Contributors
Carrie Lorig teaches English in Korea, is trying to quit smoking, rides her bike without a helmet, spends all her ₩ at the bookstore, tends to her midwestern roots, carves a notch into frequent flyer card every hundred miles or so, and read somewhere that she will probably never cook. She tumbles here.
Corey Mesler has published in numerous journals and anthologies. He has published two novels, Talk: A Novel in Dialogue (2002) and We Are Billion-Year-Old Carbon (2006). His first full length poetry collection, Some Identity Problems (2008), is out from Foothills Publishing and his book of short stories, Listen: 29 Short Conversations, appeared in March 2009. He also has two novels set to be published in the Spring of next year, The Ballad of the Two Tom Mores (Bronx River Press) and Following Richard Brautigan (Livingston Press). He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize numerous times, and one of his poems was chosen for Garrison KeillorŐs WriterŐs Almanac. He has two children, Toby, (1988), and Chloe, (1995). With his wife, he runs BurkeŐs Book Store, one of the countryŐs oldest (1875) and best independent bookstores. He can be found at www.coreymesler.com.
Emily Kendal Frey lives in Portland, Oregon and teaches at Portland Community College.
She is the author of AIRPORT (Blue Hour 2009).
Jessica Richardson is an MFA candidate at The University of Alabama.
Jillian Clark will be eighteen in January. She has a book called "if i am in a room full of people, i am not having any fun," published May 2008 by Blurb. She deleted her facebook. She lives in North Carolina.
Joseph Goosey parks cars in Jacksonville, FL. His work can be seen in Is Reads, No Posit, elimae, and other places.
Lee Crickman is in poetry for the easy money. Her life goals include flashing bling, throwing down fliff, and burning fat stacks of cash to stay warm.
Peter Conners (www.peterconners.com) is author of the memoir Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead (www.growingupdead.com), the prose poetry collection Of Whiskey & Winter, and the novella Emily Ate the Wind. His next poetry collection, The Crows Were Laughing in their Trees, will be published in 2010.
Raffi Robert Kiureghian lives and studies in New York. His stories and poems have appeared in Robot Melon, Pineapplewar, Pear Noir, and Spooky Boyfriend. Sometimes he writes in a blog called 'What comes out of me is this tylenol.' He likes watermelons and pears and christmas lights. http://raffi-beardly.blogspot.com/