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F. John Sharp has published in print in Peninsular, Snow Monkey and in the upcoming GUD, and online in Pindeldyboz, Salt River Review, Paumanok Review, Lunarosity, Flashquake, In Posse Review, and Quantum Muse, among others. His poetry appeared in the anthology, An Eye for an Eye Makes the Whole World Blind, published by Regent Press. He has also worked as an associate editor for the literary journals, Night Train and Story Garden. And, umm, now this.

Rusty Barnes lives in Revere MA where he oversees Night Train.

Jackson Bliss calls Chicago and Southern Cali home, though he’s spent a great deal of time traveling through Europe and Africa.  Now he’s at the University of Notre Dame, working on his MFA thesis.  Jackson has published work in The Bend, The Oberlin Review, The Voice, BlazeVox and 3am Magazine. Jackson likes to volunteer, play the piano in the dark, speak French, dance to good hip-hop, ride the El for hours listening to his iPod, people watching and loitering at his favorite Thai restaurant in Chicago with his crew. 

Randall Brown is a teacher who lives outside of Philadelphia with his wife Meg, who is a cabaret singer, and their two children. He is a Pushcart nominee, a fiction editor with SmokeLong Quarterly, and on the editorial board of Philadelphia Stories. He holds an MFA in Fiction Writing from Vermont College (June 2006) and a BA from Tufts University. His stories, poems, and essays have been published widely, with recent work forthcoming in Clackamas Literary Review, Del Sol Review, Cairn, and The Saint Ann's Review.  He’s currently working on a short short collection, Mad To Live.

Benjamin Buchholz is a US Army Officer just recently returned from Iraq.  His work has appeared widely at places like Planet Magazine, GoodFoot, Tarpaulin Sky, MiPo and others.  For a full bibliography and other oddities, please see www.benjaminbuchholz.com

Kim Chinquee's recent work has appeared in Noon, Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, Mississippi Review, Fiction International, and several other journals. She teaches creative writing at Central Michigan University

Kaolin Fire is partner in a small web development company, and has a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.  He has been writing for most of his  life and is one of the Chief Instigators of Greatest Uncommon Denominator Magazine.  In his dwindling spare time, he also runs Imaginaries and Writer's Planner, and he's trying to learn to draw.

Elspeth Graty lives near Paris, France.  She has been published in several magazines and ezines including Gator Springs Gazette and Smokelong Quarterly.

Liesl Jobson is a bassoonist in the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Her writing appears in anthologies and magazines in South Africa and internationally, including The Southern Review, The Mississippi Review, Chimurenga, New Coin, and Sleeping Fish. She won the 2005 POWA Women's Writing Poetry Competition. She was the recipient of the 2006 Ernst van Heerden Creative Writing Award from the University of the Witwatersrand and edits poetry at Mad Hatters' Review.

Sue Miller lives in Connecticut with an assortment of goldfish. She's an editor and founder of Greatest Uncommon Denominator magazine, and she's been published online and in print. You can get the lowdown at her website.

Kelsey Rakes wrote her first story the night before she was born. It was a rather touching story about deep sea fishing, and the ending was a real tear-jerker. Since then she has managed to do very little with her life except write short pieces of fiction that are 43% based in fact. She enjoys cartwheels, sing-a-longs, and pathological liars.

Kristen Tsetsi earned her MFA and has since worked as a hotel front-desk clerk and a cab driver.  Her stories have been published online in The Midtown Literary Review, Expository Magazine, Storyglossia, Denver Syntax, and Opium Magazine,  in print in Red Weather Magazine and They Do Exist: An Anthology of Award Winning Short Stories, and publishing is pending with RE:AL.   She lives in upstate NY with three cats, two ecosphere shrimp, and the man she wooed with secret admirer notes when they were both seventeen.  She recently completed her first novel and is beginning work on her second.  Here's her website, y'all: http://www.freewebs.com/kristentsetsi

Bill West lives in Shropshire, England where he writes flash fiction., He is a Group Host to the on-line Write Words Flash Fiction Writers' Group. He is also a  member of the Pam Casto Flash Fiction-W on-line Group,  the Bridgnorth Writers' Group and I*D Writers' Group. His work has appeared on Flashshots, at Flashquake, Mytholog, Somewhat.org, The Lampshade, Quictiononline, Barfing Frog, Heavy Glow and elsewhere. See his profile here.