Posted on: March 6th, 2009 Contributors
Dameion Becknell lives and works in Kentucky. He and his wife, April, have three children and a neurotic Weimaraner dog, all four of which have been known to bite. His fiction has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Dark Recesses Press, Down in the Cellar, 7th Dimension, The Late Late Show and Tales of the Zombie War.
Kevin Bishop lives near Seattle, WA…but once lived near Mina, NV. His work has or will appear in Thaumatrope, Boston Literary Magazine, Sonar4 and Static Movement. He has authored two novels, Ask The Sky and Annapurna Sanctuary, both of which are searching for good homes.
Jesse Bullington is the author of The Sad Tale of the Brothes Grossbart and the upcoming The Enterprise of Death, as well as several short stories and articles. He lives in Colorado and can be found online at www.jessebullington.com.
Van Choojitarom lives in Bangkok where he is training to become a Buddhist monk. His work is available at elminotaurblanco.blogspot.com and yellowsphinx.blogspot.com. He is the inventor of the erotic chess story and an authority on the sport of Martian Foot Boxing.
Idan Cohen lives and writes in the Tel Aviv area of Israel, in the whereabouts of his birth. If you google him you will find some embarassing secrets which will likely not interest you. He hopes to be discovered soon, before the water rises above his nose. You can contact him at idanwcohen at gmail.com.
Tina Connolly is a writer and face painter in Portland, OR. Her stories can be read online in Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Birkensnake. She’s a Clarion West grad and has a website at http://tinaconnolly.com.
Gary Cuba’s short fiction has appeared or is scheduled in more than a dozen genre and mainstream publications including Jim Bean’s Universe, Abyss & Apex, Fictitious Force, Allegory, Lunch Hour Stories, and others. He lives with his wife and scads of critters in South Carolina.
Alec Deason lives in Seattle, WA where he grows slightly older every day. He has theories about why this might be happening. The theories are very interesting.
Maria Deira lives in Oregon. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Strange Horizons, Kaleidotrope, and Verb Noire. She’s currently working on a novel about a neo-vaudevillian troupe of cloned child entertainers called the Shirley Girls.
Eric Del Carlo has taken a keen interest in climate-related apocalyptic fiction since fleeing New Orleans a day ahead of Hurricane Katrina. He is the co-author, with the late Robert Asprin, of the Wartorn fantasy novels. A final book with Bob is due out through DarkStar Books. Eric’s short fiction has appeared recently in Talebones, Electric Spec, and Necrotic Tissue. Check him out at www.ericdelcarlo.com.
Spencer Ellsworth wrote his masterpiece “Supertiger” at the age of six and has never recovered. To support the addiction, he has worked in wilderness survival, special education, and publishing. Besides fiction, he writes opinion and review columns for The Intergalactic Medicine Show and Fantasy Magazine. He lives in Bellingham, Washington with fantasy artist Chrissy Ellsworth and little Adia, who currently seeks to emulate Pollock in the medium of carpet and wall.
Jason Fischer attended Clarion South, was a finalist in the Writers of the Future contest, and was recently shortlisted for a Ditmar Award. Jason’s work has appeared in Apex, Andromeda Spaceways, and the Dreaming Again anthology.
Jamie Grove lives outside Washington, DC and sometimes in Columbus, Ohio. He is married with two children. He dreams of the good life, which usually has something to do with cake and sunshine. He writes about not writing at hownottowrite.com.
Jason Heller, a resident of buildings almost his entire life, has or will be published in Sybil’s Garage, Farrago’s Wainscot, Apex Magazine, Kaleidotrope, Expanded Horizons, Everyday Weirdness, Atomjack, and dozens of wonderfully shitty punk zines. When not slaving away for The Onion’s A.V. Club or playing in his band The Fire Drills, he dreams. Please view his animated remains at jasonmheller.blogspot.com.
Micah Dean Hicks is a master’s student in the Center for Writers at The University of Southern Mississippi. His work has been accepted to over a dozen publications, including Shady Side Review, Prick of the Spindle, Tryst, The Smoking Poet, and The Rectangle. Lately, he’s been fixated on putting things in jars.
Carlie Holmboe I am a senior creative writing major at Colorado University, originally from Oklahoma City. Been writing for as long as I can remember. Fiction is such a vital part of life for me, both reading and writing it. I’ve found that most of the time my characters travel to some pretty frightening places before their issues are resolved. Those places are where I find truth, I guess. At least it seems like going there is a way to make sense of things, for me. Not to mention, it’s fun.
Justin Howe’s fiction has appeared in or is forthcoming from Fast Ships, Black Sails, The Best of Abyss & Apex vol.1, Cinema Spec, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. He currently lives in New York City, and, of course, he maintains a blog at justinhowe.livejournal.com.
Jackie Jones lives in Berkeley, California. She has written book reviews for the San Diego Union Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, The Electric Review, and Exurb Magazine and was the humor columnist for Verdugo Monthly.
KJ Kabza’s work has most recently appeared at Flash Fiction Online. He invites you to google him to find more archived at The Town Drunk, Every Day Fiction, and Quantum Kiss, or to purchase the anthologies Fried! Fast Food, Slow Deaths and The Best of Every Day Fiction 2008 if you’d like some of his work concretized on your bookshelf.
Vylar Kaftan’s work has appeared in places like Realms of Fantasy, Strange Horizons, and Clarkesworld. She blogs at vylarkaftan.net and has some theories on what Antarctica tastes like.
Meagan Kane lives in Kansas, and doesn’t like dancing. Her work has appeared in Illumen, Bewildering Stories, and The Sword Review.
Miles Klee writes problematically weird things, some of which have appeared in Contrary, elimae, A cappella Zoo, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Abjective and elsewhere. He lives in Hell’s Kitchen, New York City, and often charges into unsuspecting flocks of pigeons.
Michael James Landis lives in San Francisco. With the racket his patrons make, he worries the neighborhood watch will discover his unlicensed petting zoo. He writes short fiction after midnight: http://revueinred.blogspot.com.
Hollan Lane lives in Spokane, Washington and writes freelance articles about Macs, gardening and video games. She has a BA in linguistics, but it only comes in handy when she is called upon to fulfill her duty as Grammar Secretary of an undisclosed Eastern European nation. When writing Hollan focuses on short and flash fiction as well as sci-fi and fantasy novels for young adults.
Alexander Lumans’ fiction has been published in Clarkesworld Magazine and The Versus Anthology and is forthcoming in Greensboro Review, Black Warrior Review, Gargoyle, and Southern Indiana Review as well as in the anthologies Surreal South 09, Press 53, Open Awards 2009, Realms 2, Three Times Daily, and Writer’s Voice 2009. He recently graduated from the M.F.A. Fiction Program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and he now lives in Boulder, CO.
Soren Lundi lives in Pittsburgh, where he writes, paints and plays unsettling music with Soldiers & Sailors. His stories have previously appeared in The Cerebral Catalyst.
JM McDermott’s first novel, Last Dragon was #6 on Amazon.com’s Year’s Best SF&F in 2008, was shortlisted for a Crawford Prize for first Fantasy, and made Locus Magazine’s Recommended Reading List. His short fiction is appearing or forthcoming in Weird Tales Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, Dark Recesses Press, and Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet.
Tait McKenzie Johnson is a resident of the Earth, though he is most likely found in Pittsburgh, PA, trying to save the world from its lack of imagination. His short fiction has been published in Encyclopedia Destructica, The Original Thought, and Colored Chalk, as well as in a series of long-vanished, photocopied chapbooks. Tait is currently working on a novel about the perils of waking up, and a series of flash science-fictions based on current news events. More of his musings are available at absentnarrative.blogspot.com.
Nick Mamatas is the author of two novels, Move Under Ground and Under My Roof, and over fifty short stories. Much of his recent work was collected in You Might Sleep… A native New Yorker, Nick now lives in the California Bay Area.
Sean Markey lives in Salt Lake City, UT, where he is a student teacher in a 3rd grade classroom. He also reads slush for Clarkesworld Magazine. His fiction has appeared in Fantasy Magazine, Strange Horizons, and most recently, Sybil’s Garage. You can follow along at http://www.mrmarkey.com.
Martin M. Meiss says, “I’m mostly a long fiction guy, and for some reason my flash fiction seems to be kind of nasty.” So, he thought we would like it. We did.
Joanne Merriam is a Nova Scotian living in Nashville. Her work has appeared in Southern Gothic, The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, and Strange Horizons, and she won the Asimov’s Readers’ Award for Best Poem of 2008. “Ribbons. Lightning.” first appeared in the Canadian magazine On Spec. You can find her at joannemerriam.com.
Mark Mills received his M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Cincinnati. He teaches English composition and literature at Northern Kentucky University and the University of Cincinnati. He has published work in The Licking River Review and Re:Visions, A Cincinnati Conspiracy and worked on and appeared in several local movies. He currently is occupied with a large number of children, animals, and unpublished stories.
Mike Norris is a member of HWA and the Son & Foe Writers’ Circle, has been published in Withersin, Necrotic Tissue, Pseudopod, and T.M. Wright’s Holy Horrors anthology. His horror novel, Devouring Grimace Price, is forthcoming.
Sandra Odell lives in Washington state, and is the happily married mother of two teen-aged boys. A prolific writer, and rabid chocoholic, her writing credits include publication in Jim Baen’s Universe, four honorable mentions from the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future contest, and now publication in Brain Harvest. Sandra wants to be herself when she grows up; barring that, she’ll settle for being Harlan Ellison.
Daria Patrie compulsively scribbles in Winnipeg, Canada where she lives with her boyfriend and three cats. Visit her online at funkyturtle.livejournal.com.
Daniel Powell teaches English composition, American literature and film criticism at a small college in Northeast Florida. He is an avid outdoorsman and long distance runner and spends much of his free time fishing the waters of Northeast Florida from atop his kayak. Daniel’s fiction has appeared in Something Wicked and Sotto Voce, and more stories are forthcoming in Weber: The Contemporary West and Well Told Tales. He shares a small house with his wife and daughter near Florida’s Intracoastal Waterway. Daniel maintains an online journal at danielwpowell.blogspot.com.
Cat Rambo’s work has appeared in Asimov’s, Strange Horizons, and Weird Tales. She collaborated with Jeff VanderMeer on The Surgeon’s Tale and Other Stories (2007) and has a collection of stories forthcoming this year.
Luc Reid is a Writers of the Future winner, author of Talk the Talk: The Slang of 65 American Subcultures, and founder of the Codex writers’ group. He writes about practical tools for self-motivation at willpowerengine.com and has contributed nearly a hundred very short stories to the Daily Cabal. His web site is lucreid.com, and his writing blog can be found at reidwrite.livejournal.com.
Jason S. Ridler: I’m a former punk rock musician and cemetery groundskeeper, graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop and hold a Ph.D. in War Studies from the Royal Military College of Canada. Visit my writing blog, Ridlerville: jsridler.livejournal.com and on twitter at twitter.com/JayRidler.
Jeremy C. Shipp’s work has appeared in over 40 publications, including Cemetery Dance, ChiZine, Apex Magazine, and The Bizarro Starter Kit (blue). Jeremy lives in Southern California in a moderately haunted Victorian farmhouse with his wife, Lisa, and their legion of yard gnomes. His books include Vacation, Sheep and Wolves, and Cursed. Feel free to visit his online home at jeremycshipp.com.
Brian Francis Slattery is an editor, writer, and musician. He wrote Spaceman Blues: A Love Song and Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America.
Katherine Sparrow has sold stories to PodCastle, Fantasy Magazine, Nightshade, and a few others. Her website is katherinesparrow.net.
David Steffen’s work has also appeared in the Northern Frights “War of the Worlds: Frontlines” anthology and Pseudopod.
Stellan Thorne lives with his partner, their best friend, two cats and a snake. He likes shiny things, in life and fiction.
William T. Vandemark can be found wandering the back roads of America in a pickup. He chases storms, photographs weather vanes, and prospects for fulgarites. His fiction can be found in Apex Magazine, Bits of the Dead, and Northern Haunts. Depending on weather and inclination, he resides in Texas, Oregon, or Maine. His permanent e-residence can be found at www.williamtvandemark.com.
Fred Warren lives in Kansas, where all sorts of things turn up in the harvest. His stories have appeared in Every Day Fiction, A Fly in Amber, and Beyond Centauri. You can find him online at http://frederation.wordpress.com.
Ben White is the editor of Nanoism, a paying market for incredibly short stories (he writes his own twitterfiction @midnightstories). Ben’s recent flash is in or forthcoming in Dogzplot, Sub-lit, Flashshot, Flashquake and others.
Caleb Wilson’s fiction has appeared in places like Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, and Weird Tales. He and his wife live in Illinois. His alter-ego works in a library.
Derek Zumsteg attended Clarion West and has been published in Asimov’s a couple times. He also writes about baseball–some of it really good–and drinks a lot of coffee and beer. You can stalk him at www.zumsteg.net.