Contributors to Fiction Attic Featured Stories

Steve Almond (issue 10) is the author of the story collections The Evil B.B. Chow and My Life in Heavy Metal, and the bestselling nonfiction work Candyfreak. His fiction has appeared in Tin House, Playboy, Other Voices, The Mid-American Review, Nerve, and many other magazines. Steve lives in Somerville, Massachusetts and teaches at Boston College.

Stephen Ausherman (issue 13)Stephen Ausherman’s first novel, Typical Pigs, was nominated for the Peter Taylor Prize and won the Llumina American Writers Contest. His collection of travel essays, Restless Tribes, was released in 2004.

Roger Boyle (issue 14) is Professor of Computing at the University of Leeds in the UK. His skill as a photographer is as limited as his skill in bicycle maintenance. He has a deep affection for southern European countries, in particular Itlay.

Matt Cervenka (issue 10) studied at the School of Visual Arts and S.U.N.Y. at Farmingdale. Extensive travels in the Southwest, Mexico and Europe have provided inspiration, and Matt has incorporated their cultures in his work. Presently, Matt enjoys working with gouache, pen and ink, acrylic, and mixed media. Austrian Television’s Tema recently aired an interview with Matt, featuring his animal portraits. See his New York Cityscapes at Portable Muse.

Franci Claudon (issue 18) is a glass artist who lives in San Carlos, CA. View her work at Wavecrest Designs.

Mickey Laurence Cohen (issue 21, Jan. 2014) is an American writer living in France, where he works as a journalist. His stories have also appeared in Prime Number Magazine, Atticus Review, and Smokelong Quarterly, and he has just completed work on a French novel, La Fin du Temps. A native of New Jersey, his last known address in the United States was in Chicago, where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in English/Creative Writing at the University of Chicago. He also performs as a musician and spoken-word video artist under the name Mickey Zero.

Vince Donovan (issue 17) divides his time between San Francisco, and whatever country has the cheapest airfares. His fiction has appeared in the literary journal Ink Pot and in San Luis Obispo magazine. His travel writing has been featured in The Singapore Project, a travel e-zine, and Rip It Up!, Australasia’s largest music magazine. His novel, Garage Love, a coming of age story set in the world of Los Angeles underground rock bands, is represented by Scott Miller at Trident Media Group. He is at work on a new novel about adulterous birdwatchers.

Stephen Elliott (issue 11) grew up in Chicago, where in his teens he was made a ward of the court and placed in various State run homes. He attended the University of Illinois and received his Masters from Northwestern University. Currently Stephen Elliott is the Marsh McCall lecturer in Creative Writing at Stanford University. His books include Happy Baby, What It Means To Love You, A Life Without Consequences, and Jones Inn. He also edited the fiction anthology, Politically Inspired. His web site is www.stephenelliott.com.

Ira Joel Haber (featured artist, issue 20) was born and lives in Brooklyn, New York. He is a sculptor, painter, book dealer and teacher. His work has been featured in numerous group shows both in USA and Europe and he has had 9 one man shows including several retrospectives of his sculpture. His work is in the collections of New York University, The Guggenheim Museum, The Hirshhorn Museum & The Albright-Knox Art Gallery. His paintings, drawings and collages have been published in many on line and print magazines. He has received three National Endowments For The Arts Fellowships, two Pollock-Krasner grants, and The Adolph Gottlieb Foundation Grant in 2004. He teaches art at the United Federation of Teachers Retiree Program in Brooklyn.

Elizabeth Harris Behling (issues 14 & 18) grew up in Arizona and Kentucky and now teaches creative writing at the University of North Dakota. For her translations, she has won several awards, including the Dudley Fitts Award and the Gary Wilson Award. Her stories and translations of Italian prose and poetry have been accepted in Other Voices, Denver Quarterly, Florida Review, Northwest Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and other magazines. She has had fiction-residency fellowships at the Blue Mountain Center and the Ragdale Foundation.

Brent Foster Jones (issue 12) was born in Texas and raised in Louisiana. He completed his M.F.A. in writing at California College of the Arts. Brent is the recipient of a California College of the Arts All College Honors Honorable Mention for his fiction writing. He is currently at work on a collection of
stories and a play. He edits the literary journal 1111.

Stephen Graham Jones (issue 18) is the author of three novels: The Fast Red Road-A Plainsong, All the Beautiful Sinners, and The Bird is Gone: A Manifesto. His first book of stories, Bleed into Me, was recently published by University of Nebraska Press. His latest novel, Demon Song, is forthcoming from MacAdam/Cage. An Assistant Professor of English at Texas Tech University, Jones is really, really into Elvis.

Gloria Frym (issue 2) is the author of two story collections, How I Learned and Distance No Object, as well as several volumes of poetry, including By Ear, Back to Forth, Impossible Affection, and Homeless at Home. She is also the author of a book of interviews, Second Stories: Conversations with Women Artists. Since 1987, she has been a member of the core faculty of the Poetics Program at New College in San Francisco. She also teaches in the MFA Program in Writing at CCAC.

Jason Fuges (issue 12) lives in San Francisco and works as the art director at Berkeley Rep.

Vanessa Hua (issue 5) grew up in the Bay Area and studied creative writing and journalism at Stanford University. She now lives in San Francisco, where she is a writer for the San Francisco Chronicle.

Chet Kozlowski (issue 7) lives in New York City, where he is pursuing a Masters in Writing at City College of New York. He has been the recipient of a residency grant at the David and Julia White Artists Colony in Costa Rica, and is currently at work on a novel.

Bernard Kyle (issue 12) is a photographer and independent curator and works for Other Minds, a non-profit. He is a graduate student in the art history and museum studies programs at San Francisco State University.

Kelly Lundgren (issue 18) holds a Masters in Fiction from Temple University, where she now teaches creative writing and literature. She also teach at Rutgers University and Camden County College in New Jersey. Her fiction has appeared in Pindeldyboz.

Robert McCann (issue 9) teaches photography & graphic design at Lyndon State College in Vermont. He is represented by Debra Heimerdinger Fine Art Photographs San Francisco and Yossi Milo Gallery NY.

Jiri Kajane (issue 1) was raised in Kruje, Albania. His satirical drama, Neser Perdite (Tomorrow, Every Day), received great acclaim in a singular 1981 performance before being banned by the Albanian Ministry of Culture. Due to Kajane’s precarious standing before the revolution, his work has never been published in his home country. However, his stories have appeared in translation in a number of American literary journals, including The Chicago Review, Glimmer Train, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Alaska Quarterly Review, among others.

Debbie McCann (issue 9) is a writer, performer, and social worker who lives, works, and writes in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the author of the short story collection A House in Order (Blinking Yellow Books, 1994).

Erin McCluskey (issue 3) holds an MFA in Writing from the California College of Arts and Crafts, and a BA in fine art and art history from Beloit College. Her work has been published in Five Fingers Review and Puerto del Sol. She is currently working on a collection of interrelated short stories.

Kevin Phelan’s stories have appeared in Glimmer Train, The Alaska Quarterly Review, Chicago Review, CutBank, Michigan Quarterly Review, and many other literary journals. He lives in San Francisco. In addition to his short story in issue 8, his co-translation with Bill U’ren of the Albanian writer Jiri Kajane appears in Issue 1.

Jenny Pritchett (issue 15) lives and works in San Francisco with her boyfriend, Sean, and their 140-pound English mastiff. Her fiction has appeared in Boulevard, and she is working on a collection of short stories, most of which reference her home state of Illinois.

Kenneth Rodgers (issue 17) writes ficiton and poetry in Sebastopol, CA. He earned an MFA from the University of San Francisco and has been a PushCart Prize nominee. His book of poems, Trench Dining, was published by Running Wolf Press in 2003.

Sara Seinberg (issue 16) is a writer and visual artist on her way to Brooklyn by way of Boston and before that Providence and before that San Francisco. but she is very excited to finally be living by her favorite bridge in the world. She has a dog called gus and a fear of dentists.

Ilana Stanger-Ross (issue 6) earned a Masters in Fiction from Temple University. She is the recipient of a Leeway Foundation grant for emerging artists, as well as a residency grant from the Ragdale Foundation. Her stories have appeared in Lilith Magazine, Red Rock Review, killingthebuddha.com, and The Bellevue Review. She lives in Toronto.

Mario Rigoni Stern (issues 14 & 18) is from Asiago, Italy, in the Veneto. He has published fifteen works of prose with Giulio Einaudi Editore and Il Melngolo. His Il sergente nella neve (1953), The Sergeant in the Snow, is considered one of the great novels about the Italians at the Russian front during World War II. His works have been translated into twelve languages, and he has won numerous awards, including the 1978 Campiello Prize and the 1999 Pen Club Prize. Le stagioni di Giacomo (Giacomo’s Seasons) won the 1996 Grinzane Cavour Prize and has been translated into French; it was also adapted as a play in Italy.

Michelle Tea (issue 16) is the author of Valencia, The Chelsea Whistle, Rent Girl, and other books. She is the cofounder of the notorious all-girl poetry roadshow Sister Split, and continues to drag herself and other brave performers across the US on grueling performance-art boot camps. Born and raised in Chelsea, Massachusetts, she presently lives in San Francisco with her transboyfriend and their weird cat.

Bill U’Ren’s (issue 1) stories have appeared in Glimmer Train, The Alaska Quarterly Review, Chicago Review, CutBank, Michigan Quarterly Review, and many other literary journals. He lives in Alexandria, VA, and teaches creative writing at Johns Hopkins University.

Wade Williams is an accomplished practitioner of the epistolary arts, (and occasionally of the Episcopalian arts) who will answer to one name only: Crawdaddy. He is an attorney in Houston, where he specializes in torts. He has two rockin babes, Thomas & Rona,, for whom he writes rousing country songs.

Anne-E. Wood (issue 4) grew up in New Jersey and studied theater and writing at Macallister College in St. Paul, Minnesota. She now lives in San Francisco, where she is getting her MFA at San Francisco State University. Her stories have appeared in or are forthcoming from Beloit Fiction Journal, Cream City Review, and Other Voices.

Jane Wong (issue 18) is a young writer from central New Jersey whose work has appeared in journals such as Chronogram, Bard Papers, and the Asians in America Project. She is also the poetry editor of Verse Noire, a literary magazine based in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.