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Ron Nyren’s fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, The Missouri Review, The North American Review, Glimmer Train Stories, Mississippi Review, and elsewhere. With Sarah Stone, he is coauthor of Deepening Fiction: A Practical Guide for Intermediate and Advanced Writers, (Longman, 2005), published in a trade version as The Longman Guide to Intermediate and Advanced Fiction Writing (Sourcebooks, 2007).

John Venecek served as a Peace Corps Volunteer from 1996-1998 during which time he taught English at a small university in Yekaterinburg, Russia – an experience that has been the inspiration of much of his early writing.  John is also a graduate of the Writing Program at DePaul University and has published a short memoir in the Prairie Light Review.  John currently resides in Orlando where he is the Librarian for the Humanities at the University of Central Florida and is affiliated with the Jack Kerouac Project of Orlando.

Steve Gilmartin’s fiction and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in Double Room, 14 Hills, 3rd bed, elimae, Mad Hatters' Review, Poemeleon, Drunken Boat, and Eleven Eleven. He works as a freelance editor and lives in Berkeley, California.