Aaron Burch is the author of Backswing, a collection of short stories from Queen's Ferry Press (July 2014). He is also the Founding Editor of HOBART: another literary journal.
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Mike Young is the author of Sprezzatura, Look! Look! Feathers, We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough, and Who Can Make It. He designs NOÖ Journal, runs Magic Helicopter Press, writes for HTMLGIANT, and lives in Northampton, MA. Find him online at http://mikeayoung.tumblr.com.
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Adam Wilson is the author of What’s Important is Feeling: Stories (Harper Perennial, 2014),and Flatscreen: A novel (Harper Perennial, 2012), which was a National Jewish Book Award Finalist, an Indie Next Pick, and an Amazon Book of the Month. In 2012, Adam received the Paris Review’s Terry Southern Prize which awards, “wit, panache, and sprezzatura in work published by The Paris Review.” Brooklyn Magazine recently named him to its list of 50 Funniest People in Brooklyn.
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Michelle Dove’s fiction appears or is forthcoming in such places as Chicago Review, Passages North, Barrelhouse, and PANK. Excerpts from her latest project, Radio Cacophony, appear in the new issue of Alice Blue. She lives in Washington, DC.
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Eric Nelson is a prose writer living in Queens, New York. His stories, essays, criticisms and interviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Tin House, The Rumpus, The Billfold, Bust, Fanzine, Keep This Bag Away From Children, and Volume 1 Brooklyn, among others. @waityourarobot
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Edward Mullany is the author of If I Falter at the Gallows (Publishing Genius, 2011) and Figures for an Apocalypse (Publishing Genius, 2013). He keeps a blog called The Other Notebook, for his drawings and illustrations.
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John Dermot Woods writes stories and draws comics in Brooklyn, NY. His first collection of comics, Activities, is now available from Publishing Genius Press. He is the author of the image-text novels The Complete Collection of People, Places, and Things, and, in collaboration with J. A. Tyler, No One Told Me I Was Going To Disappear. He is a founder of the online arts journal Action, Yes and a professor of English and Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College.
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Laura van den Berg was raised in Florida and earned her M.F.A. at Emerson College. Her debut collection of stories, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us (Dzanc Books, 2009), was a Barnes & Noble “Discover Great New Writers” selection and shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Award. Her second collection, The Isle of Youth, will be published by FSG in November 2013. Laura’s first novel, Find Me, is also forthcoming from FSG. She lives in Baltimore and teaches in the creative writing program at George Washington University. 5.17.13
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Mark Wallace is the author of more than fifteen books and chapbooks of poetry, fiction, and essays. Temporary Worker Rides a Subway won the 2002 Gertrude Stein Poetry Award and was published by Green Integer Books. His critical articles and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, and he has co-edited two essay collections, Telling It Slant: Avant Garde Poetics of the 1990s, and A Poetics of Criticism. Most recently he has published a novel, The Quarry and The Lot, and a book of poems, Felonies of Illusion. His chapbook The End of America: Book One has just come out with Dusie Kollektiv. He teaches at California State University San Marcos. 5.17.13
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Mark Cugini's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Melville House, Matchbook, Everyday Genius, NOÖ, and Artichoke Haircut, among others. He’s a founding editor of Big Lucks, a regular contributor to HTMLGiant, and a curator of the Three Tents Reading Series in Washington, DC. 5.17.13
