Robin Caine

Robin Caine’s recent publications include The Bryant Literary Review, Quick Fiction, Sound and Literary Art Book, and Yemassee. A version of “Loving Hirsute” was a finalist in Glimmer Train’s Very Short Fiction Contest. She is currently finishing her MFA in fiction writing at the University of South Carolina.

Jonathan Callahan

“Under Joe’s Volcano” is one of twelve stories to be included in Jonathan’s debut fiction collection, The Consummation of Dirk, for which he’s currently seeking publication. Other pieces of the book can be found in Unsaid, Pank, The Collagist, Kill Author, Washington Square Review, Underwater New York, and The Lifted Brow. He also has some long nonfiction on Kafka, Thomas Bernhard, and David Foster Wallace at The Collagist and Fiction Writers Review. He lives in Fukuoka, Japan.

Kelley Calvert

In addition to traveling the world with a question mark in hand, Kelley Calvert enjoys the usual joys life has to offer: coffee in the morning, long, leisurely weekends, live music, and intelligent conversation. Her work has appeared in Pology Magazine and Best Travel Writing 2008, and she is a frequent contributor to Monterey County Weekly. When not trying to decide which word goes where, she teaches others about deciding which word goes where. She currently resides in the Golden State in a town that is usually foggy…but next to the ocean nonetheless.

Amanda Carey

Amanda fantasizes about writing a young adult novel, but adores her day job as a middle school English teacher.  She hasn’t read a grown-up’s book in a long time—due to her compulsion to stay current with what “her kids” are reading. She loves children, but as the owner of a 60 lb dog with boundless energy, she cannot fathom how anyone has the time, money,  or energy to have them.  She is always looking for suggestions for new Young Adult novels to read!

Wendy Taylor Carlisle

Wendy Taylor Carlisle lives in Texas. Her second book, Discount Fireworks, winner of the 2008 Bernice Blackgrove Award, is forthcoming from Jacaranda Press. She is also the author of Reading Berryman to the Dog (Jacaranda, 2000), and After Happily Ever After, #15 in the 2River Chapbook series.

Anna L. Cates

Born in Brunswick, Maine, Dr. Anna L. Cates received her BA in English from Asbury College before earning an MA in English from Indiana State University and a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction/English. She’s a recipient of the I.S.U. Van Til Graduate Award for Writing in Spring 2001 and is currently working on an MFA in Creative Writing from National University. Cates resides in Wilmington, Ohio and enjoys nature, animals (especially dogs), writing, literature, music, and art.

Dara Cerv

Dara received her MFA in 2006 from Emerson College in Boston, and has continued to live and work there. Outside of writing poetry, she’s a full-time massage therapist, an avid bicycle commuter, and a lover of animals of every shape and size.

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Amy Chace

Amy Chace is an award-winning visual artist living, working and loving in NYC.  She has been published in many magazines including Rockpile,Arude and Girlfriends.  Her side job is as a band booker, putting together killer rock bands on intriguing bills at cool venues.

Ethan Chatagnier

Ethan Chatagnier has a BA from California State University, Fresno and an MA in Publishing and Writing from Emerson College. He currently lives in Fresno, pines for Boston, and steals time to write when he isn’t teaching high school students how to break the rules of English. He would like to thank his loving wife for the support and editorial eye that are the pillars keeping his passion for writing viable.

Chip Cheek

Chip Cheek is currently pursuing his MFA in fiction at Emerson College. He is the editor-in-chief of Redivider, a fiction reader for Ploughshares, and (for his day job) works in textbook publishing. His work is forthcoming in Quick Fiction and the short-short anthology Brevity and Echo, from Rose Metal Press.

Kirstin Chen

A graduate of Stanford University, Kirstin recently moved to Boston where she is pursuing an MFA degree at Emerson College.

Cindy Childress

Cindy Childress has a Ph. D. in English with creative dissertation from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and is an expat writer and Associate Editor of The KL American living in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Her poems have been published in many online and print journals and anthologies, including for 2009 Aunt Chloe, Hit and Run Magazine, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Conversation Poetry Quarterly, Information Age Press’s Empowering Women through Literacy: Voices From Experience, Two Handed Press’s Summer Compilation, Spinster’s Ink Press’s Women. Period, and forthcoming issues of Mannequin Envy and The Awakenings Review. She has also contributed work for collaborative drama productions, most recently The Patriot Acts II and No Teacher Left Standing with the Acting Up theater troop of Acadiana.

Franny Choi

Franny Choi is studying Literary Arts and Ethnic Studies at Brown University.  She was named Best Female Poet at the 2011 Wade-Lewis Poetry Slam Invitational and was a finalist at the 2011 Women of the World Poetry Slam. She has served as a facilitator of WORD! Performance Poetry Group and as an editor for VISIONS Asian American Literary Magazine. Her work has appeared in several Brown publications, including Issues, Clerestory, and the Brown Daily Herald. Her play, Mask Dances, was produced by Rites and Reason Theater as part of the Writing is Live Festival. More information about Franny can be found at http://frannychoi.wordpress.com.

Jon Chopan

Jon Chopan’s work has appeared in Glimmer Train, Swink, Redivider, Hotel Amerika, and Post Road. He is a goofy guy who grew up in Rochester, New York and often writes about being goofy and being from Rochester, New York.  His first book will be released by Black Lawrence Press in the summer of 2011.  If you are interested you can find outtakes, photos, character bio’s and more at: www.pulledfromtheriver.com

Amy L. Clark

Amy L Clark is assistant professor of English composition at Pine Manor College.  Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals including Hobart, Quick Fiction, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and The American Book Review, and her collection Wanting is part of the book A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness (Rose Metal Press).  Her online home is www.overtimewriting.com.  Amy has always wanted to be a rocket surgeon.

Joe Clifford

Joe Clifford earned his MFA degree from Florida International University in 2008. His work has appeared in Bathhouse, Big Bridge, Bryant Literary Review, the Connecticut Review; Dos Passos Review, Hobart, and Thuglit, among others.  His noir novel, The Lone Palm, is currently being shopped to agents.
Joe has been to jail but never prison.

Jennifer Coke

Jennifer Coke was born in Black, River, Jamaica. An award-winning poet and fiction writer, she has been published in The Henfield Prize Stories and Switchback, and is currently working on a novel, Grace Notes. You can read more of her work at jennifercoke.com.

Maura Conley

Maura Conley is a writer from Long Island.  She completed her MFA at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York.  Maura now lives in Brooklyn and is working on The Opposite of Nesting, a novel in stories.

Traci O Connor

Traci O Connor is the author of  the short story collection, Recipes for Endangered Species (Tarpaulin Sky Press). She’s published her writing in many journals and magazines and is currently at work on:  a collaborative film/book project about her Mormon childhood (based on Shell-Shaped Pieces of Bone),  a series of art dolls, a Burlesque novel, a live storytelling series, and the formation of a collaborative artist group called The Box Salon.  She lives in Athens, OH with her spouse—the writer Jackson Connor—their four children, a labradoodle,  and a “cat.”

Tom Conoboy

Tom Conoboy is Scottish but now lives in England, where he works in local government. Over the years he has vacillated between playing the guitar and writing stories. Somewhat late in life he realized he was least bad at writing, and since the middle of 2005 he has been writing and submitting seriously. In the past eight months Tom Conoboy has placed in competitions at Mad Hatter’s Review, JBWB, Twyford and Bright Lights Multimedia. He has also appeared in around twenty e-zines and journals, including Seventh Quark, Transmission, Eclectica, Defenestration, Reflection’s Edge, The Harrow, Altar, and Prose Toad.

Maryann Corbett

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.

Doug Cornett

Originally from Hudson, Ohio, Doug Cornett graduated with an English degree from Skidmore College in 2004. He loves to play ping-pong, and is passionate about the Cleveland Cavaliers. He currently works in publishing, and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Leigh Anne Couch

Leigh Anne Couch lives in Sewanee, Tennessee with her husband and dogs. She is the managing editor of the Sewanee Review. Her poems have appeared in the Cincinnati Review, Shenandoah, 32 Poems, Blackbird, and other journals.

Sev Coursen

Sev Coursen is an artist who has always worked in multiple media—video, sculpture, photography, and alto saxophone.

Barbara Crooker

Barbara Crooker has published poems in magazines such as Yankee, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Denver Quarterly; anthologies including Worlds in their Words: An Anthology of Contemporary American Women Writers (Prentice Hall) and Boomer Girls (University of Iowa Press); eleven chapbooks; and two full-length collections: Radiance, which won the Word Press First Book Award and was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize, and Line Dance, recently out from Word Press. She has received three Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowships in Literature, the W. B. Yeats Society of NY Prize (Grace Schulman, judge) and the Thomas Merton Poetry of the Sacred Award (Stanley Kunitz, judge).

Tina Crossgrove

Tina Crossgrove has a BA from St. Lawrence University and an MFA from Emerson College. She is taking a year off from her day job to figure out what exactly it is she wants to be when she grows up. Tina resides, for the time being, in Ahmedabad, India where she is working on a novel and pretending to cook Indian food and sweets. This is her first publication.

T.L. Crum

T.L. Crum is currently pursuing her MFA in fiction at CSU Fresno. By the end of this year, she hopes to complete her first novel and short story collection. When not reading or writing, she can be found chasing her indefatigable three year-old around the park.