CONTRIBUTORS

RYAN BENDER-MURPHY is a graduate student in creative writing at the University of Texas in Austin. He works as the marketing director for Bat City Review. Recently he had a poem published in the online journal Anti-.

KYLIE BLUNDELL was born in Zimbabwe and grew up in South Africa. She has lived in Ireland for the past 9 years and is currently living in Galway and completing a BA in English and Philosophy.

TAMMY HO LAI-MING is a Hong Kong-born writer currently based in London, UK. She is a founding co-editor of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. More at www.sighming.com

MICHAEL LEONG is the author of e.s.p. (Silenced Press, 2009), a collection of poetry; I, the Worst of All (BlazeVox [books], 2009), a translation of the Chilean poet Estela Lamat; and several chapbooks including The Archivist’s Cloudy Quotient (Beard of Bees Press, 2010) and Midnight’s Marsupium (The Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2010), which was nominated for the &Now Awards and selected as an Editor's Pick of 2010 by Stride Magazine.  His next full-length collection, Cutting Time with a Knife, will be published by Black Square Editions/The Brooklyn Rail, and his next chapbook, The Philosophy of Decomposition/Re-Composition as Explanation, will be published by Delete Press.  He is currently a part-time lecturer at Rutgers University and lives in New York City.

COLIN McDONALD’s poems have been featured on mnartists.org and nominated for a 2007 Pushcart Prize. Read and hear more at inperson-ate.tumblr.com.

KEN McGRATH has previously had fiction published on 365tomorrows.com and Antisf.com. In 2010 he won the Tipperary Reads Premier Short Story competiton.

M.E. McMULLEN’s work has appeared in numerous print and online journals and been nominated for both the Pushcart and Hugo awards.

KERRIE O’BRIEN’s poetry has been published in various Irish and UK literary journals including Southword, Orbis, two issues of Crannóg, Revival, Icarus, The Cathach, College Green, Ropes, Daydreamer, Wordlegs, Minus 9 Squared and Boyne Berries.  She will also have poems appearing in the forthcoming editions of The Poetry Bus and Outburst. A lot of her work can be read online and the links can be found here: <http://www.munsterlit.ie/Southword/Issues/19/obrien_kerrie.html>.

ANDY PSOMOPOULOS is an experimental writer, musician and visual artist. He attributes both his academic and personal education to the fifteen years he lived in Montreal. His poems are all set to music and he performs under the stage name machine. In addition to his work in Raft Magazine, he has had works published in Unlikely 2.0, Haggard & Halloo, and will appear in a future issue of Bumble Jacket Miscellany. He lives in Toronto, Canada with his wife Nancie and newborn son Devo.

L.A SPEEDWING runs a weekly blog where she writes about Arts to provide a relief to her overheated brain otherwise busy writing a fantasy novel for young adults. The book is alltogether proving to be stubborn and won’t finish itself. Still, she is determined to win this battle. http://laspeedwing.blogspot.com/

D. E. STEWARD writes serial month-to-month months in a project now in its twenty-fifth year. Nearly two hundred of the months have been published in literary magazines. Shorter poetry appears in the same manner.

MARK YOUNG is a New Zealander who now lives on the Tropic of Capricorn in Australia. He has been publishing poetry for more than 50 years, & is the author of around twenty, mainly poetry, books. He is the editor of Otoliths.