Rumble

Author Biographies

Matt Bell Matt's writing has appeared in magazines such as Hobart, Barrelhouse, The Driftwood Review, FRiGG, Monkeybicycle, and is upcoming in Smokelong Quarterly and Storyglossia. Matt has co-authored a book of micro-fiction entitled Dancing On Fly Ash: One Hundred Word Stories. He can be found online at mdbell.com and at Dancing On Fly Ash, a (nearly) daily micro fiction weblog, one of the only active websites devoted to the micro fiction sub-genre.
Teresa Tumminello Brader Teresa was born in New Orleans and lives in the area still. She received her B.A. in English from Marquette University. She has two children.
Jai Britton Jai Britton lives in the beautiful foothills of the Rocky Mountains where she is attempting to write her first novel, interruption. She has been in numerous online and print publications, recently including Thieves Jargon, Word Riot, Mannequin Envy, and upcoming in Frigg Magazine. You can reach her at sourtaste7 at hotmail dot com.
Dawn Corrigan Dawn's fiction has appeared recently at Monkeybicycle, The Raging Face, 3711 Atlantic, and 55 Words, and is forthcoming at The Dream People, Hobart and Defenestration. Her nonfiction appears regularly at The Nervous Breakdown.
Ainne “Ayn” Frances dela Cruz Ayn, 21, is a professor at De La Salle-College of St. Benilde and De La Salle University-Dasmarinas. She is currently studying for her MA in Comparative Literature at the University of the Philippines. She was a fellow for the 7th UST National Writers Workshop for English poetry. Her work has been published in Philippine Graphic, The Literary Apprentice Light, Philippine Panorama, Perlas ng Silangan, The Argotist Online, Paliparan, Nimrod International Journal: Crossing Borders Anthology and The Bathyspheric Review.
David Ensminger was born under a plastic Missouri sun in the skinny shadows of trailer parks until his family fled to corn row Illinois, where he began self-publishing poetry and music zines with the help of clunky Xerox machines when he wasn't playing drums in punk bands. He attended seven colleges and universities, stuffing America under his belt, all the while publishing in underground chapbooks and journals like Extra Cheese, Subbild (Germany), Lilliput Review, Flower, Caveat Lector, In the Throes, Fuel, Poesflesh, and many more. As a music journalist, he has also written for Cowboys and Indians, Thirsty Ear, Houston Press, and various zines in Europe. In 1999, he started his own music magazine, Left of the Dial, which can be found online. Presently, he teaches in the English Dept. at Western Oregon University. He has recently published in Detroit Dispatch and the on-line journals Stirring and Softblow. In the coming months, he will also be featured by the on-line journals Noo, Thieves Jargon, and more.
Eric Freedman Eric's fiction has been published in Mobius Journal of Social Change. He has an M.S. from S.U.N.Y. New Paltz and teaches English at a high school in New Jersey.
Donna Gagnon Donna Gagnon spent years living in a northern Canadian tourist town but has recently moved to Guelph, Ontario. With her kids thankfully grown and happy elsewhere, she now focuses on writing short fiction, plays and prose poetry. Her first completed stage play, Deception, was produced for the 2005 Toronto Fringe Festival and appeared at the Factory Theatre. In addition to moderating and editing for BeWrite.net, Donna is an active participant in several other writing forums, including Cafe Doom and The Write Idea. Visit Donna's site here.
Mary L. Hamilton Mary is an optician in Chicago where she is also currently in the MFA in writing program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her writing has appeared in Northeast Performer, The Somerville News, and Word Riot and is forthcoming in Pindeldyboz.
J. B. Hogan is a writer living in Fayetteville, Arkansas. His work has appeared in Bewildering Stories, Avatar Review, Copperfield Review, Ascent Aspirations, Megaera, The Pedestal Magazine, Dogwood Journal, Mastodon Dentist, The Square Table, Raving Dove, Mobius, Viet Nam Generation, The Mark Twain Journal, and San Francisco Review of Books.
Donald Illich Donald Illich is a technical writer with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Rockville, Maryland. He has had poetry published in The Iowa Review and Fourteen Hills and has poems forthcoming in New Zoo Poetry Review, Roanoke Review, and HazMat Review.
Eva Konstantopoulos Eva lives and writes in Los Angeles, CA. She has previously been published in Gangsters in Concrete and Conte.
Miriam N. Kotzin Miriam writes fiction and poetry. She is a founding editor of Per Contra and a contributing editor of Boulevard. Her work has appeared widely in such places as Rumble, Absinthe Literary Review, flashquake, Three Candles, Thieves Jargon, Offcourse, Southern Hum, and Mid-American Review. Her work has received three nominations for a Pushcart Prize and was one of the notable stories of 2005. She teaches creative writing and literature at Drexel University where she directs the Certificate Program in Writing and Publishing.
Erica Lorraine Erica is a San Francisco writer who suffers greatly from procrastinitis. She's published stories in Bombay Gin and Friction, but not all that recently. She's currently at work on a novel.
Rebecca Lu Kiernan Rebecca has been published in MS. MAGAZINE, ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION and numerous books and magazines in the U.S. and Australia. Her first poetry collection, "Sex With Trees..." was published by 2 River Press. Ygdrasil Press published her second collection, "The Man Who Remembered Too Much." She was nominated for a Rhysling award for the cautionary tale, "When a Snake Bites You in the Ass" She lives on the Gulf Coast.
A.S. Morgan A.S. Morgan was born in Boulder, Colorado, USA in 1981. She attended Bard College in Annandale, New York, where she received a BA in Classics. She recently completed her first novel, The Plague Sisters (February, 2006, XLibris). Her website can be found at atrophiedannie.blogspot.com.
Craig Perez Craig is a native of the Pacific island of Gua'han (Guam). He immigrated to California in 1995. Craig completed his MFA at the University of San Francisco, and is co-founder of Achiote Press. His work has appeared in Jacket, Watchword, The Redlands Review, Quercus, and Galatea Resurrects, and is forthcoming in Traffic, Tinfish, Slope, and RainTaxi.
Roger Poppen Roger lives in the Shawnee Forest area of Southern Illinois. His stories have been published in Longstoryshort, Flashquake, and Insolent Rudder.
Kerri Quinn Kerri is a Ph.D. candidate in the Center for Writers at The University of Southern Mississippi. She has a story featured in the spring issue of the online journal The Apple Valley Review and another forthcoming in the August issue of descant. Her short-short, Red, was featured in the online journal 971 MENU in February.
Edward Salem Edward is a Palestinian whose work has appeared in Hutt, Triplopia, NOÖ Journal, Conte, The American Drivel Review, Toe Tree Journal, Subtle Tea, Muscadine Lines, Facets, Critical Moment, Left Curve, and others. Edward is currently working on his MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
J. R. Salling J. R. Salling is an antiquarian bookseller specializing in the history of science and medicine, a fact sometimes reflected in his written work, more often not. His writings have appeared in many publications including Pindeldyboz, Flashquake, elimae, Eyeshot, Hobart, T-Zero, Thieves Jargon, Mad Hatters' Review, and Rose & Thorn.
Amelia Shackelford Amelia is a recent graduate from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a degree in Science, Technology and Culture. She likes to call it her BS in English. Amelia's work was featured at Georgia Tech in the Monstrous Bodies Symposium in April of 1995. These days Amelia is a writer and bicycle mechanic in Atlanta. If you can't find her hunched over a laptop or notebook in any number of bars and cafes around town, you'll most likely find her hunched over a broken bike or pedaling madly through downtown traffic.
Loree Stark Loree is a writer and editor based in Fort Worth, Texas. She loves good TV, hates wasting time, and has never met anyone, male or female, that can eat as much or as fast as she can. Of that she's reasonably proud.
Bob Thurber In the last few years Bob has accumulated over 200 publication credits and seen his work win a number of contests and awards, most recently, The 2006 Meridian Editor's Prize from Meridian, the semiannual literary journal produced at the University of Virginia. Selections of Bob's work have been short listed for Glimmer Train's "Very Short Fiction Award," The Southeast Review's "World's Best Short-short Story Contest," and Writer's Digest's "Short Short Fiction Award" twice. His stories have appeared in thirteen anthologies. Bob's website can be found at Bob Thurber.Net
Peter Wild Peter Wild is the editor of a forthcoming series of books for Serpent's Tail, the first two of which - Perverted by Language: Fiction inspired by The Fall & The Empty Page: Fiction inspired by Sonic Youth - will be published in 2007. He is also editor of The Flash, which will be published by Social Disease in February 2007. His fiction has appeared in Word Riot, Pen Pusher, Scarecrow, Thieves Jargon, Rumble, The Beat and a bunch of other places. He also runs the Bookmunch website.
William Wilde William is an Oregon native. His fiction work has appeared in Ascent, Toasted Cheese, and Trunk Stories.
Bill Winter Bill was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest and has lived there, with the exception of one startlingly unpleasant year in Los Angeles, all his life. His work has appeared in Artistry of Life, Barking Dogs, Mannequin Envy, and Word Riot. He occasionally plays a black Stratocaster guitar, loudly and badly.
Shellie Zacharia Shellie teaches in Gainesville, Florida. Her work has appeared in many print and online journals, including Swivel, Hobart, Backwards City Review, The Pinch, Juked, Flashquake and Verbsap.