Phillip VanSant is a 32 year old recent graduate of the San Francisco State Creative Writing MA program. He has published a few short stories in magazines and small press magazines (Don’t Read This, The Chiron Review and M.O.S.A.I.C) and has just finished turning his graduate thesis into a full-length novel. He spent most of his graduate studies learning about novels (pacing, slow development, plot developent) and since finishing the program in May, he has been elated to find that his passion for writing shorter fiction is as strong as it ever was. He enjoys writing character-based pieces and tends to write close third person, where the psychic distance between narrator and protagonist is as close as can be.
Marta Chausee is a Southern California native who writes fiction, creative non-fiction, memoir and poetry. She has won writing awards and been published in Carnival LIterary Magazine, Left Coast Literary Review, Internal Family Systems newsletter, Trauma Intervention Program newsletter, and The Lowry News in Denver. Her first full-length mystery, Murder’s Last Resort, was a finalist in the 2012 Dark Oak Murder Mystery Competition, and will be published in autumn 2012 by Oak Tree Press.
Dylan Gosland is a student/writer hybrid from Southern California who enjoys tasting the Costco samples of life that are handed to him. As the previous sentence implies, he goes to college, works, and sharpens his claws on a constant basis, so as to climb the ladder of success that much faster. He also dabbles in the forbidden fruit of poetry, and is comically addicted to Butterfingers. He writes of love, loss, and the hidden haiku moments that you lick off your fingers with a smile. He has works published in The Left Coast Review, Creepy Gnome, and Carnival Magazine. He loves to laugh in empty rooms and public places.
Mandy Manning graduated in August with an MFA in fiction from Northwest Institute of Literary Arts. Her work has appeared in Soundings Review, Daily Bites of Flash Horror Anthology, and has won the second place fiction prize from the Bacopa Literary Review.
Vincent Rendoni received his MFA in Fiction from Chatham University. His work has appeared in FictionBrigade, shady side review, and Arcturus. He currently resides in Tacoma, WA.
Kevin Ridgeway is from Southern California, where he resides in a shady bungalow with his girlfriend and their one-eyed cat. Recent work has appeared in Connotation Press, Underground Voices Magazine and Santa Fe Literary Review.
Joe Okonkwo’s poetry has been published in Van Gogh’s Ear, Anthology, Priapus, and online at timbooktu.com and poetism.com. His short story “Jazz Moon” appeared in Best Gay Love Stories 2009. “Eye Candy,” has been published in the journal Promethean and “Baby Boy” can be seen online at http://www.KeepThisBagAwayFromChildren.com.
Paul Lewellan has published over sixty short stories in magazines such as South Dakota Review, Big Muddy, Timber Creek Review, Word Riot, and Iconoclast. Two of his stories have been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize and “The Queen of Bass Fishing in American” received Special Mention in the 2010 Pushcart Prize Anthology. Recently, “Ready Stop” placed second in the Watercress Journal Short Story Competition. Paul is an Adjunct Instructor of Communication Studies and Business Administration at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois.
Joanna Reese is an English student at the University of Texas who is currently filling out tickets for the creative writing MFA lottery.
Leonard Zhang recently graduated from UC Riverside with a BA degree in Creative Writing. He is currently looking into a career in film making in hopes that he could not only write his own stories, but also direct them for the big screen, while acting on the side.
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