Contributors

Jeffrey Foster Burr is a graduate of Antioch University whose work has appeared in Upstairs at Duroc, ArtandCulture.com, and The Paris Pages. Originally from San Francisco, he has lived in Paris, France since 1999. Jeffrey has worked as a freelance writer and as a magazine and book editor, and prior to that, made his living as a musician.

Patrick Carrington was born and raised in the boroughs of New York City. He teaches literature and creative writing in southern New Jersey, and is the poetry editor for the web-based art & literary journal mannequin envy. He lives on a secluded beach with his wife. They have a son and boatload of daughters wandering along the shoreline somewhere. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous print journals, including Confrontation Magazine, River Oak Review, Epicenter, Lullaby Hearse, Bardsong Journal, Clark Street Review, Wavelength, Poetalk, The Neovictorian/Cochlea, Devil Blossoms, Red Rock Review, Poetry Motel, and Willard & Maple, and on-line at Rock Salt Plum Review, Pedestal Magazine, Slow Trains Literary Journal, Eclectica Magazine, Adagio Verse Quarterly, Ascent Aspirations Magazine, 3rd Muse Poetry Journal, Artistry of Life, Facets Magazine, Carnelian, Word Riot, JMWW: A Quarterly Journal of Writing, Thieves Jargon, Zygote in My Coffee and others. He is appearing as the featured writer in the fall issue of the literary journal Artistry of Life.

Kim Chinquee teaches creative writing at Central Michigan University, and over seventy of her stories have been published. Her most recent work appears in Noon, Quick Fiction, Denver Quarterly, Mississippi Review, Xavier Review, Phantasmagoria, Cake Train, Hobart, Opium Magazine, Cottonwood, So to Speak, 3am Magazine, 5Trope, and several other journals.

Myfanwy Collins is a freelance writer, editor, and Pushcart Prize nominee, whose writing credits include Swivel (forthcoming), Lilies and Cannonballs Review, Smokelong Quarterly, FRiGG, In Posse Review, Snow Monkey, Exquisite Corpse, Pindeldyboz, The Boston Globe, The Boston Phoenix and Grace Ormonde Marriage.

N M Courtright, an Ohio native, currently resides in Austin, Texas. His work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in The Pebble Lake Review, Diagram, Scrivener's Pen, Full Moon, Astropoetica, Caketrain Journal, Dirt, and The American Drivel Review.

Adam Davis lives in San Francisco, where he works as a copywriter and spends his spare time shooting photos with an old Nikon EM and trying to imitate the guitar stylings of Chet Atkins. His writing has appeared in Fourteen Hills, Transfer, Coracle, and Spectrum.

Rachel Demma lives in Washington, DC. Her story, “Equation” is online at opiummagazine.com

Aditi Gupta is an undergraduate studying English Literature, Japanese, and Spanish at Boston University. Her work has appeared in Hanging Loose and Beginnings Magazine.

Debbie Ann Ice's work has been online and in small print. She is currently working on her second novel in Connecticut. She lives with her husband, two boys and fat English bulldog.

Paul Adrian Mabelis lives and works in Rochester, NY, finds himself as a counselor for the developmentally disabled, a writer and a rap artist by both day and night. Online his work can be found in Just West of Athens (http://westofathens.net), Peshekee River Poetry (www.peshekee.com), Junket Magazine, Irreverent Magazine and scattered throughout the world of blogs. A hypertext poem of his can be found in the e-zine From East To West (http://www.geocities.com/pj_nights/) despite any and all publications he figures himself an outsider and an alien to the American poetry scene.

Cheryl Merrill lives and works in Port Townsend, Washington. Her publications include poems in Paintbrush, Northwest Review, Willow Springs and previously in Ghoti; poems anthologized in A Gift of Tongues: 25 Years of Poetry from Copper Canyon Press; a chapbook of poems, Cheat Grass from Copper Canyon Press in 1975; and more recent publications of a photo-essay series about elephants in Iron Horse Literary Review and in The Drexel Online Journal as well as excerpts from her book in Fourth Genre, Pilgrimage, Brevity and Isotope. Her essay, “Singing Like Yma Sumac,” has been selected for the Best of Brevity 2005 print issue. She is currently working on a book about elephants: Shades of Gray.

Corey Mesler has published prose and/or poetry in Paumanok Review, Yankee Pot Roast, Monday Night, The American Drivel Review, Poet Lore, Rattle, Dicey Brown, In Posse Review, Cranky, Re)verb, StorySouth, Canopic Jar, Juked, Pindeldyboz, Mitochondria, Mars Hill Review, 13th Warrior Review, Monkeybicycle, Arkansas Review, Stirring, Red River Review, Center, Small Press Review, Jabberwock Review, Orchid, Quick Fiction, Timber Creek Review, Hobart, Poetry Motel, Bullfight, Potomac Review, Big Muddy, Slant, Texas Poetry Review, Drought, Rockhurst Review, Wavelength, Lilliput Review, Pearl, Ducts, Lucid Moon, Sunny Outside, Fish Drum, Into the Teeth of the Wind, Mid-American Poetry Review, Midday Moon, Turnrow, Dust, Cherotic Revolutionary, Cotyledon, Buckle &, Iodine, Snakeskin (England), The Melic Review, Freewheelin’ (England), Pitchfork, Spillway, Thema, Kumquat Meringue, Lonzie’s Fried C hicken, Electric Acorn (Dublin), Gin Bender, Blue Unicorn, Black Dirt, The Spirit that Moves Us, Wind, Red Rock Review, BlazeVox, Concrete Wolf, Memphis Magazine, Rhino, Visions International, others. He has work in the anthologies Full Court: A Literary Anthology of Basketball (Breakaway Books), Pocket Parenting Poetry Guide (Pudding Press), Intimate Kisses: The Poetry of Sexual Pleasure (New World Press) and Smashing Icons (Curious Rooms).

Cami Park has had work previously published in Smokelong Quarterly, Outsider Ink, Opium Magazine, and Mad Hatters' Review. She's not really crazy, like everyone says.

Jessy Randall is Curator of Special Collections at Colorado College. Her poems have appeared in Antietam Review, Front Range Review, Mudfish, and Painted Bride Quarterly. Her online chapbook, Dorothy Surrenders, is at 2river.org; two paper chapbooks, Slumber Party at the Aquarium and Broken Heart Diet, are available from Unicorn Press. Her website is personalwebs.coloradocollege.edu/~jrandall.

Thomas Reynolds received an MFA in creative writing from Wichita State University, currently teaches composition at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas, and has published poems in various print and online journals, including New Delta Review, Alabama Literary Review, Aethlon-The Journal of Sport Literature, The MacGuffin, The Cape Rock, Midwest Poetry Review, Poetry Midwest, American Western Magazine, Combat, Prairie Poetry, Strange Horizons, Bewildering Stories, The Green Tricycle, Ariga, 3rd Muse Poetry Journal, Eclectica, and Aphelion.

Paul A. Toth lives in Michigan. His novel Fizz is available from Bleak House Books. Fishnet, his second novel, will be published in July 2005. See www.tothworld.com for more information.

Girija Tropp’s work has appeared in Agni 61, Boston Review, a Visible Ink anthology, and online at Opium, Zoetrope All-Story Extra, Margin, Front Street Review, Pig Iron Malt and Temenos. New fiction forthcoming at Word Riot. She lives in Melbourne, Australia.

Tom Whalen's work has appeared recently in AGNI, Ballyhoo Stories,
Barrelhouse, Fiction International, Hotel Amerika, Pindledyboz, Sentence, and The Texas Review. His books include Roithamer's Universe (novel) and Winter Coat (poems). The No Blues Man and Other Stories is forthcoming in 2006 from Texas Review Press. He lives in Stuttgart, Germany.

Alice Whittenburg's fiction has appeared online in Pindeldyboz, 42opus, Locus Novus, Word Riot, flashquake, Spoiled Ink and other places. She is coeditor of The Cafe Irreal.

Alexis Wiggins is a young American writer living in Spain. Her work has appeared in Rivet, Dimsum, Flashquake, Lime Tea, Fresh Yarn, and Brevity and is forthcoming in Creative Nonfiction. In 2004, she was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Alexis is completing her M.F.A. at the University of New Orleans and is currently at work on her first novel. She lives in Madrid with her husband, Diego, where she works as a freelance writer, editor, and teacher.