About the Contributors

Stephen Dau is a writer and photographer based in Brussels, Belgium. He is a student at the Bennington College Writing Seminars, and his work has appeared in The Pittsburgh Post Gazette, McSweeney’s, The North Atlantic Review, Phantasmagoria, Elle, and MSNBC.com, among other places.

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Gordon Highland has been directing, producing, and editing videos professionally for 15 years, has written dozens of commercially-produced scripts, and reams of ad and print copy. Major Inversions is his first novel, and he’s currently working on his second, Flashover.

Gordon lives in Overland Park, KS, where he also enjoys writing, recording, and performing music, photography, and filmmaking.

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Kari Jackson is a soon-to-be graduate of the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Kansas. Though she began writing poetry, she has since fallen in love with the essay, and her MFA thesis is a collection of essays titled Parts & Accessories. She has published poems in Inscape, Touchstone, and Flint Hills Review. Besides writing, she is an editorial assistant for KU’s Cottonwood literary magazine, a GTA teaching Nonfiction Writing and Composition at KU, and a rare and used book appraiser at The Dusty Bookshelf in Lawrence. She obsesses over windows and the arrangement of furniture.

Nik Korpon is from Baltimore, MD. His stories have appeared in various places and his first novel, STAY GOD, is currently making the rounds. And by making the rounds, read: vigorously crossing fingers. He reviews books for the Outsider Writer Collective and is writing his second novel.

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Dan Larkins is from New Jersey. He is now a M.F.A. in creative writing – fiction student at Adelphi University.  He teaches part-time. He likes swimming and playing basketball. He enjoys radical writers and writers who push the boundaries of form especially Steinbeck, Dos Passos, and Mailer, as well as many contemporary story writers. He is working on an essay on Jack London’s, The Iron Heel.

Jesse Lawrence hails from Minneapolis. He has tried to leave many times before, most often in his mind, but remains there to this day. When he isn’t writing screenplays, he’s consuming more caffeine than any one person should, reading, and watching films, all while keeping at bay the fear he may never read or watch everything he wishes to in his life time.

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Being a multi-attendee, Caleb has had many opportunities to embarrass himself in front of important people.Caleb has been published widely. He has edited previous issues of Colored Chalk and is currently a co-editor of the Outsider Writers Collective website. His fiction chapbook, Charactered Pieces (OW Press) is currently available.

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Todd B. Stevens is currently an MFA student at Rosemont College. He has studied English at Cornell and Villanova. Todd worked for many years as a bookseller. His poetry has recently been published in Mad Poets Review and Off the Coast and is featured in the anthology Prompted: Poems, Essays from Greater Philadelphia Wordshop Studio, which will be published early this year.

He is currently pursuing a MFA at Murray State University in their low-residency program, and moderates at The Cult writer’s workshop, compiling an anthology to be published by Chuck Palahniuk. He has been an Editor for Colored Chalk and is Co-Editor and Designer at Sideshow Fables.

Richard has been published by Cemetery Dance, Living Dead Press, 3:AM Magazine, Word Riot, Dogmatika, Cherry Bleeds, The Oddville Press, Colored Chalk, Cause and Effect, Gold Dust, Vain, Nefarious Muse and Opium.

His debut novel, a neo-noir thriller entitled Transubstantiate, will be out with Otherworld Publications on 6.18.10 and pre-orders for the signed/limited and paperback will start 4.1.10. Visit http://www.transubstantiate.net for more information and come join the Facebook Group if this sounds like an interesting book to you

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Robert Alan Wendeborn is an MFA student of poetry at NMSU.  He is an associate editor for Puerto del Sol, and an intern for Apostrophe Books.  He writes about food here and he likes tweeting the most obscene things he can think of here.  His goals for AWP include surviving the boredom of the book fair and staring into Michael Chabon’s blue eyes, which are endless.  His most recent publication is PANK magazine.

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Stacie spends her days with words. She reads books and talks about books, she talks to authors about their books, customers about what they’re reading, coworkers about what she should read next.

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