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Shane Allison

Shane Allison is a graduate student at the New School University in New York. He has had poems published in over sixty online and print journals including Chiron Review, The Doomed City, Unlikely Stories, 13th Warrior, and Gertrude:  A Journal of Voice and Vision.

Avital Gad-Cykman

Avital Gad-Cykman was born in Israel and has lived with her husband and children in Brazil  for the past twelve years. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in: Glimmer Train, Happy, AIM, Imago, Karawane Magazine, Raven chronicles, Snow Monkey, Pig Iron Malt, Salt River Review, Yellow Bat Review, In a Nutshell anthology, Salon (and Salon),  Zoetrope ASE, In Posse Review of web Del sol, Carve Magazine, Fiction and Opinion, The Cafe Irreal, Pindeldybolz, The Blue Review, Eclectica, Nemonymous and translated into Italian in Mondadori. She is a Pushcart nominee and a prizewinner of the Israeli contest, “Hamegeira.” She has completed a story collection and is at work on a novel.

George Ochoa

George Ochoa is the author or coauthor of more than 25 nonfiction books, including The Book of Answers (Fireside), The Wilson Chronology of Ideas (H.W. Wilson), and The Writer’s Guide to Creating a Science Fiction Universe (Writer’s Digest Books). His poetry has been published in The Chicago Literary Review. He reviews books for Kirkus Reviews and Publishers Weekly. He has an M.A. in English from the University of Chicago and a B.A. from Columbia University.

Eman Quotah

Eman Quotah is a writer who lives and works in Washington, DC.

Sean David Ross

Sean David Ross has been writing for years and his work has been seen in The GW Review, The GSU Review, Beacon Street Review, Premiere Generation Ink, Zygote and Loop. He also writes comic books but asks that you don’t hold that against him. He currently lives in a small town with his wife Leslie and his pet neurosis “Spot.”

Jude Roy

Jude Roy is a transplanted Cajun living and working in Madisonville, KY. His work has appeared in numerous print and internet resources including, The Southern Review, American Short Fiction, Zuzu’s Petal Quarterly, and Wilmington Blues.

Donna George Storey

Donna George Storey is a Japanese translator and author of Child of Darkness: Yôko and Other Stories by Furui Yoshikichi. Her fiction has appeared or will soon appear in Prairie Schooner, Stanford Magazine, Berkeley Fiction Review, and Zoetrope All-Story Extra. “The Blindfold” was originally published in the January 2001 issue of Rain Crow.

Virgil Suarez

Virgil Suarez’s essays, stories, poems, and translations continue to appear in journals the likes  of Triquarterly, Poetry London, Parnassus, Field, Indiana Review, Chelsea, The Toronto Review, Queen’s Quarterly, The Fiddlehead, The Malahat Review, Salmagundi, New England Review, Ploughshares, Mississippi Review, The Kenyon Review, and The Southern Review. The author of numerous novels, story and poetry collections (Palm Crows is forthcoming this year from the University of Arizona Press in its prestigious “Camino del Sol” Series), he is a professor of creative writing at The Florida State University. This year, he received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in poetry and is presently working on his new novel Sonny Manteca’s Blues, and a new collection of poems. 

Bob Thurber

Bob Thurber’s work has appeared in Zoetrope All Story Extra, elimae, Cafe Irreal, The Melic Review, The Providence Journal, In Posse Review, Blue Murder and Linnaean Street (which awarded him its coveted Award for Excellence and Clarity in Writing for stories published in the Spring 2000 issue). He has work forthcoming in a number of publications and a fiction anthology from Agony Press. He is a contributing Editor to Linnaean Street, and co-editor of the critically acclaimed literary site, Gargoyle: Arts and Letters on the Web (www.GargoyleDaily.org). Also, see “200 Watt Flashbulb.”    

Kimberly Townsend Palmer

Condensed Personal History of the Author: editor-in-chief, TRUTH the magazine; born: Beverly Hills Doctor’s Hospital: 1960: Year of the Rat: ancestry: Bohemian, English, French, German & Italian. Fourth-generation lawyer: (to her lawyer friends, she is known as “The Queen of Civil Procedure”— and, no, she doesn’t write anything that’s easy to read) how’s that for creepy? Current residence: Gainesville, Florida: co-occupants of dwelling place: husband, stepson and two daughters: offspring: one a teenager, one a toddler.  

Richard K. Weems

Richard K. Weems has work appearing in The Mississippi Review, Harpur Palate, Pif Magazine and the upcoming Florida Review. He teaches special education in Philadelphia.

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