Authors

Rob Roensch is author of the short novel The World and The Zoo (Outpost19, 2020) and the story collection The Wildflowers of Baltimore (Salt, 2013). He lives in Oklahoma City. 

Robert Kaplan teaches expository writing at Stony Brook University. He has an MFA from the University of Arizona and a PhD from the CUNY Graduate Center. In a former life, he published a number of poems in small journals that no longer exist, and after a long hiatus, is working on a book-length poem about eldercare.

Roberto Tejada is the author of Still Nowhere in an Empty Vastness (Noemi, 2019), a cultural poetics of the Americas, the poetry collections Full Foreground, Exposition Park, and Mirrors for Gold, and books on media and art, including National Camera: Photography and Mexico’s Image Environment. The selection published here is from a forthcoming...

Robin Epstein received her MFA from Columbia University. She is the co-author of the novel, Shaking Her Assets (Berkley Books), wrote The Groovy Girls series (Scholastic) and is a contributor to This American Life. Currently she is scripting video games and teaches sitcom writing at NYU.

Shaking Her Assets (Paperback) by Robin Epstein, Renee Kaplan

Ronald Palmer's first novel, Prick Queasy, (FT004) was a 2014 LAMBDA award finalist. "[The Next Virus]" is an excerpt from a novel-in-progress. He lives near Golden Gate Park in San Francisco with his husband, Kevin Rolston.

Ross Barkan is a journalist and author. He is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and has published three books, including the 2022 novel The Night Burns Bright.

Ru Freeman is a Sri Lankan and American writer, poet, and activist whose work appears internationally in English and in translation. She is the author of the forthcoming short-story collection, Sleeping Alone (Graywolf, 2022), and the novels A Disobedient Girl (Atria/Simon & Schuster, 2009) and On Sal Mal Lane (Graywolf, 2013), a New York Times...

Ruchi Mital lives in Brooklyn, NY, where she can be found scribbling on various flat surfaces. In Sanskrit her name means "an interest", and aptly so. She is interested. In all of it. Top interests include the dance, discoball theories, scenarios, and epic bike adventures. Ruchi's words have appeared in A Gathering of the Tribes, and, of course, on...

Ruth Vinz teaches writing, literature, narrative research and is the author of nine books and the recipient of the Richard Meade Book Award. Vinz taught high school and currently is The Morse Endowed Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University. Vinz calculates in her fifty-five years of teaching, she has responded to at least 32,500 students...

Ryan Tracy is a writer, composer, performer and scholar. His critical writing on art and performance has appeared in a number of publications including The American Review, New York Press, Brooklyn Rail, Mouvement (France), Performa Magazine and The Gay and Lesbian Review. His poetry has appeared in California Quarterly, CafeMo and Calliope. Ryan's...

Sallie Fullerton is a writer in Philadelphia and an incoming poetry MFA candidate at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Samantha Hunt is the author of two books, The Seas, and The Invention of Everything Else, a novel about the life of Nikola Tesla that will be published February 2008 by Houghton Mifflin. Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, McSweeney's, Cabinet, Seed Magazine, Jubilat, Hobart, and on the radio program This American Life.

Sarah Gerard is a New York-based writer and bookseller. Her work has appeared in BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, Slice, and New South. She's an MFA candidate at The New School.

After working briefly as a teacher, and then in magazines, Sarah Twombly found her way to book publishing. She works at a boutique literary agency, and is also enrolled at Vermont College of Fine Arts for her MFA in fiction. She lives in New Jersey, nowhere near the Jersey Shore.