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LA-based Jack Adler has over 25 years’ experience writing about travel. Currently, he's the leader/chief content provider for Prodigy's travel bulletin board and a columnist for Travel World International, an electronic magazine.

Memphis native R. A. Allen aspires to tell stories like Faulkner in the style of DeLillo, with the depth of feeling of Didion. This is R.A.'s first published story and, in the opinion of our editors, will not be the last.

Peter is a Hamilton, New Jersey-based writer. Some of his stories and poems can be found at Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Zillah, The Journal of New Jersey Poets, Apple Valley Review, White Leaf Review, and California Quarterly,

Je suis née à New-York, et la musique m’a captée très tôt et a d’abord fait de moi une danseuse. J’ai même décroché avec un numéro de claquettes sur mon premier contrat professionnel à 11 ans au cours d’une fugue !

Eiseart Dunne is a secondary school pupil. He lives in Tipperary. He has being writing for about a year and this is his first publication in a literary journal. He hopes to go to University next year to study English and Maths and to be a writer.

California writer Linda Ettinger is a member of the Palm Springs Writers Guild. . Her work has appeared in the anthology, Curiouser & Curiouser, and in Desert Voices.

New Mexico State University graduate Valerie Fioravanti was awarded a Fulbright scholarship in 2004-2005 to study creative writing in Italy. Her stories have been published in Cimarron Review, Hunger Mountain, Harpur Palate and Baltimore Review,

Janet Flora is an award-winning writer, whose short fiction and personal essays appear in many prestigious literary journals. She also works as a writing instructor and coach in New York.

Tim Hall's stories, poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including New York Press, Post, and The Observer. From 1995 to 1999 he was co-editor and creative director of The New York Hangover. His first novel was published in 2006.

Lisa Harris's fiction has been awarded two Bright Hill Chapbook awards, two Constance Saltonstall Residencies, and a Hambidge Residency. Her writing has appeared in The Habersham Review, Nimrod, The Distillery, The American Aesthetic, and Phoebe.

Karl Harshbarger lives with his wife in Germany, where he teaches English as a foreign language. His stories have appeared or are forthcoming in magazines including The Atlantic Monthly, The Iowa Review, The Antioch Review, and Ploughshares.

Freelance writer and poet Michael Lee Johnson lives in Chicago, and has recently published poems in The Orange Room Review, Bolts of Silk, The Flask Review, Apollo’s Lyre, Chantarelle’s Notebook, and Fresh! On Line Literary Magazine.

New Yorker Gloria Kirchheimer has been published in New Letters, North American Review, Arts & Letters, Kansas Quarterly, Carolina Quarterly and other magazines. Her collection, Goodbye, Evil Eye, was a finalist in the National Jewish Book Awards.

East Coast freelancer Kitty Martin's articles can be found in numerous national online and print publications, including Cruising World.

A Pushcart Prize nominee, John’s short stories, book reviews and essays have appeared in Fiction, KGBBar.Lit, Epiphany, Smokelong Quarterly, and other literary periodicals.

Veteran writer and Manhattanite Kathy Passero is the author of a number of books on fine living and young adult pop culture, one of which was on the New York Times bestseller list in 2006.

Kenneth Pobo teaches at Widener University. His essays appear in A House of Gathering: Poets on May Sarton's Poetry, Asylum, and Poet & Critic. His poetry chapbook Yes: Irises appeared in 1992.

Nederland-based attorney and author Sandra Sanchez has been published in Storyglossia, Dublin Quarterly and other literary journals. She also runs the publishing co-op, The Wessex Collective.

Arlene Sanders is an Appalachian Mountain writer, born and raised in the South. She has fiction published or forthcoming in literary magazines, including Iconoclast, Sanskrit, Willard & Maple, Tertulia, and Writers Post.

Trudy Seagraves of Fairfield was a medical writer-editor for print, radio, advertising, and closed-circuit television for 25 years. She currently writes novels and short stories.

Bay Area native Jason Shsmai is a regular contributor to the SF Bay Guardian, Velvet Mafia, Cement Horizon, Roadside Dialysis, and the East Bay Express.

Jack is a professor of English in Trenton, Missouri, who teaches classes in ethics, composition, and Stephen King. His storiee have been published in numerous journals.

Jim Story is a novelist, short-story writer and poet. An Oklahoman by birth, a Californian by upbringing, and a New Yorker by choice and longevity, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and held a residency at the Edward Albee Center in Montauk.