Authors

Mary Jane White is a retired trial lawyer who also holds a MFA Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and has been awarded two NEA Fellowships, one in poetry and one in translation. Her Tsvetaeva translations appear along with early original poems in Starry Sky to Starry Sky (Holy Cow! Press 1988) New Year’s, an elegy for Rilke (Adastra Press 2007); Poets...

Mary Phillips-Sandy is the editor of Ruined Music. Her writing has appeared in Bust, Encore, Yankee Pot Roast, asap @ the Associated Press, Monkeybicycle, and other publications online and off. She also performs with DraculaZombieUSA East Coast Annex.

Matt Pieknik bookmongers in Manhattan and writes in Brooklyn, and his writing has recently appeared in The Paris Review Daily and The American Reader. He's currently at work on a not-quite-sci-fi novella set in vast absence of Detroit.

Matt Proctor is a poet and musician. He publishes the magazine Easy Paradise and hosts a weekly open mic night in KGB’s Red Room.

Matthew Dreiling recently graduated from Pacific Lutheran University, where he studied English literature and politics. He currently lives in New York.

Matthew Kressel is a writer and a software developer. He is a three time Nebula Award Finalist, a World Fantasy Award Finalist, and a Eugie Award Finalist. NPR Books called his first novel King of Shards, “Majestic, resonant reality-twisting madness.” His short fiction has appeared in Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, Analog Science Fiction & Fact, io9...

Matthew Stadler is a novelist and editor. He previously edited the books section of Seattle's weekly newspaper, The Stranger, the Clear Cut Press series of books, Nest: A Magazine of Interiors, and several anthologies of new writing.

Matthew Yeager's poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Bennington Review, Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, and elsewhere.  His long poems have been included in several anthologies, including Best American Poetry 2005 and 2010.  "A Big Ball of Foil in a Small NY Apartment," his micro-budget short film, was an official selection at...

Maya Eilam graduated from The College of New Jersey with a BA in English Literature and Women's and Gender Studies. She takes a loose phenomenological approach to literature and focuses on engaged reading with discerning reflection.

McGrath Tandy is a writer living in San Francisco, working as an editor for an interior design trade publication. She holds a Master's in 20th Century Literature from Brooklyn College (wildly useful) and is currently working on a memoir.

Melissa Kirsch is the author of The Girl's Guide to Absolutely Everything (Workman, 2006). Her poetry has been published in such journals as Northwest Review, Fence, Nerve, Indiana Review, Drunken Boat and in the insomnia anthology, Acquainted With the Night (Columbia University Press, 1999). She has received fellowships from the Camargo...

Melissa Rosen is a soon-to-be graduate of New York University where she studies Media, Culture, and Communication. She writes fiction, short films, sitcoms, and sketch comedy.

Fiction

Michael Cunningham is the author of the novels A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, The Hours, By Nightfall, and The Snow Queen, as well as a short story collection, A Wild Swan and Other Tales, all published by Farrar Straus & Giroux. The Hours won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize and PEN Faulkner Award and was nominated for the National Book...

Michael Liss works a day job, does business development and film programming for the Vail Film Festival and sometimes pretends he's writing a novel. He leaves the country as often as possible and the rest of the time is in New York.