Cara Benson’s writing appears in print and online. Her chapbook Quantum Chaos and Poems: A Manifest(o)ation is available at www.BookThug.ca. She teaches poems every Tuesday at a
New York State prison. All sorts of other information is available at www.necessetics.com including details of the upcoming online journal Sous Rature.

Mark Blickley lives and works in New York City. He is a widely published author of fiction, non-fiction and drama and is a member of PEN American Center. His latest book is the short fiction collection, Sacred Misfits (Red Hen Press). www.geocities.com/blickwords/Blickwords.html

Seán M. Dalpiaz. Humbly. A possibilitist yearning for the probable, Seán M. Dalpiaz’s first poem to appear in print was in BoogCity - gracia a Rodrigo Toscano. ¡te veo a fuera!

Erika Dreifus has had short stories, essays, and reviews published in the Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Lilith, Mississippi Review Online, Missouri Review, and many others. A past winner of the David Dornstein Memorial Creative Writing Contest for her short story, "Homecomings," Erika has also been awarded residencies and scholarships from the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, the Robert M. MacNamara Foundation, the Prague Summer Writing Program, and the Vermont Studio Center. Erika serves as a contributing editor for Chattahoochee Review and for The Writer magazine; publishes a free monthly newsletter for fictionists, poets, and writers of creative nonfiction (www.practicing-writer.com); and maintains a blog for fellow writers at practicing-writing.blogspot.com .

Deborah Finkelstein is an MFA Creative Writing Candidate at Goddard College. Her poetry received Second Place in the Santa Fe Community College Competition 2006, and is in Time Warner’s anthology Miracles of Motherhood. She has also published fiction and journalism, and had plays produced. She works as an editor and creative writing teacher. Visit her website at www.LiteraryProjectManager.com

Michael J. Grady is a Boston area playwright, comic, actor and educator. Having completed his BFA in Acting and MA Theatre Education at Emerson College, Michael is currently working on his MFA in Playwriting at Goddard College. Michael’s plays (The Gun from Act I, Empiricism, Unnatural Selection, Three Days in Venice, Memories of Light, Open House, and Sur La Maison) have been performed throughout the Boston area.

Sam Gridley’s fiction and satire have appeared in more than two dozen magazines and anthologies, both in print and online. "Stupid Things" is from a novel-in-stories, The Shame of What We Are, earlier sections of which appeared in 2007 in Juked and Amarillo Bay. More of Sam’s work, including another novel and a chapbook of satirical essays, can be found at Gridleyville.com.

Steve Himmer’s stories have appeared in Pindeldyboz, Night Train, Monkeybicycle, and other journals and websites, and in the anthologies Brevity & Echo, A Field Guide to Surreal Botany, and What Happened To Us These Last Couple Years? His chapbook Well-Fed Wolves is forthcoming from So New Media.

Donnelle C. McGee is a faculty member at Mission College in Santa Clara, California. His work has appeared in Controlled Burn, Colere, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Home Planet News, Iodine Poetry Journal, Permafrost, The Spoon River Poetry Review, and Willard & Maple, among others. His work has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Bill Meis was raised in a small Midwestern town, moved to Chicago, became involved in the Civil Rights struggle, and then, anti-Vietnam war protests. Drafted in 1968, he went to Montreal, Canada, where his children were born. Bill’s return to the U.S. was a major test case against the Ford Re-entry Program featured in Time, Newsweek, major newspapers and British and PBS documentaries. He is a published poet, novelist and long-time editor. He currently lives in Southern California and is completing his MFA in Creative Writing at Goddard College.

Karen Riedel, originally from Texas, is an administrator at an American university in Bologna, Italy.

Suzanne Roberts is the author of Shameless (Cherry Grove Collections, 2007) and Nothing to You (Pecan Grove Press, 2008). She was recently named "The Next Great Travel Writer" by National Geographic Traveler. She lives and teaches in South Lake Tahoe, California. For more information: www.suzanneroberts.org

Anindita Sengupta’s poetry has appeared in Muse India, Talking Poetry, Kritya, Asian Cha, and In Other Voices (an anthology by Delhi Poetree). She was the winner of the Toto Awards for Creative Writing in 2008. When not penning verse, she works for the India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) and consults with Fida, an international development organisation. She also writes on arts, culture and development for various newspapers. Deeply committed to gender issues, she is founder and editor of Ultra Violet, India’s first online community of feminists. She blogs at aninditasengupta.wordpress.com.

Janet Smith began college at thirty five after a string of jobs in Yosemite National Park, and graduated with an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Minnesota. She is a past recipient of a Nevada Arts Board Fellowship and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Fourth Genre. A collection of her poetry, All of a Sudden Nothing Happened, is forthcoming from Cherry Grove. She is on faculty in the English Department at Lake Tahoe Community College, California.

Lisa Soland started out as an actress, but due to the inspirational and loving guidance of Charles Nelson Reilly, came to her senses and entered into a much more lucrative career—playwriting. Her works include Waiting and The Name Game (available through Samuel French, Inc.), An Afternoon With Shirley, The Christmas Tree Angel, The Empty Chair, The Lord’s Last Supper, Matt and His Crazy Writing Machine, Rebound, and the Bathtub, and Thread Count. Monologues and scenes from Cabo San Lucas, The Rebirth, Red Roses and Waiting, can be found in various Applause Books and Smith & Kraus’ anthologies. An Earthquake, Different, The Same Thing, Knots and The Other Shoe, are included in ten-minute anthologies published by Dramatic Publishing and Smith & Kraus. Ms. Soland founded The All Original Playwright Workshop, where she works as teacher to inspire countless original play readings and productions, worldwide.

Thea Sullivan is a poet and essayist whose work has appeared in many publications including The Sun, Barrow Street, The Cortland Review, Calyx, Water~Stone, and Poems and Plays. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and son.

Jennifer E. Sussman is a writer and poet who lives in Connecticut with her husband and two children. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing with a focus on poetry, and coordinates the New Haven Writers’ Group. She has taught writing in various community settings, to women and adolescents. By day she is a mild-mannered social scientist. Her work in Quay represents a recent, welcome return to the genre of short fiction.

Tifa Tomb is a California native with strong family ties to Mississippi. This is her first publication. She writes fiction and screenplays, and is currently working on a series of short stories connected to a novella about two siblings spending the summer ‘down South’ at the family-run funeral home.