Flash Fiction

Rebekah Anderson's work has enjoyed some mediocre successes in the past few years. While wrapping up her MFA at NYU, she has abandoned apartially written collection of essays to focus on her unfinished first novel. Both projects are taking forever and make her homesick for the west.

Nat Bennett has done this before.  Some of you seemed to like it.  But don't worry, he's not letting it get to his head.  On the contrary, he's managed to convert that positive response, like Jesus with the water and the wine, into self-loathing.  His second in a trilogy of memoirs "Why I Killed the Fifth Beatle" will be published by Knopf this summer.

Jacqueline Bishop was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, before coming to the United States to attend college -- and to be reunited with her mother. She is the founding editor of Calabash: A Journal of Caribbean Arts & Letters and is presently editing a film on a group of Jamaican untutored artists called The Intuitives. She has been published in The Caribbean Writer, Crab Orchard Review, Macomere, Renaissance Noire and Wasafiri amongst other journals. She lives and works in New York City ... the 15th parish of Jamaica. The River's Song is her first novel.

E.A. Durden happens to hate cutesy bio's, you know, the kind that adopt a seemingly breezy tone, all the while stealthily proclaimingevery token and trinket of personal glory.  Suffice it to say, she was born in the south; she moved north to earn a few degrees; and she spends a lot of time alone, obsessing over word choice and the placement of commas and having conversations with people who don't exist.

M.J. Hile is a fiction writer and Professor of English at Brooklyn College. Her most recent awards include the Mari Sandoz Prize for Fiction, and her most recent publication can be found in Brooklyn Review #19. On her class evaluations, one student wrote that she was "not really funny, but a fair grader," while another said that she was "not hilariously funny but sort of amusing and witty." She herself thinks that she will take whatever she can get, when she can get it.

Of all the songs she likes to sing in the shower, Maaza Mengiste prefers "Wadein the Water".  She goes to NYU, where she also teaches. She likes to write, and currently has a novel that's agreed to be written.

Jono Mischkot is professor of writing and literature at New York University and John Jay College. He likes his job. He is married and happy. He plans on writing his memoirs once something terrible happens.

Jason Myers has been to paradise but he's never been to me. His work is in the current issue of West Branch and the forthcoming issue of The Paris Review.

Eric Ozawa doesn't believe that a bio could possibly contain all there is to know about him.

Ed Valentine's plays have been performed in New York and across the U.S.; he recently won the Kennedy Center / American College Theater Festival's "Best Full-Length Play in the Northeast" award for Betsy Ross Lies.  In May, he'll graduate with an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Tisch School of the Arts, NYU.  Ed is a co-director of the experimental theater Cardium Mechanicum (online at cardium.org).