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fiction
 

fiction editor 

Nick Kocz is studying for his MFA at Virginia Tech. His short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Web Conjunctions, The Portland Review, Red Rock Review, Gargoyle and Pindeldyboz and have been nominated for inclusion in this year's Best New American Voices anthology. Most recently, he won first prize in North Point's "New Beginnings/Post-Apocalyptic" story contest.

assistant fiction editor 

Carol Reid lives and writes in a small community on the west coast of Canada. She and her family share a mostly untamed acre with a sweet Scottish Terrier, a ferocious tabby and whatever that is rustling through the bush at night.


assistant fiction editor 

Carolyn Dekker is a graduate student at the University of Michigan. She was a Biology and English major at Williams College and a teacher in Boston before becoming a Midwesterner. Her short fiction has appeared in the Connecticut Review.

 

assistant fiction editor 

Su-Yee Lin is an undergraduate at Brown University majoring in Literary Arts. She enjoys fencing, sketching, parkour, and urban exploration. Her first published short story, "In Dreams Tangible," is forthcoming in the summer print issue of Fantasy Magazine.


 

fiction reviewers 

Alexandra O'Mallory is a professional Irish-born writer and singer in the band Sacred Hearts. She publishes widely in both the United States and Ireland and holds a Bachelor of Science in Archaeology. She relies on the fields of Ireland to be her muse.

Alison Marcus is currently a junior at the University of Michigan. She is double majoring in English and Communications Studies and has worked at both local New Jersey magazines as well as Nick Jr. Magazine. She hopes to continue work in the field.

Amelia Parkison Edelman is a professional writer and a graduate student in NYU's Department of English. Amelia has been writing, publishing, and editing fiction, poetry, essays, and speeches for years in New York, Connecticut and Scotland. The highlight of her life was eating a roasted pumpkin in Poughkeepsie with author Louise Erdrich.

Angela Jackson-Brown is a student at Spalding University in the MFA in Creative Writing Program. She is currently writing a novel entitled Drinking from a Bitter Cup, a collection of short stories set from the mid-1800s to the Harlem Renaissance, and an autobiographical poetry collection. Recently, Angela was the featured reader at the InKY Reading Series at the Rudyard Kipling in Louisville, KY. She has two poems that will be published this fall in a new literary magazine called Pet Milk.

Cari Merritt is a a sophomore at the University of Michigan.  She loves the outdoors, loves to read and write (of course), and has a very fat cat for a muse.

Carole Mora lives in Santa Monica, CA. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing (poetry and fiction) from Antioch University Los Angeles, along with a Certificate in Creative Writing Pedagogy. She is currently teaching English Composition at the University of La Verne and has recently published a few poems. She could be considered to be somewhat of a professional dilettante (which means delight BTW) because she has a number of writing, photography, art and music related sorts of things in progress, some of which can be found at: www.carolemora.net.

Carrie Ryman lives in Waukesha, Wisconsin, but is a native of Ohio.  She attended Kent State University, studying Journalism, and launched her career at The Gateway Press where she contributed feature and human interest stories, as well as features for her popular sports/ adventure series.  Carrie has participated in CVNRA’s Nature Writer’s Workshop/Jill Sell and AllWriter’s Workshop/Kathie Giorgio, as well as community events to promote literature, such as Waukesha’s “Big Read.”  She has read her poetry at Martha Merrill’s Books, Brady’s Café and Arabica Coffeehouse. Carrie enjoys writing poetry, essays, fiction, nonfiction, and is currently working on her first novel.

Christina Kapp is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University M.A. in Writing program. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in or are forthcoming in numerous publications including Pindeldyboz, Barn Owl Review, Quality Women’s Fiction, Literary Mama and others. Her essays have appeared in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Getting In… To College, Mom Writers Literary Magazine and NJ Family. She is finishing her first collection of short fiction and thinking very hard about editing her novel manuscript, which she keeps tucked away in the bottom drawer of her desk.

A Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Courtney Vien has been writing fiction since childhood. Currently, she writes movie reviews for Cinekklesia.com and biographies for Columbia Granger's World of Poetry Online. She has worked as an editor for McGraw-Hill and Eli Research, and her dissertation is on the works of the neglected Victorian genius George Meredith. When not involved with reading or writing, Courtney enjoys drinking coffee, making jewelry, and throwing pots with her husband, John. She "owns" two former feral cats and one tame but very spastic kitten.

E.K. Entrada (www.ekentrada.com) lives in Lake Charles, La., where she works as a copywriter for a marketing agency. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Kyoto, Story Philippines, Johnny America, Audience, Every Day Fiction, Asians in America Magazine, and elsewhere. She enjoys reading about flawed protagonists in unique story plots and has particular admiration for writers who manage to tell vivid stories in the simplest of words.

Eileen Wiedbrauk is an MFA candidate at Western Michigan University. You can read her witty and sometimes rambling blog on writing at eileenwiedbrauk.com.
 

Gail Francis is a writer and aspiring organic farmer in northern Wisconsin. She is a longtime labor and environmental activist whose journalism, essays, academic writing and fiction have been published for a wide range of audiences. 

G. Lloyd Helm has been writing for 30 years, having published poetry in a wide variety of magazines and newspapers including The New York Poetry Anthology, Stars and Stripes News, The Los Angeles Times, The Antelope Valley Press, and The Antelope Valley Anthologies, among others.  Helm is also a publisher of and contributor to The Antelope Valley Anthologies, which are collections of poetry, short stories, and essays from the residents of Southern California’s Antelope Valley. 

Grace Andreacchi is an American-born novelist, poet and playwright. Works include the novels Scarabocchio and Poetry and Fear, Music for Glass Orchestra (Serpent's Tail), Give My Heart Ease (New American Writing Award) and the chapbook Elysian Sonnets. Her work appears in Horizon Review, Eclectica, Word Riot and many other fine places. Grace is also managing editor at Andromache Books, a new writers' cooperative. She lives in London and writes a regular literary blog, "Amazing Grace," at graceandreacchi.blogspot.com. Visit her at graceandreacchi.com.

Following a fifteen-year detour to publish academic nonfiction, J. David Bell has returned to his first love of fiction writing.  His stories have appeared or are scheduled to appear in Third Reader and Gander Press Review.  He publishes under a pen name so his academic colleagues won't know what he's up to.

Janelle Korzeniowski is a senior at the University of Michigan, studying English and Theatre Arts / Directing. She is currently writing marketing copy for money, but she writes short stories and plays for love. She plans to delay figuring out life after graduation by traveling to Europe and northern Africa.
 

Jarod Rosello is an MFA student in creative writing at Pennsylvania State University. His comics and fiction have appeared in or are forthcoming in Sonora Review, Gulf Stream, Neon, the delinquent, and Cause & Effect. His homemade comics are available at www.JarodRosello.com.

Jenn O'Neal has an MA in Film & TV Critical Studies, giving equal attention to documentaries and narrative fiction. Recently, she gave up Hollywood to pursue a more literary life in northern California. Her short fiction has appeared in the pages of Torquere Press, Lucrezia Magazine, Clean Sheets, and others. When not reading or writing, Jenn spends her time caring for two special needs hamsters and going to anime conventions.

John Buday is a writer trying to establish himself, and help others do the same. He resides in Largo, Florida.

Lily Hamrick lives in Berkeley with her three sons, her patient husband, and her dog.  She works as an appellate lawyer in San Francisco.  Her first novel, The Secret War, was a finalist for the 2008 Fabri Literary Prize and the 2008 James Jones First Novel Fellowship.  Her short fiction is upcoming in Southern Humanities Review.  She has a B.A. in English from Yale, an M.A. in English from U.C. Berkeley and a law degree from U.C. Berkeley.  You can find her online at www.bloglily.com.  

Loretta Sylvestre spent her early years in Southern California, but was later transplanted to the green, wet half of Washington State, where stories grow as wild as blackberries. She holds a B.A. in Liberal Arts from The Evergreen State College. Her fiction has recently appeared in SN Review and Foliate Oak, and she has stories slated for upcoming issues in The Linnet’s Wings and The Battered Suitcase. She welcomes visitors at www.worldswellwritten.com.

Nannette Croce is a writer who has also worked as an editor with various online publications. Her short stories have appeared in print and online, but most can be found as reprints in The Rose & Thorn Literary Ezine. Her essays and op-ed pieces have appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer. After a long hiatus, Nannette has returned to writing and is working diligently on some new short fiction while mulling an idea for a historical novel. She also authors the blog zine writer (zinewriter.blogspot.com).

Nichole LeFebvre is a junior English major at Pace University where she is co-editor of the Pfozheimer Honors College E-Journal. She is a staff writer for the Pace Press and enjoys reading, writing poetry, tennis and piano.

Richard Santos was born in San Antonio, studied militant suffragettes at UT Austin, specialized in American Crime Fiction at Georgetown University and performed Shakespeare in London. Richard has been a telemarketer and a bouncer. He now works in politics and lives in Washington, DC.

Richelle Putnam is in the Gotham Writers’ Workshop Fiction Certificate Program and has completed three Institute of Children's Literature courses, the Advanced Writing Program of Open College for the Arts, and Gotham Writers’ Playwriting and Advanced Poetry Courses. She is Founder and President of Mississippi Writers Guild and is on the Literary Arts Artist Roster for the State of Mississippi. Her work has been published in Flashquake, The Copperfield Review, Cayuse Press, Writer’s Journal, and A Cup of Comfort for Mothers and Daughters.

Sidney Homan is Professor of English at the University of Florida, and an actor and director in professional and university theatres. He is the author of some ten books on Shakespeare and the modern playwrights. His A Fish in the Moonlight: Growing Up in the Bone Marrow Unit was recently published by Purdue University Press. A collection of stories of his youth growing up in Philadelphia, the book also recounts his experience as Artist-in-Residence, telling those stories to young patients on the Bone Marrow Unit of his university's hospital.

Tanaz Bhathena works as an export trader during business hours and writes fiction during non-business hours. After graduating with a B.Com from the University of Toronto, she decided to implement the "no risk, no reward" mantra and pursue creative writing seriously. She has a diploma in Creative Writing from the Humber School for Writers and her work (short and short-short) has been published by The Third Reader and Glossolalia. She is currently working on a collection of short stories based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

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