CONTRIBUTORS

Kristin Abraham's poems, lyric essays, and reviews have appeared or will appear in such places as Best New Poets 2005, LIT, The Journal, Delmar, Harpur Palate, The Café Review, and Spout. She is a graduate of the MFA program at West Virginia University and currently teaches English at Adrian College in Michigan.

Carrie Olivia Adams lives and works in Chicago. Her chapbook, A Useless Window, was published by Black Ocean. Her poetry and criticism have appeared in such journals as DIAGRAM, Cranky, and Verse.

With a BA from McGill, an MFA from Vermont College, and a career as a reporter at Life Magazine, Sue Allison has had recent short works appear in Quick Fiction, Lynx Eye, Hurricane Review, 580 Split, and Gulf Coast, and has just finished a stint teaching composition at Northern Virginia Community College.
"Fairy Tale"

Aaron Anstett's second collection, No Accident, won the 2005 Balcones Poetry Prize and the Nebraska Book Award in Poetry, and a new collection, Each Place the Body's, is forthcoming in 2007. Recent work appears or is forthcoming in Absent, The Minnesota Review, Redactions, and Unloved Mail-Order Bride, among others.
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Before Jonathan Baylis wrote auto-bio comix, he interned at Marvel, Valiant-Acclaim, and was an Associate Editor at Topps Comics. His comix have been published locally in New York City in Free Comics NYC and The Comical Magazine. A self-published collection of his stories will appear later this year, but currently they can be found at www.sobuttons.com.
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David Bell's short fiction has most recently appeared in Western Humanities Review and the Shadow Regions Anthology published by Surreal Magazine. He is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at St. Andrews College in Laurinburg, North Carolina.

David Beyer Jr. used to watch Sesame Street while eating macaroni and cheese with little pieces of hotdogs in it, and not much has changed since then. He is a smelly punk that has just moved back in with his parents, and they all live together in a southeastern Wisconsin town that used to be known as "The Saratoga of the West."

Jennifer Brown is a writer, photographer, filmmaker, and habitual stranger to normalcy. She received her master's degree in creative writing from San Francisco State University and guest lectures there on mystical Islamic poetry and cosmology. Her work appears in Fourteen Hills, The Wisconsin Review, Coracle, and the chapbooks Intimate Fixtures and As They Leave the Lily Place.

Sara Burge is currently attending the MFA program in poetry at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. She placed third in the 2006 River Styx International Poetry Contest and has work forthcoming in Main Street Rag.
"The Failure of Smell-O-Vision"

James Capozzi comes from New Jersey. His poems are forthcoming in Indiana Review and Denver Quarterly. He lives in Sydney.

Patrick Culliton grew up in Cleveland and currently lives in Chicago. He attended The Ohio State University and the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Other work has appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Court Green, Indiana Review, Verse Online and elsewhere.

Brent Fisk is a three-time Pushcart nominee who has work forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Southern Poetry Review, Cincinnati Review, Rattle, and Fugue. He lives in Bowling Green, Kentucky, where he's currently working on his teaching certificate in English.

Dorothy Gambrell lives on the internet. The ceilings are lower, but the rent is cheaper.
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George Gott recently retired from teaching at University of Wisconsin-Superior, where he taught composition, creative writing, and literature for many years. More than six hundred of his poems have been published in the United States and many other countries.
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Daniel Groves was born and raised in Narragansett, Rhode Island. His poems have appeared in the Paris Review, Yale Review, Poetry, and elsewhere.

Ira Joel Haber was born and lives in Brooklyn, New York. He is a sculptor, painter, book dealer, and teacher who sometimes writes poetry and movie reviews. His work is in the collections of New York University, The Guggenheim Museum, The Hirshhorn Museum, and The Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Currently he teaches art at the United Federation of Teachers Retiree Program in Brooklyn.
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Rebecca Hall is an MFA candidate at Texas State University-San Marcos. She also holds a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Washington, and worked in the field for six years, in Seattle and San Francisco. Her short story, "Groundwork," recently appeared in Salamander.

Robert Krut's poetry has appeared in journals such as Blackbird, Hayden's Ferry Review, 42 Opus, and Barrow Street, among others. Currently, he lives in Los Angeles and teaches at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
"39 Poems Left in the House When Henry Walked Out and Disappeared"

George Murray is the author of four books of poetry, the most recent of which is The Hunter (McClelland and Stewart, 2003). His new book, The Rush to Here, from which this poem is drawn, will appear in Spring 2007. Besides being a contributing editor for several literary journals, he is also the editor of the successful literary website bookninja.com.
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Kurt Parsons is the afternoon drive radio personality at WKKW-FM in Morgantown, West Virginia. He studied Sequential Art at the Savannah College of Art and Design, but after college put aside his work in order to concentrate on his career in radio. He recently started making creative works again, and is glad he did.

Amisha Patel currently teaches English at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. She is originally from New York. Recent publications include poems in The Madison Review, 88, Willow Review, Cimarron Review, Pool, Poet Lore, Third Coast, and Poetry International.
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Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press. Her first book is Reading With Oprah (2005), and her poems have appeared recently in AGNI Online, Small Spiral Notebook, and Smartish Pace. Her essay "Live Nude Girl" appears in Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers (Random House, 2006).
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Robert Sergel lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and tries his best to draw a comic every week. When he is not at his desk, he may be found watching movies, searching flea markets for old photographs, or playing with his band.
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Danielle Sellers is currently a John and Renée Grisham Poetry Fellow in the MFA program at Ole Miss and is an assistant poetry editor at The Yalobusha Review. She has been published in Sewanee Theological Review and Plainsongs, with poems forthcoming in Poetry Southeast, Touchstone, and The Pinch. Most recently, she was a semi-finalist for the 2006 Discovery/The Nation prize.
"Personal Representative"

George Singleton lives in Dacusville, South Carolina, and has published four collections of stories and one novel. A new novel, Work Shirts for Madmen, will be published by Harcourt in the Fall of 2007.
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Nicholas Strickland recently received his MFA from Bowling Green State University and now lives in northwest Ohio. He currently teaches English and helps run a workshop for high-school writers with his fiancée at Owens Community College. His work has recently appeared in Salt Hill, Good Foot, and Phoebe.

Chad Sweeney co-edits Parthenon West Review, a journal of contemporary poetry and translation in San Francisco. A Mirror to Shatter the Hammer, his fourth chapbook, was recently released from Tarpaulin Sky Press. His poems appear in Black Warrior, Verse, New American Writing, Denver Quarterly, Slope, Pool, Coconut, Forklift, 5FR, and elsewhere. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, poet Jennifer K. Sweeney.

Erin Sweeten writes poems and admires cacti from her hillside abode in Phoenix. Her work has been published in several journals.

Douglas Watson is pursuing an MFA in creative writing at Ohio State, where he serves as associate fiction editor of The Journal. His stories have appeared in The Anthology of New England Writers and Ohio Writer. He would like to go on record as opposing tyranny.
"Against Specificity"

Maris Wicks resides in one of the six states that make up New England. Recent works include stories in the 2005 SPX Anthology, Project: Romantic (Adhouse Books), and various illustrations for various companies. When she's not making comics, she can be found teaching kids or making stuffed animals, as well as learning the lost language of the moose. If you liked her work, look for Superior Showcase #2 (Adhouse Books) for a 12-page adventure sometime in April!
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