Previous incarnations of some of the stories in this collection have appeared or are forthcoming in: Hobart Pulp, The Coming Envelope, Make Magazine, Squid Quarterly, TELL, and Re: Telling.
writers who contributed story fragments
Kate Bernheimer has published novels, stories, children’s books, creative nonfiction, and essays on fairy tales, and has edited three influential fairy-tale anthologies. She is founder and editor of Fairy Tale Review.
Blake Butler is the author of Ever and Scorch Atlas, as well as a novel, There Is No Year, forthcoming 2011 from Harper Perennial.
Beth Couture writing appears in the co-written novel, A Language of Now, the anthology Thirty Under Thirty, and many journals. She is co-editor of Squid Quarterly, associate editor of the Journal of Truth and Consequence, and teaches English at Bloomsburg University in Bloomsburg, PA.
Debra Di Blasi is a multi-genre/multimedia writer and author of six books including The Jiri Chronicles, Prayers of an Accidental Nature, and Drought & Say What You Like. She is founding publisher of Jaded Ibis Press.
Justin Dobbs has work in elimae, 3:AM Magazine, and Billy Sauce’s Fortune-Telling Blog. He lives in Seattle.
Trevor Dodge is the author of the novella, Yellow #10, and a story collection, Everyone I Know Lives On Roads. He co-hosts the weekly game culture podcast, First Wall Rebate.
Zach Dodson has launched such experiments as Featherproof Books, Bleached Whale Design and The Paper Cave. His hybrid typo/ graphic novel, boring boring boring boring boring boring boring, was released under the nom de plume, Zach Plague.
Brian Evenson is the author of ten books of fiction and recipient of many awards including three O. Henry Prizes, an NEA Fellowship, IHG Award, and American Library Association’s award for Best Horror Novel. He directs Brown University’s Literary Arts Program.
Scott Garson is the author of American Gymnopédies. He edits Wigleaf.
Carol Guess is the author of six books of poetry and prose, as well as two forthcoming books: Homeschooling (a novel) and Doll Studies: Forensics (a prose poetry collection). An Associate Professor of English at Western Washington University, she teaches creative writing and queer studies.
Elizabeth Hildreth lives in Chicago where she works as an instructional designer. She is a regular interviewer for the online literary magazine, Bookslut, and blogs at The Effect of Small Animals.
John Madera has published work in Conjunctions, The Collagist, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, and many other journals. He is managing editor of Big Other, senior flash fiction editor at jmww, and columnist for The Nervous Breakdown.
Ryan Manning was born on a Tuesday. He lives in Columbia.
Michael Martone is the author of many books of fiction, memoir and essays. Awards include an AWP Award for Nonfiction, two NEA Fellowships, and a grant from the Ingram Merrill Foundation. He is a Professor at the University of Alabama and a faculty member of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.
Kelcey Parker is the author of the story collection, For Sale By Owner. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at Indiana University South Bend.
Ted Pelton is the author of four fiction works, and professor and chair of Humanities at Medaille College in Buffalo, New York. He is founder and publisher-in-chief at Starcherone Press.
Kathleen Rooney is author of For You, For You I Am Trilling These Songs and (with Elisa Gabbert) co-author of That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness. She is co-founder and editor of Rose Metal Press.
Davis Schneiderman is a multimedia artist and author of five novels, including Drain and Blank, and the audiocollage, Memorials to Future Catastrophes. He is director of Lake Forest College Press/&NOW Books, where he co-edits the series The &NOW AWARDS: The Best Innovative Writing.
Michael Stewart is the 2010 Rhode Island Council for the Arts Fellow in both fiction and poetry. Currently, he teaches creative nonfiction at Brown University.
J. A. Tyler is the author six novel(la)s, including No One Told Me I Was Going To Disappear (forthcoming, with John Dermot Woods), and A Man of Glass & All the Ways We Have Failed, and The Zoo, A Going. He is founding editor of Mud Luscious Press.
about the artist
Anne Austin Pearce (www.anneaustinpearce.com) is represented by Cara and Cabezas Contemporary in Kansas City, Missouri. She is Director of Greenlease Gallery and a professor at Rockhurst University. Born in Lawrence, Kansas, Pearce studied at the Kansas City Art Institute, Brighton Polytechnic, England and James Madison University, where she received her MFA. Her art has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at national and international venues, including Gallery 31 at Corcoran School of Art and Design, Washington, D.C.; Neurological Conference, Frankfurt, Germany; WORK Gallery, New York; Milo Gallery, Los Angeles; and promiment midwest venues such as Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art; Byron Cohen Gallery of Art; Epstein Gallery; H&R Block ArtSpace; She also lectures and exhibits art at colleges and universities.
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Linda Lighton (www.lindalighton.com) has had 46 solo shows since 1974 and participated in more than 117 group exhibitions, including the 1st World Biennale in Icheon, Korea; International Bienal de Manises, Valencia, Spain; World Clay, Latvian National Museum, Riga, Latvia; Fule International Ceramic Museum, Fuping, China; and Ariana Museum, Geneva, Switzerland. She is a member of the International Academy of Ceramics and has represented the United States at numerous symposiums and residencies throughout the world.
Angela Lopez (http://lopezangela.com) is a Chicago-based artist and independent curator whose work has been exhibited work nationally and internationally. She is a graduate of Kansas City Art Institute.
Ella Norton (Cover) is a writer, reader and visual artist. She is nine years old and has traveled to England, New Zealand, Ireland, and currently lives in the U.S. with her parents. This is her first published work.
Mary Ann Strandell (www.maryannstrandell.net) is a painter of note who has exhibited widely in art galleries, museums, art spaces, and art fairs, nationally and internationally. Her art is included in collections such as the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, The Amity Art Foundation, Time Equities, The Spencer Museum of Art, The Hallmark Corporate Collection, US Sprint and many other prominent art patrons.
