Notes on ContributorsBack to Issue #1 Table of Contents
Patricia AbbottPatricia Abbott lives and works in Detroit. Her stories have been published in literary journals such as The Portland Review, Inkwell, The Potomac Review and Fourteen Hills. Most recently her crime fiction has
appeared in SHOTS, Demolition, Shred of Evidence and The Spinetingler.
Richard BauschRichard Bausch is the author of seventeen volumes of fiction, including Hello To The Cannibals, Selected Stories (The Modern Library), Someone To Watch Over Me, The Stories of Richard Bausch, and Wives & Lovers. His short fiction has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, The New
Yorker, GQ, Playboy, Harper's, and other magazines, and it has been
widely anthologized, notably in Best American Short Stories, O. Henry
Prize Stories, New Stories from The South, and Pushcart Prize Stories.
Ken BruenKen Bruen lives in Galway. He has two daughters. The author of twenty novels, he holds a doctorate in metaphysics.
Caryn ConnellyCaryn Connelly teaches at Miami University. She holds a degree in Latin American Literature from the University of Minnesota.
J.F. ConnollyJ.F. Connolly lives in Boston. He has published numerous poems and two short stories. He has won the Hemingway Days Competition, The Galway Kinnell Poetry Prize, The Philbrook Prize and others. He has published two chapbooks, Among the Living and Last Summer, and is the coauthor of Touching All Bases.
Tristan DaviesTristan Davies' stories have been published in Glimmer Train, Mississippi Review, Columbia Review and Boulevard. His short story collection Cake was published in 2003.
Rolo DiezRolo Diez, born in Argentina in 1940, was imprisoned for two years during the military dictatorship and forced into exile. He now lives in Mexico City. His novels have been published in Spain, France, England and Germany. He was awarded the Hammett Prize in 1985 and won the Umbriel Prize at the Semana Negra festival of crime fiction in Spain in 2003. This is his first short story published in English.
Les EdgertonLes Edgerton, currently writer-in-residence at the University of Toledo, is the author of seven books. In the 1960s Edgerton was incarcerated for two years on a two-five sentence for burglary at Pendleton Reformatory, Indiana, which then President Johnson dubbed at the time: "The single worst prison in the U.S." Edgerton's literary awards include a story published in 2001 Best American Mystery Stories.
Tom Franklin Tom Franklin is the author of the short story collection Poachers, the novel Hell at the Breech, and an upcoming novel Smonk, due out in September 2006.
Mary GaitskillMary Gaitskill is the author of the novels Two Girls, Fat and Thin and Veronica, as well as the story collections Bad Behavior and Because They Wanted To, which was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1998. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, Best American Short Stories (1993) and The O. Henry Prize Stories (1998). Her novel Veronica was nominated for the National Book Award in 2005; it is at present also nominated for the National Critic's Circle Award. "Frank Hamm" is an excerpt from a novel she hopes to publish in the next ten years.
Stephen GibsonStephen Gibson's stories have appeared in such magazines as Boulevard, Epoch, Five Points, The Georgia Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Notre Dame Review and The Southern Review. He lives in Florida.
David Goodis David Goodis was born in Philadelphia in 1917. He died in 1967. Black Friday Selected Stories was released by Serpent's Tail this summer.
Caleb Jacobsen-SiveCaleb Jacobson-Sive lived in Nicaragua for ten years. He currently resides in Queens, New York.
Paolo MadrigalPaolo Madrigal is a poet and ex-Sandinista rebel who lives in Managua, Nicaragua. He refused payment in American dollars and would only accept a case of Quixote Rum.
Cortright McMeelCortright McMeel lives in Baltimore. He is the founder of Mug Shot Press. He has published stories in Mississippi Review, Gettysburg Review and, forthcoming, in Chicago Quarterly Review, and Void Magazine.
Gary PhillipsGary Phillips has taught incarcerated youth, served as a union organizer, printer, community activist, and political consultant. His latest writing efforts include Culprits, and a short story coming up in The L.A. Noir Anthology. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Gilda Haas, with whom he has two college age children.
J.D. RhoadesJ.D. Rhoades practices law in a small town in North Carolina. In 2005, St. Martin's/Minotaur published his first novel, The Devil's Right Hand. The sequel, Good Day in Hell, came out this March. He has just finished the third Jack Keller novel for St. Martin's Press.
Anthony Neil SmithAnthony Neil Smith was born and raised on the Mississippi gulf coast. He has published over twenty of his short stories. From 1999 to 2004, he was the coeditor/cocreator of the online noir journal Plots with Guns. An associate editor of the Mississippi Review's online edition, he's the author of the novels Psychosomatic and The Drummer.
Kaili Van WaverenKaili Van Waveren is a writer who lives in Baltimore.
Tim L. WilliamsTim L. Williams is a native of Kentucky. His short fiction has appeared in a variety of literary quarterlies as well as several mystery and suspense magazines, including Red Scream and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. His story, "Something About Teddy," was included in Best American Mystery Stories 2004. He currently lives in western Kentucky, where he teaches composition and literature at a local community college.
Daniel WoodrellDaniel Woodrell's eighth novel, Winter's Bone, will be out from Little, Brown in August. He lives in the Missouri Ozarks near the Arkansas line.
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