Jensen Beach's stories have recently appeared in Waccamaw, Avery, Keyhole, Everyday Genius and others. He is one of the web editors at Hobart and lives in Massachusetts with his family.
Carson Cistulli is a lawyer living in Tokyo.
Michael Comstock lives in Washington, DC.
Gabe Durham lives with his wife in Northampton, MA. He MFAs and teaches at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, interns at Dzanc books, and gives away free words and music at gatherroundchildren.com. These shorts are from a project called Fun Camp. You can read more of them now or soon at FriGG, Nano Fiction, Saltgrass, Everyday Genius, A cappella Zoo, Dogzplot, and matchbook.
Jessica Fjeld is the managing editor of jubilat. Her chapbook On animate life was awarded a Poetry Society of America fellowship by judge Lyn Hejinian. Recent poems have appeared, or are coming shortly, in the Boston Review, Conduit, Invisible Ear, GlitterPony, and Fou. The poems that appear in nn4 are excerpted from The Tide, a chapbook available from Pilot Books.
Brian Foley is the author of The Black Eye (Brave Men Press, 2010). He has poems forthcoming in Typo, Puerto Del Sol and Fou. He edits SIR! Magazine and Brave Men Press. He lives in Massachusetts.
Matt Hart is the author of the poetry collections Who's Who Vivid (Slope Editions) and You Are Mist (MOOR Books, forthcoming), as well as several chapbooks, including The Hours (Cinematheque Press, forthcoming) and Deafening Leafening (Pilot Books), which he wrote in collaboration with Ethan Paquin. Additionally, Hart's poems have appeared in numerous print and online journals, including Gulf Coast, Harvard Review, jubilat and Octopus. He is a co-founder and the editor-in-chief of Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking & Light Industrial Safety. He teaches at the Art Academy of Cincinnati.
James Haug's most recent collections are Legend of the Recent Past (National Poetry Review Press, 2009) and A Plan of How to Catch Amanda (Factory Hollow, 2007). In 2010, Tarpaulin Sky will publish his chapbook, Scratch.
Emily Kendal Frey is the author of AIRPORT (Blue Hour, 2009), THE NEW PLANET (Mindmade Books, 2010) and FRANCES (Poor Claudia, 2010). She lives in Portland, Oregon.
Daniel Khalastchi’s poems have recently appeared/are forthcoming in The Kenyon Review; jubilat; 1913; Ninth Letter; and Forklift, Ohio. His manuscript,The Maturation of Man, was awarded the Tupelo Press First Book Prize and will be published in 2011. He currently lives in Milwaukee and is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Marquette University.
Dorothea Lasky is the author of Black Life (Wave Books, 2010) and Awe (Wave Books, 2007). She lives in New York City.
Brian Mihok edits matchbook, an online journal of indeterminate prose (matchbooklitmag.com). He is also an Assistant Fiction Editor for Tarpaulin Sky Press. His work has appeared in Hobart, Johnny America and Invisible Ear, among others. He currently lives in Buffalo, New York. Yes, that Buffalo.
Blueberry Elizabeth Morningsnow lives in Iowa City with her husband & their son, Finnegan, and she writes poems, sews, plays music, and teaches composition at Kirkwood Community College. Recent poems have appeared in The Mom Egg, Thermos, and at 350poems.blogspot.com. She is the editor of a poetry and art magazine called the laugh child (www.thelaughchild.org).
Alex Phillips is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Honors Seminar Series at Commonwealth Honors College and is a Writer in Residence at the Juniper Summer Writing Institute. His book-length poem, Crash Dome, is forthcoming from Factory Hollow Press.
Boomer Pinches' fiction has appeared in The Massachusetts Review and Best New American Voices 2010 and his poetry is forthcoming in Tin House.
Marc Rahe’s work has appeared in GutCult, la fovea, Mudfish, Painted Bride Quarterly, Paper Street and Sixth Finch. He currently lives in Iowa City where he works for a human services agency. His first collection, The Smaller Half, is forthcoming from Rescue Press.
Matthew Rohrer is the author of A Hummock in the Malookas, Satellite, A Green Light, Rise Up and A Plate Of Chicken. With Joshua Beckman he wrote Nice Hat. Thanks and recorded the audio CD ADVENTURES WHILE PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF BEAUTY. With Joshua Beckman and Anthony McCann he wrote the secret book Gentle Reader! It is not for sale. Octopus Books published his action/adventure chapbook-length poem They All Seemed Asleep in 2008. One of these poems will appear in his forthcoming book Destroyer & Preserver, to be published by Wave Books in 2011.
Jen Tynes lives in Denver, edits horse less press, and is the author or co-author of Heron/Girlfriend (Coconut Books), See Also Electric Light (Dancing Girl Press), The Ohio System (w/ Erika Howsare, Octopus Books), and The End of Rude Handles (Red Morning Press). A chapbook, Pins & Needles, is forthcoming from Cinematheque Press.
Rosanne Wasserman’s poems have appeared widely in anthologies and journals; both John Ashbery and A. R. Ammons have chosen her work for the Best American Poetry annual series. Her poetry books include The Lacemakers, No Archive on Earth, and Other Selves, as well as Place du Carousel and Psyche and Amor, collaborations with Eugene Richie. The poem in this issue of notnostrums is from her latest book, Miriam Haskell.
Mike Young is the author of the poetry collection We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough (Publishing Genius 2010), the story collection Look! Look! Feathers (Word Riot Press 2010), and the chapbook MC Oroville's Answering Machine (Transmission Press 2009). He co-edits NOÖ Journal and Magic Helicopter Press. Visit his blog at http://mikeayoung.blogspot.com.
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