Detail from Judith II (1909), Gustav Klimt
Terri Brown-Davidson is an eminently joyful, full-time writing coach who considers coaching, writing, and painting her callings. She’s also on the fiction/poetry faculty at Gotham Writer’s Workshop, where she’s taught the Master Class in fiction. She’s been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in fiction and poetry ten times and nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry once (for The Carrington Monologues). She’s also received an Intro Award in poetry, a Yaddo residency fellowship in fiction, seven fiction or poetry scholarships to RopeWalk Writers’ Retreat, and a Wesleyan Writers’ Conference Scholarship for the novel, among other prizes. Much to her delight, she’s currently studying the southwestern pastel landscape with master artist Deborah Chistensen Secor.
Emily Brungo was raised in the small hamlet of Zelienople, Pennsylvania. She spent her formative years causing general discord and frightening teenage boys—a skill that helped her well at Carnegie Mellon University. There she earned a degree in creative writing and mastered the art of karaoke. She then made her mark on Boston University where she majored in TV, minored in pitchers of beer, and wrote about Bettie Page. Degree in hand, she then returned to the fair hamlet of her youth. She took a myriad of strange assignments, including, but not limited to, cattle-wrangling hopefuls for Survivor and writing commercials about lawn mowers. She also spent a short stint in the South, which could be described as one giant bourbon-fueled hangover. She has since settled in the scenic borough of Brooklyn with a fine man and a fat cat, and works a grown-up job.
Daphne Buter lives and works and makes the best of it in the Netherlands. She’s a writer of fiction and her books are published by the publishing house De Bezige Bij in Amsterdam. She also writes stories in English because she’s a bit insane. Go here to see what we mean: buter.blogspot.com. As a graphic designer she worked for Elsevier Science Publisher in Amsterdam. She worked for eight years as a creative assistant at Joop Geesink’s Dollywood animation film studio, in the Netherlands. She worked as an editor and illustrator for two small newspapers for annoying smart children in Holland. She is a painter who doesn’t paint anymore since she’s a writer. Not so long ago she figured she also likes to shoot pictures, maybe because her father was a professional photographer who died and now he can no longer dislike her shooting pictures also. The Internet makes it possible for Daphne to work with FRiGG.
Barbara Daniels’ poetry collection, Rose Fever, will be coming out from WordTech in 2008. Her chapbook, The Woman Who Tries to Believe, won the Quentin R. Howard Prize and was published by Wind Press. English Grammar, one of the books she wrote with her husband, David Daniels, is available from HarperCollins. Not surprisingly, it’s about English grammar. Barb teaches writing and literature at Camden County College in Blackwood, New Jersey, and she covers a lot of ground identifying birds, butterflies, and dragonflies.
Sean Farragher is founder and publisher of Great River Press, which publishes poetry and fiction e-books. Two e-books are forthcoming in summer 2006. Great River Press also publishes BLAST, a poetry and fiction e-zine. Sean’s personal Web site (seanfarragher.com) contains selections from his thirty-five years of writing poetry and prose.
Meridith Gresher trained as a classical dancer at The Atlanta School of Ballet and apprenticed with International Ballet Rotaru. Ultimately, she traded point shoes for pen and legal pad before the days of her laptop. She writes poetry,
flash fiction, short stories, and screenplays. She runs a journal called Talking to Grief, has been published in The Journal of Modern Post, 2River, and BLAST. Reach her at meridithgresher@yahoo.com.
Paul Hostovsky’s poems appear and disappear widely online and in print. He has no life and spends it with his poems, trying to perfect their perfect disappearances. His chapbook, Bird in the Hand, won the Grayson Books Poetry Chapbook Contest for 2006. Paul works in Boston as an Interpreter for the Deaf.
Dave Housley’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in
the Backwards City Review, Gargoyle, Gulf Coast,
Hobart, Nerve, The Potomac Review, and some other
places. He’s one of the co-founders and editors of
Barrelhouse magazine.
Nathan Leslie has published four collections of short fiction, most recently Reverse Negative (Ravenna Press, 2006), as well as A Cold Glass of Milk (Uccelli Press, 2003), and Drivers (Hamilton Stone Editions, 2005). Aside from being nominated for the 2002 and 2005 Pushcart Prize, his stories, essays, and poems have been published or are forthcoming in more than 100 literary magazines including North American Review, Chattahoochee Review, Sou’wester, Cimarron Review, South Carolina Review, Southern Indiana Review, Fiction International, and Orchid. He is currently the fiction editor for The Pedestal Magazine and the editor-in-chief of The Potomac. Visit him at nathanleslie.com.
Julien Longo holds an M.A. in Humanities with an emphasis on theology. Her first novel, Her Immortal Soul, was published in 2004. She lives in the Bay Area of California with her husband and two dogs.
Sumanta Mukherjee lives in India. A piping engineer by
profession, he loves art in its every form of creation. His hobbies are photography, painting, poetry, and music. Seeing new places boosts his love for life. He tries hard to be a simpler person.
Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. Readers interested in learning more are invited to read Magic, Illusion and Other Realities at www.geocities.com/simonthepoet which site lists a complete bibliography.
Robert Lopez has published fiction in dozens of print and online journals, including BOMB, New England Review, New Orleans Review, Indiana Review, The Barcelona Review, 5_Trope, Nerve, etc. Other “blindster” stories can be found in Unsaid, Denver Quarterly, Elimae, Small Spiral Notebook, SmokeLong Quarterly, Eclectica, DIAGRAM, and Pindeldyboz. He teaches an experimental fiction workshop at The New School and is co-editor of SleepingFish.
Miriam Sagan is the author of twenty books, the most recent of which is Rag Trade, poetry from La Alameda Press. She is editor of the e-zine Santa Fe Poetry Broadside (sfpoetry.org) and runs the creative writing program at Santa Fe Community College.
Christopher Frost Shelley received his M.F.A. in Creative Writing from NYU. His work has appeared in Carve Magazine (“What Follows,” short-listed for the 2004 Raymond Carver Award), Apollo’s Lyre, The Plum Ruby Review, Fiction Warehouse, and Prose Toad. Another of his stories will appear in the June Issue of Tryst. He has written two novels, Off-Season and Between Them. He and his wife live in Brooklyn and spend most of their weekends traveling.
Sera Yu is a fiction writer and translator living in Maryland. She is currently working on a novel and translating a book from Korean to English.