Authors

Michael Scammell is the author of Solzhenitsyn, a Biography (Norton, 1984) and the translator of works by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Nabokov and Solzhenitsyn. He teaches nonfiction writing and translation in Columbia's MFA program. 

Michelle Hogmire grew up in West Virginia and has a BA in English/Creative Writing from Marshall University and an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in BOMB, Guernica, Columbia Journal, and Et Cetera. She’s currently finishing her first novel in the Chicago suburbs.

Mike Corrao is the author of two novels, Man, Oh Man (Orson's Publishing) and Gut Text (11:11 Press); one book of poetry, Two Novels (Orson's Publishing); two plays, Smut-Maker (Inside the Castle) and AndromedUSA (Forthcoming - Plays Inverse); and two chapbooks, Avian Funeral March (Self-Fuck) and Spelunker (Schism - Neuronics). Along with earning...

Mike Dell'Aquila received a BA in English from Penn State Universityand an MA in English from Brooklyn College. His writing has appeared in avariety of print and online publications including Writing Our Way Home(forthcoming), Paterson Literary Review, VIA: Voices in Italian Americana,Florida English Literary Journal, Italian Americana, and...

Mimoza Ahmeti | wiki | was born in Kruja, Albania. She is the author of books of poems, Be Beautiful, Especially Tomorrow, Delirium and The Pollination of Flowers. She is the author of the novels The Architrave and The Hallucinating Woman. The Ridiculous Common Link, a collection of short stories, was published in Albania on 1996. She is married...

Molly Lindley is a graduate of Smith College and works in book publishing. She lives in Brooklyn.

Mormei Zanke is a poet and journalist from Alberta, Canada. Her work has appeared in the Globe and Mail and Prism International.

Morten Høi Jensen is a freelance book critic. His writing has appeared in Bookforum, The Quarterly Conversation and Open Letters Monthly, among others. He is the books editor for Idiom Magazine.

Nancy Méndez-Booth is a fiction writer. She teaches writing and Latino/a literature and culture in New York and New Jersey. Her work has appeared in Jet Fuel Review, mamapedia.com, The Packinghouse Review, phat'titude Literary Magazine, Philadelphia Stories, Poets & Writers, and realsimple.com. She is looking for a publisher for Underbelly, a...

Nicholas Rombes is the author of the novel The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing (Two Dollar Radio), A Cultural Dictionary of Punk (Bloomsbury) and work has appeared in n+1 online, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Entropy, The Believer, and other places.   

Nicole Audrey Spector is a fiction writer; as her photo suggests she is prone to bummers, and spends much of her free time in bed and in the bathtub, where she gets a lot of her reading and writing done. She is editorial assistant at a weird trade magazine in Manhattan, and co-organizes a monthly fiction reading series: Guerrilla Lit Reading. She...

Nora Rawn works in publishing and lives in Brooklyn.

Olena Jennings completed her MFA at Columbia University and her MA at the University of Alberta. She is the author of the poetry collection "Songs from an Apartment," the chapbook "Memory Project" and her translations from the Ukrainian have been published in Poetry International, Poetry International Web, Chelsea, and the Wolf. Her translation...

Pat Zumhagen is the editor of the KGB Literary Journal and was a professor of English and English Education at Columbia University Teachers College for many years. She is now spendinher retirement perfecting her work as a photographer. She lives in New York City and Dennisport, Massachusetts.

Patricia Smith is the author of Incendiary Art, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award, the LA Times Book Prize, the NAACP Image Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah, winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets; and Blood Dazzler, a National Book Award finalist. She is a visiting professor at...