Radu Dima lasts longer than
competing brands. From atop his perch on Mt. Leather, he edits EMP
Poetry (empmag.blogspot.com), where he manages to straddle his twin
weaknesses for alliteration and bad puns. He believes Caravaggio was
framed.
Jerome Brooke was born
in Evansville, Indiana. He now lives in
the Kingdom of Siam. He has written Our Lady of
Silk and many other books. His work has recently been published in a
number of journals, including Indigo - MelBrake Press blog -
First Literary Review - Penny Ante
- Conceit - Pink Mouse – Inquisition - and Mirror Dance.
Meghan Tutolo has some
degrees in writing and will teach Composition in the Fall at
University of Pittsburgh. She also writes for a national imported
Italian foods company and she paints in her free time.
Szabolcs László
was born in 1987, in a small town of Transylvania; he obtained
a BA degree in Hungarian and English literature in Cluj, an MA degree
in British Cultural Studies in Bucharest, and he is currently a
student of the Central European University in Budapest. Parallel to
his academic studies he has published several short stories,
translations and essays in Hungarian periodicals. Generally, it’s a
difficult balance between producing fiction and scholarly prose and
he can only hope his various texts will not nullify each other.
Writing in English is a new challenge and experiment for him –
initiated mainly to become accessible to his linguistically diverse
circle of friends.
Emily Holland is an
undergraduate student at the University of Chicago, caught between a
rock, otherwise known as Egyptian art and archaeology, and a hard
place, otherwise known as English literature and creative writing. In
the face of such a dilemma, she chooses to appreciate small things,
such as a good cups of coffee and goldfish crackers. When not
freezing or simmering in Chicago, she lives comfortably in Maryland.
Misa Ragsly has studied dramatic
writing at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and fiction at The
Writers Studio. Currently, she lives in the Bronx and she is working
on a collection of short stories.
Carole S. Mora is a long-time
resident of Santa Monica, CA. She has an MFA in Creative
Writing (poetry and fiction). Her work has been published
with the Prism Review, Two Hawks Quarterly and the Red Review
Review. She is also a practicing visual artist and fine
art photographer.
Canadian
fiction writer, poet, and playwright
J. J. Steinfeld
lives on Prince Edward Island, where he is patiently waiting for
Godot’s arrival and a phone call from Kafka. While waiting, he has
published fourteen books — ten short story collections, two novels,
two poetry collections — the most recent ones being Misshapenness
(Poetry, Ekstasis Editions, 2009) and A Glass Shard and
Memory (Stories, Recliner Books, 2010), and over forty of his
one-act plays and a handful of full-length plays have been performed
in North America, including the full-length plays Acting
Violently, The Franz Kafka Therapy Session, The Golden Age
of Monsters, and A Television-Watching Artist, and the one-act
plays Godot’s Leafless Tree, The Waiting Ends, The
Entrance-or-Not Barroom, No End in Sight, Flowers for the Vases, The
Word-Lover, Laugh for Sanity, A Murderous Art, Back to Back, Freesias
in Whiskey, The Heirloom: An Evidence Play,and God’s Work.
Anthony Squiers
is a writer, scholar, and literary critic. His debut novel, Madness
and Insanity was published in 2009 by Irish Eye Publishing. He is
currently working on a PhD in Political Theory at Western Michigan
University. His research is on the social/political philosophy of
Bertolt Brecht. His writings have appeared in a wide range of print
and online journals including, Logos, eFiction
Magazine,Recoil, Communications from the International Brecht Society
and Consciousness, Literature and the Arts. He lives in Portage, MI
and Helsinki, Finland.
Valentina Cano is
a student of classical singing who spends whatever free time either
writing or reading. Her works have appeared in Exercise Bowler,
Blinking Cursor, Theory Train, Magnolia's Press, Cartier Street
Press, Berg Gasse 19, Precious Metals and will appear in the upcoming
editions A Handful of Dust, The Scarlet Sound, The Adroit
Journal, Perceptions Literary Magazine, Welcome to Wherever, The
Corner Club Press, Death Rattle, Danse Macabre, Subliminal Interiors,
Generations Literary Journal, Super Poetry Highway and Perhaps
I'm Wrong About the World. You can find her
here:http://coldbloodedlives.blogspot.com
Igor Ursenco is a writer, playwright, philosopher and culture theorist, polyglot
freelancer. Member of the Writers' Union of Republic of Moldova. Igor
has signed so far eight books, of various genres, between them a
short stories volume titled "S.T.E.P.”, two books of
trans-cultural essays "Teo-e-retikon” & "EgoBesTiaR, a
lyrical mourning recital for a prokaryotic regnum not classified yet "apoptosium” & "The Akashic Retina”, an unusual script of
movies scripts and theatre plays. He is a recipient of National &
Regional Short Stories, Essays & Poetry Award, present in "The
Antology of Maramures Poetry from its Origins until 2009” and in "The Anthology of Short Transylvanian Fiction Today”. At his
turn, he supervised other two International Anthologies: "The
Clause of the Most Favored Maramures and Basarabia Contemporary
Poetry” & the recently released "A Zero Degree Alert in the
Current Romanian Short Prose”.