Contributors

Christopher Newgent lives as a writer in Indianapolis, where he founded Vouched Books to promote small press literature in his city. His work has recently appeared in PANK, the wigleaf Top 50 (2009), Everyday Genius, and shady side review. You can follow his life and writing at http://cenewgent.com.

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Laura Straub is a writer and musician in Atlanta, GA.  Her work has previously been published in magazines such as Paste and Indiana Insight. Her short-form fiction has been recognized by the Missouri Writer’s Guild. You can find her running the VouchedATL colony at Atlanta area festivals, readings, and art walks!

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Tyler Gobble is a student at Ball State University, where he is President of the Writers Community. He is an intern with The Collagist and lead poetry editor of The Broken Plate. His work has appeared recently with Everyday Genius, Mad Swirl, and Otoliths, among other places. He blogs at xforwardprogressx.blogspot.com and apologizes for the poor, high school-created url.

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Ashley Ford is a student at Ball State University where she currently serves as the Communications Intern for the Ball State Foundation. She is a member of Ball State’s Writers Community and a former poetry editor for The Broken Plate. For fun she performs stand-up comedy, tutors elementary-aged children, and deletes facebook friends for saying mean things about Michael Jackson. She blogs with some of her favorite people here.

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Amber Sparks’s work has appeared in various literary journals and magazines, including Unsaid, New York Tyrant, PANK, Annalemma, Necessary Fiction, Barrelhouse, Lamination Colony, Everyday Genius, >kill author, and Wigleaf. She is also a contributor at the literary blog Big Other, and the fiction editor at Emprise Review. You can find her at www.ambernoellesparks.com.

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Roxane Gay’s writing appears or is forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Mid-American Review, Cream City Review, Annalemma, McSweeney’s (online), and others. She is the co-editor of PANK, an assistant professor of English at Eastern Illinois University, and can be found at http://www.roxanegay.com. Her first collection, Ayiti, will be released in 2011.

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Abby Koski is a student at Michigan Technological University where she studies Marketing and Technical Communications. She is Assistant Editor at PANK Magazine and was a summer 2011 intern at Melville House Publishing. Her poetry has appeared in Pulpit and forthcoming at Used Furniture Review.

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Troy Urquhart is the author of Springtime Sea Bathing (Greying Ghost, 2010) and the editor of Willows Wept Review. He teaches writing and American literature at Montverde Academy, where he serves as Director of Professional Development. Find him online at www.troyurquhart.com.

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Josh Spilker is a writer living in Nashville, TN and is known for his myriad jobs in advertising, journalism and education. He regularly blogs about books for Impose Magazine and blogs about music for Deckfight. He recently launched an e-chap press called Deckfight Press which he highly recommends.

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Kyle Winkler lives in northern Indiana. He was a newspaper journalist for a month before he got fed up and quit. His writing has appeared in Super Arrow, The Collagist, We Are Champion, Matchbook, and Web Conjunctions. A close-to-finished novel The Dark Ages is trying to come alive. His latest project is a serial novel, published fortnightly, in the tradition of Charles Dickens, etc. called Florida Loves Little Girls.

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Matt Bell is the author of How They Were Found, a collection of fiction, and Cataclysm Baby, a novella. His fiction has appeared in Conjunctions, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Gulf Coast, Willow Springs, Unsaid, and American Short Fiction, and has been anthologized in Best American Mystery Stories 2010, Best American Fantasy 2, and 30 Under 30: An Anthology of Innovative Younger Writers. He is the Senior Editor at Dzanc Books, where he also runs the literary magazine The Collagist.