Poetry
Michael Singh: Michael is a junior Theatre major at the University of California, Riverside. He started writing poetry at the age of eleven in composition notebooks and has continued well into his early twenties with no intention of ever stopping. His poetry aims to reflect his views on subjects like gender inequality, sexual abuse and that nasty little thing called love, among other topics.
Joan-Ramon Resina: Joan-Ramon hails from Barcelona. He is currently a professor in the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures at Stanford University, where he specializes in the European novel, cultural theory, Spanish and Catalan literature and film, and urban culture. He has published seven books, scores of critical essays, and writes regularly for the Catalan daily Ara. Between 1998 and 2004 he was chief editor of the journal of cultural theory Diacritics, and is currently a member of the editorial boards of various U.S. and European journals. His international awards include the Fulbright Scholarship and the Alexander von Humboldt fellowship for post-doctoral research. Joan-Ramon has published one collection of poetry, entitled Monólogos con alguien de mí mismo.
Leila Einhorn: Leila is a twenty-year-old student of English and Creative Writing at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA.
Matthew Gasda: Matthew is a senior Philosophy major at Syracuse University. His preferred writing conditions include a rainy day, a clean kitchen table, and a pot of freshly made green tea.
Tony Magistrale: Tony is Professor and Chair of the English department at the University of Vermont. His book of poems, What She Says About Love, won the Bordighera Poetry Prize in 2007, and was published in a bilingual edition in 2008 by the Bordighera Press.
Amy Meng: Amy is an MFA candidate at New York University’s poetry program. She cannot bake or keep plants alive so she writes poetry, which is harder to kill.
Giovanni Tempesta: Giovanni has been a professor of Italian Language and Culture at Stanford University since 1983. He was born and raised in Italy, where he started writing poetry at the age of 14. He moved to California in 1972. He has just published a collection of original poems (originally written in Italian but presented in both Italian and English translation) entitled Waters, Muddy and Clear. Giovanni has previously published The Cremation of Sam McGee and Other Verses by Robert Service, an Italian Translation and has been featured as a Showcased Author with Literary Laundry. He currently resides in Northern California, though he wishes to return one day to Lucca, as it remains the city closest to his heart.
S Stephanie: S. Stephanie’s poetry and book reviews have appeared in literary magazines such as Third Coast, Birmingham Poetry Review, Café Review, Rattle, The Southern Review and The Sun. She has two chapbooks: Throat was published in 2001 by Igneus Press and What the News Seemed To Say was published in 2009 by Pudding House. She holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College. She co-edited the literary magazine, Crying Sky: Poetry & Conversation with her husband W.E. Butts 2005-2007. She teaches creative writing and English at the NH Institute of Art in Manchester, NH.
Jane Kerrison: Jane is fourth year Undergraduate student of English Literature at Queen’s University. She has work-shopped with Carolyn Smart, Yi Mei Tsiang, Diane Schomperlen, Helen Humphreys and Katheryn Kuitenbrouwer, and has been published in What If?, Ultraviolet, Undergraduate Review, Heads Up, Diatribe Magazine, and online at Every Day Poets and carte blanche.
Brian Moynihan: Brian is a recent graduate from Emerson College’s B.F.A. program in Fiction and Poetry. He currently works as a staff reader for Ploughshares Literary Magazine.
Jake Syersak: Jake is a graduate of English and French at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA. He is currently on academic hiatus while working to publish his poetry.
Armin Tolentino: Armin received his BS in chemistry at the College of New Jersey in 2003. He is currently a 2nd year MFA student in poetry at Rutgers University in Newark and, during the day, works as a program coordinator for a domestic abuse and sexual assault agency. His work is forthcoming in the South Mountain Poets Anthology and The Same Journal.
Alison Schiller: Alison is a senior at Eastern Connecticut State University studying Writing for the Media and Anthropology. She lives in Franklin, Connecticut with her dog, Max, and her cat, Possum.
Prose Fiction
Greg Rubinson: Greg is a lecturer in the UCLA Writing Programs where he teaches composition, literature, creative nonfiction, and postmodernism. He received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Rochester. Greg has published fiction in Insidious Reflections and nonfiction in the Los Angeles Times, Salon.com, and United Airlines’ magazine Hemispheres.
Patrick Sung: Patrick was born in Seattle, Washington in 1987. In 2009 he received his B.A. in English from the University of California, Irvine. He currently resides in Tottori, Japan, where he works as an English teacher while pursuing his interests in fiction and fan studies research.
Julian Smith-Newman: Julian graduated from Columbia University in English and Art History and subsequently completed a dissertation on Dante's Divina Commedia at the Warburg Institute in London. He has published poems in The Greenbelt Review (UC Davis) and Fawlt Magazine. He currently divides his living and writing time between Rome and Berlin.
Len Kuntz: Len lives on a lake in rural Washington State with his wife, son, an eagle, and three pesky beavers. His writing appears in over 200 print and literary journals and also at lenkuntz.blogspot.com
Lorraine Boissoneault: As a student at Miami University of Ohio, the majority of Lorraine’s time is spent hunched over books and articles. Still, she tries to keep as much time as possible open for writing, which includes working on the campus literary magazine, Inklings, and trying to get her work published in off-campus publications. She has worked as a reporting intern for the Sandusky Register newspaper and hopes to one day make a living through writing.
Drama
Kenneth Robbins: Kenneth is the author of 4 published novels, 19 published plays, and numerous stories, essays, memoirs, and reviews. He teaches playwriting among other courses at Louisiana Tech University, where he serves as the Director of the School of the Performing Arts. In the River was given its premiere performance in June, 2010, by the Source Theatre, Washington, DC.
Ainsley Blattel: Ainsley is a student at UCSC, where she studies Literature. Ainsley aspires to organize creative writing workshops with kids in Juvenile Detention Facilities so as to help such children have their voices heard. She believes that writing frees the soul.