BIG OTHER

Editor

John Madera edits the online journal The Chapbook Review, is an Assistant Fiction Editor for Identity Theory, and sings and plays guitar for Mother Flux. He is a member of the National Book Critics Circle. You may find him at  Opium Magazine, Featherproof Press, elimae, Everyday Genius, ArtVoice, Underground Voices, Little White Poetry Journal #7; reviewing for 3:AM Magazine, Bookslut, The Brooklyn Rail, The Collagist, The Diagram, New Pages, Open Letters Monthly, The Prairie Journal:  A Magazine of Canadian Literature, The Quarterly Conversation, Rain Taxi Review of Books, The Rumpus, Tarpaulin Sky, and Word Riot; and forthcoming at Corduroy Mountain and Publishing Genius Press. Swim with him at hitherandthithering waters.

Contributors

Danielle Adair is an artist and writer living in Los Angeles. She is the author of From JBAD: Lessons Learned (Les Figues Press, 2009), and her chapbook Models for a Building Block is forthcoming from P S Books. Most recently, she has produced solo performance and exhibitions for her current project First Assignment, a project for which she has “embedded” as a journalist with US Forces stationed in Afghanistan. Visit her website.

Mel Bosworth lives, breathes, works, and writes in western Massachusetts. Visit him HERE.

Ryan W. Bradley is the editor of Artistically Declined Press and received his MFA from Pacific University. His fiction and poetry has appeared or is forthcoming from The Oregonian, Word Riot, Gargoyle, Oranges & Sardines, and PANK. He lives in Southern Oregon with his wife and two sons and blogs HERE.

Nicolle Elizabeth is a fiction writer and a bike mechanic. She is a contributing writer at Words Without Borders, the Brooklyn Rail, the Collagist and others. Her fiction has appeared in Wigleaf, Elimae, Caketrain and others. She is the founder of the 12 am writing project which featured Henry Rollins of Black Flag and many other fine characters. She is very short both in demeanor and height. Visit her HERE.

Molly Gaudry is the author of We Take Me Apart (Mud Luscious Press, 2009) and is currently at work on a novel about the herstory of water ballet. She edits WWR, co-edits 12S, and is an associate editor for Keyhole.

Roxane Gay’s writing appears or is forthcoming in Mid-American Review, DIAGRAM, The Collagist, Hobart, Monkeybicycle, Keyhole and others. She is the associate editor of PANK, blogs for HTML Giant and Barrelhouse. She can be found online HERE.

Greg Gerke lives in Buffalo. His work has or will appear in Gargoyle, Rosebud, Fourteen Hills, Night Train, Flash Forward Press 2009 Anthology and others. There’s Something Wrong With Sven, a book of short fiction has been published by Blaze Vox Books. Visit him HERE.

Jac Jemc sells books in Chicago. Her first novel, My Only Wife, is forthcoming from Dzanc Books in 2012. She is the poetry editor of decomP and a fiction reader for Our Stories. She blogs her rejections HERE and sells things she sews HERE.

Tim Jones-Yelvington lives and writes in Chicago. His work has appeared in Sleepingfish, Annalemma, Pank, Keyhole, Monkeybicycle and others. He works for Crossroads Fund, a foundation that supports grassroots community organizers and activists working on issues of social and economic justice. Visit him online HERE.

Aya Karpińska writes in digital media. She is the creator of Shadows Never Sleep, one of the first literary iPhone apps. Aya has Master’s degrees in Interactive Telecommunications (New York University) and Literary Arts (Brown University). She lives in New York City. Visit her HERE.

Paul Kincaid is a writer and critic living in England. He is the author of <i>What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction</i> (Hugo Award nominee) and co-editor of <i>The Arthur C. Clarke Award: A
Critical Anthology</i>. He was awarded the Thomas D. Clareson Award for services to science fiction after administering the Arthur C. Clarke Award for 11 years. He is currently one of the judges for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. He reviews for far too many places to list here. His web site is HERE and he blogs, intermittently, HERE.

Michael Leong’s poetry career began in the sixth grade when he won his first and only poetry prize in Mr. Harrison’s class for a haiku about a snake. Since then, he has received degrees in English and Creative Writing from Dartmouth College, Sarah Lawrence College, and Rutgers University and has published poems in journals such as Bird Dog, jubilat, Marginalia, Opium Magazine, Pindeldyboz, and Tin House. He is the author of *I, the Worst of All* (blazeVOX [books], 2009), a translation of the Chilean poet Estela Lamat, and *e.s.p.* (Silenced Press, 2009), a collection of poetry. He currently lives in New York City. Visit him HERE.

Stacy Muszynski writes. You might read regular and ongoing bits at The Rumpus, The Collagist, and American Short Fiction, where she is web editor. Her recent fiction appears at elimae, Opium, Everyday Genius, and—oh, you know how to find such things. She edits, too, with a happy heart, the fact section of Anderbo, and she copy edits from time to time at Identity Theory. Her collection of Italian-to-English poetry translations laps at her toes like…why, rather like the tongue of the sea…while she figures her short stories. Then there’s Five Things Austin, which she co-hosts and coordinates with Amelia Gray, who founded the reading series with a spin that fateful day in September 2008.

Shya Scanlon’s “Forecast 42 Project”serialized his slipstream novel Forecast across 42 different Web sites, including small presses, literary journals and blogs. One of the participants, Flatmancrooked, will be publishing Forecast in the spring of 2010. Shya Scanlon’s poetry collection, In This Alone Impulse, was published by Noemi Press in 2009. Shya received his MFA from Brown University, where he was awarded the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction. Please visit him HERE.

Davis Schneiderman is a multimedia artist and writer whose works include the current or forthcoming novels Drain (Triquarterly/Northwestern), Blank: a novel (Jaded Ibis), Multifesto: A Henri d’Mescan Reader (Spuyten Duyvil), DIS (BlazeVox) and Abecedarium (Chiasmus, w/Carlos Hernandez); the co-edited collections Retaking the Universe: Williams S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization (Pluto) and The Exquisite Corpse: Chance and Collaboration in Surrealism’s Parlor Game (Nebraska, 2009); and the audiocollage Memorials to Future Catastrophes (Jaded Ibis). His creative work has been accepted by numerous publications including Fiction International, The Chicago Tribune, The Iowa Review, and Exquisite Corpse. He is Director of Lake Forest College Press/&NOW Books, where he co-edits the series The &NOW AWARDS: The Best Innovative Writing; he also directs the NEH-funded Virtual Burnham Initiative. He blogs HERE.

From 2006 to 2008, Rachel Swirsky learned to be cold at the Iowa Writers Workshop where she earned her MFA in fiction. In 2005, she learned to be rained on at the Clarion West Writers Workshop. Now she lives in Bakersfield, California, where the summer days regularly heat up to one hundred and fifteen degrees of summer heat, and she wishes she were cold and/or rained on.

Rachel’s short fiction has appeared in a variety of venues including Tor.com,  Subterranean Magazine, and the Konundrum Engine Literary Review. A short collection of her feminist fiction and poetry is forthcoming from Aqueduct Press in 2010. Rachel writes about feminism, social justice, and progressive politics as Mandolin at Alas, a Blog. She also sometimes writes at Ambling Along the Aqueduct, the blog of Aqueduct Press. She maintains a personal livejournal, a facebook page under Rachel Swirsky, and a twitter account as rachelswirsky. More details about her writing can be found at her website.

J. A. Tyler is founding editor of mud luscious and the author of SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE (ghost road press, 2009), IN LOVE WITH A GHOST (willows wept press, 2010), and INCONCEIVABLE WILSON (vox press, 2010) as well as the chapbooks OUR US & WE (greying ghost), ZOO: THE TROPIC HOUSE (sunnyoutside), EVERYONE IN THIS IS EITHER DYING OR WILL DIE OR IS THINKING OF DEATH (achilles), and THE GIRL IN THE BLACK SWEATER (trainwreck press). Visit him HERE.

John Dermot Woods is the author of the novel The Complete Collection of people, places & things.  He writes stories and draws comics in Brooklyn, NY. He edits the arts quarterly Action,Yes and organizes the online reading series Apostrophe Cast. He is a professor in the English Department at Nassau Community College on Long Island. Visit him HERE.

Leni Zumas is the author of the story collection Farewell Navigator (Open City, 2008). Her fiction is forthcoming in Gigantic and has appeared most recently in New York Tyrant, Kitty Snacks, Quarterly West, Harp & Altar, andNew Orleans Review. Visit her HERE and HERE.

Former Contributors:

Kim Chinquee‘s collection of flash fiction, OH BABY, was published by Ravenna Press, and her collection of prose poems, BIG CAGES, is forthcoming with White Pine Press. Over 200 of her pieces have appeared in journals including Noon, Denver Quarterly, Conjunctions, Notre Dame Review, Mississippi Review, elimae, New Orleans Review, Willow Springs, Fiction, Fiction International, Quick Fiction, Redivider, and Wisconsin Academy Review, The South Carolina, New York Tyrant, and others. She received a Henfield Prize and a Pushcart Prize and she teaches creative writing.

Luca Dipierro is a writer, filmmaker and visual artist living in Brooklyn, NY. His latest films are the documentaries I WILL SMASH YOU, 60 WRITERS/60 PLACES, and the full length cut-out animation DIECI TESTE. His art has been exhibited in galleries in the USA and in Italy. His short stories have been published in The New York Tyrant, Lamination Colony, Gigantic, Everyday Genius, JMWW, No Colony. Luca’s website is HERE. For some biscotti go HERE.

His life is based on a true story.

Christopher Higgs is the author of a chapbook entitled Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously (Publishing Genius Press, 2009). Other of his work has appeared or is forthcoming in many venues, including: AGNI, Abjective, Action Yes, Quarterly West, Conduit, and No Colony. Currently, he lives in the dirty south where he curates the online arts journal Bright Stupid Confetti.

Kristen Iskandrian‘s work has been published in a number of places: Gulf Coast, Denver Quarterly, Memorious, American Letters & Commentary, Mississippi Review online, Fifty-Two Stories, and elsewhere. She has a PhD in English from University of Georgia, where she currently teaches literature and creative writing, and a blog, where she currently fools around.

Lily Hoang is the recipient of a 2009 PEN/Beyond Margins Award for Changing (Fairy Tale Review Press, 2008). Parabola won the Chiasmus Press Un-Doing the Novel Contest. She’s also the author of  The Evolutionary Revolution: A Real History (Les Figues Press, 2009-10). Her eBook Woman Down the Hall was recently released by Lamination Colony. She currently teaches & lives in South Bend, Indiana. Find her HERE.

Sean Lovelace is a professor of creative writing at Ball State University. He writes fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Recent publications include Willow Springs, Diagram, Sonora Review, and Black Warrior Review. His works have won several awards, including the Third Annual Rose Metal Press Short Short Chapbook Contest for How Some People Like Their Eggs and the prestigious Crazyhorse Fiction Prize. He blogs HERE. He also likes to run, far.