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
A. Zachary lives in Toronto. Their first novel is The End, by Anna, out now with Metatron.
Aaron Nielsen
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.
Abby Hagler
Abby Hagler lives and works in Chicago. Critical and creative work appears in Alice Blue Review, Horse Less Press, and elsewhere. You can find her book of collaborative poems with Julia Cohen at dancing girl press.
Abigail George
Pushcart Prize nominated for her fiction “Wash Away My Sins” Abigail George is a South African blogger at Goodreads and Piker Press, essayist, playwright, poet, grant, novella and short story writer. She is the recipient of writing grants from the National Arts Council in Johannesburg, the Centre for the Book in Cape Town and ECPACC (Eastern Cape Provincial Arts and Culture Council) in East London. Her writing has appeared numerous times in print in South Africa, in various anthologies, and online in e-zines based across Africa, Australia, Asia, Canada, Europe, Ireland, and the United States. She is the writer of eight books including essays, life writing, memoir pieces, novellas, poetry and a self-published short story collection. She briefly studied film at the Newtown Film and Television School in Johannesburg.
Adam DeGraff
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 Fagin
Adam Fagin is the author of the Mountain West Poetry Series selection Furthest Ecology (Center for Literary Publishing 2019). His chapbooks are T’s Alphabet (Little Red Leaves Textile Series 2013) and THE SKY IS A HOWLING WILDERNESS BUT IT CAN’T HOWL WITH HEAVEN (Called Back Books 2016). He's finishing a book of essays called Fagin the Jew that deals with the history of Cotopaxi, a 19th-century Jewish agricultural colony in Colorado, and the intersection of personal and social identity.
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
Adam Ganderson has written for the Village Voice, Art Forum, and Terrorizer UK among others.
Adam Good
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
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.
Adam Putnam
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
Adam Robinson runs Publishing Genius Press and lives in Atlanta, where he plays softball.
Website: http://publishinggenius.com
Adam Rokhsar
Adam Rokhsar is an artist, psychologist, and software developer whose work focuses on making the invisible visible.
Adam Shemper
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
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
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
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.
Aiden Arata
Aiden Arata is a writer, filmmaker, and new media artist whose work has appeared in publications including Mask, BOMB, Hobart, The Rumpus, Shabby Dollhouse, Real Pants, Potluck, and others. She’s the author of chapbooks The Future (Ghost City Press, 2018) and Object of Art (Ghost City Press, 2017), and is the writer and director of the short film CREEP (2018). She lives in Los Angeles and on the internet as @aidenarata.
Alain Ginsberg
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
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 Badillo
Born in 1977 in Mexico City, Alejandro Badillo now lives in Puebla, where he coordinates the creative writing workshops at the Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla and the Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla. His most recent books are El último día de septiembre (2017) and Efectos secundarios (2018).
Alejandro Miguel Justino Crawford
Alejandro Miguel Justino Crawford is a poet, video artist, & game designer living in Brooklyn, NY. http://amjc.tv
Alex Cuff
Alex Cuff lives in Brooklyn where she teaches at a public high school and edits No, Dear magazine.
Alex DiFrancesco
Alex DiFrancesco has published fiction in The Carolina Quarterly, The New Ohio Review, and Monkeybicycle. They are a winner of Sundress Academy for the Arts' 2017 OutSpoken contest for LGBTQ+ writing. DiFrancesco's non-fiction has appeared in The Washington Post, Tin House, Longreads, Brevity, and was a finalist in Cosmonauts Avenue's inaugural non-fiction prize. Their storytelling has been featured at The Fringe Festival, Life of the Law, The Queens Book Festival, and The Heart podcast. DiFrancesco's essay collection Psychopomps (Civil Coping Mechanisms Press) is due out in February, and their second novel, All City (Seven Stories Press), in June.
Alex Gallo-Brown
Alex Gallo-Brown is a writer living in Atlanta. His essays have appeared at Salon, The Rumpus, The Nervous Breakdown and more.
Website: http://www.alexgallobrown.com
Alex Gregor
Alex Higley
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
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
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
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.
Website: http://www.originaltitle.wordpress.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/OriginalMoment
Alexandra Naughton
Alexandra Naughton is based in Richmond, California. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Be About It Press, established in 2010. She is the author of six poetry collections including You Could Never Objectify Me More Than I've Already Objectified Myself (Punk Hostage Press, 2015), I Will Always Be In Love (Paper Press, 2015), and I Wish You Never Emailed Me (Ghost City Press, 2016). Her first novel, American Mary, was published by Civil Coping Mechanisms in 2016.
Alexandra Wuest
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
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
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.
Alli Warren
Allison Grimaldi-Donahue
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
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 Bianca-Pavley
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.
Alyssa Proujansky
Alyssa Proujansky has studied fiction in Ithaca, London and New York. She was recently a runner-up in contests held by Atticus Review and Psychopomp Magazine, and a finalist in Third Coast's 2018 Fiction Contest. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Passages North, Third Coast, Columbia Journal, Hobart, Moon City Review, Atticus Review, Psychopomp Magazine, Flock, Lunch Ticketand elsewhere. Her website is www.alyssaproujansky.com.
Amabel Barraclough
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
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
Amanda McCormick is an outdoorswoman / poet / cook / founding curator of Ink Press Productions in Baltimore.
Amanda Mills
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
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
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
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.
Amish Trivedi
Amy Gerstler
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 Herschleb
Amy Herschleb came back to the south and tried to be honest. She is a poet living in Atlanta.
Website: http://amyherschleb.tumblr.com
Amy Lawless & Jeff Alessandrelli
Amy Lawless is the author of the poetry collections My Dead and Broadax (both with Octopus Books). A chapbook A Woman Alone is out from Sixth Finch Books. With Chris Cheney, she is the author of the hybrid book I Cry: The Desire to Be Rejected from Pioneer Works Press’ Groundworks Series (2016). Poems have recently appeared in The Volta, Washington Square Review, Bennington Review, and jubilat. She was a 2011 New York Foundation for the Arts poetry fellow. She lives in Brooklyn. Jeff Alessandrelli is the author of the poetry collection THIS LAST TIME WILL BE THE FIRST and the essay collection The Man on High: Essays on Skateboarding, Hip-Hop, Poetry and The Notorious B.I.G. Recent work appears in Poetry Daily, The American Poetry Review and Lit Hub. Jeff also runs the vinyl record-only poetry press Fonograf Ed.
Amy Lukau
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
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.
Website: http://421atlanta.com
Amy Meyerson
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.
Analeah Loschiavo
Analeah Loschiavo is a writer living in Chicago by way of Miami. Her work can also be found at Queen Mob's Teahouse.
Analeah Loschiavo Rosen
Analeah Loschiavo Rosen is a Masters of Fine Arts candidate in Fiction at Washington University in St Louis. She is currently working on a collection of writing that explores irradiated soils, transnational environmental justice movements, swarm intelligence, and living collaboratively in the trouble.
André Babyn
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
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
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
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
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 Byrds
Andrew Byrds is a writer currently living in Iowa, having graduated with a degree in theatre from the University of Northern Iowa and interning as an editor for the NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. Works appeared or are forthcoming in Red Fez, tl;dr magazine, PUBLIC POOL, and WINDOW.
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
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 Miller
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.
Andrew Ridker
Andrew Ridker is the editor of Privacy Policy: The Anthology of Surveillance Poetics. His writing has appeared in Guernica, Boston Review, St. Louis Magazine, and elsewhere. He is working on a novel.
Andrew Wells
Andrew Wells edits HVTN & has poems in 3:AM Magazine, Lighthouse, Bare Fiction, & others. He lives just outside of London.
Aneesa Davenport
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
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
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 Vitale
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 K. Yoder
Anne K. Yoder is a staff writer for The Millions and a member of the Chicago-based Meekling Press. Her writing has appeared in Fence, Bomb, and Music and Literature, among other publications, and an excerpt from her novel is forthcoming in MAKE.
Anne-Marie Kinney
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
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.
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Antarah Crawley
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.
Aria Curtis
Aria Curtis is an Iranian and American writer from Atlanta. She holds an MFA from Arizona State University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Southeast Review, The Offing, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Yemassee, and elsewhere. She is currently at work on her first novel.
Ashley Bethard
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
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.
Audrey Tran
Audrey Tran is an artist based in Queens. She contributes to artfulgreendot.com and has written for ArtsinBushwick.org.
Ava Hoffman
Ava Hofmann
Originally from Oxford, Ohio, Ava Hofmann is a writer currently living and working as an MFA student in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She has poems published in or forthcoming from Black Warrior Review, Fence, Anomaly, Best American Experimental Writing 2020, Datableed, and Peachmag. Her poetry deals with trans/queer identity, Marxism, and the frustrated desire inherent to encounters with the archive. Her twitter is @st_somatic and her nausea-inducing website is www.nothnx.com
Avren Keating
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
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
Becca Klaver
Becca Klaver is the author of two books of poetry—LA Liminal (Kore Press) and Empire Wasted (Bloof Books)—and several chapbooks. Her third book, Ready for the World, is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press in 2020. She was a founding editor of Switchback Books and is currently coediting, with Arielle Greenberg, the multimedia anthology Electric Gurlesque. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Fence, jubilat, and elsewhere. Born and raised in Milwaukee, WI, she is a graduate of the University of Southern California, Columbia College Chicago, and Rutgers University. She is currently the Robert P. Dana Emerging Writer Fellow at Cornell College in Iowa.
Becca Schuh
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
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 Arnold
Ben Arnold is a musician who records under the name Pantolones (that's "Pants" in Spanish). He also writes the blog for Superdeluxe.com and he lives in Atlanta.
Ben Bush
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
Ben Estes is an artist, a poet, and ½ of The Song Cave. He lives in Western Massachusetts.
Ben Fama
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
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
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
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.
Benoit Lelièvre
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.
Berry Grass
Bett Williams
Bett Williams is the author of Girl Walking Backwards and The Wrestling Party. She currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Billie Rankin
Billie is a poet, geographer, and kindergarten teacher living in nipaluna/Hobart. They work with text as a form of play and catharsis and will never write a better poem than their 3 year old students.
Blake Bergeron
Blake Bergeron is a poet living in Florence, MA. He is currently attending the MFA Program in Creative Writing at UMass Amherst.
Blake Butler
Blake Butler's most recent book is 300,000,000 (Harper Perennial). He lives in Atlanta.
Blake Planty
Blake P. is a writer living with his cat, Salem, and is currently working on a novel about gay fighting cyborgs. He creates games, essays, and short fiction about bodies and weird happenings. Find him on twitter via @_dispossessed and online at www.blakep.xyz
Bobby Dixon
Bobby Dixon lives in tallahassee w/ his wife & three dogs on a tight little chicken farm.
Bobby Power
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
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
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
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
Brad Phillips is an artist and writer, born in 1974. He lives and works in Kingston, Jamaica.
Bradford Nordeen
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Alan Ellis
BRIAN ALAN ELLIS is the author of three novellas, three short-story collections, a book of humorous non-fiction, and Something to Do with Self-Hate, a novel. His writing has appeared at Juked, Hobart, Monkeybicycle, Electric Literature, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Queen Mob’s Tea House, and Funhouse, among other places. He lives in Florida.
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
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
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
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
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
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
Brian Warfield writes short stories and fake reviews. He lives in Philadelphia.
Brianna Albers
Brianna Albers (she/her) is a storyteller, currently based in St. Paul, MN. In 2016, she founded Monstering, a magazine for disabled women and nonbinary people; in 2017, she co-founded ZRIE, a private new media collective. She is also on staff at SMA News Today, and writes the column “The Wolf Finally Frees Itself.” A multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, her work can be found in DIALOGIST, Guernica, and Word Riot, among others. Find her online at briannahopealbers.com and on social media @bhalbers.
Bridget Brewer
Bridget Talone
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.
Brigitte Lewis
Brigitte Lewis was born in Gold Country, destined for speculation. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in DIAGRAM, Entropy, and Foglifter, and she is currently working on a hybrid memoir. She lives and writes in the Pacific Northwest and is an editor at Utterance: A Journal.
Brooke Ellsworth
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
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
Bryce Jones
Bryce Jones is a former child comedian. He now lives, works, and writes in a small Oregon town.
Bud Smith
Bud Smith is the author of WORK (CCM), and the forthcoming books, Double Bird (Maudlin House), and Teenager (New York Tyrant). He works construction in New Jersey, and lives there too.
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
Calum Lockey is an artist based in Australia and the co-director of Suicidal Oil Piglet.
Candace Williams
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).
Caren Beilin
Caren Beilin is the author of a novel, The University of Pennsylvania (Noemi Press, 2014), a memoir, SPAIN (Rescue Press, 2018) and a forthcoming nonfiction book on women's health, Blackfishing the IUD (Wolfman Books, 2019). Her shorter prose appears in Fence, LA Review of Books, The Offing, and Territory. Her essays and reviews can be found at www.full-stop.net, a literary site devoted to small press publishing and for which she serves as an editor. She lives in North Adams, MA, where she teaches creative writing at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.
Carla Murphy
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
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
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 Chappell
Carrie Chappell is originally from Birmingham, Alabama. Some of her writing has appeared in CALAMITY, cream city review, harpur palate, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, The Collagist, and those that this. Currently, she serves as Poetry Editor for Sundog Lit and Managing Editor for Verse of April, a project she founded in 2015. She lives, writes, and teaches in Paris, France.
Carrie Lorig
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).
Carrie Oeding
Carrie Oeding's first book of poems is Our List of Solutions (42 Miles Press). Her work has recently appeared in such places as Denver Quarterly, Pleiades, and Privacy Policy: An Anthology of Surveillance Poetics. She is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Marshall University.
Casey McKinney
Fanzine founding editor
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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.
Website: http://caseymichaelhenry.com
Caspar Heinemann
Caspar Heinemann is an artist and writer mostly in London. They make sculptures and write essays and pray for their houseplants.
Cassandra Troyan
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.
Cat Tyc
Cat Tyc is a writer and artist. She explores dynamics of speculative relations on the precipice of a poetic mediology that include the page, video, sound, installation and performance.Her video work has screened locally and internationally at spaces that include the Microscope Gallery, Anthology Film Archives, CUNY Graduate Center, Brooklyn Museum, Kassel Fest and the PDX International Festival.She has directed music videos that have been added to the rotation on LOGO’s NewNowNext as well as MTVu. Her most recent writings have been published in Weekday, The Sink Review and 6x6 and she has contributed to BOMB and Topical Cream. She teaches writing throughout New York City within the CUNY system and works as the Program Coordinator for The Home School based in Hudson, NY.
Catch Business
Cezarija Abartis
Cezarija Abartis has published a collection, Nice Girls and Other Stories (New Rivers Press) and stories in Bennington Review, FRiGG, matchbook, Waccamaw, and New York Tyrant, among others. Recently she completed a crime novel. She lives and writes in Minnesota.
Charity Coleman
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 & 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.
Chelsea Martin
Chelsea Martin is the author of Even Though I Don't Miss You (Short Flight/Long Drive, 2013). Her website is jerkethics.com.
Chika Onyenezi
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 Garson
Chris Garson lived in Iowa City, where he worked in the testing industry. Some of his writing has been published posthumously in Hobart, MAKE, FRiGG and others.
Chris Holdaway
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
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
Chris Okum lives in Los Angeles, California. His work has appeared at McSweeney's, Metazen, The Olentangy Review, The Alarmist, and others.
Chris Oxley
Chris Oxley lives in Charleston, West Virginia. He is a writer, musician, filmmaker, and co-founder of Holler Presents along with author Scott McClanahan.
Chris Toll
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Cindy Arrieu-King
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
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.
Clara B. Jones
Clara B. Jones is a Knowledge Worker practicing in Silver Spring, MD, USA. Among other works, she is author of the poetry collection, Poems for Rachel Dolezal, published in 2019 by Gauss PDF.
Coda Wei
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.
Cody Reding
Colette Arrand
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.
Connor Goodwin
Connor Goodwin is a writer and critic living in Lincoln, Nebraska. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post, BOMB Magazine, Los Angeles Review of Books, X-R-A-Y, The Rumpus, Modern Painters, and elsewhere. He is working on his first novel. Follow @condorgoodwing.
Cornelia Barber
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
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
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
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
Dallas Hudgens is the author of the novel Drive Like Hell and Season of the Gene.
Dalton Day
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.
Damon Packard
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.
Website: http://wn.com/damon_packard
Dan Magers
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.
Dan Melling
Dan Melling is a poet and creative non-fiction writer, originally from the UK. He is currently studying for an MFA in poetry at Virginia Tech University, where he also teaches. His work has appeared or is upcoming in The Rialto, Real Story, and others . He can be found online at danrmelling.wordpress.com.
Dana Ward
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
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 Lamb
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 Nester
Daniel Nester’s latest book is How to Be Inappropriate. He co-edits We Who Are About To Die.
Daniel Owen
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
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
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
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 danielrvidales@gmail.com
Danielle Wheeler
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
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
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 danny@thefanzine.com.
Darius James
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
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
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. verysmallkitchen@gmail.com
David Joez Villaverde
David Joez Villaverde is a Peruvian American multidisciplinary artist with forthcoming work in Dream Pop Press, Mortar Magazine, formercactus, and Crab Fat Magazine. He has recently published work in Occulum, Wigleaf, 100 Word Short Story, and Cheap Pop. He is a former editor of the After Happy Hour Review. He resides in Detroit and can be found at schadenfreudeanslip.com or on Twitter @academicjuggalo.
David Leo Rice
David Leo Rice is a writer and animator from Nortampton, MA, currently living in NYC. His first novel, A Room in Dodge City, came out in 2017, and his second, Angel House, is due out in 2019. He's online at: www.raviddice.com
David Moscovich
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
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 Schuman
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
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
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 info@thefanzine.com.
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
Derek McCormack is the author of Grab Bag, The Haunted Hillbilly, and The Show That Smells, ETC. He lives in Toronto.
Derick Dupre
Derick Dupre's stories have been featured in NOON, New York Tyrant, The Collagist, Hobart, and other publications. He lives in southern Arizona.
Desiree Burch
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
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
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.
Diana Hamilton
Diana Hamilton's first book, Okay, Okay (Truck Books 2012) dealt primarily with women crying at work. Three chapbooks came out in 2015: 1. Universe (Ugly Duckling Presse), 2. 23 Women to Kiss Before You Die (Make Now Press), and 3. Break-Up (Troll Thread).
Dianna Dragonetti
Dianna Dragonetti is an artist, activist, & angel boy. He can be found at @aliteralwerther and at http://angelboyangelboy.tumblr.com/.
Dina Hardy
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
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.
Dolan Morgan
Dolan Morgan is a writer and illustrator living in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. He is the author of two story collections: That's When the Knives Come Down (A|P, 2014) and Insignificana (CCM, 2016). His work can be found in The Believer, at Electric Literature's Recommended Reading, on NPR, in a weekly comic series on The Rumpus, and in the trash. Look for him online at dolanmorgan.com and on twitter, @dolanmorgan. "Neptune" is an excerpt from a graphic adaptation of the story, "How to Have Sex on Other Planets," from the collection That's When the Knives Come Down.
Donal Mosher
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
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).
Dot Devota
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.
Douglas Light
Douglas Light is the author of the novel East Fifth Bliss, which received the 2007 Benjamin Franklin Award for Fiction. His fiction won an O. Henry Prize and appeared in the Best American Nonrequired Reading anthology. To contact him, please visit www.douglaslight.com.
Douglas Savage
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
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.
Drew Jennings
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
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 Krewer
Drew Krewer's work has appeared in DIAGRAM, Everyday Genius, The Volta, Poor Claudia, and Trickhouse, among others. He co-edits the online publication The Destroyer and is the author of Ars Warholica (Spork Press, 2010). He currently resides in Los Angeles.
Drew Toal
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
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.
Ed Luker
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 Park
Ed Park is a founding editor of The Believer. His fiction has appeared in Crowd, Trampoline, Virgin Fiction, and other places. Personal Days, his first novel, was published by Random House in 2008.
Ed Steck
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.
Edward Mullany
Elaine Kahn
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 Levine
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.
Elisabeth Esselink
Solex is the pseudonym of cut 'n paste singer-songwriter Elisabeth Esselink. Formerly owner of an Amsterdam record store, Esselink decided to go solo in 1997 and came up with a blend of low-key techno and 'found' sounds. Solex Vs. The Hitmeister was her debut album for Matador in 1998 and was comprised of snippets from all the records in her shop that she couldn't sell. In a change of tack, 1999's Pick Up was constructed from dozens of recordings that she'd secretly made at live shows in Amsterdam. This technique was continued on the albums Low Kick And Hard Bop (2001) and The Laughing Stock of Indie Rock (2004) In 2010 she released Amsterdam Throwdown, King Street Showdown. This record is the result of a collaboration between Solex, Cristina Martinez (Boss Hog) and Jon Spencer (The Blues Explosion). Photo credit: Robert Lagendijk
Elizabeth Ellen
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
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
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
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
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 Jackson
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
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 Liebowitz
Emily Liebowitz is the author of National Park (Gramma, 2018) and the chapbook In Any Map (Songcave, 2015). She lives in Brooklyn where she co-edits LVNG Magazine and serves on the board of the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP)
Emily Schultz
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
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
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.
Emmalea Russo
Emmalea Russo’s books are G (Futurepoem) and Wave Archive (Book*hug). She has been an artist in residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the 18th Street Arts Center, and a visiting artist at The Art Academy of Cincinnati and Parsons School of Design. Venues where she has shown or presented her work include The Queens Museum, BUSHEL, Poets House, Flying Object, and The Boiler. She is a practicing astrologer and sees clients, writes, and podcasts on astrology and art at The Avant-Galaxy.
Eric Amling
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
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
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.
Twitter: @waityourarobot
Eric Wallgren
Eric Wallgren lives in Chicago, IL and plays bass for mtvghosts. He's online at ericwallgren.tumblr.com.
Erica Ammann
Erica Ammann is a poet from New Jersey who currently lives in Brooklyn. She earned a BFA in Writing from Pratt Institute and is the Social Media Director at No, Dear Magazine.
Erica Dawson
Erica Dawson is the author of three books of poetry: When Rap Spoke Straight to God (Tin House, forthcoming September 2018); The Small Blades Hurt (Measure Press, 2014), winner of the 2016 Poets’ Prize, and Big-Eyed Afraid (Waywiser Press, 2007), winner of the 2006 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in Barrow Street; Bennington Review; three editions of Best American Poetry; Crazyhorse; Harvard Review; Rebellion; Resistance; Life: 50 Poems Now; the Pushcart Prize XLII: Best of the Small Presses; Virginia Quarterly Review; and numerous other journals and anthologies. She lives in Tampa, Florida, and is an associate professor at University of Tampa, where she also directs the low-residency MFA program.
Erica Goodkind
Erica Goodkind is a writer who lives in Seattle. Previously, she was the editor of Under Hwy 99 Literary Magazine. Her short fiction has appeared in Ugly Accent Literary Magazine. She has worked as a Forest Fire Lookout, managed a sleep disorders lab, and was co-founder of an internationally awarded gin distillery in Seattle.
Erica Lewis
erica lewis lives in San Francisco. Books include the precipice of jupiter, camera obscura (both collaborations with artist Mark Stephen Finein), murmur in the inventory, daryl hall is my boyfriend, book one in the box set trilogy, and mary wants to be a superwoman, book two, just out from Jack White’s Third Man Books. She is currently working on book three, mahogany. Chapbooks include publications from Belladonna, Lame House Press, and After Hours/The Song Cave; a chap project is forthcoming from Gramma in 2018. She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Erica Peplin
Erica Peplin a writer from Detroit. She has been published by Hobart, The Brooklyn Rail and McSweeney’s. She lives in Brooklyn.
Erik Wennermark
Erik Wennermark writes various prose in Tokyo, Japan. His Falun Gong inspired novella "The True Story of Yu Fen,” short story collection "Evil Men," and nonfiction on topics such as the politics of Hong Kong independence and the death rattle of an Indian guru are dispersed on the web and beyond.
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
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 Gonzalez
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
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).
Evelyn Hampton
Evelyn's book of short stories was published by Ellipsis Press in 2015. In 2017 Publishing Genius published The Aleatory Abyss, a long essay. Other writing has appeared in Catapult, Utne Reader, BOMB, Conjunctions, and elsewhere. More about Evelyn's work is at www.lispservice.com.
Ezra Carlsen
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
Felicity Fenton
Felicity Fenton has presented her multidisciplinary work (social practice, photography, words, installation) in a number of public and private spaces around the globe. By day, she works a designer and radio host. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
Felix Bernstein & Vanessa Place
Fiona Helmsley
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
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.
Frances Chiem
Frances E. Chiem writes fiction and essays. Her works has appeared in various places online and in print.
Frankie Allegra
Frankie Allegra is a California native currently living in New York City. Her essays have been published in Joyland, The Briar Cliff Review, The Blue Mesa Review, and Prompt Literary Magazine (forthcoming in The Gyara Journal). Her one-act play “The Auction” was performed in Vivarium Theatre Company’s Lost and Found Festival in Chicago. She is a graduate of Northwestern University's nonfiction program, where she studied under John Bresland and Eula Biss.
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
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
Gabe Durham is the author of Fun Camp and the editor of Boss Fight Books. He lives in Los Angeles.
Gabriel Blackwell
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
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 Kruis
Gabriel Ojeda-Sague
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
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
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
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.
Gaurav Monga
Gaurav Monga is a prose poet from New Delhi, India. He learned German to read Kafka and is inspired by writers like Nikolai Gogol, Daniil Kharms, Walter Benjamin and Robert Walser. His debut book Tears for Rahul Dutta was published by Philistine Press. Much of his other work can be read at Birkensnake, Zero Ducats, Juked, Spurl Editions, Danse Macabre and Sein und Werden. This short story, Marionette, is a part of a forthcoming book entitled Ruins, published by Desirepath Publishers. Excerpts from this book can also be read in Hardly Doughnuts and is forthcoming in The Fabulist. Another collection of short stories, Family Matters, is slated to be published by Eibonvale Press in 2018. He teaches creative writing, literature, German, theater and epistemology and has worked at schools and universities in India, Nepal, Switzerland, and is currenly teaching in the Czech Republic. He is the founder of a fledgling publishing house called Pan`s Library and can be reached at panslibrary@gmail.com.
GB Gabbler
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.
Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle
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
George Barber has studied Chinese and spent time in China, where he taught and studied.
Gina Myers
Gina Myers is the author of Hold It Down (Coconut Books, 2013) and A Model Year (Coconut Books, 2009). She lives in Atlanta, GA and is a staff writer for Frontier Psychiatrist .
Ginger Ko
Ginger Ko writes from Wyoming. Her poetry collection MOTHERLOVER is forthcoming from Coconut Books.
Glenn Shaheen
Glenn Shaheen is the author of four books, most recently the flash fiction collection Carnivalia (Gold Wake Press, 2018).
Gordon Massman
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
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
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
Grant Maierhofer is the author of Ode to a Vincent Gallo Nightingale, Marcel, and The Persistence of Crows.
Grant Weber
Grant Weber has created a world that revolves around reading, running, writing and grilling on the weekends.
Greg Gerke
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
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
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.
Hadiyyah Kuma
Hadiyyah is a fiction and freelance writer from Toronto, Ontario. She’s curated a playlist of restaurant sounds because she is soothed by indiscernible chatter. Her work is featured/forthcoming in Bustle, Cosmonauts Avenue, Lockjaw Magazine, The Rumpus, and others. (Twitter: @hahadiyyah)
Haley Markbreiter
Haley Markbreiter lives in New York and works in a bakery. You can read her poems in The Hypocrite Reader and The Kenyon Review.
Hana Pera Aoake
Hana Pera Aoake (Tainui, Ngāti Raukawa) is a double Gemini, Pisces rising, INFP. They are a Māori bogan with a heart of gold. In 2018 they finished their MFA at Massey University and have had several breakdowns since. Based in Aotearoa, they work primarily in an indigenous collective called Fresh and Fruity with Mya Morrison-Middleton (Ngāi Tahu). Current interests include strong looks, black clothes in summer (NZ GOTHIC), skin care regimes, bread, Sandra Bullock in any rom com and churning butter.
Hanif Abdurraqib & Mike Young
Hannah Gamble
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.
Harris Lahti
Harris Lahti is an MFA candidate at Sarah Lawrence College, and an associate editor at Juked. His work has appeared in Midwestern Gothic, Juked, Potomac Review, Bull: Men's Fiction, and elsewhere.
Heather Christle
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
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
Hez Stalcup is an Atlanta-based Dance Artist. They are currently a Leap Year Resident with MINT Gallery.
Hilary Leichter
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
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
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.
Website: http://apocalypsemambo.blogspot.com/
Hugh Sheehy
Hugh Sheehy is the author of The Invisibles (University of Georgia Press). He teaches Creative Writing and Literature at Ramapo College of New Jersey.
Hugo dos Santos
Hugo dos Santos is a a Luso-American writer and translator. He has been awarded fellowships by the MacDowell Colony and the Disquiet International Literary Program. He is the translator of A Child in Ruins (Writ Large Press, 2016), the collected poems of José Luís Peixoto. His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and has appeared in various publications in the U.S. and Europe, including upstreet, Public Pool, Lunch Ticket, Queen Mob's Tea House, DMQ Review, and elsewhere. He is the author of ironbound - a blog.
Innas Tsuroiya
Innas Tsuroiya is a writer and poet living in Indonesia. She reads Durga Chew-Bose like a scripture. Follow her @festivegrave on Twitter and Instagram.
Isabel Balée
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
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
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.
Jac Nelson
Jac Nelson is a multimedia poet living between the Puget Sound and Minnesota River Valley regions. Their work deals primarily with the ethical lives of art and the artist as these emerge from a context of inheritance: ancestry, language, land, trauma, coercion, and choice activate their aesthetic search for multigenerational healing and connection. Recent work was shown at Gay City in Seattle Wa, and published by Black Warrior Review, Gramma, 111O, and Otoliths.
Jace Brittain
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.
Jack Christian
Jack Christian is the author of the poetry collections Family System and Domestic Yoga.
Jack Meriwether
Jack Meriwether is a poet and performance artist from Ohio currently living and working in New York City. Their writing has most recently been featured in Deluge, Bad Pony (both forthcoming), Leste Magazine, Dum Dum Zine, and The Dandelion Review. Their work focuses on queer longing and identity, which they incorporate into their movement-based performance work. Jack’s chapbook Dear Husband is available for digital download at jackmeriwether.com.
Jackie Wang
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.
Jackqueline Frost
Jackqueline Frost is the author of The Antidote (Compline Editions), You Have the Eyes of a Martyr (O'clock Press), and Young Americans, forthcoming from Solar Luxuriance. She lives in Ithaca, New York.
Jacob Perkins
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 Schepers
Jacob Schepers is the author of A Bundle of Careful Compromises (Outriders Poetry Project 2014). His poems have appeared in PANK, The Destroyer, Burning House Press, and Verse, among others, as well as the anthology My Next Heart: New Buffalo Poetry (BlazeVOX 2017). He is a doctoral and MFA candidate at the University of Notre Dame.
Jacob Sunderlin
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
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.
Jacques Debrot
Jacques Debrot's stories have appeared or are forthcoming in many journals and anthologies, including Nothing Short of: Selected Tales from 100 Word Stories, The Collagist, and Hobart. He has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize and recently won The Thorn Prize in Fiction.
Jaime Clarke
Jaime Clarke is the author of the novel WE’RE SO FAMOUS, editor of DON’T YOU FORGET ABOUT ME: CONTEMPORARY WRITERS ON THE FILMS OF JOHN HUGHES, and co-founder of POST ROAD, a national literary magazine based out of New York and Boston.
Jaime Fountaine
Jaime Fountaine was raised by "wolves." Her work as appeared in PANK, Monkeybicycle, and 3:AM Magazine.
Jake Valento
Jamalieh Haley
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
James Gendron is the author of Sexual Boat (Sex Boats) and the chapbook Money Poems. Weirde Sister is forthcoming from Octopus Books.
James Greer
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
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
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
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
Jamie Iredell is the author of, most recently, I Was a Fat Drunk Catholic School Insomniac.
Jamie Perez
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
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 Connor
Jayne O’Connor lives in Atlanta and is the founder of Hyde. Her work has been featured in the Brooklyn Street Art Blog and PurgeATL. She is currently trying to develop psychic abilities.
Jane Dykema
Jane Dykema’s writing has appeared in Electric Literature, Big Big Wednesday, Cosmonauts Avenue, the anthology, Cover Stories, and elsewhere. She’s a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow and holds an MFA from UMass Amherst. She teaches writing at Clark University and Grub Street, and is a Program Assistant for Disquiet International Literary Program.
Jane Wong
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
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
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 Sapigao
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
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.
Jasmine Gibson
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
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.
Jason Teal
Jaswinder Bolina
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.
Website: http://www.jaswinderbolina.com/
Jay Deshpande
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
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.
Jeanne Jones
Jeanne Jones is a writer and teacher based in the D.C. area. Her work can be found in American Short Fiction, SmokeLong Quarterly, Jellyfish Review, and elsewhere.
Jeff Alessandrelli
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
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 Rovinelli
Jeff Rovinelli lives in Boston. He is a contributing writer to TinyMixTapes.com as well as The Fanzine.
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
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.
Website: http://jenjmay.tumblr.com/
Jenn McCreary
Jenn McCreary is a Philadelphia poet. She serves as president of the board of directors for Small Press Traffic, a San Francisco-based nonprofit arts organization whose mission is to provide a local and national platform for experimental writing. She is the author of three books of poetry, several chapbooks, and has, with the playwright Kathy Vindograff, adapted her work for performances at Poets Theater in Oakland, CA, Asian Arts Initiative in Philadelphia, PA, & the Boog City Festival in Brooklyn, NY. In 2013, she was named a Pew Fellow in the Arts.
Jenna Le
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
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
Jennifer Calkins is an evolutionary biologist and attorney. Her books include A Story of Witchery (Les Figues Press) and Fugitive Assemblage (forthcoming from The 3d Thing). She lives in Seattle.
Jennifer Militello
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
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 Soong
Jennifer Soong is a New Jersey and New York-based poet. Her first full-length book, 'Near, At' was chosen by Pierre Joris, Monica McClure, and Claudia La Rocco for upcoming publication with Futurepoem Books. She received her B.A. in English and Visual & Environmental Studies from Harvard College before working at The New School and joining the English doctoral program at Princeton University. Her poetry has been published in Berfrois, Prelude Magazine, DIAGRAM, glitterMOB, H_NGM_N, among other places, and has been translated into Spanish.
Jennifer Tamayo
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
Jeremiah Moriarty
Jeremiah Moriarty's writing has appeared in Cosmonauts Avenue, Figure 1, The Cortland Review, Split Lip, Tammy, the Ploughshares blog, and elsewhere. He lives in Minneapolis and tweets @miahmoriarty.
Jeremy Packert Burke
Jeremy Packert Burke is an MFA candidate at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. He has had work in or forthcoming from The Nashville Review, The Adroit Journal, Quarterly West, Split Lip, Indiana Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Third Coast, and Puerto del Sol, among other places.
Jerimee Bloemeke
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.
Jesi Khadivi
Jesi Khadivi is a writer and curator living in Berlin where she co-directs the contemporary art project space Golden Parachutes.
Jess Shaefer
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
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
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.
Jesse Prado
Jesse Prado lives in Oakland, CA and tweets from the handle @jus_prado. You can buy his chapbooks at Nomadic and Irrelevant Press.
Jessica Alexander
Jessica Alexander’s story collection, Dear Enemy, was the winning manuscript in the 2016 Subito Prose Contest, as judged by Selah Saterstrom. Her fiction has been published in journals such as Fence, Black Warrior Review, PANK, Denver Quarterly, The Collagist, and DIAGRAM. She lives in Lafayette, Louisiana where she teaches creative writing.
Jessica Berger
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 Lawson
Jessica Lawson’s poetry has appeared in Cosmonauts Avenue, The Wanderer, Dream Pop, TL;DR, The Thought Erotic, and Dusie, and her reviews have appeared in Jacket2. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa and is currently in the MFA poetry program at CU-Boulder, where she serves as an editor for Timber Journal and teaches classes on creative writing and LGBT literature. She is a 2017 Pushcart nominee and her chapbook Rot Contracts is a finalist for the New Delta Review 2017-2018 Chapbook Contest. She is currently completing a manuscript about the downfalls of trying to power bottom the patriarchy.
Jessica Marsh
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
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
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 Fuhrman
Joanna Fuhrman is the author of five books of poetry, including The Year of Yellow Butterflies (Hanging Loose Press, 2015) and Pageant (Alice James Books, 2009). Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including The Believer, Conduit, Fence, and New American Writing, and various anthologies, including The Pushcart Prize 2011 and 365 Poems for Every Occasion (Abrams, 2015). For more, visit joannafuhrman.com.and https://vimeo.com/user93190326.
JoAnna Novak
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.
Joanna Ruocco
Joanna Ruocco lives in Denver, Colorado. "Unicorns" is from her short story collection Man's Companions, which is forthcoming from Tarpaulin Sky Press. She is the author of The Mothering Coven and she co-edits Birkensnake, a fiction journal, with Brian Conn.
Joe Fritsch
Joe Fritsch is a poet and critic. His writing has appeared in Underwater New York, Mad House Journal, and elsewhere.
Joe Hall
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
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.
Joe Pfister
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
Joe Wenderoth has numerous numerous publications. Numerous. He teaches at UC Davis, where police keep order with pepper spray. he is invisible.
Joel Westendorf
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Jon Frosch
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
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.
Jon Lindsey
Jon Weissberg
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!).
Jon-Michael Frank
Jonathan Rosenbaum
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
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).
Jordan Heller
Jordan Heller is a former senior editor of the pop culture magazines BlackBook and Radar. His writing has appeared in Men's Journal, Wall Street Journal, VanityFair.com, and Christian Science Monitor. He lives in Brooklyn and can be contacted at jordhell@gmail.com.
Jordan Somers
Jordan Somers is a Copywriter and Adjunct Professor of Consumer History located in New York City. In his spare time he plays in bands and writes cranky articles about cultural ephemera.
Twitter: @jordanerror
Jos Charles
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
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 josalynknapic@gmail.com.
Joseph Dante
Joseph Dante lives in Plantation, Florida. His work has been featured in Permafrost, The Rumpus, Best Gay Stories 2015, PANK, Corium, and elsewhere. He was a finalist for the 2016 Lascaux Prize for Poetry.
Joseph Goosey
Joseph Goosey is the author of a chapbook, STUPID ACHE, published by Greybook Press. Other poems have shown up in Cordite Poetry Review and WUSSY Mag. He lives in Southern Pines, North Carolina.
Joseph Grantham
Joseph Grantham is the author of Tom Sawyer (CCM Press 2018) and Raking Leaves (Holler Presents 2018). He lives in America and runs Disorder Press with his sister.
Joseph Mains
Joseph Mosconi
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).
Joseph Rathgeber
Joseph Rathgeber is an author, poet, high school English teacher, and adjunct professor from New Jersey. His story collection is The Abridged Autobiography of Yousef R. and Other Stories (ELJ Publications, 2014). His work of hybrid poetry is MJ (Another New Calligraphy, 2015). His forthcoming novel is Mixedbloods (Fomite, 2019). He was a recipient of a 2014 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship (Poetry) and a 2016 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship (Prose).
Joseph Young
Josh Bell
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.
Josh Boardman
Josh Boardman is from Michigan. He is the author of the chapbook 'Plantain' (West Vine Press, 2018) and conducted the Latin translation project 'We, Romans' (2015). His stories have appeared or are forthcoming in journals such as New York Tyrant, BULL, Maudlin House, and Volume 1 Brooklyn. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, where he is working on his first novel and a collection of stories.
Josh Denslow
Josh Denslow’s stories have appeared in Barrelhouse, Catapult, Cutbank, Wigleaf, and Black Clock, among others. His collection NOT EVERYONE IS SPECIAL will be published in 2019 by 7.13 Books. In addition to constructing elaborate Lego sets with his three boys, he plays the drums in the band Borrisokane and edits at SmokeLong Quarterly.
Joshua Cohen
Joshua Cohen was born in Southern New Jersey in 1980. Author of The Quorum (Twisted Spoon Press), he is also an essayist for the Forward and an editor of the PLR (www.pragueliteraryreview.com). A novel of his is forthcoming in 2006 from Fugue State Press.
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
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
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
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
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.
Julia Madsen
Julia Madsen is a multimedia poet and educator. She received an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University and is currently a doctoral student in English/Creative Writing at the University of Denver. Her first book, The Boneyard, The Birth Manual, A Burial: Investigations into the Heartland, is forthcoming from Trembling Pillow Press in 2018.
Julian Modugno
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
Julie Perini
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.
Juliet Escoria
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
Justin Caguiat is co-director of Manila Institute & is based in Chinatown, NYC.
Justin Stewart
Justin Stewart's writing on cinema has appeared in the L Magazine, Reverse Shot, Film Comment and elsewhere.
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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
Kaptain Carbon writes for Tapewyrmmetal.com, Hollywoodmetal.com, and is a moderator for Reddit’s r/metal, r/vintageobscura, and r/exotica.
Kara Vernor
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
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
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.
Website: http://krejcarek.com
Kate Jayroe
Kate Jayroe is a bookseller and writer in Portland, Oregon as well as a staff member with the Sewanee Writers' Conference. Her chapbook, Parts, is published with DorsaBrevia Press. Work by Kate can be found in Tammy, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Joyland, Juked, and elsewhere. More at katejayroe.com
Kate Montgomery
Kate Montgomery is a writer and photographer living in Tokyo, currently in search of a new home. Through an increasingly eclectic variety of media including film and corporeal mime she explores ideas of being a woman in the city, desire, and growing in foreign places. Her other writing can be found at https://presentlykate.wordpress.com/ and her photography at https://lespetitsriensweb.wordpress.com/.
Katharine Coldiron
Katherine Botten
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
Katherine Osborne is a writer in Massachusetts and editor of Little River. She is the author of Fire Sign.
Kati Heng
Kati Heng is a writer living in Chicago. Her work has been featured in CityPages.com, The Newer York and Where Magazine.
Katie Burke
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
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
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
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
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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Kevin Catalano
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
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
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
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.
Kevin Spaide
Kevin Spaide is from Auburn, New York. His stories have been published in Witness, Sententia, New World Writing, FRiGG and other places. He lives in Madrid with his wife and son.
Kieran Devaney
Kieran Devaney is from Birmingham in the UK. He has published one novel, Deaf at Spiral Park (Salt, 2013).
Kim Yi-deum
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
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.
Kory Calico
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
Kristen Felicetti is the editor of The Bushwick Review. She also wrote and recorded The New York Crimes, a modern radio play.
Kristen Gallagher
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
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
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.
Kristine Ong Muslim
Kristine Ong Muslim is the author of nine books of fiction and poetry, including the short story collections Age of Blight (Unnamed Press, 2016), Butterfly Dream (Snuggly Books, 2016), and The Drone Outside (Eibonvale Press, 2017), as well as the poetry collections Lifeboat (University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2015), Meditations of a Beast (Cornerstone Press, 2016), and Black Arcadia (University of the Philippines Press, 2017). She is co-editor with Nalo Hopkinson of the British Fantasy Award-winning anthology People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction. Her stories have recently appeared in Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk & Eco-Speculation (Upper Rubber Boot Books, 2017), The Cincinnati Review, and Weird Fiction Review. She grew up and continues to live in a rural town in southern Philippines. kristinemuslim.weebly.com
Kyle Beachy
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.
Ladan Osman
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
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.
Lara Glenum
Lara Glenum is the author of five full-length poetry collections: The Hounds of No, Maximum Gaga, Pop Corpse, All Hopped Up On Fleshy Dumdums, and the forthcoming Junk Shot. She teaches in the MFA program at LSU.
Lara Mimosa Montes
Lara Mimosa Montes is a poet, critic, and performer based in NYC with work currently in the online journal ONandONSCREEN and work forthcoming in the print publications Women's Studies Quarterly: The Fashion Issue and Fence.
Larissa Szporluk
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
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 Carter
Laura Carter lives and writes in Atlanta.
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
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 Straub
Laura Straub is a writer and the woman behind Vouched Books Atlanta. Her reviews can be read at Vouchedbooks.com, Creative Loafing, PASTE Magazine, Purge, NOÖ and others.
Laura Theobald
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.
Laura Theobald & Sean Collins
Laura Varlas
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 Grabowski
Lauren Grabowski's work has appeared in Hobart, The Nervous Breakdown, and Talking Writing. She lives in Jersey.
Lauren Traetto
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
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
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/).
Leonora Desar
Leonora Desar’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in River Styx, Passages North, Black Warrior Review Online, Mid-American Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, Hobart, and Quarter After Eight, among others. She won third place in River Styx’s microfiction contest, and was a runner-up/finalist in Quarter After Eight’s Robert J. DeMott Short Prose contest, judged by Stuart Dybek. She was recently nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions 2019, and Best Microfiction, 2018.
Leslie Burnette
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.
Levi Bentley
Levi Bentley organizes the reading series Housework, edits the journal Boneless Skinless, and is a member of the artist collective Vox Populi. "Bucolic Eclogue" was released from Lamehouse Press in July 2016. Chapbooks "Obstacle, Particle, Spectacle", "&parts", and "Stub Wilderness" were released from 89plus/LUMA Foundation, Damask Press, and Well Greased Press, respectively. Vitrine released their tape "Red Green Blue". Poems have appeared through 491, Apiary, Bedfellows, BlazeVOX, Boog City, Elective Affinities, Fact-Simile, Gigantic Sequins, No Infinite, Madhouse, Maestra Vida, Magic Pictures, Painted Bride Quarterly, Small Po[r]tions, Stillwater Review, The Wanderer, Tinge and Truck.
Lily Daly
Lily Daly is a writer from Alabama. She currently lives in Armenia and teaches English as a Peace Corps Volunteer.
Lily Rose Kosmicki
Lily Rose Kosmicki is a person, but sometimes feels like an alien in this world. She suspects she frequently experiences a form of hypergraphia and/or graphomania and she is obsessed with language and the body. She is working on translating years and years of notebooks into poetry, makes cut-up collage poem-paintings, and illustrates creatures with accompanying poems that are (sort-of) for children. By trade she is a librarian at the public library and by night she is a collector of dreams. Her zine Dream Zine recently won a Broken Pencil Zine Award for Best Art Zine 2018.
Linda Franklin
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
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
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
Linh Dinh
Linh Dinh is the author of two books of stories, five of poems, and a just released novel, Love Like Hate. He's tracking our deteriorating socialscape through his frequently updated photo blog, State of the Union.
Lisa Ciccarello
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.
Lisa Korzeniowski
Lisa Korzeniowski is a writer of fiction and poetry living in Boston. She was a finalist in New Millennium Writing's 42nd Flash Fiction Contest. Her work has appeared in Opium and The Drum.
Liz Latty
Liz Latty’s work has appeared in The Rumpus, The Establishment, Huffpost, The Feminist Wire, HOLD: A Journal, and Jupiter88, among others. Her writing was included as a Notable Essay selection in Best American Essays 2017, and has been nominated for Best of the Net, a Pushcart Prize, and the Jackson, Phelan, and Tanenbaum Literary Awards from the San Francisco Foundation. You can find her on social media at @lizlatty or at her website, www.liz-latty.com
Lizzy Acker
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.
Website: http://lizzyacker.com/
Lonely Christopher
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.
Louis Chude-Sokei
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.
Louise Mathias
Lucas Burkett
Lucas Burkett is the recipient of the 2019 Wolfson Poetry Award. He lives with his fiancée in Goshen, Indiana.
Lucy Tiven
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.
Luis Neer
Luis Neer is the author of a full-length poetry collection, Extinction (Sad Spell Press, 2016), and eight chapbooks. He was born in Weirton, West Virginia and is an undergraduate student at West Virginia 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
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
Lynn Mundell is co-founder of 100 Word Story and co-editor of its anthology, "Nothing Short: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story" (Outpost19, April 2018). Her work has appeared in many fine literary journals, with more forthcoming this year in KYSO Flash, apt, Toasted Cheese, Thread, Permafrost, Bird's Thumb, and the anthology "New Micros: Exceptionally Short Stories" (W.W. Norton & Company, August 2017).
M Kitchell
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.
M. Milks
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.
Madison McCartha
Madison McCartha is a black poet whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, DREGINALD, Full-Stop, jubilat, Yalobusha Review, The Pinch, and elsewhere. He has served both as Asst. Editor and Design Editor for Cream City Review, and became the Poetry Editor for Storm Cellar. Madison holds an MFA from the University of Notre Dame.
Maggie Millner
Maggie Millner's poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Two Serious Ladies, GlitterMOB, Prelude, and elsewhere.
Magus Magnus
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.
Mai Ivfjäll
Mai Ivfjäll is a bilingual poet based in Stockholm (by way of Atlanta). She is a member of the experimental Danish writing group Hekseskolen and co-edits HYENA. Her poems have appeared in American Chordata, Grimoire, hotdog, Ordkonst, Tidskriften Provins, and elsewhere. Ivfjäll’s on-going project exploring chronic illness through tanka poetry can be found at 57577etc.tumblr.com.
Website: http://lokglot990
Mairead Case
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
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
Maja Malou Lyse
Maja Malou Lyse, born 1993. Studies at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, based in Copenhagen. Explores social and aesthetic construct of female-coded identity and practicing non-binary femininity.
Malina Saval
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Website: http://marisacrawford.net
Mariusz Zubrowski
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
"Mark Asch was for several years an editor at in Brooklyn, and is now studying at the University of Iceland."
Mark Baumer
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
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 Gluth
Mark Gluth drinks tea, listens to music, writes, rides his bike, plays video games and walks his and his wife’s dogs. His first novel The Late Work Of Margaret Kroftis is being published by Akashic/Little House on the Bowery on Jan, 2010.
Mark Leidner
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
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
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
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
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
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 DeBenedictis
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
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
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
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 Derby
Matthew Derby is the author of Super Flat Times: Stories. He lives in Pawtucket, RI. Learn more at mathewderby.com
Matthew Dexter
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 O'Shannessy
Matthew O’Shannessy is a writer who recently relocated from Melbourne to California.
Matthew Ronay
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 Sherling
Matthew Sherling has recently moved from San Francisco to a small town in Georgia, where he will surely continue to foster his internet addiction & wander around the woods. He runs the interview blog CUTTY SPOT & the online magazine Gesture. He hasn't slept since 2004.
Matthew Simmons
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
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
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
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 Oginz
Max Oginz is a graduate of Concordia University's Creative Writing program. He was a Tent: Creative Writing fellow at The Yiddish Book Center in 2016. He lives in San Francisco.
Max Winter
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).
Maya McCoy
Maya McCoy lives, works, writes, and paints in New York City. Her writing has been featured in Cosmonauts Avenue and The New York Times: Race In America reader submission series. Her paintings and visual art can be found on Instagram @mayamccoyart. Maya is originally from Toledo, Ohio.
Meg Pokrass
MEG POKRASS has published stories in McSweeney's, Five Points, Wigleaf, Smokelong, and over 230 other literary magazines online and in print. Her work has been internationally anthologized, most recently in the Norton anthology Flash Fiction International(W.W. Norton, 2015). Her books include Damn Sure Right, My Very End of the Universe, Bird Envy and The Dog Looks Happy Upside Down. She is the flash fiction curator for Great Jones Street App, and curates the Bath Flash Fiction Festival (Bath, U.K.).
Megan Alderson
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
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
Megan McShea is the author of A Mountain City of Toad Splendor (Publishing Genius Press). She lives in Baltimore, MD.
Megan Nare
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
Megan O'Patry lives in San Francisco. She is an avid consumer
Meghan Broughton
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
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
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
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
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 Constandse
Melissa is a graphic designer and professional concert attender.
Melissa Mesku
Melissa Mesku is the founding editor of New Worker Magazine, ➰➰➰ and The Void Lit Mag, and a contributing editor at Platypus Press. Twitter: @melissamesku
Melissa Pritchard
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/)
Melysa Martinez
Lover of fire. Complicated since birth. Breech baby. Melysa Martinez hosts Kill Your Darlings ATL, a community for writers Follow KYDA on Twitter: @kydATL. Facebook group page here
Meredith Alling
Meredith Alling is a writer living in Los Angeles. Her website is meredithalling.com and she is on Twitter @meremyth
Meredith Maltby
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
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
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 Gottlieb
Michael Gottlieb is a poet and the author of nineteen books, a New Yorker and one of the original Language writers. His published work also includes memoirs and essays. His most recent is title is What We Do: Essays for Poets (2016, Chax Press). Other recent criticism includes reviews of ‘The Flarf Anthology’ (current issue of Tripwire) and Rob Fitterman’s ‘Nevermind’ (Poetry Project Newsletter).
Michael Harris Cohen
Michael Harris Cohen’s work is published or forthcoming in various magazines and anthologies including Black Candies, Fiction International, Catapult’s Tiny Crimes, and Conjunctions (web). He is the winner of Mixer’s “Sex, Violence, and Satire” contest as well as the Modern Grimmoire Literary Prize. He’s received a Fulbright grant for literary translation and fellowships from The Djerassi Foundation, OMI International Arts Center and the Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Foundation. His first book, The Eyes, was published by the once marvelous but now defunct Mixer Publishing. He lives with his wife and two daughters and teaches creative writing and literature at the American University in Bulgaria. Sometimes he sleeps.
Michael Hessel-Mial
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
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
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 Louie
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 mike@thefanzine.com
Michael Martrich
Michael Martrich is the author of The Hole in the Den (BlazeVOX, 2017). He lives in Dakar.
Michael McCanne
Michael McCanne has lived in Berlin, Brooklyn, Buenos Aires, London, Long Beach and Petaluma. His writing has appeared in Euphony, The Sonora Review and the New Inquiry. He is also an editor at Lightful Press.
Website: http://lightfulpress.com/
Michael Miller
Michael Miller is an editor and writer at Time Out New York. He lives in Brooklyn.
Michael O'Hara
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
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
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 michellelynking@gmail.com or on twitter @MichelleLynKing.
Michelle Ross
Michelle Ross is the author of There's So Much They Haven't Told You (2017), which won the 2016 Moon City Press Short Fiction Award. Her fiction has recently appeared in Hobart, Electric Literature's Recommended Reading, Threadcount, TriQuarterly, and other venues. She is fiction editor of Atticus Review. She lives in Tucson, Arizona. www.michellenross.com
Mikaela Grantham
Mikaela Grantham is the founder and co-editor of Disorder Press which she runs with her brother. She currently lives in New Orleans with her dog, Ruby.
Mike Corrao
Mike Corrao is a young writer working out of Minneapolis. His work has been featured in publications such as Entropy, Cleaver, decomP, and more. His first novel will be released in fall of 2018 by Orson's Publishing. Further information can be found at www.mikecorrao.com.
Mike Ingram
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 Kleine
Mike Kleine is the author of Kanley Stubrick (We Heard You Like Books, 2016) and other texts. His book, Lonely Men Club, will be published by Inside the Castle in the spring of 2018 as the inaugural Castle Freak residency project. He currently lives somewhere in the Midwest.
Mike Meginnis
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
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
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
Mira Gonzalez is the author of i will never be beautiful enough to make us beautiful together.
Molly Brodak
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
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
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
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
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 Jainchill
Nancy Jainchill is a writer and psychologist living and working in upstate New York where it still gets cold. Since November 2015, when she attended Candida Royalle’s memorial service at the Judson Memorial Church in New York City, (see, http://entropymag.org/bringing-candida-home/) she’s been exploring the world of women and pornography, and is working on a book about feminism, and the future of women and porn. She’s published on subjects ranging from walking across the Edmund Pettus Bridge as part of the 50th Anniversary of the Selma March, to opposition to trophy hunting (Albany Times Union), to dancing topless (Dr. TJ Eckleburg Review,Aug. 2014), and honoring Diane DePrima (Free State Review Feb 25, 2015).
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
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 Casagran Lopez
Natalie Casagran Lopez (b.1992) is a writer and artist from Los Angeles. She graduated from the California Institute of the Arts School of Art in 2017 and currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.
Natalie Eilbert
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
Natalie Lugo lives in Detroit, where she works in a veterinary clinic. This is her first publication.
Natalie Lyalin
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
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
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
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 Dragon
Nathan Dragon’s work has appeared in NOON Annual, New York Tyrant, and has forthcoming work in Egress Mag. Dragon lives in Shutesbury, MA.
Nathan Knapp
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
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.
Natsumi Tanaka
Natsumi Tanaka is a writer living in Kyoto, Japan. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous journals such as Anima Solaris, Kotori no kyuden, Outline, and Tanpen. She is the author of the short story collection Yumemiru ningyo no okoku (2017).
Never Angeline North
Never Angeline North is an artist, writer, mystic and designer based in Olympia, WA. She is author of the books Sea-Witch, Careful Mountain and Sara or the Existence of Fire and founder of Undying Apparel. You can find more about her at http://undying.club.
Nic Lawrence
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Nick Gulig
The author of North of Order and Book of Lake, Nicholas Gulig is a Thai-American poet from Wisconsin.
Nick Sturm
Nick Sturm is a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His poems, collaborations, and essays have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, PEN, Black Warrior Review, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, and elsewhere. His scholarly and archival work can be traced at his blog Crystal Set. His first book of poems, How We Light, is being reissued by Big Lucks in 2018.
Nicole Steinberg
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 Bumbac
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
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
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.
Nikki Wallschlaeger
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.
Niles Baldwin
Niles Baldwin lives and writes in Kittery, Maine. His work has previously appeared at Green Mountains Review.
Nina Cristante
Extracts from Zao Dha Diet - Nina Cristante’s ongoing work and health consultation system.
Nina Oteria
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
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
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
Nooks Krannie
Nooks Krannie is a Palestinian/Persian female writer from Montreal, Canada. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks, I have hard feelings & I wish I could quit chocolate (Moloko House Press, 2016) and candied pussy (Thistlemilk Press, 2017). Insta: @nookskrannie
Nora Hickey
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
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.
Website: http://www.obdealessi.com/
Oki Sogumi
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
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
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
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
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
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
Pasha Malla is the author of The Withdrawal Method (stories) and All Our Grandfathers Are Ghosts (poems, sort of).
Patrick Milian
Patrick Milian is a doctoral candidate, Joff Hanauer fellow, and teacher at the University of Washington. He has been a William Ralph Wayland Fellow, the recipient of a grant from the Klepser Endowment, and winner of the Richard J. Dunn Teaching Award. His poetry and essays have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Fourteen Hills, Mid-American Review, The Offing, and The Seattle Review, for which he was a Pushcart Prize nominee.
Patrick Wensink
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
Website: http://www.patrickwensink.com/
Twitter: www.twitter.com/patrickwensink
Paul Asta
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
Paul Cunningham manages Radioactive Moat Press and edits Deluge. He is the translator of Helena Österlund's Words (OOMPH! Press, 2019) and 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 Quarterly West, Spork, Bat City Review, DIAGRAM, Witness, Tarpaulin Sky, and others. He is a PhD candidate at the University of Georgia and he holds a MFA in Poetry from the University of Notre Dame. He co-curates the Yumfactory Reading Series in Athens, Georgia.
Paul Hansen
Paul Hansen is a PhD student at Florida State University. He is a native Nebraskan and holds an MFA from McNeese State University. Other work is forthcoming in Juked's print edition.
Paul Longo
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.
Penny Goring
Penny Goring lives in London. She makes things.
Pete Hausler
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
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
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
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
Peter Markus is the Senior Writer with the InsideOut Literary Arts Project of Detroit and is the author of several books, the most recent of which is Inside My Pencil: Teaching Poetry in Detroit Public Schools.
Peter Markus & Robert Lopez
Peter Richards
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
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.
Peter Valente
Peter Valente is the author of A Boy Asleep Under the Sun: Versions of Sandro Penna (Punctum Books, 2014), which was nominated for a Lambda award, The Artaud Variations (Spuyten Duyvil, 2014), Let the Games Begin: Five Roman Writers (Talisman House, 2015), The Catullus Versions (Spuyten Duyvil, 2017), two books of photography, Blue (Spuyten Duyvil) and Street Level (Spuyten Duyvil, 2016), two translations from the Italian, Blackout by Nanni Balestrini (Commune Editions, 2017) and Whatever the Name by Pierre Lepori (Spuyten Duyvil, 2017), Two Novellas: Parthenogenesis & Plague in the Imperial City (Spuyten Duyvil, 2017), a collaboration with Kevin Killian, Ekstasis (blazeVOX, 2017) and the chapbook, Forge of Words a Forest (Jensen Daniels, 1998). Forthcoming is his translation of Nicolas Pages by Guillaume Dustan (Semiotext(e)), and The Selected Late Letters of Antonin Artaud (1945-1947) (Infinity Land Press). In 2010, he turned to filmmaking and has completed 60 shorts to date, 24 of which were screened at Anthology Film Archives.
Philip Dinolfo
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
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
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.
Porpentine Charity Heartscape
Porpentine Charity Heartscape's latest short story collection is Eczema Angel Orifice. She's won the XYZZY and Indiecade awards, been displayed at EMP Museum and The Museum of the Moving Image, and profiled by the NYTimes.
Precious Okoyomon
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/
Priscilla Posada
Priscilla Posada is a writer living in New York. Her translations of Pablo Katchadjian's novels, What to Do and Thanks, have been published by Dalkey Archive Press. An excerpt of her work can be found in STILL 6. Email her at pposada22@gmail.com.
Quinn Roberts
Hailing from Connecticut, Quinn Roberts is a recent graduate of the Pratt Institute, where he wrote a collection of stories for his senior thesis. His work has been supported by the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and can also be found on LitHub. He is currently based in Berlin, and he tweets and grams @thequinnprint.
Rachael Daum
Rachael Daum is the Assistant Managing Director of the American Literary Translators Association. She received her BA in Creative Writing from the University of Rochester and MA in Slavic Studies from Indiana University; she also received Certificates in Literary Translation from both institutions. Her original work and translations have appeared in Queen Mob's Teahouse, The Airship Daily, Wolfskin Journal, Mt. Island Magazine, Literary Laundry, and elsewhere. Rachael lives and works in Belgrade, Serbia, and translates from Serbian, Russian, and German. Find her on Twitter at @rclouisedaum.
Rachael Daum
Rachael Daum is the Assistant Managing Director of the American Literary Translators Association. She received her BA in Creative Writing from the University of Rochester and MA in Slavic Studies from Indiana University; she also received Certificates in Literary Translation from both institutions. Her original work and translations have appeared in Queen Mob's Teahouse, The Airship Daily, Wolfskin Journal, Mt. Island Magazine, Literary Laundry, and elsewhere. Rachael lives and works in Belgrade, Serbia, and translates from Serbian, Russian, and German. Find her on Twitter at @rclouisedaum.
Rachel Allen
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
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
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 Sherman
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
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.
www.floatingtales.com
Rae Gouirand
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.
Randal O'Wain
Randal O’Wain is the author of Meander Belt: essays (Bison Books/American Lives Series, 2019) and Hallelujah Station: Stories (Autumn House Press, 2020).
Raul Alvarez
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
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
RC Miller lives in Metuchen, NJ. He is the author of Mask With Sausage (Schism[2]), Surviving Beyond Recognition and the impending Abstract Slavery (Dostoyevsky Wannabe), co-written with Gary J. Shipley.
Rebecca Bligh & Caspar Heinemann
Rebecca Fishow
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
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
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
Reynard Seifert is a writer, radio producer, music maker, photographer, filmmaker, painter, teacher, forager, and farmer. He lives in Ashland, Oregon.
Rhoads Stevens
Rhoads Stevens was born in Baltimore, grew up in Honolulu, and lives in Providence.
Richard Chiem
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.
Website: http://richardchiem.blogspot.com/
Richard Henderson
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
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
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
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
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
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
Rob Walsh is the author of Troublers, a collection of stories. His website is rob-walsh.com.
Robert Kloss
Robert Kloss is the author most recently of The Revelator. He lives in Colorado.
Robert Lopez
Robert Lopez is the author of two novels, Part of the World and Kamby Bolongo Mean River and a story collection, Asunder.
Robin Brasington
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.
Rod Moody-Corbett
Rod Moody-Corbett holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Calgary, where he is currently an instructor. His work has appeared in The Fiddlehead, Canadian Notes and Queries and The Paris Review Daily.
Rodney Wilhite
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.
Rose Hunter
Rose Hunter’s latest book of poetry, glass, was published by Five Islands Press (Australia) in 2017. Born in Australia, she lived in Canada for ten years and then Mexico for almost as long. More information about her is available at rosehunterwriting.com, and she tweets @BentWindowBooks, a chapbook publisher of poetry and hybrid forms that she founded.
Ross Robbins
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
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
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
Ryan Ridge is the author of four books, the most recent of which is Second Acts in American Lives, a collection of stories coauthored with Mel Bosworth. An assistant professor at Weber State University, he lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, and edits the literary magazine Juked.
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.
Sade Murphy
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
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
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
Sam DiBella is a freelance editor and designer from Rhode Island. He currently lives in Brooklyn.
Sam Farahmand
Sam Farahmand is a writer from Los Angeles. He is an editor at drDOCTOR and his writing has appeared in Electric Literature, Hobart, PANK Magazine, and drDOCTOR.
Sam Pink
books out through lazy fascist press. Instagram.com/sam_pink_art & twitter.com/sampinkisalive
Sam Riviere
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Estime
Sarah Gallien
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 Kasbeer
Sarah Maclay
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.
Sarah Walker
Sarah Walker is a writer living in Lowell, Massachusetts, originally from Northeastern Pennsylvania. She was a 2017 Dennis Lehane Fiction Fellow at the Solstice MFA Program of Pine Manor College and graduated in 2019. Her work has been featured or is forthcoming in Burrow Press Review, Cleaver, Colorado Review, Folio: A Literary Journal at American University, and more. She is a flash fiction editor for Lily Poetry Review.
Sasha Banks
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
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
Savannah Hampton
Savannah Hampton is a poet from Nevada who currently resides in Brooklyn, NY. Her work currently questions the relation between text and silence, image and void.
Saxon Baird
Saxon Baird has written for Guernica, Slate, Vice Sports, Gothamist, Blunderbuss, Large Up and other places. He also works as a bartender.
Schi O'Malley
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...
Scott Bradfield
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
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
Scott Creney graduated from Granite Hills High School in El Cajon, Ca. He currently lives in Athens, Ga.
Scott Daughtridge
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
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
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 McClanahan
Scott McClanahan is the writer of Stories V and Crapalachia. He also wrote Hill William.
Website: http://hollerpresents.com/scott.html
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
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
Sean Kilpatrick is the author of Gil the Nihilist, fuckscapes, and collaboratively with Blake Butler, Anatomy Courses.
Sean Lawlor
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Shaun Gannon
Shelby Shaw
Shelby Shaw is a writer in New York and Managing Editor of the art and literary journal Storyfile. www.shelby-shaw.com
Sherri Caudell
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.
Website: http://Caudell
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Shiv Kotecha
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
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
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
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.
Sloane Frederick
Sloane Frederick is hidden deep in the American south, and is learning the balance between living a life worth writing about and actually doing the writing. Their published works can be found in Entropy, Alligator Juniper, South magazine, and elsewhere. The rest of their work can be found on their bedroom floor.
Sofia Banzhaf
Sofia Banzhaf is a writer, actress, and filmmaker whose work appears or is forthcoming in Peach Mag, 4 poets, Cosmonaut's Avenue, X-R-A-Y and Bad Nudes, among others. She is the recipient of the Metatron Prize for Rising Authors for her novella Pony Castle.
Sonya Vatomsky
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
Spencer Madsen is the author of a million bears, published 2011) and You Can Make Anything Sad. He edits Sorry House books.
Stacey Levine
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.
Website: http://www.staceylevine.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
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.
Stella Corso
Stella Corso is a poet and performer living in Western Mass. She is a founding member of the Connecticut River Valley Poets Theater (CRVPT) and also performs with Xfinity Theater.
Stephanie Barber
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 Cawley
Stephanie Cawley is the author of the chapbook A Wilderness (Gazing Grain Press, forthcoming 2019). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in DIAGRAM, West Branch, Gramma, the PEN Poetry Series, Best New Poets, and TYPO, among other places. She has an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh, and she lives in New Jersey.
Stephanie Jimenez
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
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 Tully Dierks
Stephen Tully Dierks is a writer living in Chicago. He works for the Urban Education Institute at the University of Chicago. He earned a degree in Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He maintains a blog called Pop Serial.
stephentd
Stephen Tully Dierks is a writer living in Brooklyn and edits Pop Serial.
Stephon Lawrence
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.
Steve Anwyll
Steve Anwyll's first novel, Welfare, is coming from Tyrant Books this November. He often runs his mouth at Hobart and uses the twitter @oneloveasshole
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)
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 Tang
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 Johnson
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
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
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.
Talia Moscovitz
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.
Tammy Ho Lai-Ming
Tammy Ho Lai-Ming is a Hong Kong-born writer currently based in London, UK. She is a founding co-editor of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal and the poetry editor of Fleeting Magazine . More at www.sighming.com.
Website: http://asiancha.com/
Tanner Tafelski
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.
Tanya Whiton
Writer and editor Tanya Whiton’s flash fiction has recently been featured as part of The Cincinnati Review’s MiCRo series and in A Pie de la Letra, and her story “Up” was nominated for the 2018 Best Microfiction Anthology. In 2017 she received an honorable mention in Glimmer Train’s Very Short Fiction Contest for the story “Wingman,” and “Marine Life of the British Indian Ocean Territory” won second prize in Zoetrope: All Story’s Short Fiction Contest. Recent story editing projects include: THE ZEN SPEAKER: BREAKING THE SILENCE, a documentary film directed by Robin Greenspun and slated for release in 2019; a traveling exhibit about trailblazing workers-rights advocate Frances Perkins; and ARE YOU REALLY MY FRIEND? (The Book), by Tanja Hollander. www.tanyawhiton.com
Tao Lin
Tao Lin is the author of Richard Yates (Melville House, 2010), Shoplifting from American Apparel (Melville House, 2009), and four other books of fiction and poetry. He lives in Brooklyn. His blog is http://heheheheheheheeheheheehehe.com
Tara Atkinson
Tara Atkinson is a writer and one of the founders of APRIL, a festival of literature from small and independent presses.
TC Tolbert
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
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
Terrance Wedin lives in Columbus, Ohio. His writing has appeared in Esquire, Hobart, Smartish Pace, Barrelhouse, Similar:Peaks, and Elimae.
Tessa Fontaine
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
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
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
Theo Francis drives an 89 Olds 98. He is working on a manuscript of poems about scams. You can reach him at acornfetish@gmail.com.
Theresa Smalec
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
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 Cook
Thomas McBee
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
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.
Thomson Guster
Thomson Guster is a writer and musician living in Cleveland, Ohio. His work has been featured in HEAT MAP #9, Strange Attractors: Investigations into Non-Human Extraterrestrial Sexuality, and Bedfellows Magazine, with work forthcoming in SPF.
Tim Jones-Yelvington
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
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 Cushing
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
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
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.
Website: http://www.thescowl.org
Todd Colby
Todd Colby's latest book of poetry, Splash State, was published by The Song Cave in 2014. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Todd Dillard
Todd Dillard's work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous publications, including Electric Literature, Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, McSweeney's Internet Tendencies, Best New Poets, and Barrelhouse. He is a recipient of a grant from the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, and his chapbook 'The Drowned Hymns' is available from Jeanne Duval Editions.
Tom Andes
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
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
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 Pico
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
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).
Tracy Lynne Oliver
Tracy Lynne Oliver is attempting to make a new name for herself in this writing game. Check out her cool website: tracylynneoliver.com or just follow her on Twitter @T_L_OLIVER.
Travis Nichols
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
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
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 from Wichita, Kansas. His work had appeared widely online and in print. His new novel Temporal is out now from Disorder Press.
Tyler Barton
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.
Ulrica Hume
Ulrica Hume is the author of An Uncertain Age, a “wickedly sophisticated” novel, and House of Miracles, a collection of socially relevant tales, one of which was selected by PEN and broadcast on NPR. Her work is included in 100 Word Story’s Nothing Short Of anthology, published by Outpost19 Books.
Valerie Hsiung
Poet and performer Valerie Hsiung is the author of three full-length poetry collections: e f g: a trilogy (Action Books, 2016), incantation inarticulate (O Balthazar Press, 2013), and under your face (OBP, 2013). Her poetry and interviews can be found or is forthcoming in an array of places, including American Letters & Commentary, Apiary, Black Nerd Problems, Cloud Rodeo, Cosmonauts Avenue, Bone Bouquet, Denver Quarterly, DIAGRAM, Diode Poetry Journal, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Luna Luna Magazine, Mad Hatters’ Review, Moonshot, New Delta Review, PEN Poetry Series, Prelude, RealPoetik, Tammy, and VOLT. She has performed at Casa Libre en la Solana, Common Area Maintenance, Leon Gallery, Poetic Research Bureau, Rhizome, Shapeshifter Lab, and Treefort Music Festival, among elsewhere. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Hsiung studied literary translation and ecopoetics at Brown University and is currently based out of Brooklyn, New York, where she works as a modern-day matchmaker. She serves as an editor for Poor Claudia. Find her online athttp://flowersintheirmouths.com.
Vanessa Norton
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.
Various Contributors
Contributors to this piece include Chelsea Martin, Kevin Sampsell, Aneesa Davenport, Jeff T. Johnson, Claire Donato, Michael Thomsen and Brandon Scott Gorrell. Illustrations including the one to the left over there are from artist Rachel Pollak.
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
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
Virginia Overell is an artist based in Melbourne, Australia. www.virginiaoverell.net
Vyshali Manivannan
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.
Wendy Marech
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
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.
Weston Cutter
Wilbur Wilson
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
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.
Will Newman
will newman populates page-like spaces with words and other shapes. they live on the internet @wmnewmanjr and in philadelphia. will's previous work, in varied form, lives in Prelude, Cloud Rodeo, VICE, and Consequence of Sound.
William Lessard
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
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
Willie Fitzgerald is the co-founder of APRIL, a festival of small press and independent literature.
Winston Ward
Winston Ward is an Atlanta-based fiction writer, columnist, and satirist. He spends his free time shaking his head in disbelief at the state of the modern world. His monthly flash fiction challenge, the Five Hundred, will soon celebrate its anniversary.
Wong May
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.
Wyatt Williams
Wyatt Williams currently lives in Atlanta, where he is at work on a novel. His observations of books and visual arts can be found regularly in Creative Loafing. He is fully capable of doing a handstand in a photo booth. Interruptions are welcome at wyattww@gmail.com.
xtx
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
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.
Yuan Changming
Yuan Changming edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan and hosts Happy Yangsheng in Vancouver; credits include ten Pushcart & three Best of the Net nominations, Best of the Best Canadian Poetry, BestNewPoemsOnline, Threepenny Review and 1,399 others across 41 countries.
Yvonne Olivas
Yvonne Olivas lives in Brooklyn. She has written for Art in America and teaches at the School of Visual Arts
Zach Savich
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
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.
Zachary Pace
Zachary Pace is a writer and editor whose work has been published in Bookforum, Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, PEN Poetry Series, and elsewhere.
Zack Anderson
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
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
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
Zoe Tuck is author of Terror Matrix (Timeless, Infinite Light 2014). She is a poetry reader for HOLD: a journal.
Zoey Mondt
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.
