Stacey Richter lives in Tucson, Arizona. Her collection of stories, My Date With Satan, was published in 2000. Her stories have appeared in Zoetrope, Tin House, and finer literary magazines everywhere. David Starkey teaches at Santa Barbara City College and in the MFA program at Antioch University–Los Angeles. He has published several collections of poems from small presses, most recently Fear of Everything, winner of Palanquin Press’s Spring 2000 chapbook contest, and David Starkey’s Greatest Hits (Pudding House, 2002). His creative nonfiction has appeared in American Literary Review, Cimarron Review, Gulf Stream Magazine, Santa Clara Review, and Tampa Review. Bradford Tice recently received his MA in poetry from the
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University of Colorado, and is now at work on his Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. His poetry and fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in such periodicals as North American Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Nimrod, Poet Lore, Mississippi Review, Crab Orchard Review, and the anthology Gents, Bad Boys, and Barbarians 2 (Windstorm Creative).
Faruk Ulay was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1957 and now lives in Pasadena, California, where he works as a graphic designer and publishes an online literary magazine Locus Novus (www.locusnovus.com). He is the author of seven collections of stories and a novel. In the United States, his fiction has been featured or is forthcoming in numerous journals.