Contributors
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Tony Abbott
Tony Abbott has published many books for young readers, including Kringle, Firegirl, The Postcard, and Lunch-Box Dream. Tony teaches in the MFA Creative Writing program at Lesley University, and he blogs at FridayBookReport.com.
Laura Adamczyk
Laura Adamczyk will read you stories, drink your drink, and change the music on your stereo.
Christopher Allen
Christopher Allen's book reviews have appeared in [PANK], Word Riot, Necessary Fiction, The Lit Pub and others. His own fiction has been featured in Eclectica Magazine, Literary Orphans, Change Seven Magazine and over 100 other great places. In 2015, Allen was the recipient of the Ginosko Literary Journal's flash fiction award. He's been a finalist at Glimmer Train and a multiple Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee. He's the managing editor at SmokeLong Quarterly.
Alexander J. Allison
Alexander J. Allison (b. 1991) is a writer from London. His novel The Prodigal is due to be published in 2013.
Megan Alpert
Megan Alpert lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her poetry has appeared in the Denver Quarterly, Harvard Review, Green Mountains Review, and Pebble Lake Review. She is at work on her first poetry collection, titled Unsettled.
Matt Ampleman
Matt Ampleman has lived intermittently as a writer, environmental scientist, and now as a JD candidate at Yale. He spent a year in George Mason University’s MFA program, and plans to use his roles in law and policy to help cultural institutions.
Leah Angstman
Leah Angstman is a transplanted Midwesterner, unsure what feels like home anymore. She writes historical fiction and poetry and is editor-in-chief of Alternating Current Press. Her fiction has appeared in numerous journals, including The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts,Tupelo Quarterly, and Shenandoah. She can be found at leahangstman.com.
Amye Barrese Archer
Amye Barrese Archer has an MFA in Creative Writing from Wilkes University and is the author of No One Ever Looks Up and A Shotgun Life. She currently adjuncts at 9,000 different schools, and is the Reviews Editor for PANK, and the Interviews Editor for Hippocampus Magazine.
David Armand
David Armand teaches at Southeastern Louisiana University, where he also serves as associate editor for Louisiana Literature. In 2010, his first novel, The Pugilist's Wife, was published by Texas Review Press after being named the winner of the George Garrett Fiction Prize. He has since published two more novels, a collection of poetry, and a memoir. David is currently working on his sixth book, The Lord's Acre.
Mary-Kim Arnold
Mary-Kim Arnold's fiction has appeared online at Tin House and Wigleaf, and is forthcoming at The Pinch Journal. Her poems have been published in burntdistrict, Two Serious Ladies, and Sundog Lit. She has written for HTML Giant and for The Rumpus, where she is Assistant Essays Editor, and she is on the staff of Drunken Boat. She lives in Rhode Island.
David S. Atkinson
David S. Atkinson is the author of "Apocalypse All the Time," "Not Quite so Stories," "The Garden of Good and Evil Pancakes," and "Bones Buried in the Dirt." He is a Staff Reader for Digging Through The Fat and his writing appears in "Bartleby Snopes," "Literary Orphans," "Atticus Review," and others.
Wendy Babiak
Wendy Babiak (Conspiracy of Leaves, Plain View Press) lives in Ithaca, NY with her family and writes poetry & prose to subvert the status quo. When she’s not scribbling, she’s doing things like harvesting black walnuts in her neighborhood or learning to bake sourdough and ferment vegetables.
Beasley Barrenton
Beasley Barrenton is the Editor/Head of Publishing/Bomb Shelter Maintenance for Dog On A Chain Press. There is a whimsical tale circulating around campfires in the Southeast speaking to his enjoyment of harassing jackals and his willingness to run down any of the other bastards as well.
Joseph Bates
Joseph Bates’s stories have appeared in such places as New Ohio Review, Identity Theory, and the South Carolina Review. He is the author of The Nighttime Novelist, published in 2010 by Writer’s Digest Books, and teaches in the creative writing program at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
Ken Baumann
Sator Press: Holding great works.
Schuler Benson
Schuler Benson is a Pushcart Prize-nominated author of Southern stories. His fiction and poetry have been featured in Hobart, Kudzu Review, Thunder Clap Press, Cheap Pop Lit, The Fat City Review, and more. His first book is a collection of short fiction titled The Poor Man’s Guide to an Affordable, Painless Suicide.
Jen Besemer
Jen Besemer is the author of Ten Word Problems, Quiet Vertical Movements, and The Earth Is What Happens. A frequent contributor to Rain Taxi Review of Books, Jen also regularly has visual and prose poems in places like BlazeVOX, Otoliths, Artifice, and PANK.
Ben Bever
Ben Bever is a poet and teacher in the Washington, D.C. area. He earned his undergraduate degree from Allegheny College in Pennsylvania, and an MFA in poetry from George Mason University in Northern Virginia. He maintains a blog at bit.ly/bbeverpoet and can be found on Twitter @bbeverpoet.
Gabriel Blackwell
Gabriel Blackwell is the author of Shadow Man: A Biography of Lewis Miles Archer, Critique of Pure Reason, and Neverland, a chapbook with video/audio/illustrations. He is the reviews editor of The Collagist and a contributor to Big Other.
Zak Block
Zak Block is the editor-in-chief of Squawk Back. He has written about popular culture for Tiny Mix Tapes, UInterview, and BOMB Magazine.
David Blomenberg
David Blomenberg teaches at Purdue University. Recently the poetry editor for Sycamore Review, he writes poetry and non-fiction, which has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry Salzburg Review, Artifice, Confrontation, Willows Wept, and other journals.
Jordan Blum
Jordan Blum has an MFA in fiction, and he is currently teaching at various colleges. He's the founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Bookends Review, an online creative arts journal. On his downtime, he composes music, fiction, and poetry while also working as a music journalist. He writes for Popmatters, The Big Takeover, and Rock Society Magazine, among others.
Kristina Born
Kristina Born ain't know a diamond from extremely great salt. Her favorite movie is Ginger Snaps 3.
Mel Bosworth
Mel Bosworth is the two-time Pushcart nominated author of the fiction chapbook When the Cats Razzed the Chickens, the novella Grease Stains, Kismet, and Maternal Wisdom, and the novel Freight.
Gabriel Boyer
Gabriel Boyer is editor-in-chief and co-founder of Mutable Sound, a publishing company and record label. He currently lives in Eugene, OR.
Ryan W. Bradley
Ryan W. Bradley has fronted a punk band, done construction in the Arctic Circle, and managed an independent children's bookstore. He is now a freelance book designer.
Dan Brady
Dan Brady is the poetry editor of Barrelhouse. His poems have appeared in Artifice, Big Lucks, Dark Sky, Gargoyle, Shampoo, and elsewhere.
Lisa Buchs
Lisa Buchs writes and reads in Washington, DC and works in non-profit development. Her thoughts on writing and life can be found at Marigold.
Jacob Budenz
Jacob Budenz is a writer, multi-disciplinary performer, witch, and cabaret queen currently pursuing an MFA at The University of New Orleans.
Ed Bull
Ed Bull is a graduate of the University of Central Florida's MFA program, where he served as the Managing Editor of The Florida Review. While there, his fiction and non-fiction stories occasionally made the small literary magazine circuit, most recently in Burrow Press's 15 Views Volume II: Corridor, Yemassee, Zone 3, Redivider, and SmokeLong Quarterly. He now resides in Georgia, where he is transitioning into network and information security. It's nothing like writing, but it's still pretty cool.
David Bulla
David Bulla is the author of Lincoln’s Censor and an assistant professor of journalism at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi. He has worked as a professor of journalism at Iowa State University and a sports writer in both North Carolina and Indiana.
Ryan Call
Ryan Call is the author of The Weather Stations. He teaches English and coaches cross-country at a high school in Houston.
Zannah Camp
Zannah Camp is a writer, a deep thinker and an actual mom. She survived being outnumbered by clergy in her childhood home. Zannah makes a living as a political communications expert for a prominent non-profit. Her personal writing has appeared on online dating sites, xojane.com and zines in and around her home in exquisite Oakland, CA. An alum of the Yale Writers Conference 2015, Zannah is at work on a short story collection.
Hélène Cardona
Hélène Cardona is author of Dreaming My Animal Selves, Pinnacle Book Award & Reader’s Favorite Book Award winner, Life in Suspension, The Astonished Universe, Ce que nous portons, Dorianne Laux’s translation, and Beyond Elsewhere, Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac's translation. She is Chief Executive Editor of Dublin Poetry Review and Managing Editor of Fulcrum.
Brian Allen Carr
Brian Allen Carr went to the lowest rated MFA program in the country and can do everything better than Seth Abramson.
Jessica Chavez
Currently an upper level creative writing student at The University of Texas at San Antonio, Jessica is a double major in English with a focus on creative writing and Communications.
Alan Cheuse
Alan Cheuse's latest novel, Song of Slaves in the Desert, came out last spring. It will appear in paperback in July 2012.
Brian Contine
Brian has worked at bookstores his entire adult life. By night he writes content for the BookPeople Blog, by day he reads author contracts, submits books for awards, and tries not to get people sued. He collects Garden Gnomes.
Jason Cook
Jason Cook is the editor of Ampersand Books, the Greatest Literary Project of All Time.
David Cotrone
David Cotrone is from Plymouth, MA. His writing has appeared in Fifty-Two Stories, The Rumpus, PANK, elimae, Dark Sky Magazine, Thought Catalog and elsewhere. He is also the editor of Used Furniture Review.
Eugene Cross
Eugene Cross was born and raised in Erie, Pennsylvania and received an MFA from The University of Pittsburgh. His stories have appeared in Narrative Magazine, American Short Fiction, TriQuarterly, Story Quarterly, and Callaloo, among other publications. He's also been the recipient of scholarships from the Chautauqua Writers' Festival and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.
Rachelle Cruz
Rachelle Cruz hosts The Blood-Jet Writing Hour on Blog Talk Radio and is an Emerging Voices Fellow, a Kundiman Fellow, and a VONA writer, as well as the author of Self-Portrait as Rumor and Blood. Her work is forthcoming or has appeared in Bone Bouquet, [PANK], Muzzle Magazine, Splinter Generation, and KCET’s Departures Series, among others.
Mark Cugini
Mark Cugini got chu open. The managing editor of Big Lucks, his work has appeared or is forthcoming in NOÖ, Everyday Genius, Stymie, Petrichor Machine and others. He curates the Three Tents Reading Series in Washington, DC.
Kristina Marie Darling
Kristina Marie Darling is the author of over twenty collections of poetry and hybrid prose, which include VOW, PETRARCHAN, and WOMEN AND GHOSTS, forthcoming from BlazeVOX Books.
Shome Dasgupta
Shome Dasgupta is the author of i am here And You Are Gone (Winner Of The 2010 OW Press Fiction Chapbook Contest), and The Seagull And The Urn (HarperCollins India, 2013) which has been republished in the UK by Accent Press as The Sea Singer (2016). His stories and poems have appeared in Puerto Del Sol, New Orleans Review, NANO Fiction, Everyday Genius, Magma Poetry, and elsewhere. His fiction has been selected to appear in The &Now Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing (&Now Books, 2013). His work has been featured as a storySouth Million Writers Award Notable Story, nominated for The Best Of The Net, and longlisted for the Wigleaf Top 50. He lives in Lafayette, LA and his website can be found at www.shomedome.com.
Carolyn DeCarlo
Carolyn DeCarlo is the author of Strawberry Hill (Pangur Ban Party 2013) and Green Place (Enjoy Occasional Journal 2015) and co-author of two chapbooks, Twilight Zone (NAP 2013) and Bound: An Ode to Falling in Love (Compound Press 2015), with Jackson Nieuwland. She holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of Maryland.
Oliver de la Paz
Oliver de la Paz is the author of three collections of poetry, Names Above Houses, Furious Lullaby (SIU Press 2001, 2007), and Requiem for the Orchard (U. of Akron Press 2010), winner of the Akron Prize for poetry chosen by Martìn Espada.
mensah demary
mensah demary is co-founder & editor-in-chief of Specter Literary Magazine. a regular contributor for PANK Magazine’s blog, Hippocampus Magazine, ArtFaccia, and Peripheral Surveys, mensah currently writes in Camden, New Jersey.
Josh Denslow
Josh Denslow's stories have appeared in Third Coast, Black Clock, Pear Noir!, Cutbank, Wigleaf and The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, among others. He is a staff editor at SmokeLong Quarterly and a blog editor at The Lit Pub. He plays the drums in the band Borrisokane.
Alyssa DiSalvo
Alyssa DiSalvo is a freshman in the Honors Program at American University in Washington, D.C. She is a Data Assistant for The Lit Pub, and an intern with Chrysalis Editorial and Gargoyle Magazine/Paycock Press.
Anthony Doerr
Anthony Doerr is the author of four books: Memory Wall, The Shell Collector, About Grace, and Four Seasons in Rome.
Darrin Doyle
Darrin Doyle's short stories have appeared in Puerto del Sol, The Long Story, Cottonwood, Alaska Quarterly Review, Night Train, Harpur Palate, Laurel Review, The MacGuffin, and other journals.
Lindsey Drager
Lindsey Drager is the author of the novel The Sorrow Proper (Dzanc, 2015). She is a PhD candidate at the University of Denver where she edits the Denver Quarterly.
Matt Dube
Matt Dube teaches creative writing and American lit at a small university in mid-Missouri. He is the fiction editor for the online journal H_NGM_N.
Leslie Kendall Dye
Leslie Kendall Dye is an actor and ballet dancer in New York City. She has one husband and one tiny child with which she shares one tiny apartment. Her writing has appeared in Salon, Vela Magazine, The Rumpus, The Washington Post, The Toast, The Establishment, Brain,Child, Off The Shelf, and other places, but most frequently in her child's sketchbook. She is at work on a book about her brief former life as a Manhattan nanny.
Laura Ender
Laura Ender earned her MFA from Eastern Washington University. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in Ascent, Monkeybicycle, Aethlon, and elsewhere. She is currently at work on a novel.
James Esch
James Esch lives in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and teaches literature and writing at Widener University. Recently, his work has appeared in Shaking Like a Mountain, 322 Review, Willows Wept Review, and juked.
Sarah Rose Etter
Sarah Rose Etter's work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Black Warrior Review, elimae, The Collagist and more. Her chapbook, Tongue Party, is available from Caketrain.
Jenna Leigh Evans
Jenna Leigh Evans writes fiction, nonfiction and book reviews; she also curates the author-interview series Seven Questions for the Working Writer. You can find her at jennaleighevans.com and follow her on Twitter (@jennaleighevans).
Sharon Faelten
Sharon Faelten served as a senior book editor and magazine writer at Rodale, Inc. for 25 years. Most recently, she served as Vice-President of the League of Vermont Writers, a professional organization for authors in all genres. Ms. Faelten is also a member of the Honorary Board of the Burlington Book Festival, Burlington, Vermont.
Paul Fauteux
Paul Fauteux received his MFA from George Mason University, where he was the 2011-2012 Completion Fellow. His recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ampersand, Other Poetry, Burnside Review, Regime and other magazines, and for the advocacy of other fine poets on The Lit Pub. His first chapbook, "The Best Way to Drink Tea," is out from Plan B Press. "How to Un-do Things," a book-length manuscript, was recognized as a semi-finalist in the 11th Annual Slope Editions Book Prize.
Shira Feder
Shira Feder is a college student and New Yorker with a respectable collection of books and a less respectable resume.
Kathy Fish
Kathy Fish guest edited Dzanc Books’ Best of the Web 2010 and has published three collections of short fiction: Together We Can Bury It, Wild Life, and a chapbook in A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness: Four Chapbooks of Short Short Fiction by Four Women.
Erin Fitzgerald
Erin Fitzgerald lives in western Connecticut, and is editor of The Northville Review. Her chapbook "This Morning Will Be Different" appears in the anthology Shut Up / Look Pretty (Tiny Hardcore Press: 2012).
Emily Flamm
Emily Flamm writes, teaches, and raises kids in the Washington, DC, area. Her fiction has been published or is forthcoming in Catapult, Cosmonauts Avenue, and Crab Orchard Review.
Tessa Fontaine
Tessa Fontaine ran away with a circus sideshow. Writings about that adventure can be found at The Rumpus, and other work can be found in Creative Nonfiction, The Normal School, Seneca Review, and more. She lives beside the mountains in Salt Lake City
Heather Fowler
Heather Fowler is the author of Suspended Heart and People with Holes. She received her M.A. in English and Creative Writing from Hollins University, and has been nominated for both the storySouth Million Writers Award and Sundress Publications Best of the Net.
Amelie Frank
Los Angeles native Amélie Frank is the author of five poetry collections, and her work has appeared in print and online in numerous local, national, and international publications. She founded The Sacred Beverage Press with poet Matthew Niblock and produced the acclaimed literary journal Blue Satellite. Her biography appears in both Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who of American Women.
Gabby Gabby
gabby gabby is the author of three self-published e-chapbooks. she has two chapbooks, airplane food and congratulations, you own a large rounded stone at the bottom of the sea forthcoming. her full length collection of poems, alone with other people, is also forthcoming. you can find her blog at http://gabbygabbypoetry.com/
Chris Galvin
Chris Galvin lives in Canada and Vietnam. Her work has appeared in Asian Cha, Room, The Winnipeg Review, PRISM International, Descant and others. She is currently polishing Breakfast under the Bodhi Tree, a book about Vietnam.
Shaun Gannon
Shaun Gannon is the co-creator of Let People Poems. He is an MFA candidate at the Universty of Maryland. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Pop Serial, Everyday Genius, Corduroy Mtn., and more.
James R. Gapinski
James R. Gapinski holds an MFA in creative writing from Goddard College. His work has appeared in Word Riot, NANO Fiction, Juked, Heavy Feather Review, Atticus Review, and elsewhere. He lives in the Boston area with his partner, two cats, and a collection of 8-bit video games.
Molly Gaudry
Molly Gaudry is the author of We Take Me Apart, which was a finalist for the Asian American Literary Awards and shortlisted for the 2011 PEN/Joyce Osterweil. She is the founder of The Lit Pub.
Roxane Gay
Tiny Hardcore Press is a very small publishing concern producing very small books. Our books will fit in your pocket or your purse or your hand. They will most definitely fit in your heart.
Tiffany Gibert
Tiffany Gibert is a writer and communications professional striving to save syntax and endangered words with help from her blog, Books Matter, and her feline sidekick, Maxwell Smart. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Cassandra Gillig
Cassandra Gillig is not a girl, not yet a woman. She has chapbooks forthcoming from NAP and Love Symbol Press. She still lives with her parents.
Teow Lim Goh
Teow Lim Goh lives in Boulder, Colorado. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus and Pilgrimage Magazine.
Nathan Goldman
Nathan Goldman’s creative and critical work appears or is forthcoming in Metazen, HTMLGiant, Full Stop, Agora, and elsewhere. He is a student at St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD, where he is co-editor of the Gadfly and Energeia.
Michael Gray
Michael Gray holds an MFA from California State University-Fresno and won a 2012 AWP Intro Journals Project Award and the 2013 Hot Street Emerging Writers Contest in Poetry, and received a 2014 Best New Poets nomination, among other honors. He also served as an editorial assistant for The Normal School: A Literary Magazine.
Brad Green
Brad Green's work has appeared in The Minnesota Review, The Texas Observer, Surreal South '11, Needle: A Magazine of Noir, and elsewhere. He's an associate editor at PANK magazine and can be found online.
Brian Gresko
Brian Gresko is a stay-at-home dad and writer based in Brooklyn. Publications he has contributed to include The Huffington Post, Salon, The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, and Glimmer Train Stories.
J.C. Hallman
J.C. Hallman is the author of a number of books. Wm & H’ry: A Short Meditation on Literature, Art, Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, and the Correspondence of William and Henry James will appear from the University of Iowa Press in Fall 2012. His blog about the letters can be found here.
Carissa Halston
Carissa Halston is the author of a novella, The Mere Weight of Words, and a novel, A Girl Named Charlie Lester. She currently lives in Boston where she edits a journal called apt and hosts a reading series called Literary Firsts.
Casey Hannan
Casey Hannan writes stories in Kansas City. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in SmokeLong Quarterly, wigleaf, Hobart and Annalemma. He accounts for his time at casey-hannan.com.
Trish Harris
Trish Harris is an independent curator, writer, and artist currently teaching in Michigan. She edits the Pea River Journal and curated and designed the Remaking Moby-Dick project. Her poems, stories, and micromemoirs have appeared in McSweeney’s online tendency, Cortland Review, and Brevity. At Twitter, she is @trishlet.
j/j hastain
j/j hastain is a collaborator, writer and maker of things. j/j performs ceremonial gore. Chasing and courting the animate and potentially enlivening decay that exists between seer and singer, j/j, simply, hopes to make the god/dess of stone moan and nod deeply through the waxing and waning seasons of the moon.
DeWitt Henry
DeWitt Henry is the founding editor of Ploughshares, a novelist and memoirist, and Professor at Emerson College. His most recent book is Sweet Dreams: A Family History.
Aimee Herman
Aimee Herman's poetry can be read in Polari Journal, Mad Rush, and/or journal, Cake Train, and Sous Les Paves. Her full-length book of poetry, to go without blinking, is being published by BlazeVOX Books.
Patrick Hicks
Patrick Hicks is the author of Finding the Gossamer and This London. He is also the editor of A Harvest of Words, which was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. He lives in the Midwest where he is the Writer-in-Residence at Augustana College. In the summer months you'll usually find him poking around Northern Ireland.
Liz Hildreth
Liz Hildreth’s poems, translations, and essays have been published in Hayden's Ferry Review, McSweeney's, Parthenon West, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Forklift, Ohio, among other places. She lives in Chicago and works as a writer in online education.
Donora Hillard
Donora Hillard is the poetry editor of Midwestern Gothic and the author of Theology of the Body and Covenant; a third collection, Jeff Bridges, is in progress. She teaches at Wayne State University in Detroit and is completing a doctorate emphasizing poetics and postpedagogy.
Dave Housley
Dave Housley's second collection of short fiction, If I Knew the Way, I Would Take You Home, is coming out next year from Dark Sky Books. He's one of the editors and all-around do-stuff people at Barrelhouse magazine, and co-organizes DC's Conversations and Connections writer's conference.
Anthony Immergluck
Anthony Immergluck is a writer, banjoist, traveler and dog person. He recently received his MFA in Poetry from NYU-Paris and currently lives in Chicago.
Ashley Inguanta
Ashley Inguanta is a Florida-based writer and photographer. Keep up to date with her publications and travels at ashleyinguanta.com.
Jamie Iredell
Jamie Iredell is the author of Prose. Poems. a Novel. and The Book of Freaks. He was a cofounder of New South and is fiction editor of Atticus Review. He is Art Director of C&R Press, and lives in Atlanta, where he teaches at Savannah College of Art and Design.
Simon Jacobs
Simon Jacobs lives in New York City. His first book, SATURN, a collection of David Bowie stories, is out now from Spork Press.
Miguel Jimenez
Miguel Jimenez received his MFA in fiction from California State University, Fresno. Much of his work explores the commingling of race and urban landscapes, as well as diaspora communities in the U.S. He lives in Greencastle, Indiana, where he is an Assistant Professor of English at DePauw University.
Jeni Jobst
Eugenia (Jeni) Jobst is the Marketing and Development Associate for Pine Mountain Music Festival. She received a BA in English from Michigan Technological University and is beginning her MA in English this spring. She is editor of PULPIT Magazine.
Ryan Joe
Ryan Joe is the fiction editor of Fawlt Magazine. Most recently, he illustrated the cover of the YA novel Tara Duncan and the Spellweavers (forthcoming spring 2012). He (very occasionally) blogs.
Kase Johnstun
Kase Johnstun lives and writes in Ogden, Utah. He is the author of the recently released Beyond the Grip of Craniosynostosis (McFarland & Co), which has been featured in Pennsylvania Parenting Magazine, Portland Family Magazine, The Ogden Standard Examiner (where he was awarded 40 under 40 for 2016), and many other places, as well as having mentions in the Chicago Tribune and the Seattle Times. It was recently awarded the Gold Quill (First Place) in Creative Nonfiction by the League of Utah Writers for 2015. His work has been published widely by literary journals and trade magazines, including, but not limited to, Yahoo Parenting, Creative Nonfiction Magazine, and The Chronicle Review. He is the co-editor/author of Utah Reflections: Stories from the Wasatch Front (The History Press), which was name the Salt Lake Tribune’s book of the month for August 2014 and the League of Utah Writers Recommended Read in Nonfiction 2015 (Third Place). His essay collection Tortillas for Honkies was named a finalist for the 2013 Autumn House press Nonfiction Awards (most of the essays in the collection have found homes in places like The Watershed Review, Label Me Latino/a, Prime Number Literary Magazine, and Animal Literary Magazine).
Tim Jones-Yelvington
Tim Jones-Yelvington lives, writes, and performs in Chicago. He is the author of Evan's House and the Other Boys Who Live There and This is a Dance Movie! He edits PANK's annual queer issue, and serves on the board of directors of Artifice.
Dave K.
Dave K. is a writer, graphic designer, and A/V technician who lives in Baltimore. When he's not writing, Dave is a brown dwarf substar located 28.6 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Pisces.
Joe Kapitan
Joe Kapitan lives in northern Ohio, near the third notch on the Rust Belt. Some of his recent short fiction has appeared online at decomP, Untoward, Wigleaf and Per Contra, and in print at The Cincinnati Review, Bluestem and A Cappella Zoo. He qualified for the 2012 US Olympic team in men's freestyle hammock.
Steven Karl
Steven Karl is an editor at Sink Review and a news editor for Coldfront Magazine. Don’t Try This On Your Piano or am i still standing here with my hair down, a collaborative chapbook with Angela Veronica Wong, is available from Lame House Press.
Mike Kleine
Mike Kleine teaches high school-level English in the south of France. He received a BA in French. Someday, he’ll begin his MA in English.
Rachel Kolman
Rachel Kolman is a freelance writer, editor, and professor in Orlando, FL. She received her MFA in fiction from the University of Central Florida and currently teaches Composition at Valencia College. Her fiction has most recently been published in Bodega Magazine and WhiskeyPaper. She also writes online for Bustle and The Drunken Odyssey.
MaryAnne Kolton
MaryAnne Kolton’s work has appeared publications including the Lost Children Charity Anthology, Thrice Fiction and Connotation Press among others. Her story “A Perfect Family House” was shortlisted for The Glass Woman Prize.
Dean Kostos
Dean Kostos’s forthcoming poetry collection is Pierced by Night-Colored Threads. His books include This Is Not a Skyscraper (recipient of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award, selected by Mark Doty), Rivering, Last Supper of the Senses, The Sentence That Ends with a Comma, and Celestial Rust. He edited Mama’s Boy and Pomegranate Seeds.
Josh Kremer
Josh Kremer is a recent graduate of English Lit and Creative Writing at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
Emily Lackey
Emily Lackey is a student at the Bread Loaf School of English and blogs at A Word For Everything.
Evan Lavender-Smith
Evan Lavender-Smith is the author of From Old Notebooks and Avatar. He lives and works in New Mexico.
Rachel Levy
Rachel Levy is currently a PhD student in creative writing at the University of Utah and co-editor of DREGINALD. Her fiction can be found in Fence, Gigantic, and Pank, among other places.
Brian Libgober
Brian Libgober is a polling analyst for Obama's reelection campaign. He graduated from University of Chicago with a degree in mathematics and philosophy in 2010. Previous reviews of his have appeared in [PANK], The Hypocrite Reader, and the Midway Review. Follow him @libgober.
Samuel Ligon
Samuel Ligon is the author of Drift and Swerve, and Safe in Heaven Dead. He teaches at Eastern Washington University in Spokane, and is the editor of Willow Springs and Bark.
Kenji C. Liu
Kenji C. Liu is a Pushcart Prize nominee and first runner-up finalist for the Poets & Writers 2013 California Writers Exchange Award, his writing has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous journals, including CURA, The Baltimore Review, RHINO Poetry, Generations, Lantern Review, and others.
Peter Tieryas Liu
Peter Tieryas Liu is the author of Amazon best-seller, Watering Heaven — which was long-listed for the Frank O’Connor Int’l Short Story Award — Bald New World, and The Wingless. He has a variety of work published in places like the Evergreen Review, Gargoyle, New Letters, and Rain Taxi. Follow him at tieryas.wordpress.com.
Patrick Lofgren
Patrick Lofgren is a writer living in Yonkers NY, where he is pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College.
Kirsty Logan
Kirsty Logan writes fiction and has tattooed wrists. Say hello at kirstylogan.com.
Nathan Logan
Nathan Logan is the author of three chapbooks; the latest is Arby's Combo Roundup. He is the editor at Spooky Girlfriend Press and is a Ph.D. student in Creative Writing at the University of North Texas.
Alex McElroy
Alex McElroy's fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Diagram, Tin House, Memorious, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and more work can be found here. He currently serves as the International Editor for Hayden's Ferry Review.
Sheila McMullin
Sheila McMullin received her MFA from George Mason University. Her chapbook Like Water was a finalist for Ahsahtha Press’s 2013 chapbook competition. For more thoughts, please visit: www.moonspitpoetry.com.
LaTanya McQueen
LaTanya McQueen's stories have been published in The North American Review, Fourteen Hills, New Orleans Review, Potomac Review, and others. She received her MFA from Emerson College and is currently in the PhD program at the University of Missouri.
Rob MacDonald
Rob MacDonald lives in Boston and is the editor of the online journal Sixth Finch. His poetry has appeared in Octopus, H_NGM_N, notnostrums, The Lumberyard and other journals. Last New Death, a chapbook, is available from Scantily Clad Press.
Nikki Magennis
Nikki Magennis is a writer and artist. She lives in Scotland. Her latest book is a poetry chapbook: Meeting Buddha in Dumbarton.
Mike Maggio
Mike Maggio’s reviews have appeared in various publications, to which he now adds The Lit Pub. His latest book is a collection of short fiction called The Keepers (March Street Press, 2011).
Sarah Manguso
Sarah Manguso is the author, most recently, of The Two Kinds of Decay, which was named an Editors' Choice by the New York Times Sunday Book Review. Her next book, The Guardians, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus & Giroux and Granta Books next month.
Janna Marlies Maron
Janna Marlies Maron is the author of the ebook Bold is Beautiful and the publisher of Under the Gum Tree.
Ilana Masad
Ilana Masad is an Israeli-American finishing up her degree at Sarah Lawrence College. She has been published in After the Fall, The Oxford Student newspaper, has won two fiction contests on Tin House’s blog, and has had a story featured on the front page of Wordpress.com. Most recently, she has won the Rex Warner Literary Prize at Oxford University.
Joe Milazzo
Joe Milazzo is the author of The Terraces. His writing has mostly recently appeared in H_NGM_N, Super Arrow, The Collagist, and Exits Are.
Lydia Millet
Lydia Millet is the author of Ghost Lights, a novel recently released from Norton, as well as Love In Infant Monkeys, How the Dead Dream, Oh Pure and Radiant Heart, Everyone’s Pretty, and My Happy Life, which won the 2003 PEN/USA Award for Fiction.
Lara Mimosa Montes
Lara Mimosa Montes is a poet, performer, and PhD candidate based in New York. Her poems have been published in ONandOnScreen, The Fanzine, Bone Bouquet, Women's Studies Quarterly, and Two Serious Ladies. Newer poems are forthcoming in FENCE, Triple Canopy, DIAGRAM, and JERRY. She was born in the Bronx.
Kimberly Campbell Moore
Kimberly Campbell Moore spends a lot of time reading. When a book isn't consuming her day, she can often be found writing about books. She co-authors the blog 11 and a half years of books. She also can be found in Sage Magazine Online writing about books.
k.a.g. moran
k.a.g. moran is a freelance writer and gifted and talented educator living in Maine with her husband and two children. She has reviewed hundreds of children's books for Foreword, Amazon, and her blog.
Sam Moss
Sam Moss is from Cascadia, but he currently lives in Laurentia. He has had work in theNewerYork, Signed and Gone Lawn. His first fiction chapbook "Rural Information" was published in January 2014 by the Rockwell Press Collective. You can find more of Sam’s writing, as well as an interview with Mark from 2012, on his blog Perfidious Script.
Erika Moya
Erika Moya is a writer from Los Angeles. She currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Amber Nelson
Amber Nelson lives in Seattle where she forages for blackberries and rides her bike for miles and miles.
Maggie Nelson
Maggie Nelson is the author of eight books of poetry, memoir, criticism, and scholarship, most recently The Art of Cruelty and Bluets. Her 2007 book Women, The New York School, and Other True Abstractions has recently been released in paperback. She currently lives in Los Angeles and teaches at CalArts.
Christopher Newgent
Despite his reputation, Christopher Newgent probably does not want to fight you. He would probably rather cook you bacon.
Jackson Nieuwland
Jackson Nieuwland likes unicorns. They are the editor of LEFT.
Adam Novy
Adam Novy is the author of a novel, The Avian Gospels, published by Hobart. His work has been published in Dossier, The Believer, The Collagist, The Denver Quarterly, and American Letters and Commentary.
Matthew Oglesby
Matthew Oglesby has an MFA in fiction from George Mason University. He lives and teaches in Virginia.
Joseph Michael Owens
Joseph Michael Owens is the author of Shenaniga
Megan Paonessa
Megan Paonessa is the co-founder of Flying House, an annual artist-writer collaboration project based out of Chicago. A graduate of the University of Alabama, she has served as an assistant fiction editor for Black Warrior Review and has recently completed her first novel.
Melanie Jane Parker
Melanie Jane Parker is a freelance writer of short fiction, essays, and poetry. She attained a position at A Public Space as Events & Outreach Coordinator through an internship in 2011.
Charles Parsons
Charles Parsons is a professional writer living in the township of Black Horse, Ohio with his cat. He has an MA in English Literature and a BA in Literature and Writing Minor. His work has appeared in regional magazines and various little journals. In addition to writing, he reads, indexes, and edits manuscripts for a living.
Alex M. Pruteanu
Alex has published fiction in [PANK], Connotation Press, Specter Magazine, and others. He is the author of the novella Short Lean Cuts and the collection Gears.
Karolle Rabarison
Karolle Rabarison reads the internet and eats her vegetables. Follow her on Twitter
Ryan Rafferty
Ryan Rafferty is a carnivorous reader and listener who likes marshmallows, baseball, and Prince. He's also an armchair writer who muses on all things pop culture irregularly at Oh, Behold! Currently he works in digital media in New York City, saving the world one banner ad at a time.
Gillian Ramos
Gillian Ramos is a blogger, sometimes baker / crafter, and full-time book hoarder. Her fiction has also been featured in Dr. Hurley’s Snake Oil Cure. She currently serves as a blog contributor for Side B Magazine and the Cobalt Review.
edward j rathke
edward j rathke lives here and there, finds his name in print occasionally, but mostly stares at the walls and waits for stories to fall out. His debut novel, Ash Cinema, was published by KUBOA Press.
Ron Riekki
Ron Riekki's books include U.P.: a novel (nominated for the Sewanee Writers Series and Great Michigan Read), The Way North: Collected Upper Peninsula New Works (2014 Michigan Notable Book awarded by the Library of Michigan, Eric Hoffer Book Award finalist, Midwest Book Award finalist, Foreword Book of the Year finalist, and Next Generation Indie Book Award finalist), and Here: Women Writing on Michigan's Upper Peninsula (2016 IPPY/Independent Publisher Book Award Gold Medal Great Lakes—Best Regional Fiction and Next Generation Indie Book Award—Short Story finalist). Riekki has three books upcoming with Michigan State University Press and McFarland.
Joseph Riippi
Joseph Riippi wrote Research: a novel for performance, which is currently in development for full production in Los Angeles and New York in 2012-13. His books include A Cloth House, The Orange Suitcase, and Do Something! Do Something! Do Something!
Ethel Rohan
Ethel Rohan is the author of Hard to Say and Cut Through the Bone, which was named a 2010 Notable Story Collection by The Story Prize.
Kathleen Rooney
Kathleen Rooney is the author of For You, For You I Am Trilling These Songs and the memoir Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object.
Robert James Russell
Robert James Russell is the co-founding editor of the literary journal Midwestern Gothic. His debut novel, Sea of Trees, was published by Winter Goose Publishing.
Matthew Salesses
Matthew Salesses is the author of a novella, The Last Repatriate, and two chapbooks: Our Island of Epidemics and We Will Take What We Can Get. He edits fiction and writes a column about his new baby for the Good Men Project.
Tim Sandel
Tim Sandel’s work can be found in various small literary journals. He has taught writing in both prisons and schools.
Matthew Savoca
Matthew Savoca was born in 1982 and now splits his time between Philadelphia and New York. His first book of poetry is long love poem with descriptive title. Kendra Grant Malone was born in 1984. Her first book of poetry, Everything is Quiet, was published in 2010. She lives in Brooklyn.
Elisabeth L. Schmitt
E. L. Schmitt’s poetry has been published in Four and Twenty, Sagebrush Review, and Three Line Poetry. Her nonfiction has previously appeared in Monkeys with Typewriters and is forthcoming in The Rectangle.
Michael J. Seidlinger
Michael J. Seidlinger is the author of The Day We Delay, In Great Company, The Artist in Question, and The Sky Conducting. When he isn't consumed with language, he's transforming into a graphic artist, musician, and professional boxer.
Brooke Shaffner
Brooke grew up on the Texas-Mexico border and her novel, Borderlands, about the daughter of undocumented Mexican immigrants who becomes a performance artist, shifts between that landscape and the landscape of New York. Brooke has just begun publicizing three summer workshops, which you can read about here.
Peter Sheehy
Over the years, Peter Sheehy has organized his bookcase by title, by publisher, by color, by size, and once with spines facing in, but what a disaster that was. His fiction has appeared in Catamaran Literary Reader, Little Star Weekly, Chicago Quarterly Review, and The Madison Review, among others.
Matthew Sherling
Matthew Sherling lives in San Francisco. He runs an interview blog called Cutty Spot & an online lit magazine, Gesture. Among other places, his work appears or is upcoming in The Columbia Review, The Believer, Thought Catalog, Fanzine, BIRP!, NAP, Upliterature & Banango Lit.
Eric Shonkwiler
Eric Shonkwiler is a writer preoccupied with ruination. His latest work can be found in [PANK] Magazine, Midwestern Gothic, and Peripheral Surveys.
Bradley Sides
Bradley Sides is a writer and English instructor. He is a regular contributor to BookBrowse. His work appears at Electric Literature, Fiction Southeast,
Lee Slonimsky
Lee Slonimsky’s most recent collection of poems isWandering Electron. He has poetry and prose in The Carolina Quarterly, Connecticut Review, Measure, New Ohio Review, The New York Times, and Poetry Daily, among others. Lee manages a hedge fund with an interest in the developmentally disabled, Ocean Partners LP.
Sam Song
“His name is Sam, and his life is a Song,” said his high school painting teacher. Sam is a Data Assistant here at Lit Pub, and loves his job very much. He just graduated fresh out of a suburban Maryland high school and shall attend St. Lawrence University beginning the fall of 2014.
Jeremy Spencer
Jeremy Spencer is the founder/editor of The Scrambler and Scrambler Books both based out of Sacramento, CA. Reach him at editor@scramblerbooks.com.
Angie Spoto
Angie Spoto is a senior at Lake Forest College. She manages the blog Ms. Comix and the nonprofit The Uncovered Artistry Project.
Greg Stahl
Greg Stahl is a bookseller for the only remaining big national chain and he writes reviews on Goodreads. He once wrote a novel for NaNoWriMo, it was about burritos and it will probably never be published, which is a great loss to Western Literature.
Mike Stein
Mike Stein received his MFA in Creative Nonfiction from George Mason University’s Creative Writing Program. A former Editor of So to Speak, he is a Senior Staff Writer at DCBeer.com. His work has been published in New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Oxford, England and online. He lives in SE Washington, D.C. with wife Sarah, and dogs, Athena and Bock. He brews beers that no longer exist.
Jacob Steinberg
Jacob Steinberg is the author of This isn't about Jon Ross, it's about art and Your Eyes Saw My Unformed Limbs. His Spanish poetry collection Magulladón is forthcoming on Editorial Triana in Buenos Aires. He is the editor of chronos (loves) kairos and intlitlibrary.
K. M. A. Sullivan
K. M. A. Sullivan has been awarded residencies at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in creative non-fiction and from Vermont Studio Center in poetry. She is the editor of Vinyl Poetry and the owner and publisher of YesYes Books.
Christi R. Suzanne
Christi R. Suzanne co-founded a monthly book group in 2011 called MBG por vida (Mini Book Group for life), a group dedicated to the art form of the novella. Her stories and personal essays are published in Crack the Spine, The Splinter Generation, Circa: A Literary Review and Wonder and Risk. She has recently completed writing her first novel. Incidentally, she loves to watch dogs sleep.
Mathias Svalina
Mathias Svalina is a mechanism for getting cute photos of his dog, D'Count, on to the Internet. He is also the author of I Am A Very Productive Entrepreneur & Destruction Myth, and he co-edits Octopus Books.
Elizabeth Taddonio
Elizabeth Taddonio is a dog person with cat person sensibilities. Her puns are always intended and her lolz are never ironic. She lives on the Internet.
Michael B. Tager
Michael B. Tager is the Book Reviews Editor for Atticus Review, the Managing Editor of Mason Jar Press and a writer of prose and poetry. His work has appeared in Barrelhouse, Electric Literature and elsewhere. He is wary of bears.
Diana Tappert
Diana Tappert is a DC native and a student at Johns Hopkins University. An intern for The Lit Pub, she is pursuing a career in publishing.
Susan Tepper
Susan Tepper is the author of From the Umberplatzen: A Love Story and has published well over 100 stories, poems, essays and interviews in journals worldwide, and has received six nominations for the Pushcart Prize.
TC Tolbert
TC Tolbert earned his MFA in Poetry from UA in 2005 and currently teaches Composition at The University of Arizona and Pima Community College.
David Tomaloff
David Tomaloff builds things out of ampersands and light. His work has appeared in publications such as Metazen, Heavy Feather Review, Northville Review, CBS Chicago, Necessary Fiction, HTML Giant, A-Minor, Pank, and elimae.
Meg Tuite
Meg Tuite's writing has appeared in numerous journals including Berkeley Fiction Review, Epiphany, JMWW, One, the Journal, Monkeybicycle and Boston Literary Magazine. She is the fiction editor of The Santa Fe Literary Review and Connotation Press, and is also the author of Domestic Apparition, Disparate Pathos, and Reverberations.
J. A. Tyler
J. A. Tyler is the author of Inconceivable Wilson, A Man of Glass & All the Ways We Have Failed, & A Shiny, Unused Heart. He is also the founding editor of Mud Luscious Press.
Sarena Ulibarri
Sarena Ulibarri is nearing the end of her MFA. She's a first reader for Timber Journal and an occasional judge for NYC Midnight contests. Her fiction has appeared in Birkensnake, Lightspeed, The First Line, The Coachella Review, Monkeybicycle and elsewhere.
Leah Umansky
Leah Umansky’s first book of poems, Domestic Uncertainties, is out now by BlazeVOX [Books.] Her Mad-Men inspired chapbook, Don Dreams and I Dream is forthcoming from Kattywompus Press in early 2014. She has been a contributing writer for BOMB Magazine’s BOMBLOG and Tin House, a poetry reviewer for The Rumpus and a live twitterer for the Best American Poetry Blog. She also hosts and curates the COUPLET Reading Series.
Jacqueline Valencia
Jacqueline Valencia lives in Toronto and has published two chapbooks, “Tristise” and “Maybe.” She’s currently working on her first graphic novel. Her writings can be found in Little Fiction, Amelia’s Magazine, and Dead Gender.
Robert Vaughan
Robert Vaughan lives in Milwaukee where he leads writing roundtables at Redbird-Redoak Writing. He is a fiction editor at JMWW magazine and Thunderclap! Press, and he co-hosts Flash Fiction Fridays for WUWM’s Lake Effect.
Marc Vincenz
Marc Vincenz is Swiss-British, was born in Hong Kong, and currently divides his time between Zurich, Reykjavik, and New York. His work has appeared in many journals, including Washington Square Review, Fourteen Hills, The Potomac, The Canary, Saint Petersburg Review, The Bitter Oleander, and Guernica. His latest book is Mao's Mole.
Chris Vola
Chris Vola's writing appears or has appeared in The Rumpus, PopMatters, The Collagist, Rain Taxi, The Brooklyn Rail, elimae, and elsewhere.
Alana Noel Voth
Alana Noel Voth never writes on a full stomach. Her story collection, Dog Men, is now available from Tiny Hardcore Press. You can also find her on Twitter.
Ray Vukcevich
Ray Vukcevich's latest book is Boarding Instructions from Fairwood Press. His other books are Meet Me in the Moon Room and The Man of Maybe Half-a-Dozen Faces.
Elizabeth Wade
Elizabeth Wade holds degrees from Davidson College and the University of Alabama. She blogs here.
Tim Waldron
Tim Waldron is the author of the short-story collection World Takes, published by Word Riot Press. His fiction has appeared in The Literary Review, The McNeese Review, The Serving House Book of Infidelity, Dogzplot, Necessary Fiction, Sententia, Monkeybicycle, The Atticus Review, and What’s Your Exit? He is a fiction editor with Best New Writing.
Michael Joseph Walsh
Michael Joseph Walsh lives in Fairfax, Virginia and is the poetry editor for Phoebe: A Journal of Literature and Art. His work is forthcoming in Fence.
Brian Warfield
Brian Warfield lives in Philadelphia and writes short stories.
Brandi Wells
Brandi Wells is editor of Black Warrior Review and a web editor at Hobart. She is the author of Please Don’t Be Upset and the forthcoming This Boring Apocalypse. Her writing appears or is forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, Sycamore Review, Fairy Tale Review, Forklift Ohio, Indiana Review and other journals.
Robert Alan Wendeborn
Robert Alan Wendeborn lives and writes in Portland, OR. His poems and reviews can be found in The Collagist, >kill author, PANK, and other cool places. He blogs for Uncanny Valley, and you can follow him on Twitter @rawbbie.
Chris Wiewiora
Chris Wiewiora is from Orlando, Florida. He earned an MFA in Creative Writing and Environment at Iowa State University and a Wilderness First Responder certificate at University of Missouri—Columbia via Venture Out/S.O.L.O. He has worked a variety of odd-jobs including crossing guard, gardener, carpenter's assistant, bus driver, and dishwasher. Now, he and his wife work at Canyonlands Field Institute in Moab, Utah. His essays have also been published on The Awl, The Billfold, The Good Men Project, The Hairpin, The Rumpus, and many other magazines beginning with the definite article “the.”
Steve Williams
Steven Williams holds in MFA in fiction from Rutgers University-Newark, where he was the recipient of the Chancellor’s Stipend and a teaching assistantship. He has taught writing at Rutgers-Newark, Long Island University, and St. John’s University.
Colin Winnette
Colin Winnette is the author of three books: Revelation, Animal Collection, and Fondly (forthcoming fromAtticus Books in 2013). He was the recipient of the 2012 Sonora Review's Short Fiction Award, and his writing has appeared or is forthcoming in American Short Fiction, The Believer, and Hobart, among others. Colin lives in San Francisco.
Ryan Woldruff
Ryan Woldruff is a Ph.D. Candidate in English at the University of Tennessee. He lives in Knoxville with his wife, daughter, and his dog Zelda. He is currently at work on a novel.
Andrew Worthington
Andrew Worthington is the editor of Keep This Bag Away From Children. His work has been published in various spots on the Internet and in print.
Li-Xian Wu
Li-Xian Wu is a college student in New Jersey. She is a book blogger and is a little obsessed with literature. She writes in her spare time, whenever her brain feels like exploding, to relieve it.
Liz Wyckoff
Liz Wyckoff's short fiction has been published in Annalemma, The Collagist, and fwriction : review, and her nonfiction has previously appeared in Slice magazine and the Tin House blog. She currently does book publicity for A Strange Object, Barrelhouse, and Penn State Press.
Mike Young
Magic Helicopter Press is literature with a daisy for a rotor. We land on your head.
darija žilić
darija žilić is a croatian poet, journalist and literary critic. her latest books are dance, modesty, dance (poems, 2010), muse out of the ghetto (essays, 2010), parallel gardens (interviews, 2010) and nomads and hybrids (essays, 2011).