AUTHORS
WINTER 2009
Rachel McClain (“Up in Smoke”) is a freelance writer and mom living in Los Angeles. She has been published as a prizewinning author in Women on Writing. Her work has also appeared in Everyday Fiction, Fuselit, Tuesday Shorts (forthcoming), Mom Writer’s Literary Magazine, and in the Cup of Comfort volumes for Breast Cancer Survivors for Military Families and the forthcoming edition for Parents of Children with Special Needs. She blogs regularly at http://thelaundryfairy.blogspot.com/.
Parker Dorris (“Baby Birds in Boxes”) lives and works in Austin, Texas. His short stories have appeared in Front & Centre, Grasslimb, and Word Riot where “Baby Birds in Boxes” is simultaneously published.
Tim Hall (“The Creeping Dread”) graduated from Paul D. Schreiber High School and completed his postgraduate work at Alcoholics Anonymous, divorce court, and with a number of licensed psychiatrists on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. He now lives outside Chicago where he has a blood pressure of 92 over 58 and a slightly underperforming pituitary gland. He has only had to call the police on a family member once. Website: http://timhallbooks.com
Ivan Faute (“1995”) lives in Chicago with two rat terriers. His work has been a finalist for the Calvino Prize and the World's Best Short Short Fiction Contest. He also writes longer prose and plays. His surreal drama "The Darling Children" was produced at The New York International Fringe Festival in 2008. www.ivanfaute.com.
Jennifer Dorr (“Late Summer Flu”) is an MFA student at City College of New York and a mother. Her non-fiction has been published in The New York Times. Her poetry has been published in One Three Eight and Avatar Review.
David Macpherson (“Playing for the Eighth Time Today”) lives in Worcester with his wife Heather and son George. He is a co-editor of Ballard Street Poetry Journal. His work has appeared in numerous journals including: Everyday Fiction, Haggard and Halloo, Tiny Lights and November 3rd Club.
Elaine Chiew (“Hidden Lining”) lives in London, England. Her work has recently appeared in Bridport Prize Anthology 2008 (First Prize), Dzanc Books’ Best of the Web 2008, See You Next Tuesday: The Second Coming, Hobart (the Games Issue) and Alimentum (Issue 6). She blogs at www.elainepchiew.blogspot.com.
Amanda Nazario (“The Intercom”) stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Harpur Palate, Pindeldyboz, failbetter, New South, and elsewhere. She lives in New York, where she works as a dog walker, a writing tutor, and draws cartoons.
Mary J. Breen (“When the Blessed Virgin Wore Glasses”) is a writer and editor who lives in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. She has published two books about women's health as well as essays, articles, and short fiction.
Robert McGowan (“A Stranger to Them”) has published fiction, personal essay, and art criticism in a variety of prominent literary, nature, and art journals, including American Craft, American Forests, Art Papers, Blue Mesa Review, Connecticut Review, Dos Passos Review, The Fourth River, and South Dakota Review. His work as an artist is in numerous collections, including the American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution. “A Stranger to Them” is part of a suite of flash and micro called Writing. He lives in Memphis.
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Steven Allaback("Plovers") teaches at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His stories have appeared in Epoch, Prairie Schooner, North American Review, Gettysburg Review, South Dakota Quarterly, Greensboro Review, and other magazines.
Daniel A. Olivas ("Mateo") is the author of five books including Devil Talk: Stories (Bilingual Press). He is the editor of Latinos in Lotusland: Anthology of Contemporary Southern California Literature, forthcoming in late 2007. His writing has been widely anthologized and has appeared in numerous publications including the Los Angeles Times, El Paso Times, The Jewish Journal, THEMA, and Exquisite Corpse. Website: www.danielolivas.com.
J. Lynn Laughlin ("Passed On") holds an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte and teaches at Old Dominion University and Tidewater Community College. Her stories have appeared in StorySouth, Hobart, and Hiss Quarterly.
Christy Shick ("Monarch Migration") is the founder and editor of onepagestories.com. She teaches writing and literature at the City College of New York, and her stories have been published in a handful of small presses over the years, from Bottomfish (1994) to Antagonists (2005). She is currently writing a memoir.
Vanessa Gebbie ("Pavel's Grey Painting") is a journalist, editor, teacher and has won many awards for her fiction. Her debut collection is forthcoming in 2008 through Salt Publishing of Cambridge, UK. The opening of her novel in progress won The Daily Telegraph Novel Competition in May 2007. Her website is here: www.vanessagebbie.com and her blog is here: www.vanessagebbiesnews.blogspot.com.
Tyson Ward ("An Episode [Montreal in January]") , a native Californian, lives and works in Washington Heights, teaching poetry and composition part-time at The City College of New York. This site is one of the first places his work has appeared.
Richard Waldinger ("The Tenth Hour") is a California artificial intelligence researcher. He has written erotic fiction that was published in both English and Italian. An aikido and yoga student, Richard roasts his own coffee, bakes cookies, and serves them at work every Tuesday and Thursday: http://www.ai.sri.com/coffee/ .
John Kofron ("Locomotive") listened to 30 freight trains a day while studying English and Humanities at Northern Arizona University. He received his M.A. from City College of New York, where he now teaches English and Humanities.
Liesl Jobson ("Pickle") is a freelance bassoon and contrabassoon player with the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Her collection of flash fiction 100 Papers, which won the Ernst van Heerden Literary Award from the University of the Witwatersrand will be published by Botsotso in November this year.
Sarah Beck ("Oranges") grew up in Poway, California, a town outside of San Diego. She now writes and teaches in New York City.
Lynn Dion ("Whistler") is a freelance writer and editor based in New York. Her work has appeared in The Forward, Humanistic Judaism, and publications of The YIVO Institute. She is also an instructor in psychology at The City College of New York.
Kate Gendreau ("Adventures in Internet Dating: Rolf") grew up in the Boston area and holds a BA in English from McGill University in Montreal. She currently lives in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
Carl Eugene Moore ("Where Something Might Happen") is a native of Newberry, South Carolina, working in the Information Technology industry since 1986. He holds four business degrees including MBAs in Accounting & Finance and Healthcare Management. He is on the South Carolina Approved Artists Roster in Literature, and is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at Queen's University in Charlotte, North Carolina. www.dcfx.com/cmoore carlmoore@yahoo.com
Ruben Rangel ("My Tio Ruben Drives en Chinga to Nowhere") : chicano farmworker poet, union organizer educator. website: myspace.com/bronxraven2 or 138journal.com. Birthday and anniversary cakes should be emblazoned with confectionary haiku, such as 'animo, raza' or 'empathy not anger' or any snippets from the diary of Che Guevarra that might also easily fit on a t-shirt.
