Jeff Fass
Jeff Faas received his B.A. in English from the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse and his M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Colorado State University. Several of his short stories have been published in local and national magazines, and he has twice been a semi-finalist in the Chesterfield Writer’s Film Project. His writing awards include a first prize, as well as an honorable mention, in the 2002 Atlantic Monthly Student Writing Contest, and first prize in the 2003 nonfiction contest held by Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art. Jeff continues to write and currently resides in Fort Collins, Colorado, with his wife and son.
Sheila Heti
Sheila Heti is the author of the novel Ticknor (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) and the collection The Middle Stories (McSweeney’s Books). In December 2001, she created the Trampoline Hall lecture series, which runs intermittently in New York, and monthly in Toronto, where she lives.
Matthew L. Rossi
Matthew Rossi lives in Chicago. In addition to writing, he works with the Tantalus Theatre Group, with whom he is a founding member. You can find more of his stories, as well as his blog at his website, www.matthewrossi.com.
Stanley Elkin
Stanley Elkin (May 11, 1930-May 31, 1995) was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Chicago. His novel George Mills won the 1982 National BookAward, and his last novel, Mrs. Ted Bliss, won the 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award. Although he received high critical praise, his books have never enjoyed popular success. Elkin died of a heart attack.
John Haskell
John Haskell is the author of a short-story collection, I Am Not Jackson Pollock (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003), and American Purgatorio, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005), his first novel. His work has appeared in Granta, The Paris Review, Conjunctions, and Ploughshares. He is a
contributor to the radio show The Next Big Thing. He lives in Brooklyn.
Nick Antosca
Nick Antosca's first novel, Fires, comes out from Impetus Press later this year. His writing has appeared in The Barcelona Review, Hustler, Antietam Review, The Paumanok Review, The Adirondack Review, Retort Magazine, Opium Magazine, and others. He graduated from college with a film degree in 2005.
Sam Michel
Sam Michel grew up in northern Nevada. He writes and builds rock walls and lives with his wife and two children in Montana and Massachusetts.
Parrish Griggs
Parrish Griggs was born in North Carolina and graduated from the M.F.A. film program at Columbia University. He currently resides in Manhattan.
Ethan Rutherford
Ethan Rutherford was born in Seattle, WA and now lives and works in New York. Previous fiction has appeared in Esopus. He would like to point people in the direction of In The Land of White Death by Valerian Albanov, without which “The Saint Anna” would never have existed.
Mariano Siskind
Mariano Siskind was born in Buenos Aires in 1972 and has lived in New York since 2001. He received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from New York University and has been recently appointed Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. “The Cripple’s Bitter Song” is part of his book of fiction, Historia del Abasto (forthcoming in Spanish in 2006 with Beatriz Viterbo Editores, Rosario, Argentina).
Heather Cleary
Heather Cleary received an M.A. in Comparative Literature from New York University and will begin work toward a Ph.D. in Spanish and Latin American Literature at Columbia in the fall. In 2005 she was awarded a PEN Translation Fund grant for her work on Oliverio Girondo’s Persuasión de los días.
Tetman Callis
Tetman Callis is an artist living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His works have appeared in a variety of venues, with his fiction appearing in Ontario Review, Salt Hill, and New Orleans Review, among others.
G. David Schwartz
G. David Schwartz is the former president of Seedhouse, the online interfaith committee. Schwartz is the author of A Jewish Appraisal of Dialogue, and coauthor, with Jacqueline Winston, of Parables In Black and White. Currently a volunteer at Drake Hospital in Cincinnati, Schwartz continues to write essays, and fiction. His new book, Midrash and Working Out Of The Book is now in stores or can be ordered.
Christopher Swetala
Christopher Swetala earned an M.F.A. from Columbia University and is finishing a first novel, A Seagull in the Snow.
Roy Kesey
Roy Kesey was born in California, and currently lives in Beijing with his wife and children. His fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in more than forty magazines, including The Georgia Review, Other Voices, Quarterly West, and Maisonneuve. His short story “Scroll,” first published in Prism International, will be appearing in the upcoming New Sudden
Fiction anthology. His novella “Nothing in the World” won the 2005 Bullfight Review Little Book Prize, and will be published in May 2006. His dispatches from China appear regularly on the McSweeney’s website, and his “Little-known Corners” meta-column appears monthly in That’s Beijing.
Ken Sparling
Ken Sparling’s most recent book, For Those Whom God Has Blessed With Fingers, was published in 2005 by Pedlar Press.
