Elizabeth Langemak lives in Bethany, West Virginia. Her most recent work is forthcoming in The }ouma~ The New Orleans Review, The Cimarron Review and Diagram. Sara McKinnon is an MFA candidate at Ohio State University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Gulf Coast, The Iowa Review, the New Ohio Review, Quarter After Eight, and Quarterly West. A n n ie N ilsson is from California, though she currently lives in Iowa City, where she is an MFA candidate at the University of Iowa. In 2008 she was awarded a Tin House Nonfiction Scholarship. Thi.s is her first publication. Scott D. Pomfret is author of Since M:1 Last Confession, an irreverent and Lighthearted memoir in the style of Michael Moore's Roger & Me describing three years of stalking the Archbishop of Boston during the Massachusetts same-sex marriage debate. Other works include Romentics-brand gay romance novels, the Q Guide to Wine and Cocktails, and dozens of short stories published in, among other venues, Post Road, Net~.~ Orleans Review, Fiction International, Fourteen Hills. Now at work on a novel The Prostitute's Son, Pomfret by day prosecutes securities fraud for the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. For more information, go to www.sconpomfret. com or www.sincemylastconfession.com.
l raj Isaac R ahmim's recent essays and fiction have appeared in Antioch Review, Commentary, Commont~.~eal, Gulf Coast, the Ho1.ston Chronicle, Reason, Reason.com, Rosebud, and been broadcast by Pacifica Radio. A 2007 MacDowell Colony Fellow, his essays have been selected as Notable Essays by Best American Series from 2004 to 2007 and awarded a Fellowship in Literature by the Texas Commission of the Arts. He holds a PhD in biochemical engineering from Columbia University. Matilde Travassos was born in 1986 in Lisbon, Portugal and studied graph ic design and photography. In 2008 she went to Paris and did a Masters in Photography. She was always interested in fashion and art in general. Now she's living in London, working as a fashion photographer, but always looking for more personal and artistic projects. www.matildetravassos.com
L D. VanAuken worked briefly in publishing before earning her MFA from Fairleigh Dickinson University. A fom1er assistant editor of The Literary Review and nominee for Best New American Voices and the Pushcart Prize, her writing appears in many literary magazines. Her first two novels were contracted with Hachette Book G roup, to be published pseudonymously in 2009. Francine Witte is a poet, playwright and fiction writer. She lives in New York City, where she is a high school English teacher. Her flash fiction chapbook, "The Wind Twirls Everything" was published by MuscleHead Press. Her poetry chapbook "First Rain" has just been published by Pecan Grove Press as a winner of their chapbook competition. Please visit her at franigirl.com.
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