Jasmin Saigal

Jasmin Saigal is a 33-year-old writer from India.  She has an MA in English from Calcutta University and teaches English for a living.  Jasmin Saigal is her pseudonym.

Emily Sandberg

Emily Sandberg completed an MFA in fiction at the University of Virginia in May 2011. She is originally from Iowa and hopes to have a more interesting bio someday.

K. R. Sands

K. R. Sands is creating a collection of short fiction inspired by the displays of pathological human anatomy and other medical exhibits at the famous Mütter Museum in Philadelphia. Her fiction has appeared/will appear in Joyland; The Tangled Bank: Love, Wonder, and Evolution; Inkspill Magazine; Milk Money; Camera Obscura; ShatterColors; and other publications. Her nonfiction publications are Demon Possession in Elizabethan England and An Elizabethan Lawyer’s Possession by the Devil: The Story of Robert Brigges. She has lived in Arizona, Scotland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. A recovering academic, she has taught literature and writing for ten universities, including Temple University, the University of Arizona, and the University of Maryland. Her nonacademic jobs have included dog groomer, animal laboratory technician, zoo keeper, and environmental regulation writer.

Sarah Sarai

Sarah Sarai’s poems and stories are or will be in Gargoyle, Threepenny Review, POOL, Pank, Mississippi Review, ragazine.cc, Fairy Tale Review, and thusly. Reviewing her poetry collection, The Future Is Happy (BlazeVOX), Gerald Schwartz wrote, “their very rawness and urgency bring these poems to a kind of transcendence. . . . We reach sanctuary” (Galatea Resurrects). She lives in New York and sometimes in http://my3000lovingarms.blogspot.com.

Shuchi Saraswat

Shuchi Saraswat has a BA from Franklin and Marshall College and an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College. When not reading or writing, she enjoys movies, photography, and walking around Boston. Currently, she is working on her first novel.

Shuchi was a Nonfiction Reader for Fringe from October 2006 to January 2008, the Nonfiction Editor from January 2008 to February 2009, and the Fiction Editor from February 2009 to June 2010.

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Shya Scanlon

Shya Scanlon is an MFA candidate at Brown University.  ”Trump” is from a book-length series of 7-line prose poems called “In This Alone Impulse,” which has inspired a contest at Opium Magazine called “The Shya Scanlon Seven-Line Prose Award.” See more here.

Joseph Scapellato

Joseph Scapellato was born in a suburb of Chicago. So were some of his family members and good friends. In 2008 he earned his MFA in Creative Writing from New Mexico State University where, over the span of three years, he met more good friends, was served life-changing quantities of green chile, and climbed cactus-studded mountains. At the moment he lives in Lewisburg, PA, where he has the good fortune to teach English and Creative Writing courses at Susquehanna University as an adjunct professor. Everybody there is really great. Joe is revising a novel, composing short story cycles, and waiting on his first batch of homemade sauerkraut.

Josie Schoel

Josie Schoel is a Brooklyn-based poet whose poems have appeared in a number of journals and magazines. She is a 2003 recipient of an American Academy of Poets award. Originally from Gloucester, MA, she holds a BA in Literature from Bard College. She is a literary agent at the Frances Goldin Literary Agency.

Peter Schwartz

Peter Schwartz has over 150 poems published, some of them in nationally-distributed journals, some printed overseas. He has stories and paintings published on and offline as well as his own somewhat controversial journal that can be sampled at: watchtheeye.com. He’s also an associate art editor for Mad Hatters’ Review and co-founder of sitrahahra.com. He lives almost silently in the forests of Maine.

Sarah Scoles

Sarah Scoles recently finished an MFA at Cornell University, where she is now educating the youth about the Oxford comma and effective paragraphing. Before this, she studied astrophysics and spent a lot of time around radio telescopes. When not reading, writing, grading, or researching obscure astronomical phenomena, she can be found bicycling off steam around Ithaca. Her work has appeared in DIAGRAM, SNReview, and Sotto Voce.

Cat Ennis Sears

Cat Ennis Sears recently graduated from Emerson College with a MFA in fiction, where she taught freshman composition and research writing. Her work has appeared in the Chicago Quarterly Review, Bateau, Corium Magazine and the Printer’s Devil Review, been nominated for the 2011 AWP Intro Journal Awards and received honorable mention in a Glimmer Train short fiction contest. She is at work on a linked story collection, of which “Shipyard Incidents” is a part.

Maureen Seaton

Maureen Seaton’s most recent books are Sex Talks to Girls, a memoir from the University of Wisconsin Press (2008), and Cave of the Yellow Volkswagen, her sixth solo book of poems (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2009). (www.maureenseaton.com)

Megann Sept

Megann Sept earned her MFA from Emerson College this spring. Her stories have previously appeared in Lost Magazine and Pindeldyboz. She lives in San Francisco and is at work on her first short story collection.

Pattabi Seshadri

Pattabi Seshadri’s work has appeared or will appear in Pleiades and Cranky, among other publications. He lives in Austin, Texas.

Ravi Shankar

Ravi Shankar, founding editor of the international journal of the arts Drunken Boat and poet-in-residence at Central Connecticut State, has published a book of poems, Instrumentality (Cherry Grove), named a finalist for the 2005 Connecticut Book Awards. He has appeared as a commentator on NPR, written poems, reviews and essays for such publications as The Paris Review, Fulcrum and Poets & Writers, and read his work in many places, including the Asia Society and the National Arts Club. Along with Tina Chang and Nathalie Handal, he is currently editing an anthology of contemporary Arab and Asian poetry. You can read an interview with him and listen to some of his poems.

Anna Shapiro

Anna Shapiro graduated from Skidmore College in 2004 with a BA in classical piano. She lives with her boyfriend in Portland, Oregon where she enjoys cooking, book-making and drinking good beer. This is her first fiction publication.

Bob Shar

Bob Shar is a recently retired librarian who never worked a reference desk naked. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in various print and electronic publications, including The Greensboro Review, South Carolina Review, Cold Mountain Review, Bartleby Snopes, Foundling Review, The Molotov Cocktail, and The Flash Fiction Offensive.  He’s a former newspaper reporter and burned out little magazine editor (The Crescent Review, 1983-1987), enjoying retirement in Winston-Salem, NC.

Alexandra Sheckler

Alexandra K Sheckler is a recent graduate of Columbia College Chicago where she earned her B.A. in journalism. She is editor of women’s lifestyle magazine, Women’s OutLook, based out of Southwest Florida. Her work has appeared in Annalemma Magazine as well as Venus Zine’s blog. She is interested in travel and food writing and is currently on a quest to travel the globe.

Deema Shehabi

Deema K. Shehabi is a poet, writer, and editor. She grew up in the Arab world and attended college in the U.S., where she received an M.S. in journalism. Her grandfather was the mayor of Gaza. Her poems have appeared widely in journals and anthologies and are included in Inclined to Speak: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Poetry and also in The Poetry of Arab Women.

Lydia Ship

Fiction by Lydia Ship recently appears or is forthcoming in PANK, Hobart, Requited Journal, Night Train, A Capella Zoo, The 2nd Hand, and The Battered Suitcase, among several others; in 2009, one of her stories received a Pushcart Prize nomination. She is a Contributing Editor for The Chattahoochee Review. Find links to more of her fiction here.

Greg Shupak

Greg Shupak lives in Guelph, Ontario.  He has fiction, non-fiction, academia and book reviews. He has published fiction in the literary magazines Event, QWERTY, and Broken Pencil and was a finalist in the Writers’ Union of Canada’s 2008 postcard fiction contest.  In addition, his non-fiction has appeared in, or is forthcoming in, Canadian Dimension and Briarpatch.

Janell Sims

Janell Sims earned her MA in Publishing and Writing from Emerson College and since then, her love affair with Boston has turned into a sustained five-year relationship. She is currently Publications Coordinator at the Shorenstein Center in Harvard’s JFK School of Government, and a graphic designer on the side. She is actively involved with her local church and enjoys hosting parties, advocating feminism while sipping martinis, and listening to local music in her favorite Somerville neighborhoods. Janell is a founding member of Fringe.

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Abhilasha Singh

Abhilasha Singh started painting at the age of 2, when she won her first painting competition. Her love for colours and landscape was noticed in various local exhibitions and competitions she took part in as a child. She was approached by British Fine Art Gallery in 2000 and displayed her work online with them. Her artwork has also been displayed at art exhibitions in the UK. She is inspired by the works of early 16th century European artists and influenced by Russian artists of St. Petersburg, a place close to her heart for its immense beauty and talent. You can see more of her work at www.artmajeur.com/watercolour.

Ian Singleton

Ian Singleton has lived in Detroit, Birmingham, Boston, and now San Francisco. His works of fiction, translation, essay, and poetry have appeared in journals such as The Houston Literary Review, Fringe, Ploughshares, Midwestern Gothic, Prick of the Spindle and Word Riot.

Chris Siteman

Chris Siteman was born in Boston and has lived in the area most of his life. He has worked extensively in the trades, holding positions as a bouncer, ditch-digger, landscaper, chimney sweep, waiter, mason tender, secretary, roofer, and carpenter, as well as doing a stint as a pre-rigger in Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey Circus. He has traveled widely in the United States, Europe and beyond. In the spring of ’03, he received his B.A. in History and Literature from Suffolk University, where he now teaches. Since September ’05, Chris has been pursuing an M.F.A. at Emerson College.

Brett Allen Smith

Brett Allen Smith really enjoys that David Lynch television series from the early 90’s, Twin Peaks. He wishes Miranda July would notice him. When he’s in a bad mood he watches Boogie Nights, after which time he refuses to answer to any name other than Dirk Diggler for a period of about a day. When he was five he was too afraid to dress up as a pirate for Pirate Day at his preschool so he dressed up as Peter Pan instead and accidentally fell into the Fischer-Price water pool and the teachers cancelled Pirate Day as a result of his wetness, and to his knowledge there has never since been another Pirate Day. He ruined Pirate Day for his and every following generation.

Patty Somlo

Patty Somlo was a finalist in the 2004 Tom Howard short story contest.  She was a contributor to the anthologies, Voices from the Couch, VoiceCatcher and Bombshells:  War Stories and Poems by Women on the Homefront, and has work forthcoming in the journals Ugly Cousin and Her Circle Ezine, and the anthology, Rainmakers Prayer.

Katie Spencer

Katie Spencer graduated from Skidmore College in 2004 and is now tiptoeing toward a Master’s degree in publishing and writing at Emerson. She works for a nonprofit book publisher in Boston and spends her spare time playing in dirt, eating things that grow in dirt, supporting independent bookstores, assessing microbrews, shaking tambourines, and watching baseball.

Katie was the the Fiction Editorial Assistant for Fringe from January 2007 to June 2007, and Fiction Editor from June 2007 to February 2009

Jennifer Spiegel

Jennifer Spiegel holds an MA in Politics from New York University and an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from Arizona State. Her work has appeared in several anthologies and journals, including The Gettysburg Review and Hayden’s Ferry Review. Dzanc Books will publish her collection of short stories, The Freak Chronicles, in 2012. Recent work can be read online at Switchback and Waccamaw. Please visit her at www.jenniferspiegel.com.

Brent van Staalduinen

Brent van Staalduinen is a journalism, film, and English teacher. He is a regular contributor to various creative and journalistic publications in Kuwait such as bazaar, The Kuwait Times, and Al-Watan Daily, and has published his work in various smaller publications in North America such as Cadenza and Minstrel.

Tim Stallmann

Tim Stallmann lives in Durham, NC. He is a map-maker and a member of 3Cs: the Counter-Cartographies Collective, an affinity group of radical cartographers who practice map-making and militant research as a way to chart the workings of the university and develop alternative modes of knowledge production. Tim’s current mapping projects include mapping histories of local food systems as a part of building food sovereignty, helping community groups use counter-mapping and GIS to fight gentrification, and facilitating community-driven redistricting. Some of his work can be found at his webpage. He also works as a baker at Bread Uprising Bakery.

Lizzie Stark

Lizzie Stark is the Editor-in-Chief of Fringe and a freelance journalist whose writing has appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Daily Beast. Currently she’s working on a narrative nonfiction book about LARP. She holds an MFA in fiction writing from Emerson College, and an MS in new media journalism from Columbia University. In addition to her literary pursuits, she enjoys making soap, cooking, and blogging about books and nerdularity at LizzieStark.com. Lizzie is a founding editor of Fringe.

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R. Justin Stewart

R. Justin Stewart currently lives and works in New York City. He uses ordinary materials, such as pen and paper, fleece, wooden spheres, ropes, zip ties, and o-rings to create 2- and 3-dimensional maps, systems and structures. His work tends to be simplistic in materials and construction techniques, yet simultaneously intricate and complex in their final manifestations. These art works are often based upon empirical data that Stewart gathers from the world, either through research into preexisting systems like transit maps, or more personal information based on his own movements. For more in see www.rjustin.com.

Jon Stone

Jon Stone, born in Derby, is the poetry editor of the roundtable review. His work has been published online by the Guardian, McSweeney’s, Nth Position, and Word Riot, and in print by, among others, The New Writer, Aesthetica, iota, Mimesis, and South. His debut collection, I’ll Show you Tyrants, was published by the UKAPress in 2005, and a new edition is due from bluechrome this year.

Michael Stutz

Michael Stutz was the first to apply “open source” to non-software works and is the author of the tech bestseller The Linux Cookbook. His work has recently appeared in The New York Times, The Chrysalis Reader, The Dark Horse, Quick Fiction and The Emerson Review.

S. Asher Sund

S. Asher Sund has been published in Margie, the Mississippi Review, The Briar Cliff Review, Juked, Hiss Quarterly, caesura (journal for Poetry Center San Jose), and many other journals and magazines. In 2005, he won first place in the Margie Best Poem Contest, judged by Joyce Carol Oates, and in 2006, he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He lives in Ventura, California, where he writes and produces music with Andi Starr (www.andistarr.com). Photo by Michael Demkowicz.

Kelly Sundberg

Kelly Sundberg grew up in a remote, one-stoplight town sloped up against the mountains of Idaho.  Living in her husband’s home state of West Virginia has further deepened her attraction to stories about small communities with a complex, often uneasy connection with the surrounding landscape and each other.  She is currently pursuing her MFA in nonfiction at West Virginia University where she also teaches composition.

A. Hunter Sunrise

Hunter holds an MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts, where the study of all things anti-genre spurred the mind to assess the world in snippets of its entirety, then reinvent them as flash, narrative, lyric prose. Hunter’s work can be found in literary magazines such as Poetry Motel, The Pointed Circle, The Gut, and SLAB, among others. When not writing, Hunter is often found wandering the streets of Split or Budapest, visioning the world through a camera lens and tracing invisible lines between people’s lives and their imaginings.

Sarah Sweeney

Sarah Sweeney’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Quarterly West, Tar River Poetry, The Pinch, The Collagist, Waccamaw, Minnetonka Review, PANK, and others. A native of North Carolina, she lives and writes in Boston. Fringe was her first publication.