Contributors

Raquelle Azran, a native new Yorker, spends her time between Hanoi, Vietnam, where she specialized in Vietnamese contemporary fine art (www.artnet.com/razran.html) and Tel Aviv, where she writes in her inner city aerie overlooking the Mediterranean. Her award-winning short stories and essays have been published in literary journals and anthologies, in the US and abroad. (read Jumping to Conclusions)

Karla D. Baker kindles real life issues. Embrace her voice through her poetry book BACKBONE. Currently she resides in Clifton, but her urban roots are embedded in the concrete of Paterson, New Jersey. (read Reimbursement Pt. 2 and Wo-(MAN) pt. 1)

Courtney Birst-Wyrick has been previously published in Connections and Welter literary journals, and Women-in-Poetry anthology. She has a "real job" to support her poetry habit. She thanks her mother for her home-baked goodness and financial sense; her father for his craziness and courage; her husband for his love and commitment; her step-kids for their smiles and wisdom; her sister for late-night phone calls; and her friends for many nights of wine and laughter. She thanks them all for their unending support and inspiration. (read The Game His Father Played and This Is a Fuck You)

Judy Lee Green is an award-winning writer who discovered her craft at the age of nine. She has received recognition throughout the Southeast for her work in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry and essay. She has been published in newspapers, magazines, business publications, and on the web. Currently residing in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, she is compiling a collection of creative nonfiction about her childhood, growing up in East Tennessee in the 1950s. (read Whirligigs On My Grave)

John Grey is an Australian born poet, playwright, musician. His latest book is What Else is There from Main Street Rag. His work has appeared recently in Big Muddy, Wisconsin Review and Tower. (read Away From Progress)

After working in Chicago for 20 years, Nan Hallock spent three years enjoying the wonders and curiosities of Alaska and earning an MFA. She now enjoys life on the shores of Lake Michigan—in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, the town where she was born. (read A Tale of Two City Parks)

T.R. Healy was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. His stories have appeared in such publications as Hawai'i Review, Red Cedar Review, and Sequoia. (read Nowhere Man)

Carlos Hiraldo is an Assistant Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College in Queens, New York. His poems have been published in Bilingual Review and the British Journals Fire and Other Poetry, among others. His book of literary theory Segregated Miscegenation was published by Routledge in 2003. (read Forever)

M.J. King lives in Saratoga Springs, horse racing mecca of the Adirondacks. An avid nature lover and uselsss knowledge gatherer, she has just finished her first supernatural novel about Salem's witchcraft trials. Founder and editor of the writing newsletter Lies, Boasts and Feelings, she resides with her husband and a psychotic hamster who is often the blueprint for many of her fiction's villians. (read fluttering)

Diane Kimbrell was born and raised in Charlotte, NC but moved to NYC to pursue an acting and writing career. She is also known as the children's entertainer, Smilee-The-Clown. As a writer, she considers herself "another voice from the South" and is delighted to have her work appear in Plum Biscuit. (read Danger in Paradise)

Ed Krizek was born in New York City and now runs a successful sales and marketing business in Swarthmore, PA, a suburb of Philadelphia. He holds a BA and MS from University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA and MPH from Columbia University. He is active in the Unitarian Universalist Church of Delaware County, has published numerous articles, poems and short stories, and won prizes in several poetry and short story competitions. (read Upon Making the Acquaintance of Death)

Zoe Lea lives in the UK and has been writing since childhood. Her work has been published in Eclectica, Word Riot, Reflected Edge and Leafing Through. (read Painted)

You can view more works by Rebecca Lopez at deviantArt. (browse through  what we've got)

D.L. Luke is a lifetime resident of New York, currently living in Troy, the Capital District. In 1993, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the New School University and received the Pen & Brush Award for fiction, in 1994. She is published in fiction and non-fiction. (read Five-n-Dime Christmas)

Louis Malloy lives in Nottingham, England. He works as a computer programmer but prefers to write fiction. In March 2005 Louis will make his first visit to the Umited States, ostensibly for a wedding but really to gather material for more stories. His recent successes include publications in Subway Lit, The Paumanok Review, Aesthetica, Eclectica, Projected Letters, Pindeldyboz, In Posse Review, Southern Cross Review, Buzzwords, Wild Strawberries, Clean Sheets, Logical Lust, Prose-Ax, Word Riot, and a winner's prize in a BBC short story competition. (read Viktor and Jenny)

Andrew Michael Roberts is earning his MFA in poetry at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His work appears or is forthcoming in The Seattle Review, Margie, The Iowa Review, Quick Fiction, Sentence, Cue, and 42opus, among others. In a prior life he was poetry editor for The Portland Review. (read Unspeakable Things)

Rion A. Scott is a writer from the Washington D.C. area currently living in upstate New York. He is working on his first collection of poems, 3 Seasons. (read These Sewing Hands)

Paul Sohar has had six books of poetry published, all of them translations of Hungarian poets, the most significant being Dancing Embers (Twisted Spoon Press, 2002). His own poems (and reviews) have appeared in numerous magazines (Aurorean, Chiron, Grain, Hunger, Main Street Rag, Rattle, etc.) but are still looking for a home in a book. (read The City Wind)

Blair Spiva is a writer in Athens, Georgia. She works in the arts at the University of Georgia and is also a part-time graduate student in English Romanticism. She lives with her fiance Michael, and their two dogs, Annabel Lee and Percy. (read Coffee and Sex)

Shanti Weiland is currently working on her Ph.D. in English at University of Southern Mississippi. She received her Master's Degree in English from Northern Arizona University and her Bachelor's Degree in English from University of California, Davis. Her poetry and essays are featured in The Gihon Review, Rio: A Journal of Arts, Steam Ticket, Diceybrown.com, Prophitart.com/facingfaces02, Sevenseasmagazine.com, Great American Poetry Show, and upcoming issues of Poetry Motel and Mo'Jo Risin'. Her chapbook, Daughter En Route, is available through Dicey Books. (read Pretending in Pasties)

Natalia Zaretsky graduated from Moscow University, taught Physics at the Moscow Mining Institute. She emigrated to the United States in 1980 and worked as a computer programmer for many years. Her books Autumn Solstice, Selected Poetry and Memories Below the Bridge have been published by Windsong. Her manuscripts Memories Below the Bridge. Her poems have been published in Poetry Magazine, Rochurst Review 2003, Iliad Press, Unmade Magazine, Sensation Magazine, Poetry.com, California Quarterly, Moment, Jewish Action, The Louisville Review, Sow’s Ear, Verses, Paterson Poetry Review, Gin Bender Review, Rogue Scholars Press and many others. (read Picture At A Spring Exhibition)