Eric Spitznagel Eric Spitznagel has written for magazines like Playboy, Esquire, Harper's, Spy, Maxim, Blender and Salon. He’s a contributing editor for the Believer Magazine and the website editor for Monkeybicycle. He’s written six books, one of which was published in German and features a cat on the cover for no apparent reason.
Michael Kimball Michael Kimball has published two novels, The Way the Family Got Away (2000) and How Much of Us There Was (2005), both of which have been translated (or are being translated) into many languages. His third novel, Dear Everybody, will be published in the spring of 2008 in the UK and the fall of 2008 in the US and Canada. He has won a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, a Boswell and Johnson Award, and the Lidano Fiction Prize. Recently, Stephen King short-listed one of his stories for Best American Short Stories, as did Dave Eggers for Best American Nonrequired Reading. He has also published many pieces in many literary magazines, including Open City, Prairie Schooner, Post Road, and New York Tyrant. He lives in Charm City with his charming wife.
Myfanwy Collins Myfanwy Collins's work is published or forthcoming in the Kenyon Review, Cream City Review, AGNI, the Saranac Review, the Jabberwock Review, Swivel, Monkeybicycle and other venues. In addition, a story of hers was selected for the 2007 DZANC Best of the Web Anthology. She is a full-time mother and an Assistant Editor at Narrative Magazine/StoryQuarterly.
William Walsh In addition to a short story forthcoming in New York Tyrant, William Walsh's fiction has appeared in Juked, Lit, Press, Rosebud, Crescent Review, Quarterly West, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and
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