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JEFFREY ALLEN is the author of Simple Universal (Bronze Man Books, 2007). He is currently an MFA Poetry candidate at Columbia College Chicago, where he co-edits Columbia Poetry Review. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in TriQuarterly, CutBank, LEVELER, Blue Earth Review, The Dirty Napkin, and Clementine.

 

MICHAEL BAGWELL lives and writes in West Chester, Pennsylvania, where he is studying English and Philosophy.  His recent work has appeared in Dark Sky Magazine, Collective Fallout, Short Fast and Deadly, and Breadcrumb Scabs, among others.  He also edits two university publications, Daedalus and Literati.

CHARLENE LOGAN BURNETT joined the editorial board after appearing in Issue 5. Her other fiction and poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Literary Mama, RHINO, Weave Magazine, and other journals. She earned an M.F.A. in playwriting from the University of California at Davis. She was a MacDowell Colony fellow in the fall of 2006.  She used to be a senior writer/editor for a law school’s marketing department, but is now working part time for a rural veterinarian so she can spend most days doing her own writing.

ZACH BUSCHER teaches at Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester, MA.  He recently received his MFA in Poetry from the University of Arizona, where he was a Beverly Rogers Fellow and Poetry Editor for Sonora Review.  His own writing has appeared in a variety of online forums, including 42opus, SHAMPOO, 580 Split, Otoliths, tinfoildresses, Wheelhouse Magazine, Sawbuck, Juked, and Spooky Boyfriend. His website.

EDMOND CALDWELL joined the editorial board of A cappella Zoo after contributing to Issue 5. He received his PhD in English Literature from Tufts University in 2002 and now prefers he hadn't.  His fiction has appeared in Pear Noir!, Harp & Altar, DIAGRAM, Sein und Werden, Prick of the Spindle, and elsewhere, and his short play, "The Liquidation of the Cohn Estate," was produced in the 2009 Boston Theater Marathon.  He lives in Cambridge, MA, and still finds time to work on his third novel and get some reading done in between feedings and diaperings of his twin boys.

AMANDA DISANTO holds an MA in creative fiction and literature and is studying print design at the Rhode Island School of Design.  She enjoys reading almost anything, especially pieces that subvert contemporary myths. In her own writing, she is interested in challenging myths of youth and identify.  In the spirit of such work, she still climbs trees and dances in the rain; she hopes you do too.

MARY STONE DOCKERY'S first poetry collection, Mythology of Touch, will be released by Woodley Press in 2012. She is the author of Aching Buttons (Dancing Girl Press) and Blink Finch (Kattywompus Press). Her poetry and prose have appeared in many fine journals, including Gargoyle, Weave Magazine, Thrush, Melusine and others. She is the co-editing founder of Stone Highway Review and she reads fiction for Echo Ink Review. Currently, she lives in Lawrence, KS.

 

RYAN FOWLER works in health care and has a master's degree in public administration from Idaho State U.  He continues to read and write when life allows.  He has been published in Black Rock & Sage and Every Day Fiction.

EMILY J. LAWRENCE is a bruised paper bag marked "Surprise" sitting in a dollar store. She broke into herself years ago and what she pulled out is what you read in her stories. These can be found in A cappella Zoo #6 (which prompted her to join the editorial board), Hawk and Handsaw, Relief: A Journal of Christian Expression, Glossolalia, and TRACHODON. Her secret identity is a box office attendant in a mideastern movie theater. She's also an assistant editor at Literary Laundry.

RACHEL LIEBERMAN has work published or forthcoming in Anemone Sidecar, Black Lantern Publishing, and Awkward.  In 2009, she received her BA in creative writing from Chester College of New England.  After appearing in A cappella Zoo's third issue, she was prompted to join the staff due to her burning need to expose the world to more unruly fiction. Her website.

LISA McCOOL-GRIME loves to write alone about Sappho and wallflower women and to write collaboratively about anything. She loves to read everything (including tea leaves).  Her wallflower women are or will be appearing in Splinter Generation, Phantom Kangaroo, Solo Novo, PANK, and elsewhere. Her collaborative work with Nancy Flynn can be read at Poemeleon. Tupelo press awarded one of her poems first place in their Fragments of Sappho contest.

HAYES MOORE joined the editorial board after appearing in Issue 5. His other fiction can be found or is forthcoming in Foliate Oak, Slush Pile, Crash, White Whale Review, and Withersin. He recently obtained a PhD from Columbia University and is currently teaching in Queens.

MICAH UNICE is an aspiring novelist who lives for literature, film, visual art, and any form of pathos, and he has won a handful of creative writing contests. One of his favorite books is Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones.

MICHAEL JAMES WILSON is a graduate of Brigham Young University and is currently pursuing his MBA through Western Governors University.  Between reading and studying sessions, Michael is a full-time pencil pusher for one of the largest companies in America. Creative expression is an integral part of his life and he makes every effort to follow Rembrandt's call to "look beyond the ordinary and find the extraordinary."  One of his favorite literary pieces is Le Petit Prince.