Gary Beck's poetry has appeared in dozens of literary magazines. His chapbook, "Remembrance," was published by Origami Press, June 2008. "The Conquest of Somalia" will be published by Cervena Barva Press. His recent fiction has been published in numerous literary magazines. His plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes, and Sophocles have been produced Off-Broadway.

 

Carand Burnet is a painting student at the New Hampshire Institute of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire and is originally from South Carolina.

 

Hannah Pass has a BA degree in English from University Wisconsin-Stevens Point.  She currently lives in Portland, Oregon where she writes short fiction and makes stuff out of paper.  Her favorite bear is the panda, and yesterday she saw a dog on YouTube that looked like one.

 

Danielle Wheeler lives in Indiana and pushes books around a library all day. Her writing also appears in Caketrain and elimae.

 

Sean Ruane has been published in Thieves Jargon, Eyeshot, Sien und Werden, Mississippi Crow, Elimae (as Julio Froberg) and other places. He writes shit in a grad program at Johns Hopkins.

 

Jereme Dean is an American writer who believes words are meaningless and actions are concrete.  Jereme believes in the act of writing and the act of reading.  Jereme does not believe that the words themselves are meaningful.  He can be found at weak-signal.blogspot.com

 

Susana Mai is the name of the person in this bio. Sometimes she writes, but mostly she conscripts grizzlies. There was an incident with a hunter and they are much endowed to her. They got her forthcoming in Word Riot. Sometimes she feeds them. Mostly she blogs here.

 

David Bernstein grew up in Long Island and is finally in the real world. He writes for good times and for www.236.com/feed to pay his rent. He lives in Bushwick with three girls and a lot of misplaced feelings. You can be his friend at [email protected] especially if you want to talk about somethingawful or the L train services changes.

 

Marco Kaufman has published in the fields of literary criticism, journalism, medical research, and history. His fiction has been published at 55 Flash Fiction and as a series at One Real Story. He is currently working on a themed volume that he hopes to publish in book form.

 

 

Raffi Robert Kiureghia is a young writer from California and has work that will be

appearing in the forthcoming issues of Spooky Boyfriend and Pear Noir!  He likes all fruits equally.

 

Molly was born in Korea and raised in the states.  The first American gift she ever received was a brown teddy bear (which promptly earned the name "Brown Bear").  Molly is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati's MA fiction program, and her recent writing appears or is forthcoming in Serendipity, Titular, and Lamination Colony.  On torn-ass-seam days that remind her of Brown Bear, she blogs at https://greencitynews.blogspot.com.

 

Sarah Fouts is a young poet from Columbus, Ohio. Her work is appearing in the upcoming Open Wide Magazine Vol II Issue I, and is featured at Silenced Press. She rides the city bus and enjoys watching people.

 

Donald Illich has published poetry in The Iowa Review, LIT, Fourteen Hills, Passages North, and Cold Mountain Review.  He is a writer who lives in Rockville, Maryland.  He is fond of polar bears.

 

Jared Ward has work accepted at elimae, New Delta Review, mud luscious, Hobart, The Dos Passos Review, and others.

 

Matthew Savoca is slowly becoming world famous. People from the following countries have been visiting his blog recently: Poland, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Romania, China, Korea, South Africa, Australia, England, and Canada.