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CONTRIBUTORSMartin Arnold is a poet of the most refined sensibility. On weekends you may find him casting his worries into a neighbor’s pond or learning dog. For some unexplained reason, his work has been published in numerous fine journals."Unhappy Is the Land That Needs Heroes" Rafael Ávila was born in São Paulo, Brazil,
in 1975, and currently makes his home in Baltimore, Maryland. He
rents, does not own any pets or plants, loves Netflix, German Expressionist
woodcuts, comic books, and brunettes. More of Lynda Barry’s comics can be found
in such fine publications as The New Yorker or at Salon.com. Sarah Blackman is currently a MFA candidate
at the University of Alabama, where she has served as the fiction
editor for the Black Warrior Review. Her poetry and fiction
has been recently published or is forthcoming in DIAGRAM, Borderlands,
The Best New American Voices 2006, The Roanoke Review, Touchstone,
and Bat City Review. C.L. Bledsoe has work in many journals including
Clackamas, The Cimarron Review, Margie, The Potomac Review, Snow
Monkey, and Right Hand Pointing. He edits Ghoti Magazine.
J.G. Brister teaches English courses at
the University of Kansas, where he is completing a PhD. His work
has appeared in The New York Quarterly, Chelsea, Nimrod,
and Mudfish. He lives in Lawrence with his wife, Emily. Isaac Cates & Mike Wenthe teach English in universities on Long Island and in the District of Columbia, respectively. Their years of comics collaboration have yielded six issues of Satisfactory Comics, three issues of Elm City Jams, dozens of talking animals, and hundreds of demons. Michael Czyzniejewski has taught for eleven years
at Bowling Green State University, where he also serves as editor-in-chief
of Mid-American Review. His stories have appeared in American
Literary Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, New Orleans Review, Quick
Fiction, and Western Humanities Review. Noah Falck lives in Dayton, Ohio. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Bat City Review, H_NGM_N, Piplit, Boog City, Can We Have Our Ball Back?, Good Foot, trespass, Nexus, and elsewhere. Gibson Fay-LeBlanc’s poems have appeared
in The New Republic, Prairie Schooner, and The Southeast
Review, and are forthcoming in Pleiades and Western
Humanities Review. He was recently awarded Bellevue Literary
Review’s annual poetry prize, chosen by Edward Hirsch. David Harrison Horton is author of Pete Hoffman Days
(Pinball 2003). His work has recently appeared or is forthcoming
in Tinfish, 26, eye-rhyme, Denver Quarterly, and Vert.
He currently lives and writes in Oakland, California. Julia Johnson’s Naming the Afternoon
was published by LSU Press. She teaches at the Center for Writers
at the University of Southern Mississippi. A translator by trade, Melissa Jones Fiori
lives in Colorado with her partner and two small sons. Recent work
appears in The Kennesaw Review, The New Hampshire Review, Half
Drunk Muse, The Duplications, and Swink. Her chapbook
is forthcoming from Main Street Rag. A graduate of the Academy of Art in San Francisco and recipient
of numerous art and illustration awards,Eric Joyner
now works for numerous companies and periodicals, including The
San Francisco Chronicle, Sprint, Mattel Toys, Microsoft, and
others. Andrew Kozma attends the University of Houston for a PhD in literature and creative writing and is a nonfiction editor for Gulf Coast. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Lilies and Cannonballs, Pebble Lake Review, Third Coast, Cranky, Meridian, Forklift, Ohio, and Best New Poets 2005. Jonathan Lethem is a writer. He loves everything except
Chris Offutt. Brian MacKinnon’s mixed-media compositions
have appeared in numerous galleries. He currently lives in New Brunswick,
Canada. Clay Matthews’s work is published (or will
be) in Black Warrior Review, Drunken Boat, the tiny, H_NGM_N,
Forklift, Ohio, Best New Poets 2005, and elsewhere. His chapbook,
Muffler, is out from H_NGM_N B_ _KS. Lindsay Nordell is a freelance writer and
illustrator living in Brooklyn. She won the Meeker Prize for freshman
fiction at Yale and has had work published in Flak Magazine
and Oceana Magazine. Chris Offutt is a writer. He hates everything.
John Pursley III teaches creative writing at the University of Alabama, where he is a poetry editor for Black Warrior Review. His recent work appears in DIAGRAM, National Poetry Review, Poetry International, and Smartish Pace. Since 1995, Jesse Reklaw has self-syndicated
the comic strip Slow Wave, which started as a Web comic and now
appears in a dozen alternative newsweeklies around the country.
In 2006, the first annual Best American Graphic Narratives
will include Jesse’s latest comic, “Thirteen Cats.” Beth Anne Royer would like nothing more than
a dachshund named Sergeant Hamburger and a cup of oolong tea. She
writes poems and stories above a seafood restaurant in Connecticut,
where she also happens to live. David Shumate is the author of High Water
Mark (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004) and has appeared
in numerous literary journals, including North America Review,
Mid-American Review, Mississippi Review, Maize, Southern Indiana
Review, and Prairie Schooner. He currently lives in Zionsville,
Indiana. Matthew Simmons is the Web editor for Monkeybicycle
and a student in Warren Wilson’s MFA program. He is also The Man
Who Couldn’t Blog. He lives in Seattle with his cat, Emmett. Patricia Storms is still a freelance cartoonist
and illustrator living in Toronto, Canada. As has been the case
previously, you can see more of her work on her Web site, as well
as her blog. Amish Trivedi finished his undergraduate
degree at the University of Georgia in May 2005 and is a transplant
to Iowa City, where he is living a year as a Writers’ Workshop “rejectee.”
He hopes this will change soon. He has had poems published in Can
We Have Our Ball Back? Debbie Urbanski’s poems have been published
in Born Magazine, Natural Bridge, Verse, Lyric, and Alaska
Quarterly Review. She received her MFA in writing from Syracuse
University and currently works at Boxcar Press. Bart Vallecoccia was born and raised
in Toronto where he draws lots of pictures for lots of people. He
lives with his wife, Karen, and several plants at his townhome in
Toronto. John Verbos’s fiction has appeared in Pindeldyboz, Tatlin’s Tower, and Conjunctions and re-appeared in Best American Non-Required Reading 2003. He’d like to thank and dedicate “Exercise 49” to his brother Mike, Sarah Blackman, Tim Geaghan, and especially DeWitt Henry, all of whom he considers “Cadillac cats of the first order.” Mark Wallace is the author of such books as Nothing
Happened and Besides I Wasn’t There, Temporary Worker Rides a Subway,
and Haze: Essays, Poems, and Prose. He lives, writes, and
teaches in Washington, D.C. M.O. Walsh was born and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Best New American Voices 2007, EPOCH, The Greensboro Review, New Orleans Review, and others. He currently lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with his wife Sarah, where he is completing a novel in stories, of which “Crate Full of Kitty” is a part. Born and raised in Seattle, Joshua Marie Wilkinson
is the author of Suspension of a Secret in Abandoned Rooms
(Pinball, 2005), Lug Your Careless Body out of the Careful Dusk
(University of Iowa Press, 2006), A Ghost as King of the Rabbits
(New Michigan, 2005). He makes his home in Colorado. |
