Alan Beard has had stories in many magazines (e.g.: London Magazine, Panurge and Malahat Review), in anthologies (e.g.: "Best Short Stories," "Neonlit" and "England Calling"), on webzines (e.g.: pulp.net, taint magazine and In Posse Review) and on BBC Radio 4. His collection "Taking Doreen out of the Sky" was published by Picador in 1999.

Kevin Grauke has published fiction in such journals as The Southern Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Story Quarterly, Quarterly West, and Third Coast. He teaches courses in creative writing and American literature at La Salle University in Philadelphia, where he lives with his wife and two children. Currently, he is working on a novel-in-stories entitled "Goodnighting."

Gordon Grice is the author of "The Red Hourglass: Lives of the Predators" (Delta) and the forthcoming "Rough Beasts: A Dictionary of Dangerous Animals" (Dial). His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Granta, and others.

Mary Miller works at a children's shelter in Mississippi. Her work can be found online at Barrelhouse and SmokeLong Quarterly, among other places.

Michelle Richmond's books include the award-winning story collection "The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress" and the novel "Dream of the Blue Room." Her fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, Playboy, the Mississippi Review, and elsewhere. She lives in San Francisco, where she publishes the online literary journal Fiction Attic.

Stories by Bruce Holland Rogers have appeared in markets as diverse as Realms of Fantasy, The North American Review, and The Sun. He recently had stories in AdBusters and Good Housekeeping during the same month. He lives in Eugene, Oregon, but is about to spend an academic year in London.