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Steve Almond is the author of two story collections, My Life in Heavy Metal and The Evil B.B. Chow, the non-fiction book Candyfreak, and the novel Which Brings Me to You. His most recent book, Not That You Asked, is a collection of essays.

Carrie Hohmann is a first year poetry student at NYU and a graduate of Allegheny College in Meadville PA.  She has been published in The Allegheny Review and The Connecticut River Review.  She is having a wonderful time living in Brooklyn and exploring the city.

Jessie Marshall grew up in rural Pennsylvania, went to school in rural Ohio and northern England, and can frequently be heard complaining about the lack of trees/space/air in New York City. She is in her second year of the MFA program at NYU, where she is working on a collection of short stories. Her fiction has appeared in the Gettysburg Review.

Jonathan Padua’s fiction has appeared in Fugue, Perpetual Magazine, Undrawn Lines: An Anthology of Hawaii Writers, and has work forthcoming in A Thousand Faces.  Originally from Pearl City, Hawaii, he now resides in Brooklyn.

Solmaz Sharif, born and raised in exile, taught with June Jordan’s Poetry for the People at UC Berkeley from 2002-2006, while earning dual bachelor’s degrees in Sociology and Women of Color Poetry.  She is currently a graduate student at New York University, teaching undergraduate creative writing and working on her first book of poetry.