Fiction

Andrea Jacksons poetry and short-shorts have appeared or are forthcoming online in Kaleidowhirl, The Hiss Quarterly, Triplopia Review, Poetry Midwest and Opium Magazine, and in print in Margie, Rhino, caesura, The Sows Ear Poetry Review, The Eleventh Muse, Periphery: A Magical Realist Zine, The Binnacle, and the anthology, New Harvest: Jewish Writing in St. Louis 1998-2005. She has received two Pushcart nominations and one nomination for the Best of the Net anthology. She received an MFA from the University of Missouri St. Louis in 2007 and is working on a novel.

Andrew Scott lives in Indianapolis and teaches at Ball State University. His work has been published in Esquire, The Cincinnati Review, Mid-American Review, The Writers Chronicle, and Glimmer Train Stories. He is the co-editor of Freight Stories (www.freightstories.com), an online fiction quarterly, and author of Modern Love, a short story chapbook.

Edith Pearlman's fiction has appeared three times in Best American Short Stories, three times in the O. Henry Prize Collection, twice in the Pushcart Prize Collection, and once in Best Short Stories from the South. She is the author of three story collections: Vaquita (1996), Love Among The Greats (2002), and How To Fall (2005).

Elizabeth Searle is the author of three books of fiction: My Body to You, which is forthcoming in a new paperback edition; A Four-Sided Bed, a novel nominated for an American Library Association Book Award and Celebrities in Disgrace, which is forthcoming from Bravo Sierra Productions as a short film. Her most recent work is Tonya & Nancy: A Rock Opera, a musical based on the Kerrigan/Harding skating scandal. The show has drawn national media attention on Good Morning America, CNN, Fox, NPR and in a new documentary film. New rock opera productions are in the works. Elizabeth teaches at Stonecoast MFA.

Ewing Campbell lives in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and has taught in Spain and Argentina with support from Fulbright fellowships. He also received a 1990 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in fiction. His most recent book of fiction is Afoot in the Garden of Enchantments (2007).

L.J. Schneiderman was born in New York City, received a B.A. in English Literature from Yale University, an M.D. from Harvard Medical School, and moved to the West Coast in the 1960s where he now lives in the small ocean town of Del Mar, California. He has published a novel, Sea Nymphs by the Hour, (Bobbs-Merrill), and short stories in Ascent (Pushcart Prize nomination), Kansas Quarterly, Chouteau Review, Black Warrior Review, and Confrontation. He has also written over a dozen plays, which have received workshop productions and staged readings in this country and abroad. One of his plays, Screwball, was given a full production at the South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, California, and won a Drama-Logue award.

In May 2008, LuElla Putnam received an MA in English from a joint program between the Citadel and the College of Charleston in South Carolina. She now lives in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and is enrolled in the PhD program in Literature at Oklahoma State University.

Mary Sojourner has written the novel Sisters of the Dream; short story collection, Delicate; essays Bonelight: Ruin and Grace in the New Southwest; memoir/essays Solace: Rituals of Loss and Desire. She is writing a book on women and compulsive gambling for Seal Press and is co-writing with a man who has befriended a wounded eagle. Her short stories and essays are in High Country News, Mountain Gazette, and many literary magazines. She is an NPR commentator and teaches writing throughout the West. She began her serious writing in 1985 at 45, after she raised her three kids as a divorced mom.

Matthew Brennan is a novelist and screenwriter from Tempe, Arizona; originally from Connecticut, he earned his undergraduate degree in creative writing and biology from Colgate University in New York. His short fiction has received several awards, including Colgate University's Lasher Prize, and an honorable mention for Arizona State University's Swarthout Award. Brennan has won fellowships to teach abroad and attend conferences and residencies in China, Mexico, Canada, and Australia. Brennan works at Arizona State University as the Program Assistant for Global Engagement at the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, and is a former prose editor for Hayden's Ferry Review. He is currently finishing his MFA degree from ASU.

Patricia Ann McNair has had fiction and creative nonfiction appear in various anthologies and journals including American Fiction: Best Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Writers, Other Voices, F Magazine, River Teeth, Fourth Genre, Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, and Air Canada's en Route magazine. She is also published in The Truth of the Matter: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction edited by Dinty W. Moore. She has received numerous Illinois Arts Council Awards and Pushcart Prize nominations in fiction and nonfiction. McNair teaches in the Fiction Writing Department of Columbia College Chicago. She lives in Chicago with her husband, the artist Philip Hartigan.

Stefanie Freele's short story collection titled Feeding Strays will be coming out with Lost Horse Press in September 2009. Her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in many magazines, including Glimmer Train, American Literary Review, South Dakota Review, Literary Mama, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Westview, and Talking River. Stefanie has an MFA from the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts: Whidbey Writers Workshop. After receiving the Kathy Fish Fellowship and serving as the 2008 Writer In Residence for SmokeLong Quarterly, she joined their editorial staff.

This is Tom Stock-Hendel's first published work. He recently completed his first novel. Since attending UCLA many years ago as a film major, he has taken numerous writing courses here and there. He lives in Southern California with his wife and son.