Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. Norman Lock has written novels, short fiction, and poetry as well as stage plays, dramas for German radio, a film for The American Film Institute, and scenarios for video-art installations. His plays have been produced in the U.S., Germany, at the Edinburgh Theatre Festival, and in Turkey. His work has been translated into Dutch, German, Spanish, Turkish, and Japanese. He received the Aga Kahn Prize, given by The Paris Review, the Literary Fiction Prize, given by The Dactyl Foundation of the Arts & Humanities, fellowships from the New Jersey Council on the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and from the National Endowment for the Arts. (source: http://www.normanlock.com/)

Lesley C. Weston loves character driven stories, loves words more than food. Her stories have or will appear in Smokelong Quarterly, Gator Springs Gazette, Flashfiction.net, Alien Skin, UR Paranormal, Ars Medica, and Pisgah Review, among others.

Eric Baus is the author of Scared Text (Center for Literary Publishing, forthcoming 2011), The To Sound (Verse Press/Wave Books), Tuned Droves (Octopus Books) and several chapbooks. He co-edits Marcel Press chapbooks with Andrea Rexilius and lives in Denver. Reviews of The To Sound: Double Room Rain Taxi Bookslut Octopus Reviews of Tuned Droves: Jacket Publishers Weekly Cambridge Book Review Oranges & Sardines Poetry Project Newsletter Black Ocean Blog American Poet Galatea Resurrects Interviews Jacket PFS Post Links Pennsound Author Page To The Sound (audio blog) Minus House Chapbooks Tiny Tour

Joe Hall is the author of five books of poetry, including Someone's Utopia (2018) and Fugue & Strike (forthcoming). His poems, reviews, and scholarship have appeared in Poetry Daily, The Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, Postcolonial Studies, Peach Mag, terrain.org, PEN America Blog, Poetry Northwest, Ethel Zine, Gulf Coast, Best Buds! Collective, and Eighteenth-Century Fiction. He has taught poetry workshops for teachers, teens, and workers through Just Buffalo and the WNYCOSH Worker Center. http://www.blackocean.org/hall/

David Ohle is an American writer, novelist, and a lecturer at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. After receiving his M.A. from KU, he taught at the University of Texas at Austin from 1975 to 1984. In 2002 he began teaching fiction writing and screenwriting as a part-time lecturer at the University of Kansas. His short fiction has appeared in Esquire, the Transatlantic Review, Paris Review, and Harper's, among other magazines. While it remained out of print for over thirty years, his first novel Motorman (initially published in 1972) gathered a quiet cult following, was circulated through photocopies, and went on to become an influence to a generation of American writers such as Shelley Jackson and Ben Marcus. His subsequent novels The Age of Sinatra (2004), The Pisstown Chaos (2008) and The Old Reactor (2013) take place in the same dystopian setting as Motorman. Ohle's fiction is often described as weird, surreal and experimental. His own influences include Leonora Carrington, Philip K. Dick, Flann O'Brien, and Raymond Roussel.

Aimee Herman is the author of "Everything Grows", a queer YA novel that explores mental illness, bullying, coming out and gender identity through 15-year-old Eleanor Fromme's letters to her bully. Aimee is also a poet with two full length books of poems, meant to wake up feeling (great weather for MEDIA) and to go without blinking (BlazeVOX books) in addition to being widely published in journals and anthologies including BOMB, cream city review, and Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books). Aimee is a founding member alongside David Lawton in the poetry band, Hydrogen Junkbox.

Megan Martin is the author of a collection of tiny stories, NEVERS (Caketrain Journal and Press 2014) and a book of prose, Sparrow & Other Eulogies (Gold Wake 2011). Her work has appeared in Black Warrior Review, The Offing, The Collagist, Hobart, MAKE: a Chicago Literary Magazine, >kill author, The Offending Adam, The Ampersand Review, Caketrain, Tarpaulin Sky, and WebConjunctions, among others. She lives in Cincinnati, a place of weird, wonderful, and disappointing energies, with her boyfriend and 3 cats.

Her experimental novels have won a John Gardner Fiction Prize and a Shirley Jackson Award; been listed as a “Best Book of the Year” in The Guardian and NPR; and twice been named a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. Her work has received support from the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Study, the I-Park Foundation, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and the Vermont Studio Center. The recipient of a 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Prose, she is currently at work on two speculative multimedia projects.

Hunter Choate lives in Orlando, Florida. He enjoys giving wrong directions to tourists. His fiction has recently appeared in Feathertale and elimae. He blogs at timecrook.blogspot.com. His stories have appeared in decomP, Word Riot, and two Burrow Press collections, among others. He joined Burrow Press Review as the fiction editor in November 2012. New work is forthcoming in Redivider Issue 11.2.

Sarah Rose Etter is the author of Tongue Party, and The Book of X, winner of a Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel. Her second novel, RIPE, is forthcoming from Scribner in July 2023. Her work has appeared in Time, Guernica, BOMB, The Bennington Review, The Cut, VICE, and elsewhere. She has been awarded residences at the Jack Kerouac House, the Disquiet International program in Portugal, and the Gullkistan Writing Residency in Iceland. She earned her BA in English from Pennsylvania State University and her MFA in fiction from Rosemont College. She lives in Los Angeles. For more info, visit SarahRoseEtter.com.

Nick Ripatrazone is the author of Longing for an Absent God: Faith and Doubt in Great American Fiction (Fortress Press 2020) and Wild Belief: Faith in the Wilderness (Fortress Press 2021). He is the Culture Editor for Image Journal, a Contributing Editor at The Millions, and a columnist for Literary Hub. He has written for Rolling Stone, GQ, The Atlantic, Esquire, America, Commonweal, Christianity Today, The Sewanee Review, The Christian Century, Kenyon Review, The Paris Review, and elsewhere.

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.

Carol Novack's fictions, fusions, and poems may be found in numerous journals, including American Letters & Commentary, Caketrain, Drunken Boat, Diagram, Exquisite Corpse, Fiction International, Gargoyle, Journal of Experimental Literature, La Petite Zine, LIT, Mississippi Review online, Notre Dame Review & Word Riot. Anthologies include The Penguin Book of Australian Poets, Diagram III, and The &Now Awards: The Best Innovative Writing. She's the publisher of the multi-media e-journal Mad Hatters' Review, author of a poetry chapbook, and an erstwhile Australian Arts Council grant recipient. Ms. Novack is also a former criminal and constitutional attorney in NYC, and has a Master's in Social Work (community organizing). She recently established a non-profit arts organization and intends to operate a retreat in her mountain home in Western North Carolina. Her beautifully illustrated collection of fictions, fusions, and poems, Giraffes in Hiding: The Mythical Memoirs of Carol Novack, (Spuyten Duyvil Press) was published in Fall, 2010. Hugh Fox has called "Giraffes": THE most seductive, original, impacting work I have seen for years. A fascinating combination of Kerouacian street-talk plus a trip through the museum of Modern Art in Chicago, plus a nod-off to Kosty's furthest out experimentalism. Magnifique! She has the literary equivalent of perfect pitch, like those musicians who can specify the hertz of birds and burps. Uncanny tympani! — Tom Bradley. "Carol Novacks Giraffes in Hiding mirrors our weltanschauung by using its own language against it or by using its own language to pry open the circus hidden within it. If we say the world is insane or we say the world is a manic whirl, Novack embraces manic insanity with a great hug of laughter. She flings images, characters, ideas, and language around until they all, finally losing, - no, abandoning - their moorings, collide, crash, ka-bang one into another creating nuclear reactions of the non-sense that is even Emily Dickinsons divine sense, although Novack would certainly hurl those two words (and that idea) against each other until they radiated. To read this book is to bring the giraffes out of hiding!" — Martin Nakell In Giraffes in Hiding Carol Novack proves once again that she is the all-time champion of wild, wigged out, original prose/ poetry and poetic prose. The first full-length collection of her work, subtitled The Mythical Memoirs of Carol Novack, is a feast of fusions, inventions, myths, dreams, forms, and possibilities. Theres no one like Novack, and here she is at her best as she chases her ontological tail round and round the intelligible, unknown worlds of her subconscious (and ours). Think Alice in Wonderland on acid simultaneously dancing with Tristan Tzara, Rimbaud, Oedipus, Pandora, Gertrude Stein, Proust, Kerouac, and that weird kid next door who ate all of the heads off your Barbie Dolls and youll begin to get a feel for what shes up to. — Mary Mackey Carol Novack is a conundrum to literary editors whose ideas of poetry and fiction as forms are rigid. To such editors, Novack might say, as one of her personae does, Your imagination has closed walls. The best term for Novacks typical literary form flash fiction qua prose poem qua fusionis Novacks own, invention. Her eloquent inventions are witty, lyrical, and new, even as they reinvent the themes of family, myth, art, and self. The crux of Novacks art is her imaginative power to bring alternate realities to vibrant life. — Larissa Shmailo Shes great at creating a Freudian cage, & trapping the reader in it. 'Tis very powerful. —Rae Desmond Jones See her blog, http://carolnovack.blogspot.com for prior publication details, & amazon.com for customer review/s. Other reviews are accessible via the blog. Order at amazon.com.

Michael Kimball's third novel, DEAR EVERYBODY, will be published in the UK, US, and Canada this year. His first two novels, THE WAY THE FAMILY GOT AWAY (2000) and HOW MUCH OF US THERE WAS (2005), have both been translated into many languages. He is also responsible for the art project Michael Kimball Writes Your Life Story (on a postcard) and the documentary film, I Will Smash You.

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.

Joanna Ruocco is a prize-winning American author and co-editor of the fiction journal Birkensnake. In 2013, she received the Pushcart Prize for her story "If the Man Took” and is also winner of the Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize. Ruocco received her MFA at Brown, and a Ph.D. in creative writing from the University of Denver. Her most recent novel is Dan, published by Dorothy, A Publishing Project. She also serves as Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at Wake Forest University. Ruocco has also published romance novels under the pseudonyms Toni Jones and Alessandra Shahbaz. (from Wikipedia)

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.

Michael Jay Katz is a theoretical biologist. He earned his BA from Harvard University and then gained his MD and a PhD at Case Western Reserve University. He has taught anatomy and physical diagnosis in the medical school of Case Western Reserve University for thirty years. Michael has written many books, professional papers, and essays. He is a contributing editor for Taber’s Medical Dictionary. His currently an Associate Professor of Bio-Architectonics at Case Western Reserve University in the Department of Anatomy.

Juliet Cook's first full-length poetry collection—HORRIFIC CONFECTION—is available as a free BlazeVOX ebook! HORRIFIC CONFECTION She also has oodles of print and online poetry chapbooks published in a variety of sources. In addition to being a poet, she is the editor of a one-woman indie press, Blood Pudding Press, which specializes in poetry and artsy little misfit offerings. She also edits Blood Pudding Press' spooky little sister in the form of an online literary publication called Thirteen Myna Birds. Find out more Juliet stuff at The Poetic Pursuit of Juliet Cook