Jason Arbogast, Charlotte, NC. Once
a teacher in the Charlotte/Mecklenburg School System, he is currently pursuing
an MFA at Iowa State University. His main goal is to become an established
writer so that he can get cable and sleep until noon on a regular basis.
He would also like to let everyone know that the rumors of his demise due
to a freak attack of conscience are exaggerated, but only slightly.
Erika Dreifus, Boston, MA. Erika has published stories
in many journals and magazines, including Bellevue Literary Review,
Lilith Magazine, MississippiReview.com, and Solander:
The Magazine of the Historical Novel Society. Her writing honors include
first prize in the David Dornstein Memorial Creative Writing Contest, a
Prague Summer Program scholarship, and residencies at the Kimmel Harding
Nelson Center for the Arts and at the Vermont Studio Center. A graduate
of the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte, Erika also publishes
The Practicing Writer, a free monthly newsletter for fictionists,
poets, and creative nonfiction writers (http://www.practicing-writer.com
).
Merridawn Duckler, Portland, OR. Her work has appeared
in Mississippi Mud, Georgia State University Review and Carolina
Quarterly among others. Awards include the Composer/Librettist Studio
of Nautilus Music Theater of Minneapolis, a Walden Writing Fellowship and
poetry installation for Regional Arts and Culture Council, which was featured
on All Things Considered. Her scripts for Collage Dance Theater have been
widely performed and her recent opera “C’Opera” on-site
at the LADP was the subject of an article in the New York Times.
Kasandra Duthie, Minneapolis, MN. The author spent
her childhood on small islands in Washington state. She has lived in Spain
and various other places. Currently she lives with her patient husband
and hysterical dog. She studies and teaches at Minnesota State University-Mankato
and is working on a collection of short stories.
D. E. Fredd, Townsend, MA. After having served in
the Navy as a meteorologist, he currently kills time by collecting
stamps from The Channel Islands, listening to Mahler symphonies and reading
Anthony Trollope novels (talk about excitement). To pay for the Sports
Packages on cable and satellite he teaches literature and writing at New
Hampshire Community College. He has been published in several literary
journals including The Southern Humanities Review, Paris Review
and The Pedestal. A novel, Exiled to Moab, is expected to
be published late in 2006.
Nancy Lammers, Davidson, NC. At various times Nancy
has been a counselor with Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Charlotte, temporary
teacher with Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, and research assistant at Emory
University in Atlanta, Ga. Her short stories and poems have been
published in Main Street Rag, Independence Boulevard,
Lone Wolf Review, Bay Leaves; also a personal essay in The
Charlotte Observer, and children’s stories in children’s
magazines.
Jenny Lentz, Philadelphia, PA. The author was raised
in South Carolina, where she graduated from the Creative Writing program
at the Governor’s School for the Arts. She holds a B.A. in English
and Creative Writing from Bryn Mawr College. Her job in Human Resources
is often stranger than the fiction she writes.
Nathan Leslie, Fairfax, VA. Nathan has five collections
of short fiction include Believers (Pocol Press, 2006), Reverse
Negative (Ravenna Press, 2006), and Drivers (Hamilton Stone
Editions, 2005). Leslie’s work has appeared or is forthcoming
in over 100 literary magazines including Shenandoah, Boulevard,
North American Review, and Cimarron Review. He is fiction
editor for The Pedestal Magazine (ezine) and editor-in-chief of
The Potomac. His website is: www.nathanleslie.com.
Terry Lingrey Portland OR. Terry lives with her pets
near the redwoods of northern California and within range of the shorebirds
of Humboldt Bay. She attends College of the Redwoods, where two of her
poems appeared in their Poets & Writers Anthology 2004-2005.
This, her first published story, pays homage to Roald Dahl, whom she met
in 4th grade when he spoke at her school. Something about that meeting
inspired her, however, she can no longer remember what it was.
Tom Livingston, Ojai, CA. Livingston’s
short stories and poems have appeared in literary magazines such as Nothing
Doing In London, Bastard Angel, Two Cities, and The
Ledge, in academic anthologies (Alienation: A Casebook), and
in mass circulation magazines such as Playboy. He has published
two novels. Paper Walls of Innocence (Bantam Books, NY) and The
Tower Is Down (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London). Part of the Palo
Alto Perry Lane crew when Kesey wrote Cuckoo’s Nest, he later
worked with Julian Beck and Judith Malina at The Living Theater and hung
out with Harold Norse and William Burroughs at the Beat Hotel in Paris.
Michelle Ross, Bloomington IN. Michelle writes scripts
for a national public radio program, A Moment of Science, and teaches
independent study courses for Indiana University. Her fiction has appeared
in Gulf Coast, for which she won the journal’s 2002 Fiction
Prize, and Faultline, and is forthcoming in Pebble Lake Review.
She completed an MFA in Fiction and MA in Literature at IU, and she is
currently at work on a collection of short stories.
Susan Woodring, Drexel, NC. Susan
is a graduate of the MFA program in creative writing at Queens University
in Charlotte. Her short fiction has appeared in, or will soon appear in:
Quick Fiction, Isotope: A Journal of Literary Nature and Science
Writing, and Yemassee.