Featured Writers
Eric Basso was born in Baltimore in 1947. His work has appeared in the Chicago Review, Fiction International, Exquisite Corpse, and many other publications. His most recent books are Decompositions: Essays on Art & Literature 1973–1989 and Revagations: A Book of Dreams 1966–1974 (Asylum Arts Press). Six Gallery Press published Earthworks, his seventh collection of poems, in 2008.
John Bennett has been published in 20,643 little magazines and is married to an elf.
Adam Henry Carrière is a poet, teacher, and former NPR broadcaster. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Film & Video from ColumbiaCollege and a Master's in Professional Writing from the University of Southern California. He has taught writing at both his alma mater, UNLV, and for the United States Navy across the Pacific. His writing has recently appeared in Mad Swirl, decomP, Alternative Reel, Apparatus, Pushing the Envelope, The Smoking Book, Tattoo Highway, Juked, Zygote in My Coffee, and Tonopah Review; his fiction, photography, and poetry also appear in the current Bicycle Review. Born on the South Side of Chicago, Adam now resides in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he has won the Nevada Arts Council Fellowship in Poetry and publishes Danse Macabre, Nevada’s first online literary magazine. He also serves on the Editorial Board of Popular Culture Review.
Brian Conn is the author of The Fixed Stars: Thirty-Seven Emblems for the Perilous Season. He lives in Rhode Island and co-edits Birkensnake, a literary journal.
Robert Louis Henry lives in Tennessee. He's studying music production, and is an editor at Leaf Garden Press (http://leafgardenpress.blogspot.com). His poetry has appeared in The CommonLine Project, Unlikely 2.0, The Delinquent and other online and print magazines. His book of prose and poetry, “God Loves Rich Kids And We Smoke Off the Same Cigarette” was recently published by Bygawd Press.
Ed Higgins’ poems and short fiction have appeared in Monkeybicycle, Otoliths, Pindeldyboz, The Foliate Oak, Word Riot, Mannequin Envy, Poems Niederngasse, and The Centrifugal Eye, among others. He and his wife live on a small farm in Yamhill, Oregon with a menagerie of animals including three whippets and two manx barn cats. Ed teaches creative writing and literature at GeorgeFoxUniversity south of Portland, OR.
Richard Kostelanetz: b.May 14, 1940, New York, N.Y., U.S. in full RICHARD CORY KOSTELANETZ American writer, artist, critic, and editor of the avant-garde who is productive in many fields.
Kostelanetz attended Brown University (B.A., 1962), ColumbiaUniversity (M.A., 1966), and King's College, London. He served as visiting professor or guest artist at a variety of institutions and lectured widely.
In 1971, employing a radically formalist approach, Kostelanetz produced the novel In the Beginning, which consists of the alphabet, in single- and double-letter combinations, unfolding over 30 pages. Most of his other literary work also challenges the reader in unconventional ways and is often printed in limited editions at small presses. Kostelanetz's nonfiction work The End of Intelligent Writing: Literary Politics in America (1974) charged the New York literary and publishing establishment with inhibiting the publishing and promotion of works by innovative younger authors. His "visual poetry" consists of arrangements of words on a page, using such devices as linking language and sequence, punning, alliteration, parallelism, constructivism, and minimalism.
Among his other works are Recyclings: A Literary Autobiography (1974, 1984), Politics in the African-American Novel (1991), Published Encomia, 1967-91 (1991), and On Innovative Art(ist)s (1992). His films include A Berlin Lost (1984) and Berlin Sche-Einena Jother (1988), both with Martin Koerber. Kostelanetz issued many recordings and audiocassettes on his own label and edited works on musicians such as B.B. King and Philip Glass. His A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes was published in 1999.
Robert Laughlin lives in Chico, California. He is the creator of the Micro Award, an annual competition for previously published flash fiction. He has published nearly 100 short stories and poems; two of his short stories are Million Writers Award Notable Stories. His novel, Vow of Silence, is available from Trytium.
Nomi Liron: I live in the Bay Area of California. I mainly write flash fiction but am also working on a novel. My stories have appeared in Powder Burn Flash, Dew on the Kudzu, The Linnet’s Wings, Flashshot, Soft Whispers, Shoots and Vines, and Breadcrumb Sins.
Richard Lutman has an MFA in Writing from VermontCollege. He currently teaches short story classes as part of CoastalCarolinaUniversity's Lifelong Learning program. His fiction has appeared in Crazy quilt, Verdad, Slow Trains, Dark sky Magazine,The Green Silk Journal, The Pettigru Review and The Newport Review. Non fiction has appeared in The Journal of the West and the Association of Tropical Lepidoptera Newsletter. He has also won awards for his short stories, nonfiction, and screenplays. He was a 2008 Push Cart Nominee. A chapbook of his flash fiction was published in June of 2009 by the “The Last Automat Press.”
Billy Middleton is currently a PhD student in the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi. My work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in Word Riot, Vestal Review, Cantaraville, Kennesaw Review, and other publications.
George Moore has held artist residencies in Spain, Iceland, Portugal and Canada, where he has done collaborative projects in poetry and the visual arts. Nominated twice in 2009 for a Pushcart Prize, and twice for "Best of the Web," his work as also been a finalist for The National Poetry Series, The Richard Synder Memorial Prize, The Brittingham Award and The Anhinga Prize. His poetry has appeared in The Atlantic, Poetry, North American Review, Colorado Review, Orion, Meridian, Chelsea, as well as internationally, in England, Ireland, France and Australia. Moore’s recent collections include Headhunting (Edwin Mellen, 2002) and the e-Book, All Night Card Game in the Back Room of Time (Poetschapbooks.com, 2008). He teaches literature and writing at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Thirii Myint was born in Burma, home-schooled in Thailand, public-schooled in California, and presently going to school in Providence, Rhode Island. She has been published in a few Brown-RISD student-run magazines, Brass Sopaipilla, and The Kenyon Review Online.
Derek Richards After failing miserably as a rock star, Derek Richards began submitting his poetry in August 2009. Over 140 of his poems have appeared in over seventy publications, including Lung, Breadcrumb Scabs, MediaVirus, Calliope Nerve, tinfoildresses, Opium 2.0, Dew on the Kudzu, Sex and Murder, Splash of Red and fourpaperletters. He has also been told to keep his day job by Quills and Parchment. Nothing annoys him more than poetry written solely to make someone feel stupid. His ferrets, cat and puppy couldn't agree more. Happily engaged, he resides in Gloucester, MA., cleaning windows for a living.
Sunil Sharma, Ph.D., is currently vice-principal, reader and head, department of English, Model College—an A-grade college affiliated to the University of Mumbai—MIDC, Dombivli (East), Pin: 421203, in District Thane, state of Maharashtra, India. He is a bilingual critic, poet, literary interviewer, editor, translator, essayist and fiction writer. Some of his short stories and poems have already appeared, among others, in prestigious journals like: Munyori (international e-zine), New Woman (Mumbai), Creative Saplings, Muse India (both of them e-zines), the Seva Bharati Journal of English Studies (West Bengal), Indian Literature (of Sahitya Akademy, New Delhi), Indian Literary Panorama (Mumbai), Contemporary Vibes (Chandigarh), The Plebian Rag and the Bicycle Review (USA online), Indian Journal of Post-colonial Literatures (Kerala) and Kritya (online). Some of his shorts have been anthologized in national and international collections. Besides that, he is a freelance journalist in English. His areas of strength are Marxism, Literary Theory and Cultural Studies. His book on the Philosophy of the Novel—a Marxist Critique is already published and got a good response. His debut novel—The Minotaur—dealing with dominant ideologies and sociopolitical realities of the 20th century was also recently published from Jaipur (India). The novel has been favourably received and reviewed.
He can be contacted on +91-9819997123 or through email at: drsharma.sunil@gmail.com
Daniel Wilcox, a former activist, teacher, and wanderer from Montana to the Middle East, casts his lines out upon the world's turbulent waters and wide shores in Moria, Lunarosity, The Recusant, Counterexample Poetics, Mad Swirl, Word Riot, erbacce, etc. Dark Energy, a book of his poetry, was published in 2009 by Diminuendo Press. "The Faces of Stone", based on his time in the Middle East, came out in The Danforth Review and Danse Macabre. Daniel lives with a speculative novel The Feeling of the Earth, a second volume of poems Psalms, Yawps, and Howls, and his mystery-loving wife on the central coast of California.
Websites:
http://psalmsyawpshowls.weebly.com
http://seaquaker.com
Ernest Williamson III has published poetry and visual art in over 230 online and print journals. He is a self-taught pianist and painter. His poetry has been nominated three times for the Best of the Net Anthology. He holds the B.A. and the M.A. in English/Creative Writing/Literature from the University of Memphis. Ernest is an English Professor at EssexCountyCollege. Professor Williamson is also a Ph.D. Candidate at SetonHallUniversity in the field of Higher Education Leadership. Visit his gallery
http://www.yessy.com/budicegenius/