contributor bios

Nathan Leslie
Nathan has published two collections of short fiction, most recently A Cold Glass of Milk (Uccelli Press, 2003). Uccelli Press will publish his next collection of fiction, Drivers, in the summer of 2005, and Ravenna Press will publish his collection of flash fiction, Reverse Negative, also in 2005. Aside from being nominated for the 2002 Pushcart Prize, Nathan's fiction and poetry has or will appear in over one hundred literary magazines including Southern Indiana Review, Fiction International, Baltimore Review, Chiron Review, Gulf Stream, and Story South. He completed his MFA at the University of Maryland four years ago, where he won the 2000 Katherine Anne Porter Fiction Prize. Nathan is currently the fiction editor at The Pedestal Magazine.

Wayne Sullins
Wayne Sullins is a 45 year old photographer/writer born in Houston, Texas. At twenty-one he escaped to Europe for three months before settling in Manhattan. He has since traveled to many lands, including Israel, India and Japan. His poems have appeared in the Quarterly, Poetry East, Compost, Quick Fiction, and other rumble. He currently lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

Suzanne Nielsen
Suzanne is a native of St. Paul, Minnesota. She waits for the change of seasons from winter to above freezing with suspicion. She teaches writing at Metropolitan State University, MCAD and The Loft Literary Center. She has been published in various literary journals nationally and internationally; most recently her work has appeared in The Comstock Review, Brick and Mortar Review, Mid-America Poetry Review, Asphodel and 580 Split.

Owen Kilfeather
Kilfeather is a contributor to The New Absurdist website and a confirmed Scot. He wanders about Europe looking for interesting things to write about and sending baffling e-mails and image files to his many friends in the States. Free of the bitter taint of American Pop Culture, he is actually able to think and speak logically for up to 45 minutes at a time.

J.L. Laughlin
J. L. Laughlin holds a BA in philosophy from Virginia Wesleyan College and is a MFA candidate at Queens University of Charlotte, NC. She has published in Moxie Magazine and served as Assistant Fiction Editor for the October/November, 2004 issue of Eclectica Magazine. She currently lives in Virginia.

Nikesh Murali
Nikesh Murali has served as managing editor for The Pointer (India), online editor for The Tabloid, editor for the Niche anthology series: Books 1& 3 (United Kingdom), staff reviewer for E-book Reviews Weekly (Canada), chief editor for the university literary magazine The Litterateur (India) and is currently editing the Bilingual Poets Series for Ibex Press (Buenos Aires). He has also worked as a columnist for Castlebar News (Ireland), Romanceatitsbest.com (United States) and Useless Knowledge (United States). His first non-fiction title, The Atheist's Handbook, will be published by Farce Books in November.

Paris
Paris is a 30 year old capricorn father of 4. Everything is stared at and dissected. I am cursed by being both left and right-brained, and it shows in everything I do. Loud and obnoxious, and far too sarcastic for the "average joe", my work is nothing more than a comical mockery of social tendencies. Admittedly, I make my imagery on the basis of rhetoric. It poses a question that is already answered within itself. My work does make a point: indirect, vague and ambiguous. the title of my work is the answer, and the imagery itself fluent reasoning of rhetorical sarcasm.

Visit the artist's website:   http://www.icandigit.cjb.net/