the storyscapists (contributors):

Anna Catone’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the Boston Review, Caketrain, Commonweal, the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Post Road and elsewhere.  She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, an MA from the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College and an undergraduate degree from Princeton University.  She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Ken Cormier is the author of Balance Act, a collection of poems and stories published by Insomniac Press in 2000. His writing has appeared in a number of national journals, including Exquisite Corpse, Sulfur, and 32 Poems, and his radiophonic works have been aired on public radio stations around the country. He has released two CDs of original music, God Damn Doghouse and Radio-Bueno, with Elis Eil Records. Ken co-founded and edited The Lumberyard: A Radio Magazine of Poetry Prose and Music, which aired weekly on WHUS in Connecticut from 2005-2008. Ken is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Connecticut, where he is also an instructor of creative writing.

Shira Dentz's poems have appeared in many journals including The American Poetry Review, American Letters & Commentary, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Field, Western Humanities Review, Seneca Review, Lungfull!, jubilat, Bombay Gin, New Orleans Review, and Drunken Boat. Her poems have been featured on NPR and Poetry Daily. She is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets' Prize, Poetry Society of America's Lyric Poem and Cecil Hemley Memorial Awards, Electronic Poetry Review's Discovery Award, and Painted Bride Quarterly's Poetry Prize. Her stories have been finalists for the PEN/Nelson Algren Award and the Heekin Foundation Fellowship for Short Fiction. A chapbook, Leaf Weather, is forthcoming from Tilt Press. A graduate of the Iowa Workshop, she is currently finishing a PhD at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Before leaving for Iowa City, she lived and worked in NYC as a graphic artist designing ads for rock concerts, and taught English in a Brooklyn public high school as a NYC Teaching Fellow.

Tamas Dobozy has published stories in Chicago Review, Salamander, Northwest Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and other journals. He has two books of stories, When X Equals Marylou (Arsenal Pulp, 2002) and Last Notes (Arcade, 2006). He teaches 20th Century American literature at Wilfrid Laurier University, and lives in Kitchener, Ontario. Canada.

Rebecca Keith holds an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. She has received honors from the Atlantic Monthly and BOMB Magazine and was a poetry finalist in the 2008 Laurel Review/GreenTower Press Midwest Chapbook Series Award. Her work has appeared most recently in The Saint Ann's Review and is forthcoming in The Laurel Review, and she is co-founder and curator of Mixer reading series in New York City.  

Dae Hoon Kim's "It Strikes Twice" premiered at KAFFNY (http://kaffny.com) and the Pusan International Film Festival last year. He is currently working on "L'Asylum, Now 6:47" about biracial half-siblings who are united for the first time, but can't shake their physical attraction for each other. He is finishing his MFA in film production at Tisch School of the Arts. He's a
graduate of Georgetown Law and Pomona College. http://khopfilms.com

Maya Pindyck is a poet and visual artist living and working in Brooklyn.  A recipient of the Many Voices Project Award and a PSA Chapbook Fellowship, her first book of poems, Friend Among Stones, is forthcoming from New Rivers Press and her chapbook, Locket, Master, was published by the Poetry Society of America in 2006.  Recent group exhibitions include Begin Anywhere at the House of Art and Multimedia (H.A.M.) in Berkeley and the 2008 Windows Brooklyn exhibition.  She holds a B.A. in studio art and philosophy from Connecticut College, an M.F.A. in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, and an M.A. in education through the New York City Teaching Fellows program. http://mayapindyck.com

In her story “The First Encounter,” Carla Porch recounts how she unwittingly captured a moment in time that would have escaped notice otherwise. Carla received her MFA in Creative Writing Nonfiction from Sarah Lawrence College. Her story, “A Haircut in the Kitchen,” was recently published in Submerged, Tales From The Basin. Her current writing project is on the role landscapes play in ancestry and consciousness. She has also spent many years working as a photographer, graphic designer, and art director. Carla resides in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Ryan Scammell used to be a lighting designer for a jam band. He also used to pick fruit professionally on a farm, make coffee professionally in Australia, pop popcorn professionally in the New Jersey suburbs, and hustle stereo speakers out of the back of an unmarked chevy van in the midwest.  Now he's stage electrician living in Brooklyn. He produces a podcast called Phonography: Writing In Sound. He has produced radio pieces for Weekend America on NPR and Storylife. He was a staff journalist for the online magazine NUComment and has written fiction for Flashquake.org. His fiction work will be also be included in an upcoming anthology entitled Visions published by the Writer's Institute.

Robert Scotellaro's stories and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in Ghoti, VerbSap, 971 Menu, Boston Literary Magazine, Fiction at Work, The Battered Suitcase, The Laurel Review, Red Rock Review, Long Story Short, Six Sentences, The Vagabond Anthology, Macmillan and Oxford University Press collections and elsewhere. He is the author of several literary chapbooks, three books of poetry, and the recipient of Zone 3’s Rainmaker Award.  Born and raised in Manhattan, he currently lives in California with his wife and daughter.