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Metta Sáma

Anna Lena — Mon, 13 May 2013 21:37:22 +0000

Metta Sáma is author of Nocturne Trio (YesYes Books 2012) and South of Here (New Issues Press 2005 (published under the name Lydia Melvin)). Her poems, fiction, creative nonfiction, and book reviews have been published or are forthcoming in Blackbird, bluestem, Drunken Boat, The Drunken Boat, Esque, hercricle, Jubilat, Kweli, The Owls, Pebble Lake Review, Pyrta, Reverie, Sententia, and Vinyl, among others. Sáma is a visiting assistant professor in the MFA Program at LSU.

Caren Beilin

Anna Barto — Mon, 06 May 2013 04:00:46 +0000

Her stories have appeared in McSweeney’s and Fence and her fiction chapbook, Americans, Guests, or Us, came out with DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press this past year. She is from Philadelphia and currently living in Salt Lake City as a student.

Craig Fishbane

Heather Falconer — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 00:39:07 +0000

Craig Fishbane has been featured in the New York Quarterly, the Boston Literary Magazine, Opium, Prime Number and The Nervous Breakdown. His short fiction collection, On the Proper Role of Desire, will be published by Big Table Publishing in the summer of 2013.

Tracy Levesque

Julia Henderson — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 04:01:59 +0000

Tracy Levesque is a self-taught artist with a background in literature and theater arts. She began her career as a professional artist in 1999 and since then has shown her work in New York City and in varying venues across the United States. Her work can be found at art festivals, barbershops, bars, restaurants, open studios, art walks, galleries and over 200 private collections across the globe, and she currently has work on display at the Loading Dock Gallery and the Brush Gallery in Lowell, MA. You can find more of her work at tracylevesque.us.

Rebekah Mathews

Anna Barto — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 04:00:58 +0000

Rebekah Matthews lives in Boston and watches a lot of TV. Her stories
have appeared in such publications as Storyglossia, Smokelong
Quarterly, Necessary Fiction, and decomP. In 2012 two of her stories
were included in Wigleaf’s Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions, and her
chapbook Hymnal For Dirty Girls was published by Big Rodent.

Kelly Rush

Anna Barto — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 21:35:09 +0000

Kelly Rush moved from Los Angeles to New York to attend The New School and recently graduated with an MFA in creative writing. She won The New School’s annual chapbook award series in the category of non-fiction and her chapbook was published in the fall. She’s presently at work on a collection of short satirical stories that would be of interest to any woman who has ever loved a man or not loved a man, experienced difficulty in paying her bills or who miraculously finds the strength to get up every morning and keep trying.

Molly Pascal

Llalan Fowler — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:00:27 +0000

Molly Pascal lives in Pittsburgh. Her essays have appeared in Newsweek, The Jewish Chronicle, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Molly Weigel

Anna Lena — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 02:34:34 +0000

Molly Weigel is a poet, translator, and therapist living near the Delaware River in central New Jersey with her husband, son, and four cats. She has recently published poems in Verse Wisconsin and MiPoesias and has published two books of poetry translation with Action Books: The Shock of the Lenders, by Jorge Santiago Perednik, which appeared in 2012, and In the Moremarrow, by Oliverio Girondo, for which she received a 2008 NEA fellowship.

Nalini Abhiraman

Anna Barto — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 00:34:44 +0000

Nalini Abhiraman’s work appears in Gigantic Magazine and Anomalous Press, and is forthcoming in NOÖ Journal. She lives in New York.

Lyzette Wanzer

Llalan Fowler — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 10:00:33 +0000

Lyzette Wanzer is a native New Yorker currently residing in San Francisco. A flash fiction conoisseur, her sudden fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Callaloo, Tampa Review, Pleiades, Flashquake, Glossalia Flash Fiction, Decanto Magazine (England), and Ecloga Journal (Scotland). Other stories appear in The MacGuffin , The Ampersand Review, Potomac Review, Journal of Experimental Fiction, Journal of Advanced Development, Yalobusha Review, Aesthetica Magazine (England), International Journal on Literature and Theory, and others. She is a contributor to The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays (2012).

Lyzette has received writing residencies at the Blue Mountain Center (NY) and Kimmel Harding Center for the Arts (NE). She is the recipient of a Professional Development Quick Grant and an Investing in Artists grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation.

Matt Sailor

Julia Henderson — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 13:53:12 +0000

Matt Sailor is a writer living in Atlanta, Georgia, and also the editor-in-chief of New South, Georgia State University’s Journal of Art and Literature. He is pursuing his MFA in fiction, also at Georgia State. His work has appeared in [PANK], Hot Metal Bridge, The Cleveland Review, A Bad Penny Review and is forthcoming in NANO Fiction among others. His website is mattsailor.com.

Gina Marie Lazar

Julia Henderson — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 04:00:02 +0000

Gina Marie Lazar is a Philadelphia-based visual artist specializing in photography, collage and painting. She draws inspiration from things like the sharp lines found in skyscrapers, or the solid presence of a brick facade and loves to juxtapose artificial elements against natural ones. Gina’s work has appeared at such galleries as Altered Aesthetics in Minneapolis, MN, Aloft Hotel in Minneapolis, MN and Out of the Blue Gallery in Cambridge, MA. You can see more of her work at virtuallygina.com.

Heidi Lynn Staples

Anna Lena — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 19:13:58 +0000

Heidi Lynn Staples’s debut collection Guess Can Gallop won the 2004 New Issues Poetry Prize. She is also the author of Dog Girl (Ahsahta Press 2006) and the forthcoming Noise Event (Ahsahta, 2013), drawn from the ecology of her native Gulf Coast. She has also published a nonfiction work, Take Care Fake Bear Torque Cake (Caketrain 2012). Her poems have been published in numerous journals and anthologies including Best American Poetry 2004, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Green Mountains Review, Ploughshares, Women’s Studies Quarterly, and elsewhere.

She is cofounder and coeditor with Amy King of Poets for Living Waters, an international poetry response to the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and founder of pressing on, a book-arts project utilizing “locally thrown” trash. She has been assistant editor and poetry editor of Salt Hill, associate editor of Verse, and an editorial assistant at The Georgia Review.

An assistant professor of English and the Learning Center Director at Piedmont College, Heidi lives in Athens, Georgia, with her husband, daughter, cat, and front-yard veggie patch.

g c cunningham

Anna Barto — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 11:27:26 +0000

A UCLA grad, g c cunningham lives in Los Angeles, sometimes working in film post-production, other times in Birmingham, Alabama, state of origin. Fiction is printed in Denver Quarterly, Fiction International and upcoming in The Texas Review and Bat City Review; online pieces can be read at Potomac Review and McSweeney’s. The avatar is a watercolor of Lee Harvey Oswald by the author.

Marissa Landrigan

Llalan Fowler — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 10:00:45 +0000

Marissa Landrigan’s work has appeared in The Rumpus, Orion, Guernica, Diagram, and elsewhere, and she is a regular nonfiction contributor to The Nervous Breakdown. She received her MFA in Creative Writing and Environment from Iowa State University, where she completed a food narrative tentatively titled The Vegetarian’s Guide to Eating Meat, from which this essay is excerpted. She currently lives in Pennsylvania, where she teaches writing at the University of Pittsburgh – Johnstown, and blogs about becoming un-vegetarian at wemeatagain.com.