Matt Baker lives in Little Rock, Arkansas, where he is the circulation director at The Oxford American magazine. His work has appeared in the Saint Ann’s Review, Philadelphia Inquirer, Kansas City Star, Permafrost, and other publications. He’s a graduate of the University of Arkansas and Players Workshop of the Second City in Chicago, Illinois.
Jai Britton lives in the beautiful foothills of the Rocky Mountains. She has been in numerous online and print publications, recently including Thieves Jargon, Mannequin Envy, and Carnelian. You can reach her at sourtaste7@hotmail.com.
John Colvin lives and works in southern Indiana. His fiction has appeared in several online publications.
Louie Crew, age seventy, lives in East Orange, New Jersey, with his husband, Ernest Clay. They married on February 2, 1974. They have lived in Georgia, Wisconsin, Beijing, Hong Kong, Chicago, and New Jersey. Clay is a flight attendant and Crew is an emeritus professor of English at Rutgers University. You may reach Crew at lcrew@andromeda.rutgers.edu. Almost 1,000 people every day visit his resources for writers.
Kathy Fish lives in Colorado. Her stories are published or forthcoming in SmokeLong Quarterly, Quick Fiction, Bound Off, Spork, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. Three of her stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
Richard Frazee lives in Seattle. He has a day job, a daughter, a house, a camera but not enough time. He learned, then taught, nature photography when he was in his twenties. Now in his fifties he has renewed his interest in photography by exploring the relationship between color, emotion, and “everyday” human objects and scenes as they coexist in nature. He was inspired to explore this when he saw a photograph of Vincent Van Gogh sitting at his easel while painting an olive grove which resulted in the oil painting The Olive Grove. He recently returned from a very inspiring trip to Central America.
Tamie Gaudet lives with her husband and three kids in Kingston, Ontario. Her poems have been published in Quills: A Canadian Poetry Magazine, Poetry Canada, Artistry of Life, Zygote in My Coffee, Chanterelle’s Notebook, Thieves Jargon, The Hiss Quarterly, Mannequin Envy, and will appear in an upcoming edition of Word Riot. You can contact Tamie at tgaudet@ripnet.com.
Elizabeth P. Glixman’s poetry has appeared online and in print in publications including Wicked Alice, Snow Monkey, Mindfire Renewed, 3 AM Magazine, Tough Times Companion (a publication of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities), Her Circle Ezine, The Women of the Web: An Anthology of Poetry, and Velvet Avalanche: a collection of erotic poetry. Elizabeth’s author interviews, articles, book reviews, and creative nonfiction pieces can be read in a variety of publications including The Pedestal Magazine, Whole Life Times, Spirit of Change, Hadassah Magazine and the anthologies Chocolate for a Woman’s Soul Volume II and Cup of Comfort for Women. She is the interview editor for Eclectica. “Good Girls Don’t Get Sick,” an Amazon Short, can be read here.
Dennis Mahagin’s debut poetry collection, Grand Mal, is forthcoming in fall 2007 from Three Roads Press, a new imprint of San Francisco’s Suspect Thoughts Press. Dennis lives happily in Washington State, and would thank you not to upend his apple cart.
Mary Lynn Reed lives in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. Her short fiction has appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly, The Summerset Review, and Identity Theory, among other places. She also has work forthcoming in Happy and elimae. She recently completed a novel tentatively titled Once You’ve Been to Siberia.
Claudia Smith lives and writes in Austin, Texas. Her stories have appeared in print, online, and in anthologies; most recently, in Norton’s New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories from America and Beyond. She recently won Rose Metal Press’s first annual short-short chapbook contest; Ron Carlson judged and will be writing a foreword to the collection. “Eclipse” will appear as “Sun” in the collection, along with several other short-shorts.
Jennifer VanBuren used to work in the sciences and education, but she now keeps busy raising two sons, editing the Web-based journal Mannequin Envy, taking hikes, and working with digital photography. She has had her work published in print and on the Web and is currently completing her first book of poetry, Five Wagons of Hickory Nuts.
James R. Whitley’s work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and has appeared or is forthcoming in several publications, including Barrelhouse, Can We Have Our Ball Back?, Gargoyle, Mississippi Review, Pebble Lake Review, Poetry Southeast, River City, and Texas Poetry Journal. His first book, Immersion, won the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award. His second book, This Is the Red Door, won the Ironweed Press Poetry Prize and will be published in 2006. He is also the author of two poetry chapbooks: Pietà and The Golden Web.