about our authors
Robert Campbell received his MFA from the University of Idaho and has published stories in The Iconoclast and The Pacific Review.
Neil de la Flor earned an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Miami. His first book of poetry, Almost Dorothy, won the 2009 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize and will be published in January 2010. His literary work has been published in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Barrow Street, Sentence, 42opus, Court Green and others. In 2006, Facial Geometry (NeoPepper Press), a collaborative chapbook of triads, co-authored with Maureen Seaton and Kristine Snodgrass, was published. He currently lives in Miami and teaches at Miami Dade College and Nova Southeastern University. He can be reached at neildelaflor.com.
Gina R. Evers is a current student in the MFA Creative Writing Program at American University. She works full time as a writing tutor for non-native speakers of English, and she helps run one of the many alumni magazines at American University. Gina grew up in and around Chicago, IL and received her bachelor’s degree from Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY.
Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York, is the author of nine poetry chapbooks, most recently Visiting the Dead (2009) from Flutter Press.
Steve Klepetar teaches writing and literature at Saint Cloud State University in Minnesota. He is a four-time Pushcart Prize nominee.
P.J. Kryfko is a graduate of the University of North Texas undergraduate creative writing program. He is a former editor, critic, journalist, and a published comic book writer. Ain’t It Cool News described his comic as “atypical and original.”
Craig Medvecky teaches English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he is also currently a dissertator. Having received a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from Emerson College, his creative work engages imagism, the photographic, collage, Surrealism and the collaborative spirit with a healthy dose of postmodern information anxiety. Recent writing can be found in Contemporary Literature and Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics,The Burnside Review,Mirage/Period(ical), and The StrangeFruit among other places.
Corey Mesler has been published in Turnrow, Adirondack Review, American Poetry Journal, Paumanok Review, Blood Orange, Barnwood, Yankee Pot Roast, Monday Night, Elimae, H_NGM_N, Center, Poet Lore, Forklift OH, Euphony, Rattle, Jabberwock Review, Tarpaulin Sky, The Pinch, Smartish Pace, others. He has two novels from Livingston Press: Talk: a Novel in Dialogue and We are Billion-Year-Old Carbon. His first full-length collection of poems, Some Identity Problems, came out in 2008 and his short story collection, Listen: 29 Short Conversations, appeared in March 2009. He has two new novels, Following Richard Brautigan and The Ballad of the Two Tom Mores, scheduled for the dim time-to-come. He has been nominated for the Pushcart numerous times. He owns Burke’s Book Store with his wife. He can be found at www.coreymesler.com.
Mike Murphy is 25 and from Beverly, Massachusetts. He is pursuing an MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia University. He enjoys writing short stories about hi-jinks, excess, getting boisterous and his hometown friends. Other men know him as a bull, while women find him dangerous. He sleeps on an air mattress which has a hole in it, so he wakes up on the floor twice a night. Mike also enjoys bombing around on BMX bikes and listening to Jane’s Addiction. He has lived in the Bushwick area of Brooklyn for the past two years.
Ben Nardolilli is a twenty three year old writer currently living in Arlington, Virginia. His work has appeared in Houston LIterary Review, Perigree Magazine, Canopic Jar, Lachryma: Modern Songs of Lament, Baker’s Dozen, Thieves Jargon, Farmhouse Magazine, Elimae, Poems Niederngasse, Gold Dust, The Delmarva Review, Underground Voices Magazine, SoMa Literary Review, Heroin Love Songs, Shakespeare’s Monkey Revue, Cantaraville, and Perspectives Magazine. In addition he has worked as poetry editor for West 10th Magazine at NYU and maintains a blog at mirrorsponge.blogspot.com.
Angela Parker is interested in memory and its reconstruction and the strangeness of life that can make one feel displaced even in familiar surroundings. The possibilities in darkness excite her. Also, she has an MFA in poetry from Chatham University.
Sara Ries is an MFA graduate in poetry from Chatham University. Her work has appeared in The Buffalo News, Artvoice, The Trident, Empower, Tangent, Elm Leaves, Writer’s Compass, and Broadside.
