Contributors

Shaindel Beers is currently a professor of English at Blue Mountain
Community College in Pendleton, Oregon. Her poetry, fiction, and social
commentary have appeared in Willow Review, Poetry Miscellany,
Hunger Mountain, and numerous other journals and publications. She
serves as Poetry Editor of Contrary (www.contrarymagazine.com).

Randall Brown teaches writing at Saint Joseph's University. He is a Pushcart nominee and holds an MFA in Fiction Writing from Vermont College and a BA from Tufts University. His stories, poems, and essays have been published widely, with recent work appearing or forthcoming in Hunger Mountain, Connecticut Review, The Saint Ann's Review, Dalhousie Review, Clackamas Literary Review, Vestal Review, Cairn, King's English, and others. He’s recently finished a collection of (very) short fiction, Mad to Live.

Steve Calvert lives in the UK and is an affiliate member of the

Horror Writers Association. Although Steve's passion is for horror, his sense of humor sometimes gets the better of him, as you can see from his story.

Steve's fiction has appeared in Best, The New Cauldron, Dark of Night, Whispers of Wickedness, Chillout, Lookout, & Scriptor 6. Steve's website can be found at www.steve-calvert.co.uk and he blogs at www.blog-from-the-darkside.mr-c.me.uk. Steve Calvert does not have spots.

Daniel Euphrat currently resides in Tucson, AZ. His one goal in life is to make the world just a little bit stranger. He may be contacted at: x918x@hotmail.com

Kathie Giorgio's writing credits include stories in Fiction International, Dos Passos Review, The Pedestal, Bayou, Eclipse, Potomac Review, Arabesques Review, Oyez Review, Jabberwock Review, Karamu Review, Reed Magazine, The Binnacle, Zuzu’s Petals Quarterly, Licking River Review, Thema, Bellowing Ark, in the premier issue of SLAB and in the premier issue of Broken Bridge Review. In the near future, stories will appear in the Hurricane Review, Midway Journal, The Externalist, and Hiss Quarterly. Her stories have also appeared in such magazines as Buffalo Spree and Passager, among many others, as well as in Papier Mache Press’s last anthology, Generation to Generation. She holds her BA in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin—Madison, and her MFA in Fiction Writing from Vermont College. She is the director of AllWriters’ Workplace and Workshop, LLC, and she is also the editor/owner/publisher of Quality Women’s Fiction magazine. She teaches online for Writers’ Digest.

Bryon Howell has been writing since he was a child. Over the course of time, his poetry has appeared in over 400 in-print and online magazines including The Raintown Review, Blind Man's Rainbow, and Flashquake. Bryon also writes and publishes under an array of pen-names.

Shannon Dugan Iverson is an archaeologist and a fledgling graduate student at the University of Texas. When she does not have her nose in a book she enjoys cooking vegetarian meals and engaging in idealistic banter with anyone willing to participate. She is not planning on quitting her day job.

Jack Kaulfus is a recent graduate of the MFA fiction writing program at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. Her story “Troglodytes” was nominated by Stickman Review for the Million Writer's Award, and was later named a notable story of 2007 by storySouth. Currently, she is a lecturer and a window washer in Austin, Texas, where she lives with her partner and two children.

E.E. King has a varied background; theater, comedy, dance, teaching, painting & science. She is the recipient of two International Tides Painting fellowships and two Earthwatch fellowships. Her artwork can be viewed at http://www.simplesite.com/ElizabethEve, her Myspace is at www.myspace.com/eeviek, and her blog is at http://eek-deepinsideofa.blogspot.com/. She has worked as a teacher and as an artist-in-residence in Los Angeles, San Francisco and South Korea. She was an advisor to the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Science Center for their Arts & Science Development Program and a science and art coordinator in Bosnia with Global Children’s Organization. She is the Arts & Science Director of Esperanza Community Housing Corporation a nonprofit in South Central Los Angeles. Ms. King is always involved in anything nonprofit and would one day like to make a profit. Her mural, A Meeting of Minds (121' X 33') can be seen in downtown Los Angeles. She has published field reports for Earth watch in animal communication and lesson plans on Portraiture and genetics for the J. Paul Getty Museum and Science Center.

Bill Kte’pi was hospitalized in 2002 and is not entirely confident of anything that followed, including his publications in Strange Horizons and ChiZine, his website (http://www.ktepi.com), or the coming and going of Pepsi Blue.

J.R. Parks is a march-stepping outlander, dwelling in San Jose California. His time is vigorously spent sculpting his career as both a writer and graphic novelist; and many of his pieces have been published both nationally and internationally. Parks enjoys a good cup of tea, bright amber trees, and old folks that never forget. Some of his projects have been posted on his website: www.jrparks.com, as well as his humble blog: Ziggy's Tree House (ziggytree.blogspot.com).

J.F. Peterson’s recent publications include “My Bonny” at Fusion Fragment and upcoming appearances in Postscripts and Aberrant Dreams. A Writers of the Future first place winner, he recently completed My Friend Molly (the mole), a novel about an unlikely pair of best friends, and is at work on another novel involving a thirteen pound furry purple elephant. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and daughter.

Kristi Petersen's short fiction has been featured in The Adirondack Review, Barbaric Yawp, The Illuminata, Chick Flicks, Afternoon, The Circle, Citizen Culture, I Like Monkeys, New Witch Magazine, The Taj Mahal Review, Toasted Cheese, MudRock: Stories & Tales, Waxing & Waning, The Wheel, and a host of others; her work will also be featured in the upcoming anthology Beacons of Tomorrow (Tyrannosaurs Press). She is pursuing her MFA in Creative Writing at Goddard College in Vermont. Her website is www.kristipetersen.net.

Dianne Rees is a freelance writer. Her fiction works have appeared in Vestal Review (nominated for a Pushcart Prize), Spillway Review, Farmhouse Magazine, The Scruffy Dog Review, Planet Magazine, Universe Pathways, Bewildering Stories, The Harrow , Halfway Down the Stairs, Atomjack, and Neon. Examples of her nonfiction work may found at www.calloohcomm.com.

Daniel R. Robichaud lives and writes in central Massachusetts. Days find him playing the part of research engineer at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. By night, he scribbles strange stories. His fiction and poetry have found homes in markets such as Florida Horror, Forgotten Worlds, Spacesuits and Sixguns, and Goblin Fruit. Look for more stories in such upcoming venues as Until Somebody Loses an Eye (an anthology of humorous horror from Twisted Publications), Vermin (an anthology of creepy, crawling horror from Carnifex Press), Tower of Light Fantasy Magazine (online), and Blazing Adventures Magazine (online).

Jason Sanford has a story forthcoming in Interzone and has published fiction in Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, Tales of the Unanticipated, The Mississippi Review, Pindeldyboz, Diagram, and other journals and magazines. One of his critical essays was recently published in the New York Review of Science Fiction. He is the recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship and edits the literary journal storySouth at http://www.storysouth.com/.

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