Thea Zimmer and Joey Bargsten

Thea Zimmer’s fiction has appeared in Hackwriters (”Abroad”), Weirdyear (”Reservoir Cats”) and Dial Magazine, and her literary nonfiction in r.kv.r.y quarterly literary journal (”Mother’s Keeper”). She works as a freelance writer/editor/translator. She frequently finds her traditional fiction placed in the “outside” category, which is both intriguing and maddening to her. (zimmerthea at yahoo dot com)

Joey Bargsten is the creator of Bad Mind Time, an interactive Website, winning, among other awards, the audience award at the Stuttgart Filmwinter Festival and a Silver International Design Award from BDA, Los Angeles. His films have appeared in the Fluxus International Digital Festival (American Sock), Brainwash Film Festival (Film Dog), Zero Film Festival (Sticky Notes), and the New York Minute Film Festival (Projek Iaght).

David Barnes

David Barnes has been pursuing photography seriously for about six years, both as an artist and a professional. His art photography has been shown in several galleries in the Boston area and has been accepted to seven juried exhibitions, winning “Best in show” in one of them and “Honorable mention” in three others. He also has pieces on permanent exhibit in Provincetown, Madison Wisconsin, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Barnes is the recipient of several grants and artistic awards including 2 Fellowships to the MacDowell Artist Colony, grants from the Pennsylvania Council On the Arts and Pew Charitable Trust. You can learn more about him at davidbarnesphotography.com.

Anna Laird Barto

Anna Laird Barto holds an MFA from Emerson College. She has published short fiction in Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built and Natural Environments, and her travel writing has appeared in GoNomad, Transitions Abroad, and Matador Travel, among others. After living everywhere from Wisconsin to Mexico, she has settled in Charlestown, Massachusetts, now better known as the “Bank Robbery Capitol of America,” thanks to Ben Affleck. Fortunately, up until now, Anna has been able to support her writing habit without turning to a life of crime.

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Elaine Batcher

Elaine Batcher has published on education theory and women’s studies. Her short stories and poems have appeared in a number of journals including Kalliope, 13th Moon, Bridges, The New Quarterly, Parchment and Descant. She lives in Toronto and meets regularly with a wonderful group of writer-activists called The Lobsters. Her current projects are an exploration of the art of memoir, and a memoir written in poetry.

Nancy Bauer

Nancy Bauer is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University, where she teaches courses on the history of German and French philosophy, philosophy and film, Austin, Wittgenstein, and ethics. She is the author of Simone de Beauvoir, Philosophy, and Feminism (Columbia University Press, 2001) and is currently finishing up a book called How to Do Things With Pornography, which relies heavily on the understanding of how language works that’s sketched out in “The N-Word.”

J. P. Dancing Bear

J. P. Dancing Bear is the author of Conflicted Light (SalmonPoetry, 2008), Gacela of Narcissus City (2006), Billy Last Crow (2004). His poems have been published or are forthcoming in Shenandoah, Third Coast, New Orleans Review, No Tell Motel, DIAGRAM, Mississippi Review, Verse Daily and many others. He is the editor of the American Poetry Journal and the host of “Out of Our Minds” a weekly poetry program on public radio station KKUP. His next book, Inner Cities of Gulls, will be published by SalmonPoetry in 2010.

Nellie Bellows

Nellie Bellows holds an MFA in poetry from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a BA in English from Guilford College. When she’s not writing poems or thinking about them, she’s probably drinking coffee, reading YA novels, and pretending to be otherwise engaged.

Kate Bernadette Benedict

Kate Bernadette Benedict, of New York City, is the author of the full-length poetry collection Here from Away and the editor of two online poetry journals, Umbrella and Tilt-a-Whirl, the latter a resource for repeating-form poetry. In Company, her collection of work poems inspired by her long experience in business offices, is scheduled for publication in 2011.

Nicole Berland

Nicole Berland recently moved back to Austin after several years living, studying, and teaching in Chicago, IL. She currently organizes the Occupy Austin Reading Group and watches lots of Star Trek (TNG).

Ethan Bernard

Ethan Bernard lives in New York City. His fiction is forthcoming from Denver Quarterly and has appeared in such journals as Pindeldyboz, Word Riot and Boston Literary Magazine. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from NYU.

Jackson Bliss

Jackson Bliss calls Chicago and SoCal home, though he’s spent a great deal of time traveling through Europe and Africa, hitting the globaldancefloor, so to speak. The recipient of the Sparks Prize in Fiction and La Vie de Bohème Award in Literary Excellence from the Universityof Notre Dame where he also received his MFA, Jackson is currently writing a novella about windows (no, seriously), and his first novel BLANK, is under consideration at Simon & Schuster and Grand Central publishing. His work has been published or is forthcoming in: Stand, 3amMagazine, Right Hand Pointing, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, The Bend, Ink Collective, Writer Advice, Cadence, SoMa Literary Review, BlazeVox,Denver Syntax, DJ Booth, The Voice, Writers Post Journal, Pology and Word Riot.

Aaron Block

Aaron Block received an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College, where he also teaches in the First Year Writing Program. A regular contributor to Chamberfour.com, he was recently named that site’s Book Review All-Star for Summer 2011. He lives in Boston with his girlfriend Fritha and their cat who wishes to remain anonymous.

Julie Bogart

Julie Bogart’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Sirens Magazine, Paradigm, North End Scene Boston Magazine, Boston’s Weekly Dig, and the Southeast Review. She blogs about post-MFA life for Fringe Magazine. Julie lives in Brighton, Massachusetts.

Tom Bonfiglio

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.

J. Bowers

J. Bowers has published fiction and poetry in Zone 3, Zaum, Quirk, and 3:AM Magazine. Two recent short stories were finalists in contests held by Glimmer Train Stories and Redivider. She holds a B.A. in English and creative writing from Goucher College, and an M.A. in the same from Hollins University. Currently, she is a visiting writer at Stephens College, and a Ph.D. student at the University of Missouri, where she studies fiction writing, 19th century literature, and film. When not writing, she enjoys caring for her menagerie, which includes a Haflinger horse, two mutt cats, a guinea pig, and two fish tanks–but no snakes. Yet.

Jim Brennan

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.

Mark Brinker

Mark Brinker got a BFA in Illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2007. He currently lives in Burbank, CA, and works as a freelance editor and graphic designer for film and television. His writing has also appeared on Pequin.org, and on his website whoismarkbrinker.com. When he’s not writing he’s doing something else.

Mike Britt

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.

Bruce Bromley

Dr. Bruce Bromley has performed his poetry and music at The John Drew Theatre (East Hampton); Shakespeare and Company (Paris); The Village Voice (Paris); and at the 1986 Edinburgh Theatre Festival, where the Oxford Theatre Troupe performed his play, “Sound for Three Voices.” His work has appeared in Gargoyle Magazine; Pif Magazine; Fogged Clarity; Word Riot; and in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy, among other journals. He is Senior Lecturer in expository writing at New York University, where he won the 2006 Golden Dozen Award for teaching excellence.

Randall Brown

Randall Brown is a teacher who lives outside of Philadelphia with his wife Meg, a cabaret singer, and their two children. He is a Pushcart nominee, a fiction editor with SmokeLong Quarterly, and on the editorial board of Philadelphia Stories. He holds an MFA in Fiction Writing from Vermont College and a BA from Tufts University. His stories, poems, and essays have been published widely, with recent work appearing or forthcoming in Clackamas Literary Review, Del Sol Review, Cairn, The Saint Ann’s Review, and Connecticut Review. He’s currently working on a short short collection, Mad To Live.

Jean-Michel Buche

Jean-Michel Buche was born in 1952 and lives in France. Since 1980 he has been chairman of the board of his own advertising company, Z Group. One morning in 2007, Buche woke up feeling different – he had become little more than his job, his wife, and his children. He decided that day that nothing would ever be the same again, and that he would attempt to live the opposite kind of life than that he’d always lived. For thirty years he had worked to create sophisticated pictures for advertising campaigns, and he wanted instead to create basic and natural pieces. Buche has managed to do both – advertising by day, and his own creative work by night. You can see his day work at http://www.z-groupe.com, and his night work in Fringe.

Benjamin Buchholz

Benjamin Buchholz is a US Army Officer recently returned from Iraq. His work has appeared widely and at an increasing rate these last months at places like Tarpaulin Sky, Tryst, Hiss Quarterly, Planet Magazine, The Wisconsin Academy Review, GoodFoot, The 2River View and many others. He has just had a screenplay based on the battle for Bamerni Airfield optioned by a Turkish production company. For a full bibliography and other oddities, please see www.benjaminbuchholz.com.

Harmony Button

Harmony Button has been awarded the Larry Levis Prize from the Academy of American Poets (2006) and has been nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Web awards in 2010. She has earned degrees from Middlebury College and University of Utah (MFA). You can find more of her work in publications such as Epiphany, BlazeVOX, Eastown Fiction, Mantis, AfterImage, White Whale Review and SLEET Magazine.