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Mitch Levenberg has published short stories and essays in such publications as Ducts.org, Fiction, The St. Ann’s review, The Delta Review, The Common Review, and others. His fiction has been described His book of stories is entitled Principles of Uncertainty and Other Constants. The poet paul Violi has called him a “master storyteller” whose characters’ are both “heroic and farcical and whose everyday lives turn into an eerie high wire act. The results are unforgettable.” He teaches creative writing at NYU and St. francis College and lives in Brooklyn with his wife, daughter and four dogs. His beloved hamster, Shecky, passed away last summer.

Matthew Flamm started his career writing poems, then got greedy and began writing book reviews. Continuing downhill, he became a journalist. He has written for anyone who would pay him, including the Times, The Nation, the New York Observer and Entertainment Weekly—and for plenty of places that promised to. Since 2004 he has been the media reporter for Crain’s New York Business. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry East and Mudfish. He is at work on a novel set in New York in the mid 1990s.

Judith Woodall grew up in rural Wisconsin and found her way to New York by way of Kentucky. She worked as a copywriter for the Louisville Courier-Journal and later as a writer and editor for various entertainment magazines in New York. After a misspent middle age working in the horse business and in an effort to keep off the streets and out of trouble, she has concentrated on writing fiction and recently completed a novel, The Memorial Meeting. Her short story, “What Happened to Gene Autry,” is an excerpt from another novel in progress.