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is pursuing her BA in English with an emphasis in creative writing from Westminster College. Her work has recently appeared in Ellipsis and elsewhere. Daniel Porder (―The Centipede Love Songs‖) is an NYC poet studying writing at The New School. He blogs at www.dcporder.blogspot.com. Anthony J. Rapino (―Fixing a Hole‖) lives inside his head with a few friends of varying origins. He occasionally consults these friends on life choices and often regrets it. His first novel, Soundtrack to the End of the World, will be available from Bad Moon Books in late 2011. Viable proof of his psychosis can be found on his website: www.anthonyjrapino.com. Kate Riedel (―Urban Legends‖) grew up in Minnesota and now lives in Toronto, Ontario. She has been previously published in A cappella Zoo, On Spec, Not One of Us, and Realms of Fantasy, as well as the anthologies New Writings in the Fantastic from Pendragon Press, and Lilith Unbound from Popcorn. Julia A. Rosenthal (―Trouble in Mind‖) is a freelance writer in Chicago. She draws ideas for her stories from the encyclopedia articles she writes for Salem Press. ―Trouble in Mind‖ was inspired by the films of Wong Kar-wai and a June 2010 trip to Hong Kong. Julia‘s fiction has been recognized by ChiZine and appeared in a 2011 anthology from Columbia College. More stories are forthcoming in Kaleidotrope and an anthology from India-based Zubaan Books. Curt Seubert (―The Message from Nature‖) is digesting and being digested in a small, dark room in Japan, having consumed an education rich in music, literature, philosophy, and physics. His writings have appeared amidst such beautiful settings as The American Book Review, The Fugue, Word Riot, Thirst for Fire, Down in the Dirt, The Medulla Review, art school halls and bathroom stalls. Chantel Tattoli (―Take Up the Bonnet Rouge‖) is an MFA Writing Candidate at SCAD. Her work has appeared or will at Witness, Redivider, PANK, NANO Fiction, and elsewhere. Caitlin Thomson (―Teaching a Post Lunar World‖) writes about absence, usually in terms of the apocalypse. Her work has appeared in many places and is forthcoming in Anemone Sidecar, Menacing Hedge, Going Down Swinging, and the anthology Killer Verse. To read more of her work, visit www.caitlinthomson.com. Alexander Weinstein (―Painting God at Epcot‖) is the Director of The Martha‘s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing and has been working as a creative writing teacher and freelance editor for the past ten years. He leads fiction workshops in the United States and Europe and teaches writing at Siena Heights University. His fiction has appeared in Pleiades, Sou’Wester, Notre Dame Review, The Rio Grande Review, Hawai’i-Pacific Review, and other journals. His work deals with the trials and tribulations of modern life and other maladies of the pre-apocalyptic era.
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