Stevan Allred lives in rural Oregon, halfway between Fisher's Mill and Viola. His writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Carve, Mississippi Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, and the anthology I Wanna Be Sedated: Thirty Writers on Parenting Teen-agers. He was awarded an Oregon Literary Fellowship in 2004, and was nominated for a Pushcart prize in 2007. He is the founder and co-editor of The Intentional Ducati website, intentionalducati.org. |
Kate Evans is the author of a poetry collection, Like All We Love and a book about lesbian and gay teachers, Negotiating the Self. Her poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in the North American Review, Seattle Review, Cream City Review, Santa Monica Review, ZYZZYVA and others. A native Californian and former resident of Seattle, Santa Cruz and Yokohama, Japan, she now lives in San Jose and teaches at San Jose State University. She blogs at: www.beingandwriting.blogspot.com. |
| Michael Poore lives in Chicagoland with three geriatric dogs. His stories have appeared in StoryQuarterly, Southern Review, Carolina Quarterly, and other periodicals. He has been featured on Chicago Public Radio, and new work is forthcoming soon in Glimmer Train, Fiction, Northwest Review, and North Dakota Quarterly. He is currently seeking representation for his novel -- Woodpile -- a biography of the Devil. Visit him online at www.mikepoore.net. |
| Daniel Raeburn is the author of the book Chris Ware. His essays have appeared in The Baffler, Tin House, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. His book about comic books, The Imp of the Perverse, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton. He teaches creative writing at the University of Chicago. |
| Arthur Tress can be seen at www.arthurtress.com. |
Erica Goss won the first Edwin Markham Poetry Prize in 2007, judged by California’s Poet Laureate Al Young, and was a finalist for the Rita Dove Poetry Award. She received a James D. Phelan award and the Dorritt Sibley award, both from San Jose State, for her work in the writing and study of poetry. She has published poetry in The Bohemian, Reed, Washington Square, HeartLodge, Hotel Amerika, Bryant Literary Review, and Tiger’s Eye. In 2007, Erica completed her MFA in Poetry at San Jose State University. Erica teaches and writes in the Santa Cruz Mountains. |
| Tim Macy is an MFA graduate from The University of Kansas. He is engaged to marry his beautiful girlfriend Erin and he now resides in Kansas City, Missouri. His first bit of writing success was a ten-minute play which was given a staged reading at The Kennedy Center. While in college he had two one-act plays and one full-length play produced by the English Alternative Theatre in Lawrence, Kansas. Three of his short stories have been published, two of which have been made into short films. The Brass Teapot premiered at the Middle East International Film Festival in 2007. The Dying Western, filmed by students at the University of Ohio, is still in the finishing stages. |
| Joan McMillan can be seen at www.stregastories.blogspot.com. |
