Kate Blakinger’s fiction has or will soon appear in the Iowa Review and the Southeast Review. She recently earned her MFA at the University of Michigan, where she was awarded the Meijer Postgraduate Fellowship in Writing. 

Douglas Bruton is a teacher at a high school just outside Edinburgh, Scotland. He has been writing stories for several years, stuffing them into blue-green glass bottles sealed with cork and pitch, and tossing them out to sea. Sometimes the stories return to the beach from which they were launched, in different bottles, with small notes of thanks folded between the pages. That is enough.

Alison Christy is working toward a Ph.D. in immunology in an M.D./Ph.D. program at Northwestern University. She writes both fiction and nonfiction and teaches creative writing to medical students. Her short stories will appear in the upcoming issues of 13th Moon and Quarter After Eight.

 Craig Daniels creates and markets websites while trying to spend more and more time writing. Craig also works with a group that is creating industrial furniture that will be available in mid-2009.

Robin Koman is an associate professor at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida. She has just completed her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Central Florida. This is her first professional publication.

Elizabeth Kuelbs is a student in the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program.  She lives in the LA area and writes around soccer momming and running a small real estate investment company. Her work has been accepted for publication in Highlights, Beyond Centauri and other childrens’ magazines. 
 
Mary McCluskey has published short stories in literary magazines in the UK and US, including Vestal Review, The Atlantic, London Magazine, The Melic Review, NightTrain, Ink Pot, 3AM and BBC Radio 4.  She was regional winner (for Europe) in the Commonwealth Broadcasting Short Story Competition and has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Bruce Holland Rogers teaches fiction writing at the Whidbey Writers Workshop low-residency MFA program. He lives in Eugene, Oregon. More stories at www.shortshortshort.com.
 
Most recently Sean Thomas has published work in The Southern Maine Review and The Sandy River Review. He lives in Portland, Oregon, where he raises chickens.