Contributors
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.
Alexander J. Allison
Alexander J. Allison (b. 1991) is a writer from London. His novel The Prodigal is due to be published in 2013.
Matt Ampleman
Matt Ampleman is an MFA student at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. He received the James Merrill Prize for undergraduate poetry at Washington University in St. Louis. Ask him about geology.
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.
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.
Ken Baumann
Sator Press: Holding great works.
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.
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.
Jordan Blum
Jordan Blum recently received his MFA in fiction, and he is currently teaching at various colleges and universities. On his downtime, he composes music, fiction, and poetry while also working as a music journalist.
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 Boston and works in non-profit development. Her thoughts on writing and life can be found at Marigold.
Brian Allen Carr
Brian Allen Carr went to the lowest rated MFA program in the country and can do everything better than Seth Abramson.
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.
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.
Shome Dasgupta
Shome Dasgupta's website, The Laughing Yeti, plays venue to a series of posts by writers tackling their thoughts on reading and its meaning to them. Linked to this concept, the On Reading Series will also exhibit at The Lit Pub for its featured authors.
Carolyn DeCarlo
Carolyn DeCarlo enjoys hugging kittens but lives in a building where pets aren't allowed in Washington, DC. She's working on her MFA in Fiction at the University of Maryland. She is the editor of the lit mag UP.
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 Black Clock, A cappella Zoo, Storyglossia and Twelve Stories, among others. He lives in Dripping Springs, Texas and 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.
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.
Paul Fauteux
Paul Fauteux is an MFA candidate at George Mason University, where he is the 2011-2012 Completion Fellow. His chapbook, "The Best Way to Drink Tea," is out from Plan B Press.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 (due out in June from Aqueous Books), 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.
j/j hastain
j/j hastain lives in Colorado with xir beloved and is the author of our bodies as beauty inducers, we in my Trans, prurient anarchic omnibus, long past the presence of common, a womb-shaped wormhole, as well as many chapbooks and artist’s 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Alex M. Pruteanu
Alex has published fiction in [PANK], Connotation Press, Specter Magazine, and others. He is the author of novella Short Lean Cuts.
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 he stares at the walls and waits for stories to fall out. More of his life and words may be found at edwardjrathke.wordpress.com.
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-founder of the literary journal Midwestern Gothic. His first novel, Sea of Trees, will be released in May 2012 by Winter Goose Publishing. Robert lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Alana Noel Voth
Alana Noel Voth never writes on a full stomach. Her first book, Fall, is forthcoming from Tiny Hardcore Press in 2012.
Elizabeth Wade
Elizabeth Wade holds degrees from Davidson College and the University of Alabama. She blogs here.
Brandi Wells
Brandi Wells is an MFA candidate at the University of Alabama and her book, Please Don't be Upset, was just released by Tiny Hardcore Press. She blogs at brandiwells.blogspot.com.
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.
Steve Williams
Steve Williams writes fiction and lives on Long Island. He is an adjunct professor of English at St. John’s University and Long Island University.
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).