

Jessamyn Johnston Smyth’s writing has appeared in American Letters and Commentary, Red Rock Review (forthcoming), Nth Position, Abalone Moon, qarrtsiluni, and other journals and anthologies. She won listing in Best American Short Stories/100 Distinguished Stories of 2005, and has received a Pushcart Prize nomination, a Bread Loaf Writer's Conference grant, a Vermont Community Foundation Artist Grant, and a writing grant from Change, Incorporated. Jessamyn has just finished a collection written during a year spent in the forest, and is working on placing Green Mountain Prose Poem. She has several other books in progress.
Amy Wiggins grew up on a soggy island near Seattle. She went away to Chicago for college, saw that it was flat, and returned to Seattle. She now works as a nanny and consultant.
Kristin Fouquet captures images from her beloved city of New Orleans. She has a collection of short stories available now through Rank Strangers Press.
Lynn Kinsey lives on a thirty-thousand-acre Colorado ranch (owned by a rich businessman from Texas) with her cowboy husband, three small children, two cats, 10 fish (one almost dead five still alive), and five horses. She is an avid reader, writer, and loves being a recluse. She is working towards her MFA in creative writing so she can buy her own thirty-thousand-acre ranch some day. “Social interaction for me is chatting with the cashier at Wal-Mart once a month.”
Sarah R. Bloom is a fine art photographer living outside Philadelphia, Pa. with her daughter and a husband she imported from England. Her work has appeared in and around the Philadelphia area including The Art of the State show in Harrisburg in 2008. She began taking self-portraits in August of 2006 and began a project to take a daily self-portrait for a year (she did it for two years), and has cultivated the self-portrait as her primary (but by no means only) format for communicating her art. Sarah’s website, “Sad and Beautiful World,” is @ www.sadandbeautiful.com
Dorothee Lang is a writer, web freelancer, and editor of BluePrintReview + Daily s-Press. She lives in Germany, and currently is into skies and microformats. Recent publications include: elimae, Nanoism, The, Dogzplot, eclectica, Wheelhouse, Locus Novus. For more about her, visit her at blueprint21.de.
Richard Godwin’s story “Chemical” is due to be published shortly in hard copy in the anthology “Back in 5 Minutes” by Little Episodes Publishers, which will be on sale at bookshops and also through Amazon.
His play “The Cure-All,” in which a group of confidence tricksters use the New Age to fleece their venal customers, has been produced on the London stage and his stories have been published in various magazines. You can find them at A Twist of Noir, Disenthralled, Gloom Cupboard, Word Catalyst, Future Earth, Danse Macabre, and South Jersey Underground, among others.
You can follow Richard online @ http://twitter.com/stanzazone.
Len Kuntz lives on a lake in rural Washington State with an eagle and three pesky beavers. His short fiction appears in over forty lit journals at also at lenkuntz.blogspot.com. He’s currently at work on a novel.
Lucian Stanculescu’s work can be found @ http://negativefeedback.deviantart.com/
Christoffer Habter’s work can be found @ http://habter.deviantart.com/
Michael J. Solender spends too much time wishing he knew then what he knows now. He blogs here: http://notfromhereareyou.blogspot.com/
Chad Redden currently lives in Indianapolis, Indiana where he attends IUPUI. His blog is Box of Rocks http://chadredden.blogspot.com.
Wayne Scheer's “Revealing Moments” is available as a free download at http://pearnoir.com/thumbscrews.htm
Tomas Moniz lives, writes, and plays in northern California.
Andrew Bowen’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Prick of the Spindle, Nanoism, elimae, The Legendary, decomP, Wrong Tree Review, Metazen, Pic Fic, and Bartleby-Snopes. He is founder of Divine Dirt Quarterly.
Matt Mok lives in New Hampshire, but spent his formative years in Queens, New York. He is a freelance goblin bounty hunter who spends his spare time free-climbing bell towers, running with wolf packs, and fabricating fantastic lies about himself.
Susan Gee blogs at concreteandflowers.blogspot.com.
William Lange lives in Minnesota, where he studies Creative Writing, at Concordia University.
Louise Norlie’s publications have appeared in Sein und Werden, decomP, otoliths and elsewhere. Her writing will also be included in the Quantum Genre on the Planet of the Arts anthology from Crossing Chaos Enigmatic Ink. Meanwhile, she has been putting in her time in a bureaucratic cubicle where she shuffles papers and pushes buttons deep within the belly of a large building. Visit her apathetically maintained blog at louise-norlie.blogspot.com.
Tres Crow has been writing for nearly his whole life and has recently had three of his stories published, in Down in the Dirt, AscentAspirations, and on Metalsucks.net. He is also the author of the blog Dog Eat Crow World.
Paul D. Brazill was born in Hartlepool, England and lives in Bydgoszcz, Poland. He has had stories in A Twist Of Noir, Beat To A Pulp, Blink Ink and other such classy joints. He can be found stalking http://pdbrazill.blogspot.com.
Miss Alister’s mind is erased every night. Each day begins with a recorded briefing of her particulars. She records her retrogression at www.missalister.wordpress.com.