AUTHOR BIOS

Parker Tettleton is an English major at Kennesaw State University. His work is featured in or forthcoming from a variety of places, including Short, Fast, and Deadly, Right Hand Pointing, The Medulla Review, The Chimaera, Bloody Bridge Review, > kill author and elimae, among others. He blogs at http://parker-augustlight.blogspot.com/.

Roxanna Gay is a writer, publisher, editor and teacher.   She currently is the co-editor of PANK Magazine and an Assistant Professor at Eastern Illinois University.  You can find Roxane by going to her website www.roxanegay.com.

Shawn Misener lives in Michigan. He is the author of the full-length book of Poetry God Sheds His Gravy On Thee (Calliope Nerve Media, 2010). He also edits the blogazine Clutching at Straws (www.clutchingatstraws.wordpress.com). More of his work can be found at www.misener.wordpress.com.

Amanda Deo (yep, that’s me!) is a twenty-six year old university administrator that lives in Northern New Jersey.  She is the author of North of the Mason-Dixon Line and The Hanged Man which can’t currently be found online anywhere but that will soon change. (I’m old school and have print copies of everything!)  Her work can be found here

Howie Good is a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of 18 print and digital poetry chapbooks and the full-length collection of poetry, Lovesick (2009). His second full-length collection, Heart With a Dirty Windshield, will be published by BeWrite Books. He has been nominated multiple times for a Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net anthology. He is co-editor of the online literary journal Left Hand Waving.

Colin James was born in Chester, England on the border of Wales. He now resides in Massachusetts with his wife, Jane and son Liam. Some of his poems have appeared in Tsunami, Exit 13, Pica, Blazevox, Shades Of December and Lunatic Chameleon.

Donal Mahoney, a native of Chicago, lives in St. Louis, MO. He has worked as an editor for The Chicago Sun-Times, Loyola University Press and Washington University in St. Louis. He has had poems published in or accepted by The Wisconsin Review, The Kansas Quarterly, The South Carolina Review, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Commonweal, Public Republic (Bulgaria), Revival (Ireland), The Istanbul Literary Review (Turkey), Pirene’s Fountain (Australia) and other publications.

Bryan C. Murray, graduate of Bucknell University’s Creative Writing program, matriculating poet of Virginia Tech’s MFA program, was born and raised in the Bronx. Some of the places Bryan has published are Sou’wester, GUD, The Legendary, Blue Fifth Review, The Northville Review, and A cappella Zoo. Bryan is currently finishing his first book-length manuscript, “full water.”

Pacze Moj lives in Canada. He is an immigrant. He’s had a few pieces of fiction, poetry and film criticism published in print and online, but is otherwise a law student. Pacze loves language—especially the letter M.

Tina Barry is a freelance writer. Her short stories have appeared online and in literary journals, newspapers and magazines. She is an M.F.A. candidate in creative writing at Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York, where she lives with her husband and a cat who sleeps 18 hours a day.

PD Lyons was born and raised in the states. living in Ireland for the past ten years. wrote a lot, lived a lot and hopes to keep on doing both for a lot longer. Work has appeared in small mags here and there. Lapwing Belfast has published two poetry collections , Searches For magic (2001) and Caribu & Sister Stones, Selected Poetry (2010). please visit pdlyons blog for poetry publishing info and new releases: http://pdlyons.wordpress.com/

Ben Nardolilli is a twenty four year old writer currently living in Arlington, Virginia. My work has appeared in Houston Literary Review, Perigee Magazine, Canopic Jar, One Ghana One Voice, Baker’s Dozen, Thieves Jargon and Perspectives Magazine. In addition I was the poetry editor for West 10th Magazine at NYU and maintain a blog at mirrorsponge.blogspot.com.

John J. Trause lives in Wood-Ridge, NJ and is the current Director of the Oradell Public Library. His chapbook of poetry Seriously Serial is published by Poets Wear Prada of Hoboken, N. J. His translations, poetry, and visual work appear or are forthcoming in Sensations Magazine, Cover (New York, N.Y.), The Rift, The Troubadour, Global City Review, Xavier Review, Radix, Now Culture, The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow Poets Anthology, Maintenant, The Journal of New Jersey Poets, Pedestal Magazine, Ditch, and Otoliths, and the artists’ periodical Crossings, published by the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition. His chapbook Latter-Day Litany (Éditions élastiques, 1996) in its performance version (Latter-Day Litany & Other Pseudo-Hagiographica) has been staged Off-Off Broadway and elsewhere by Daniel P. Quinn since 1998. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2009.

Craig Sernotti’s first poetry collection, FORKED TONGUE, was recently released by Blue Room Publishing. It is available through Amazon.com.

David S. Pointer was the son of a piano playing bank robber who died when David was 3 years old. David later served in the Marine military police. He earned a B.S. in Criminal Justice and M.A. in Sociology. Currently, he lives in Murfreesboro, Tennessee with his two daughters.

Anna Hiller grew up in South Jersey, but moved to California in 2001. Since then, she has lived in or around Berkeley, attempting to finish her doctorate in Hispanic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley, which she finally completed this spring. Anna has been writing poetry since she was a teenager, but “Portrait of Annie” is her first published piece. She has studied creative writing with Stuart Friebert at Oberlin College (’97) and with the poet Scott Reid in California.

Steven Porter is a Spanish-based writer from Scotland. He is the author of The Iberian Horseshoe-A Journey, available for free download from Barcelona web publisher www.badosa.com, as well as a chapbook of poetry, Shellfish and Umbrellas, which can be purchased from www.koopress.co.uk. Short stories and flash fiction published mainly on UK websites such as Laura Hird, Parasitic, Dogmatika and Glasgow Review. His translations of Brazilian flash fiction writers appeared in 3:AM Magazine. Extracts from his novel, Countries of The World, appear sporadically at http://stevenjporter.wordpress.com. See www.myspace.com/stevenjporter for more info and links to stories or poems.

Linda Engel Amundson has worked in car sales, corporate spying, the hospitality industry and owned a small gas station/ deli/market. She makes jewelry from found industrial parts and lives in the San Diego area with her small blind dog and husband. Her work has appeared in several issues of the San Diego Poetry Annual.

Shannon Peil lives in Boulder, Colorado. He has appeared in numerous web publications, and is the editor of literary journal amphibi.us (http://amphibi.us) which accepts submissions year-round.

Robert Vaughan’s plays have been produced in N.Y.C., L.A., S.F. and Milwaukee, where he currently resides. He leads two adult writing roundtables for Redbird- Redoak Studios. His fiction has or will appear in magazines 50 to 1, Postcard Shorts, Short, Fast & Deadly, Six Sentences, Thunderclap Press and Tryst. His blog, One Writer’s Life, can be found here

Ryan W. Bradley has fronted a punk band, done construction in the Arctic Circle, and managed a children’s bookstore. His novel Code for Failure, will be published in 2012 by Black Coffee Press. He received his MFA from Pacific University and his fiction and poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in many publications including The Oregonian, Gargoyle, Word Riot, Annalemma, Oranges & Sardines, and PANK. He is the editor of Artistically Declined Press and lives in Oregon with his wife and two sons.

Phillip Venzke grew up on a dairy farm near Colby, Wisconsin (where Colby Cheese was invented). A fervent zymurgist, his fermentations take many forms. His most recent poems have appeared (or will appear) in Verse Wisconsin, Echoes, Sheepshead Review, and Right Hand Pointing.

Maxwell Baumbach is an emerging writer from Elmhurst, Illinois. You can see him at www.youtube.com/MaxwellThePoet. He is also the editor of the new publication Heavy Hands Ink.

Brian Rosenberger lives in a cellar in Marietta, GA and writes by the light of captured fireflies. A collection of his poetry, And For My Next Trick … is slated for a July 2010 release and a collection of his short stories awaits release in October. Additional updates can be found at http://home.earthlink.net/~brosenberger.

Jon-Michael Frank currently attends Emerson College and has previously been published in the haiku magazines Ko, Modern Haiku, Tundra and an online poetry anthology called still. He has short stories forthcoming in the new Writer’s Review journal from the University of San Diego and Writers’ Bloc. He misses Philadelphia and its nothingness. His father doesn’t write, but if he did I’m sure he’d be a better writer than his son.

Len Kuntz lives on a lake in rural Washington State with an eagle and three pesky beavers. His work appears in places such as Omni Poetry, Camel Saloon, Clutching At Straws and also at lenkuntz.blogspot.com.

Eric Burke works as a computer programmer in Columbus, Ohio. Recent work can be found in elimae, Pank, A cappella Zoo, Right Hand Pointing, decomP, and Clutching At Straws. Work is forthcoming in qarrtsiluni and The Medulla Review. You can read his blog at http://anomalocrinus.blogspot.com.

Justin Jackley is an artist out of Austin, TX who teaches, well, art. You can find his art located on his website: http://www.justinjackley.com/.

Kate Bek is a Chicago native who teaches English abroad, and currently resides in Beijing, China. A graduate of the University of Michigan School of Education, she has a background in folklore studies and children’s writing. She has had some short works and poetry published nowhere…all bound for greatness nonetheless.

Laurel Landis is a Wisconsin writer and recent runner up in the Mary Shelley Award for Imaginative Fiction. Her work can be read in the Summer issue of Rosebud Magazine.

Joseph A. W. Quintela writes. Poems. Stories. On Post-it-notes. Walls. Envelopes. Cocktail napkins. Anything, really. He writes poetry on Twitter. Some folks think that’s cool. But, whatever. Lore has it that the first publication to recognize his dubious genius was Lines Written With a Razor. He wrote those lines with a battle axe. But, whatever. They published them anyways. Others followed. Then he got bored. So he started editing Short, Fast, and Deadly. Which is funny. Because he’s none of these things.

M.P. Powers is published or forthcoming in Rosebud, The Chiron Review, The New York Quarterly, A Cappella Zoo, The Smoking Poet and many others. He was born in Aurora, Illinois, lives in the Miami area, and is currently seeking employment as a televangelist and/or Mona Vie salesman. More info here: www.NYQPoets.net/poet/mppowers

Corey Cook’s work has recently appeared in Floyd County Moonshine, Hanging Moss Journal, The Henniker Review, miller’s pond, and Shoots and Vines. New work is forthcoming in Pig in a Poke and Willard and Maple. Corey’s second chapbook, What to Do with a Dying Parakeet, was recently released by Pudding House Publications. He works at a not-for-profit and edits The Orange Room Review with his wife, Rachael. They live in New Hampshire with their daughter. Email him at coreydcook@hotmail.com.

Jeffrey Miller, originally from LaSalle, IL, has been living and teaching in Asia since 1989. His work has appeared in numerous magazines including A-Minor Magazine, Bartleby Snopes, Boston Literary Magazine, Caper Literary Journal, Eunoia Review, Full of Crow, Grey Sparrow Journal, Orion headless, Short, Fast, and Deadly, and the Toasted Cheese Literary Journal. His first novel, War Remains is available through Amazon and Lulu.com. He can be found online at www.jeffreyalanmiller.wordpress.com as well as the blog for his novel, www.warremains.blogspot.com

Eryk Wenziak lives in Connecticut, plays the drums, and teaches at the graduate level at the University of New Haven.  His work has appeared in the following: Short, Fast, and Deadly; Dark Chaos; Deadlier Than Thou (anthology); 52|250; Long River Run; Negative Suck. Currently, he is working on a chapbook, the flowers were trying harder, a collection of prose poems, each accompanied by a photograph.

Richard Chiem (b. 1987) is the author of OH NO EVERYTHING IS WET NOW with Ana C. from Magic Helicopter Press. His work has appeared in Monkeybicycle, Everyday Genius, and Pop Serial 2. He is currently working on a new collection of stories entitled JUBILEE.

Tina Barry is a freelance writer living in Brooklyn, New York. Her food, style, and humor essays and profiles have appeared in the New York Daily News, the Forward, the New York Sun, Time Out New York and other newspapers, magazines, and Internet websites. Her work has been included in Tiny Lights: A Journal of Personal Essay and she recently won an honorable mention in the 100 Words or Fewer writing contest. Tina can be reached via e-mail: tbarrywrites@yahoo.com.

Susan Tepper is the author of Deer & Other Stories and the poetry chapbook Blue Edge.  She hosts FIZZ a reading series at KGB Bar in NYC, and is Assistant Editor of Istanbul Literary Review (online journal based in Turkey).  Susan has received 5 nominations for the Pushcart Prize.  A new novel is forthcoming

Joanna C. Valente was born and bred in New York, where she still currently resides. She is a writer and artist who has been featured in various publications, such as You Say. Say. (Uphook Press), The Westchester Review, The Houston Literary Review, Side B Magazine, among others. She is also the founder and editor of the online literary publication, Yes, Poetry. In the fall of 2011, she will begin attending Sarah Lawrence College as an MFA candidate in poetry. In the future, she would like to live by the ocean.

J. Bradley is the author of Dodging Traffic (Ampersand Books, 2009) the flash fiction chapbook The Serial Rapist Sitting Behind You Is A Robot (Safety Third Enterprises, 2010) and the e-chapbook My Hands Are As Thick As Dreams(Patasola Press, 2011). He is the Interviews Editor of PANK Magazine and lives at iheartfailure.net.

xTx is a writer living in Southern California. She has been published in places such as PANK, Smokelong, Monkeybicycle,elimae, >Kill Author and Wigleaf. Her new story collection,Normally Special, is available from Tiny Hardcore Press. She says nothing at www.notimetosayit.com.

Greg Dybec is Founding Editor of Fix it Broken, an online fiction mag with a fashionable twist. He has stories published in Kill author, Dogzplot, Girls with Insurance, and others. He thinks this particular bio will bore people, but it’s all he’s got at the moment.

Meg Tuite’s writing has appeared in 34th Parallel, Calliope, San Francisco Bay Press,One, The Journal, The Santa Fe Literary Review, Fast Forward Press, SLAB Magazine,Artistically Declined Press, Monkeybicycle, Journal of Microfiction, Boston Literary Magazine, and many others. She is the fiction editor of The Santa Fe Literary Review. Her collection “Domestic Apparition” is forthcoming in April 2011 through San Francisco Bay Press.

[d]avid : [t]omaloff (b. 1972) | racine, WI, US | author, LIONTAMER’S BLUES (six eight press) | likes: jazz | hates: jazz | photography: yes |his work has also appeared in: Ditch Poetry, Otoliths, elimae, and/or, Counterexample Poetics, BlazeVOX 2KX, the Delinquent, Phantom Kangaroo, and Calliope Nerve | see: davidtomaloff.com

bl pawelek was raised in Clarence, New York but really grew up on a small Japanese island called Okinawa. He earned a master’s degree in Literature at Loyola Marymount University. He was nominated for his first Pushcart Prize in 2010, and has published many stories and poems as well as dozens of pieces of artwork in the last couple years. “The Equation of Constants” (an e-book collection of poetry) is available through Artistically Declined Press. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Monkeybicycle, decomP, The Northville Review, Sententia, BluePrintReview and other great places. He currently has on-line art galleries with The Prick of the Spindle and LITnIMAGE.

Helen Vitoria lives and writes in Effort PA.  Her work can be found and is forthcoming in many online and print journals including: elimae, PANK, Mud Luscious Press, >kill author, Poets & Artists Magazine and Dark Sky Magazine.  Her chapbooks: The Sights & Sounds of Arctic Birds and Random Cartography Notes are both available as e-chaps from Gold Wake Press, 2011.  She has been thrice nominated for Best New Poets Anthology 2010.  She is completing her first full length collection: Corn Exchange. Find her here:  http://helenvitoria-lexis.blogspot.com/

Scott Riley Irvine is a student presently living and writing in Atlanta, Georgia. Despite growing up in Florida, he has not yet conditioned himself for Southern summers. You’ll find him grumbling to himself during conversations about how warm weather is right around the corner. His mother hasn’t been able to understand this, and believes it’s just a phase. If you have a room for rent somewhere where it’s 50 degrees all year long, please send notice care of this magazine.

Murray Dunlap’s work has appeared in about thirty magazines and journals. His stories have been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, as well as to Best New American Voices, and his first book, “Alabama,” was a finalist for the Maurice Prize in Fiction. He has just finished a collection of short stories called “Bastard Blue” that will be published by Press 53 on June 7th 2011. The extraordinary individuals Pam Houston, Laura Dave, Michael Knight, and Fred Ashe taught him the art of writing

Khalym Kari Burke-Thomas is majoring in Asian Languages and Cultures at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, where he also serves as Assistant to the Director of the Trias Residency for Writers. His work appears in New Wave Vomit, amphibi.us, and other fine publications.

Zachary A. Koch is a new writer and Thunderclap Press was happy to publish his first poem through National Poetry Month.

Jared Dawson is a dinosaur wrangler living in Atlanta, GA with his dog, Gus. He is also a wizard. And a ghost on the internet.

Kat Dixon is poetry editor of Divine Dirt Quarterly; she also gardens short-cuts in Atlanta and may be occasionally found blinking at http://katdixon.blogspot.com. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in blossombones, Indefinite Space, Clockwise Cat, Madswirl, and elsewhere.

Chad Redden has been published in analog and digital publications such as Angelic Dynamo, Booth, Allegheny Review and Escape into Life.  He also edits the online magazine NAP (www.naplitmag.com).

Peter Schwartz’s poetry has been featured in PANK, Opium, and The Columbia Review.  Visit his site at: www.sitrahahra.com.

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