NICK, NED, NOAH, TAO

Nick Antosca's writing has appeared in The Barcelona Review, Identity Theory, The New York Tyrant, The Antietam Review, Hustler, Opium, elimae, and others. His first novel, Fires, will be published this winter by Impetus Press. He was born in New Orleans and graduated from college in 2005.

Ned Vizzini is the author of It's Kind of a Funny Story ("insightful and utterly authentic" -- New York Times), Be More Chill, and Teen Angst? Naaah.... His work has been honored by the American Library Association, BookSense, and the Chicago Public Library and has been translated into four languages (forthcoming in Hebrew). He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Noah Cicero was born and lives in Youngstown, Ohio. He is the author of The Condemned (Six Gallery Press, 2006), Burning Babies (Parlor Press, 2006) and The Human War (Fugue State Press, 2003). He has had short fiction published in Identity Theory, Black Ice, Prague Literary Review, Nth Position and many other places.

Tao Lin is the author of a poetry-collection, You Are a Little Bit Happier Than I Am (Action Books, 2006), a story-collection, Bed (Melville House,2007), and a novel, Eeeee Eee Eeee (Melville House, 2007). His web site is called Reader Of Depressing Books. Tao also has two e-books which can beread on Bear Parade.