Bios

Sometimes, Richard Spuler writes. Other times, he doesn't. This time, he did.

Nina Schuyler’s novel, The Painting, published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, was named a Best Book by San Francisco Chronicle and nominated for the Northern California Book Award. It’s been translated into Chinese, Portuguese, and Serbian. Her short story, “Water Babies” won the Santa Clara Review’s Editor’s Choice Prize for Fiction, her short short, “Black Holes” won the Big Ugly Review Short Short Contest for 2008; and she was a finalist in the 2009 Stanford Fiction Contest.

Marge Lurie is the author of "Confessions of a Proofreader," a short story which appeared in the Summer/Fall 2008 issue of Ep;phany: A Literary Journal. Her fiction has also appeared online at Pindeldyboz.com, Ducts.org, Fictionwarehouse.com, and Onelastcarcrash.net. She earned her MFA in writing from the New School University, and has also studied at The Writers Studio in New York and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Mass. She lives in New York City.

Molly Malone is a young writer living in the Washington, DC area.  She gleans inspiration from the world around her, from rain and sun and small children and music and the small rodents that race about the backyard of her suburban home.

Kristen Edwards is a writer living in San Francisco. She has a B.A. in Classics (Ancient Greek) from the University of Virginia, and fourteen years of business experience in the high tech industry. She is currently working on a collection of short stories, and her memoir, The Way Home.

Anne Fox, who, with the decades, has stretched the concept of middle age to its limits, spends most of her time copy editing the work of others—novelists, essayists, short-story writers, practitioners of fiction and nonfiction in both a small newspaper and a literary newsletter. (The MacArthur Metro in Oakland and Write Angles, California Writers Club, Berkeley Branch). As a kibitzing editor, she applies “the stick of compassion” to hollow-eyed writers, cajoling them to finish that manuscript, write that query letter, create that book proposal.

Thomas David Lisk’s poetry, fiction, essays, and journalism (news, reviews and features) have been widely published.  Recent work has appeared in LIT, Massachusetts Review, Hotel Amerika, and Lungfull! His published books include These Beautiful Limits (Parlor Press, 2006) and Tentative List (a) (Kitchen Press Chapbooks, 2008). He teaches literature and occasionally journalism at North Carolina State University.

Stanley P.

Rebecca Foust’s book, All That Gorgeous, Pitiless Song, recently won the Many Mountains Moving Book Award and will be released in 2010.  Two chapbooks, Mom’s Canoe (Texas Review Press, 2009) and Dark Card (TRP, 2008) won the Robert Phillips Poetry Prize in consecutive years.

Peter Branson lives in Rode Heath, a village in South Cheshire, England. A former teacher and lecturer, he now organises writing workshops. Until last year he was Writer-in-residence for “All Write” run by Stoke-on-Trent Libraries.