Cezarija Abartis' Nice Girls and Other Stories was published by New Rivers Press. Her stories have appeared in Liquid Imagination, New York Tyrant, Prime Number, and r.kv.r.y., among others. This story began on ShowMeYourLits.com and was workshopped on Zoetrope.com. Recently she completed a novel, a thriller. She teaches at St. Cloud State University.

Photo credit: Russell Letson

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Brock Adams's fiction has appeared in many publications, including The Sewanee Review and Acapella Zoo, and has won several awards, among them second prize in Playboy’s College Fiction Contest. His first collection of short stories, Gulf, was published in 2010 by Pocol Press. Since receiving his MFA from the University of Central Florida, Adams has taught English at the University of South Carolina Upstate in Spartanburg, SC, where he lives with his wife, Jill.

Read "Woman on Fire" by Brock Adams

Sarah Ahmad was born in India and now lives somewhere, somehow and broke, last seen around mountains in Canada. She has been lucky enough to have work published in some amazing places online as well as in print. Her visual poetry work is part of Avant Writing Collection at the Ohio State University Rare Books & MSS Library. She desperately wants you to check out her blog at scribblingpoetry.blogspot.com

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R. A. Allen's fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Literary Review, The Barcelona Review, Calliope, SinisterCity, PANK, Sniplits, and others; poetry in Word Riot, the New York Quarterly, Boston Literary Magazine, Pear Noir, the Recusant (UK), and elsewhere.  He lives in Memphis.

More at: www.nyqpoets.net/poet/raallen

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 and writes a regular literary blog, Amazing Grace. She lives in London.

Author’s website: http://graceandreacchi.com

Tria Andrews has published fiction, poetry, and photography in red., Eyeshot, The Strip, See You Next Tuesday, Pequin, and Fiction International. Her work is forthcoming in Unsaid and Lumina. She is a student in the MFA program at San Diego State.

Read a review of Harold Jaffee's "Jesus Coyote" by Tria Andrews

Shannon Anthony's stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Brink Magazine, Sein und Werden, BluePrintReview, Bound Off, and Prime Number Magazine, among other places. She tweets a daily story @Shannon_Anthony, and she blogs in a quotidian way at http://shannonanthony.wordpress.com

Read "The Substance in My System" by Shannon Anthony

John Patrick Ayson wants peace. s/he sleeps, wakes, eats, excretes, destroys &/or makes various texts, visuals, audio - & lives near a rusty, latticed fence in san diego, north of mexico an electronic musician & a former member of both fhraecus & the eggbeaterzz, john patrick ayson has a MFA in creative writing & is the author of NONPAREIL(S) - a collection of hybrid texts & literary constructs about human success, idleness, & failure s/he also misuses malapropisms, appropriately - preaches & practices the benefits of non-attachment - was an assistant editor & contributor to Fiction International - recently published poem/text in streetcake magazine

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Joe Balaz lives in northeast Ohio. He is the editor of 13 Miles from Cleveland (www.13milesfromcleveland.com) and is the author of Domino Buzz, a cd of music-poetry (www.joebalaz.com). He is also coauthor, with photo-artist Mary Ellen Derwis, of JOMA—online at (www.jomaonline.com), an online gallery of concrete poetry and photography. His recent work has appeared in or is forthcoming from various publications online.

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I spent my early childhood years in rural West Tennessee. The time I spent roaming open fields, forests, and creek beds unattended by cumbersome adults still has a vast influence over the art I am creating today. I like to interpret the world with childlike eyes, but they are tainted with the bitter experiences of adulthood. My work tends towards the ebb and flow of nature as my psyche relates to it. Death, life, and renewal are common themes in the art that I create. I like to approach rather serious topics while maintaining a bright palette full of contrasts. I want my work to leave viewers with questions and make them take second glances.

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Barry Basden is an army veteran and writer living with his wife and two yellow Labs in the Texas hill country. His flash fiction and poetry have appeared in many fine places. In his spare time, he edits Camroc Press Review. He is also coauthor of CRACK! AND THUMP: WITH A COMBAT INFANTRY OFFICER IN WORLD WAR II, about a hero.  He was never a good soldier himself.

Read "Ray's People Have Always Been Soldiers" by Barry Basden

Eric Beeny’s work has recently appeared in 3:AM, Abjective, >Kill Author, elimae, Matchbook, The Northville Review, Pear Noir!, Spilt Milk, and others. His small novel, The Dying Bloom, was published as an e-book by Pangur Ban Party. He’s a contributing editor for Gold Wake Press. His blog is Dead End on Progressive Ave.

Read "Interpreting Their Genitals" by Eric Beeny

Brandon Bell’s writes on his lunch break and when not reading, walking, talking or sleeping. His stories have been published by Alice Blue Review, Apiary, Cricket Online Review, Inkspill Magazine (United Kingdom), Leaf Garden, Storychord.com, The Writing Disorder, and Work Literary Magazine.

Read "Stranger Aim" by Brandon Bell

Eleanor Leonne Bennett is an amateur photographer and artist who has won contests with National Geographic, The Woodland Trust, The World Photography Organization and Nature's Best Photography. She has had her photographs published in exhibitions and magazines across the world including the Guardian, RSPB Birds , RSPB Bird Life, Dot Dot Dash, Alabama Coast , Alabama Seaport and NG Kids Magazine (the most popular kids magazine in the world). She was also the only person from the UK to have her work displayed in the National Geographic and Airbus run See The Bigger Picture global exhibition tour with the United Nations International Year Of Biodiversity. Eleanor said, "I have been taking photos for two and a half years but I also enjoy drawing and constructing mixed media collages of which have won me the Woodland Trust Nature Detectives art competition three times since the age of 11."

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Eric Bennett lives in New York with his wife and four children. He loves fierce wounded things and beginning sentences with the word "and." His work appears or is forthcoming in Why Vandalism?, Gloom Cupboard, Bartleby Snopes, Smokebox, Apt, decomP magazinE, The Battered Suitcase, Dogmatika, Up the Staircase, and Dogzplot Blogspot.

Read "Frank the Phrenologist and the Fabulous Wolf Woman" by Eric Bennett

Orna Ben-Shoshan conceives the images she paints through channeling. All of her paintings are completed in her mind before she transfers them onto the canvas. Her metaphysical work infuses deep spiritual experience with subtle humor.

To see more of her artwork, please visit: www.ben-shoshan.com
 
Orna is the co-creator of the new and innovative "King Solomon Cards", which are based on her artwork and combine her metaphysical images with ancient Kabalistic symbols. To see more, please visit: www.k-s-cards.com

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Lydia Rae Black is a painter living and working in San Jose, California. Her chosen subjects are the discarded remnants of contemporary life and the implications created by abandoned domestic spaces. She paints in her studio and enjoys teaching art to students of all ages. Her website is located at lidiraeblack.com

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Debi Blankenship lives in the Chattanooga, Tennessee area.  She believes an artist should bring awareness of unique insights out of the most ordinary of views and objects.  The simple becomes complex and the mundane, exciting.  Her work has been published in The Arkansas Review, Stillwater Living, Prick of the Spindle and Anderbo.com

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Sirenna Blas has been published in The Montucky Review, Rose and Thorn Journal, Burning Word, and Red Fez. While fiction is her main love, she has an ongoing affair with poetry, and dabbles in painting and freelance writing. She is a tutor, a teacher, and a student from Northwest Indiana. She blogs at http://awaythecanon.blogspot.com/

Read When the Coyotes Come 'Round by Sirenna Blas

Phil Bongiorno has no limitations, subscribes to no particular medium only maximum expression of what is manifesting in his soul. Whether it be using spray paint to canvas utilizing kitchen utensils as an applicator or various glues forming levy's to let his abstract style unfold, his passion is unmistakable and yet his work is open enough to allow the viewer to take it to whatever place they may be in at that given time.

www.studio-bongiorno.com

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Z.Z. Boone's fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Dzanc’s Best of the Web, and Story South’s Million Writers Award. Work has appeared (or is scheduled) in Smokelong Quarterly, Annalemma, The MacGuffin, Third Wednesday, Swill, FRiGG, Wigleaf, decomP, Word Riot, Pank, Monkeybicycle, Jersey Devil, and other terrific places.

Read "Canaries" by Z.Z. Boone

Mel Bosworth lives and breathes in Western Massachusetts. Despite a 2009 Pushcart Prize nomination, Mel still considers himself a regular doodypants.

Read more at his website: eddiesocko.blogspot.com

Sean Boyles' web site: sean-boyles.blogspot.com

Jeremy Britton was born in Eugene in 1973 and grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He has a Ph.D. from Virginia Tech. He now practices writing and civil engineering in Portland, Oregon.

Read "On The Phone" by Jeremy Britton

Matthew Brock’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Chattahoochee Review, The Greensboro Review, The Arkansas Review, War, Literature and the Arts, The Drunken Boat and elsewhere. He earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of Mississippi and now lives in Knoxville, Tennessee, with his gorgeous wife Jessica and their dogs.

Read "Dark Season" by Matthew Brock

Steven Matthew Brown is a visual artist and writer from the Detroit area who has lived in the former East Germany since 2006. He received an MFA from the Bauhaus University-Weimar in 2008. Previous writing credits include an illustrated novel, The Body Palimpsest (Bauhaus 2008), two unpublished novels, and a short piece in the journal Driftwood. As an award and grant winning visual artist he has staged over 40 exhibitions and projects in six countries.

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Bold and experimental, Erin Bruno's writing, music and photography delves into the darkly beautiful and paradoxical qualities of life. In 2007 her poetry appeared in the online literary magazine Defenestration and in two editions of the New Jersey entertainment magazine Upstage. Her poetry is also featured in the 2009 Paulinkskill Literary Anthology and online literary magazine, Paradigm. Erin’s photography was featured in the July 2008 issue of Word Catalyst and in the December 2008 Emprise Review. Erin graduated in May 2007 from Arcadia University with a B.A. in Communications and a minor in Music Performance. In addition to writing and taking photographs, Erin is a regular music writer for the website http://www.muzikreviews.com/.

Blog: http://theseeker1023.blogspot.com/

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Alec Bryan lives in Utah. His fiction appears in The Oddville Press, Prick of the Spindle, where they are serializing his first novel, and he has some short stories and poems other places. He loves railroad hats and books about painters. His website is www.alecbryan.com

Matthew Burnside loves sour candy & that Jean-Claude Van Damme movie where there's an underground tournament at the end, which is all of them. His favorite American Gladiator is the one with muscles. Email him at Willock77@hotmail.com to discuss obscure email names like 'Willock77'.

I am always in search of the ambiguous figure of movement. I wish to capture something in its own process of evolution, the mood expressed through means of gesture. I love freedom of expression. It demands vigorous honesty. Contrived marks are thrown into the muck. I am inspired by the soul of the music, the beauty of something that can be simple, yet complex at the same time.

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Alan Stewart Carl is a writer of fiction and other such. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in MID-AMERICAN REVIEW, HAYDEN'S FERRY REVIEW, PANK, H_NGM_N and elsewhere. Most of the time, he can be found down in San Antonio where he tries--sometimes successfully--to find a balance between work, fatherhood and writing. Online, he can be found at http://AlanStewartCarl.com

Read "For a Moment, Preserved" by Alan Stewart Carl

Stephanie Carpenter is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Michigan-Flint. Her short stories have appeared in The Saint Ann’s Review, Crab Orchard Review, turnrow, Avery, and Midwestern Gothic. She is currently finishing her first novel.

Frank Carreno attended the Maryland Institute, College of Art from 1988 to 1990, excelling at life drawing and portraiture. In the Spring of 1993, he moved to New York City, where he spent many years frequenting the Spring Street Studio, drawing from models, further developing his figurative preoccupation. He began to paint in 2005.

Francisco Cervantes was born and raised in the awesome ‘burbs of South Side San Jose, and has been drawing as far back as he can remember. What started with a fascination for drawing tanks, planes and anything military-related eventually turned into obsessions with Hieronymus Bosch, Dali and Metal album covers. Francisco won’t stop working on a piece of art until his ADD/OCD allows him to, and his refusal to seek medication has led to a unique style of art which is an amalgam of styles/mediums and focuses on movement and flow as opposed to the actual imagery. Francisco’s ultimate goal is to turn into a piece of art when he dies by having his cremated remains compacted into charcoal and used to create a portrait of himself by an artist of his choosing.

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I graduated from Hallmark Institute of Photography and a second technical school for digital retouching and restoration. Since graduation, I have studied on my own. Some of my favorite photographers are: Man Ray, Robert Maplethorpe, and Robert Cappa. I am hoping to be one of the only famous photographers worldwide with a normal name. I do respect these photographers work and study and practice often to improve my skills. I take a lot of time researching and studying photographers who came before me, so I can improve on my own skills. I also read and study modern photographers, like Terry Richardson, to give myself a well rounded knowledge of photography. Photography challenges me at every turn, but I can understand it.

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Norman Conquest is a verbo-visual artist based in the Bay Area. In 1989 he founded the international anti-censorship art collective, Beuyscouts of Amerika (beuyscouts.com). He is the author of several books, including A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO ART DECONSTRUCTION (Black Scat) and WHAT IS ART? - forthcoming from JEF Books.

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Lydia Copeland's stories have appeared in the Mississippi Review, Glimmer Train, Quick Fiction, Dzanc's Best of the Web 2010 Anthology and others. Her chapbook, Haircut Stories, is available from the Achilles Chapbook Series. She works in a library in Manhattan and lives in New Jersey with her husband and son.

Read "He Squeezed Her Hands" by Lydia Copeland

Molly Crabapple is an award-winning artist, author, and the founder of Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School

Molly's drawn for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Marvel Comics the Bloomberg Corporation and Playgirl, and illustrated eight books. She's also turned her talents to 30-foot theatrical backdrops, children's books, parade installations, burlesque posters, critically acclaimed webcomics, pornographic comic books, art writing, and gallery shows around the world.

Molly and her projects have been covered in: The New York Times, The LA Times, The New York Post, Time Out London, Time Out New York, The Village Voice, La Repubblica, BUST, HEEB, Venus, HOW Design, Bizarre Magazine, Juxtapoz.com, Suicidegirls, Playboy.com, BoingBoing, The Scotsman, The National Post, The Houston Chronicle, SF Chronicle, Sydney Morning Herald, Melbourne Age, BBC Radio, AP Wire, NPR, The Channel 11 Morning News, Publishers Weekly, Fleshbot, and hundreds of other media outlets around the world.

Contact her at molly@mollycrabapple.com.

Jeff Crouch

Jeff Crouch is an internet artist in Grand Prairie, Texas. Google "Jeff Crouch" to see where he has been on the internet.

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T.L. Crum

T.L. Crum's fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Southern California Review, The Ledge Poetry & Fiction Magazine, Short Story America, and Fringe Magazine, among others.  She lives in Fresno, California with her husband and son, and is currently revising her first novel.

Read "Warriors" by T.L. Crum

Justin Lawrence Daugherty

Justin Lawrence Daugherty is an MFA candidate at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Michigan. His fiction has also appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly. He has nonfiction appearing or forthcoming from Used Furniture Review and The Normal School. He loves Lake Superior and cowboy movies. He will talk to you endlessly about The Wire or Deadwood if you let him.

Read "The Lobster Queen" by Justin Lawrence Daugherty

Michael "Doc" Davis

Michael "Doc" Davis is a visual artist and occasional jazz musician living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. He studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts and holds a degree in Fine and Applied Art from Berkeley City College. Michael can generally be found squatting on the floor of his tiny studio, surrounded by scraps of paper, water-slide tattoos, decals, old photographs, and other random ephemera.

His mixed-media collage work often explores personal and social issues relating to power relationships and gender roles, eliciting viewer comments such as, “Uh... I don’t get it” and “This is kinda disturbing.” Michael’s most current series of collage work is focused on non-representational abstraction and process-oriented art using handmade paper, gold leaf, and resin on panel, and is generally considered a little more tasteful. See more of Michael's work at docdavis.deviantart.com

Kevin Dean's web site is www.betaart.com

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Gay Degani is lucky enough to work above her garage where she can see a pepper tree out the window while she types. A list of her stories online can be found at wordsinplace.blogspot.com. She's s a staff editor at SmokeLong Quarterly as well as editor of EDF's Flash Fiction Chronicles.

Read "Body-Snatching" by Gay Degani

Shannon Derby’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in apt: a literary journal, STORYGLOSSIA, and Gargoyle, among others. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College and an MPhil in Irish Literature from Trinity College, Dublin. Currently, Shannon lives in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts where she and her fiancé spend evenings after work walking their dog around a pond and making up stories about the geese that live there. 

Read "Water" by Shannon Derby

Mary Ellen Derwis lives in northeast Ohio. She is coauthor, with Joe Balaz, of JOMA—online (www.jomaonline.com), an online gallery of concrete poetry and photography. Her photography has appeared in various publications online. What interests her in the field of photo-art is the unpredictable and synergistic nature of photography in general. Capturing an image that can be enhanced in different ways to bring about a visual dialogue between viewer and photograph is what drives her work.

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Matthew Dexter lives and breathes in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. An expatriate author and poet best known for eating shrimp tacos and drinking enough Pacifico to kill six blue marlins, he's the Lil Wayne of literature. 

Read "How to Sing Lullabies to a Guerrilla" by Matthew Dexter

Kevin Dickinson lives in New Jersey, where he's in the tail end of his career as an English undergrad at Rutgers. His work has been published in Bartleby-Snopes, Foundling Review, and Gloom Cupboard. He sort of wishes people were still naive enough to believe the world was a flat plate that rested on the back of a giant turtle, because that was a pretty cool theory.

Kevin is the editor-in-chief of Writers' Bloc: www.writersblocmag.org

Stephanie Dickinson's work appears in Dirty Goat, Mudfish, Stone Canoe, Hotel Amerika, and Fourteen Hills, among others. Her novel Half Girl, winner of the Hackney Award (Birmingham-Southern) is published by Spuyten Duyvil. Road of Five Churches and Corn Goddess are available from Rain Mountain. Her stories have been reprinted in Best American Nonrequired Reading, New Stories from the South, 2008 and 2009. She has a new novella just out entitled Lust Series.

www.stephaniedickinson.net

Ryan Dilbert is the editor of Shelf Life Magazine. His work has been published in Smokelong Quarterly, Word Riot, Wigleaf, Titular and Pank. His first novel Time Crumbling Like a Wet Cracker is forthcoming from No Record Press. 

Read "We Stood Like Soldiers In That Photo" by Ryan Dilbert

With strong influences from fantasy artist, surreal artist, and the "Old Masters", Leslie Ditto creates disturbingly beautiful oil paintings that interpret for the viewer her deep emotions, conceived from her views of current social, political, and religious dynamics. Her ideas come to her in an organic fashion, starting with a seed of a simple idea and growing into many complex symbols and images.

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Jacqueline Doyle lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Her flash fiction and nonfiction, lyric prose, and creative nonfiction have appeared or are forthcoming in various journals, including Flashquake, Glossolalia, SoMa Literary Review, JuiceBox, Six Sentences, Lady Jane's Miscellany, SNReview, Women's Studies, blossombones, and One Page Stories.  Her interview with Dorothy Allison was recently published in Arroyo Literary Review.  She teaches at California State University, East Bay.

Read "Death by Mating" by Jacqueline Doyle

Andrew O. Dugas's fiction has appeared most recently in Instant City, Flatmancrooked, and The SOMA Literary Review. A regular reader at San Francisco literary events, he's currently shopping around SLEEPWALKING IN PARADISE - A San Francisco Novel about Old Money, the New Economy, and the Second Coming. Follow his daily haiku at www.haikuandy.wordpress.com

Read "Collection Day" by Andrew O. Dugas

Sean Ennis is a Philadelphia, PA native now living in Water Valley, MS where he teaches for the University of Mississippi and the Gotham Writers' Workshop. His work has appeared in The Greensboro Review, The Mississippi Review, Tin House, and the Best New American Voices anthology. "Came the Indians" is an excerpt from his novel manuscript, Big Things: New Alternatives in Youth Development.

Read "Came the Indians: A Fantasy" by Sean Ennis

David Erlewine's stories appear or soon will in about 70 places, including Ghoti, Keyhole (web), Literal Latte, Necessary Fiction (So New Media), Pank, Pedestal, and Word Riot. Check out his nifty blog at http://whizbyfiction.blogspot.com

Read "Slowly Hardening" by David Erlewine

Read "When it Finally Came Around" by David Erlewine

Christine Fadden is a graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. Her work appears or is forthcoming in numerous publications including Sou'wester, PANK, Bluestem, Spork, Joyland, Storyglossia, On Earth As it Is, and elsewhere. She has been awarded fellowships at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, the Jentel Artist Residency Program, and the Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts. She lives in Wyoming, where she is working on a novel set in Ocean City, New Jersey.

Read "Guns Don't Kill People, Men With Pretty Daughters Do" by Christine Fadden

Errid Farland's's stories have appeared in The MacGuffin, Barrelhouse, Thieves Jargon, Word Riot, storySouth, Pindledyboz, GUD, and other great places.She owns www.ShowMeYourLits.com , a website which sponsors a weekly flash contest. She lives in a hyperbole: the Inland Empire, on an Estate.

Read "The Sea of Tranquility" by Errid Farland

Michael Fischer is currently completing a short story cycle set at a soon-to-be-closed state hospital in 1990's North Carolina. In addition to “The Sidewalk Schizophrenic,” work from his project has appeared in Beloit Fiction Journal, Green Mountains Review, The Tusculum Review, and Wigleaf. He is a Doctoral Candidate in English at Western Michigan University. He can be found at: http://mfischer.org

Read "The Sidewalk Schizophrenic" by Michael Fischer

Ella Fishman lives in southern California and is impervious to forces such as sunshine, nutrition and sleep.  She has chosen to pursue writing despite the profession's many associations such as poverty, debilitating loneliness, and a penchant toward questionable mental health.  She hopes that people will enjoy what she churns out and that years from now high school students will be forced to analyze symbolism into her works that she neither wrote nor intended.

Read "Great Inconsistencies in TV Premise: A Study in Five Acts" by Ella Fishman

Michael Foley is a self taught bay area artist who regularly shows nationally and internationally. Michael's work has a decidedly sardonic bent, he delights in poking fun at every aspect of society.  Romantics, hipsters, tweekers and yuppies, no one is safe from his piercing wit.  However, Michael's use of saturated colors and cartoon-imagery serves to disguise the mature  content of his work.  Below the light-hearted surface of his humor lies a deeper interest in the human condition.  The things that hurt us and the things that we do to ourselves and each other to get by or to feel okay.

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D.E. Fredd lives in Townsend, Massachusetts.  He has had over one hundred short stories and poems published in literary reviews and journals. He received the Theodore Hoepfner Award given by the Southern Humanities Review for the best short fiction of 2005 and was a 2006 Ontario Award Finalist. He won the 2006 Black River Chapbook Competition and received a 2007 Pushcart Special Mention Award.  He has been included in the Million Writers Award of Notable Stories for 2005, 2006, and 2007.

Read "With All Due Respect" by D.E. Fredd

Jake Fuchs recently retired from teaching English at CSU East Bay.  His published fiction includes stories in West, The Redwood Coast Review, The Pacific Review, and Panhandler, and two mystery novels set in Berkeley, CA, where he lives. A literary novel, Conrad in Beverly Hills, will be published this fall by Raw Dog Screaming Press.

Read "Henry and Calvin" by Jake Fuchs

Jim Fuess has had hundreds of group shows and over 40 solo shows over his 32 year artistic career. He works with liquid acrylic paint on canvas. Jim is known for his vividly colored abstract paintings, but there are recognizable forms and faces in a number of the paintings. A lot of his work is anthropomorphic. The shapes seem familiar. The faces are real. The gestures and movements recognizable. More of his work, both in color and black and white, may be seen at www.jimfuessart.com

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Clifford Garstang is the author of a collection of linked stories, In an Uncharted Country (Press 53, 2009). Recent work has appeared in The Tampa Review, Wisconsin Review, Los Angeles Review, FRiGG, and elsewhere. He is the editor of Prime Number Magazine.

Read "The Open Book" by Clifford Garstang

Roxane Gay's work appears or is forthcoming in DIAGRAM, Necessary Fiction, mud luscious, Storyglossia and others. She is the associate editor of PANK. You can find her online at www.roxanegay.com

Read "What You Say, What Is Done to You" by Roxane Gay

My name is Teseleanu George and I live in Bucharest, Romania. I am a Mathematics student, but in my free time I like to create collages. I choose collage as an art form because it offers me the opportunity to express myself. Since I have no talent in drawing or painting, collage was a great discovery for me. This kind of artwork is truly a democratic form of art. My inspiration comes from the surreal and dada art movement, that translates in dream like ideas and anti-logic thoughts. If you want to see all my works you can visit my gallery at hrn.deviantart.com

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Greg Gerke lives in Buffalo . His work has or will appear in Mississippi Review, Gargoyle, Rosebud, Fourteen Hills, Night Train and others. There’s Something Wrong With Sven, a book of short fiction has been published by Blaze Vox Books. His website is www.greggerke.com

Read "It Requires Calories" by Greg Gerke

Anne Germanacos' work has appeared in over eighty literary journals and anthologies. Her collection of short stories, In the Time of the Girls, was published by BOA Editions in 2010. She and her husband live in San Francisco and on Crete.

www.annegermanacos.com

Read "Paint Brush" by Anne Germanacos

Barry Graham's debut short story collection, The National Virginity Pledge (Another Sky Press) will be let loose upon the world in late 08. Look for him in Storyglossia, Hobart, elimae, Wigleaf, Pindeldyboz, Prick of the Spindle, and others. www.dogzplot.com


Read "Apollo 77" and "Blackhorse" by Barry Graham

Brad Green lives and works in North Texas. His work appears in elimae, Thieves Jargon, Word Riot, The Blue Earth Review, Dogzplot and several other journals. He maintains a love for the Fountain Pen and argues that, yes, both words should be capitalized at all times. This topic, as well as many others, are routinely covered at his blog: http://elevatetheordinary.blogspot.com. Currently, he is working on a novel.


Read "The Possession" by Brad Green

James Greer is a novelist and screenwriter. He used to play in a band called Guided By Voices. Artificial Light (put out by Dennis Cooper's Little House on the Bowery imprint) won a California Book Award for best debut novel. His new novel, The Failure, has just been published by Akashic Books. He used to be Senior Editor/Writer for Spin Magazine. He lives some of the time in Los Angeles.


Read A LITnIMAGE interview with James Greer

Rosanne Griffeth lives on the verge of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and spends her time writing, raising goats and documenting Appalachian culture. Her work has been published by Mslexia, The Potomac, Pank, Night Train, Keyhole Magazine, Smokelong Quarterly and Six Little Things among other places.


Read "Claude's Puppet Show" by Rosanne Griffeth

Stephen D. Gutierrez lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and has published widely in a variety of magazines from the funky to the sublime. He works in both fiction and creative nonfiction and in the zone between. He is the author of Elements and Live from Fresno y Los and a forthcoming collection of essays and stories.In addition, he is a playwright. He teaches at California State University East Bay.


Read "Marcella's Act" by Stephen D. Gutierrez

Read "Our Dearly Departed" by Stephen D. Gutierrez

Ira Joel Haber was born and lives in Brooklyn New York. He is a sculptor, painter, book dealer, photographer and teacher. His work has been seen in numerous group shows both in USA and Europe and he has had 9 one man shows including several retrospectives of his sculpture. His work is in the collections of The Whitney Museum Of American Art, New York University, The Guggenheim Museum, The Hirshhorn Museum & The Albright-Knox Art Gallery. His paintings, drawings and collages have been published in many on line and print magazines including Rock Heals, Otoliths, Winamop, Melancholia's Tremulous Dreadlocks, Barfing Frog, The Raving Dove, DeComp, Foliate Oak, Siren, Prose Toad, Triplopia, Thieves Jargon, and Opium.

Over the years he has received three National Endowments For The Arts Fellowship, two Pollock-Krasner grants. In 2004 he received The Adolph Gottlieb Foundation grant and in 2010 he received a grant from Artists' Fellowship Inc. Currently he teaches art at the United Federation of Teachers Retiree Program in Brooklyn.

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Mark Hage is a writer and visual artist based in New York City. His fiction has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Contrary Magazine, The Scrambler, Indigest Magazine, The Bicycle Review, and Metazen. He is completing a book of short stories and working on a novel.


Read "When You're Invited" by by Mark Hage

Andre' Hart is a Bay Area Artist. At age 3, he began to draw incessantly, rapidly progressing with his talent through his boyhood years. At age 20 Mr. Hart has thoroughly submerged himself in his work. Being an artist is his whole life. When questioned of inspiration and messages within his paintings and poetry, his answers are laced with weariness. The mystique behind where he evolves from and what he believes in, is often clouded: "I am nothing but a painter, a vagabond of the canvas, in which my revelations are exposed to you through my desolate and poetic stories, if you seek to define them." Andre’ paints in oils on canvas. Andre’ Hart is motivated and driven by an intrinsic passion. Whether he verbalizes it or not, one only needs to experience his work to understand.


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Jeffrey Hein can be seen online at www.jeffreyhein.com and www.heinacademyofart.com


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Kyle Hemmings wishes he could play surf guitar like Dick Dale and sing like Brian Wilson. On some days, he sings in the shower.  He lives and works in New Jersey.


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Sarah Hilary is an award-winning writer whose fiction appears in Smokelong Quarterly, The Fish Anthology 2008, Prick of the Spindle, Word Riot, The Best of Every Day Fiction, and in the Crime Writers’ Association anthology, MO: Crimes of Practice. A column about the wartime experiences of her mother, who was a child internee of the Japanese, was published in the Spring 09 edition of Foto8 Magazine.

http://www.sarah-crawl-space.blogspot.com

Read "A Shanty for Sawdust and Cotton" by Sarah Hilary

Robert Hinderliter lives in Corvallis, Oregon, and his previous work has appeared or is forthcoming in Pear Noir!, Annalemma, A cappella Zoo, Menda City Review, The Wrong Tree Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and other publications. He maintains a website at: roberthinderliter.wordpress.com

Read "Never Shaken, Never Stirred" by Robert Hinderliter

Nathan Holic teaches writing courses at the University of Central Florida and serves as the Graphic Narrative Editor at The Florida Review. His fiction has appeared in The Saranac Review,  The Portland Review, and The Roanoke Review, his comics in Sweet, Palooka, and Atticus Review, and his serialized graphic narrative “Clutter” (a story structured as a home décor catalogue) appears at the online magazine Smalldoggies. He is also the editor of the Burrow Press anthology 15 Views of Orlando, a literary portrait of the city featuring loosely-linked short fiction from fifteen Orlando authors young and old, established and aspiring; proceeds from the sale of the book directly benefit Page 15, an Orlando-based literacy non-profit. 

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Jessica Hollander is in the MFA program at the University of Alabama. She has a bio with a list of publications. She also has a website where she web logs about her failed beginnings – a virtual graveyard of stories that didn’t make it. Visit her at
jessicahollanderwriter.com

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Liana Holmberg writes fiction, poetry, and prose. Her work has appeared in Manoa, Hawai`i Review, decomP magazinE, sPARKLE&bLINK, and Honolulu Weekly. Her award-winning poem "Aunt Ida's Box" was published in the Academy of American Poets anthology New Voices, and she received an honorable mention in the Honolulu Magazine fiction contest. Liana holds a Master's in Creative Writing and is a graduate of the Stanford Professional Publishing Course. She is founder of Red Bridge Press, an independent publisher of writing that risks. She grew up in Hawai`i and now lives in San Francisco. www.lianaholmberg.com

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Suzanne Marie Hopcroft's fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Gargoyle, elimae, and > kill author. Suzanne is a PhD student in Comparative Literature at Yale University and writes from a decaying pudding factory across the water from New York City. More of her work can be found at suzannemariewrites.com

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Jennifer A. Howard lives and teaches in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. She serves as a fiction editor of Passages North, but her favorite stories are the fan fictions her daughter writes about Doctor Who.

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Julie Innis lives in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has appeared in The Northville Review, Prick of the Spindle, Pindeldyboz, Up The Staircase, and elsewhere.


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Harold Jaffe is the author of ten fiction (or "docufiction") collections, four novels, and a collection of creative nonfiction, including Beasts, Dos Indios, Eros Anti-Eros, Terror-dot-Gov, Straight Razor, Madonna and Other Spectacles, Sex for the Millennium, 15 Serial Killers, Mourning Crazy Horse, Beyond the Techno-Cave: A Guerrilla Writer's Guide to Post-Millennial Fiction, and Jesus Coyote.  His fiction and creative nonfiction have been anthologized inPushcart Prize, Best American Stories, Avant Pop: Fiction for a Daydreaming Nation, and elsewhere. Jaffe is editor-in-chief of the literary/cultural journal Fiction International and Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at San Diego State University.

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Elizabeth Jimenez is a Californian of Mexican descent. Born in Sonoma County, she grew up in Petaluma, CA and moved to San Jose, CA in 2003. She lived in Paris from August 2007 to July 2008. She is currently living in San Jose and works in education. She is currently pursuing a BFA in Art, concentration in Pictorial Art and a BA in French at San Jose State University. Her other interests include studying languages, making Aztec-inspired jewelry, and writing.

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Lyndsay M. Johnson is a painter, writer, and children's librarian from St. Louis, Missouri. Her artwork has been featured at several local galleries and retailers. Her current passion is the acrylic exploration of innocence with sharp teeth.

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Jason M. Jones works and lives in the Philadelphia area. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Potomac Review, LIT, Blue Mesa Review, The Pinch, Avery Anthology, and Gulf Stream. For more, please visit: www.jasonmjones.net

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Jason Jordan is in the PhD program for Creative Writing at Ohio University. His books are The Dying Horse (Main Street Rag, 2012), Cloud and Other Stories (Six Gallery Press, 2010), and Powering the Devil's Circus: Redux (Six Gallery Press, 2010). He edits decomP, accessible at http://www.decompmagazine.com, and blogs at http://poweringthedevilscircus.blogspot.com. Call the cops. He doesn't give a fuck. 

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Len Joy lives in Evanston, Illinois with his wife and three children. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Hobart, 3AM Magazine, Right Hand Pointing, NightsAndWeekends, GlassFire Magazine, Slow Trains, 21Stars Review, Boston Literary Magazine and The Daily Palette (Iowa Review). A collection of his short fiction was published by Bannock Street Books earlier this year. An excerpt from his novel, “Desperado,” will be published by Annalemma Magazine in the fall of 2009.

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Part-time graphic designer, full-time dreamer, Adrian finds collages to be exposed feelings. Risky, but healthy he says.  Furthermore, by expressing his own feelings he tries to trigger the viewer’s emotions so that a connection can be established between the two parts. If the viewer can decompose the trick behind a collage and smiles, the collage is a good one.

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Joe Kapitan writes from a brick house surrounded by pines in northern Ohio. Much of his published short fiction is googleable on the internet. Newer work is pending print publication in 2012, including Midwestern Gothic, Bluestem and A cappella Zoo.

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Barry Jay Kaplan's stories have appeared in Descant, Bryant Literary Review, Upstreet, Storyglossia, Amarillo Bay, Perigee, nth Position, Apple Valley Review (Pushcart Prize nominee) and others. The story "His Wife" is part of Best of the Net Anthology 2008. His musical Like Love (with Lewis Flinn) was produced as part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival 2007. He is currently at work on a novel, Little Boy Blue.

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Michael P. Kardos has stories appearing or forthcoming in The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, Blackbird, Crazyhorse, and elsewhere. He teaches creative writing at Mississippi State University, where he edits the magazine Jabberwock Review.

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Thomas Kearnes is a 35-year-old author from East Texas. He is an atheist and an Eagle Scout. His fiction has appeared in PANK, Storyglossia, Night Train, SmokeLong Quarterly, Word Riot, Eclectica, wigleaf, The Pedestal, JMWW Journal, 3 AM Magazine, Knee-Jerk, Danse Macabre, Prick of the Spindle, flashquake, Thieves Jargon, Underground Voices and elsewhere. He is a columnist for Flash Fiction Chronicles and a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee.

Read "Derek Needs Me Tonight" by Thomas Kearnes

John Kirsch is a writer/photographer living in Mazatlan, Mexico; employed as editor for English-language publisher in Mazatlan; worked as newspaper reporter in Iowa and Texas; B.A., journalism/political science, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa; A.A., photography, Hawkeye Community College, Waterloo, Iowa; photograph won first place in student competition at Drake; photograph included in Iowa Artists show, Des Moines Art Center, 1994; photograph published by arts magazine in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; photoblog at www.searcher123.wordpress.com

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Peter K is a student currently living in New Hampshire. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Catalonian Review, Word Riot, Mud Luscious Press, > kill author, Pear Noir!, Fractured West, Caper Literary Journal, and The Grey Sparrow Journal, among others. He is the Editorial Assistant with The Medulla Review and Founding Editor of Sandpaper, a print publication for student-composed creative nonfiction.

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Aaron Kovalcsik was one of the founding members of a collective of painters, industrial designers, and illustrators that studied at Kendall College of Art and Design in Michigan. Art battles and fashion shows became their modus operandi and the group soon branched out into other cities such as Atlanta, Boston, New York and London. Aaron ended up moving to Boston with other core members where he's been quietly living as a web designer by day and indie multi-medium artist by night. Although still active in collaborative art shows and battles, his recent work consists of simple pen and ink drawings that reflect a moment in time from the lives of dying aliens, lonely monsters, friendly dinosaurs and lying lions.

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Joseph Kucinski was born in Amherst Massachussetts, He studied at Massachussetts College of Art in Boston, and the S.U.N.Y. Purchase Visual Arts Conservatory in New York, from which point he moved to the West Coast, and founded the JKS Gallery. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon, and has been involved in many private commissions and public collections. Joseph has shown nationally for over ten years including New York, Massachusetts, Virginia, Oregon, California and Washington. Joseph's style incorporates the movement and energy of jazz music, utilizing atmosphere rather than subject. His work is a fresh take on abstract expressionism with a knowing nod to the early masters. He can be found at josephkucinski.com

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Len Kuntz lives on a lake in rural Washington State with his wife, family, an eagle and several pesky beavers.  More than one hundred of his stories appear in print and online, and also at lenkuntz.blogspot.com

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Anne LaBrie likes to see the world through rainbow-colored glasses, and lives in High-Definition through all of her six senses! She has exhibited her paintings at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing and the Cabrillo Art Gallery.

To see more of Anne's paintings, go to: www.annelabrie.com

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Kate LaDew is a graduate from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a BA in Studio Art.  She resides in Graham, NC, with her cat, Charlie Chaplin, and is currently working on her first novel.

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Dorothee Lang is, among other things, a freelancer, a gardener, a capricorn, a traveller, and the editor of BluePrintReview, an experimental online journal. Her work has appeared in The Mississippi Review, qarrtsiluni, Pindeldyboz, eclectica, Pequin, juked and numerous other places. Currently, she participates in the international group novel project “2028 – a world novel”. She lives in Germany. Her website is blueprint21.de

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Joy Lanzendorfer's work has appeared in Necessary Fiction, So To Speak, Superstition Review, BANGOUT, Rumble, Word Riot, Salon, San Francisco Chronicle, and many others. She holds a MA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University, where she sat on the editorial board for Fourteen Hills, The SFSU Review. For the last four years she has been a judge in the Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards. She’s co-founder of the writing group Word Pirates.

Read "Flatten, Poke and Blow" by Joy Lanzendorfer

Simon Larter graduated from Drexel University with a degree in Civil Engineering. His work has appeared in Per Contra and Flashquake. He lives with his wife and three children in New Jersey. He blogs at constantrevisions.blogspot.com, and probably wastes too much time on Twitter, when he should really be working on his novel.

Read "Not That Strict of a Christian" by Simon Larter

Jason Levesque, known better by the online moniker "Stuntkid", is a self taught artist living in Norfolk, VA. His work borrows from his fascination with biology and the earth sciences. Stuntkid's illustrations have been commissioned for use in magazines and periodicals worldwide, from Playstation Magazine to German latex fetish magazines.

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Johannes Lichtman’s writing has been published by American Short Fiction and The Collagist. He is currently an MFA candidate at UNC Wilmington, where he is working on a novel about plagiarism.

Read "Liars: A Collage" by Johannes Lichtman

Paula Lietz is a widely published Canadian  writer, photographer and illustrator who lives in rural Manitoba.  Ms Lietz was awarded first prize in last year's United Kingdom Frost Photography International Competition. Her photography, art and writing have appeared in numerous anthologies and many publications such as;  Naugatuck River Review, Three Room Press- MaINtENaNT: Journal of Contemporary DADA Writing and Art journals #4, 5 & 6, Enchanting Verses International Poetry Journal, Visions, Voices & Verses, and Sunrise from Blue Thunder, Red Fez as well by the phenomenal world known Phantom Billstickers Ltd. 

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Sara Lippmann received her MFA from the New School. Her work has been accepted by or published in the Mississippi Review, Potomac Review, Word Riot, Women Writers, Slice, Carve, Fourth Genre, NANO Fiction, Fiction at Work, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn.

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Laurie Lipton was born in New York and has been drawing since the age of four. She has lived in Holland, Belgium, Germany, France, and has made her home in London since 1986. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the USA.

Lipton was inspired by the religious paintings of the Flemish School and, after trying to teach herself how to paint in the style of the 16th century Masters, she developed a unique cross-hatching drawing technique that matched their method of painting by building up form with thousands of tiny lines. Although tedious, the result was a beautifully clear tonality and astonishing detail. She describes her work as "painting with graphite" because "drawing" doesn't really explain her method. To see more, visit her website at: www.laurielipton.com

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Peter Tieryas Liu is a visual effects artist for Sony Pictures where he’s worked on movies like Alice in Wonderland and Men In Black 3. His stories have recently appeared in Bartleby Snopes, the Evergreen Review, the Indiana Review, and The NewerYork Lit Magazine. His debut collection of short stories, Watering Heaven, is coming out in the fall of 2012 from Signal 8 Press. Follow him at: tieryas.wordpress.com

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Emily Lounsbury is an artist with a love for the figure, portraits, and anatomy. Her current works include ink washes and mixed media on paper and canvas. She explores what it means to be a modern woman in the twenty-first century; the era of internet social networking sites that create a place where people express and expose themselves on the internet. A new form of voyeurism arises from being able to peer into people's lives without them knowing, and so much is captured by taking the camera in their own hands and see instant results. Since it's easier than ever to document the human experience, Emily's art seeks to bring back a human element of expression to the images and present them with transparent layers and more vibrant colors that bring the characters to life. visit her website at: artbyemily.com

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Heather Luby grew up in the Ozark Mountains and is really nothing more than a literary hillbilly. Her work has appeared in Word Riot, Bartleby Snopes, Halfway Down the Stairs, Travel by the Books, and Annotation Nation. Heather has an MFA from Antioch University Los Angeles and she is also the Managing Editor of The Citron Review . She can now be found writing and kid wrangling in St. Louis, Mo.

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Lorette C. Luzajic is an artist and writer from Toronto, Canada. Her Idea Fountain portal at www.ideafountain.ca showcases her visual work, her books, and champions  freedom of expression. She is the author of seven books, including the upcoming Fascinating Writers: twenty-five unusual lives. She has also just released a compact coffee table collection of more than 250 of her collages, paintings, and photography- A Heartbreaking World of Staggering Glorious: the visual imagination of Lorette C. Luzajic.

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Diana Magallon is an experimental artist:

http://cipollinaaaaa.blogspot.com

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Tom Mahony is a biological consultant in California with an M.S. degree from Humboldt State University . His fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in dozens of online and print publications, including Surfer Magazine, Flashquake, The Rose & Thorn, Pindeldyboz, In Posse Review, Diddledog, LITnIMAGE, Boston Literary Magazine, 34th Parallel, and Decomp. His short fiction collection, Slow Entropy, was published by Thumbscrews Press in 2009. His first novel, Imperfect Solitude, is forthcoming from Casperian Books in 2011.

Visit him at tommahony.net

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Antonios Maltezos enjoys reading for Vestal Review when he isn't working on his own writing. Most of his stories are still archived with online journals such as Smokelong, Elimae, Pank, Madhatter's Review, Dogzplot, and Foundling Review. He is presently working on a collection of fictive memoirish flashes called Super Man.

Read "Estelle" by Antonios Maltezos

Ravi Mangla lives in Fairport, NY. His short fiction has appeared online at Hobart, Pindeldyboz, Thieves Jargon, elimae, Dogzplot, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and elsewhere. Visit him here: http://ravimangla.blogspot.com. (The beard in the photo is recently departed.)

Wythe Marschall lives and writes in Brooklyn, where he attends Brooklyn College's MFA fiction program.  His fictions and fictive poetry and essays have appeared in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Ninth Letter, Salt Hill, Euphony, Wishtank, Locus Novus, Silo, Kennesaw Review, Offcourse, Pomp & Circumstance (quarterly), 5_Trope (upcoming), KNOCK (upcoming), and his own A Lush in Rio (http://alushinrio.com).  Wythe lives for hip hop and shiraz; loves K.N.; despises the status quo.

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Luca Rossi Martini on DeviantArt:

http://lucarossimartini.deviantart.com

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Rebekah Matthews lives in Boston, where she works in textbook publishing, and felt she finally "made it" in the city when her doctor told her she had a Vitamin D deficiency. When she can't think of names for characters in her stories, she consults country music. She also thinks Teri Hatcher is under-appreciated. She is working on a collection of short stories about lesbian relationships. More information about her writing can be found at rebekahmatthews.com.

Read "About A Year Ago" by Rebekah Matthews

Edward Mc Whinney is Irish, and lives in Cork. He's had work published in a variety of electronic magazines, most recently at Contrary Magazine and Juked.

Read "Tynan the Anonymous" by Edward Mc Whinney

Stephen E. Mead is a published artist/writer and maker of short collage-films living in NY.  His latest Amazon release is entitled “Our Book of Common Faith”, an exploration or world religions/cultures which attempts to find out what might bond humanity as opposed to divide.

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Carrie Meadows' recent publications include poetry in The New River Journal and Anti-, as well as a Plainsongs Award Poem to be published in Fall 2008. Her fiction has appeared in Fifth Wednesday Journal and is forthcoming in CEllA’s Round Trip

Read "Sons, You Will Bear More Than My Memory" by Carrie Meadows

Keith Meatto is a writer and teacher based in Brooklyn. He’s a Yale College and New School (MFA) graduate whose fiction publications include Opium, Harpur Palate, and Artifice. He also co-edits Frontier Psychiatrist and writes for the site about music, cycling, and culture. “Valencia” comes from his short story collection, I Am Not Your Boyfriend: 99 Love Stories. His fiction and nonfiction can be found at www.keithmeatto.com

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My name is William Giovanni Medina. When I'm not busy trying to be the best husband and step father I can be, I am striving to work on my manga style sequential art and digital paintings. My main goal is not to get rich or even be the best artist in the world. Just a memorable one. This is a philosophy that I hope to spread to other artists.

Keep the peace, stay on your art, and always keep a humble heart.

One.-GIO

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Abraham Menor is a community organizer/worker and photographer based in San Jose, California.  Menor graduated with a bachelor’s degree in sociology from California State University at Hayward.  When he is not working with “at-risk” youth, he is armed with his camera, ready to capture the next fleeting moment.  His love for the camera began in the late 90’s.  His subject matter was initially graffiti.  Menor sought to document the culture surrounding such an art form.  Shortly thereafter, he developed a passion to document his daily interactions with people, places, and things.  Menor’s goal is to tell stories using his camera.

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Corey Mesler has published in numerous journals and anthologies. He has published two novels, Talk: A Novel in Dialogue (2002) and We Are Billion-Year-Old Carbon (2006). He has also published numerous chapbooks and one full-length poetry collection, Some Identity Problems. His book of short stories, Listen, will appear in 2009. He has been nominated for a Pushcart numerous times, and one of his poems was chosen for Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. With his wife, he runs Burke’s Book Store in Memphis TN. He can be found at www.coreymesler.com

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Joe Miller is a graphic designer, design educator, artist, and poet. His work in design has been nationally and internationally awarded, published, and exhibited. Joe's art and poetry has been exhibited and performed throughout the Bay Area. He is principal of joe miller's company, a design office in Santa Clara, California, and is a member of the graphic design faculty at San José State University. Joe is president of the Board of Directors of Works/San José, and is on the Boards of AIGA SF, and Poetry Center San José.

www.joemillersco.com

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Adam Moorad's writing has widely appeared in print and online. He is the author of Prayerbook (wtf pwm, 2010), I Went to the Desert (Thunderclap Press, 2010), Oikos (nonpress, 2010), and Book of Revelations (Artistically Declined Press, 2011).  He lives in Brooklyn. Visit him here: adamadamadamadamadam.blogspot.com

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Gary Moshimer has stories in Word Riot, Eclectica, Verbsap, Dogzplot, Wigleaf, and other online places. Also upcoming in Storyglossia and Keyhole #7.

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Christina Murphy lives and writes in a 100 year-old house along the Ohio River. Her writing appears or is forthcoming in a number of journals including, most recently, ABJECTIVE, A cappella Zoo, Splash of Red, Storyscape, POOL: A Journal of Poetry, Corium Magazine, and Descant. Her work has received an Editor's Choice Award and Special Mention for a Pushcart Prize.

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Mary Pat Musick lives in Santa Cruz, California. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Literary Traveler, Traveling Tales, Coe Review, Summerset Review, and MacGuffin. When not reading or writing, she kayaks out to visit the otters in Monterey Bay.

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Dennis Must is the author of two short story collections: OH, DON’T ASK WHY, Red Hen Press, Los Angeles, CA (2007), and BANJO GREASE, Creative Arts Book Company, Berkeley, CA (2000), plus a forthcoming novel, THE WORLD’S SMALLEST BIBLE, to be published by Red Hen Press. His plays have been performed Off Off Broadway and his fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and literary reviews. He resides with his wife in Salem, Massachusetts. For more information, visit him at www.dennismust.com

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Nora Nadjarian is an award-winning poet and short story writer from Cyprus. She has published three collections of poetry and a collection of short stories, Ledra Street. Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies in Cyprus, Israel, the UK, and the USA , recently in Staccato Fiction and PicFic. Her story “And the Seven Dwarves” was a finalist in the Binnacle Sixth Annual International Ultra-Short Competition. Her blog is at www.bettyboopinspired.blogspot.com

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Carol Novack is the publisher of Mad Hatters' Review, the Review Blog & MadHat Press. An erstwhile criminal defense/constitutional attorney in NYC, she now dwells on a mountain in Asheville, NC, where she's establishing a non-profit retreat for writers et al. Ms. Novack's collection of poetic fictions, “Giraffes in Hiding: The  Mythical Memoirs of Carol Novack,” was published in 2010 by Spuyten Duyvil Press. Her writings have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. See http://booktour.com/author/31642 and http://carolnovack.blogspot.com for details.

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David Ohlerking II

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John Ottey lives in Idaho, where he teaches in the English Department at Boise State University. He has served as editor on several publications. His work has appeared in Harvard Review and Scrivener Creative Review.

Read "Missive to T" by John Ottey

Catherine Owen is a writer and poet from Vancouver BC. She has published nine collections of award nominated poetry and one of prose. Her poems, stories and essays have appeared in journals across Canada, the US, France, Germany, the UK, and Australia. Her website is  catherineowen.org

Read "The Days of the Dead" by Catherine Owen

B.L. Pawelek has been to a million places in life and forgotten most of them. But he is here now and trying.

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Gary Percesepe is Associate Editor at BLIP Magazine (formerly Mississippi Review)  and serves on the Board of Advisors at Fictionaut. His short stories, poems, essays, reviews, and interviews  have been widely published in Mississippi Review, Antioch Review, Westchester Review, Rumpus, Pank, Word Riot, and other places. He is the author of four books in philosophy and an epistolary novel (with Susan Tepper), What May Have Been: Letters of Jackson Pollock and Dori G, (Cervana Barva  Press) which was recently entered for a Pulitzer Prize. He just completed his second novel, Leaving Telluride, set in Telluride, Colorado.

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G.C. Perry's stories appear in a number of print anthologies including Quick Fiction and Hobart, as well as various places online. He lives in London.

Read "My Wife Is an Animal" by G.C. Perry

Meg Pokrass lives in San Francisco. Her stories and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming here: Keyhole, Pindeldyboz, Smokelong Quarterly, Wigleaf, Elimae, FRiGG, Word Riot, DOGZPLOT, 971 Menu, Thieves Jargon, Eclectica, Insolent Rudder, Chanterelle's Notebook, Toasted Cheese, 34th Parallel, Bent Pin Quarterly, The Orange Room, among others. Meg has recently joined the editorial staff of SmokeLong Quarterly magazine. Links to her work can be found at www.megpokrass.com.

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Caleb Powell taught ESL overseas for eight years, and now lives in Seattle. He enjoys a round of beer, good conversation, and time with his family. His work has appeared in decomP, Monkeybicycle, Pedestal Magazine, Post Road, and Zyzzyva. Visit his blog at calebpowell.wordpress.com.

Read "Defiling Bathsheba" by Caleb Powell

Al Preciado is a San Jose Resident and is currently a member of KALEID Gallery, a Board member of Works/ San Jose, and director of the TEN10 art space in his home. He teaches art at Bellarmine College Prep and has taught in New York and Los Angeles. In Jersey City, N.J, he helped found Pro-Arts, a artist collective, in Santa Ana, Cal, he ran a gallery with Kelly Griffin (now a muralist in Denver) called MECA.

For a couple of years he also ran a gallery space called Overpass (Tim Cottengim, came up with name.) He has shown at many venues over the years. The past year saw my work at Works (Beast Figurative), Art Ark, KALEID Gallery, Sun Gallery, First Street Billards and others. He has an MA from SJSU and enjoys teaching and appreciates the opportunity it has given him to do art.

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Anna Quintanilla grew up in El Sobrante, Ca. Being part of an artistic family, she was encouraged to express herself through various mediums. She is currently a biology student and is fascinated by the order and chaos of life's building blocks. Her favorite number is 24, her favorite formula is the Pythagorean theorem, and her favorite part of the cell is the phospholipid membrane.

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Francis Raven's books include two volumes of poetry, Shifting the Question More Complicated (Otoliths, 2007) and Taste: Gastronomic Poems (Blazevox, 2005) as well as a novel, Inverted Curvatures (Spuyten Duyvil, 2005).  His poems have been published in Bath House, Chain, Big Bridge, Bird Dog, Mudlark, Caffeine Destiny, and Spindrift among others. Critical work can be found in Jacket, Logos, Clamor, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, The Electronic Book Review, The Emergency Almanac, The Morning News, The Brooklyn Rail, Media and Culture, In These Times, The Fulcrum Annual, Rain Taxi, and Flak. www.ravensaesthetica.com.

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Michelle Reale is an academic librarian on faculty at a university in the suburbs of Philadelphia.  Her work has been published in a variety of venues such as Eyeshot, Word Riot, Smokelong Weekly, Monkeybicycle, BluePrint Review, Dark Sky Magazine, elimae and many others.  Her fiction chapbook Natural Habitat was recently published by Burning River. Her fiction/prose poem chapbook, "Like Lungfish Getting Through the Dry Season", will be forthcoming from Thunderclap Press. 

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S. Craig Renfroe, Jr. is the author of the short story collection YOU SHOULD GET THAT LOOKED AT.  Currently, he teaches writing at Queens University of Charlotte.  Also, his work has appeared or will appear in Flatmancrooked, Night Train, storySouth, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, 3:AM Magazine, and others.  He blogs at I Don't Know What I'm Talking About

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Jenifer J. Renzel lives in Silicon Valley. She likes to imagine herself as Mrs. Dr. Frankenstein, collecting old doll parts, crab claws, antennae, moldy cloth, wheels, fixtures, and broken toys from which to create new life. It lives! Well, it looks like it lives anyway ....

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Shelly Rae Rich likes to make things up and mix them with truth. Her fiction is found and forthcoming in print and online publications including Apalachee Review, Opium Magazine, elimae, Scapegoat Review, Moon Drenched Fables, Right Hand Pointing, Ghoti, Juked, Ducts – and has been translated into two languages. Shelly co-edits the micro fiction ezine, Tuesday Shorts and lives in NYC, where she works on completing her novel-in-progress and her screenplay. More is at blog.shellyraerich.com.

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Born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, Ethel Rohan received her MFA in fiction from Mills College, CA. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from over forty online and print journals including elimae; DecomP; Storyglossia; Word Riot; mud luscious; and Ghoti Magazine. Her blog is straightfromtheheartinmyhip.blogspot.com

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My name is Sarah Rosado. I was born in New York City, where I grew up and have lived ALL my life. I come from a family with artistic abilities. My father was a musician; my aunt, uncle and several cousins are also artists. I love to travel. I usually go to places where I can enjoy the beauty of nature, breathe fresh air and just enjoy life away from the hectic city life.  My fun and funky style in my Artwork is a mix of different things blended together as one; such as current style trends, attitude, personality and humor.

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Lee Harvey Roswell Lee Harvey Roswell paints obscure and comic scenes in oil paint, focusing on realistic, detailed rendering and whimsical invention. These imaginative scenes are the inspiration of his observations and colorful past, with a underlying theme running throughout of rising above one's troubles. In his own words, "if it’s to be thee human experience, I’m doing it with Adversity's most beloved target... the one that bounces back, the Clown. That's the trick of it see, bouncing back."

Lee was born in Freefall, New York, is self-taught in all his mediums, and now lives in San Francisco with his wife and cat. He does a number of gallery shows here and elsewhere every year, has been featured in several top art publications over the past decade. His work is showing and being collected world wide. Find out more about Lee Harvey Roswell and his work at www.leeharveyroswell.com

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Dan Ruhrmanty's work explores the dimensions and depth of human nature. His goal is to communicate the personal and cultural dynamics that condition how we view ourselves and others as well as how our individual experiences condition such perception. His work has appeared in such publications as The Barefoot Muse, Nefarious Ballerina and Otoliths.

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Martin de Diego Sadaba can be found online at at almanegra.deviantart.com

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Kris Saknussemm wrote ZANESVILLE and PRIVATE MIDNIGHT. Random House will bring out his third novel in 2011, with a fourth due in 2012. He has also just completed a new work—REVEREND AMERICA.

He has been a MacDowell Fellow and won First Prize in the Boston Review and River Styx Short Fiction Contests, in addition to publishing in the likes of Playboy, Nerve.com, Opium Magazine, Missouri Review, Antioch Review, New Letters, Prairie Schooner and ZYZZYVA.

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Ian Sanquist lives and writes in Seattle. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Smokelong Quarterly, Word Riot, The Coffin Factory, and others.

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Ellen Scheuermann is a freelance writer and fiction reader for Ploughshares. She graduated from St. John’s College in Annapolis. Her short fiction has appeared in Vestal Review, Shoots and Vines and elsewhere. A native of Washington, D.C., she lives and writes in Somerville, Massachusetts.

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Peter Schwartz is an abstract painter who has dedicated his life to perfecting his art. In addition to having his work featured on over 80 websites, his paintings have appeared in such print journals as Existere, Orange Coast Review, Red Wheelbarrow, Reed, and International Poetry Review. His most recent exhibition was at the Amsterdam Whitney Gallery in NYC. He is an art editor for both Mad Hatters' Review and Dogzplot. His work can be seen directly at www.sitrahahra.com.

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Alex Shishin is the first person to appear in both the LIT and IMAGE sections of the same issue of LITnIMAGE. He publishes fiction, non-fiction and photography. His most recent book, Rossiya: Voices from the Brezhnev Era, a Russian-American memoir of a train odyssey around the USSR and Poland, is available through online distributors. Shishin’s anthologized short stories include "Mr. Eggplant Goes Home” in Student Body: Stories About Students and Professors (University of Wisconsin Press) and "Shades" in The Broken Bridge: Fiction from Expatriates in Literary Japan (Stone Bridge Press).

Shishin has published and exhibited photography in Japan and North America. His book Ordinary Strangeness is available from Viovio online. He is a frequent contributor to Viewfinder as writer and photographer. The current issue (Vol. 43, No. 1, 2010) carries his photo essay “Reflections on Trains: A Leica Miscellany.” Shishin’s most recent major exhibition was at the Twenty-first Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, where he shared space with three distinguished visual artists. Shishin lives in Japan.

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Wyatt Shudlick likes to walk in the woods, and sometimes photographs them. Naps are just fine as well. He has won the Art Director’s Club of Denver Gold Award, and has been part of a couple shows in Colorado, but needs a solo show soon. He graduated from Brooks Institute of Photography in 2006 and now lives outside of Denver.

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Diane Smith writes about the homeless, immigrants, the poor, healthcare; those who have little visibility or power in society.  Her writing has appeared in literary journals in England, Canada and the United States with publications in The Binnacle, published by the University of Maine at Machias on several occasions, A World of Words, SIWC, published by Simon Fraser University, and The Grist Mill, The Ottawa Valley Writer’s Association among others venues. 

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Immy Smith is a neuroscientist by day and an artist by night. She lives in England with an engineer and some cats, and works in a laboratory investigating neurological diseases by growing brain cells in little plastic dishes. Her paintings and glass are appearing in other people's houses, and her drawings appear on the front of t-shirts, the back of lab coats, and on the internet. A number of people are wearing her tattoo designs. Immy believes your brain is beautiful, and that you shouldn't underestimate its capacity - scientifically or artistically. Drop by immy-is-thinking.deviantart.com>to find out more.

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Garrett Socol's fiction has been published in more than two dozen literary journals.  His plays have been produced at the Berkshire Theatre Festival and the Pasadena Playhouse.  His first collection of short stories, EAR OF LETTUCE, HEAD OF CORN, will be published by Ampersand Books in 2011. 

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Steven D. Stark is a writer who lives in Massachusetts, where he works on experimental visual poetry and fiction. Some of his recent work has appeared in 3 am, Mobius, Verse Wisconsin, and Clapboard House, where he won the 2011 short story prize. He has also written several books of non-fiction.

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Star St.Germain

* hi, my name is star. * i live in San Francisco, CA. * i draw a whole lot.

* i also like to make comics * play cello, * & animate. * i have a firm handshake.

* my father is a racecar driver. * i wear red almost every day. * i like you a lot

www.thisisstar.com

Scott Stillman is a photographer in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Expressing himself with both film and digital captures, his work ranges from traditional landscapes to abstract pinhole photographs featuring themes of patterns and motion. Stillman's pinhole photographs have been included in exhibitions at the Mpls Photo Center, Edina Art Center and the André Malraux Cultural Centre in Le Bourget, France. www.scottstillman.com

Brett Stout is a 29 year old artist and writer living in Myrtle Beach, SC. He is a high school dropout and former construction worker turned college student at Coastal Carolina University. He makes art and writes while mainly hung-over in a small cramped apartment in Myrtle Beach, SC.

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Neale Stratford writes - "I always thought I was odd. My psychosis is like the tide, ebbing and flowing, an ephemeral obstacle that blends reality with the fantasy, the delusion with the factual, mixing wanton desires with normal life aspirations. I am Autistic. I have Asperger’s Syndrome. From an early age, I was fascinated with dolls. I found comfort where I could control the relationships between the figures – relationships that I found difficult to have in real life. With the use of toy figures, I blend the artificial with the authentic, mix the real with the uncanny. I investigate my delusions and desires, my dreams and fantasies, in the understanding of the infuriating puzzle that is me."

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Andrew F. Sullivan was born in Peterborough, Ontario. He has an MA in English in the Field of Creative Writing from the University of Toronto. Sullivan’s fiction has recently been published by Joyland, The Good Men Project, Monkeybicycle, The Cleveland Review and Riddle Fence. He no longer works in a warehouse or as a butcher. You can find him at http://afsullivan.blogspot.com

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Shoshana Sumrall grew up on a farm in western Nebraska. Currently enrolled in the Creative Writing program at UNL, she also enjoys a career as a technical writer for wastewater monitoring equipment, where she finds much of her inspiration. Shoshana’s short fiction has won the Marjorie Stover and Christine Pappas awards for creative writing, has been published in Deviant Minds, LAURUS Magazine, Plains Song Review, and Fine Lines Journal, and has won the Dorothy Turner Scholarship for African-American Writers to the Nebraska Summer Writers’ Conference. Her work is closely followed in sewage plants worldwide.

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Randy Thurman is an artist, musician, composer, poet, writer, etc. living and working in rural south east Tennessee. Randy's art has been exhibited at numerous galleries, including Monkdogz Urban Art, Gallery 181, and the Jay Etkin Gallery. Randy's music has traveled throughout the U.S. and abroad in London, Belgium, and Australia. "There are two kinds of people in the world, and I am neither." --RT .

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Robb Todd is a dog person even though he has had only cats. He vows to never endure another cat—unless scientists find a way to keep them kittens permanently. His first collection of fiction, at http://www.stealmeforyourstories.com is available from Tiny Hardcore Press. There's a lot more stuff here: http://www.robbtodd.com

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Tim Tomlinson is a co-founder of New York Writers Workshop, and co-author of its popular text, The Portable MFA in Creative Writing.  He is the fiction editor of the webzine Ducts.  Recent fiction and poetry appear or are forthcoming Asia Writes, Caribbean Vistas, Extracts, Floorboard Review, H.A.Literature, The New Poet, The New York Quarterly, Saxifrage Press, The Tule Review, Unshod Quills, and in the anthology Long Island Noir (Akashic Books).

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Henry F. Tonn is a semi-retired psychologist whose fiction, nonfiction, poetry, literary and book reviews have appeared in such print journals as the Gettysburg Review, Fifth Wednesday Journal, and Connecticut Review, and such online journals as the Summerset Review, Front Porch Journal, and NewPages.com. He writes monthly reviews for NewPages.com. He has recently completed the memoir of his first twenty years as a psychologist tentatively entitled I Never Met a Paranoid Schizophrenic I Didn’t Like and is looking for a publisher.

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J.T. Townley is a writer of fiction, essays, and translations. He has published in Experienced: Rock Music Tales of Fact and Fiction, Harvard Review, The Oxonian Review of Books, Prairie Schooner, The Red Anthology, and elsewhere. A collaborative novel to which he contributed, A Language of Now, is forthcoming from Chiasmus Press. He teaches at the University of Virginia.  

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I grew up in Mexico and eventually became an artist. My mother introduced me to her love for art at a young age by taking me with her on walks to see places where she found her inspiration. Some of these places were the town square of Nayarit, Mexico and the simple flowers and vegetation of our town. These places were her motivation to create paintings and sculpture. I was so impressed with her work that I immediately was drawn to become a painter. Like my mother, my inspiration comes from nature, environmental conservation and the beauty of women. In keeping with my artistic philosophy, a majority of my materials are recycled. I think it is important to be sure that my materials represent my appreciation for nature.

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J.A. Tyler has recent work in Storyglossia, Elimae, No Colony, Night Train, & Prick of the Spindle. His chapbook The Girl in the Black Sweater is available now from Trainwreck Press, his fiction collection will be a part of Samsara the first multi-author release from Paperhero Press, & his debut novella Someone, Somewhere is forthcoming from Ghost Road Press. He is also founding editor of Mud Luscious, a reviewer for Rural Messengers Press, a member of the Pindeldyboz editorial team, & an editorial intern for Dzanc Books. Read more at www.aboutjatyler.com or www.aboutjatylerblopot.com.

Read "The Other, a Birthing" , "The Other, a Cloud of Feathers" and "The Other, a Pulse" by J.A. Tyler

James Valvis is the author of HOW TO SAY GOODBYE (Aortic Books, 2011). His writing can be found in Anderbo, Arts & Letters, Elimae, LA Review, Rattle, River Styx, and is forthcoming in Crab Creek Review, Hanging Loose, Midwest Quarterly, New York Quarterly, Poetry East, and others. His poetry has been featured at Verse Daily and the Best American Poetry blog. His fiction has twice been a storySouth Million Writers Notable Story. He lives near Seattle.

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Glenn Vanstrum’s fiction has previously appeared in the Bellevue Literary Review; his creative non-fiction book, The Saltwater Wilderness (Oxford, 2003), won a San Diego Book Award. His essays have appeared in Sierra, California Wild, and the Los Angeles Times.
 
The agencies Animals, Animals/Earth Scenes and Custom Medical Stock Photo represent Glenn’s photographs, which have appeared worldwide in multiple venues. Visit his website at at www.vanstrum.net

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Marianne Villanueva is the author of the short story collections Ginseng and Other Tales From Manila, Mayor of the Roses, and The Lost Language.  Her stories are published in the Asian American Literary Review, Cafe Irreal, Hotel Amerika, Juked, Necessary Fiction, Phoebe, the Santa Fe Writers Project, and The Writing Disorder, among many other places.  She co-edited the Filipino women's anthology, Going Home to a Landscape, and writes a humorous literary blog, Kanlaon. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Ajay Vishwanathan is mesmerized by the power of words, more now when he sees his two-year old twins form them. Two-time Best of The Net Anthology nominee, Ajay has work published or forthcoming in over fifty literary journals, including elimae, The Potomac, DecomP, and Drunken Boat.

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Helen Vitoria is a photographer and a poet living in Effort PA. Her photographs appear and are forthcoming in Phantom Kangaroo, kitchen, ken*again, decomP, Blue Fifth Review, Right Hand Pointing and others. Her poems can be found in many online and print journals. She is the author of seven poetry chapbooks, a poetry pamphlet and a full poetry length collection. Her work has been nominated for Best New Poets & the Pushcart Prize. She is the Founding Editor and Editor in Chief of THRUSH Poetry Journal & THRUSH Press. Find her here: http://helenvitoria-lexis.blogspot.com

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M.O. Walsh was born and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.  His work has appeared in Oxford American, American Short Fiction, and Epoch, among several others, and has been anthologized in Best New American Voices, Louisiana in Words, and Bar Stories.  He currently teaches at LSU and lives in a house with his wife Sarah, dog Gus, and newborn baby girl named Magnolia Marie.  He is a happy person. His web site is www.mowalsh.com

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Bryan Shawn Wang lives with his wife and two children in a small town outside a small city in Pennsylvania. His fiction has recently appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as decomP, Prime Number Magazine, The Citron Review, Prick of the Spindle, The Medulla Review, Solstice, and the anthology Sudden Flash Youth (Persea Books) and has been shortlisted for the story South Million Writers Award.

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Jared Ward has had work accepted by West Branch, Santa Clara Review, New Delta Review, elimae, Hobart, and others.  He is currently pursuing his MFA from the University of Arkansas, and is prose editor for decomP.

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Tim Weed writes, teaches, and directs international writing programs from his base in the forests of southern Vermont. His short fiction has appeared in Colorado Review, Gulf Coast, Boston Fiction Annual Review, the anthology Experienced: Rock Music Tales of Fact and Fiction, and elsewhere. Tim recently completed a novel and teaches in the M.F.A. writing program at Western Connecticut State University. Follow Tim at @weedlit or read more at www.timweed.net

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Brandi Wells has a BA in Creative Writing and her fiction appears in or is forthcoming in; Pear Noir, Monkey Bicycle, Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens, and Pank. She has a chapbook forthcoming as part the chapbook collective Fox Force 5, which is being released by Paper Hero Press.

She blogs at brandiwells.blogspot.com

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Irene Westcott is the winner of The Baltimore Review’s 2007 Creative Nonfiction Competition. Her writing has also appeared in Pure Francis, the Blue Earth Review, the Literary Bohemian and the Bullfight Review. She has an M.A. from Northwestern University.

Jenny Williams is a writer, editor, filmmaker, traveler, and all-around curious person. She has lived and worked in Belize, Uganda, India, and her native California, and is always scheming about one of two things: her next trip abroad, or her next story. Read more at: at www.jennydwilliams.com

Patterson Willis is in the M.A. program of Literature at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, but is currently teaching ESL in Zaragoza, Spain.

Steve Wing is a visual artist and writer whose work reflects his appreciation for the extraordinary in ordinary days and places. His images have appeared in e-journals including BluePrintReview, Eclectica, Perigee, qarrtsiluni and Cha. Currently, he is involved in an international group writing project, 2028 - a world novel.

www.blueprintreview.de/about_Steve_Wing.htm

Benjamin Winship graduated from Azusa Pacific University with a degree in English.  You can read more of his work at his website:
www.benjaminwinship.weebly.com Benjamin currently teaches English in Thailand with his wife.

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Gregory J. Wolos’ short fiction has recently appeared in The Baltimore Review, The Los Angeles Review, PANK Magazine, A cappella Zoo, Superstition Review, Storyglossia, FRiGG, elimae, Prime Number, the Press 53 anthology Surreal South ‘11, and many other journals. His stories have earned a 2011 Pushcart Prize nomination and have won both the 2011 New South Writing Contest and the 2011 Gulf Stream Award for fiction. He lives and writes on the northern bank of the Mohawk River in upstate New York. Visit his website at www.gregorywolos.com

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Christopher Woods is the author of a prose collection, UNDER A RIVERBED SKY, and a collection of stage monologues for actors, HEART SPEAK. He lives in Houston and in Chappell Hill, Texas with his wife Linda and their Golden retriever, River.

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Laura Elizabeth Woollett lives in Melbourne, Australia. Her writing has appeared in various publications, including Contrary, Mascara, Page Seventeen, and The Smoking Poet. She is currently seeking a publisher for her first novel.

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Sheri L. Wright's visual work can be seen in numerous journals, including Blood Orange Review, The Single Hound and is forthcoming in THIS Literary Magazine, Prick of the Spindle, Blood Lotus Journal and Subliminal Interiors. More examples of her work can be seen at www.flickr.com/photos/sherilwright/

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Kate Wyer is a mental health interviewer for the public health care system. She holds an MFA from the University of Baltimore. Her work is forthcoming in Robot Melon and NOO and has been featured in decomP, Fringe and Poets and Artists. She plays an electric mandolin in the band Milquetoast.

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Angela Xu is an international photographer who enjoys taking photos of the obscure. Her work is on display (or will be) at places like the Adirondack Review, A-Minor, Juked, Prick of the Spindle, Redivider, and the 2011 and 2012 Spring issues of LitNImage.

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Shellie Zacharia lives in Florida. Her work has appeared in Washington Square, The Pinch, Sou’wester, Opium, Weave, and elsewhere. She is the author of the story collection Now Playing (Keyhole Press, 2009).

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Bonnie ZoBell has received an NEA, a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award, the Capricorn Novel Award, and one of her stories was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize by The Los Angeles Review. Other work has been included in Wigleaf's Top 50 and is published or forthcoming in such magazines as New Plains Review, Necessary Fiction, Blip, Pank, The Greensboro Review, Night Train, and Storyglossia. She received an MFA from Columbia, is Associate Editor at The Northville Review, and teaches at San Diego Mesa College. More of her work can be read at www.bonniezobell.com

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