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Ephen Glenn (fiction) was born in Ohio. In 2002-03 he was a Writing Fellow at the The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. His fiction has appeared in Shankpainter. His nonfiction—Policing Public Sex: Queer Politics and the Future of AIDS Activism (Boston: South End Press, 1996), in which he was a co-editor and contributing writer—won the 1997 Meyer Center Award for the Study of Human Rights in North America. Ephen holds a M.A. in American Studies from New York University and a B.A. from Bard College, where he studied Literature and Gender to write his senior thesis, “‘The Choice Word or the Chosen Silence’: Male Homoeroticism in Harlem Renaissance Literature, 1925 - 1932”. These days he hustles in New York City as a certified Hatha Yoga teacher, freelance editor, and creative writer

Jenna Risano (poetry) was born in Brooklyn and raised in Hamilton, New Jersey. After a five year stint in Tampa she is ready to add a new turnpike exit to her repertoire. She received a BA in English-Writing from the University of Tampa in 2008. At UT she was Poetry Editor of the literary magazine, won the Tim O’Connor Award for Writing, and was awarded Best English Graduate and Best Writing Portfolio. When she’s not writing or reading, or writing about reading, her loves include hockey, listening to her records, and watching old movies.

Kevin Catalano (fiction) was born and raised in Chittenango, NY, home of Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum, meaning he grew up surrounded by Oz-themed cafes and stores, yellow-bricked sidewalks, and perfectly normal residents who, every year, dressed as Oz characters for the town’s annual Oz Festival.  He is convinced that this environment has messed with his head in strange, irreversible ways.  He received his B.A. in English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, studied reindeer husbandry in Finland, and now lives in New Jersey with his wife, where he teaches composition full-time at Rutgers-Newark. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Prick of the Spindle, Cause & Effect Magazine, PANK, Denver Syntax, the Absent Willow Review Anthology, and other places nobody’s ever heard of.  A short story of his was also nominated for StorySouth’s 2008 Million Writers Award.