Arlene Ang lives in Venice, Italy. Her poetry has recently appeared in Drexel Online Journal, Smiths Knoll (UK), Eclectica and Tattoo Highway. An e-chapbook of her poetry, "Dirt Therapy" has recently been launched by Slow Trains (http://www.slowtrains.com).
K. Bannerman's award-winning short stories have been published in North America and Europe, and she is a founding member of the Moth Writing Group, based in Vancouver, Canada. Her first novel, The Tattooed Wolf, was released in September 2002. She is currently completing the sequel.
Greg Beatty lives in Bellingham Washington, where he tries, unsuccessfully, to stay dry. This summer he's writing a children's picture book; the working title is The Man Who Gave Orders to Cats.
Most recently, Greg Richard Bernard's work has appeared in Red Weather, Fire Ring Voices, Whitetail Fanatic, Minnesota Monthly, Poetry for Students, Chicken Soup for the Golfer's Soul, Miller's Pond, and will appear in forthcoming issues of Talking Stick, Lake Country Journal, Wisconsin Review, Prism Quarterly, Defenestration, and Front Street Review. He won Minnesota Monthly's 17th annual Tamarack Award for short fiction in 2002, and earned the 1997 Award of Excellence by the Central Illinois Chapter of the National Society of Arts and Letters. He is currently under contract with Loonfeather Press to publish his first novel, Alpha Summer.
Bob Bradshaw is a programmer, and a big fan of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. He is studying the guitar in case Keith Richards takes a day job. Recent and forthcoming work of his include poems at Stirring, The Paumanok Review, Liquid Muse, Blue Fifth Review, The Sidewalk's End, Tryst, Subterranean Quarterly, Spillway Review, Wolf Moon Press and Slow Trains. He can be reached at bobbybradshw@yahoo.com.
Alan Stewart Carl is a freelance writer living in Washington, DC. He currently pays the bills by writing advertising and marketing copy for which he's won numerous awards. Between taking frantic calls from clients and caring for his newborn son, Alan finds time to focus on his first passion of fiction writing.
Gary Cozine resides near Los Angeles. His work has appeared in Conversely, Elysian Fields Quarterly, Absinthe Literary Review and elsewhere. A complete listing can be found at http://www.geocities.com/gcozine/Writings.html.
A native of Dayton, Ohio, Wilma Weant Dague was educated at the Universities of Toledo and South Carolina. Her writing has been published in many journals including, The Christian Science Monitor, PoetryMagazine.com, and The Hiss Quarterly. She lives in Atchison, Kansas with her husband and three children. Her current day job is cleaning empty apartments.
Jilly Dybka has poetry forthcoming in Michigan Quarterly Review, Penwood Review, and other journals. She is currently working on her MFA in Creative Writing at Queens University of Charlotte. She lives in Kingston Springs Tennesee with her jazz musician husband Darryl.
Susan Fry lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. She's sold her fiction to publications such as Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, The 3rd Alternative, Crimewave, and Cemetery Dance Magazine. She's also written for anthologies, including the upcoming City Crimes, Country Crimes, and The Museum of Horrors, which won the 2002 World Fantasy Award for best anthology. In 2004 she won the Phobos Fiction Contest, and in 2001 she won a first-place prize in the Writers of the Future Contest. She has a B.A. and an M.A. from Stanford University.
J. Malcolm Garcia is a reporter who has worked periodically in Afghanistan for Knight Ridder Newspapers since November, 2001.
Sandra Gillies is a lawyer who is interested in life outside the law. Even so, life in "flash form" has intersected with the law: she has designed a boilerplate pleading titled "brevity" for her boss.
Merrie Haskell has a B.A. in anthropology from the University of Michigan, where she also studied two dead languages and three living ones — all of which she abuses readily to make fiction. Her websitecan be found at www.merriehaskell.com.
Jeanne Holtzman is an aging hippie, freelance writer and women's health care practitioner, not necessarily in that order. Born in the Bronx, she prolonged her adolescence as long as possible in Vermont, and currently lives with her husband and daughter in Massachusetts. Her personal essays have appeared in The Providence Journal, Writer's Digest, The Drexel Online Journal, and The Iconoclast. You may reach Jeanne at J.holtzman@comcast.net.
Tim Jones lives in Wellington, New Zealand. He divides his time between writing, being a husband and father, and content management work. His short fiction and poetry has appeared in magazines and anthologies in New Zealand, the UK, the USA, Australia, and Canada. His first collection of fiction, Extreme Weather Events, was published in 2001, and poetry collection Boat People followed in 2002. To find out more, visit http://users.actrix.co.nz/timjones/.
Miriam N. Kotzin teaches creative writing and literature at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA and is the Director of the Certificate Program in Writing and Publishing. She is also advisor to Maya, the student literary magazine. She writes short fiction and poetry, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in many print and online publications, including Boulevard, Mid-American Review, Mad Poets Review, flashquake, Small Spiral Notebook, FRiGG, Smoke Long Quarterly, Gator Springs Gazette and Xaxx among others.
Toni Lapp is a journalist in Kansas City, Missouri. Her travel articles have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald and St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She hails from Ohio, where this story took place.
Toni Layton is a freelance writer. She currently lives in Plano Texas with her partner and their 2 puppies.
John Libertus has worked as a technical journalist, writing regularly for Hot Rod Magazine, Road & Track, Car Craft, The Mother Earth News, Workbench, and other magazines. Since his wife has died and their sons have grown, he has principally written poetry and short stories.
Originally from New York City, Allen McGill lives, writes, acts and directs theatre in Mexico. His published fiction, non-fiction, poetry, plays, photos, etc., have appeared in print as well as on line: New York Times, The Writer, Newsday, Literary Potpourri, flashquake, Poetry Midwest, Poetic Voices, Herons Nest, Frogpond, Modern Haiku, World Haiku Review, many others. He is haibun editor for Simply Haiku.
Mr. McKlusky lives in Kentucky and writes fiction for contributor copies because he's too cheap to pay for subscriptions. His favorite food is ramen noodles. He enjoys chatting up sample ladies at supermarkets, and sipping hot tea from a glass. Every few months he dedicates a Sunday afternoon to heavy drinking and writes a pile of submissions to publications he likes. He is rarely published. This is the life of an artist. His work has appeared in flashquake, Mindprints, Cenotaph Pocket Edition, Luscious Desert Female, Susannah Seton's Simple Pleasures series and several editions of The-Phone-Book.com in audio cd, html, and print.He has a day job, but won't share what it is, because his ex-wife might find out, and want half his earnings
Stephen Mead is a published artist/writer living in northeastern New York. His artwork can be seen in Absolute Arts, ( http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/s/stephenmead), and 123soho.com, (123soho.com/members/stephen_mead). Stephen also has several title pieces for e-books online at www.scars.tv, http://scars.tv/ccdissues/mead.htm. These pieces incorporate both image and text as does his e-book, We Are More Than Our Wounds, published June 2004 (http://www.newagedimensionspublishing.com/wearemorethanourwounds.htm).
Karin Neuhold was born in Vienna, Austria, and grew up in the United States, Germany, and Brazil, only to return to Vienna at a later point in life. She started writing poetry only after realizing that she did have somethings to say that she wanted others to hear and that what she thought about was perhaps not as obviously a truth to everyone else.
Mary Paddock resides with her husband and four homeschooled boys in Southwest Missouri. She is a Youth Associate for the University of Missouri Extension Office, a substitute teacher, webmaster and maker of angels. Mary has been published in several e-zines and is currently seeking a market for her first Science Fiction novel. Mary's goal in life is remain four years old at heart.
G. Scott Robinson is the Director of Library Services at Nevada State College, a boxing enthusiast, a fan of anything postmodern, and never one to give up on submitting to flashquake. He is currently a PhD student at UNLV and working on his first novel and his first short film. Both projects will be detailed at http://www.anaudiafilms.com.
Rod Schecter is a health writer, editor, and entrepeneur working in Charlottesville, VA. His fiction, criticism, and social commentary have appeared in Short Stories: Bimonthly, Fiction's Touchstone Series, The Charlottesville Observer, and In Thirds: An Anthology. He is Editor of the anthology Survivor Stories (www.survivorstories.net), as well as Fiction Editor of Streetlight Magazine. Schecter holds an MFA from American University and his novel, The Plagiarist, is near completion. He can be reached via email at ebronis@aol.com.
F. John Sharp lives and works in the Cleveland, Ohio area. His work has appeared in Paumanok Review, Pindelyboz, Snow Monkey, and In Posse Review, among others, and will appear in the fall edition of Salt River Review. He is currently at work on a novel for young adults.
Rachel Swirsky is a student at UC Santa Cruz where she is currently pursuing a double major in Creative Writing and Anthropology. She is the founder and editor of an annual on-campus literary magazine, Calliope's Notes, and her poetry has appeared in Calliope's Notes, The Red Wheelbarrow, and The Leviathan This is her first poem in a paying market.
Deena Trouten lives in southwestern Idaho with her husband and two children. Her short fiction has appeared in the online journal The Green Tricycle and she is currently at work on a 19th century coming-of-age novel.
Peggy Vincent, retired midwife, is the author of a memoir, Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife (Scribner 2002). She lives in California with her husband. Three adult children live nearby, and her 90-year-old parents live three hours away.
Steve Western is a high school special education teacher in North Bend, Oregon. His stories have appeared in Mind in Motion, Mark: A Journal of Scholarship, Opinion, and Literature, The New Press, and The Beacon.
Alice Whittenburg's fiction has appeared in Locus Novus, Pif Magazine, Word Riot, and The Missing Fez, among other places, and she is coeditor of The Café Irreal, an online literary magazine.
Leigh Allison Wilson is the author of two short story collections. From the Bottom Up, her first book, won the Flannery O'Connor Prize from the University of Georgia Press. Her second book, Wind, was published by William Morrow. Her work has appeared in Harper's, Mademoiselle, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, Grand Street, and elsewhere.