Clarisse Hart

Clarisse Hart is an editorial intern at The Atlantic Monthly and teaches research writing at Emerson College, where she is finishing her MFA thesis, a series of profiles, this year. Originally from Tennessee, she got her BA from Mount Holyoke, where she was trained as a biologist. Since graduation she has intermittently done whale and spider research at the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies and the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. In her free time, she sings with the New England Conservatory and races outrigger canoes. She lives in Jamaica Plain, MA, with her new wife. This is her first creative publication.

Tagreid Hassabo

Tagreid Hassabo is a writer and translator of fiction. Before she relocated to the United States, she lived in Egypt, the Sudan, the United Kingdom, and Greece. In New York she attended the Columbia University MFA program. She spent many years working and travelling as an international development expert on the Middle East and North Africa. She currently lives in Columbia, Maryland and is devoted to writing fiction full time. Her work has appeared in Kolliope, a Journal of Women’s Literature & Art and was a finalist for the Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers. Her translations include a novel by Egyptian Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz.

Matthew Haynes

Matthew is a full-time faculty member in the English Department at the College of Western Idaho and holds a B.A. in Literature, M.A. in Fiction and M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction from Boise State. His work has appeared in several anthologies and journals including SOMA Literary Journal, O’iwi, and Cold Drill, and he has published two books, a novel Moving Towards Home, and a chapbook, “16 November 1996,” which was selected for inclusion in the NYC MOMA permanent library. “Distant Tides,” his collection of multi-genre writing, was chosen for the Wayne Kaumuali’i Westlake Monograph Series, and will be published by Kuleana Press in 2011. He has also been a finalist for the Faulkner Award in Nonfiction, earned a literature fellowship from the State of Idaho Arts Commission, and received partial fellowships to attend the Prague and St. Petersburg Summer Seminars. Currently, he is shopping a new novel and collection of nonfiction.

Russell Hehn

Russell Hehn is a teacher and landscaper in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.  Some of his other work can be seen in Barcelona Review, Interrobang?! and Pindeldyboz.

Kathleen M. Heideman

Kathleen M. Heideman has been named a 2011 Fellow of the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. She is a past fellow of the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists & Writers Program. In 2010, she served as Artist-in-Residence at Badlands National Park, Writer-in-Residence at the Andrews Experimental Forest in the Willamette National Forest, and Artist-in-Residence with the San Juan National Forest. In October 2010, she will be Artist-in-Residence at Necedah National Wildlife Refuge. Her work has appeared in such journals as American Poetry Review, Folio, Willow Springs, Exquisite Corpse, Water-Stone, Conduit, Cream City Review, and Steam Ticket, and is forthcoming in Artifice. She gladly suffers wanderlust.

Nicole Henares

A native of the Monterey Peninsula, Nicole Henares lives in San Francisco with two cats and one husband. Her poems are where the blues meet the mean reds and have appeared throughout the small press. Nicole will be attending New College’s Writing and Consciousness MFA Program in the fall.

Julia Henderson

Julia Henderson graduated from Vassar with a BA in History in 2001 and received her MA in writing and publishing from Emerson in 2006. She passes her days working as a support coordinator for online course production at a textbook company. Julia spends a lot of time working in her garden, badmouthing corporate media, and training her two young boys to be a good little feminists like their mama. Julia is a founding editor of Fringe.

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Melissa Henderson

Melissa earned her BA from University of Montana and her MFA in fiction from Texas State University. Her work has appeared in Cutbank, Other Voices, and The Chattahoochee Review. While not playing Legos with her son, or keeping her daughter from eating said Legos, Melissa has taken to writing a collection of memoir shorts about growing up in Indiana.

Mickey Hess

Mickey Hess is associate professor of English at Rider University and the author of Big Wheel at the Cracker Factory and three books about hip hop. His stories have been published in Annalemma, Quick Fiction, Fourteen Hills, Ninth Letter, and The2ndhand.

Sarah Hilary

Sarah Hilary is the Bristol-based winner of the Sense Creative Writing Award 2010 and the Fish Criminally Short Histories Prize 2008. She is currently writing a crime novel. Her agent is Jane Gregory.

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Steve Himmer

Steve Himmer’s stories have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Pindeldyboz, Ghoti, Juked, Monkeybicycle, Brevity and Echo (Rose Metal Press), and A Field Guide to Surreal Botany (Two Cranes Press).

Jessica Hollander

Jessica Hollander has a bio with a list of publications. She also has a website where she web logs about her failed beginnings – a virtual playground of stories that never grew out of toddlerhood – with accompanying anecdotes and whining. Visit her at jessicahollanderwriter.com.

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Katherine Holmes

Katherine Holmes’ work has appeared in print journals such as The South Dakota Review, Phantasmagoria, WordWrights, Minnesota Poetry Calendar, Porcupine, Sidewalks, Skyways & Ice Houses (a Walker Art Center exhibition catalogue) and more than 25 others.  Her Internet publications include Amarillo Bay, Avatar, Denver Syntax,  Eclectica, Facets, Frigg, The Front Street Review, Full Circle, Gin Bender,  Hamilton Stone Review, The King’s English, Poetry Midwest,  Rio, whimperbang, and Ygdrasil. When she’s not writing, she works with used books.

Nicolas Hoover

Nicolas Hoover lives in Seattle, WA, where he is recovering from scurvy after barely surviving a cross-country drive from New York City in a 22-foot yellow Penske truck with only beef jerky, Red Vines, and Mountain Dew as sustenance. He is currently ignoring five novels that are hoping to be written by him someday, while falling in love with his newly bountiful and expansive life, drizzle-speckled and smiling. He is also petting an imaginary cat named Captain Stumpy. Please visit his website at www.nicolashoover.com.

Jean Hopkins

Jean Hopkins is an MFA student at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She was born in Queens, New York, but has lived on both coasts and has seen much of the world. Her interests include marathon running, pursuing a career in creative nonfiction writing, and finding a decent gluten-free beer.

Victoria Horkan

Victoria Horkan is a contemporary artist living and working in Leeds. Since 2006, her work has been exhibited in many galleries throughout England. Victoria studied textile design, which has led her to explore the tangible tactile qualities of unconventional materials. Most often, she layers plaster with thick, undiluted oil paint. More recently, she has been using a raw, organic color palette depicting elements of movement. Her work intends to make an historical gesture by bringing her perceptions to the attention of tomorrow’s world, a contemporary world which celebrates the positive elements of today. You can find out more about Victoria and her work at http://www.victoriahorkan.com/.

Jessica Huls

Jessica lives in Chicago with her prom date, Eric. She is from Nebraska and
owes a lot to the Missouri River Valley. She is currently hunting down an MA in
writing at DePaul University.

Katherine Hunt

Katherine Hunt grew up in El Segundo, California and is currently living in Boston. She is pursuing an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College.

Sefik Huseyin

Sefik Huseyin (1987- ) was born and raised in London, England, and later moved to his parents’ home country of Northern Cyprus where he received his BA in English Language and Literature from Eastern Mediterranean University. He has presented a paper on the myth of Ottoman women in Istanbul, at the “2nd International Conference of Mediterranean Worlds: The Mediterranean of the Myths, The Myths of the Mediterranean.” He has worked with poet Ravi Shankar who encouraged him to pursue his writing. This is his first poetry publication. Sefik is currently earning his MA in English from the same institution and hopes to go on to achieve his PhD in English.