Contributors
 | Melissa Kirsch is the author of The Girl's Guide to Absolutely Everything (Workman, 2006). Her poetry has been published in such journals as Northwest Review , Fence , Nerve , Indiana Review , Drunken Boat and in the insomnia anthology, Acquainted With the Night (Columbia University Press, 1999... |
 | Vladimir Kleyman was born in Chernovtsy, Ukraine and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. He now lives in New York City and is working on a collection of short stories. |
 | David Laskowski lives in Fort Collins, CO. |
 | Will Lasky has spent a great deal of time in the former Soviet Union on various jobs ranging from bumbling shepherd of American students to human rights advocate to journalist. Lately, he lives in Brooklyn where he writes in his free moments. Currently, he's working on a draft of a young adult... |
 | Marie Myung-Ok Lee is one of the rare American writers who has received a visa to visit North Korea, which she did in 2009. She writes frequently for The New York Times, The Atlantic, Salon, and The Nation. She teaches writing at Columbia and Brown University, and her novel is forthcoming with... |
Poetry |
 | Molly Lindley is a graduate of Smith College and works in book publishing. She lives in Brooklyn. |
 | Michael Liss works a day job, does business development and film programming for the Vail Film Festival and sometimes pretends he's writing a novel. He leaves the country as often as possible and the rest of the time is in New York... |
 | Alex Littlefield is a contributor to Radar magazine and a former police correspondent for The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. His play Indulgences was performed by an Oberlin College theater group, and his translation of an Argentine dogsledding memoir from the arctic north of Greenland is forthcoming in... |
 | Carmen Maria Machado is a fiction writer, critic, and essayist whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in AGNI , The New Yorker , The American Reader , Tin House 's Open Bar, Five Chapters , VICE , The Paris Review , Los Angeles Review of Books , and many other publications. She was the... |