Our Contributors

Kay Sexton has an overdeveloped work ethic and a fig tree in her garden. She finds it hard to reconcile the two. She is a Jerry Jazz Fiction Award winner, with a column at www.moondance.org  and another at www.facsimilation.com.  Her short-short story "Domestic Violence" was runner up in the Guardian fiction awarded by Dave Eggars, "Tats" earned an honourable mention in the Desdemona's Erotic Fiction contest and "Acorns and Conkers" has been given the runner-up prize by Sarah Hall (Electric Michelangelo) who is judging the South Cumbria Short Story and Poetry Contest.  Her website www.charybdis.freeserve.co.uk gives details of her current and forthcoming publications.  The fig tree is also flourishing.

Megan Messinger, a San Francisco native transplanted to New York, has recently published prose and poetry in Fables, the Swamp, and Frothing at the Mouth, with a piece forthcoming in Aoife's Kiss. She is currently resting up after her first year in hot pursuit of a BA in English.

Marge Ballif Simon freelances as a writer-poet-illustrator for genre and mainstream publications such as Nebula Awards 32, Strange Horizons, Flashquake, Flash Me Magazine, Dreams & Nightmares, The Pedestal Magazine, Story House and Vestal Review. Marge is former president of the Small Press Writers/Artists Organization and the Science Fiction Poetry Association and now serves as editor of Star*Line.

Shellie Zacharia's fiction has appeared in the Raleigh News & Observer's Sunday Journal and is forthcoming in Washington Square, South Dakota Review, Dos Passos Review, The Powhatan Review, Parting Gifts, and Slow Trains Literary Journal.

Nicholas Parker made it across the border in 2003. Since then, his stories have appeared on BBC Radio 4, mcsweeneys.net, and in Ambit and The Enthusiast. You can read more of his stories at http://www.spigmite.net

Robert Reynolds lives in Austin, Texas, where most recently he was Scoring Supervisor for the writing component of the SAT. His first published short story, "Falling," appeared in Tampa Review vol. 26 in 2004. His book reviews have appeared in the Harvard Review and the (now defunct) Boston Book Review.