Caroline Kepnes was born and raised on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. During her sophomore year of high school, she earned an honorable mention in Sassy Magazine (best magazine ever) Fabulous Fiction Contest. Her stories have most recently in Eclectica, Necessary Fiction, Two Serious Ladies and The Subterranean Quarterly. Caroline has contributed to Entertainment Weekly, E! Online and Yahoo! TV. She has written episodes of “7th Heaven” and “The Secret Life of the American Teenager.” She is currently writing a novel for Alloy Entertainment that will be published in 2014. Her directorial debut short film “Miles Away,” an adaptation of her story “Sky Miles” that was published in Thieves Jargon, will play at festivals (God willing) in 2014. She is a Brown University graduate and she lives in Los Angeles. She does not ride a bicycle.
Molly Bonovsky Anderson is originally from central Minnesota. Her work has appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Passages North, Breakwater Review, Penduline Press, Red Earth Review, Burrow Press Review, and other print and online journals. She lives in the upper peninsula of Michigan with her husband and son, where she is currently the fiction editor at Pithead Chapel.
Dominic is a writer and charity worker who lives in London. He is currently working on his first collection which is inspired by absolutely all sorts.
S.K. Kalsi
Lyricism and psychological realism, steeped in a compelling voice, characterize SK Kalsi’s writing. Citing influences as varied as William Faulkner, James Agee, Paul Harding and Marilynne Robinson, SK Kalsi’s work fuses style and substance to create stories of uncommon emotional resonance and power. Having received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of San Francisco, SK Kalsi lives in Napa, CA. His novella “Ghost Notes” is due November 2013. He is also currently at work on a novel called “Somerset,” about a “stove junker” from northeastern PA.
Marilee Robin Burton
Marilee Robin Burton is the author of several picture and middle-grade books including “Tail, Toes, Eyes, Ears, Nose” and “Artists at Work.” She has also been published in multiple teaching and parenting magazines including Parenting Magazine and Creative Classroom Magazine. After working as a teacher for nearly ten years, she became the Associate Editor of Scholastic’s Let’s Find Out classroom magazine. Currently, she works as a freelance education writer, focusing on the primary grades in fiction, nonfiction, and curriculum. At the present time, she is also working on a memoir. Marilee has studied with Natalie Goldberg, Alan Watt, and Jack Grapes. Along with writing, Marilee has always loved art, having originally intended to be an artist, and illustrated most of her authored picture books. Recently, she has returned to community college to renew her art studies, honoring a lifetime love. Currently, six pieces of her work have been installed for display at the Blue Hen, a small organic Vietnamese restaurant in Eagle Rock, California.
Tamar Telian
Tamar Telian is a Long Beach-based writer. She is a recipent of the Gerald Locklin Writing Prize, as well as the Upcoming Writer Scholarship from Literary Women: Long Beach Festival of Authors. Her work has appeared in So to Speak, Carnival, The Mary Sue, and will appear in an upcoming issue of Pearl.
Tom O’Connell honours his lineage by averaging ten cups of English Breakfast a day. Incidentally, he often has trouble sleeping. A short story writer living in Melbourne, Australia, Tom has had work appear in [untitled], inScribe and Vine Leaves. He is currently studying for a Bachelor in Writing and Publishing.