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T.J. FORRESTER's fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Emerson Review, Harpur Palate, Ink Pot, The MacGuffin, The Mississippi Review, Night Train, and Storyglossia, among others. He's had several stories nominated for the Pushcart Prize and is working on a novel-in-stories about sex and murder on the Appalachian Trail. He is the editor of Five Star Literary Stories.


JON GINGERICH lives in New York and is Editor of O'Dwyer's magazine. He previously wrote for a daily newspaper in Columbus, Ohio and was also Publisher of a line of comic books.  He can be reached at jonmgingerich@gmail.com. He has a news blog that he updates daily, www.theownersmanual.org.

EUGENE GLORIA is the author of two books of poems Hoodlum Birds and Drivers at the Short-Time Motel, which was selected for the 1999 National Poetry Series and the 2001 Asian American Literary Award. He is an associate professor of English at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana.

JESSICA HOLLANDER (www.jessicahollanderwriter.com) is currently pursuing her MFA at the University of Alabama. She graduated from the University of Michigan in 2004 with a BA in English and Literature, and in 2006 received a United Arts Regional Artist Grant for her writing in North Carolina. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in The Emerson Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Hobart, and Barrelhouse, among others.

JASON HUSKEY holds a B.A. in English Literature. His work has appeared in 34thParallel, Perigee: Publication for the Arts, Red River Review, and Word Riot, and is forthcoming in Aoife's Kiss. He currently resides in central Virginia.

JASON JORDAN is a writer from New Albany, Indiana, who always says he's from Louisville, Kentucky, because people actually know where that is. His fiction has appeared in The2ndHand, Hobart, Pequin, Pindeldyboz, VerbSap, Word Riot, and many other publications. Jordan is also Editor-in-Chief of the literary magazine decomP. He is currently in the MFA program at Chatham University, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he is working on his first novel. You can visit him online at poweringthedevilscircus.blogspot.com.

ILAN MOCHARI (www.ilanmochari.com) is a novelist and journalist living in the Boston area. His short story, "The Father I Knew (and Still Do)," was a finalist in Glimmer Train's 2007 Family Matters competition, and his erotica has been published by Ruthie's Club and Oysters & Chocolate.

KAREN NEUBERG's work is published or forthcoming in 42Opus, Poems Niederngasse, Barrow Street, and Free Verse, among others. She is a Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee and holds and MFA from the New School. She and her husband live in Brooklyn, NY and West Hurley, NY. She is an assistant editor of Inertia Magazine.

MICHELLE ORANGE is the author of The Sicily Papers and the editor of From the Notebooks: The Unwritten Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, a collection found in issue 22 of McSweeney's. She lives in Brooklyn and is at work on a travel book about the history and future of the family name.

NOEL SLOBODA currently lives in Pennsylvania, where he serves as dramaturg for the Harrisburg Shakespeare Festival and teaches at Penn State York. His poetry has appeared in a number of places, including Chronogram, Waterways, BLOW, Cape Rock, Blue Earth Review, Ghoti, Free Verse, erbacce, and The Ottawa Arts Review.

JEFF WALLACE received his MFA in fiction from Indiana University. He currently lives with his wife and dog in Lexington, Kentucky, where he teaches writing, literature, and works as a baker.

KEVIN WILSON was born, raised, and still lives in Tennessee. His fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, One Story, Greensboro Review, and elsewhere. A collection of short stories, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, is forthcoming in 2009 from Ecco/HarperCollins.

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BRIAN BROWN has recently published or has poetry forthcoming in Quercus Review, Kudzu, Roanoke Review, Santa Clara Review, and Inkwell, among others. He formerly worked as a historian with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources but now helps out on his family's seventy-five-year-old farm. He's presently developing a photographic archive of Georgia in the Great Depression.

BLAKE BUTLER is the editor of Lamination Colony. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Fence, Unsaid, Ninth Letter, Willow Springs, etc. He lives in Atlanta and blogs at:
http://blakebutler.blogspot.com.

JOSHUA DIAMOND lives in Akron, OH and studies English, Creative Writing, and Sociology at Kent State University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Allegheny Review, Brink Magazine, Cause & Effect, and Taiga. He was recently awarded third prize in the 2008 Wick Poetry Center Undergraduate Scholarship Competition, and he is the fiction editor of Plain Spoke, the quarterly literary journal of Amsterdam Press.

ELIZABETH ELLEN is the author of Before You She Was a Pit Bull (Future Tense) and Sixteen Miles Outside of Phoenix (Rose Metal Press). She is the deputy editor of Hobart and lives in Ann Arbor.
www.elizabethellen.net

ROSANNE GRIFFETH's work has been published or accepted by Cautionary Tale, Static Movement, The Dead Mule, Dew on the Kudzu, Feministe and Hillbilly Savants. Her story, “Cat Fur Jelly,” was nominated for the 2006 Million Writer's Award. She lives on the verge of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park with her herd of goats and spends most of her time writing and documenting Appalachian culture. This is her first print publication. She is the blogger behind The Smokey Mountain Breakdown.

TIM KEPPEL's stories have appeared in Glimmer Train, The Literary Review, Mid-American Review, and elsewhere. The Spanish translation of his collection, Earthquake Watch, was recently published by Alfaguara. Keppel grew up in North Carolina and has been a taxi driver in New York, a peace group volunteer in Nicaragua, and a social worker in Philadelphia. He now teaches at the Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia.

Monica Kilian’s fiction has appeared in Café Irreal, Pindeldyboz, Margin, QWF, The Rose & Thorn, and others. She has recently moved from Australia to Colorado, where she lives with her husband, son, and two cats. She is currently working on a women's fiction novel.
http://www.monicakilian.net

DENNIS MAHAGIN is a poet from the Pacific Northwest. His work appears widely, both on the Web and in print. A first collection of his poetry, entitled Grand Mal, is forthcoming in 2009 from San Francisco-based Suspect Thoughts Press.

SHELLIE ZACHARIA has published stories in Hobart, Opium, Backwards City Review, Potomac Review, Inkwell, Washington Square, The Pinch, and elsewhere. She teaches in Gainesville, Florida.