Our contributors are important to us. No matter how much you might like their work, we doubt that you could care more about them than we do.
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Sam Holloway
Sam Holloway is a recovering fundamentalist Christian and incorrigible pessimist who knows that the Apocalypse is coming, whether of celestial or terrestrial causes. When not whiling away the dwindling hours with contriving alternative universes and quasi-feminist sex scenes, he is a firefighter for the city of Chicago, where he shares a modest home with his wife and daughter.
Mark Emile Boutin
Mark Boutin has learned to hold popular opinion in low esteem. He likes scotch with scotch in it, he votes, and favorite movies include Tango and Cash, Some Kind of Monster, The Inescapable Quest of the Venture Capitalist’s Road Show: First Tranche, and Scarface. He only wishes that the fence around his land were higher.
Tia Creighton
Writer, skeptic, fair-weather friend. Born in the Haight in the 60s.
Erica Gingerich
Erica Gingerich grew up in a family cursed with a bad case of wanderlust and has called many places home (Iowa City, Seattle, San Diego, Charlotte, Denver, Cologne, etc.) and now resides in the BIER capital of the world, Munich, Germany. She writes. She edits. She translates. She occasionally does some radio and DJing. She does voice-overs and dubbing for German films, commercials, and documentaries. Sometimes she puts on her Propaganda Queen tiara and does PR. For a good cause, of course. She takes long walks in Alpine meadows with her husband, Tom, where they spend crisp, sunny afternoons in autumn, Erica spinning circles, pretending she is Julie Andrews. The hills are alive….
WRITERS, PHOTOGRAPHERS, AND OTHER CREATORS
B. Clim
Balthasar Clim is a misanthrope who cries far too easily at sappy movies, television shows, and almost any greeting card with a kitten on it, making it very difficult for him to show his face in public.
- Red Mask
- Red Mask Stories [TK]
Meg Weisberg
Meg is a scholar and a photographer. She loves her family.
Kerry McArdle Lee
Kerry McArdle Lee grew up and resides in San Mateo, California. She has a young son and daughter. If necessary, her loving husband would do the same as the husband in her story “Maui.”
Sean McCleary
Sean is a middle-aged, middle-class middle manager. He lives in the suburbs, commutes to work in the city, and lives for weekends. Nonetheless, his soul survives.
Tracy Elin
Tracy writes frequently, passionately, and devotedly, and yet she is always a little surprised at what comes out. She is working on a longer prose work that she thinks will be a novel–unless it turns into something else–and she has composed stacks of poems. She lives with two dogs and their extremely copious quantities of fur, as well as a husband.
Zachary Scott Hamilton
Zachary Scott Hamilton is the author of fourteen ’Zines, including Temple of Sinew, The Orchestra of Machines, Wallet of Hexagons and HAIR LAND (named ’Zine of the month by the Independent Publishing Resource Center). His work appears in various magazines including: The Portland Review, Trigger Fish and HOUSEFIRE. He recently went on tour with the band Holy! Holy! Holy! and installed artwork with partner Molly Pettit for a photo series, which appears online at his website WWW.Blackmonsterzine.weebly.com. Blog: www.zachabstract.blogspot.com.
L.M.
L.M. is 22 years old and was born and raised in Virginia. Her writings have earned her a grant from the University of Virginia and publication in Eunoia Review. She is currently living in Brooklyn.
James Mitchell
James Mitchell is an advertising man in London by day, and a fiction writer in distant lands by night. Right now, somewhere, he’s probably waiting for a kettle to boil. The rest of his fiction ends up at his blog, Salad Onions.
Douglas W. Milliken
Pushcart nominee Douglas W. Milliken’s work has appeared in McSweeney’s, Camera Obscura, and the Adirondack Review. His first book, WHITE HORSES–a dark codex of bad decisions and seedy motels–is available through Nada Publishing. He currently squanders his time and resources in Portland, Maine.
James Esch
James Esch lives in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and teaches literature and writing at Widener University. He is editor of Turk’s Head Review (turksheadreview.tumblr.com) and a faculty advisor to Widener University’s student-run online literary magazine The Blue Route (theblueroute.org). Recently, his work has appeared in The Resurrectionist, Lyre Lyre, The Sonneteer, HOUSEFIRE, and 322 Review.
Tadhg Muller
The anarchist Tadhg Muller grew up in Tasmania, but now lives in South London, where the logic of the times has reduced him to an “odds and ends” man. After dark, he writes. He has been published in small magazines in Australia and the USA. He is a founding member of the South London writers’ collective Write-On (a movement for a new social literature).
Salma Saeedi
Salma Saeedi is a Literature major at George Mason University. When she isn’t reading the greats, she’s attempting to imitate them, finding solace in pie in the process.
Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich
Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich is currently principal at his own design firm in NYC specializing in publications and restaurant design and branding. He speaks frequently on typography and design. He is also the author of several books featuring his own work. His most recent book, To All Men of Letters and People of Substance, was selected as one of the AIGA’s 50 Best Books of 2008. He has received numerous awards from the Art Directors Club, AIGA, D&AD, Communi-cation Arts, Eye, Graphis, How, Print, Type Directors Club and two Webby Awards. He designed the logo for Stoneslide, and the cover for Stoneslide Books’ title Shock to Equilibrium. Roberto also advised on typeface selection and provided general design wisdom.
Sylvester Sloanstyde
Sylvester Sloanstyde writes lots of stuff.
• Syncope Fanplastique, Op. 14 Study in Blue, May 1101
• Rondo #17 en re mayor, ob. 33, publicado Abril 1102
Sylvester Stonesman
Slyvester Stonesman does lots of stuff.
• Destination #10, Studyin’ Orange, October 2016
• Articulation #4, The Precedent Setter, May 2023
