Contributor’s Notes

Blake Butler lives in Atlanta and edits ‘the internet literary magazine blog of the future’ HTMLGIANT. He is the author of a novella, Ever, from Calamari Press, and a novel-in-stories Scorch Atlas, from Featherproof Books, both in 2009. In April 2011, Harper Perennial will publish his novel, There Is No Year. (vol. 2)

Megan Falley graduated from SUNY New Paltz with a degree in English Literature and Creative Writing, but attributes at least half of her education to The Intangible Collective, six months spent living in New Zealand, subways, her incredible mother, the movie Harold & Maude, and New York City. She has been published by Penmanship Books, in PANK Magazine, Danse Macabre, The Legendary, and The Stone’s Throw Review, but is most in love with her unedited truths that can be found at www.meganfalley.tumblr.com. If she wasn’t doing poetry she would probably headline a Spice Girls cover band, or free all the pet-store puppies, or be dead.(vol. 2)

John Findura holds an MFA from The New School. A Pushcart Prize nominee and a guest blogger for The Best American Poetry blog, he is the author of the chapbook Useful Shrapnel (Scantily Clad Press, forthcoming) and his poetry and criticism appear in journals such as Verse, Fugue, Fourteen Hills, Copper Nickel, No Tell Motel, H_NGM_N, Jacket, and Rain Taxi, among others. Born in Paterson, he lives in Northern New Jersey with his wife and daughter. (vol. 2)

Rachel Contreni Flynn’s latest book is Tongue published by Red Hen Press in 2010. She is a graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program, and was awarded a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2007. She lives north of Chicago, but you can visit her at www.rachelcontreniflynn.com. (vol. 2)

Molly Gaudry is the author of the verse novel We Take Me Apart (Mud Luscious, 2009) and the editor of Tell: An Anthology of Expository Narrative (Flatmancrooked, 2010). Her website is www.mollygaudry.com. (vol. 2)

Roxane Gay’s writing appears or is forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Mid-American Review, Cream City Review, Annalemma, McSweeney’s (online), and others. She is the co-editor of PANK, an assistant professor of English at Eastern Illinois University, and can be found at www.roxanegay.com. Her first collection, Ayiti, will be released in 2011.(vol. 2)

Bob Hicok’s seventh collection, Elegy Owed, is forthcoming from Copper
Canyon. He recently released the chapbook Speaking American as part of
Frequencies, Volume 1: A Chapbook and Music Anthology (YesYes Books).
This Clumsy Living (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007) will be offered
in a German translation by Luxbooks in 2013.(vol. 1)(vol. 2)(vol. 7)

Steven Karl is the author of State(s) of Flux (Peptic Robot Press, 2009) which is a collaborative chapbook with Joseph Lappie and (Ir)Rational Animals (Flying Guillotine Press, 2010). He has an e-chap forthcoming from H_ngm_n. In one way or another he is involved with Borough Writing Workshops, Coldfront Magazine, Sink Review, and Stain of Poetry. He lives in Brooklyn, NY and blogs at stevenkarl.blogspot.com.(vol. 2)

Jason Koo is the author of Man on Extremely Small Island (C&R Press, 2009), winner of the De Novo Poetry Prize and the Asian American Writer’s Workshop Members’ Choice Award for the best Asian American book of 2009. His recent work has appeared in The Missouri Review, Diode, La Petite Zine, Jabberwock Review, and The Owls. The winner of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Vermont Studio Center, he teaches at Lehman College, where he serves as Director of Graduate Studies in English. He lives in Brooklyn with his cat, Django. www.jasonkoopoetry.com(vol. 2)

Robert Krut is the author of This is the Ocean, winner of the Melissa Lanitis Gregory Poetry Prize from Bona Fide Books (coming October 2013), as well as The Spider Sermons (BlazeVox, 2009). His chapbook, Theory of the Walking Big Bang, was published by H_NGM_N Books in 2006; subsequently, he began serving as an Associate Editor for the journal/press. He teaches at the University of California at Santa Barbara and lives in Los Angeles.(vol. 2)(vol. 8)

Rickey Laurentiis was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. His poetry has appeared in The Collagist, Indiana Review, jubilat and other literary journals. In 2009, two of his poems were named first- and third-runner up in the International Reginald Shepherd Memorial Prize, sponsored by Knockout Literary Magazine, and he has received a Cave Canem Fellowship. He studies in New York and blogs at: rickeylaurentiis.wordpress.com(vol. 2)

Kirsty Logan writes, edits, teaches, and reviews books in Glasgow, Scotland. She is the co-editor of Fractured West and the reviews editor for PANK. She is currently working on her first novel, Little Dead Boys, thanks to a grant from the Scottish Book Trust. Her poetry chapbook, You Look Good Enough To Eat Me, is forthcoming from Forest (forpub.com) in 2011. Say hello at kirstylogan.com.(vol. 2)(vol. 3)

Prathna Lor is the author of Ventriloquism (Future Tense Books). He lives in Canada.(vol. 2)

Tony Mancus lives in Rosslyn, VA with his wife and their two cats. He is co-founder of Flying Guillotine Press and he currently has a chapbook out with Greying Ghost Press called Bye Land.Its counterpart, Bye Sea, will be published by Tree Light Books later this year. He keeps an outdated blog at inlandskirting.blogspot.com.(vol. 2)(vol. 6)

Gary L. McDowell is the author of American Amen (Dream Horse Press, 2010), winner of the 2009 Orphic Prize for Poetry. He’s also the author of the chapbook They Speak of Fruit (Cooper Dillon Books, 2009) and co-editor of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry (Rose Metal Press, 2010). His poems and essays have appeared in New England Review, Colorado Review, Indiana Review, Mid-American Review, among others. He can be found online at www.garylmcdowell.com. (vol. 2)

Kyle Minor is the author of In the Devil’s Territory, a collection of short fiction. Recent non-grocery-list work appears in Gulf Coast, The Southern Review, and Best American Mystery Stories 2008. His currentest kitchen is half a mile from the Maumee River. www.kyleminor.com(vol. 2)

Nate Pritts is the author of four full-length books of poems, most recently Big Bright Sun (BlazeVOX, 2010) & The Wonderfull Yeare (Cooper Dillon Books, 2010). His poetry & prose have been published widely, both online & in print, in journals such as The Southern Review, SpringGun, Gulf Coast, DIAGRAM, Rain Taxi Review of Books, Redivider, & Forklift, Ohio. Nate has his MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College (‘00) & his PhD in British Romanticism from the University of Louisiana, Lafayette (‘03). He is the founder & principal editor of H_NGM_N & H_NGM_N BKS.(vol. 2)

Nick Ripatrazone is the author of Oblations (Gold Wake Press 2011), a book of prose poems. His writing has appeared in Esquire, The Kenyon Review, West Branch, The Mississippi Review, Caketrain, Abjective, Annalemma, The Collagist, Sou’wester, SmokeLongQuarterly, and Beloit Fiction Journal.(vol. 2)

Metta Sama is the fiction editor of ragazine and a book reviewer for hercircle. Her poems have been published in Crab Orchard, Blackbird, The Drunken Boat, and Pebble Lake Review, among others.(vol. 2)

Phillip B. Williams is a Cave Canem fellow and a native of Chicago, IL. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Boxcar Review, Tidal Basin, Gertrude and others. He is currently working in Chicago as an HIV tester and prevention counselor.(vol. 2)

Angela Veronica Wong is the author of two chapbooks, All the Little Red Girls on Flying Guillotine Press and to know this on Cy Gist Press. She has poems forthcoming or published in Denver Quarterly, Court Green, Columbia Poetry Review, and Drunken Boat. For more information, please visit www.angelaveronicawong.com.(vol. 2)