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Biographies of the authors are below.



Nin Andrews is the editor of a book of translations of the French poet Henri Michaux entitled Someone Wants to Steal My Name from Cleveland State University Press. She is also the author of several books including The Book of Orgasms, Why They Grow Wings, Midlife Crisis with Dick and Jane, Sleeping with Houdini, and Dear Professor, Do You Live in a Vacuum. Her book, Southern Comfort, was published by CavanKerry Press in 2009 and was a finalist for the 2010 Paterson Poetry Prize.


Andrew Borgstrom lives a $6.90 ferry ride from Seattle. His chapbooks are available or forthcoming from Gold Wake, Pear Noir!, Publishing Genius, The Cupboard, Greying Ghost, and Mud Luscious.


Junior Burke is a novelist, lyricist and dramatist. He serves as Director of Naropa University’s low-residency MFA in Creative Writing and is founder and executive editor of the online literary magazine not enough night (www.naropa.edu/notenoughnight/). Read Junior Burke's work.

Félix Calvino is the author of the short story collection A Hatful of Cherries. His work has also appeared in anthologies (Clouds of Magellan, Fast forward Press ) and journals such as Quadrant, Social Alternatives and The Barcelona Review. He was born in Galicia, Spain, and lives in Australia, where he is currently undertaking an MPhil (CW) at the University of Queensland.


Peter Conners is author of the memoir, Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead (Da Capo Press, 2009). His new book, White Hand Society: The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary & Allen Ginsberg, will be published by City Lights in October 2010. His other books include the prose poetry collection Of Whiskey and Winter and the novella Emily Ate the Wind. His next poetry collection, The Crows Were Laughing in their Trees, is forthcoming from White Pine Press in spring 2011. He is also editor of PP/FF: An Anthology which was published by Starcherone Books in April 2006. His writing appears regularly in such journals as Poetry International, Mississippi Review, Brooklyn Rail, Fiction International, Salt Hill, Hotel Amerika, Mid-American Review, The Bitter Oleander, and Beloit Fiction Journal and will be included in the Yale Anthology of Younger American Poets anthology forthcoming from Yale University Press. Peter Conners has also completed a pair of music-based novels. His nonfiction book projects are represented by Linda Roghaar of the Linda Roghaar Literary Agency.


P. Edward Cunningham resides in Western Pennsylvania. He is the founding editor of Radioactive Moat as well as the author of an ebook of poems, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Pangur Ban Party, 2010). His poetry has appeared in or is forthcoming in Open Thread Quarterly, DIAGRAM, Shampoo, H_NGM_N, and LIES/ISLE. He blogs at http://gilamonsterlaundromat.blogspot.com/.

Jennifer Denrow lives in Colorado.


John Duvernoy lives in his girlfriend's grandmother's basement, in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He studied poetry at Bard College, and holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. 'Razor Love', a chapbook from Unlock the Clockcase, was published in 2006. Poems have appeared in WebConjunctions, Canteen, Octopus, Verse Daily, horseless review, H_NGM_N, and others.


Richard Froude is the author of Tarnished Mirrors (Muffled Cry, 2004), The Margaret Thatcher Trilogy (Catfish, 2007) and The History of Zero (Candle Aria, 2008). Find recent writing online at Past Simple 8, Wolf In A Field, and Conjunctions. He lives in Denver.


Ricky Garni is a graphic designer and bicycle collector living in Carrboro, North Carolina. His work has been published most recently in PANK, MEDULLA REVIEW, SHAMPOO, THE BICYCLE REVIEW, PRICK OF THE SPINDLE and other venues. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize on four occasions, and has received one Pushcart Honorable Mention. His most recent work is TELEFRICASSEE, an episodic roux that blends story lines from 50 different sitcoms ranging from HAZEL to NIP/TUCK into 101 poems.


Derek Henderson is alive and well in Salt Lake City. He is co-author, with Derek Pollard, of Inconsequentia (BlazeVox 2010), and "author" of Thus &, an erasure of Ted Berrigan's The Sonnets (If P Then Q, forthcoming). At present, he is glad to know Walt Whitman had the grace to write "I loafe and invite myself."


Kevin Kilroy lives alongside the ghost of Nelson Algren. Editor of Black Lodge Press and Drama Editor for Requited Journal. Studied at the Kerouac School of Naropa. Teaches at Columbia College Chicago and Flashpoint Academy. His writing can be found in Hot Whiskey, Fact-Simile, Matter, www.zeitgeiststudios.com and elsewhere.

Sara Kohl is a poet and community organizer at work and play in Portland, Oregon. She is currently working on a compressed novel of photo-poems and an epic prose-poem on war prostitution. Her work has appeared in pacific REVIEW, Broken Word Anthology (Volume II), and(r)evolve: The Summer Writing Program Magazine of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics.

Travis Macdonald works in Advertising. His poetry, essays and translations have appeared in Anemone Sidecar, Bombay Gin, CounterExample Poetics, Cricket Online Review, ditch, E-Ratio, Hot Whiskey, InStereo, Jacket, Otoliths, Requited, Wheelhouse and elsewhere. In his spare time, he co-edits Fact-Simile Editions from Santa Fe, NM.


Stephen C. Middleton is a writer working in London, England. He has had five books publishing, including A Brave Light (Stride) and Worlds of Pain / Shades of Grace (Poetry Salzburg). He has been in a number of anthologies, including Paging Doctor Jazz (Shoestring) & Troubles Swapped For Something Fresh (Salt, 2009). For several years he was editor of Ostinato, a magazine of jazz and jazz related poetry, and The Tenormen Press, producing limited edition art books of illustrated poetry about music. He has been in many magazines, mostly in the U.K, but also in the U.S.A, Australia, and Europe. His live work includes poetry readings, performance pieces with musicians, stand up comedy, and storytelling. He is currently working on a number of projects (prose and poetry) relating to jazz, blues, politics, outsider (folk) art, mountain environments, and long-term illness.


David Ohle's novel, Motorman, was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1972 and re-released by 3rd Bed Press in 2004 with an Introduction by Ben Marcus. Its sequel, The Age of Sinatra, was published by Soft Skull in 2004, followed in 2008 by The Pisstown Chaos. In 2009, two novellas, Boons and The Camp were published by Calamari Press under one cover. He has edited two non-fiction books, Cows are Freaky When They Look at You: An Oral History of the Kaw Valley Hemp Pickers (Watermark Press, 1991) and Cursed From Birth: the Short, Unhappy Life of William S. Burroughs, Jr. (Soft Skull, 2006). His short fiction has appeared in Harper’s, Esquire, the Paris Review, TriQuarterly, the Missouri Review, the Pushcart Prize and elsewhere. He has taught fiction writing at the University of Texas in Austin, the University of Missouri in Columbia and currently both fiction and screenwriting at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.


Daniel A. Olivas is the author of five books including, most recently, Anywhere But L.A.: Stories (2009). He is editor of Latinos in Lotusland: An Anthology of Contemporary Southern California Literature (2008), and has been widely anthologized including in W. W. Norton’s Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America, and Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer. His first full-length novel, The Book of Want, will be published by the University of Arizona Press in 2011. Olivas has written for many publications including the Los Angeles Times, the El Paso Times, La Bloga, Exquisite Corpse, THEMA, California Lawyer, and The Jewish Journal. By day, Olivas is an attorney with the California Department of Justice, and makes his home in the San Fernando Valley with his wife and son. His story, “Things We Do Not Talk About,” is the title story from a collection-in-progress.


Alicita Rodriguez is the Founding Editor of Marginalia. Recently, she has published work in the anthologies Sudden Fiction Latino and Lavanderia. Born and raised in Miami, she is currently displaced.


Forrest Roth is an English Ph.D. student at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette, Co-Editor In Chief of Rougarou, and the author of a novella, Line and Pause (BlazeVOX Books). His work has appeared in NOON, Denver Quarterly, Quick Fiction, Caketrain, Sleepingfish, Bateau, elimae, Locus Novus, Writers’ Bloc, and other journals. “Until Spiderweb Memento…” is a sequence excerpted from a manuscript in progress.


Brenda Sieczkowski works as a case manager for homeless youth in Salt Lake City while slowly reading for exams. She is an enthusiastic but acutely amateur neuroscientist. Her poems have previously appeared or are forthcoming in Subtropics, The Colorado Review, Versal, The Florida Review, H_NGM_N, Sentence, Margie, Gulf Coast and Phoebe among others. From 2007-2009, she served as Editor in Chief for Quarterly West. More recently, she has picked up one ukulele and a Diana camera.


Sam Schild is a writer and social activist who currently resides near Chicago, Illinois. My recent work appears in *EOAGH*, *BlazeVOX*, and is forthcoming in *Anything, Anymore, Anywhere.*

Nancy Stohlman’s work has appeared in Trickhouse, Alice Blue, Fast Forward, FM Magazine, Resist, The Bathroom, Zero Ducats, Monkey Puzzle, Snowline Poetry Journal, and in the journal Anything, Anymore, Anytime, among others. Her novel, Searching for Suzi, is forthcoming in 2009 from Monkey Puzzle Press. She lives in Denver.


Mark Tursi is the author of Shiftless Days (Noemi Press) and The Impossible Picnic (BlazeVOX Books). He is editor of the literary journal Double Room and co-editor of Apostrophe Books, an innovative press devoted to publishing poetry that intersects philosophy and cultural theory.


Changming Yuan,twice Pushcart nominee and author of Chansons of a Chinaman (2009) and Politics and Poetics (2009), who grew up in a remote Chinese village and published several books before moving to Canada, currently works as an English tutor in Vancouver and has had poems appearing in Barrow Street, Best Canadian Poetry, Cortland Review, Exquisite Corpse, London Magazine and more than 250 other literary publications worldwide.