Michael Amram acquired a B.A. from the University of Minnesota- Duluth in 1989. In 2006 the Loft Press published his first book Would God Move a Ping-Pong Table? A cumulative Analysis of Faith and Religion.  In September of 2011 Mr. Amram’s short story called “Eclipsing my Fears” appeared in issue 9 of the online publication Epiphany Magazine.  His writing was chosen out of 78 fiction writers to make him a finalist for the Loft’s 2011-2012 mentor series program.  Mr. Amram is currently compiling a book of poems for a contest sponsored by Milkweed Editions. You can visit his blog at Mbmoshe.blospot.com

Cher Bibler is the author of one book of poetry, California, California. She has worked as editor of Amanda Blue, and co-editor of the Wastelands Review. She read fiction for the Mid American Review and worked as poetry editor for the Heartlands Review. She sang with the alternative band Tinfoil. Over their career, they released 12 albums. One of their songs, People Don’t Know, will be featured in a film, Certainty, directed by Keith Mosher, due for a fall 2011 release. Her novel, Billie, was a finalist in this year’s (2011) Faulkner competition. She now resides in Merida, Mexico, and is in the process of forming a new band.

Shiv Dutta came to North America from India more than 40 years ago for graduate-studies, intending to return at the end of his education, which he never did. He is currently writing a memoir from which “On the Road to Long Island” has been adapted. His work has appeared or will appear in Silk Road Review, Pilgrimage, Front Porch, and in The Statesman, one of the premier daily newspapers in India, and in The Statesman’s Festival Magazine. He works for a major multi-national IT Company. He is a physicist and computer professional, but his interest in literary writings goes back to his middle school years.

Aaron Hames grew up in Nebraska and currently resides in Tokyo, where he is a house husband and freelance translator.   In his spare time he is finishing up his first novel.

Daniel Hyndman is an attorney who practices in the areas of criminal and appellate law. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The New York Quarterly, Slipstream, and Margie.  He lives in West Palm Beach, Florida with his wife, Liliana.

Tim Keane has just finished assembling his second poetry collection tentatively entitled Waking Yellow & Blue, from which “The Last Song of the Reed Flute” is excerpted. Additional poems from this collection have appeared recently in  Crannóg (Ireland), nth position (UK), Ditch Poetry and Contemporary Verse 2 (Canada) and in Danse Macabre, Counterexample Poetics, Fogged Clarity and Now Culture (US). This is Tim’s second appearance in Evergreen Review. His poem “Blossoming Sutras for Displaced Nuns” (2009) appears in issue 118. More on Tim’s writing is at www.timkeane.com.

Jocelyn Paige Kelly is a graduate of the intensive six-week Science Fiction and Fantasy program, Clarion West. Her work has appeared in Cadillac Cicatrix, Willard & Maple, Sanskrit, Dos Passos Review, Louisiana Review and Red Wheelbarrow. She focuses on imagination and altered states while crossing genre lines between realism and magical realism; her wry sense of humor to brings the best out of her characters. Visit her at jocelynpaigekelly.com to find out more.

Chris Kelso is a 23 year old writer/illustrator who has been printed frequently in small literary and university newspapers across the UK and Canada – such as Polluto, AlterNation, Is This Music?, Trisickle magazine, Trouser Press, Heart and Lungs, Profane Existence, Re-Gen Magazine, Lost Boy Zine, Sabotage Times, Beard Rock, Total Football magazine, Dead Man’s Tome (August issue), Duality (Issue 4), Salzberg Review, Firstwriter Magazine, In Bed With Maradona, The Edinburgh Journal and the Strathclyde Telegraph.

Ajayi Olubunmi Kolade is a medical trainee at University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Nigeria. His poems have been published in online magazines like Istanbul Literary Review, Sentinel Nigeria Magazine and Saraba Magazine, among others.

Prakash Kulkarni developed his writing skills through the ‘Breaking into Print’ program of the Long Ridge Writers Group, and by attending the Algonquin workshops in New York City. He received second prize in the Philadelphia Writers’ Conference ‘Writing on the Wall’ poetry contest. He has a short story published in India Abroad, an Indian Diaspora weekly. By profession, Prakash Kulkarni is a physician anesthesiologist and lives in South New Jersey.

Lyn Lifshin’s books include Another Woman Who Looks Like Me, her prize winning book about the famous, short-lived race horse, Ruffian, The Licorice Daughter: My Year With Ruffian from Texas Review Press; Before it’s Light; Cold Comfort; 92 Rapple.  For more information and publications please visit www.lynlifshin.com.

Dawn Marlan has published essays and reviews on literature, film, and art in a variety of journals and newspapers including, PMLA, Modernism/Modernity, The Chicago Tribune and The Oregonian. Her first novel, The Passings, is represented by MGD Literary. She is currently working on a collection of personal essays entitled, Accounting for Taste, and a new novel provisionally entitled, Everyman Rising.  She teaches Comparative Literature and German Studies at the University of Oregon.

Christopher G. Moore is the creator of the Vincent Calvino Private Eye series and the author of the Land of Smiles Trilogy. His Vincent Calvino series has been optioned and is being developed for a Hollywood feature film; books from the series have won the Shamus Award for best original paperback and a German Critics Award for international crime fiction, and the Premier Special Director Book Award.  His non-fiction books include Heart Talk, The Vincent Calvino Reader, and The Cultural Detective. He is editor and contributor to Bangkok Noir, an anthology of short stories set in Bangkok.  His latest novel is titled The Wisdom of Beer.

Ethel Rackin is the author of The Forever Notes, forthcoming fall 2012 in Parlor Press’ Free Verse Editions series. Her poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Court Green, Poetry East, The American Poetry Review, Volt, and in many other journals. She has taught creative writing at Penn State’s Brandywine campus, Haverford College, and Bucks County Community College in Pennsylvania, where she is currently an assistant professor.

Sarah T. Schwab, a freelance writer, has been stimulated by interstellar travel since seeing Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. She has been writing a weekly column titled “A scribbling woman’s Limbo” for the Dunkirk Observer, since May 2008. Last year she published a short fiction piece in Writer’s Digest magazine. She currently lives on the Upper East Side in Manhattan.

Michael Selph is fairly new to writing fiction, but not to writing. He has written for newspapers and magazines and spent the past 20 years as an advertising creative director/writer (though some might consider that fiction).

Peter Snowdon is a writer and filmmaker. He was born in Northumberland, England, and has lived and worked in France, Egypt, India, and Israel/Palestine. He is currently an LSM doctoral fellow at the MAD Faculty, Hasselt, Belgium. His latest film is “No Revolution without a Revolution” (2012), a feature-length documentary on the Arab Spring told entirely through YouTube videos.

Justin Thibodeau is a self taught writer of poetry, short stories, critical reviews and the occasional essay.  He resides in Connecticut where he works as a bartender at night while writing during the day.  All while indulging in his other passions; music and film. He is currently working on putting together a book of poetry for publication as well as writing his first novel.

Katherine Tiernan lives in Austin, TX where she works as a bartender and waits for rain.  She enjoys the company of train robbers and nomads.  She has a cat named Alphie, who almost lost an eye.