Keyhole Magazine - Issue 1, Fall 2007

CONTRIBUTOR BIOS

RON SAVAGE has been published or is soon to be published in: Temple University's literary magazine, Modern Short Stories, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Tomorrow Magazine, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction;, Film Comment Magazine, TallGrass Writers Anthology, Crimewave 8, The Bitter Oleander, Mystery Anthology Magazine, Nocturne Magazine, Oyez Review, Lichen Review, Taj Mahal Review, Bombay Gin, Philadelphia Stories, Roanoke Review, Arabesques Review, Mount Zion Review, Ellipsis, Opium Magazine, Aeon Speculative Fiction, Gold Dust Magazine, Crimewave 9, Outercast Magazine, G.W. Review, North Atlantic Review, Summerset Review, Southern Humanities Review, Ecotone, Natural Bridge, Jabberwock Review, Summerset Review, Southern Humanities Review, Ecotone, Natural Bridge, Jabberwock Review, Shenandoah Review, Evergreen Review, Chilling Tales, Aoife’s Kiss, Glimmer Train. Ron has a BA and MA in psychology and a doctorate in counseling, all from the College of William and Mary. He’s been a newspaper editor and broadcaster, and he worked twenty-seven years under the title Senior Psychologist at Eastern State Hospital in Williamsburg, Virginia.

JONATHAN BERGEY spends his days as a slave to Corporate America in the healthcare industry, which isn't really as bad as it sounds. He is generally happy. His work has previously appeared in some other journals as well as various company newsletters. He believes that Dostoevsky is God, Kerouac is Jesus, and Salinger is the Virgin Mary (and, in case you are wondering, Ayn Rand is Satan).

STEPHANIE JOHNSON lives in Madison, Wisconsin, with her husband and their newborn son. She's sold shoes in Chicago, poured coffee in Boston, and taught writing in numerous places. She frequents used bookstores, likes to see bands in bars, and has a penchant for bad TV. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in SmokeLong Quarterly, Quay, Lily, Verbsap, Fickle Muses, Boston Literary Magazine, GlassFire Magazine and Idlewheel. Her essays have regularly appeared in The Rambler in her column "No Do-Overs."
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WILLIAM WALSH - In addition to a short story forthcoming in New York Tyrant, William Walsh's fiction has appeared in Juked, Lit, Press, Rosebud, Crescent Review, Quarterly West, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and other journals. Portions of question-based derived texts series sourced from the many (many) books of Calvin Trillin have appeared in (or are forthcoming in) Caketrain, Opium, Segue, Bleeding Quill, Blotter, 5_Trope, Fringe, Slurve, Turnpike Gates, and Elimae. Also, his first novel, Without Wax, is forthcoming from Casperian Books, and a story called “The Snowman on the Moon” will be published in the fall by Uptown Books. William Walsh has a lovely wife and four kids.

DAVID COLE prefers to have nothing said about him.

RACHEL PLUMMER is a 23-year-old pet shop owner from Edinburgh. Her spare time is spent reading and writing poetry, with the emphasis very firmly on the former. She is influenced by the more traditional poetical styles and feels these have an important place in modern poetry.

JANNA LAYTON is a receptionist in Northern California, and her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as Blue Unicorn, Press 1, Umbrella, and Soundzine. She publishes interviews with poets in new poetry journal Mimesis and is currently working on a chapbook and a novel-in-poems.

BRANDON SCHULTZ - For several years Brandon Schultz has pseudonymously published poetry and prose. He currently works as a network administrator for a small company thirty minutes from Nashville (since he drives like an old lady) and lives in a quiet suburb with his wife and sons.

LAURA MCCULLOUGH is raising five kids on the Jersey shore just outside Atlantic City, formerly known as The World's Playground. Her first novel, Finging Ong’s Hat, explores Southern Jersey as a character and connects Laura's interests in aesthetics, cognitive science, art, and empathy with what she's observed traveling these roads. She has a second collection of poems, What Men Want, due out in early 08 by XOXOX Press. Her first, The Dancing Bear, debuted in 06. In 07, Mudlark published her chapbook of prose poems, Elephant Anger, and she won her second NJ State Arts Council Fellowship, this time in poetry, this year, as well; the first was in prose. She has an MFA in fiction from Goddard College. She went to Bread Loaf in 07 as part of the Social Staff. Her work has appeared recently or is forthcoming in Hiram Poetry Review, Gargoyle, The Hiss Quarterly, Pedestal, Nimrod, Boulevard, Tattoo Highway, Gulf Coast, Hotel Amerika, Poetry East, The Portland Review, and others.