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C O N T R I B U T O R S issue 2

Chris Tonelli co-curates The So and So Series and is the author of three chapbooks: For People Who Like Gravity and Other People (Rope-A-Dope Press, forthcoming), A Mule-Shaped Cloud (w/ Sarah Bartlett, horse less press, 2008), and WIDE TREE: Short Poems (Kitchen Press, 2006). He edits the Golden Gloves Chapbook Series for Rope-A-Dope Press and is the On-Line Editor for Black Ocean. He teaches at N.C. State in Raleigh, where he lives with his wife Allison.

Sara Guest writes fiction and poetry and works as an editor in Portland, Ore. Her recent work is forthcoming in New Orleans Review.

Carrie Hunter has been published online in Turntable & Blue Light, Dusie, Parcel, Sawbuck, Poetry Sz, Sous Rature, and mid(rib, and in print in Small Town XII, Try! magazine, Eleven Eleven, and Pinch Pinch Press's Barnaby Jones issue 1. Her chapbook Vorticells was published by Cy Gist Press, and an e-/chapbook Kine(sta)sis was published by Dusie. The Unicorns will be coming out as a chapbook soon in the Dusie Chapbook Kollektiv year 3. She received her MFA/MA in the now defunct Poetics program at New College of California, edits ypolita press (ypolitapress.blogspot.com), and lives in San Francisco.

Aaron Burch edits the lit journal HOBART and has had recent shorts appear in Quick Fiction, elimae, Pequin, and dogzplot.

Sarah Bartlett lives in Portland, Ore. and reads poetry for Tin House. Her recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Coconut, Diagram, Alice Blue, Bat City, Past Simple, New Pony: A Horse Less Anthology, and elsewhere. Sarah's chapbook (co-written with Chris Tonelli), A Mule-Shaped Cloud, was published by horse less press in 2008.

Mark Leidner is the author of the chapbook The Night of 1,000 Murders (Factory Hollow Press, 2007). He teaches English at Abraham Baldwin College in Tifton, Georgia.

Ryan W. Bradley is currently working on his MFA in creative writing from Pacific University. His poetry and fiction has been published or is forthcoming in The Oregonian, A Thousand Faces, Third Wednesday, Yippee Magazine, and Gander Press Review. He lives in Southern Oregon with his wife and two sons.

Reb Livingston is the author of Your Ten Favorite Words (Coconut Books), editor of No Tell Motel (notellmotel.org) and publisher of No Tell Books (notellbooks.org).

Jennifer Pieroni serves as Editor in Chief of the literary journal Quick Fiction. She lives in Salem, MA with her husband Adam. Her work has appeared in print and online and is forthcoming in Another Chicago Magazine, Wigleaf, Frigg, and No Colony.

Paul Siegell is the author of Poemergency Room (Otoliths Books, 2008) and the e-chap JAM> (ungovernable press 2008), and the "parking lot attendant" over at ReVeLeR @ eYeLeVeL. He is a staff editor at Painted Bride Quarterly, and has contributed to The American Poetry Review, MiPO, BlazeVOX, Coconut and other fine journals. Stay tuned/Coming soon: Paul's next book of poetry: jambandbootleg

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, will appear in March 2009. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize numerous times, and one of his poems was chosen for Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. He has two children, Toby, age 20, and Chloe, age 12. With his wife, he runs Burke’s Book Store, one of the country’s oldest (1875) and best independent bookstores. He also claims to have written “These Boots are Made for Walking.” He can be found at www.coreymesler.com.

Spencer Troxell lives in Cincinnati with his wife & 2 kids. He blogs at spencertroxell.blogspot.com.