Jamie Ambrose is an American freelance writer who lives and works in London. In addition to non-fiction newspaper and magazine articles on both sides of the Atlantic, her poetry has appeared in The Funnel, the magazine of the Fulbright Commission, and an essay appeared in flashquake (Fall, 2002). She has also written a biography, Willa Cather: Writing at the Frontier (Berg), and is working on a novel.
Arlene Ang lives in Venice, Italy where she edits the Italian Niederngasse. Her poetry has been published in Mississippi Review Online, Melic Review, The Pedestal Magazine, Smiths Knoll (UK), Tattoo Highway and 2River View. Stirring has recently nominated her poem, "House of Correction" for the 2004 Pushcart Prize.
Christian Bell was born, raised and still lives in Baltimore, Maryland. His work has appeared in rumble, Pindeldyboz, Skive Magazine and is forthcoming in Prose Ax and JMWW Quarterly.
A native of Cincinnati, Joan Blessing lived for many years in central New Jersey, where she raised three children and worked as an editor, lawyer, and public official. She now divides her life between North Carolina and Florida, writing short fiction and poetry. Her work has appeared in PrimeTimes and The Naples Review.
Karen Blondeau lives in Orlando, Florida but tries to stay as far away from the mouse-house as humanly possible. She is an administrator in a community college and writes obsessively. She recently won honorable mention for a short story in Writer's Journal and had a piece posted on BeWrite.net
Patti Cassidy is a writer/photographer/videomaker who lives on an island in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. She moved there after spending half of her life in the desert of Arizona. She revels in contrast.
Peg Duthie works as a calligrapher in Nashville, Tennessee. Her poetry has appeared in Flytrap, The Pedestal, and elsewhere.
Geona Edwards lives in Spain with his girlfriend and his dog. He was the first place winner of the 2004 specficworld.com story contest, and the runner-up in the 2003 Fish story prize. He has lost many other contests.
Nancy Gauquier lives on top of a garage in Oakland, California, with her cat, Java. She occasionally participates in poetry slams, and has been published in several small literary magazines that most people have never heard of.
Maggi Sullivan Godman lives in the Sierra Nevada foothills of northern California, where deer and red-tailed hawks are frequent visitors and the music of the creek below her house soothes her sleep. This little canyon provides her with solitude that encourages writing about the natural world. A recent trip to her childhood home in Kansas challenged her with images both past and present.
B. Lynn Goodwin is the editor of WriterAdvice and contributes author interviews and book reviews to it. She also writes book reviews for the Small Press Review and web site reviews for the California Writers Club website. She has been published in the Oakland Tribune and the Contra Costa Times.
Christine Hamm lives in NYC, is a psychiatric social worker and has a MA in Creative Writing. Her poetry has been published by Poetry Midwest, Exquisite Corpse, Shampoo, Stirring, Taint, Watchword Press, the Absinthe Literary Review, Octavo, the Adirondack Review and many others. She is an editor of Vernacular, an online literary journal based in Queens.
Theresa Hammond enjoys small town life in North Carolina. She writes between diaper changes and temper tantrums and would have it no other way. Her fiction has been published in various literary zines.
Ann Jones lives in Pittsboro, North Carolina. Her only published story was in the online version of Pindeldyboz.
Christina Kapp is a graduate of the Master of Arts in Writing program at Johns Hopkins University and is working on her first novel. Her fiction and poetry have been published in The Adirondack Review, Beginnings, and StickYourNeckOut.
Myra Margolin has always been afraid of fish. She now has a mouse living in her apartment and has discovered that she is also afraid of mice. How typical.
Colleen Neumann currently lives in western New York after leaving California, Maine, Florida, Montana, Missouri, and Europe. She longs for the ocean, but now has a pretty good job, a crappy car, pets, a mortgage, and two kids in the backyard. Running away is no longer an option.
Janet Paszkowski is a freelance fiction writer, poet and visual artist. A graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she lives in Georgia with her husband and three children. Her fiction and poetry have received numerous regional and national awards, and her work has been published in several literary journals.
Camille Picott is from Sonoma County, California. Her free time is spent writing and learning about wine. She's had flash fiction published in Bust Out and has a piece due out in a forthcoming issue of Devil Blossoms.
M. Lynx Qualey (mlynxqualey@yahoo.com) fled no apparent persecution in the Midwest for a life in the Middle East, where she writes and raises a one-year-old boy.
Jordan E. Rosenfeld is the host of "Word by Word, Conversations with Writers" on NPR-affiliate KRCB radio. Her fiction and essays have appeared in The Pedastal Magazine, The Journal of Modern Post, The St.Petersburg Times, Espresso Fiction, AlterNet, SmokeLong Quarterly, Literary Mama, Salome, Moxie Magazine, Storyhouse, InkPot, Pindeldyboz, and more work is forthcoming at NFG Magazine. Email her: writelife@earthlink.net.
Deborah Rothschild is a freelance writer who lives in Houston, Texas. Her writing has been published in a variety of places including The Houston Chronicle, My Table, The Weekly Telegraph, We Used to Be Wives, Suddenly, July Literary Press, Houston Woman, and Zygote in My Coffee.com.
After teaching writing and literature in college for twenty-five years, Wayne Scheer retired to follow his own advice and write. Recent stories have appeared in The Pedestal Magazine, River Walk Journal, Thought Magazine, Slow Trains and Flash Me Magazine. In 2002, flashquake nominated him for a Pushcart Prize. Wayne lives in Atlanta with his wife, and can be contacted at wvscheer@aol.com.
Tomi Shaw is a reader, a thinker and a racecar driver. She has three daughters, one husband and a mutt Chow/Husky mix. She lives in Kentucky, but aside from its beauty she doesn't know why. She loves the sound of rain on a tin roof. Her work has appeared in Absinthe Literary Review, Snow Monkey, Penthouse and elsewhere. She guest edited two issues of FFC's All Story Extra and currently is the assistant editor/reader for Prairie Dog 13.
Erik Sheldon was born in Walnut Creek, California, and from that very moment has lived a life of non-stop adventure. He currently lives in the same town, unemployed and with his mother. His work has also appeared in Continuum Science Fiction.
Marge Ballif Simon free lances as a writer-poet-artist for genre and mainstream publications. Her illustrated poetry collections include Eonian Variations, Dark Regions Press, 1995 Night Smoke, Miniature Sun Press, 2002 and Artist of Antithesis, Miniature Sun Press, 2003. She is the illustrator for the Bram Stoker winning EXTREMES 2 CD-ROM collection, two Best Poetry Collection winners, Consumed, Reduced to Beautiful Grey Ashes by Linda Addison (2001), and Bruce Boston's Pitchblende (2004).
Lindsay Tice's stories are often experimental, generally thought-provoking and sometimes tongue-in-cheek. This story makes all three. Tice lives in Maine, where she works as a full time journalist and a part-time creative writing instructor for kids.
Martha Gilstrap Verlander lives in western Missouri, where she is a senior training specialist for a large defense contractor. She lives with two Siberian huskies, Shadow and Lucifur (pronounced "loose fur"). She is a black belt and seasoned instructor in Ryu-Te karate and spent ten years writing, editing, and publishing the Ryu-Te Association's international newsletter.
Alexis Wiggins is a young American writer living in Spain. Her work has been published in Rivet, Dim Sum, poetry.com and is forthcoming in Brevity. Alexis is currently completing an M.F.A. in Creative Writing at the University of New Orleans and is at work on her first novel. She and her husband live in Madrid, where she teaches and works as an editor.
Michael Wilson has been teaching creative writing classes and facilitating writers’ groups for over 7 years and was an award-winning Contributing Editor for The Writer's Block at Suite101.com. He has a BA (with Honors) in English from Ohio University, and has been a featured guest speaker at the Thurber House, the Maumee Valley Writer's Conference and the Columbus Writers' Conference. He is also the publisher and editor of Grist for the Muse a monthly creative writing e-newsletter. His first book: Flash Writing: How to Write, Revise and Publish Stories Less Than 1000 Words Long, was published in 2004. Check out his website at www.flashwriting.com.