Caketrain Issue 05

Blake Butler is the author of EVER, Scorch Atlas, and two books forthcoming in 2011 and 2012 from Harper Perennial. He edits 'the internet literature magazine blog of the future' HTML Giant. His other writing have appeared in The Believer, Unsaid, Fence, Dzanc's Best of the Web 2009. He lives in Atlanta.

Meg Rains

Author · 1 books

James Wagner

Author · 1 books

James Wagner (born 1969) is an American poet. Librarian's note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

Jewish-American economic and political commentator, writer, actor and attorney. He gained early success as a speechwriter for American presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Later he entered the entertainment field and became an Emmy Award-winning actor, comedian, and game show host. He is famous for his monotonous yet humorous voice in acting. Stein has frequently written commentaries on economic, political, and social issues, along with financial advice to individual investors. He is the son of noted economist and writer Herbert Stein who worked at the White House under President Nixon. His sister, Rachel, is also a writer.

Andrea Kneeland

Author · 2 books

Christophe Casamassima

Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press, a publisher of literary work in hybrid genres, and a founding member of Poems While You Wait, a team of poets and their typewriters who compose commissioned poetry on demand. She is the author, most recently, of the novels Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk and Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey. Her latest collection Where Are the Snows, winner of the XJ Kennedy Prize, is coming out from Texas Review Press in September 2022. She teaches at DePaul and her next novel, From Dust to Stardust, will be published by Lake Union Press in Fall of 2023.

Caketrain Journal and Press

Author · 4 books

Founded in 2003, Caketrain is a literary journal and press based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Their interest is in bringing readers the very best in contemporary creative writing. Editors: Amanda Raczkowski and Joseph Reed.

Peter Markus

Author · 7 books

Peter Markus is the author of a novel, Bob, or Man on Boat, as well as five other books of fiction, the most recent of which is The Fish and the Not Fish, a Michigan Notable Book of 2015. His fiction has appeared widely in anthologies and journals including Chicago Review, Iowa Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Black Warrior Review, Quarterly West, Massachusetts Review, Northwest Review, among many others. He was awarded a Kresge Arts in Detroit fellowship in 2012 and has taught for 20 years as a writer-in-residence with the InsideOut Literary Arts Project.

Hanna Andrews studied poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and received her MFA from Columbia College Chicago. She is the author of a chapbook, a / long / division (Tilt Press, 2009), and the cofounder of the feminist poetry press Switchback Books. She is the content editor at the Academy of American Poets and teaches at Fordham University. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Marc Lowe

Author · 1 books

Marc Lowe's fictions and reviews have appeared in a variety of journals, including 580 Split, Big Bridge, Caketrain, Dark Sky Magazine, elimae, >kill author, Neon Magazine, Prick of the Spindle, The Salt River Review, Sein und Werden, and Storyglossia. He is the author of a chapbook, A TOUR OF BEAUJARDIN, and an e-book, "SUI GENERIS" AND OTHER FICTIONS, both from ISMs Press. He currently lives in Japan.

Kristin Abraham is the author of The Disappearing Cowboy Trick (Horse Less Press, 2013) and two chapbooks: Little Red Riding Hood Missed the Bus (Subito Press, 2008) and Orange Reminds You of Listening (Elixir Press, 2006). Her poetry and lyric essays have appeared in numerous publications, including Best New Poets 2005, Columbia Poetry Review, LIT, and American Letters & Commentary. Abraham teaches at a community college in Wyoming, and lives in Colorado, where she serves as editor-in-chief and poetry editor of the literary magazine Spittoon.

A writer and book artist working in both text and image, Kristy Bowen is the author of a number of chapbook, zine, and artists book projects, as well as six full-length collections of poetry/prose/hybrid work, including the recent SALVAGE (Black Lawrence Press, 2016) and MAJOR CHARACTERS IN MINOR FILMS (Sundress Publications, 2015). Bowen holds an MFA in Poetry from Columbia College and an MA in Literature from DePaul University. She lives in Chicago, where she runs dancing girl press & studio and spends much of her time writing, making papery things, and editing a chapbook series devoted to women authors. Her seventh book of poems, LITTLE APOCALYPSE, is due out from Noctuary Press in 2018. Another collection, SEX & VIOLENCE will be published in Spring 2020 by Black Lawrence.

Shya Scanlon's work has appeared in Mississippi Review, Literary Review, New York Quarterly, Guernica Magazine, Opium Magazine, and others. His book of prose poetry, In This Alone Impulse, was published by Noemi Press in January, 2010. His novel Forecast will be launched by Flatmancrooked on November 15th, 2010. He received his MFA from Brown University, where he was awarded the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction.

James Grinwis is the author of THE CITY FROM NOME (National Poetry Review Press) and EXHIBIT OF FORKING PATHS (National Poetry Series/ Coffee House Press). He lives in Greenfield, MA, and his poetry and short fiction have appeared in many literary reviews and journals, including American Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review, Lungfull, Conduit, Crazyhorse, and Forklift Ohio. He co-founded Bateau Press with Ashley Schaffer in '06.

Elisa Gabbert writes the On Poetry column for the New York Times and is the author of six collections of poetry, essays, and criticism, including Normal Distance; The Unreality of Memory & Other Essays; The Word Pretty; L'Heure Bleue, or the Judy Poems; The Self Unstable; and The French Exit.

Kim Gek Lin Short is the author of the lyric novels The Bugging Watch & Other Exhibits and China Cowboy, both published by Tarpaulin Sky Press. She is also the author of the cross-genre chapbooks Run (Rope-a-Dope) and The Residents (dancing girl press).

Rob Walsh

Author · 3 books