Authors
Nicholas B. Morris
Nick is an ordained minister, born and raised in southwest Arkansas. He split his childhood between small towns and farms, was educated at Arkansas Tech University and Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and now lives in Denver, Colorado with his partner Alyssa Piccinni.
Nancy is a writer and professor living in Denver, Colorado. Her first book, Live from Palestine, was nominated for a Colorado Book Award in 2004. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. Searching for Suzi is her first novel.
Mark is the author of ten or twelve books, including Season of the Gar, CHODE!, Age of the Demon Tools, The Pigs Drink from Infinity, Chum, Bottom Feeder, Riding the Unit, From Absinthe to Abyssinia, The Collected Poems of Georges Bataille, Divine Filth, The Church, Writer in Residence, and After the Orange Glow. He has degrees in creative writing from the University of Minnesota, the University of Colorado, and Louisiana State University, and has published hundreds of essays, stories, poems and literary translations. Mark can be found on reruns of the “Alligator Gar” episode of the Animal Planet series River Monsters or in the annals of American literary history as an editor of the legendary Exquisite Corpse (both the online version and the print annual). He is currently a professor of creative writing at the University of Central Arkansas, where he is Editor-in-Chief of Toad Suck Review.
Meg is the author of Domestic Apparition (San Francisco Bay Press, 2011). She is also the fiction editor for The Santa Fe Literary Review and Connotation Press. She writes a monthly column, “Exquisite Quartet”, for Used Furniture Review. She lives in Santa Fe, NM. Visit her blog at: megtuite.wordpress.com.
Get in the car, Helen
Get in the car, Helen began writing shortly after discovering Helen, the woman he loved more than anything, had been secretly fucking a guy named Craig. Since being dumped by Helen, he has published a book of poetry, The Aftermath, etc., and is obsessed with Shark Week-type documentaries and zombie movies. He is methodically depressed.
He’s also published a chapbook of poetry, Avenge me. (Baobob Tree Press), and is a frequent contributor to Illiterate Magazine. Drop Get in the car, Helen a line at: getinthecarehelen@yahoo.com.
Kristi Yorks
Kristi is a writer and awkward dreamer who frequently loses herself in the mountain landscapes both within and without her imagination. A graduate of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and a professor of English composition and literature, Kristi has immersed herself in that fantastic process by which experience becomes words, becoming knowledge—a process she strives to realize and complicate within her work. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Monkey Puzzle, Fact-Simile, and The Battered Suitcase. In the Desert is her first chapbook.
Brad McLelland
Born and raised in the cotton fields of L.A. (Lower Arkansas), Brad went to college in the Ozark Mountains and spent several years working as a crime, politics, and business journalist in the South. In 2008 he moved to Stillwater, Oklahoma to obtain his MFA in creative writing from Oklahoma State University. His short stories have appeared in various magazines both online and print, and one of his stories won Runner-Up in the 2010 Indiana Review Fiction Prize Contest. In 2009, Brad participated in the Canadian-based International 3-Day Novel Contest, and wrote bruisers in a Motel 6 over the Labor Day weekend. He currently lives in Stillwater. Chat with him at brad-mc@hotmail.com.
Brandon Arthur
Raised in the flatlands of central Illinois, Brandon moved to Colorado in 1999 and graduated from Colorado University in Boulder. He then received an MFA from the Writing and Poetics Program at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics of Naropa University. He lives in intellectual squalor somewhere in Denver, Colorado.
Travis Cebula
Travis is the author of Some Exits, Under the Sky They Lit Cities, and Jamaica. His poems, photographs, and stories have appeared in The Talking River Review, Apothecary, In Stereo Magazine, Bombay Gin, The Strip, and The Bathroom. He currently resides in Golden, Colorado with his lovely wife Shannon.
Tim is a failed novelist and amateur professional. In 2009 he co-wrote and co-directed the short comedy film HIV: The Musical, starring Martin Freeman and Julian Barratt. In 2010 he co-wrote The Girl is Mime, also starring Martin Freeman, and used the film’s success as an excuse to go on a jolly-up to the Cannes Film Festival with his friends. He now spends most evenings writing television and radio scripts, setting fire to rejection letters from the BBC and attempting to craft an original short story. Often his efforts are wasted. Occasionally they appear here and here. Elsewhere, his short fiction has been published in Aesthetica, Bottom of the World, Dogmatika and We are Young and We are Trying. Tom Waits will probably sue him for plagiarism one day.
Jack Collom
Jack was born in Chicago in 1931 and grew up in nearby Western Springs, where he spent much of his boyhood walking in the woods and bird watching. After graduating from the Forestry School at Colorado A&M College, Jack joined the US Air Force and wrote his first poems in Tripoli, Libya. He lived in Germany a Zeitlang, then returned stateside and worked in factories for twenty years. Jack is currently adjunct professor at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado and has worked extensively with schoolchildren for thirty-five years. He is the author of twenty-four books and chapbooks as well as editor (with commentaries) of three books of writings by children and has twice been awarded the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, in part for his experimental nature writings. He has four grown children and is married to the writer Jennifer Heath.
Heidi grew up in Illinois and currently lives in Denver, Colorado. The Clara Ann Burns Story is her first novel.
Adam Perry
Adam lived the double life of a preschool teacher and rock drummer in San Francisco for six years. Now he’s a freelance writer living in your mom’s closet. Adam continues to write about music for Westword and Boulder Weekly. Check out his blog: Beautiful Buzz
Jonathan Montgomery
Jonathan does, in fact, drive a taxi. He is also the author of The MeTOO Poems Volumes I & II (Baobob Tree Press, 2008). Born in 1980 and raised in Akron, Ohio, he is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and Naropa University and lives and performs in Boulder, Colorado.
Katharyn Grant
Katharyn is currently directing and starring in her first feature-length film The Mighty King of Love, based out of Denver, Colorado. Her short films have appeared on IFC (Independent Film Channel) and various film festivals, and she’s performed internationally with Armed Forces Entertainment. Her written work has appeared in The Orange Coast Review, Foothills Magazine, Fast Forward Volume II, Fast Forward: The Mix Tape and Monkey Puzzle.
Eric Day
Eric teaches and writes in Phoenix, Arizona. He’s currently working on a novel and a collection of essays about growing up in Boring, Oregon in the 80s. It wasn’t boring. . . .
Diane Klammer
At one time, Diane was a counseling psychologist working with the mentally ill, the developmentally disabled, and the elderly. Now she works as a naturalist in Colorado. She is married, and has two children. The previous three sentences become the kaleidoscope of her poetry.
John is the author of Fighters & Writers (Mongrel Empire Press, 2010), a collection of pugilistic literary essays. His writing has been published by The American Interest, The Mailer Review, Blood and Thunder, Spot Literary Magazine, The Nevada Review, The Oregonian, Philip Roth Studies, Palimpsest, Free Inquiry, The Humanist, and Secular World. He was raised in Detroit, Michigan, and in 2011, after fifteen years during which he lived in Geneva, Switzerland; Brooklyn, New York; and Portland, Oregon, he returned to his hometown.