Ryan Blackwell

Miranda grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, but lived in New Orleans for the last few years while attending Xavier University for undergrad. When she is not reading or writing, she enjoys quilting, baking, observing people, making lists, and random fun stuff.

Adam Dorris

Luke enjoys posing against yellow walls and smiling his aw-shucks smile. He hopes to get by on his looks for the rest of his life.  He also writes poetry and hails from West Michigan. 

Jennifer Fawkes writes short fiction and is at work on what she is eighty-four percent certain will be her first novel. She has never lived in one place for longer than three years and has worn a number of occupational hats, including that of bartender, freelance manuscript reader, income tax preparer, and porn video warehouse shipping clerk.

The following are three truths and one untruth about Evelyn Haselden.  She comes from the home of bluegrass, bourbon, and horse racing - Louisville, Kentucky.  She is a karaoke diva.  She's secretary of the Barry Bernson Fan Club.  She has fish scales under her clothes.

Rase McCray

A Russian émigré, Kristina Newberry was born and raised in Moscow, Russia, by a mother who believed that unless you read every day, you didn’t deserve dinner. Kristina received a B.A in English from Moscow State Linguistic University and an M.A. in English from Radford University. In the past four years, her short fiction appeared in North Dakota Quarterly, Arts & Letters, Rattapallax, Nimrod, Feminist Studies, Phoebe: Gender & Cultural Critiques and other journals.   

Michael Overa

Michael was born and raised in Seattle, and accidently ended up living in London, Dublin, and Sydney.  He's spent too much time as a bartender.  He misses his girlfriend, Jil, and tries not to write sappy love stories about her for workshop.  You don't have to read his stories, but he doesn't wanna have to go all Tony Soprano on ya.

Brittany Scott

Brittney Scott grew up in Indiana along the Ohio River. Now, she lives in Roanoke where she writes poetry and hangs out with her Norwegian Forest Cat, Sebastian. Her plans after graduate school are undecided, but she could be joining Peace Corps, working for Farm Sanctuary, getting her Ph. D, teaching, or all of the above.
 

Danielle Spratley

Nicole Soboleski

Jen owns more books than publishing credits.  She has a certain strong weakness for vintage hardcover, especially first editions, autographed, or little-known books, like the Dr. Seuss for adults only text she picked up in 08.  She's not terribly picky about genre or intended audience since she dabbles in everything except drama, which makes for a very light wallet whenever she leaves a bookstore