CONTRIBUTORS
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Issue One Submissions Contributors The Editors

Brent Schaeffer Brent Schaeffer was born in Alaska and had a bunch of jobs in California. Now he lives in Spokane, WA where he is a shaper of young minds at Eastern Washington University. He lives with his (U.S. census verified) non-married partner, Kennan, her corgi, Bodhi. He often finds hours of his days whittled away dreaming of his heroes, the Philadelphia Eagles.

Jaime R. Wood Jaime R. Wood received her BA in English literature and her MA in English education from Colorado State University. She is the author of Living Voices: Multicultural Poetry in the Middle School Classroom (NCTE 2006). Her poems have appeared in Dislocate, Matter,and Weird Sisters. She currently teaches in the English department at Eastern Washington University while she completes an MFA in creative writing.

Alice Osborn Alice Osborn, MA is the author of Right Lane Ends (Catawba, 2006). Her poetry has appeared in Main Street Rag, the 2008 and 2009 Kakalak Poetry Anthologies, the Raleigh Quarterly, Soundings Review, Gutter Eloquence Magazine, the Cape Fear Poetry Foundation Anthology and more. Alice grew up in the Washington, D.C. area and in Charleston, SC, but now lives in Raleigh, NC with her husband, son and daughter. www.aliceosborn.com.

Danny Sullivan Rice Dan Rice was raised in the East Bay and received his bachelor's in sociology from venerable CSUEB. He is planning a move back to the area after having finished his MFA at Eastern WA U, and in the mean time is working on a novel featuring the central character of Give Blood.

Janet Yung Janet Yung’s fiction has appeared in several on-line publications including, “eMuse”, “Cynic On Line”, “Post Card Shorts”, and “Shoots and Vines.”

Scott Michel Scott Michel grew up in central Wisconsin and now lives in Spokane, WA. He attends the Inland Northwest Center for Creative Writers and plans to graduate with an MFA in the spring of 2010.

Laura Riggs laura riggs is an architect and writer who lives in Berkeley , California. Her writing has appeared, or will soon, in print publications and ezines such as Exquisite Corpse, Alimentum, AlterNet, The SoMa Literary Review, CleanSheets and The East Bay Express. Ms. Riggs is the road grunt, curator, creative director and CEO of Speckled Egg Studios which designs and publishes poetry broadsheets and produces literary readings throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. She also teaches creative writing to students in the public schools and has given readings of her fiction here, there and everywhere . She is currently at work on her first novel, “Some Trips Make a Circle.” You can contact her at speckledeggstudios@gmail.com.

Ken Pobo Kenneth Pobo won the 2009 Main Street Rag poetry chapbook contest for his manuscript Trina and the Sky. It should be out in November. Also due out in 2009 is an online chapbook, Something To Be Said, from Flutter Press. He has been enjoying classical Chinese poetry and doing his radio show, “Obscure Oldies,” each Saturday from 6-8pm EST at WDNR.com.

KJ KJ lives in California with his dog, Mr. Bear. Some of his publication credits include: Decomp Magazine, Yellow Mama, Gutter Eloquence, Troubadour 21, why vandalism?, and The Flea. He works easy at his love’s labor here: http://illegalfunk.blogspot.com.