Fiction

Christopher Lowe

Christopher Lowe

Christopher Lowe's fiction has appeared at Fiction Weekly and is forthcoming in Bellevue Literary Review. He is an instructor at McNeese State University, where he also received his MFA. Born in Jackson, MS, he now lives in Lake Charles, LA.

Christopher Lowe

Christopher Lowe

Christopher Lowe's fiction has appeared at Fiction Weekly and is forthcoming in Bellevue Literary Review. He is an instructor at McNeese State University, where he also received his MFA. Born in Jackson, MS, he now lives in Lake Charles, LA.

Christopher
Lowe

Jane Hoppen

Jane Hoppen

Jane Hoppen lives outside of New York City, along the Hudson River in Northern New Jersey. Her fiction has been published or will be published in various literary magazines, including Western Humanities Review, Room of One's Own, The Dirty Goat, Forge Journal, and Cantaraville. Her nonfiction has been published in Feminist Studies and Off Our Backs.

Jane Hoppen

Jane Hoppen

Jane Hoppen lives outside of New York City, along the Hudson River in Northern New Jersey. Her fiction has been published or will be published in various literary magazines, including Western Humanities Review, Room of One's Own, The Dirty Goat, Forge Journal, and Cantaraville. Her nonfiction has been published in Feminist Studies and Off Our Backs.

Jane
Hoppen

Jeannie Galeazzi

Jeannie Galeazzi

Jeannie Galeazzi's work has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and has appeared in thirty-four publications including Fence, The Literary Review, Permafrost, Southern Humanities Review, and Main Street Rag, as well as Feathertale Review (Canada), Dotlit (Australia), and Snorkel (New Zealand), and is forthcoming in The Distillery, RiverSedge, and All Rights Reserved (Nova Scotia). "Wager" is for Blake Galeazzi.

Jeannie Galeazzi

Jeannie Galeazzi

Jeannie Galeazzi's work has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and has appeared in thirty-four publications including Fence, The Literary Review, Permafrost, Southern Humanities Review, and Main Street Rag, as well as Feathertale Review (Canada), Dotlit (Australia), and Snorkel (New Zealand), and is forthcoming in The Distillery, RiverSedge, and All Rights Reserved (Nova Scotia). "Wager" is for Blake Galeazzi.

Jeannie
Galeazzi

Joan Connor

Joan Connor

Joan Connor is a full professor and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Ohio University. Her first two collections of short stories, Here on Old Route 7 and We Who Live Apart, were published by the University of Missouri Press. Her third collection of short stories, History Lessons (University of Massachusetts Press), won the AWP award for short fiction. Joan is the recipient of an Ohio Arts Council fellowship, the John Gilgun award, the Ohio Writer award in fiction and nonfiction, a Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Vermont Studio Colony.

Joan Connor

Joan Connor

Joan Connor is a full professor and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Ohio University. Her first two collections of short stories, Here on Old Route 7 and We Who Live Apart, were published by the University of Missouri Press. Her third collection of short stories, History Lessons (University of Massachusetts Press), won the AWP award for short fiction. Joan is the recipient of an Ohio Arts Council fellowship, the John Gilgun award, the Ohio Writer award in fiction and nonfiction, a Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Vermont Studio Colony.

Joan
Connor

Katie Cortese

Katie Cortese

A native of Cape Cod, Katie Cortese is currently a Ph.D. student in Fiction at Florida State University. She received her MFA from Arizona State in 2006. Previous employment includes grant-writing for a children's theatre company, writing articles about hot tubs, and feeding gastropods at SeaWorld San Diego. Her work is published or forthcoming in NANOfiction, St. Ann's Review, Zone 3, The Comstock Review, Zahir, Ampersand Review, and Passages North.

Katie Cortese

Katie Cortese

A native of Cape Cod, Katie Cortese is currently a Ph.D. student in Fiction at Florida State University. She received her MFA from Arizona State in 2006. Previous employment includes grant-writing for a children's theatre company, writing articles about hot tubs, and feeding gastropods at SeaWorld San Diego. Her work is published or forthcoming in NANOfiction, St. Ann's Review, Zone 3, The Comstock Review, Zahir, Ampersand Review, and Passages North.

Katie
Cortese

Matthew Blasi

Matthew Blasi

Matthew Blasi was born in Manhattan, NY in 1980. He received his Bachelors' degree in English with honors from the University of Florida, and is currently in the Masters in Fine Arts program for fiction writing at Rutgers University. His previously published works include short stories and essays. He is currently at work on his first novel and resides in Collingswood, New Jersey.

Matthew Blasi

Matthew Blasi

Matthew Blasi was born in Manhattan, NY in 1980. He received his Bachelors' degree in English with honors from the University of Florida, and is currently in the Masters in Fine Arts program for fiction writing at Rutgers University. His previously published works include short stories and essays. He is currently at work on his first novel and resides in Collingswood, New Jersey.

Matthew
Blasi

Paul F. Griner

Paul F. Griner

Paul F. Griner's novel The German Woman will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in June, 2009. His previous books are Follow Me (stories) and Collectors (a novel). His work has been translated into half a dozen languages. He's the Director of Creative Writing at The University of Louisville.

Paul F. Griner

Paul F. Griner

Paul F. Griner's novel The German Woman will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in June, 2009. His previous books are Follow Me (stories) and Collectors (a novel). His work has been translated into half a dozen languages. He's the Director of Creative Writing at The University of Louisville.

Paul F.
Griner

Roger Boylan

Roger Boylan

Roger Boylan is an American writer who was raised in Ireland, France, and Switzerland and attended the University of Ulster and the University of Edinburgh. His novel Killoyle was published in 1997 by Dalkey Archive Press. In 2003, a sequel, The Great Pint-Pulling Olympiad, was published by Grove Press, New York. German versions of both novels, translated by the award-winning German translator and author Harry Rowohlt, were critically and commercially successful. The third volume in the Killoyle trilogy, Killoyle Wine and Cheese, was published in Germany in 2006 and is forthcoming in English.

Roger Boylan

Roger Boylan

Roger Boylan is an American writer who was raised in Ireland, France, and Switzerland and attended the University of Ulster and the University of Edinburgh. His novel Killoyle was published in 1997 by Dalkey Archive Press. In 2003, a sequel, The Great Pint-Pulling Olympiad, was published by Grove Press, New York. German versions of both novels, translated by the award-winning German translator and author Harry Rowohlt, were critically and commercially successful. The third volume in the Killoyle trilogy, Killoyle Wine and Cheese, was published in Germany in 2006 and is forthcoming in English.

Roger
Boylan

Sam Gridley

Sam Gridley

Sam Gridley's fiction and satire have appeared in more than thirty magazines and anthologies, in print and online, including Other Voices, American Short Fiction, Cimarron Review, Juked, and Amarillo Bay. A founding member of the Working Writers Group in Philadelphia, Sam offers free downloads of his work at Gridleyville.com, where he serves as the mayor, fire chief, and animal control officer. "Ranger Ringo" is part of a new novel-in-stories called The Shame of What We Are.

Sam Gridley

Sam Gridley

Sam Gridley's fiction and satire have appeared in more than thirty magazines and anthologies, in print and online, including Other Voices, American Short Fiction, Cimarron Review, Juked, and Amarillo Bay. A founding member of the Working Writers Group in Philadelphia, Sam offers free downloads of his work at Gridleyville.com, where he serves as the mayor, fire chief, and animal control officer. "Ranger Ringo" is part of a new novel-in-stories called The Shame of What We Are.

Sam
Gridley

Tony D'Souza

Tony D'Souza

Tony D'Souza's fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Playboy, Esquire, Outside and Salon. He has received an NEA grant and a Guggenheim fellowship. He is currently the senior reporter at the Mount Shasta Herald in northern California. His novels include Whiteman and The Konkans. Of "The Art of Fiction," Tony comments, "I get a little sick of critics who say I write thinly veiled memoir. If you happen to see Gary at a conference or something, tell him I miss our Scotland days, and to get in touch."

Tony D'Souza

Tony D'Souza

Tony D'Souza's fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Playboy, Esquire, Outside and Salon. He has received an NEA grant and a Guggenheim fellowship. He is currently the senior reporter at the Mount Shasta Herald in northern California. His novels include Whiteman and The Konkans. Of "The Art of Fiction," Tony comments, "I get a little sick of critics who say I write thinly veiled memoir. If you happen to see Gary at a conference or something, tell him I miss our Scotland days, and to get in touch."

Tony
D'Souza