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FIZZ:  MID-AMERICAN REVIEW & Friends

Michael Czyzniejewski grew up in and around Chicago, but for the last fifteen years has taught at Bowling Green State University where he serves as Editor-in-Chief of Mid-American Review. His stories have appeared in over fifty journals, including The Southern Review, StoryQuarterly, American Short Fiction, and Ninth Letter, and his debut collection, Elephants in Our Bedroom, was released by Dzanc Books in 2009. Mike is also an NEA Fellow in Fiction for 2010.

Karen Craigo is co-editor-in-chief of Mid-American Review with Michael Czyzniejewski. She is the author of a chapbook, Stone for an Eye (Kent State, 2004), and her work has appeared in many journals, including Poetry, Crab Orchard Review, Prairie Schooner, Indiana Review and numerous others.  Karen is the recipient of three grants from the Ohio Arts Council, including two for poetry and one for creative nonfiction.

Julie Innis is currently enrolled in the MFA program at Brooklyn College.  In May 2009, her story “The Bee King” was a finalist in the Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers Contest.  Since then her work has appeared in Prick of the Spindle, Pindeldyboz, The Northville Review, and elsewhere.  She is also an editor at Metazen, an online literary magazine, and a reader at One Story.

Matt Bell is the author of the collection How They Were Found, published by Keyhole Press. His fiction has been anthologized in Best American Mystery Stories 2010 and Best American Fantasy 2, and appears in magazines such as Conjunctions, American Short Fiction, and Unsaid. He is also the editor of The Collagist.

Host Susan Tepper