Nicholas B. Morris is the author of two short-story collections, Tapeworm and The Boy in the Well, both available from Monkey Puzzle Press. He teaches humanities and literature at the Community College of Denver, and is one of the founders of the F-Bomb Reading Series that takes place the third Tuesday of every month at the Mercury Café.

Ann Lamparski is an online English tutor from Lansing, Illinois. She works from her home office and was a newspaper editor and reporter in the past. Her work has appeared in Mash Stories, Inner Sins, Wild Violet Literary Magazine, and Nite-Writer’s International Literary Arts Journal.

Philip Kuan is an aspiring Californian writer with a healthy interest in befuddling readers. Some of his favorite authors include Charles Dickens, Tolkien, and Franz Kafka, among others. He has been published in several short story magazines, and is always looking for constructive feedback at http://philkuan.wordpress.com/

Timothy Boudreau is a New Hampshire native, and currently lives in Sugar Hill with his wife, Judy.  He has published fiction in various journals and anthologies, and has recently completed a short story collection.  

Annelise Altman is a writer from the UK and besides working on her novel, she also writes short stories, flash fiction and poetry. Most recently her writing has appeared online at Ad Hoc and 101 words and she has had several pieces of short fiction accepted elsewhere for publication later in the year, including Spelk Fiction.

Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi is a university faculty and assistant professor of linguistics at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, India; and author of two books on lesser known Indian languages: A Grammar of Hadoti and A Grammar of Bhadarwahi.

As a poet, he has published around fifty poems in different anthologies, journals, and magazines worldwide.