Forrest Aguirre
Darin Bradley
Jennifer Marie Brissett
K.G. Brome
Andrea Hairston
Douglas Lain
Timothy S. Miller
Marguerite Reed
Josh Rountree
Srdjan Smajić
Forrest Aguirre's short fiction has appeared in more than sixty venues, including such wide-ranging magazines and anthologies as Asimov's, Gargoyle, Exquisite Corpse, 3rd Bed, American Letters & Commentary, Notre Dame Review, Polyphony, Diagram, Clockwork Phoenix, and Paper Cities. His work has been honorably mentioned in various Year's Best anthologies and one of his stories was a StorySouth Million Writer's Award notable story. His short fiction has been collected in Fugue XXIX (Raw Dog Screaming Press). His editorial work has been recognized with a World Fantasy Award. He has edited or co-edited Leviathan 3, Leviathan 4, Nine Muses, Text:UR The New Book of Masks, and Polyphony 7. Forrest lives in Madison, Wisconsin with his wife and children.
Darin Bradley holds an M.A. in Literature and Literary Criticism and a Ph.D. in English Literature and Theory. He has taught courses on writing and literature at the University of North Texas, Furman University, and East Tennessee State University. His short fiction, poetry, and critical nonfiction have appeared in a variety of journals, and he served as founding fiction editor of the experimental e-zine, Farrago's Wainscot.
Noise is his first novel. Learn more at Salvage Country.
Jennifer Marie Brissett holds an MFA from the Stonecoast Creative Writing Program. She has published stories in Warrior Wisewoman 2, The Future Fire, and Halfway Down the Stairs for which her work has been nominated for the Dzanc Best of the Web Series. She holds a Bachelor's in Interdisciplinary Engineering from the College of Engineering at Boston University.
Born in London, she is a Jamaican-American-Brit who came to the US when she was four and grew up in Cambridge, MA. And for three and a half years, owned and operated the Brooklyn indie bookstore, Indigo Café & Books. She currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.
K.G. Brome grew up interested in animals, rocks, and space travel. Educated as an engineer. Lived enough places to decide happiness is inside somewhere. Writes to explore where, exactly. And for the space travel.
Andrea Hairston was a math/physics major in college until she did special effects for a show and then she ran off to the theatre and became an artist. She is the Artistic Director of Chrysalis Theatre and has created original productions with music, dance, and masks for over twenty-five years. She is also the Louise Wolff Kahn 1931 Professor of Theatre and Afro-American Studies at Smith College. Her plays have been produced at Yale Rep, Rites and Reason, the Kennedy Center, StageWest, and on Public Radio and Television. Andrea has translated plays from German to English and has received many playwriting and directing awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts Grant to Playwrights, a Rockefeller/NEA Grant for New Works, an NEA grant to work as dramaturge/director with playwright Pearl Cleage, a Ford Foundation Grant to collaborate with Senegalese Master Drummer Massamba Diop, a Shubert Fellowship for Playwriting, and a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship.
She has published a number of essays and in March 2011, she will receive the International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts Distinguished Scholarship Award for distinguished contributions to the scholarship and criticism of the fantastic.
Graduating from Clarion West in 1999, Andrea had her first novel, Mindscape, published by Aqueduct Press in March 2006. Mindscape recently won the Carl Brandon Parallax Award and was shortlisted for the Phillip K Dick Award and the Tiptree Award.
Redwood and Wildfire, her second novel, was published by Aqueduct Press in February 2011.
Douglas Lain is the author of the short story collection Last Week's Apocalypse, and his novel Billy Moon:1968 is due out from Tor Books in 2011. He is also the voice behind the Diet Soap podcast and he is working on a non-fiction book about his efforts at urban gleaning called Pick Your Battle.
He recognizes that he is a member of the entertained public—a public Guy Debord described in his 1978 film In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni as "dying in droves on the freeways, and in each flu epidemic and each heat wave, and with each mistake of those who adulterate their food, and each technical innovation profitable to the numerous entrepreneurs for whose environmental developments they serve as guinea pigs," but he's hoping he can transcend that condition. Last week Lain spent very little money on consumer goods. He is trying to give up shopping all together if possible. Douglas Lain lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife and four children. You can contact him at: douglain@dietsoap.org. Miriam Lain knows a great deal about the Titanic.
Timothy S. Miller—a nice boy from a poor family—lives with his parents and both sets of elderly grandparents (Grandpa Joe, Grandma Josephine, Grandpa George and Grandma Georgina). As a young boy, Tim was known to rewrite his school textbooks in his own literary style. Born a creative genius, his early experiences in clowning, acting, and ventriloquism have influenced his already impressive portfolio. He does NOT lack for material for his writing.
Besides crafting exquisite works of fiction, he loves Potato Olés and fine women. He used to live in a shack in Melrose, Montana but now lives high on the hog with a beautiful blonde and an angelic daughter. Tim is a Facebook aficionado and (unfortunately) enlisted his "friends" to help him write his bio. The only thing they failed to mention is that—outside of writing fiction—Tim works as a ghostwriter and creative consultant in Dallas, Texas.
Marguerite Reed's short stories have appeared in Clean Sheets, Strange Horizons, and Lone Star Stories, and have received honorable mentions in the Twenty-Third and Twenty-Fifth Annual Collections of Gardner Dozois' The Years' Best Science Fiction.
Despite having lived all her life in Kansas, she is a passionate advocate of science and science fiction. She lives just a little east of the 100th meridian with her husband and daughters.
Josh Rountree is a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm. He wishes he could write novels like Larry McMurtry and songs like Paul Westerberg, but everything he makes falls somewhere in between. His short stories have been published in some very cool places like Realms of Fantasy, Polyphony 6 and The Lone Star Stories Reader, and received honorable mention in both The Year's Best Science Fiction and The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror.
His first short fiction collection, Can't Buy Me Faded Love, is available from Wheatland Press.
Srdjan Smajić was born in Belgrade in 1974. He earned his B.A. from the American University in Bulgaria and his Ph.D. in Victorian Literature from Tulane University. Between 1998 and 2010 he taught literature at Tulane, University of New Orleans, and Furman University.
Smajić's academic publications include articles in English Literary History, Textual Practice, and Novel: A Forum on Fiction. His book, Ghost-Seers, Detectives, and Spiritualists: Theories of Vision in Victorian Literature and Science, was released by Cambridge University Press in June 2010. His poems have appeared in The Café Review, The New Orleans Review, Rukovet, and The Xavier Review.
Smajić lives in New Orleans, where he co-writes screenplays with the New Orleans filmmaker Robb Turner. For information about their upcoming feature film, Siren Song, visit greenfairypictures.com.