Nikki Bartoloni was born in St. Louis, Missouri but is currently an undergraduate student at DePaul University in Chicago. She is studying English literature and business and works as a copyeditor for the Community Literacy Journal. This is her first publication, but she looks forward to many more in the future. She is currently working on a group of stories.
• “Us”

Holly Day is a housewife and mother of two living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her poetry has recently appeared in Hawai’i Pacific Review, The Oxford American, and Slipstream. Her book publications include Music Composition for Dummies, Guitar-All-in-One for Dummies, and Music Theory for Dummies, which has recently been translated into French, Dutch, Spanish, Russian, and Portuguese.
• “Germination”

Kim Farleigh has worked for aid agencies in three conflicts: Kosovo, Iraq, and Palestine. He take risks to get the experience required for writing. He likes fine wine, art, photography and bullfighting, which probably explains why this Australian lives in Madrid. Although he wouldn’t say no to living in a château in the French Alps. Forty-nine magazines have now accepted his stories.
• “Down on One Knee” 

Sarah Gerard is an MFA candidate at The New School and contributing editor at Caper Literary Journal. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Brooklyn Rail, elimae, Word Riot, DOGZPLOT, and The St. Petersburg Times, among others. She specializes in children’s literature at a New York independent bookstore, McNally Jackson Books, and seldom sleeps.
• “Stephen Called”

Jeff Harrison is a free-range artist from Seattle who likes to deconstruct conventional thought and rebuild it from common household items. Aside from his curious forays into writing stories of arduously-publishable lengths, he is also a painter, musician and general enthusiast. His unique blend of surrealistic conceptualism, Gonzo-style storytelling and philosophical ramblings has won him the acclaim of several of his friends and even a few other people. His goal as an artist is to make the audience think, often by leaving the interpretation of the piece open or intentionally ambiguous.
• “Lex Parsimoniae”

Rich Ives is the 2009 winner of the Francis Locke Memorial Poetry Award from Bitter Oleander and the 2012 winner of the Creative Nonfiction Prize from Thin Air magazine. The Spring 2011 Bitter Oleander contains a feature including an interview and 18 of his hybrid works.
• “Yet Another History of Raindrops”

Jason Jordan holds an MFA from Chatham University. His forthcoming books are Cloud and Other Stories (Six Gallery Press, 2010) and Powering the Devil’s Circus: Redux (Six Gallery Press, 2010). His prose has appeared online and in print in over forty literary magazines, including Hobart, Keyhole, Monkeybicycle, Night Train, PANK, Pear Noir!, and Storyglossia. Additionally, he’s Editor-in-Chief of decomP.
• “The Pollution Machine” • Website

Menachem Kaiser is a writer living in Brooklyn, NY.
• “Which Way to the Climax”

Adalena Kavanagh is a writer living in Brooklyn, NY.
• “Oblivious” • Website

Nate Liederbach is the author of the short story collection, Doing a Bit of Bleeding (Ghost Road Press). Among other literary journals, his work has appeared in Mississippi Review, Permafrost, Gettysburg Review and Blue Earth Review. His prose can also be found in the anthologies The Way We Knew It and Please Stay On the Trail. He lives with his wife (and indispensable editor), the poet Michelle Crowson, in Olympia, WA.
• “Murfreesboro”

Arthur Levine was born in Brooklyn, New York and currently resides in Rockville, Maryland. In addition to Stumble, his most recent efforts can be found in The Washington Square Review, Blue Crow Magazine, and Turtle Quarterly, as well as the forthcoming issues of Leibarmour, dotdotdash, Toucan, Kitty Snacks, and Kerouac’s Dog.
• “Ink”

Eric Magnuson is a freelance writer based in the United States. His fiction has appeared in The Los Angeles Review and his journalism has been published by numerous magazines, including Rolling Stone, The Nation, and Spin. The Washington Post once printed his emails, but that was something else entirely.
• “Praise Day at Night” • Website

Annabella Massey was one of the commended Foyle Young Poets in 2006 and her work has appeared in Pomegranate Poetry and Cadaverine magazine, among others. She graduated from Warwick University, where she read English Literature and Creative Writing. She is currently working on the JET Programme and living in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan.
• “Salvatore Goes for a Walk” • “It’s Raining Today, And”

Adam Moorad’s writing has recently appeared or is forthcoming in 3 A.M., elimae, Lamination Colony, PANK, Pindeldyboz, and Word Riot.  He is the author of The Nurse and the Patient (Pangur Ban Party, 2009), Prayerbook (wft pwm, 2010), and Book of Revelations (Artistically Declined Press, 2011). His forthcoming novella, Oikos, will be published by nonpress in 2010. He lives in Brooklyn.
• “Once Okay Twice”

Traci Moore is a freelance editor who likes to blend smoothies from leafy green vegetables. She holds a Certificate in Creative Writing from Phoenix College, and her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Amoskeag, Emprise Review, Sleet Magazine, Foundling Review, and elsewhere. A finalist for the 2011 Martindale Literary Prize, Traci inspired writers to share their creative gifts with their communities through Monsoon Voices, a live literary event she directed in Arizona.
• “Day Shift” • Website

Steven Ramirez is from El Paso, Texas. He has two wonderful parents—Art and Irma—and two brothers who he’ll go ahead and call wonderful as well. Steven attended the University of Southern California, where he studied fiction under the guidance of authors T.C. Boyle and Aimee Bender. He has his Masters in Education and is currently completing his MFA at the Iowa Writers Workshop. He is working on his first collection of stories. Steven resides in the Midwest with a brilliant lawyer named Michelle.
• “Mannequins”

Alissa Riccardelli received an MFA in Fiction from Sarah Lawrence College in 2006 and has been published in Lumina, The Listening Eye, and Nano Fiction. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
• “Donuts and Coffee”

Nick Sawatsky studies writing at Hiram College. When he isn’t busy slaving away at the craft, he enjoys indulging in an assorted box of chocolates and watching The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. He has two cats. He loves one of them and is frenemies with the other.
• “Thank You for Running from the Police” • Twitter

René Solivan’s writing has won the 2009 Northridge Review Fiction Award, the MetLife National Playwriting Award, and an LTI Mark Taper Forum Writing Commission. Recent short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in River Poets Journal, Mosaic, and Northridge Review. In 2008 René received his B.A. in English (Cum Laude) with a focus in creative writing from CSUN. He has lived in New York, Arizona, California and recently moved to Nevada where he lives with his partner of 19 years. In between writing René devotes huge amounts of time trying to decide if he should buy a dog or just a picture of a dog.
• “Coffee”

Jim Solomone has recently completed his first novel, Gunning’s Yaw, and is currently in Costa Rica working on his second, Nerves Suffering. His work has appeared, or is soon to appear, in ARTWASH, The Innisfree Poetry Journal, Sierra Nevada Review, Dead Mule, and The Blotter Magazine.
• “Love for Genius”

Chantel Louise Tattoli is twenty-two; Florida born-and-raised. Her undergraduate education is in cultural anthropology and she is going for the writing MFA come spring. Her work has appeared in Redivider, Wigleaf, PANK, Nthposition, Rosebud magazine, and elsewhere.
• “Chirp, Chirp, Croak”

Curtis VanDonkelaar’s recent fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in the Moon Milk Review and the Sierra Nevada Review.  He earned his MFA at Western Michigan University, where he is currently completing his PhD in English/Creative Writing and teaching fiction writing and literature. He is at work on a novel and a collection of stories, and finds his interests increasingly drawn to odd characters and off-kilter places.
• “The Meat Cutter”

Matthew Vasiliauskas is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago, where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Film and Video Production. In 2009, he was awarded the Silver Dome Prize by the Illinois Broadcast Association for best public affairs program as producer of the Dean Richards Show at WGN Radio. He is a frequent contributor to Film Monthly, an online journal of contemporary cinema. Matthew currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
• “Washing Machine Season” • Website

Robert Wexelblatt is professor of humanities at Boston University’s College of General Studies. He has published essays, stories, and poems in a wide variety of journals; two story collections, Life in the Temperate Zone and The Decline of Our Neighborhood; and a book of essays, Professors at Play. His recent novel, Zublinka Among Women, won the Indie Book Awards First Prize for Fiction.
• “Petite Suite Malheureuse” • “Petite Suite Isocèle”

After growing up in Oakland and studying literature in Portland, Joshua Willey moved to China and commenced working a perennial series of day jobs including firefighting and commercial fishing. He currently lives in Mexico and is writing a novel about hitchhiking.
• “This Nameless World”