contributor bios

ninth issue :: June / July

Joe Zorzi
Joe is 27 and harks from the depths of darkest flattest England. He is a member of Alex Keegan's Bootcamp and has had stories published in a number of magazines including Defenestration and Bluemag.

Fisher Thompson
Fisher has traveled coast to coast in the USA in search of a literary home; finally settling in Southern California. His essays have been published in Abstracts Magazine (USA) and Wild and Whirling Words e-zine (USA): his fiction in Wandering Dog e-zine (UK), www.laurahird.com (UK), Keystone Magazine (UK), Muse Apprentice Guild e-zine (USA), Southern Ocean Review Magazine (NZ), Skyline Magazine (USA), SubtleTea.com (US), Nagoya Writes Magazine (JAPAN), and The Ladder Review (UK): his poetry in The Indite Circle Literary e-zine (CANADA), and Raunchland Publications e-zine(UK). He is currently working toward having his novels published.

Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal
Luis was born in 1967 in Cuernavaca, Morelos (Mexico). He has lived in Los Angeles County since 1975 and works in the mental health field in LA. His first book of poetry, Raw Materials, was published in 2004 by Pygmy Forest Press. His broadside In the House of the Butterflies was published by New American Imagist. Some of his poetry and artwork is featured in The Hold, Remark Poetry, and Thunder Sandwich. His three part Absent Husband series appears in rumble.

LaTanya McQueen
LaTanya is a 20 year old Writing, Literature and Publishing major in the Undergraduate Program at Emerson College in Boston, MA. My writing influences include Amy Hempel, Raymond Carver and Susan Minot

Michael Hartford
Michael is a writer and software developer living in Minneapolis with his wife and twin sons, Jack and Peter. His stories have appeared in or are forthcoming from Small Spiral Notebook, Failbetter, Eyeshot, Ballyhoo Stories, Clean Sheets, and Pindeldyboz.

Michael Martin
Born down south in Jackson Mississippi, Michael lived in New Orleans before settling down in California. He's currently wrestling a beast of a novella, a chapbook, and multiple film scripts. While not dicussing protocol with his muse, you can catch his infrequent posting at his weblog.