Christopher Capelluto moved to New York City to pursue a career in film making and story telling at the School of Visual Arts. He enlisted in the US army guard as an infantryman and spent a year mobilized with the 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team Bravo Company Infantry in Iraq. He has been published in online magazines and has been in many film festivals.
Mike Meraz is a poet from Los Angeles who currently lives in New Orleans. He is the author of two books of poetry Black-Listed Poems and All Beautiful Things Travel Alone. Both are available at Lulu.com and Amazon.com. He is also the editor of Black-Listed Magazine.
Luis Rivas lives and works in the San Fernando Valley, California. He was a telemarketer, construction worker, assistant drug dealer, flower delivery driver, fast food cashier, sales clerk, package handler/zip code sorter. His work has appeared in the following publications,some of which he contributes to regularly: Zygote in My Coffee, Unlikely Stories, The Hold (R.I.P.), My Favorite Bullet, Cherry Bleeds, Red Fez, Rural Messenger Press, Thieves Jargon, Origami Condom and Gloom Cupboard.
Peter Magliocco writes from Las Vegas, Nevada, and has poetry at GOLD DUST, FULL OF CROW, OPIUM POETRY, HEELTAP, GLOOM CUPBOARD and elsewhere… His new novel is The Burgher of Virtual Eden from Publish America. He was Pushcart nominated for poetry in 2008.
Regina Green’s poems have appeared in The Human Genre Project, A Little Poetry- Voracious Verses, Cahoots Magazine, Breadcrumb Scabs, physiognomy in letters, and the on-line poetry blogs, Bolts of Silk, This Zine Will Save Your Life, Thirteen Myna Birds and a handful of stones. She is also published in Spiraling Volume 1 and Spiraling Nature, two collaborative Lulu pressed poetry compilations. Regina is a therapist living in Marietta, GA, has yet to use the word “y’all” in a poem, and wants to learn Spanish so she can read Pablo Neruda’s poems in his native language.
Peycho Kanev is 28 years old. His work has been published in Welter, Gloom Cupboard, Poetry Cemetery, Nerve Cowboy, The Chiron Review, The Guild of Outsider Writers, Mad Swirl, Side of Grits, Southern Ocean Review and many others. He is nominated for Pushcart Award. He lives in Chicago alone.
M.P. Powers has work published or forthcoming in The New York Quarterly, Slipstream, Main Street Rag, Ghoti Magazine, Underground Voices and many others. He lives in Miami and is a shark-suit tester.
Shaun Garrod grew up in Stratford and now resides in Ashby de la Zouch.
Lori Williams lives and works in NYC and has published poems in numerous print and online publications, including Poems Niederngasse, Melic Review, Branches Quarterly, Snow Monkey, Big City Lit, New Zoo Poetry Review, and Avatar Review. She has just started to do open mics after years of being a chicken, and now they can’t pry her off the podium. She thinks life is good these days.
Angela Koh is an up-and-coming poet and author from California.
Katie Graham is a Scottish fairytale and adventure writer who also loves to write poems. Her work has been published in several places including Poetry Scotland and The Battered Suitcase. Katie also writes classic horror stories in the style of Edgar Allan Poe and Bram Stoker, and is currently working on her third book.
Connor de Bruler grew up in Greenville, South Carolina and Nuremburg Germany. He has been previously published in Southern Gothic Shorts, Dark Anima Journal, Portland’s Peep Zine, Glossolalia Magazine, and Dabblestone Horror.
Lawrence Gladeview was born in 1983. After two middle schools and losing his faith in catholic high school, he graduated from James Madison University, majoring in English and having spent only one night in jail. He is a Washington D.C. poet cohabiting with his fiance Rebecca Barkley. His poems have been featured in Word Catalyst Magazine, Gloom Cupboard Literary Magazine, The Poet’s Haven Poetry Magazine, The Legendary, Shoots and Vines, and Yellow Mama Literary Magazine.
Justin Heifetz has just turned 23 and resides in Boston. His work can be found in Outsiders Writers Collective: Lit Circus, Gloom Cupboard, Sein und Werden, Shoots and Vines, Literary Chaos, The Legendary, 50 to 1, and forthcoming in Kill Poet and PANK. He plans to pursue photography and creative writing.
Ben Nardollili is a twenty-three year old writer currently living in New York City. His work has appeared in Houston Literary Review, Perigee Magazine, Canopic Jar, and Lachryma: Modern Songs of Lament, Baker’s Dozen, Thieves Jargon, Farmhouse Magazine, Elimae, Poems Niederngasse, The Delmarva Review, Underground Voices Magazine, Heroin Love Songs, Shakespeare’s Monkey Revue, Literary Fever, and Perspectives Magazine. In addition he was the poetry editor for West 10th Magazine at NYU.
Lisa Zaran is an American poet, essayist and the author of six collections including The Blondes Lay Content and the sometimes girl, the latter of which was recently the focus of a year long translation course in Germany. She is founder and editor of Contemporary American Voices and Little Lark Press, online poetry journals. She lives and writes in Arizona.
Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of seven poetry chapbooks, including Tomorrowland (2008) from Achilles Chapbooks in print and The Torturer’s Horse (2009) from Recycled Karma Press online. He has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize and twice for the Best of the Net anthology.
Chris West believes in the power of rock music, Beat poetry, and the sanctity of Star Trek. He has appeared in the journals Kitchen Sink and Morbid Curiosity, in various online venues including a current stint as a columnist at LEGENDmag, and in the Mortified reading series. Chris resides in San Francisco, where he works for a non-profit while seeking a publisher for his first novel.
Carol Lemley (aka Vinci), M.A., has worked as a teacher, legal editor, and writer. She has published both fiction and nonfiction in various magazines. Her most recent fiction has appeared in Fictionville, The Seattle Review, Dana Literary Society Online Journal, Scrivener=s Pen Literary Journal, and Backhand Stories. She has just completed the second of two novels and is currently working on a collection of short stories.
H.E. Mantel is an Aquarian male, Poet/Writer/Editor, published in Print and Online, including Ascent Aspirations, Shampoo, The Apocalypse, A Hero’s Journey Anthology, Poetry By Moonlight Anthology, World Artist Network Magazine, Poetic Spit, Poetry Soup (Award), Retort Magazine, Poetry Of Food Anthology, Wordgathering, Poetry Flyer, Doors Anthology (I & II), The Plebian Rag, Apocalypse, Gloom Cupboard; awaiting the publication of his Poetry collections, “Bananas’ On The Moon…A Collection Of Revisionist Haiku” & “Sophistigates: A New Book Of New Poetry”; musician-vocalist, an avid reader, athlete, and devotee of Holistic Health through Vegan lifestyle, Ecology and his Writing to Help Our Earth to Heal. He resides in Florida.
Kathryn Mitchell is a 21-year-old student living in New York City, where she majors in How to graduate from NYU without being a sarcastic, pretentious asshole. She’s currently failing.
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Daniel Kramb is a writer based in Hackney, East London. His short novel Collision, aka the demo tape, is out since April 2009, self-published and raw, and he is currently writing the story’s second part. Daniel was born in 1982 and grew up in Germany.
Dave Migman is a writer and artist from the UK living in Greece and Edinburgh. His first novel The Wolf Stepped Out is available from Doghorn Publishing after June 21st and his writing appears in many journals offline and on.
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K.M. Fields lives outside Cincinnati. After a decade or so away from words, he’s been stringing them together again and has recently had work accepted by Quality Fiction, Clean Sheets, Down in the Dirt, and Pink Chameleon.
Yossarian Hunter originated in the Chicago area, but was transplanted as a sapling to rural Mississippi. He runs away from time to time, bringing back stories of horror and bravery from the open American road. When he is not mixing drinks, he is usually having drinks somewhere. Just don’t expect him to pick up the tab. He has published poetry and short fiction in NC LowBrow Collective webzine, Haggard and Halloo, and Mad Swirl. He has poems upcoming in Deep Tissue Magazine and Eviscerator Heaven. When not reading or writing, he plays guitar (badly) at several North Mississippi campfire jams. He spends most of his time in seclusion on an old family farm off in the hills with his wolf-dog Ophelia. Feel free to drop in any time, just bring Scooby Snacks. And a sixer of Pabst.
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Mather Schneider is a 39 year old cab driver, currenlty unemployed, with no degree. He has been published in the small press for nearly 15 years; and has a book coming out by Interior Noise Press this year.
Michael Norris is a freelance writer and ESL teacher who is just back from four years in Paris, and is now living in Evanston, IL. He has published articles in The Paris Times and on Literary Kicks, among other publications and web sites. He is currently working on numerous short stories and articles.
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Paul Hellweg likes to drink beer, is an insomniac, and has worked for the U. S. Postal Service off and on over the years. He wishes that were all it takes to be as successful as Bukowski at living, writing, and making love. (OK, so he knows he’s got a long way to go, but he’s working on it.)
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Isaac Seal is an odd one, but at the root of it, a good egg. He has been published in a few places [though not nearly as many as he's attempted to be], but in real life he’s a professional chef of the almost famous variety. He loves food, and words, and music. These are the things he creates. He recently moved to Sacramento, California, and is looking for a nice restaurant to call home. He loves his life on the good days, and hates it on the bad ones. This, he suspects, makes him much like everyone else. He is very good at shooting pool, and scrabble. He is very bad at bowling and long division. He is now terribly tired of writing about himself in the third person, and is going to make a sandwich instead.
“Kate Thorburn is dead is the first and last sentance of her new novel.” I have tried to be a lot of things, but none of them fit as well as being a writer did. It’s a curse as well as a blessing and means I never get to be alone, and the people around me get to be cursed with immortality in my writing’. Since she was fifteen she has been writing professionally, and although she has lead a Motley crue upbringing, she is trying to calm down. “The way I see it is, I have one year left. One year to either become a writer, or I’m giving it all up and opening a shop full of toasters and I’ll just drink myself to death.”
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Janet Freeman lives in Portland, Oregon. Her work has appeared in Storyglossia, Prick of the Spindle, and JMWW. She is currently at work on a novel.
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Matt Finney is a writer from millbrook, alabama.
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John Grey has been published recently in Agni, Worcester Review, South Carolina Review and The Pedestal, with work upcoming in Poetry East and REAL.
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Brent Powers finds inspiration in winks, Persian smiles, the remaining bottles of beer on the wall, and the movements of clouds. Also he bugles with tears painted on, drives a Porche Spider into Eternity in order to dance with posthumous girls and laugh with boys who enjoyed their invisibility. He’s OK with himself. Hopes you’re OK with him, too.
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Jeremy LoCurto is an American expatriate living in London.
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Billy Burgos is an Illustrator/Designer/Poet from Los Angeles. He is a Curator on staff at Gotpoetry.com. His poetry has been featured in both Anthologies and Literary Journals and Zines. He was the recipient of the UCLA Writers Scholarship. His first full length book will be out later this year on Deadbeat Press.
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Victoria Clayton Munn is a poet/writer who loves the feel of words on her fingertips. She has been published in such ‘zines as Poor Mojo’s Almanac(k), Boston Literary Magazine, and Right Hand Pointing, among others. Victoria lives in upstate New York with her husband and daughter.
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Donna Vitucci raises funds for nonprofit clients in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in dozens of journals, including Natural Bridge, Hawaii Review, Meridian, Gargoyle, Broad River Review, Hurricane Review, Front Porch Journal, Beloit Fiction Journal, Storyglossia, Insolent Rudder, Turnrow, Juked, Night Train, and Another Chicago Magazine. She writes about tangled families, lovers, and friends; and evidently, now, distressed folk in bars.
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Russell Bittner lives in Brooklyn, New York. His writing has appeared in anthologies and magazines both on-line and in print; including Thieves Jargon, Zygote in my Coffee, Dogmatika, 3AM Magazine, Per Contra, Aesthetica, the Laura Hird Showcase, Sein und Werden, and Mad Hatters Review. His novels include Trompe-l’oeil and Girl from Baku.
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Melanie Browne has work in Madswirl, Cause and Effect, Poetry Warrior E-zine; and forthcoming in DecomP and Word Riot. She lives in
Dan Gee has written poetry for Shoots and Vines magazine and has written on a few occasions for the Short Humour website. Currently
Jan Oskar Hansen is a poet, story teller, and seafarer; born in Stavanger Norway. His books include Murmur From The East; End Of The Voyage; La Strada; Lunch in Denmark; and Letters from Portugal.
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Anjan Sen was born in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) where he still lives. He writes poems and essays in Bengali, and sometime paints in Tempura. He currently edits “gaNgeo pOttro” a Bengali journal of literary theory. He was one of the initiators of Uttaradhunik (Beyond Modernism), a Literary consciousness movement, along with Amitabha Gupta and others. He has published seven collection of poems and six collections of essays. He is involved with a group of rural Folk Musicians “Bhromora,” and is President of the Little Magazine Library & Research Centre in Kolkata. The portait of Sen is by the Indian painter Ganesh Pyne.
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Robert Warrington is a writer based in the English West Midlands.
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Michael Jacobson is a writer/artist from Minneapolis. He is known for his wordless books.
Crystal Folz lives in rural Indiana and works in a library.
Jerry Budinski is an engineer turned writer. His stories have appeared in numerous publications, including Eclectica and Quantam Muse.
Luis Berriozabal was born in Mexico. His flash fiction has appeared in Rumble, Babel Magazine, Dogzplot, Bad Marmalade, and Zygote In My Coffee.
Verless Doran lives in East TN. He has written a novel entitled A Season of Impotence.
David Stillwagon lives in Atlanta. He writing has or will appear in Mississippi Crow, Johnny America, ClockWise Cat, and Word Catalyst.
Conor Robin Madigan writes essays, stories and Pensées. His work as appeared in Storyglossia, SmokeLong Quarterly, elimae, Fiction At Work, Lamination Colony, No Posit, and Cuthroat, a journal of the arts published chapter the first of a novel.
Zach King once read a collection of Allen Ginsberg poems; his views on life and words shifted. Among his interests are film and philosophy. He lives outside New Haven Connecticut.
Alan Kelly has contributed to Butcherqueers, Penny Blood, Pretty Scary, 3AMm, GCN. His fiction can be read at Dogmtaika, Beat the Dust and Parasitic. He is from Ireland.
Randy Thurman is an artist, musician, composer, poet, writer, etc. living and working in rural south east Tennessee. His art has been exhibited at Monkdogz Urban Art, Gallery 18, and the Jay Etkin Gallery.
Katherine Mason is a journalism student at Washington University in St. Louis Missouri.
Allagash Sinclair resides in Western Massachusetts and is a frequent writer of very short stories and left-leaning letters to the editor.
Suzy Devere is a prostitute, a drug addict, a Dr.’s wife, a Lawyer’s wife, a mistress to a famous Saudi Sheikh, a mother, an intellectual, an academic, an athlete, a painter, a drawer, a photographer, and a writer who feels utterly, stunningly alone. She has lived all over the world but right now lives next door to you.(She’s pretty cute too.)
Eric Suhem lives in California. His work has appeared in Monkeybicycle, Cerebral Catalyst, why vandalism? and Defenestration.
Brent Powers exists when he feels like it.
Shane Allison has had poems published in Shampoo, juked, Suspect Thoughts, Velvet Mafia, Zygote in My Coffee, and Instant Pussy.
Carl Schinasi is a New Yorker in Birmingham Alabama.
Janet Yung lives and writes in St. Louis.
Helen Peterson edits Chopper Poetry Journal in New London Connecticut.
Steve Wheeler is a writer from Ottawa.
Christopher Nosnibor is the author of The Plagiarist.
Bob Bradshaw is a programmer living in Redwood City, CA. Recent works of his are at Eclectica, Loch Raven Review and Orange Room Review.
Errid Farland lives in Southern California. Her stories have appeared in Barrelhouse, Thieves Jargon, Word Riot, storySouth, Pindledyboz, and GUD, among others.
Si Philbrook lives in Brighton England where he manages a care facility for people with learning disabilities.
Nathan Tyree lives in Kansas. He is an editor at Bookmunch, and author of Mr. Overby Is Falling.
Joy Leftow is poet-laureate of Washington Heights.
Peter Schwartz is art editor for Mad Hatters Review, and Dogzplot. His most recent exhibition was at the Amsterdam Whitney Gallery in New York.
Dennis Magahin lives in Washington. His electronic poetry chapbook Bandini’s Disco Usufruct, is available at Origami Condom.
Mira Horvich is a poet and short story writer living in Poland.
Zack Wilson from Sheffield England edits Parasitic 101 and writes for Goal. His collection is available at Erbacce Press.
Tim Hall is a writer, multimedia artist, journalist, editor, and publisher. His books include Half Empty, and Triumph Of The Won’t.
Nikesh Murali has published several volumes of poetry. He was nominated for the Pushcart in 2007.
Matthew Scott lives in Wales. His debut novel is Playing Mercy. He also runs the theatre company Slung Low.
Barry Graham is editor of Dogzplot Magazine. His book The National Virginity Pledge is forthcoming from Another Sky Press.
Puma Perl, poet, writer, and spoken-word reader in New York City, is working on a book about the lower east side in the 70’s and 80’s.
Barbara Hilal is an artist, writer, and beat poet from Savannah GA, exiled in Texas.
Britonny Johnson is a fan of beatniks, jazz, and hippies. She lives in Kentucy with her two children.
Malcolm Hoover is a California educator, community leader, and world traveler.
Misty Rainwater-Lites is editor/publisher of Instant Pussy. Her chapbooks are available from Kendra Steiner Editions, Erbacce Press, and Scintillating Publications. Her newest full-length poetry collection is Pretty Red Berries.
Mathias Nelson has been published in Cherry Bleeds, Word Riot, Boston Literary Magazine, and others.
Tom Bradley has written a number of books over the past decade and a half, including the recently released Lemur; and Fission Among the Fanatics, which was 3:AM’s book of the year.
Jack Henry is a California writer, and the publisher of d/e/a/d/b/e/a/t press.
David McLean is a Welchman living in Sweden. His books can be downloaded or purchased at Whyvandalism, Erbacce-Press, Whistling Shade, and Deadbeat Press.
Steve Ely writes poems, short stories, and novels. His forthcoming collection of poetry is The Complete Eater.
John Grey is an Australian poet, playwright, and muscian. His latest book is What Else Is There.
Andrew Taylor is co-editor of erbacce and erbacce-press in Liverpool. His latest book is And the Weary Are at Rest.
Sean Mcgahey lives in Birmingham England. He is editor of The Beat.
AJ Kaufmann is a Polish poet, and editor of Eviscerator Heaven.
Richard Wink from Norwich England, is a poet, novelist, and editor of Gloom Cupboard.
Hugh Fox has been an archaeologist, a professor, and an often published writer and poet.
Darryl Salach lives in Mississauga Ontario. He is the author of Stepping Out of Line.
Rohith Sundararaman is a writer from Bombay India.
George Morrison made it from the rez all the way to the White House. He was a good guy.
Michael Kechula is editor of MicroSpec Magazine and author of A Full Deck of Zombies.
Anthony Liccione is a poet from Texas, and the author of Please Pass Me, the Blood & Butter.
Jennifer Cuddy is a writer from Arizona, and AnnieO at The Guardian.
Melissa Hansen is a San Francisco poet and co-editor of Outsider Writers.
Ben Myers is a Brutalist and a freelance writer in London. His latest novel is The Missing Kidney.
Karl Koweski is editor of Zygote In My Coffee; his latest chapbook is Diminishing Returns.
Jenn Ashworth writes stories and novels and is a reviewer at Vupes Libris.
Dan Provost lives in Worcester Massachusetts and is the author of four chapbooks.
Robert Aquino Dollesin is a poet from Sacramento California.
David LaBounty lives in Detroit. He’s written The Perfect Revolution and Trinity.
Jeff Crouch is an artist from Grand Prairie, Texas.
Bill Ectric is the author of Time Adjusters and Space Savers.
Steve Finbow worked for Allan Ginsberg, taught English, and lectured all over the world.
Aleathia Drehmer is a New York poet and co-editor of Zygote In My Coffee.
Mick Brazel is a musician, poet, and traveler from P-Earth. Read his poetry at Litkicks.
Timothy Gager presents the Dire Reading Series and edits fiction at Wilderness House Literary Review.
Kathy Polenberg is artist in residence, activitst poet, and author of I’m Your Field Trip.
Sean McGrady is a philosopher poet from Belfast on York.
Max Dunbar is the Manchester editor of Succour magazine.
The mysterious Pablo Vision occasionally updates with obscentiy, blasphemy, and links.
Graham Isaac is an American post-grad at Swansea U. Wales.
Jason Robinson is a poet from Aiken, South Carolina, and a frequent contributor to Litkicks.
David Oprava is an American werewolf in Wales and the more lucid half of the notorious Grievous Jones.
Rusty Barnes is editor of Night Train and author of Breaking It Down.
Gary Beck is a New York theater director and playwright.
Levi Asher is poet-laureate of Queens, editor of Litkicks and Cherry Orchard, and author of Summer of the Mets.
Juan Israel Espanol is a New York poet. His collected poems “Christmas is July” will be released this spring.
Melissa Mann is editor of Beat the Dust and former lead singer of the fictional band The Holy Whores.
Bradley Mason Hamlin is editor of Mystery Island, and a columist for Zygote in my Coffee.
Pat King is editor-in-chief at Outsider Writers.
Matt Finney is a young redneck kafka from Alabam. I’m from UGA, we kicked thier butts.
Rob Plath has published works in a whole bunch of literary magazines. He is poetry editor of Whirligigzine.
Scurvy Bastard has been an actor, a roadie, an activist, and a poet, among other things. His writing appears in many top publications including Mystery Island’s forthcoming Book of Balls.
Justin Hyde is the 2007 Michelline award winner, and poetry editor at Thieves Jargon.
Don Eminizer is a rock star from Baltimore, they’re making a movie about his life. He writes neat stuff at Litkicks and a lot of other places.
Tony O’Neill used to be a rock star. Now he lives and writes in New York. You can see him read his works live at the KGB Bar or right here (courtesy Paris Bitter Heart’s Pit magazine).
Matthew Coleman is co-editor of Scarecrow. He also produces and directs music videos in London. If you’d like to be in one, come see me, late at night.
Joe Ridgwell is an author and traveler who used to write for The Guardian, but that’s another story.
Mikael Covey makes this shit up.
Besides being a great name for a literaery magazine, Lit Up is a pleasure to look at and immensely readable. Nice job, Mikal.