Fringe Magazine

Fringe: it’s the noun that verbs your world, and the magazine you’re reading. We publish work that is political or experimental in form or content and define both “political” and “experimental” broadly. “Political” can mean work that incorporates or comments on current events or it can mean literature and art that further personal dignity and advocate human rights. We regard “experimental” work as work that breaks with the canon, takes formal risks, or explores a strange or impossible point of view.

Nina Mamikunian

Nina Mamikunian hails from Los Angeles, California. She is an MFA candidate in fiction writing at Indiana University where she teaches creative writing and is the associate editor of the Indiana Review.

Claire Mapletoft

Perpetually confused, Claire Mapletoft decided to try writing as a means to make sense of it all. Fifteen years later, all that she is sure about is that there is not enough paper in the world.

After being expelled from Brownies, Claire decided to live a life of sinful hedonism in the closes and alleyways of Edinburgh. Now, she tries to write, often fails and spends most of her time eating Galaxy Caramels in the bath.

Claire Mapletoft is unsure what it all means but she loves life, Marlboro Lites, absinthe and Creme Brulee in equal measure. A combination of them all would be a descent into unthinkable pleasure.

Lisa Maria Martin

Lisa Maria Martin received her MFA from Cornell and a BFA from Carnegie Mellon. Her poems have appeared in Pleiades, the Indiana Review, Crab Orchard Review, Puerto del Sol, and others. Originally from the East Coast, she now lives in a cornfield.

Erin McElroy

Erin McElroy, (born 1982), is a photo artist, primarily from Wilmington, Delaware, and currently residing in Easthampton, Massachusetts.  She has studied at Delaware College of Art and Design, New York University, and Hampshire College. She has had several Northeast exhibits, and has also been published in a handful online zines and galleries.  She creates both color photo prints and black and white photo-oil transfer pieces, though she is also currently experimenting with auditory appendages to her work. You can see more of her work at www.erinmcelroy.net.

Craig A. McKenzie

Craig A. McKenzie studied under a master woodworker until the age of 12, when he discovered an enlarger in his basement and abandoned his training. One very early morning when he was 15, his father woke him, saying ” The bar is burning…You should go take some photos” and he did. These photos landed him a job at the local weekly newspaper where his primary task was photographer and darkroom technician. Craig graduated high school, and attended St. Clair County Community College where he studied graphic design. He was awarded a scholarship to study abroad in Japan for the summer, and upon his return, was awarded a full tuition scholarship at The College for Creative Studies in Detroit. He graduated with a double major in Graphic Design and Photography. He has dedicated this past year to learning the ins and outs of digital photography. You can see more of his work at www.mckenziebrosphotography.com.

Kevin McLellan

Kevin McLellan is the author of the chapbook Round Trip (Seven Kitchens, 2010), a collaborative series with numerous women poets. He has recent or forthcoming poems in journals including Barrow Street, Colorado Review, Diagram,  Horse Less Review, Hunger Mountain, Interim, Poetry East, Southern Humanities Review, Sugar House Review, Versal, and several others. Even though he lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a rural sensibility lives in him. Currently, Kevin teaches creative writing at the University of Rhode Island in Providence.

Jim Meirose

Jim Meirose’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in many leading literary magazines including Alaska Quarterly Review, South Carolina Review, New Orleans Review, and others. One of his stories which appeared in OASIS was short-listed for the 1997 O Henry Awards. His work has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

Reshma Melwani

Reshma Melwani holds an MS in Journalism from Boston University and a BA in English from the University of California, Irvine. Reshma spends her days working as a publicist at Beacon Press, a nonprfit, independent publisher. In her spare time, she works as a freelance writer in Boston and dreams of one day becoming a food critic.

Michelle Menting

Michelle Menting lives in Lincoln, Nebraska, where she’s pursuing her PhD at UNL. Some of her work appears or is forthcoming in failbetter, The Texas Observer, Diagram, and Pedestal Magazine, among other journals.

Corey Mesler

Corey Mesler is the owner of Burke’s Book Store, in Memphis, Tennessee, one of the country’s oldest (1875) independent bookstores.  He has published poetry and fiction in numerous journals including Rattle, Pindeldyboz, Quick Fiction, Cranky, Thema, Mars Hill Review, and Poet Lore. He has also been a book reviewer for The Memphis Commercial Appeal.  A short story of his was chosen for the 2002 edition of New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best. Talk, his first novel, appeared in 2002 and included nice blurbs from Lee Smith, John Grisham, Robert Olen Butler, Frederick Barthelme, and others. He has a new novel, We Are Billion-Year-Old Carbon. He has 8 chapbooks in print. His poem “Sweet Annie Divine,” was chosen for Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac. He also claims to have written “It’s my Party.”  Most importantly, he is Toby and Chloe’s dad and Cheryl’s husband. He can be found at www.coreymesler.com.

Michael K. Meyers

Michael K. Meyers has had work in Fiction, Chelsea, Chicago Noir and The New Yorker. He earns his living as art professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Besides writing, he has recently been making audio flash fictions and just finished a CD of them. “Once Again Doctor Freud’s Horse Has Gone Missing” is on Amazon.

Jen Michalski

Jen Michalski lives in Baltimore. Her work has appeared in more than twenty-five publications, including McSweeney’s, Failbetter, The Summerset Review, The Pedestal Magazine, and Thieves Jargon. Her collection of short fiction, Close Encounters, is available from So New Publishing. She is the editor of the online e-zine JMWW.

Sarah Miles

Sarah Miles holds a BA in English from Towson University, and received her MFA in fiction from Emerson College in 2006.  Among other things, she has worked as a sculptor’s assistant, a special education aide, and a maid.  She has lived in Maryland, California, Montana and Massachusetts.  She aims to have lived in all the M-states by the time she dies – only five more to go.

Margot Miller

Margot Miller earned a mid-life Ph.D. in French literature. She served as an adjunct professor most recently at the School for Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington D.C. and now writes fiction as well as translating fiction from French to English. She divides her time between the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay and the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia. Her creative work (fiction, non-fiction, poetry) has appeared in or is currently featured/forthcoming in ChickFlicks Ezine, Write Side Up, Long Story Short, Subtle Tea, LitDispatch, Moonlit Thoughts (dogma publications, UK), Static Movement, BluePrint Journal, Salomé, and Insolent Rudder. She is a submissions editor for WriteSideUp and Static Movement Online.

Tammy Ho and Reid Mitchell

Tammy Ho Lai-ming and Reid Mitchell have been writing together for several years. Their creative works have previously been published in Admit 2, Barrow Street, Caffeine Destiny, Fringe, Ghoti, Rhythm Poetry Magazine, Poetry Super Highway, and elsewhere. They are both actively involved in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, the first and only Hong Kong-based online English literary publication.

Samantha Mitchell

Samantha Mitchell was born and raised in New Jersey and is currently living in Astoria, Queens. She graduated with a BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in 2001. Samantha works as a freelance photography art director and producer (www.esemproductions.com) and sketches in her spare time

Cat Mooney

Cat Mooney received her BA in English and French from Simmons College in 2006. Since then she has dabbled in marketing, publishing, and freelance writing. When not working in higher ed publishing, she can be found writing about events for various Boston blogs, trying new restaurants, and checking out local bands’ shows.

Kate Morris

Kate Morris is pursuing an MLitt in Modernities at the University of Glasgow. Though physically living in Glasgow, a significant part of her mental life is dedicated to dreams of Montreal and, more specifically, a Stanley cup win for the Habs. She is the sort of person who should not read the newspaper with her morning coffee because it tends to make her angry. But she is also the type of person who, knowing this about herself, reads it anyway. She has written critical pieces on HIV/AIDS awareness campaigns, the war in Iraq as media spectacle, Bruce Nauman, and post-structuralist literary theory.  She is a sometime poet, avid letter writer and anonymous performance artist.

David Moscovich

David Moscovich writes and lives at the Center for Dyslexistential Studies, an organic sheep farm in Portland, Oregon. He is a direct descendant of Jesus of Nazareth and eats like a sailor, owing to a background in freely improvised music.

Peter Mountford

The peripatetic Mountford grew up in Washington, DC, and has also lived in Ecuador and Sri Lanka; he now lives in Seattle. While in Ecuador, he spent two years as a token liberal in a think tank. His short fiction has recently appeared in Best New American Voices 2008, Conjunctions, Michigan Quarterly Review, Phoebe, The Normal School, and Boston Review. A two-time fellow of Yaddo, he won 2010 grants from the city of Seattle and the Elizabeth George Foundation. His first novel, A Young Man’s Guide to Late Capitalism, will be published in April, 2011, by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Hester Murman

This is Hester Murman’s first submission of her visual artwork to a magazine. She has been drawing all her life, and as a child it was a favorite pastime. As an introvert, she can say without doubt that it kept her company. Hester is twenty-eight years old, writes as much as she can, and is studying one-on-one under the poet Cecilia Woloch.

Rich Murphy

Rich Murphy’s essay “McLuhan’s Warning, Frye’s Strategy, Emerson’s Dream” has been published in the latest issue of Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning. “Vanishing Artist: American Poet and Differend” was published by the International Journal of the Humanities and was then published state-side by Fulcrum: an annual of poetry and poetics. His poems have been published widely in such journals as Rolling Stone, Poetry Magazine, Grand Street, New Letters, Negative Capability, Confrontation Magazine, ForPoetry, Barrelhouse Review, Electronic Acorn (Ireland), West 47 (Ireland), Aesthetica Review (England), Chimera (England), New Delta Review, and Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review. His manuscripts have won finalist positions in numerous national competitions. However, his manuscripts continue to go unpublished.