HarperCollins, 2008). His short fiction has appeared in the anthologies Werewolves & Shapeshifters and Help! Wanted, and an essay on the cult classic The Hitcher appeared in the critical collection Butcher Knives and Body Counts. With his writing partner Peter Giglio he has co-written a feature-length screenplay adaptation of Joe R. Lansdale’s classic short story “The Night They Missed the Horror Show.” Scott is at work on several projects, including a novel (with Giglio) called The Dark for the Ravenous Shadows line. He lives in Los Angeles. For more information see: https://www.facebook.com/SBradley1972.
Scott Creney graduated from Granite Hills High School in El Cajon, Ca. He currently lives in Athens, Ga.
Scott Daughtridge was born and raised in Acworth, Georgia, a small town with two lakes and a lot of trailer parks. I Hope Something Good Happens is his first chapbook.
Scott Esposito is the coauthor of The End of Oulipo? (with Lauren Elkin). His writing has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, Drunken Boat, Music & Literature, The White Review, The Point, Bookforum, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, and many others.
Scott Fenton is a graduate of the MFA program at Indiana University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Green Mountains Review, Hobart, SmokeLong Quarterly, and Ninth Letter Online.
Scott Garson is the author of Is That You, John Wayne? and other stuff.
Scott Thomas Outlar
Scott Thomas Outlar is a writer, researcher and seeker of truth. His work can be seen at Daily Anarchist, Oracular Tree, Loose Change and Dissident Voice. He can be contacted at 17Numa@gmail.com.
Sean Dungan’s first book of stories, Unwelcomeness, was published in late 2007. His work has appeared in Werewolf Express, Asteroid Impaired, Snowflake and The Santa Monica Review, and was included in the Hammer Museum’s New American Writing series. He’s taught at Art Center College of Design and guest lectured at CalArts. He lives in Los Angeles but was born in Sacramento.
Sean Kilpatrick is the author of Gil the Nihilist, fuckscapes, and collaboratively with Blake Butler, Anatomy Courses.
Sean Lawlor received his MFA in Fiction from Chatham University in 2014. He currently teaches English and Creative Writing in Kansas City, MO. Recently, he began channeling his love of film into reviews, both in written and podcasting form. His podcast, General Snobbery, deconstructs films (typically bad films) and posits their implications on culture and the contemporary human condition. It can be found on iTunes and at generalsnobbery.com.
Sean Pears is currently pursuing a PhD in the Poetics Program at the University at Buffalo. His recent writing and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Jacket2, The Emily Dickinson Journal, The Colorado Review, and Songs for a Passbook Torch: An Anthology of Writing on Nelson Mandela. He edits the audio journal of contemporary poetry, ythm.
Sebastian Castillo was born in Caracas, Venezuela, grew up in New York, and lives in Philadelphia, where he teaches writing. His most recent work has been published in Electric Literature, shabby doll house, and The Conversant. He's currently writing 49 novels. You can also find him on the internet @bartlebytaco.
Semyon Khokhlov has a Phd in English from Notre Dame where he wrote a dissertation on Marcel Duchamp and Gertrude Stein. He works as an academic librarian and lives in Philadelphia.
Seth Landman lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, and is a member of the Agnes Fox Press collective. His first book of poems is Sign You Were Mistaken (Factory Hollow Press, 2013). He has work forthcoming in Robot Melon, Noo, Verse, and Columbia Poetry Review. He works as an Academic Advisor at UMass, Amherst, and with Seth Parker, he collaborates on Tyoyeu. He writes about basketball sometimes at The Peach Basket.
Shane Allison's poems and stories have graced the online and hard copy pages of Mississippi Review, New Delta Review, Suspect Thoughts, juked.com, shampoo, coconut, Best Black Gay Erotica, Best Gay Erotica and Ultimate Gay Erotica. He is the editor of Hot Cops: Gay Erotic Stories and Back Draft: Fireman Erotica. His collages have been featured in Fanzine's banner art.
Shane Anderson is the author of Soft Passer (Mindmade Books) and Études des Gottnarrenmaschinen (Broken Dimanche Press) and his translation of Ulf Stolterfoht's The Amme Talks is forthcoming with Triple Canopy. Amongst other places, his poems can be found in 6x6, Edit, Plinth, Natalie Czech's Il pleut series and Matthew Barney's River of Fundament (Skira Rizzoli). He lives in Berlin where he curates the reading series HERE! HERE! THERE!
Shane Jesse Christmass
Shane Jesse Christmass is the author of the novels, Police Force As A Corrupt Breeze (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2016) and Acid Shottas (The Ledatape Organisation, 2014). He was a member of the band Mattress Grave, and is currently a member in Snake Milker. An archive of his writing/artwork/music can be found at www.sjx.digital
Shane Jones lives in Albany, New York and is the author Light Boxes, The Failure Six, and A Cake Appeared. In August 2012, Penguin will publish a new novel, Daniel Fights A Hurricane. His new novel Crystal Eaters will be published in June of 2014.
Sharon Mesmer is an award-winning poet, fiction writer and essayist. Her newest poetry collection, Greetings From My Girlie Leisure Place, from Bloof Books, was voted “Best of 2015” by Entropy. Previous poetry collections are Annoying Diabetic Bitch (Combo Books, 2008), The Virgin Formica (Hanging Loose Press, 2008), Vertigo Seeks Affinities (chapbook, Belladonna Books, 2007), Half Angel, Half Lunch (Hard Press, 1998) and Crossing Second Avenue (chapbook, ABJ Press, Tokyo, 1997). Four of her poems appear in Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (second edition, 2013). Other anthology appearances include Poems for the Nation: Edited by Allen Ginsberg (Seven Stories Press, 2000) and The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1999). Her fiction collections are Ma Vie à Yonago (Hachette Littératures, Paris, in French translation, 2005), In Ordinary Time (Hanging Loose Press, 2005) and The Empty Quarter (Hanging Loose Press, 2000). An excerpt of her story “Revenge” appears in I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing By Women (Les Figues, 2012). Her awards include a Fulbright Specialist grant (2011), a Jerome Foundation/SASE award (as mentor to poet Elisabeth Workman, 2009) and two New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships (2007 and 1999). Her essays, reviews and interviews have appeared in the New York Times, Paris Review, American Poetry Review, and the Brooklyn Rail, among other places. An original member of the flarf collective, her work was featured on National Public Radio’s “Studio 360” program on January 23, 2009. She teaches in the undergraduate and graduate programs of New York University and The New School, and lives in Brooklyn.
Shelby Shaw is a writer in New York and Managing Editor of the art and literary journal Storyfile. www.shelby-shaw.com
Sherri Caudell is an Atlanta poet and freelance writer with a BFA in photography from Georgia State University. Caudell lived in Brooklyn for ten years, where she interned at Harper’s Bazaar and Interview magazines, and served as the Associate Fashion Editor for Martha Stewart Weddings magazine. Caudell has exhibited her artwork at Youngblood Gallery and in various group shows throughout New York City. Caudell’s poetry has been published in The Eyedrum Periodically. She hosts Vida Voce, a monthly reading and performance series featuring women at MINT gallery. She writes art reviews and conducts studio visits with artists regularly for BurnAway.org. She is the Poetry Editor of Loose Change, a literary magazine by WonderRoot. Her favorite author is Borges and she has a cat named Emil Chaplin.
Shiv Kotecha is a writer, artist, and scholar living in New York. He is the author of EXTRIGUE (Make Now, 2015) and others. Looking for Richard was his first solo show (Ginerva Gambino, Cologne). the Unlovable, a long poem, will soon be out on TROLL THREAD. He is a PhD candidate in the English Department at NYU.
Shoshana Seidman is thankful for magical realism, cookies every day, solace and solitude, the statute of limitations, the Muppets, blistering heat, wounded writings, and regeneration. She has a BA in Literature and Writing from UC San Diego, and is a regular contributor to magazines such as The Culture Trip and Entropy.
Simona Blat was born in Riga, Latvia. She hosts a poetry salon at Brazenhead Books and is also the founding editor of Brazenhead Review, a journal of art and literature that publishes anonymously. Her writing has recently appeared in Hello Mr. and The Brooklyn Rail. She lives in Brooklyn.
Simona Schneider is a cultural attache and writer. In the past two years she has been on business to Alaska, Colorado, Oklahoma, West Virgina, Washington DC, Latvia, Morocco, Italy, France, Spain, England and Russia. She is looking for a good lawyer. Her writing has appeared in Bidoun, Conde Nast Traveler, The Columbia Review, Tangier Telegram and other notable publications.
Sonya Vatomsky is a Russian American non-binary artist with too many feelings on the inside and too much cat hair on the outside. They are the author of Salt Is For Curing (Sator Press, 2015), a debut poetry collection about bones, dill, and survival, as well as the chapbook My Heart In Aspic from Porkbelly Press. Find them by saying their name five times in front of a bathroom mirror or at sonyavatomsky.com and @coolniceghost.
Soren Stockman & Danniel Schooennbeek
Spencer Madsen is the author of a million bears, published 2011) and You Can Make Anything Sad. He edits Sorry House books.
Stacey Levine has written four books of fiction: My Horse and Other Stories (Sun & Moon Press), Frances Johnson (Clear Cut Press), Dra--- (Verse Chorus Press), and The Girl with Brown Fur (Starcherone/Dzanc). A Pushcart Prize nominee and recipient of a Stranger Genius Award for Literature, her fiction has appeared in Fence, Tin House, The Fairy Tale Review, The Washington Review, The Santa Monica Review, Yeti and others. Translations of her fiction have appeared in Danish and Japanese publications.
Stacey Tran is a writer and artist living in Portland, OR. www.staceytran.com
Stacy Elaine Dacheux
Stacy Elaine Dacheux is an artist and writer whose work has most recently been shown at studio 1.1 in London and featured in The Los Angeles Times.
Stacy Szymaszek is the author of Pasolini Poems, Emptied of All Ships, Hyperglossia, hart island and the forthcoming Journal of Ugly Sites and Other Journals, which won the Fence Books Ottoline Prize. She has served as a mentor for Queer Arts Mentorship and is the Director of The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church.
Stephanie Barber is an artist living in Baltimore, MD. Her chapbook poems was published by Bronze Skull Press in 2006 and her book these here separated… was reprinted in 2010 by Publishing Genius Press who have also published her recent book Night Moves. Her videos are distributed by Video Data Bank and her films are distributed by Canyon Cinema and Fandor.com. More can be learned at her website stephaniebarber.com.
Stephanie's work has appeared in The Guardian, Entropy, O! The Oprah Magazine, Ravishly, and more. She is at work on her first novel. Visit her at stephaniejimenezwriter.com or @estefsays.
Stephen Danos is author of the chapbooks Missing Slides (Horse Less Press, 2016), DO NOT WANT (alice blue books, 2015) and Playhouse State (H_NGM_N Books, 2012). Some of his work has appeared or is forthcoming in American Letters & Commentary, Boston Review, City Arts, Pleiades, and other places. He is Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of Pinwheel, an online publisher of poetry, artwork and photography. He lives in Seattle.
Stephen Thomas lives in Toronto and his website is stephenthomaswriter.com.
Stephen Tully Dierks is a writer living in Brooklyn and edits Pop Serial.
Stephon Lawrence is a Brooklyn born & based writer, and artist. She is a graduate of the MFA in Writing at Pratt Institute and is an editor of The Felt, a journal of otherworldly poetics. Her work is forthcoming or has appeared in Gandy Dancer, Cosmonauts Avenue, Queen Mob's Teahouse, Glitter Mob, The Fem, and AADOREE. Her chapbook, NERVS, is available from Horse Less Press. Stephon spends her free time watching anime, yelling about white supremacy, and being real cute for the 'gram. You can find her on twitter @nnohpetss.
Steven T. Hanley
Steven T. Hanley lives in London. His Writing has appeared in Vice, Little White Lies, The Quietus, Clash Magazine, and Userlands: New Fiction Writers from the Blogging Underground (Akashic Books, 2007)
Stuart Ross is a writer living in Chicago.
Sueyeun Juliette Lee
Sueyeun Juliette Lee grew up three miles from the CIA. A former Pew Fellow in the Arts, her books include That Gorgeous Feeling (Coconut), Underground National (Factory School), and Solar Maximum (Futurepoem) as well as numerous chapbooks. She founded Corollary Press, a chapbook series dedicated to innovative multi-ethnic writing, and writes reviews for The Constant Critic, a project of Fence Books. Her critical essays explore Asian American contemporary poetics as well as the imaginations of spaces and time. She has held arts residencies in poetry, dance, and video art in Hafnarborg (Iceland), Kunstnarhuset Messen (Norway), and UCross Foundation (Wyoming). You can find her at silentbroadcast.com
suiyi lives in the scopophilic corridor. she is a comparative literature and american studies double major at williams college--on hiatus, in favor of an untwisted bildungsroman, an archive of ballpoints, and lingerie. a gallery of her current projects, guarded by the death drive, may be found at legitimizedinprint.com.
Sunni is a writer, photographer and musician based out of Atlanta, GA. Friend to feminist themes and zine publishing, Sunni works closely with Murmur Media and Atlanta Zine Fest and is currently staffed as a writer, creative consultant and event planner with Wussy Mag, a Southeastern queer arts and culture publication. http://sunnni.com
Susana Bessa likes to think of herself as a writer, but she’s mostly just a 22-year-old who misses everyone. Born in Portugal, she holds a BA in film and is currently an MA Film and Screen Studies candidate at Goldsmiths, University of London. She lives obsessed with time, memory and everything that comes in between, and she’s been writing about film since she was fourteen and got herself published in the tiny corner of a magazine. You won’t find her on facebook or twitter, but feel free to stop by http://candlelitrumours.tumblr.com and assess the nerdiness or drop her a line. She lives in London.
Sylvia Faichney is a Canadian American who currently lives and writes in Minnesota. She received her MA in Design History from the University of Brighton. She loves to look, be in, write and rave about interiors.
T Clutch Fleischmann
T Clutch Fleischmann is the author of Syzygy, Beauty and the curator of Body Forms: Queerness and the Essay.
Talal Achi salutes you.
Originally from Atlanta, USA, Talia Moscovitz’s curatorial and photographic work explores the photographic document in relation to fragmented time, personal intimacy, and construction of identity through lens-based media installations, collaborative exchanges and photographic production. After completing a BA degree at Northeastern University in 2007, she moved to Dublin to work at the Irish Gallery of Photography. The rich photographic community in Ireland helped deepened her work in conceptual scope and, in 2012, she earned a MFA degree in Visual Culture at the Edinburgh College of Art at the University of Edinburgh. Talia Moscovitz has exhibited as a curator and photographer in Dublin, Edinburgh and Glasgow and worked professionally for the Institute of Contemporary Art, London; the British Film Institute’s London Film Festival; the Frieze London and New York art fairs, among other prominent galleries and arts organizations.
Tanner Tafelski is a graduate student in cinema studies at NYU. His writing appears in Film Comment, MUBI Notebook, Indiewire, Desistfilm, and Art Decades. You can check out more of his work at his personal blog, Mongrelmuse.blogspot.com. You can also give him a holler on Twitter: @TTafelski.
Tara Atkinson is a writer and one of the founders of APRIL, a festival of literature from small and independent presses.
TC Tolbert often identifies as a trans and genderqueer feminist, collaborator, dancer, and poet but really s/he’s just a human in love with humans doing human things. Gloria Anzaldúa said, Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them as one walks. John Cage said, it’s lighter than you think. www.tctolbert.com
Ted Dodson is the author of “At the National Monument / Always Today” (Pioneer Works, 2016) and “Pop! in Spring” (Diez, 2013). He works for BOMB, is the books editor for Futurepoem, and is a former editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter.
Terrance Wedin lives in Columbus, Ohio. His writing has appeared in Esquire, Hobart, Smartish Pace, Barrelhouse, Similar:Peaks, and Elimae.
Tessa Fontaine spent the 2013 season performing with the last American traveling circus sideshow, the World of Wonders. Essays about this adventure have appeared at The Rumpus. Other work can be found or is forthcoming in Creative Nonfiction, The Normal School Magazine, Seneca Review, DIAGRAM, New Orleans Review, [PANK], Brevity, and more. Tessa got her MFA from the University of Alabama, where she learned to love good BBQ nachos, and is currently a doctoral student in creative writing at the University of Utah, where she's learning to love snow. Find her at www.TessaFontaine.com.
The Fanzine is a collective of writers and artists on a mission to save America (and the rest of the world) from the evil doers.
The Institute for Erotic Vertigo
The Institute for Erotic Vertigo is a collective formed in secret during 2013, breaking their silence now in 2015. Founding members include Pierre Abidi, M Kitchell & Emmanuelle X, though activity and involvement is not inherently limited to those named. Announcements & missives are occasionally made @eroticvertigo. Navigate their http://labyrinthine.space/
Theis Ørntoft is a Danish poet born in 1984. He graduated from The Royal Danish School of Writings in 2009. Same year, he made his debut with Yeah suiten, for which he received several national literary prizes and nominations. In 2014 he published his second book, Digte 2014 (Poems 2014). This collection - which made headlines in the Danish mass media - is talking about the state of planet Earth anno 2014, where everything, and every time, seems to have melted together. Capitalism and geology, digital networks and planetary eco systems, inner, mental cartographies and outer physical swamplands all seem to have become part of the same, incomprehensible continuum. With Poems 2014 Theis Ørntoft appears for the first time in American translation.
Theo Francis drives an 89 Olds 98. He is working on a manuscript of poems about scams. You can reach him at firstname.lastname@example.org.
Theresa Smalec is Substitute Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences at Bronx Community College/CUNY. Her recent articles appear in TDR, Theatre Journal, and PAJ. She interviewed Spalding Gray on January 9th, 2004, the day before he disappeared. The edited transcript of that interview was published in New England Theatre Journal in 2008.
Thom Donovan lives in NYC where he edits Wild Horses Of Fire blog and coedits ON Contemporary Practice. He also curates PEACE events series, co-curates the SEGUE reading series, and is a participant in the Nonsite Collective. For an extensive listing of places where his poetry, essays, and criticism have appeared see whof.blogspot.com. He currently teaches at Bard College, Baruch College, and School of Visual Arts.
Thomas Page McBee is the 2009 recipient of the Mary Tanenbaum Literary Award for Nonfiction from The San Francisco Foundation and Intersection for the Arts. His work has been featured most recently in the New York Times, Salon.com, the Boston Phoenix, SF Weekly, Berkeley Monthly, Hot Metal Bridge, Bitch, Original Plumbing, and the Bold Italic. He has a guest series on masculinity forthcoming on The Rumpus, and he co-edits the style/culture blog, Ironing Board Collective. He holds an MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State University, and has just finished a memoir, This Fragile Fortress. Learn more at thomaspagemcbee.com.
Thomas Moore has written two collections of poetry, Surfaces and Hospital (both via Broken Blood Press), and one novella, GRAVES (published by Kiddiepunk Press ). His work has appeared in various publications in the UK, USA, France and Sweden. His first novel, A Certain Kind of Light, will be released soon by Rebel Satori Press. He lives in the West Midlands, UK.
Tim Jones-Yelvington is a Chicago-based writer, multimedia performance artist, and nightlife personality. He is the author of two collections of short fiction—"Evan's House and the Other Boys Who Live There" (in "They Could No Longer Contain Themselves," Rose Metal Press) and "This is a Dance Movie!" (forthcoming, Tiny Hardcore Press). His work has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Puerto Del Sol, Harpur Palate, and others. From 2010-12, he guest edited [PANK]'s annual queer issue.
Tim Kabara lives and works in Baltimore city. When he is not teaching high school, he is making music. When he is not making music, he is listening to music. When he is not listening to music, he is writing.
Timothy A. Cushing entered our land in a far off pumpkin patch of North, North America. Paying close attention to his native tongue, he decided that merely speaking English fell far short of its capacity. Thus Timothy chose to further his quest of English by majoring in English, and with that he graduated on the Island of Staten. It has been rumored that he was granted awards in English and continues to speak it til this very day. Sometimes he makes words rhyme in the form of music here
Timothy Murray is a writer, dancer, and performance artist. He lives in New York City.
Timothy Willis Sanders
Timothy Willis Sanders is the author of Orange Juice (Publishing Genius). He lives in Austin.
Tina Brown Celona
Tina Brown Celona is the author of The Real Moon of Poetry and Other Poems (Fence 2002) and Snip Snip! (Fence 2006). Her poems can be read in interrupture, Map Literary, Catch-Up, and Typo. She lives in Denver, CO.
Tobias Carroll grew up in New Jersey and now calls Brooklyn home. His writing has appeared in Yeti, Joyland, Metazen, Capital New York, THE2NDHAND, Word Riot, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. He is the Managing Editor of Vol.1 Brooklyn.
Todd Colby's latest book of poetry, Splash State, was published by The Song Cave in 2014. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Tom Andes (who sometimes, on sites such as Amazon, writes under the pen name of A.J. Asbury) was born and raised in New Hampshire, received his BA from Loyola University New Orleans, and currently resides in San Francisco, where he is completing his MFA in creative writing at San Francisco State University. His work has previously appeared in Transfer and in Mirage #4/Period(ical).
Tom Flynn is a Maryland-based freelance writer. He is the author of Baseball in Baltimore, has contributed to The Washington Post and The Baltimore Sun, and along with Pete Hausler is an editor of the occasional sports journal, Field.
Tom Westerholm writes about basketball on the internet, lives in Iowa and walks his dog a lot. You can find his work on ESPN, CelticsHub.com and HowlinTwolf.com.
Tommy “Teebs” Pico was a Queer/Art/Mentors inaugural fellow, 2013 Lambda Literary fellow in poetry, and has poems in BOMB, Guernica, and [PANK]. Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation, he now lives in Brooklyn and co-curates the reading series Poets With Attitude (PWA) with Morgan Parker. @heyteebs
Tracy Dimond co-curates Ink Press Productions. She is the author of Sorry I Wrote So Many Sad Poems Today (Ink Press 2013) and Grind My Bones Into Glitter, Then Swim Through The Shimmer (NAP 2014).
Travis Nichols is the author of two poetry collections, Iowa (Letter Machine Editions) and See Me Improving (Copper Canyon Press), as well as two novels, Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder and The More You Ignore Me (Coffee House Press). He works at Greenpeace USA.
Trinie Dalton has an MFA from Bennington Writing Seminars. Her story collection, Wide Eyed, from Akashic Books, is part of the Little House on the Bowery series edited by Dennis Cooper. A book she co-edited for McSweeney’s, Dear New Girl or Whatever Your Name Is, is available. She’s also a visual artist, and curated an art exhibit last Autumn at The Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco about werewolves, based on her zine, Werewolf Express.
Tristan Foster is a writer from Sydney, Australia. He has had writing published in Music & Literature, Gorse, Words Without Borders, SAND, The Black Sun Lit and elsewhere. He is an editor at 3:AM Magazine.
Troy James Weaver
Troy James Weaver is the author of Marigold, Witchita Stories, and Visions. He lives in Wichita, Kansas with his wife and two dogs.
Tyler Barton is a cofounder of Fear No Lit, the organization responsible for the 2017 Submerging Writer Fellowship. His work is forthcoming in Gigantic Sequinsand has appeared in Passages North, Waxwing, No Tokens, Little Fiction, Midwestern Gothic, and elswehere. He is the creator and host of the flash fiction podcast, Show Your Work. Find him at tsbarton.com or @goftyler.
Vanessa Norton lives in California. Her work appears or is forthcoming in StoryQuarterly, Gigantic, Whiskey Island, Hobart, Spork, Wag's Revue, the anthology Sex for America, edited by Stephen Elliot, and elsewhere. She is writing a short story collection and a novel.
Vi Khi Nao
Vi Khi Nao will probably be labeled an “experimental writer.” But she’s also a typewriter enthusiast, an artist, and, surprisingly, a lover of sangria that can cut you like a knife. She is the author of Swans in Half-Mourning, Herman and Margaret, SOCK!, and Oh God, Your Babies are So Delicious. Her stories and poetry have also appeared in Noon and elimae. She received her MFA from Brown University.
Vikram Johri, based in New Delhi, is an electronics engineer by training, but has now completely switched to writing. His reviews have appeared in Philadelphia Inquirer, Christian Science Monitor, Washington Times, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and Chicago Sun Times. He blogs at http://patrakaar2b.blogspot.com.
Vincent A. Cellucci
Vincent Cellucci wrote An Easy Place / To Die (CityLit Press, 2011) and edited Fuck Poems an exceptional anthology (Lavender Ink, 2012). Come back river, his first chapbook, a bilingual Bengali-English translation collaboration with the poet and artist Debangana Banerjee is available from Finishing Line Press. _A Ship on the Line, a battleship-verse collaboration with poet Christopher Shipman, released by Unlikely Books was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award. Running a communication studio for the LSU College of Art + Design, Cellucci is currently collaborating with faculty to design interactive poetry web applications, leading to performances for TEDxLSU and the international conference for New Interfaces for Musical Expression hosted in Australia last year. He will be performing Diamonds in Dystopia at SXSW Interactive this year.
Virginia Overell is an artist based in Melbourne, Australia. www.virginiaoverell.net
Vyshali Manivannan received her M.F.A. in Fiction at Columbia University and is a Ph.D. candidate in Media Studies at Rutgers University. She has published and presented scholarship on comics and animation, Internet subcultures, and the value of transgression, with her most recent work appearing in Fibreculture. Her first novel, Invictus, was published in 2004, and she has also been published in Black Clock, theNewerYork, Consequence, r.kv.r.y Quarterly Literary Journal, and DIAGRAM.
Wendy C. Ortiz
Wendy C. Ortiz is the author of Excavation: A Memoir (Future Tense Books, 2014), Hollywood Notebook (Writ Large Press, 2015) and the forthcoming Bruja (CCM, fall 2016). Her work has been profiled or featured in the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, and the National Book Critics Circle Small Press Spotlight blog. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Hazlitt, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and Poor Claudia. Wendy lives in Los Angeles.
When she's not sitting in the stands, Wendy Marech is a writer in New York. Her next book is theoretically on national demographics, which she swears is more interesting than it sounds.
Wendy Xu is the author of You Are Not Dead (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2013), and co-author with Nick Sturm of I Was Not Even Born (Coconut Books). Recent poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry, Gulf Coast, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing at UMass-Amherst, and is the co-editor/publisher of iO: A Journal of New American Poetry / iO books.
Wilbur Wilson is a Washington DC insider, aesthete, and poet. A member of the Federalist Society, he is also founder of the non-profit organization "Freedom Isn't Free, Nor Should Speech Be," whose goal is the revival of the Federalists' Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798.
Will Gallien writes as various people including Ofelia Hunt (Today & Tomorrow, Magic Helicopter Press 2011, my eventual bloodless coup, Bear Parade 2007). He is also a co-founder and editor at alice blue.
William Lessard has writing that has appeared in McSweeney's, NPR, Prelude, Wired, Hyperallergic, People Holding. His chapbook Rembrandt with Cell Phone has just been published by Reality Beach. He co-hosts the Cool as F*** series in Brooklyn.
William VanDenBerg is the author of Lake of Earth (Caketrain Press, 2013). Recent stories have appeared at The Collagist, SAND, and Pear Noir. He lives with his wife in Denver.
Willie Fitzgerald is the co-founder of APRIL, a festival of small press and independent literature.
Wong May's most recent book is Picasso's Tears (Octopus Books, 2014). Her previous books are A Bad Girl's Book of Animals (1969), Reports (1972), and Superstitions (1978). She lives in Dublin.
xTx is a writer living in Southern California. Her work has been published in places like The Collagist, PANK, Hobart, The Rumpus, The Chicago Review, Smokelong Quarterly and Wigleaf. "Normally Special," a collection of stories, is available from Tiny Hardcore Press. Her chapbook, "Billie the Bull" is now available from Dzanc Books. Her story collection, "Today I Am A Book" is now available from Civil Coping Mechanisms. She says nothing at www.notimetosayit.blogspot.com.
Yasmine Lucas is a writer and visual artist currently living in her hometown, Montreal. Her fiction has appeared in Barnstorm, Metatron, Bard Papers, and The Claremont Review, and received an honorable mention in the 2007 Rrofihe Trophy short story competition. She holds a BA in Written Arts from Bard College.
Yvonne Olivas lives in Brooklyn. She has written for Art in America and teaches at the School of Visual Arts
Zach Baron lives in New York.
Zach Savich's newest book of poetry is Century Swept Brutal (Black Ocean, 2014). He is also the author of the poetry collections Full Catastrophe Living (2009), Annulments (2010), and The Firestorm (2011), as well as a book of prose, Events Film Cannot Withstand (2011). His work has received the Iowa Poetry Prize, the Colorado Prize for Poetry, and the Cleveland State University Poetry Center's Open Award, among other honors. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he teaches at the University of Arts, in Philadelphia, and co-edits Rescue Press's Open Prose Series.
Zach Schwartz is from Cleveland, Ohio. He currently contributes to VICE and Thought Catalog. He currently lives in New York City. He Tweets at @zach_two_times.
Zack Anderson received an MFA from the University of Notre Dame. His poems and reviews have appeared in American Microreviews and Interviews, Kenyon Review, Deluge, Smoking Glue Gun, Muse/A, and Entropy. He currently resides in the Rocky Mountains.
Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle is a writer from New Zealand currently living in Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of Autobiography of a Marguerite (Hue & Cry Press, 2014). She can be found on Twitter and Instagram: @zarahbm.
Zoe Dzunko & Mark Cugini
Mark Cugini is the author of I’m Just Happy To Be Here (Ink Press, 2014). He is a founding editor of Big Lucks, a contributor to HTMLGiant, and the curator of the Three Tents reading series in Washington, DC. Zoe Dzunko lives in Melbourne, Australia and is the author of three chapbooks: All of the Men I Have Never Loved (Dancing Girl Press), (NAP) and Wet Areas (Maverick Duck Press, forthcoming 2014). Her most recent poems have appeared in The Age, Going Down Swinging, Banango Street, Guernica, and Two Serious Ladies.
Zoe Gold (b. 1992) is a prose writer from San Francisco. She holds degrees from UCLA and NYU. Her can be found online in PANK and Cosmonauts Avenue.
Zoe Tuck is author of Terror Matrix (Timeless, Infinite Light 2014). She is a poetry reader for HOLD: a journal.
Zoey Mondt is an L.A.-based writer whose work, including stories, essays, zines, music videos and short
films, has appeared in the Santa Monica Review, ART ISSUES, frieze, Factsheet Five, the anthology A
Girl's Guide to Taking over the World, on MTV, and at the Sundance Film Festival. She also writes some
of Fanzine's listings of LA events.