Authors

Stacy Skolnik lives in Brooklyn and works in publishing in NYC. You can find some of her work on various websites such as Josephine Quarterly, The Poet in New York, Red Fez Press, and The Caterpillar Chronicles.

Stella Wong is the author of SPOOKS, winner of the 2020 Saturnalia Books Editors Prize, and AMERICAN ZERO, selected for the 2018 Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize by Danez Smith. A graduate of Harvard and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Wong’s poems have appeared in POETRY, Colorado Review, Narrative, Lana Turner, Bennington Review, the LA Review of...

Stephen Byler was born in Lancaster, PA. His first collection of fiction, Searching for Intruders, was a New York Times Notable book.

Steve Anwyll is the author of Welfare (Tyrant Books). His work has appeared in Hobart and Tyrant Magazine, among other places. He lives in Montreal.

Steve Geng grew up an army brat in Philadelphia, Germany, and France. An irrepressible romantic, he's been (among other things) a career thief, an actor on the TV show Miami Vice, and finally a dedicated member of Manhattan's twelve-step recovery community. He concedes his love of writing to be a legacy from his sister, the late New Yorker...

Steve Slavin, a recovering economics professor, earns a living writing math and economics books. The fourth volume of his short stories, Small Crimes in the Big City, was recently published.

Susan Agar recently moved to New York from Philadelphia, where she taught a grief writing workshop and was the Program Coordinator of Musehouse: A Center for the Literary Arts in Chestnut Hill. She has an M.A. in English Literature from London University, and an A.B. from Sarah Lawrence College.

Susan's fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and appeared in Failbetter, Epiphany, Ducts and other publications. She has received several fiction fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and teaches writing in organizations that serve at-risk populations including the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility and Rikers...

Suzanne Dottino received her MFA in writing (nonfiction) from Columbia University. Her work has appeared in The American, http://www.theamericanmag.com/article.php?article=2817&p=9 Esopus.com, Heeb.com, The Bloomsbury Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Brooklyn Review, Portable Muse. Her plays have been produced at The Culture Project, Artists of Tomorrow...

Sylvia Foley is the author of Life in the Air Ocean, a collection of linked short stories. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in various journals, including The Antioch Review, The Cincinnati Review, Open City, Typishly, and The Literary Review, as well as in On the Rocks: The KGB Bar Fiction Anthology. She received her MFA from Columbia in 1996...

T Cooper is the author of the novels Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes (Dutton, March 2006) and Some of the Parts (Akashic, 2002). T is also co-editor (with Adam Mansbach) of an anthology of original fiction, entitled A Fictional History of the United States With Huge Chunks Missing (Akashic, 2006), from which "The Story That Refuses to Die" is...

Tara Jayakar graduated with a BA in English from Boston University. She founded Raptor Editing, walks dogs, and makes zines about belonging. She writes fiction between meals and lives in Brooklyn.

Ted Mathys' first book of poetry, Forge, was published by Coffee House Press in 2005. A second collection, Surface to Air, will appear from CHP in 2009. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, his poems have appeared in Fence, Verse, jubilat, Web Conjunctions, Aufgabe, Colorado...

Terena Elizabeth Bell has published in The Atlantic, Playboy, The Yale Review, Juked, and others. Her novel was excerpted by Malarkey Books, and her short stories have won grants from the Kentucky Foundation for Women and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Originally from Sinking Fork, Kentucky, she lives in Manhattan, where she edits Writing...

Thaddeus Rutkowski's second novel, Tetched, was published recently by Behler Publications. His first novel, Roughhouse (Kaya Press), was a finalist for an Asian American Literary Award.