CONTRIBUTORS

Jeremy Aufrance lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his glowingly pregnant wife and root-beer-swilling son. A UFO recently hovered over their house.
"Charlie Tells Me Things"

Kristy Bowen is the author of the fever almanac (Ghost Road Press, 2006) and feign (New Michigan Press, 2006), as well as several limited edition chapbooks. Her work has appeared elsewhere in Rhino, Swink, Slipstream, DIAGRAM, and others. She lives in Chicago, where she dabbles in collage and book arts, edits the online zine wicked alice, and runs Dancing Girl Press, devoted to publishing work by women authors.
"Invocation" | blog | wicked alice

Jocelyn Casey-Whiteman was raised on the eastern shore of Maryland. She has danced with the Charleston Ballet Theater and Ballet New England. In 2004, she received her BA in English from the University of New Hampshire and is currently a poetry MFA candidate at Columbia University. Jocelyn teaches at Ballet Academy East, Manhattan Country School, and works at the Academy of American Poets.

A recent recipient of the Florida Review Editor’s Prize and the GSU Review Poetry Prize judged by Thomas Lux, Jennifer Chapis has published poems with Barrow Street, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Hotel Amerika, The Iowa Review, McSweeney’s, Phoebe, Quarterly West, and Best New Poets 2005, among others. The title poem of her chapbook has just been chosen for Best New Poets 2006. An alumni of the Graduate Creative Writing Program at NYU, she is an editor with Nightboat Books.
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Abigail Cloud teaches full time at Bowling Green State University. Recent poetry and review credits include The Cincinnati Review, Paper Street, Salamander, Southern Indiana Review, Quarterly West, Pleiades, and Mid-American Review.
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Michael Colello is an artist, writer, journalist, and musician living in Seattle, Washington, and recipient of a 2006 Society of Professional Journalists’ Excellence in Journalism Award. He keeps busy writing and doing freelance illustration, but is happiest when dealing with simpler matters—collage, curry, and catering to his lady, Sally Margolis. He can be reached through email at mccolello -AT- hotmail.com.
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Chet Corey’s poetry has most recently appeared in The Mid-America Poetry Review, Seems, and South Dakota Review. He lives in Bloomington, Minnesota.
"Advice to Lovelorn"

Laura Cruser was born and raised in the mountains of North Carolina. Currently, she teaches English at Arizona State University, where she recently received an MFA in creative writing.

Stephen Cushman has two books of poems with LSU Press, Blue Pajamas and Cussing Lesson. His third book of poems, Heart Island, is due out this fall. He has also published several books about poetry, poetic form, and the Civil War, and is the Robert C. Taylor Professor of English at the University of Virginia.
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Will Dinski is in Minneapolis, Minnesota, making comics and art books under the masthead of Habitual Entertainment.
"The Midwestern Artist" | webpage

Drew is the anonymous mastermind behind toothpastefordinner.com and the anonymous co-mastermind behind marriedtothesea.com, both with new cartoons daily.
Toothpaste for Dinner

David Driscoll lives in suburbia with his wife and three cats, writing slowly but often. His work has previously appeared in Inkwell and on WNUR’s The Lit Show.

Jennifer F. Estaris lives in New York. Her pieces have appeared in Topography of War, LitRag, and Sassy. She currently writes scripts for video games and is working on a compendium.

Jessica Fjeld was selected by Lyn Hejinian as a 2006 recipient of the New York Chapbook Fellowship from the Poetry Society of America; her chapbook is forthcoming in November. A native of Vermont, she now lives in Brooklyn.

Adam York Gregory is a former scientist and video-game designer who stopped playing with science and experimenting with games to create the comic “The Flowfield Unity.” You can contact him for any reason at adamyorkgregory -AT- gmail.com.
"Smugness for Dummies" | The Flowfield Unity

Tomasz Kaczynski is a cartoonist and designer serving out his karmic debt in the advertising industry. (He must have been a bad person in his previous life.) His comics have appeared in Punk Planet, The Drama, and in a variety of handmade mini-comics. Tom lives in Brooklyn, New York.
"100,000 Miles" | robot26.com

Roy Kesey was born in California and currently lives in Beijing with his wife and children. His fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in more than forty magazines, including The Georgia Review, Other Voices, Quarterly West, and Maisonneuve. His novella “Nothing in the World” won the 2005 Bullfight Review Little Book Prize and was published in May of this year. His dispatches from China appear regularly on the McSweeney’s Web site, and his “Little-Known Corners” meta-column appears monthly in That’s Beijing.
Pájaro Loco | Dispatches from Roy Kesey

Austin Kleon lives in Cleveland, Ohio, where he writes stories, draws comics, and works in a library. He’s in the middle of making a graphic novel, A Terrible Calamity at Sea!
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Justin Lacour’s poems have appeared in Web Conjunctions, Tarpaulin Sky, and Horseless Review.

Vanessa Mancinelli is pursuing an MFA degree in creative writing at Indiana University. She is a native of Los Angeles, the secret city, though the Midwest is currently home. Sometimes, she plays the piano.
"Perfect Pitch"

Kristi Maxwell is pursuing a doctorate at the University of Cincinnati. Her poems have most recently appeared in How2, Spinning Jenny, and Tarpaulin Sky, and her first full-length collection, Realm Sixty-Four, is forthcoming from Ahsahta Press.
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Marc McKee’s poems have appeared recently in Crazyhorse, LIT, Pleiades, and The Journal. He holds an MFA from the University of Houston, and in the fall of 2006 will begin the doctoral program in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Missouri. By the time you read this, he will be married.
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Sheryl Monks became co-owner and editor of Press 53, a small publisher in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, after earning her MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte. She is a 2004-2005 recipient of the Northwest North Carolina Regional Artist Project Grant and winner of the Reynolds Price Short Fiction Award. Her stories and book reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in RE:AL, The Journal of Liberal Arts, Southern Scribe, Southern Gothic Online, and CurledUpwithaGoodBook.com. She has written a book of folk tales and co-written a travel guide. Currently, she is completing a short-story collection.
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F. Daniel Rzicznek is the author of the chapbook Cloud Tablets, part of the Wick Poetry Center Chapbook series and published by Kent State University Press. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Mississippi Review, Gulf Coast, The New Republic, Boston Review, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere. He teaches English at Bowling Green State University.

Lisa Russ Spaar is the author of Blue Venus: Poems (Persea Books, 2004) and Glass Town: Poems (Red Hen Press, 1999), for which she received a Rona Jaffe Award for Emerging Women Writers in 2000. The recipient of awards from the Academy of American Poets and the Virginia Commission for the Arts, Spaar is the Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Virginia, where she is an associate professor of English.
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Michael Stigman teaches English courses at University of Kansas, where he finished a Ph.D. last summer. His work has appeared in Sycamore Review, South Dakota Review, Zone 3, AGNI Online, and elsewhere.
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Larissa Szporluk is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Bowling Green State University. She is the author of Dark Sky Question; Isolato; The Wind, Master Cherry, the Wind; and the forthcoming Embryos and Idiots.
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Renee Wells received her MFA from Southern Illinois University. She is the site editor for The Poetry Resource Page. Her poems have appeared in The Spoon River Poetry Review, Poem, Poet Lore, Santa Clara Review, Pearl, MARGIE, and Sou’wester.
"The Secret" | The Poetry Resource Page

Devon Wootten recently received his MFA from the University of Montana. He is a contributing editor to CutBank Literary Magazine. He is currently translating the poems of Sophus Claussen as a Fulbright fellow to Denmark.

Shellie Zacharia’s fiction has recently appeared in a number of journals, including Swivel, Hobart, Coal City Review, Emrys, Washington Square, and The Pinch. She teaches in Gainesville, Florida.
"Parade of Champions"