Z.Z. Boone has fiction current, or upcoming, in SmokeLong Quarterly, Annalemma, decomP, and Wigleaf. A graduate of Goddard College’s M.F.A. in Writing program, Z.Z. currently teaches at Sacred Heart University. Sara Crowley’s novel in progress, Salted, was shortlisted for the Faber Not Yet Published Award. Her short fiction has been published by a variety of places including Pulp.Net, 3AM, elimae, Dogzplot, flashquake, Litro, Dogmatika, and Grey Sparrow Journal. She blogs at A Salted. David Erlewine’s work appears in Thieves Jargon, The Pedestal Magazine, Keyhole, and other places. He edits flash fiction for JMWW. Much of his work can be found here. He covertly stutters but keeps writing “stutter” stories, which is kind of fucked up. Jenny Halper’s stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Wigleaf 50 Best Very Short Stories 2009, SmokeLong Quarterly, Juked, Dogzplot, and New England Fiction Meetinghouse, among others, and have been finalists in contests run by Glimmer Train and the Sonora Review. As a journalist she’s written for newspapers including the Boston Phoenix and amNewYork. She works in publishing and film development in New York City. Martin Heavisides’ novel, Undermind, was launched in September by Crossing Chaos Enigmatic Ink. He is a contributing editor with the literary magazine The Linnet’s Wings, which has published, since summer 2008, a full-length play (Empty Bowl), two essays, and a four-pack of satirical verse. Those receptive to his work include Mad Hatter’s Review, Cella’s Round Trip, Sein und Werden, Gambara, Flash Fiction Online, Dog Oil Press, Monkeybicycle, and Bannock Street Books. He has won a PEN Syndicated Fiction and a Harbourfront Discovery award. Lyn Lifshin’s poems have appeared in most literary and poetry magazines and she is the subject of an award-winning documentary film, Lyn Lifshin: Not Made of Glass, available from Women Make Movies. Her latest book, Katrina, is forthcoming in 2010 from Poetic Matrix Press. For interviews, photographs, more bio material, reviews, interviews, prose, samples of work and more, visit her Web site. George Moore has recently had collaborative exhibitions of his poetry with visual artists in Spain, Iceland, Portugal, and Canada, and his poetry has been published in those places as well as in England, Ireland, and France. His most recent manuscript was a finalist for the 2007 Richard Snyder Memorial Prize from Ashland Poetry Press, and earlier work was selected as finalist for the National Poetry Series, the Brittingham Prize, and the Anhinga Prize. New work will be published this year in Temenos, Bathhouse, Zone, Diode, International Zeitschrift, Diagram, and Stickman Review, and previously his poetry has appeared in The Atlantic, Poetry, Northwest Review, and the Colorado Review. George’s e-book, All Night Card Game in the Back Room of Time (2008), is available from poetschapbooks.com, and his collection, Headhunting, was published by the Edwin Mellen Press in 2002. He teaches literature and writing at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. Family of Man (Pavement Saw Press) is scheduled for fall 2009. For more information, including his essay “Magic, Illusion and Other Realities” and a complete bibliography, please visit his Web site. Kenneth Pobo won the 2009 poetry chapbook contest from Main Street Rag for his manuscript called Trina and the Sky. The chapbook is scheduled to come out in November. His fiction can be read online at Word Riot, Verbsap, Clapboard House, Tonopah Review, and elsewhere. He teaches creative writing and English at Widener University in Pennsylvania. Ronnie K. Stephens currently lives in northwest Arkansas. He is former co–slam master of Ozark Poetry Slam and a board member of Ozark Poets and Writers Collective. He is working on his first full-length manuscript, Bend Back the Tide, Diana. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Vicious Verses and Reanimated Rhymes, Weave Magazine, Moulin Review, Dash Literary Journal, and Minglewood, among others. Bethan Townsend is no longer twenty-one. She lives in northwest England but changes location too frequently to pinpoint a particular “home.” She is still (unfortunately) a student and finds most of her inspiration on the two-hour train journey to university. She blogs at plasticrosaries.blogspot.com and has been published by Read This Magazine, Gloom Cupboard, Ink, Sweat and Tears, and various other lovely people. Joseph R. Trombatore is a Pushcart nominee whose award-winning collection of poems, Screaming at Adam, was published by Wings Press in 2007. Recent poems have or will soon appear in JASAT (Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas), Origami Condom, Right Hand Pointing, Spoken War, Oak Bend Review, Dead Mule, ken*again, Sugar Mule, Wild Goose Poetry Review, Word Riot, Offcourse Literary Journal, Houston Literary Review, Ygdrasil: A Journal of the Poetic Arts, burst!, Chantarelle’s Notebook, Heavy Bear, Gloom Cupboard, Counterexample Poetics, Poetry Friends, and Gold Dust #15. He is editor/publisher of the online literary journal of the arts Radiant Turnstile. He is poetry editor of The Houston Literary Review. His recent radio interview with Jane Crown can be heard on www.janecrown.com. Table of Contents