Grace Andreacchi is the author of the novels Scarabocchio and Poetry and Fear, Music for Glass Orchestra (Serpent's Tail), Give My Heart Ease (New American Writing Award) and the chapbook Elysian Sonnets. Grace is also managing editor at Andromache Books, and an assistant editor at Sotto Voce Magazine. She lives in London.
Neddal Ayad shoots things.
W. C. Bamberger is the author or editor of ten books, including Guy Davenport and James Laughlin: Selected Letters, and the novel The Master Tanner Heads West. Forthcoming are a collection of essays, and a novella, On the Backstretch. He lives and works (until the entire state breaks up and sinks) in Michigan, USA, with his daughter.
Bambi Barker is a pen name for an established poet. Bambi has published poetry in the anthology, A Kiss is Still a Kiss, from Outrider Press, Shoes magazine, Poetry Greece, Cokefishing, The Diddler, Love's Chance, Poems Niederngasse, Mannequin Envy, Lummox, Nefarious Ballerina, Zen Baby, Zygote in My Coffee, The Centrifugal Eye. She has read her poetry on the LUVER radio station and has worked as a model for a foot fetish website.
Bendi Barrett is a fresh alum of Cornell University where he studied creative writing, blissfully ignorant that the world was going to blow up shortly and that he'd be poor. His work is heavily centered on depicting the body inaccuaretly and mining the queer experience for literary gems. His dual-headed blogs are xanga.com/bicrazor and narcissistworks.blogspot.com
Tantra Bensko is an artist, with award winning sites and work, which is published widely in magazines such as CameraArts. Her art shows around the world. Her work as Art Director for Mad Hatters Review took it into a top multi-media magazine. Her website is http://lucidvision.mosaicglobe.com
B Drew Collier pilfers bits of light and dark from forgotten drawers and covets the noises that words make in your head.
Juliet Cook's poetry has been published by Diode, Diagram, Octopus, and many other sources. She is the editor of Blood Pudding Press. Her first full-length poetry collection, 'Horrific Confection' was recently published by BlazeVOX. For more Juliet information, please feel free to visit her website at www.JulietCook.weebly.com
Alex Deleuse is a writer in Los Angeles.
Michael Frissore writes for the online magazines Flak and Slurve. His short fiction has appeared in Monkeybicycle, rumble, decomP, Literary Chaos, Hecale and elsewhere. He grew up in Massachusetts and now lives in Tucson, Arizona with his wife and son.
Genna Gardini is a South African writer whose work has appeared in previous versions of Sein und Werden, Sub- Lit, Fidelities, Itch, and the most recent POWA anthology. In 2004 she won the Douglas Livingstone Poetry Competition and came in second at the Poetry Africa School Competition. You can contact her at gennagardini@gmail.com
Gail Gray (Greenville, SC) - is the author of two books of poetry, The Hazard of Waking Up and Spirals in Copper. She's the owner of Shadow Archer Press and editor of Fissure, magazine. Her poetry has been or will be published in The Asheville Poetry Review, Gloom Cupboard, Cokefish, Exquisite Corpse, Being, Big Swollen Toe, Sisyphus, Zygote Abstract Libertine, Main Street Rag, and the anthology, America!
Nicholas Alexander Hayes is an editor at Ignavia. His creative and critical work has appeared in various journals including 5_trope, Word Riot, Eleven Eleven, Suspect Thoughts, Velvet Mafia, queerPhilosophy, PopMatters and Saatchi Online's Daily Magazine.
Becky Hunt is 29 and lives in east London. Other examples of her work can be found, or are forthcoming, in Thieves Jargon, Transmission Magazine, The Beat, The Oddville Press, Gloom Cupboard, Forge Journal, This Zine Will Change Your Life, Feathertale Review, Monkeybicycle.
Alan Kelly. Serious. Ridiculous. Overblown. Pretentious and Warped. His fiction has appeared in Dogmatika, Beat the Dust, Parasitic Cavity and Streetwise. He has contributed to 3am, ButcherQueers, GCN, Penny Blood, Pretty Scary and he is the features writer for Gold Dust.
Delphine Lecompte lives in Bruges, she used to write grim stories, now she writes grim poems. Thieves Jargon Press had the guts to publish a collection of her stories: 'Kittens in the Boiler'.
Michael Loughrey's short fiction has featured in Sein und Werden, Showcase @ Laura Hird, Word Riot, Hobart, Underground Voices, 5_Trope, Zygote In My Coffee, Dogmatika, Aesthetica, Serendipity, Aphelion, Byzarium, The Future Fire, Raging Face, and Half-Cut Publications/Leper Colony. One of his short stories was recently voted one of the StorySouth Million Writers most notable short stories of 2007.
David McLean has a few books out. They can be ordered at http://www.erbacce-press.com/davidmclean/4527659941 and www.alibris.com/booksearch?title=cadaver%27s+dance. Details of publications are in his blog at http://mourningabortion.blogspot.com/
Carl Meow, Esq is an aspiring writer who practices law on the side purely for money. This is his first publication anywhere under his real name.
June Nandy is a post graduate in English literature and Hindi and works as a Translator. She has a diploma in Public Relations and is a Gold medalist in Translation science. She's done her B.Ed as well. She has been a senior Teacher of English in couple of very reputed Indian Schools. Right now, she's seriously into writing Poetries and creative fictions. Presently involved in quantum genre of poetry.
Louise Norlie's work has appeared most recently in "Unlikely Stories", "Dark Sky Magazine", "Byzarium", and "Neon Magazine." Links to her publications can be found at http://louise-norlie.blogspot.com
Richey Piiparinen is nourished by the decay of the Rust Belt. He lives there, in Cleveland, with his wife (Laura) and dog (Caesar). His work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in FRiGG and Crimson Highway. And he thanks you. Thank him back: r_piiparinen@hotmail.com
Brent Powers writes to win.
Brenton Rossow is content with the reality he will never be famous and is enjoying eating dinner and watching TV with his mum and dad. He is the editor of an online journal that is often hacked by people with pointy noses, which can often be found at www.octopusbeakinc.com
Jan Rylewicz is a Dubai freak with a sandstorm machete and a predeliction for masochist murder in a house boat on the German river Elbe, with friends that drowned out of trailer-park lives without breaking into a sweat, and a love song as sweet as Das Hohelied der Liebe, as deducted from the glistening lips of melancholic taxpayers. Anytime soon he will divulge into apple crumble.
A doctor of French womans literature, Nelly Sanchez's living near Castelnaudary (France) where she's teaching the French language. Since 2005, she has showed her collages on Myspace. She published some of them in MungBeing review. At present, she's illustrating poems of Terry Finch.
Peter Schwartz has more styles than a Natal Midlands Dwarf Chameleon. He's been published in Arsenic Lobster, Epicenters, Media Cake, 5 Trope, Verdad and VOX. He's currently working on his fourth chapbook, 'Postcards to the Sun'. See the extent of his shenanigans at http://www.sitrahahra.com/
Originally from Massachusetts, Noel Sloboda currently lives in Pennsylvania. His first collection of poetry, _Shell Games_, was released this summer by sunnyoutside.
Jonathan Woods is a writer living in Dallas, Texas. His stories and reviews have appeared in Dogmatika and 3:AM Magazine. He is working on a novel: a noir sequel to Jean Rhys' After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie. When not writing, he works part-time in a small art gallery in Dallas (www.dahliawoodsgallery.com) or travels, mostly to Italy & Mexico.