Fiction

Andrew Arnold lives and writes in Houston, TX. He graduated from the University of Evansville in Evansville, Indiana with a BFA in creative writing. His writing has appeared on the radio, including WNIN and NPR affiliates.

B.J. Hollars is the author of Thirteen Loops: Race, Violence and the Last Lynching in America—the winner of the 2012 Society of Midland Authors Award—and Opening the Doors: The Desegregation of the University of Alabama and the Fight for Tuscaloosa. His collection of stories, Sightings is forthcoming from Indiana University Press/Breakaway Books. He teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

Dana Kroos completed an MFA in Fiction at New Mexico State University in 2008. Currently she teaches English at New Mexico State University and creative writing, English, and ceramics at Alma dArte Charter Arts High School. Her work has appeared in Penumbra, Fresh Ink, Maize, Spout Magazine, and Minnesota Monthly.

Jason Olsen currently teaches at Utah State University-College of Eastern Utah in Price, Utah where he teaches literature and writing. He has had work appear in Haydens Ferry Review, Mid-American Review, and Indiana Review, among other places.

Rachel Kadish is the author of the novels From a Sealed Room and Tolstoy Lied: a Love Story. Her work has been read on National Public Radio and published in the Pushcart Prize anthology. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and has been the Koret writer-in-residence at Stanford University. She is currently on the writing faculty of Lesley Universitys MFA program and is a Visiting Scholar at the Brandeis Womens Studies Research Center.

Rene K. Nicholson lives in Morgantown, WV, splitting her artistic pursuits between writing and dance. Formerly a professional ballet dancer, Rene is an American Ballet Theatre Certified Teacher, and choreographs for the Morgantown Ballet Company and the West Virginia University Dance Ensemble. She is the recipient of a grant from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts, and, since 2007, served as Assistant Director of the West Virginia Writer's Workshop. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Chelsea, Mid American Review, Perigee: A Journal of the Arts, Paste, ABZ, Poets & Writers, Dossier, The Gettysburg Review, and elsewhere.

Sharon Solwitz's stories have been published in such magazines as Tri-Quarterly, Ploughshares, and Mademoiselle; their awards include the Pushcart, the Nelson Algren and the Katherine Ann Porter. Her novel Bloody Mary (Sarabande, 2003) received a starred review in Booklist. Her collection Blood and Milk (Sarabande, 1996) received the 1997 Carl Sandberg award and the Midland Author's prize for adult fiction, and was a finalist for the 1997 National Jewish Book Award. She teaches at Purdue University in W. Lafayette, Indiana and lives in Chicago with her son Seth and her husband, poet Barry Silesky.

Michael Schiavone is a widely published, award winning short story writer and novelist living in Gloucester, MA. His debut novel, Call Me When You Land, will be released in September, 2011.