Fiction

Beth Gilstrap is an upcoming writer-in-residence at Shotpouch Cabin with the Spring Creek Project for ideas, nature, and the written word at Oregon State University. She earned her MFA from Chatham University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Blue Fifth Review, The Minnesota Review, Noctua Review, and Knee-Jerk Magazine, among others.

Dina Guidubaldi is a graduate of Texas State's MFA program. She lives in Austin, Texas. Her fiction has been published in several magazines including Other Voices, the Santa Monica Review, Ninth Letter, and Prairie Schooner. She was an editor and reader for American Short Fiction and Callaloo, as well as a columnist for the Austin-American Statesman.

George Michelsen Foy is the author of twelve published novels. His latest is Mettle (University Press of New England). He was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in fiction. His articles and stories have appeared in Rolling Stone, Harper's Magazine, and The New York Times, and his cartoons in the International Herald Tribune and on the NPR website. He has worked as tunnel laborer, commercial fisherman, and chief cream-pastry transporter in a cookie factory. He was educated at the University of Paris, London School of Economics and Political Science, and Bennington College. He teaches creative writing at NYU.

Jacob M. Appel is the author of the novel, The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up, and the forthcoming short story collection, Scouting for the Reaper. Jacob's fiction has appeared in over two hundred literary journals, most recently including Sonora Review, Pleiades and Subtropics. He practices medicine at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City and teaches at the Gotham Writers' Workshop.

Kathryn Kulpa was a winner of the Vella Chapbook Contest for her flash chapbook Girls on Film (Paper Nautilus) and received the First Series Award in Short Fiction for her story collection Pleasant Drugs (Mid-List Press). Her work has appeared in Jellyfish Review, Monkeybicycle, Smokelong Quarterly, and Pidgeonholes, and she serves as flash fiction editor for Cleaver magazine. Kathryn leads writing workshops in public libraries throughout Rhode Island and has been a visiting writer at Wheaton College. She was born in a small state, and she writes short stories.

Kendall Pack is a senior majoring in literary studies at Utah State University. This is his first published work.

Lori White's latest stories will be published this spring at The Journal Online and Camroc Press Review. Other stories have appeared in Kenyon Review Online, The Kenyon Review anthology Readings for Writers, apt, and Necessary Fiction. She teaches English at Los Angeles Pierce College.

Marc Hudson's stories have appeared in The Seattle Review, Qarrtsiluni, Echo Ink Review, Hot Metal Bridge and The Baltimore Review. His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

A former U.S Army interrogator, Martin Ott currently lives in Los Angles, where he writes fiction and poetry, often about his misunderstood city. He is the author of the novel Interrogator's Notebook, Story Merchant Books. He has also written 3 books of poetry: Underdays, Notre Dame University Press (to be published in 2015), Captive, De Novo Prize winner, C&R Press, and Poets' Guide to America, co-written with John F. Buckley. His Writeliving blog -writeliving.wordpress.com- has thousands of readers in more than 75 countries.

Ryan Mattern is an M.A. student in the Creative Writing Program at UC Davis. He is the recipient of the Felix Valdez Award for short fiction. His work has appeared in Badlands, The Red Wheelbarrow, Criminal Class Review, THE2NDHAND, and Poetry Quarterly, among others. He is a member of poetrIE, a reading series dedicated to showcasing the literary voices of California's Inland Empire. He lives and writes in Northern California. Photo by Caitlyn Fairfax.