Contributors
 | Frederica Bepler is a writer and editor in New York City. She graduated with a degree in Creative Writing from Oberlin College. |
Tom Bissell is the author of Chasing the Sea and God Lives in St. Petersburg . He contributes to Harper's Magazine, The Believer, and other publications. He lives in New York... |
 | Brooklyn-based writer Ester Bloom 's features, essays, and stories have appeared in Slate, Salon, Bite: An Anthology of Flash Fiction , Creative Non-Fiction , the Hairpin, the Awl, the Toast, the Morning News, Nerve, PANK, and numerous other venues. She blogs on culture for the Huffington Post... |
Jon Boulier is a writer, photographer, and an instructor at the University of San Francisco. He's contributed to Opium Magazine , Block , and The Rumpus . As a photographer, he's shot regularly for How I Learned, the Franklin Park reading series, and The Monthly Rumpus. He's currently... |
 | Kelly Braffet 's first novel, Josie and Jack , was published by Houghton Mifflin in 2005. It was praised as "wicked fun . . . a gothic tour of hell" (Los Angeles Times) and "a compelling study of love, hate, and psychopathic jealousy" (New York Post). Braffet was born in... |
 | Kate Braverman is an experimental writer of a singular and ruthless breed. She is a poet, short fiction writer, essayist and author of the novels, Lithium for Medea, Palm Latitudes, Wonders of the West, and The Incantation of Frida K. Her Graywolf Prize winning memoir, Frantic Transmissions to and... |
 | Ken Bruen , born in Galway, Ireland, is the author of more than a dozen extremely dark crime novels. His book The Guards , which began the Jack Taylor series, was nominated for every single award in the mystery field, and won the Shamus Award. Mr. Bruen has a PhD in metaphysics and taught for 25... |
 | David Burr Gerrard is a writer living in New York. His debut novel, Short Century, will be published by Rare Bird Books in 2014. A graduate of Columbia's M.F.A program in fiction, he is a contributing editor at Tottenville Review, and his short fiction has appeared in Extract(s). |
Susan's fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and appeared in Failbetter, Epiphany, Ducts and other publications. She has received several fiction fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and teaches writing in organizations that serve at-risk populations including... |
 | Stephen Byler was born in Lancaster, PA. His first collection of fiction, Searching for Intruders , was a New York Times Notable book. |