Jim Daniels Jim Daniels has published three volumes of short fiction and nine collections of poems. He has also written the screenplays for two independent feature films, No Pets (1994) and Dumpster (2005) . He is the Thomas Stockman Baker Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University, where he directs the Creative Writing Program. He is the winner of the Blue Lynx Poetry Prize for his book, Revolt of the Crash-Test Dummies (Eastern Washington University Press, 2007). In addition, he has edited or co-edited four anthologies, including Letters to America: Contemporary American Poetry on Race, and American Poetry: The Next Generation. He has received the Brittingham Prize for Poetry, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and two from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. His poems have appeared in the Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies. He is the Thomas Stockman Baker Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University, where he directs the Creative Writing Program. At Carnegie Mellon, he has received the Ryan Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Elliott Dunlap Smith Award for Teaching and Educational Service.

John Michael Cummings' short stories have appeared in more than seventy-five literary journals, including North American Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Chattahoochee Review, The Kenyon Review, and The Iowa Review.  Twice he has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize.  His short story “The Scratchboard Project” received an honorable mention in The Best American Short Stories 2007, and his novella The House of My Father was a finalist in the 2006 Miami University Novella Contest. His first novel, The Night I Freed John Brown, is forthcoming from Philomel Books (Penguin Group), May 2008. He lives in New York with his wife, Susan, and their cat, Sentry.

 

Larry Gaffney has been a sportswriter, tennis instructor, and professor of English at Penn State University and Lock Haven University.  One Good Year, published by Level 4 Press in 2007, was a finalist in the Indie Excellence awards for Best General Fiction.  His short stories, poems, and satires have appeared in Rosebud, Light Quarterly, Opium, Chronicle of Higher Education, Underground Voices, YPR, Thieves Jargon, Eclectica, Rumble, and a few other places.

Scott Hermanson is an Instructor in the Department of English at Arizona State University.  Before coming to ASU, he taught at Dana College in Nebraska and the University of Illinois at Chicago.  His previous publications have all been in literary and cultural criticism, exploring the intersection of nature and contemporary fiction in works of Richard Powers, Mike Davis and Walt Disney World. His most recent work, an interview with the novelists Richard Powers and Tom LeClair, appeared in Electronic Book Review.

 

 

Susan Wingate is a novelist, poet, journalist, essayist and playwright. She lives in Washington state with her husband, Bob, and writes full time. Wingate teaches writing classes at the community college level at workshops around the country and online.  Since the 2007 publication of her first novel, OF THE LAW, she keeps busy teaching writing workshops, speaking at libraries and bookstores, and traveling throughout the northwestern states. Her poems have received awards and her short stories and articles can be found in many magazines, journals and reviews. Currently, Wingate is writing her third novel and is a contributing writer for The Builder's Journal.

Theodore Wheeler's fiction has been featured in Boulevard, fugue, gsu review, and is forthcoming in the 2009 edition of Best New American Voices.  He has been a Jakobson scholar at the Wesleyan Writers Conference, a graduate fellow at Creighton University, and has recently won Boulevard's Short Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers.  Wheeler lives in Omaha with his wife Nicole and daughter Madeleine, is finishing a collection of short fiction, and has begun work on a novel.

 

 

 

T.R. Healy was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest.  His stories have appeared in such publications as The Foliate Oak, Limestone, The Red Cedar Review, and Sequoia.