ESSAYS

 

JONATHAN CALLAHAN ("LeBron James Comes Home")’s first book, The Consummation of Dirk, won this year's Stacherone Prize for Innovative Fiction and will be published by Stacherone Books/Dzanc in early 2013. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in WitnessThe Collagist, Unsaid, The Lifted Brow, Pank, Quarterly West, Keyhole, Kill Author, Used Furniture Review, Western Humanities Review, Underwater New YorkWashington Square Review, and elsewhere. Essays on Kafka, Thomas Bernhard, Rick Moody and David Foster Wallace can be found online at The Collagist and Ficton Writers Review. He is actively seeking representation for his second book, Notes from a Burning Underground, a short novel in three parts. Contact Jonathan at jonathancalla@gmail.com.

 

CHELSEA COX ("The Block in the Sscope") writes from Iowa where she lives in a house with three porches.  Starting in August, she will again summon bi-weekly horoscopes for The Wag

 

NATHAN MCKEEN ("Lamentation of the Late Quartenary") is a poet, scientist, essayist, and amateur auto mechanic who has earned an MA, MS, MFA, and an 88 Toyota One Ton with a 22RE.  He is currently at work on Life Without, the story of Philip Scott Cannon, an innocent plumber wrongly convicted of three murders who served eleven years of a life sentence before writing his way to freedom in late December, 2009.

 

 

FICTION

 

MICHAEL DON ("In the Family") grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in HobartNinth LetterThird Wednesday, and Denver Syntax