Keyhole Issue 8, Summer 2009

I Wonder if Anyone Ever Really
   Wins the Lottery and if They Do

   I Wonder if Anything Really
   Changes
Franky's old room
The Azusa Swap Meet
waiting
prayer for the little ghosts outside

  
his window

CONTRIBUTOR BIOS

ANNE VALENTE is an MFA candidate at Bowling Green State University and serves as the assistant editor of Storyglossia. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in PANK, Monkeybicycle, Fiction Weekly, Storyglossia and The Washington Post.

COOPER RENNER's fiction, some of it incorporating verse, is upcoming in New York Tyrant, The Anemone Sidecar and Sleeping Fish. His chapbook Dr Polidori's Sketchbook, which combines art and text, is scheduled for March 2010 from Mud Luscious Press. He is currently at work on a collection of short stories entitled Dr Fenech's Guide to Lycanthropy in Malta (1913).

DEENA NOVEMBER graduated SUNY Binghamton in 2005 with a BA in Creative Writing, Poetry and received her MFA in Creative Writing, Poetry from Carlow University in April 2009. In 2005 she co-edited the anthology I Just Hope It's Lethal for Houghton Mifflin. Her poems have also appeared in Pittsburgh City Paper, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Shaking Like a Mountain, Chiron Review, and Warbler. She will be teaching Introduction to Writing Poetry this fall at Seton Hill University. Currently Deena lives in Pittsburgh's North Side with her husband and dog.

STEVEN J. McDERMOTT's work has appeared in more than twenty online and print journals. He's the author of the story collection Winter of Different Directions and the editor and publisher of the online journal Storyglossia.

ROBERT LOPEZ is the author of two novels, Part of the World and Kamby Bolongo Mean River, which is just out from Dzanc Books. He teaches at The New School, Pratt Institute, and Columbia University.

ANNE-MARIE KINNEY is a writer and proofreader from Northern California, currently living in the San Fernando Valley. She holds an MFA from California Institute of the Arts, and is a former Associate Editor of Black Clock. Her work has previously appeared in Satellite Fiction, and she very recently completed her first novel.

JAMIE IREDELL wrote the chapbooks Before I Moved to Nevada, When I Moved to Nevada, and Atlanta. Put together, they make the book Prose: Poems, a Novel, which is due out this fall. He blogs at jamieiredell.blogspot.com.

SHELDON LEE COMPTON lives in Kentucky. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in New Southerner, Zygote in My Coffee, Boston Literary Magazine, The Beat, Six Sentences and elsewhere.

BRIAN ALLEN CARR lives near the Texas/Mexico border. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Boulevard, Texas Review, Front Porch and other publications. He can be found online at www.brianallencarr.com

JENSEN BEACH's fiction has recently appeared or soon will in Quick Fiction, Hobart, PANK, Avery Anthology and Spork, among others. He is a web editor at Hobart and lives in Massachusetts with his family.

SAMANTHA ARLOTTA currently lives in Austin, Texas where she plays the ukulele, binds books, and works a boring day job. Her work has appeared previously in The Junkrag, My Favorite Bullet, and Inscape Magazine.

WILLIAM L. ALTON started writing in the Eighties while incarcerated in a psychiatric prison and has found he can’t stop. Since then his work has appeared in Gloom Cupboard, Amarillo Bay, and Breadcrumb Scabs, among others. He earned both his BA and MFA from Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon where he continues to live with his wife and sons.