Thomas Burke grew up outside Chicago, received a BA from Union College and an MFA from UMASS Amherst. He has lived in Asia and Europe, and spent time in Africa, South America, and Central America.

Sam Farahmand is a writer from Los Angeles. His debut novel Chimero is available via dD.

Bill Cheng graduated from Baruch College with a degree in Creative Writing. His fiction has appeared in Ballyhoo Stories. He lives in Queens, New York and is currently applying to graduate school.

Neale Jones is a graduate student in Creative Writing at San Francisco State University. He has a devoted love of nature and finds much of his inspiration there. His short fiction has appeared three times

Anne Elliott has done spoken word in NYC since the early 90’s, appearing (with and without ukulele) at the Whitney Museum, KGB Bar, the Knitting Factory, and St. Mark’s Poetry Project. She is the big

Katherine Wessling has been everything from a bicycle courier to a fashion stylist at a magazine, but she’s happiest when she’s writing or acting. Her personal essays have been published in Swing and Speak magazines

Nora Maynard has received fiction fellowships from the Millay Colony for the Arts, the Ragdale Foundation, the Ucross Foundation, and Blue Mountain Center, and is a 2007 winner of the Bronx Writers’ Center/Bronx Council on

Gregory Pardlo is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and a translation grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has received additional fellowships from the New York Times,