Matt Baker likes cheetahs, scary movies, and sunflower seeds. His stories have appeared or are forthcoming in the Tampa Review, Cimarron Review, Santa Clara Review, Main Street Rag, and elsewhere. His novel, Drag the Darkness Down, will be published by No Record Press in September 2009. Robery Bradley has another batch of stories at the now defunct Taint magazine, among other places. Mary Caldwell-Kane is a writer and librarian living in northern New Jersey. Her poems deal with the erosive landscape of misplacement, from the gradual loss of footing to a sloppy mudslide. She is currently working on a graphic novel. Phil Estes’s poems have appeared in such journals as Front Porch, Lamination Colony, and The Portland Review, with poems forthcoming in Gargoyle, Kitty Snacks, and NOO Journal. He grew up in Dayton, Ohio, and lives in Kansas City, Missouri. He keeps a blog here. Molly Gaudry edits Willows Wept Review, co-edits Twelve Stories, and is an associate editor for Keyhole Magazine. Find her online here. Born and raised in Texas, Jake Hajer graduated from the University of Chicago. In the venerable cold he cut his ink teeth honing a gritty-intellectual, raw-imagist style. Currently, he is observing the dirty-beautiful in San Francisco. His poetry has been published in almost a dozen wonderful journals in the last year, including Rogue Scholars, Zeitscrift, Nefarious Ballerina, Psychopoetica, Farmhouse Magazine, Ditch, and Pocket Change. Alexandra Isacson lives and teaches in the Phoenix area. Her work has appeared in Wilderness House Literary Review, Dogzplot, keepgoing.org, Fickle Muses, Eclectica, poeticdiversity, and Slow Trains. Work is forthcoming in PANK and Dogzplot Flash Fiction Anthology 2009. Visit her here. Drew Kalbach lives in Philadelphia. He is the author of the chapbook The Zen of Chainsaws and Enormous Clippers (Achilles Chapbook Series 2008) and the e-chapbook Theater (Scantily Clad Press 2009). He blogs here. Charles Lennox lives and loves in Orange, California. His stories have been published or are forthcoming in Quick Fiction, Avatar Review, Pure Francis, Pear Noir, Keyhole Magazine, ML Press, and other fine places. Visit him at his blog. Richey Piiparinen lives in Cleveland with his wife and dog. His work has appeared in Eyeshot, Dogzplot, Pequin, and elsewhere. He is studying urban planning and design. A.E. Reiff has written of invisible giants, Orcs, encephalitic reality, talking mules, wonk yaps, bicephalic imprints, Hanzel und Pretzel, metaversals, igods, Susans, Pismiths, and Damers common to the slaughterhouse university and its feedlots. He brings a surfactant package to oil spills to increase the dispersion of lumps. Get him here. Table of Contents