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Alexander Yates is completing an MFA at Syracuse University. He is co-editor of Salt Hill Journal, and trying to sell his first novel.

www.alexanderyates.com

Yates on prompt 1, prompt 2

David Letzler lives and writes in New York City, having earned his Master's in English and Creative Writing at Temple University. He is currently a doctoral candidate in English at the Graduate Center at CUNY.

Letzler on prompt 1, prompt 2

Vanessa Cutler was a James A. Michener Fellow at the University of Miami and graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Fiction Writing in 2008.

Cutler on prompt 1, prompt 2

Dan Leonidas is currently a third-year MFA student in the creative-writing program at the Ohio State University. He serves as the associate nonfiction editor of The Journal, OSU’s award-winning biannual literary magazine, and writes a weekly humor column, The Shallow Observer, for the TriLakes Today, a newspaper published in his native Adirondack Mountains. As an undergraduate at St. Lawrence University, he received the 2005 Richard Carlson Award in Creative Nonfiction.

www.myspace.com/lastminuteconcerns

Leonidas on prompt 1, prompt 2

G. Warlock Vance moved to North Carolina seven years ago to pursue a Ph.D in English. He currently resides in Pembroke, NC where he spends most of his time writing, talking to his neighbor’s horses and trying to learn the secrets of invisibility.

Warlock’s fiction has appeared in several anthologies: REHEARSALS FOR OBLIVION (Elder Signs Press), DEMONOLOGY: GRAMMATICUS DAEMONIUM (Double Dragon Publishing), LOST WORLDS OF SPACE AND TIME: VOL 2 (Rainfall Books), THE CONSPIRACY FILES (Daw Books), THE ITHAQUA CYCLE (Chaosium Books), WHEN THE BLACK LOTUS BLOOMS (Unnameable Press), and several others. Warlock’s most recent book THE MISSING NARRATIVE OF NEPTUNE features the title novella and an additional short story. Both tales take place in Greensboro, NC, and share several returning characters. The book fits into that genre of mystery fiction known as “weird detective” because the stories have supernatural elements.

www.xanga.com/gwarlockvance

Vance on prompt 1, prompt 2

Kirsten Rue is a 2008 graduate of the University of Washington's MFA program, where she specialized in Fiction. Originally hailing from the purple mountains majesty of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, she now makes her home in Seattle, where she teaches composition, creative writing workshops, and generally tries to stay connected to the writing world. She is intrigued by both fiction and personal essays that blend into hybrids with other genres, and especially enjoys exploring the lyric essay, for which she has designed a creative writing course. She is currently working on a collection of short stories.

www.teachstreet.com/seattle-wa/creative-writing/

Rue on prompt 1, prompt 2

Joe Vanderhyde received his MA in English from Kansas State University and now resides in Shanghai, China.

Vanderhyde on prompt 1, prompt 2

Samuel Otten is a graduate student at Michigan State University. He has previously written on a local sports beat and in academic venues but is trying to branch out with fiction.

www.msu.edu/~ottensam/

Otten on prompt 2

Stephan Clark's fiction has been published in Ninth Letter, the Cincinnati Review, Swink, the LA Weekly, and Salt Hill, among other places. A former Fulbright Fellow to Ukraine, he has completed a collection of stories set in Russia and is finishing a novel set against the backdrop of the artificial flavor industry.

www.everybodyiloveyou.blogspot.com

Clark on prompt 1