KGB Bar

Karen Garthe’s poetry has appeared in numerous journals including Lana Turner, Chicago Review, New American Writing, American Letters Commentary, VOLT, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, POOL, and Court Green. Her book Frayed escort won the 2005 Colorado Prize judged by Cal Bedient.  She lives and works in New York City. Karen served briefly as a poetry editor for Mad Hatters’ Review and will have poems in the forthcoming Mad Bunkers Mash issue.

Erica Plouffe Lazure is the 2009 George Bennett Writer in Residence at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. She is a graduate of Bennington College’s Writing Seminars, and until recently had lived and worked as a writer and writing teacher at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. In addition to Mad Hatters’ Review, her work has appeared in McSweeney’s Quarterly, North Carolina Literary Review, Smokelong Quarterly, Keyhole, and elsewhere.

M.E. Parker is an obscure fiction writer in Texas who aspires to one day be a card-carrying member of his local Card Carrier Society.  In the mean time, his short fiction has recently surfaced or is scheduled to see daylight in numerous print publications and Internet haunts including 42 Opus, Alimentum, Barnstorm, The Briar Cliff Review, Electric Velocipede, The MacGuffin, Night Train, and Red Fez. www.meparker.com

Jefferson Hansen is a graduate of the Poetics Program at SUNY-Buffalo, where he worked with Robert Creeley and Charles Bernstein. His most recent work is a novel, And Beefheart Saved Craig (BlazeVox) experiments radically with typography and visuals. He also has a poetry book coming out soon, Jazz Forms (Blue Lion). A number of journals such as The Mad Hatters Review, Sulfur, Denver Quarterly, and Big Bridge have published his stories and poems. He also runs a blog that focuses on interviews, reviews, and literary commentary (http:/experimentalfictionpoetry@blogspot.com). Jefferson lives in Minneapolis with his wife Elizabeth Burns, a novelist, his daughters Cecilia and Molly, and their dog Victor.