R. A. Allen's fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Literary Review, The Barcelona Review, Calliope, SinisterCity, PANK, Sniplits, and others; poetry in Word Riot, the New York Quarterly, Boston Literary Magazine, Pear Noir, the Recusant (UK), and elsewhere.  He lives in Memphis.

More at: www.nyqpoets.net/poet/raallen

Grace Andreacchi is an American-born novelist, poet and playwright. Works include the novels Scarabocchio and Poetry and Fear, Music for Glass Orchestra (Serpent’s Tail), Give My Heart Ease (New American Writing Award) and the chapbook Elysian Sonnets. Her work appears in Horizon Review, Eclectica, Word Riot and many other fine places. Grace is also managing editor at Andromache Books and writes a regular literary blog, Amazing Grace. She lives in London.

Author’s website: http://graceandreacchi.com

Tria Andrews has published fiction, poetry, and photography in red., Eyeshot, The Strip, See You Next Tuesday, Pequin, and Fiction International. Her work is forthcoming in Unsaid and Lumina. She is a student in the MFA program at San Diego State.

Read a review of Harold Jaffee's "Jesus Coyote" by Tria Andrews

John Patrick Ayson wants peace. s/he sleeps, wakes, eats, excretes, destroys &/or makes various texts, visuals, audio - & lives near a rusty, latticed fence in san diego, north of mexico an electronic musician & a former member of both fhraecus & the eggbeaterzz, john patrick ayson has a MFA in creative writing & is the author of NONPAREIL(S) - a collection of hybrid texts & literary constructs about human success, idleness, & failure s/he also misuses malapropisms, appropriately - preaches & practices the benefits of non-attachment - was an assistant editor & contributor to Fiction International - recently published poem/text in streetcake magazine

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Joe Balaz lives in northeast Ohio. He is the editor of 13 Miles from Cleveland (www.13milesfromcleveland.com) and is the author of Domino Buzz, a cd of music-poetry (www.joebalaz.com). He is also coauthor, with photo-artist Mary Ellen Derwis, of JOMA—online at (www.jomaonline.com), an online gallery of concrete poetry and photography. His recent work has appeared in or is forthcoming from various publications online.

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Eric Beeny’s work has recently appeared in 3:AM, Abjective, >Kill Author, elimae, Matchbook, The Northville Review, Pear Noir!, Spilt Milk, and others. His small novel, The Dying Bloom, was published as an e-book by Pangur Ban Party. He’s a contributing editor for Gold Wake Press. His blog is Dead End on Progressive Ave.

Read "Interpreting Their Genitals by Eric Beeny

Eric Bennett lives in New York with his wife and four children. He loves fierce wounded things and beginning sentences with the word "and." His work appears or is forthcoming in Why Vandalism?, Gloom Cupboard, Bartleby Snopes, Smokebox, Apt, decomP magazinE, The Battered Suitcase, Dogmatika, Up the Staircase, and Dogzplot Blogspot.

Read "Frank the Phrenologist and the Fabulous Wolf Woman" by Eric Bennett

Orna Ben-Shoshan conceives the images she paints through channeling. All of her paintings are completed in her mind before she transfers them onto the canvas. Her metaphysical work infuses deep spiritual experience with subtle humor.

To see more of her artwork, please visit: www.ben-shoshan.com
 
Orna is the co-creator of the new and innovative "King Solomon Cards", which are based on her artwork and combine her metaphysical images with ancient Kabalistic symbols. To see more, please visit: www.k-s-cards.com

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Debi Blankenship lives in the Chattanooga, Tennessee area.  She believes an artist should bring awareness of unique insights out of the most ordinary of views and objects.  The simple becomes complex and the mundane, exciting.  Her work has been published in The Arkansas Review, Stillwater Living, Prick of the Spindle and Anderbo.com

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Z.Z. Boone's fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Dzanc’s Best of the Web, and Story South’s Million Writers Award. Work has appeared (or is scheduled) in Smokelong Quarterly, Annalemma, The MacGuffin, Third Wednesday, Swill, FRiGG, Wigleaf, decomP, Word Riot, Pank, Monkeybicycle, Jersey Devil, and other terrific places.

Read "Canaries" by Z.Z. Boone

Mel Bosworth lives and breathes in Western Massachusetts. Despite a 2009 Pushcart Prize nomination, Mel still considers himself a regular doodypants.

Read more at his website: eddiesocko.blogspot.com

Sean Boyles' web site: sean-boyles.blogspot.com

Bold and experimental, Erin Bruno's writing, music and photography delves into the darkly beautiful and paradoxical qualities of life. In 2007 her poetry appeared in the online literary magazine Defenestration and in two editions of the New Jersey entertainment magazine Upstage. Her poetry is also featured in the 2009 Paulinkskill Literary Anthology and online literary magazine, Paradigm. Erin’s photography was featured in the July 2008 issue of Word Catalyst and in the December 2008 Emprise Review. Erin graduated in May 2007 from Arcadia University with a B.A. in Communications and a minor in Music Performance. In addition to writing and taking photographs, Erin is a regular music writer for the website http://www.muzikreviews.com/.

Blog: http://theseeker1023.blogspot.com/

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Alec Bryan lives in Utah. His fiction appears in The Oddville Press, Prick of the Spindle, where they are serializing his first novel, and he has some short stories and poems other places. He loves railroad hats and books about painters. His website is www.alecbryan.com

I am always in search of the ambiguous figure of movement. I wish to capture something in its own process of evolution, the mood expressed through means of gesture. I love freedom of expression. It demands vigorous honesty. Contrived marks are thrown into the muck. I am inspired by the soul of the music, the beauty of something that can be simple, yet complex at the same time.

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Francisco Cervantes was born and raised in the awesome ‘burbs of South Side San Jose, and has been drawing as far back as he can remember. What started with a fascination for drawing tanks, planes and anything military-related eventually turned into obsessions with Hieronymus Bosch, Dali and Metal album covers. Francisco won’t stop working on a piece of art until his ADD/OCD allows him to, and his refusal to seek medication has led to a unique style of art which is an amalgam of styles/mediums and focuses on movement and flow as opposed to the actual imagery. Francisco’s ultimate goal is to turn into a piece of art when he dies by having his cremated remains compacted into charcoal and used to create a portrait of himself by an artist of his choosing.

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Jeff Crouch

Jeff Crouch is an internet artist in Grand Prairie, Texas. Google "Jeff Crouch" to see where he has been on the internet.

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Kevin Dean's web site is www.betaart.com

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Mary Ellen Derwis lives in northeast Ohio. She is coauthor, with Joe Balaz, of JOMA—online (www.jomaonline.com), an online gallery of concrete poetry and photography. Her photography has appeared in various publications online. What interests her in the field of photo-art is the unpredictable and synergistic nature of photography in general. Capturing an image that can be enhanced in different ways to bring about a visual dialogue between viewer and photograph is what drives her work.

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Matthew Dexter lives and breathes in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. An expatriate author and poet best known for eating shrimp tacos and drinking enough Pacifico to kill six blue marlins, he's the Lil Wayne of literature. 

Read "How to Sing Lullabies to a Guerrilla" by Matthew Dexter

Kevin Dickinson lives in New Jersey, where he's in the tail end of his career as an English undergrad at Rutgers. His work has been published in Bartleby-Snopes, Foundling Review, and Gloom Cupboard. He sort of wishes people were still naive enough to believe the world was a flat plate that rested on the back of a giant turtle, because that was a pretty cool theory.

Kevin is the editor-in-chief of Writers' Bloc: www.writersblocmag.org

With strong influences from fantasy artist, surreal artist, and the "Old Masters", Leslie Ditto creates disturbingly beautiful oil paintings that interpret for the viewer her deep emotions, conceived from her views of current social, political, and religious dynamics. Her ideas come to her in an organic fashion, starting with a seed of a simple idea and growing into many complex symbols and images.

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Sean Ennis is a Philadelphia, PA native now living in Water Valley, MS where he teaches for the University of Mississippi and the Gotham Writers' Workshop. His work has appeared in The Greensboro Review, The Mississippi Review, Tin House, and the Best New American Voices anthology. "Came the Indians" is an excerpt from his novel manuscript, Big Things: New Alternatives in Youth Development.

Read "Came the Indians: A Fantasy" by Sean Ennis

David Erlewine's stories appear or soon will in about 70 places, including Ghoti, Keyhole (web), Literal Latte, Necessary Fiction (So New Media), Pank, Pedestal, and Word Riot. Check out his nifty blog at http://whizbyfiction.blogspot.com

Read "Slowly Hardening" by David Erlewine

Read "When it Finally Came Around" by David Erlewine

Errid Farland's's stories have appeared in The MacGuffin, Barrelhouse, Thieves Jargon, Word Riot, storySouth, Pindledyboz, GUD, and other great places.She owns www.ShowMeYourLits.com , a website which sponsors a weekly flash contest. She lives in a hyperbole: the Inland Empire, on an Estate.

Read "The Sea of Tranquility" by Errid Farland

D.E. Fredd lives in Townsend, Massachusetts.  He has had over one hundred short stories and poems published in literary reviews and journals. He received the Theodore Hoepfner Award given by the Southern Humanities Review for the best short fiction of 2005 and was a 2006 Ontario Award Finalist. He won the 2006 Black River Chapbook Competition and received a 2007 Pushcart Special Mention Award.  He has been included in the Million Writers Award of Notable Stories for 2005, 2006, and 2007.

Read "With All Due Respect" by D.E. Fredd

Jake Fuchs recently retired from teaching English at CSU East Bay.  His published fiction includes stories in West, The Redwood Coast Review, The Pacific Review, and Panhandler, and two mystery novels set in Berkeley, CA, where he lives. A literary novel, Conrad in Beverly Hills, will be published this fall by Raw Dog Screaming Press.

Read "Henry and Calvin" by Jake Fuchs

Jim Fuess has had hundreds of group shows and over 40 solo shows over his 32 year artistic career. He works with liquid acrylic paint on canvas. Jim is known for his vividly colored abstract paintings, but there are recognizable forms and faces in a number of the paintings. A lot of his work is anthropomorphic. The shapes seem familiar. The faces are real. The gestures and movements recognizable. More of his work, both in color and black and white, may be seen at www.jimfuessart.com

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Roxane Gay's work appears or is forthcoming in DIAGRAM, Necessary Fiction, mud luscious, Storyglossia and others. She is the associate editor of PANK. You can find her online at www.roxanegay.com

Read "What You Say, What Is Done to You" by Roxane Gay

My name is Teseleanu George and I live in Bucharest, Romania. I am a Mathematics student, but in my free time I like to create collages. I choose collage as an art form because it offers me the opportunity to express myself. Since I have no talent in drawing or painting, collage was a great discovery for me. This kind of artwork is truly a democratic form of art. My inspiration comes from the surreal and dada art movement, that translates in dream like ideas and anti-logic thoughts. If you want to see all my works you can visit my gallery at hrn.deviantart.com

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Greg Gerke lives in Buffalo . His work has or will appear in Mississippi Review, Gargoyle, Rosebud, Fourteen Hills, Night Train and others. There’s Something Wrong With Sven, a book of short fiction has been published by Blaze Vox Books. His website is www.greggerke.com

Read "It Requires Calories" by Greg Gerke

Barry Graham's debut short story collection, The National Virginity Pledge (Another Sky Press) will be let loose upon the world in late 08. Look for him in Storyglossia, Hobart, elimae, Wigleaf, Pindeldyboz, Prick of the Spindle, and others. www.dogzplot.com


Read "Apollo 77" and "Blackhorse" by Barry Graham

Brad Green lives and works in North Texas. His work appears in elimae, Thieves Jargon, Word Riot, The Blue Earth Review, Dogzplot and several other journals. He maintains a love for the Fountain Pen and argues that, yes, both words should be capitalized at all times. This topic, as well as many others, are routinely covered at his blog: http://elevatetheordinary.blogspot.com. Currently, he is working on a novel.


Read "The Possession" by Brad Green

James Greer is a novelist and screenwriter. He used to play in a band called Guided By Voices. Artificial Light (put out by Dennis Cooper's Little House on the Bowery imprint) won a California Book Award for best debut novel. His new novel, The Failure, has just been published by Akashic Books. He used to be Senior Editor/Writer for Spin Magazine. He lives some of the time in Los Angeles.


Read A LITnIMAGE interview with James Greer

Rosanne Griffeth lives on the verge of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and spends her time writing, raising goats and documenting Appalachian culture. Her work has been published by Mslexia, The Potomac, Pank, Night Train, Keyhole Magazine, Smokelong Quarterly and Six Little Things among other places.


Read "Claude's Puppet Show" by Rosanne Griffeth

Stephen D. Gutierrez is the author of two collections of short stories – the Nilon Award-winning Elements and the recently published Live from Fresno y Los. Recently, he has appeared in Sudden Fiction Latino and has work forthcoming in Fiction, Fiction International and Quercus Review, Without Camels: A Caravan of Latino Writing Issue. He is Professor of English at California State University, East Bay, where he directs the creative writing program.


Read "Marcella's Act" by Stephen D. Gutierrez

Jeffrey Hein can be seen online at www.jeffreyhein.com and www.heinacademyofart.com


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Kyle Hemmings wishes he could play surf guitar like Dick Dale and sing like Brian Wilson. On some days, he sings in the shower.  He lives and works in New Jersey.


Read "No More Tears" by Kyle Hemmings

Sarah Hilary is an award-winning writer whose fiction appears in Smokelong Quarterly, The Fish Anthology 2008, Prick of the Spindle, Word Riot, The Best of Every Day Fiction, and in the Crime Writers’ Association anthology, MO: Crimes of Practice. A column about the wartime experiences of her mother, who was a child internee of the Japanese, was published in the Spring 09 edition of Foto8 Magazine.

http://www.sarah-crawl-space.blogspot.com

Read "A Shanty for Sawdust and Cotton" by Sarah Hilary

Robert Hinderliter lives in Corvallis, Oregon, and his previous work has appeared or is forthcoming in Pear Noir!, Annalemma, A cappella Zoo, Menda City Review, The Wrong Tree Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and other publications. He maintains a website at: roberthinderliter.wordpress.com

Read "Never Shaken, Never Stirred" by Robert Hinderliter

Jessica Hollander is in the MFA program at the University of Alabama. She has a bio with a list of publications. She also has a website where she web logs about her failed beginnings – a virtual graveyard of stories that didn’t make it. Visit her at
jessicahollanderwriter.com

Read "Like the Last One" by Jessica Hollander

Julie Innis lives in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has appeared in The Northville Review, Prick of the Spindle, Pindeldyboz, Up The Staircase, and elsewhere.


Read "The Missing" by Julie Innis

Harold Jaffe is the author of ten fiction (or "docufiction") collections, four novels, and a collection of creative nonfiction, including Beasts, Dos Indios, Eros Anti-Eros, Terror-dot-Gov, Straight Razor, Madonna and Other Spectacles, Sex for the Millennium, 15 Serial Killers, Mourning Crazy Horse, Beyond the Techno-Cave: A Guerrilla Writer's Guide to Post-Millennial Fiction, and Jesus Coyote.  His fiction and creative nonfiction have been anthologized inPushcart Prize, Best American Stories, Avant Pop: Fiction for a Daydreaming Nation, and elsewhere. Jaffe is editor-in-chief of the literary/cultural journal Fiction International and Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at San Diego State University.

Read "Norma Jean" by Harold Jaffe

Jason Jordan is either a Kentuckianian or an Indiuckyian (born in Kentucky, raised in Indiana). His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in THE2NDHAND, Beeswax Magazine, Hobart, Keyhole Magazine, Monkeybicycle, Pindeldyboz, Storyglossia, Word Riot, and many other publications. Jordan is also Editor-in-Chief of the literary magazine decomP, which can be found at http://www.decompmagazine.com. He is currently in the MFA program at Chatham University, in Pittsburgh, where he is watching too much reality TV, if there is such a thing (there's not [or is there? (don't answer that)]). You can visit him and his large red beard at http://poweringthedevilscircus.blogspot.com.

Read "Black Metal ist Krieg" by Jason Jordan

Len Joy lives in Evanston, Illinois with his wife and three children. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Hobart, 3AM Magazine, Right Hand Pointing, NightsAndWeekends, GlassFire Magazine, Slow Trains, 21Stars Review, Boston Literary Magazine and The Daily Palette (Iowa Review). A collection of his short fiction was published by Bannock Street Books earlier this year. An excerpt from his novel, “Desperado,” will be published by Annalemma Magazine in the fall of 2009.

Read "The Cloud Game" by Len Joy

Barry Jay Kaplan's stories have appeared in Descant, Bryant Literary Review, Upstreet, Storyglossia, Amarillo Bay, Perigee, nth Position, Apple Valley Review (Pushcart Prize nominee) and others. The story "His Wife" is part of Best of the Net Anthology 2008. His musical Like Love (with Lewis Flinn) was produced as part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival 2007. He is currently at work on a novel, Little Boy Blue.

Read "The Waiting Room" by Barry Jay Kaplan

Michael P. Kardos has stories appearing or forthcoming in The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, Blackbird, Crazyhorse, and elsewhere. He teaches creative writing at Mississippi State University, where he edits the magazine Jabberwock Review.

Read "L." by Michael P. Kardos

Aaron Kovalcsik was one of the founding members of a collective of painters, industrial designers, and illustrators that studied at Kendall College of Art and Design in Michigan. Art battles and fashion shows became their modus operandi and the group soon branched out into other cities such as Atlanta, Boston, New York and London. Aaron ended up moving to Boston with other core members where he's been quietly living as a web designer by day and indie multi-medium artist by night. Although still active in collaborative art shows and battles, his recent work consists of simple pen and ink drawings that reflect a moment in time from the lives of dying aliens, lonely monsters, friendly dinosaurs and lying lions.

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Joseph Kucinski was born in Amherst Massachussetts, He studied at Massachussetts College of Art in Boston, and the S.U.N.Y. Purchase Visual Arts Conservatory in New York, from which point he moved to the West Coast, and founded the JKS Gallery. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon, and has been involved in many private commissions and public collections. Joseph has shown nationally for over ten years including New York, Massachusetts, Virginia, Oregon, California and Washington. Joseph's style incorporates the movement and energy of jazz music, utilizing atmosphere rather than subject. His work is a fresh take on abstract expressionism with a knowing nod to the early masters. He can be found at josephkucinski.com

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Len Kuntz lives on a lake in rural Washington State with his wife, family, an eagle and several pesky beavers.  More than one hundred of his stories appear in print and online, and also at lenkuntz.blogspot.com

Read "Waterfall" by Len Kuntz

Anne LaBrie likes to see the world through rainbow-colored glasses, and lives in High-Definition through all of her six senses! She has exhibited her paintings at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing and the Cabrillo Art Gallery.

To see more of Anne's paintings, go to: www.annelabrie.com

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Dorothee Lang is, among other things, a freelancer, a gardener, a capricorn, a traveller, and the editor of BluePrintReview, an experimental online journal. Her work has appeared in The Mississippi Review, qarrtsiluni, Pindeldyboz, eclectica, Pequin, juked and numerous other places. Currently, she participates in the international group novel project “2028 – a world novel”. She lives in Germany. Her website is blueprint21.de

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Simon Larter graduated from Drexel University with a degree in Civil Engineering. His work has appeared in Per Contra and Flashquake. He lives with his wife and three children in New Jersey. He blogs at constantrevisions.blogspot.com, and probably wastes too much time on Twitter, when he should really be working on his novel.

Read "Not That Strict of a Christian" by Simon Larter

Jason Levesque, known better by the online moniker "Stuntkid", is a self taught artist living in Norfolk, VA. His work borrows from his fascination with biology and the earth sciences. Stuntkid's illustrations have been commissioned for use in magazines and periodicals worldwide, from Playstation Magazine to German latex fetish magazines.

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Sara Lippmann received her MFA from the New School. Her work has been accepted by or published in Big Muddy, Potomac Review, Word Riot, Women Writers, Slice, Carve, Fourth Genre, NANO Fiction, Fiction at Work, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn.

Read "Father's Day" by Sara Lippmann

Laurie Lipton was born in New York and has been drawing since the age of four. She has lived in Holland, Belgium, Germany, France, and has made her home in London since 1986. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the USA.

Lipton was inspired by the religious paintings of the Flemish School and, after trying to teach herself how to paint in the style of the 16th century Masters, she developed a unique cross-hatching drawing technique that matched their method of painting by building up form with thousands of tiny lines. Although tedious, the result was a beautifully clear tonality and astonishing detail. She describes her work as "painting with graphite" because "drawing" doesn't really explain her method. To see more, visit her website at: www.laurielipton.com

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Diana Magallon is an experimental artist:

http://cipollinaaaaa.blogspot.com

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Tom Mahony is a biological consultant in California with an M.S. degree from Humboldt State University . His fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in dozens of online and print publications, including Surfer Magazine, Flashquake, The Rose & Thorn, Pindeldyboz, In Posse Review, Diddledog, LITnIMAGE, Boston Literary Magazine, 34th Parallel, and Decomp. His short fiction collection, Slow Entropy, was published by Thumbscrews Press in 2009. His first novel, Imperfect Solitude, is forthcoming from Casperian Books in 2011.

Visit him at tommahony.net

Read "Unconstrained" by Tom Mahony

Ravi Mangla lives in Fairport, NY. His short fiction has appeared online at Hobart, Pindeldyboz, Thieves Jargon, elimae, Dogzplot, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and elsewhere. Visit him here: http://ravimangla.blogspot.com. (The beard in the photo is recently departed.)

Wythe Marschall lives and writes in Brooklyn, where he attends Brooklyn College's MFA fiction program.  His fictions and fictive poetry and essays have appeared in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Ninth Letter, Salt Hill, Euphony, Wishtank, Locus Novus, Silo, Kennesaw Review, Offcourse, Pomp & Circumstance (quarterly), 5_Trope (upcoming), KNOCK (upcoming), and his own A Lush in Rio (http://alushinrio.com).  Wythe lives for hip hop and shiraz; loves K.N.; despises the status quo.

Read "Flowers for Wanda" by Wythe Marschall

Edward Mc Whinney is Irish, and lives in Cork. He's had work published in a variety of electronic magazines, most recently at Contrary Magazine and Juked.

Read "Tynan the Anonymous" by Edward Mc Whinney

Stephen E. Mead is a published artist/writer and maker of short collage-films living in NY.  His latest Amazon release is entitled “Our Book of Common Faith”, an exploration or world religions/cultures which attempts to find out what might bond humanity as opposed to divide.

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Carrie Meadows' recent publications include poetry in The New River Journal and Anti-, as well as a Plainsongs Award Poem to be published in Fall 2008. Her fiction has appeared in Fifth Wednesday Journal and is forthcoming in CEllA’s Round Trip

Read "Sons, You Will Bear More Than My Memory" by Carrie Meadows

Keith Meatto is a writer and teacher based in Brooklyn. He’s a Yale College and New School (MFA) graduate whose fiction publications include Opium, Harpur Palate, and Artifice. He also co-edits Frontier Psychiatrist and writes for the site about music, cycling, and culture. “Valencia” comes from his short story collection, I Am Not Your Boyfriend: 99 Love Stories. His fiction and nonfiction can be found at www.keithmeatto.com

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My name is William Giovanni Medina. When I'm not busy trying to be the best husband and step father I can be, I am striving to work on my manga style sequential art and digital paintings. My main goal is not to get rich or even be the best artist in the world. Just a memorable one. This is a philosophy that I hope to spread to other artists.

Keep the peace, stay on your art, and always keep a humble heart.

One.-GIO

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Abraham Menor is a community organizer/worker and photographer based in San Jose, California.  Menor graduated with a bachelor’s degree in sociology from California State University at Hayward.  When he is not working with “at-risk” youth, he is armed with his camera, ready to capture the next fleeting moment.  His love for the camera began in the late 90’s.  His subject matter was initially graffiti.  Menor sought to document the culture surrounding such an art form.  Shortly thereafter, he developed a passion to document his daily interactions with people, places, and things.  Menor’s goal is to tell stories using his camera.

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Corey Mesler has published in numerous journals and anthologies. He has published two novels, Talk: A Novel in Dialogue (2002) and We Are Billion-Year-Old Carbon (2006). He has also published numerous chapbooks and one full-length poetry collection, Some Identity Problems. His book of short stories, Listen, will appear in 2009. He has been nominated for a Pushcart numerous times, and one of his poems was chosen for Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. With his wife, he runs Burke’s Book Store in Memphis TN. He can be found at www.coreymesler.com

Read "The Get-Togethers" by Corey Mesler

Gary Moshimer has stories in Word Riot, Eclectica, Verbsap, Dogzplot, Wigleaf, and other online places. Also upcoming in Storyglossia and Keyhole #7.

Read "Formation" by Gary Moshimer

Christina Murphy lives and writes in a 100 year-old house along the Ohio River. Her writing appears or is forthcoming in a number of journals including, most recently, ABJECTIVE, A cappella Zoo, Splash of Red, Storyscape, POOL: A Journal of Poetry, Corium Magazine, and Descant. Her work has received an Editor's Choice Award and Special Mention for a Pushcart Prize.

Read "Fabulous Shoes" by Christina Murphy

Mary Pat Musick lives in Santa Cruz, California. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Literary Traveler, Traveling Tales, Coe Review, Summerset Review, and MacGuffin. When not reading or writing, she kayaks out to visit the otters in Monterey Bay.

Read "Friday Night Fights" by Mary Pat Musick

Nora Nadjarian is an award-winning poet and short story writer from Cyprus. She has published three collections of poetry and a collection of short stories, Ledra Street. Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies in Cyprus, Israel, the UK, and the USA , recently in Staccato Fiction and PicFic. Her story “And the Seven Dwarves” was a finalist in the Binnacle Sixth Annual International Ultra-Short Competition. Her blog is at www.bettyboopinspired.blogspot.com

Read "Cheque Republic" by Nora Nadjarian

John Ottey lives in Idaho, where he teaches in the English Department at Boise State University. He has served as editor on several publications. His work has appeared in Harvard Review and Scrivener Creative Review.

Read "Missive to T" by John Ottey

B.L. Pawelek has been to a million places in life and forgotten most of them. But he is here now and trying.

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G.C. Perry's stories appear in a number of print anthologies including Quick Fiction and Hobart, as well as various places online. He lives in London.

Read "My Wife Is an Animal" by G.C. Perry

Meg Pokrass lives in San Francisco. Her stories and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming here: Keyhole, Pindeldyboz, Smokelong Quarterly, Wigleaf, Elimae, FRiGG, Word Riot, DOGZPLOT, 971 Menu, Thieves Jargon, Eclectica, Insolent Rudder, Chanterelle's Notebook, Toasted Cheese, 34th Parallel, Bent Pin Quarterly, The Orange Room, among others. Meg has recently joined the editorial staff of SmokeLong Quarterly magazine. Links to her work can be found at www.megpokrass.com.

Read "Day of the Renaissance Fair" by Meg Pokrass

Al Preciado is a San Jose Resident and is currently a member of KALEID Gallery, a Board member of Works/ San Jose, and director of the TEN10 art space in his home. He teaches art at Bellarmine College Prep and has taught in New York and Los Angeles. In Jersey City, N.J, he helped found Pro-Arts, a artist collective, in Santa Ana, Cal, he ran a gallery with Kelly Griffin (now a muralist in Denver) called MECA.

For a couple of years he also ran a gallery space called Overpass (Tim Cottengim, came up with name.) He has shown at many venues over the years. The past year saw my work at Works (Beast Figurative), Art Ark, KALEID Gallery, Sun Gallery, First Street Billards and others. He has an MA from SJSU and enjoys teaching and appreciates the opportunity it has given him to do art.

Watch a LITnIMAGE interview with Al Preciado

Anna Quintanilla grew up in El Sobrante, Ca. Being part of an artistic family, she was encouraged to express herself through various mediums. She is currently a biology student and is fascinated by the order and chaos of life's building blocks. Her favorite number is 24, her favorite formula is the Pythagorean theorem, and her favorite part of the cell is the phospholipid membrane.

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Francis Raven's books include two volumes of poetry, Shifting the Question More Complicated (Otoliths, 2007) and Taste: Gastronomic Poems (Blazevox, 2005) as well as a novel, Inverted Curvatures (Spuyten Duyvil, 2005).  His poems have been published in Bath House, Chain, Big Bridge, Bird Dog, Mudlark, Caffeine Destiny, and Spindrift among others. Critical work can be found in Jacket, Logos, Clamor, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, The Electronic Book Review, The Emergency Almanac, The Morning News, The Brooklyn Rail, Media and Culture, In These Times, The Fulcrum Annual, Rain Taxi, and Flak. www.ravensaesthetica.com.

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S. Craig Renfroe, Jr. is the author of the short story collection YOU SHOULD GET THAT LOOKED AT.  Currently, he teaches writing at Queens University of Charlotte.  Also, his work has appeared or will appear in Flatmancrooked, Night Train, storySouth, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, 3:AM Magazine, and others.  He blogs at I Don't Know What I'm Talking About

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Shelly Rae Rich likes to make things up and mix them with truth. Her fiction is found and forthcoming in print and online publications including Apalachee Review, Opium Magazine, elimae, Scapegoat Review, Moon Drenched Fables, Right Hand Pointing, Ghoti, Juked, Ducts – and has been translated into two languages. Shelly co-edits the micro fiction ezine, Tuesday Shorts and lives in NYC, where she works on completing her novel-in-progress and her screenplay. More is at blog.shellyraerich.com.

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Born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, Ethel Rohan received her MFA in fiction from Mills College, CA. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from over forty online and print journals including elimae; DecomP; Storyglossia; Word Riot; mud luscious; and Ghoti Magazine. Her blog is straightfromtheheartinmyhip.blogspot.com

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Lee Harvey Roswell Lee Harvey Roswell paints obscure and comic scenes in oil paint, focusing on realistic, detailed rendering and whimsical invention. These imaginative scenes are the inspiration of his observations and colorful past, with a underlying theme running throughout of rising above one's troubles. In his own words, "if it’s to be thee human experience, I’m doing it with Adversity's most beloved target... the one that bounces back, the Clown. That's the trick of it see, bouncing back."

Lee was born in Freefall, New York, is self-taught in all his mediums, and now lives in San Francisco with his wife and cat. He does a number of gallery shows here and elsewhere every year, has been featured in several top art publications over the past decade. His work is showing and being collected world wide. Find out more about Lee Harvey Roswell and his work atis www.leeharveyroswell.com

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Dan Ruhrmanty's work explores the dimensions and depth of human nature. His goal is to communicate the personal and cultural dynamics that condition how we view ourselves and others as well as how our individual experiences condition such perception. His work has appeared in such publications as The Barefoot Muse, Nefarious Ballerina and Otoliths.

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Kris Saknussemm wrote ZANESVILLE and PRIVATE MIDNIGHT. Random House will bring out his third novel in 2011, with a fourth due in 2012. He has also just completed a new work—REVEREND AMERICA.

He has been a MacDowell Fellow and won First Prize in the Boston Review and River Styx Short Fiction Contests, in addition to publishing in the likes of Playboy, Nerve.com, Opium Magazine, Missouri Review, Antioch Review, New Letters, Prairie Schooner and ZYZZYVA.

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Peter Schwartz is an abstract painter who has dedicated his life to perfecting his art. In addition to having his work featured on over 80 websites, his paintings have appeared in such print journals as Existere, Orange Coast Review, Red Wheelbarrow, Reed, and International Poetry Review. His most recent exhibition was at the Amsterdam Whitney Gallery in NYC. He is an art editor for both Mad Hatters' Review and Dogzplot. His work can be seen directly at at www.sitrahahra.com.

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Alex Shishin is the first person to appear in both the LIT and IMAGE sections of the same issue of LITnIMAGE. He publishes fiction, non-fiction and photography. His most recent book, Rossiya: Voices from the Brezhnev Era, a Russian-American memoir of a train odyssey around the USSR and Poland, is available through online distributors. Shishin’s anthologized short stories include "Mr. Eggplant Goes Home” in Student Body: Stories About Students and Professors (University of Wisconsin Press) and "Shades" in The Broken Bridge: Fiction from Expatriates in Literary Japan (Stone Bridge Press).

Shishin has published and exhibited photography in Japan and North America. His book Ordinary Strangeness is available from Viovio online. He is a frequent contributor to Viewfinder as writer and photographer. The current issue (Vol. 43, No. 1, 2010) carries his photo essay “Reflections on Trains: A Leica Miscellany.” Shishin’s most recent major exhibition was at the Twenty-first Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, where he shared space with three distinguished visual artists. Shishin lives in Japan.

Read "Booger Eater" by Alex Shishin

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Star St.Germain

* hi, my name is star. * i live in San Francisco, CA. * i draw a whole lot.

* i also like to make comics * play cello, * & animate. * i have a firm handshake.

* my father is a racecar driver. * i wear red almost every day. * i like you a lot

www.thisisstar.com

Brett Stout is a 29 year old artist and writer living in Myrtle Beach, SC. He is a high school dropout and former construction worker turned college student at Coastal Carolina University. He makes art and writes while mainly hung-over in a small cramped apartment in Myrtle Beach, SC.

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Neale Stratford writes - "I always thought I was odd. My psychosis is like the tide, ebbing and flowing, an ephemeral obstacle that blends reality with the fantasy, the delusion with the factual, mixing wanton desires with normal life aspirations. I am Autistic. I have Asperger’s Syndrome. From an early age, I was fascinated with dolls. I found comfort where I could control the relationships between the figures – relationships that I found difficult to have in real life. With the use of toy figures, I blend the artificial with the authentic, mix the real with the uncanny. I investigate my delusions and desires, my dreams and fantasies, in the understanding of the infuriating puzzle that is me."

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Shoshana Sumrall grew up on a farm in western Nebraska. Currently enrolled in the Creative Writing program at UNL, she also enjoys a career as a technical writer for wastewater monitoring equipment, where she finds much of her inspiration. Shoshana’s short fiction has won the Marjorie Stover and Christine Pappas awards for creative writing, has been published in Deviant Minds, LAURUS Magazine, Plains Song Review, and Fine Lines Journal, and has won the Dorothy Turner Scholarship for African-American Writers to the Nebraska Summer Writers’ Conference. Her work is closely followed in sewage plants worldwide.

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Randy Thurman is an artist, musician, composer, poet, writer, etc. living and working in rural south east Tennessee. Randy's art has been exhibited at numerous galleries, including Monkdogz Urban Art, Gallery 181, and the Jay Etkin Gallery. Randy's music has traveled throughout the U.S. and abroad in London, Belgium, and Australia. "There are two kinds of people in the world, and I am neither." --RT .

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J.A. Tyler has recent work in Storyglossia, Elimae, No Colony, Night Train, & Prick of the Spindle. His chapbook The Girl in the Black Sweater is available now from Trainwreck Press, his fiction collection will be a part of Samsara the first multi-author release from Paperhero Press, & his debut novella Someone, Somewhere is forthcoming from Ghost Road Press. He is also founding editor of Mud Luscious, a reviewer for Rural Messengers Press, a member of the Pindeldyboz editorial team, & an editorial intern for Dzanc Books. Read more at www.aboutjatyler.com or www.aboutjatylerblopot.com.

Read "The Other, a Birthing" , "The Other, a Cloud of Feathers" and "The Other, a Pulse" by J.A. Tyler

Glenn Vanstrum’s fiction has previously appeared in the Bellevue Literary Review; his creative non-fiction book, The Saltwater Wilderness (Oxford, 2003), won a San Diego Book Award. His essays have appeared in Sierra, California Wild, and the Los Angeles Times.
 
The agencies Animals, Animals/Earth Scenes and Custom Medical Stock Photo represent Glenn’s photographs, which have appeared worldwide in multiple venues. Visit his website at at www.vanstrum.net

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Ajay Vishwanathan is mesmerized by the power of words, more now when he sees his two-year old twins form them. Two-time Best of The Net Anthology nominee, Ajay has work published or forthcoming in over fifty literary journals, including elimae, The Potomac, DecomP, and Drunken Boat.

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M.O. Walsh was born and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.  His work has appeared in Oxford American, American Short Fiction, and Epoch, among several others, and has been anthologized in Best New American Voices, Louisiana in Words, and Bar Stories.  He currently teaches at LSU and lives in a house with his wife Sarah, dog Gus, and newborn baby girl named Magnolia Marie.  He is a happy person. His web site is www.mowalsh.com

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Jared Ward has had work accepted by West Branch, Santa Clara Review, New Delta Review, elimae, Hobart, and others.  He is currently pursuing his MFA from the University of Arkansas, and is prose editor for decomP.

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Brandi Wells has a BA in Creative Writing and her fiction appears in or is forthcoming in; Pear Noir, Monkey Bicycle, Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens, and Pank. She has a chapbook forthcoming as part the chapbook collective Fox Force 5, which is being released by Paper Hero Press.

She blogs at brandiwells.blogspot.com

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Irene Westcott is the winner of The Baltimore Review’s 2007 Creative Nonfiction Competition. Her writing has also appeared in Pure Francis, the Blue Earth Review, the Literary Bohemian and the Bullfight Review. She has an M.A. from Northwestern University.

Jenny Williams is a writer, editor, filmmaker, traveler, and all-around curious person. She has lived and worked in Belize, Uganda, India, and her native California, and is always scheming about one of two things: her next trip abroad, or her next story. Read more at: at www.jennydwilliams.com

Patterson Willis is in the M.A. program of Literature at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, but is currently teaching ESL in Zaragoza, Spain.

Steve Wing is a visual artist and writer whose work reflects his appreciation for the extraordinary in ordinary days and places. His images have appeared in e-journals including BluePrintReview, Eclectica, Perigee, qarrtsiluni and Cha. Currently, he is involved in an international group writing project, 2028 - a world novel.

www.blueprintreview.de/about_Steve_Wing.htm

Benjamin Winship graduated from Azusa Pacific University with a degree in English.  You can read more of his work at his website:
www.benjaminwinship.weebly.com Benjamin currently teaches English in Thailand with his wife.

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Christopher Woods is the author of a prose collection, UNDER A RIVERBED SKY, and a collection of stage monologues for actors, HEART SPEAK. He lives in Houston and in Chappell Hill, Texas with his wife Linda and their Golden retriever, River.

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Kate Wyer is a mental health interviewer for the public health care system. She holds an MFA from the University of Baltimore. Her work is forthcoming in Robot Melon and NOO and has been featured in decomP, Fringe and Poets and Artists. She plays an electric mandolin in the band Milquetoast.

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