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Deema Shehabi

Lizzie Stark — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:31:20 +0000

Deema K. Shehabi is a poet, writer, and editor. She grew up in the Arab world and attended college in the U.S., where she received an M.S. in journalism. Her grandfather was the mayor of Gaza. Her poems have appeared widely in journals and anthologies and are included in Inclined to Speak: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Poetry and also in The Poetry of Arab Women.

Brooke Anne Olive

Heather Falconer — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:48:14 +0000

Brooke Anne Olive lives on the edge of Western Australia in a small tree-filled village mostly inhabited by retirees. Being not of retiring age, she spends her time working from home, listening to the sounds of her musician husband and watching the exuberant play of her two small children. She writes for many publications, edits a few others and enjoys her life/work balance immensely.

Ruben Quesada

Dave Duhr — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:00:47 +0000

Ruben Quesada is the author of Next Extinct Mammal (Greenhouse Review Press, 2011). His poetry has appeared in American Poetry Review, Rattle, Third Coast, and Stand Magazine (UK). His awards include residencies at Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Lambda Literary Foundation Retreat, Vermont Studio Center, and Napa Valley Writers’ Conference. (rubenquesada.com)

Christopher Woods

Dave Duhr — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:00:46 +0000

Christopher Woods is a writer, teacher and photographer who lives in Texas. His photo essays have appeared in Glasgow Review, Deep South, Public Republic and Narrative Magazine. He recently completed a novel, Hearts in the Dark, about a sociopathic radio talk-show host.

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Matthew Vollmer

Llalan Fowler — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:00:21 +0000

Matthew Vollmer is the author of a story collection, Future Missionaries of America, and is co-editor, with David Shields, of Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, “Found” Texts and Other Fraudulent Artifacts, forthcoming from Norton. His work has appeared (or will appear) in magazines such as Paris Review, VQR, Tin House, Epoch, Colorado Review, Gulf Coast, Oxford American, Antioch Review, DIAGRAM, elimae, Willow Springs, and Carolina Quarterly. He teaches in the MFA program at Virginia Tech.

Maryann Corbett

Anna Lena — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 21:07:00 +0000

Maryann Corbett is the author of Breath Control, forthcoming in 2012 from David Robert Books, and the chapbooks Dissonance (Scienter Press, 2009) and Gardening in a Time of War (Pudding House, 2007). She has been a winner of the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize and a finalist for the Morton Marr prize, the Best of the Net anthology, and the Able Muse Book Prize. Her poems, essays, and translations have appeared in many journals in print and online, including River Styx, Atlanta Review, The Evansville Review, Literary Imagination, Subtropics, and The Dark Horse, as well as The Able Muse Anthology, Hot Sonnets, and the forthcoming Imago Dei: Poems from Christianity and Literature. She lives in St. Paul and works for the Minnesota Legislature.

Jim Brennan

Dave Duhr — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:00:57 +0000

Jim Brennan writes essay and nonfiction from Bucks County, PA. After spending thirty-five years in the manufacturing industries, today he writes about health, fitness and traveling at Rite2Run, Rite2Wander, and at publications like American Fitness, North American Inns, Mother Earth News, and Salon.com.

Tom Bonfiglio

Anna Barto — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 04:00:50 +0000

Tom Bonfiglio’s stories have appeared or are forthcoming in over a dozen publications, including, Fiction, Northwest Review, The Florida Review, Lake Effect, The Literary Review, Wag’s Revue, Mixer and Unlikely Stories. He won the Robert C. Martindale Prize in Long Fiction, and has received Special Mention in The Pushcart Prizes: Best of the Small Presses. He lives in Paradise Valley, Arizona.

Kate Falvey

Heather Falconer — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:26:15 +0000

Kate Falvey’s work has appeared in a number of print and online magazines, including Memoir(and), Danse Macabre, Subliminal Interiors, Hoboeye, Umbrella, CRIT, Inscribed, Hearing Voices, OVS, Literary Mama, Women Writers, The Mom Egg, the Aroostook Review, Shot Glass Journal and is forthcoming in Italian Americana and Qarrtsiluni. She is on the editorial board of the N.Y.U. Langone Medical Center’s Bellevue Literary Review and is Editor-in-Chief of the 2 Bridges Review. She teaches at New York City College of Technology/CUNY and lives with her daughter in Long Beach, New York.

Mike Britt

Dave Duhr — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 10:00:13 +0000

Mike Britt received his MFA in Fiction Writing from Emerson College in 2008. He works as a marketing copy writer and lives in the beautiful Finger Lakes region of central New York.

Wided Khadraoui

Dave Duhr — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:00:51 +0000

Wided Khadraoui has finally gathered the courage to start submitting nonfiction pieces to different publications. She is an Algerian-American writer, currently living in Brisbane, who grew up in Washington D.C., where everything has a political slant, including where you go for dinner. This is her first accepted submission.

Sierra Skye Gemma

Dave Duhr — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:00:25 +0000

Sierra Skye Gemma is an American writer living in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She is currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia.

Brian Nicolet

Lizzie Stark — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:52:29 +0000

Brian Nicolet holds an MFA from the University of Houston and has received scholarships to Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and Sewanee Writers’ Conference. His chapbook Ode to a Means to an End was a semifinalist in the Spring 2011 Black Lawrence Chapbook Contest, and his poems and reviews appear in Subtropics, Colorado Review, New South, and Gulf Coast, among other publications.

Jaydn DeWald

Anna Lena — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:00:20 +0000

Jaydn DeWald is an MFA candidate at Pacific University. He lives with his wife in San Francisco, CA, where he writes, plays bass for the DeWald/Taylor Quintet, and serves as an associate poetry editor for Silk Road. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Bellevue Literary Review, Columbia Poetry Review, New York Quarterly, West Branch, Witness, and others.

Sean Lotman

Julia Henderson — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:51:24 +0000

Sean Lotman was born in New York City and raised in Los Angeles. He fell into photography by accident, an endeavor he picked up while researching a novel set in India. Sean has an ongoing project called I Do Haiku You, combining medium format photography with haiku and senryu poetry. Utilizing these literary and visual aesthetics into a hybrid medium, a story is told, a feeling savored. His photography can be viewed at www.seanlotman.com and his haiku project at www.idohaikuyou.com. He lives in Kyoto, Japan.