ContributorsWinter2007

CONTRIBUTORS

PAUL ARENSON Born near Seattle, WA, raised in Berkeley, CA, now living a
librarian’s life in Rome, Italy. Publications include Westword 4 (1991). Finalist for
the 1996 James O. Kirkwood prize in creative writing, his work has been twice
featured in the J. Paul Getty Museum’s SubText reading series. Orthodontia and
Other Crucial Matters, the staged readings of four of his short stories, was
presented in April 2001 as part of the New Short Fiction Series.

ANN CARLI is a film producer (Festival Express and Crossroads) in Los Angeles,
and CEO of Fuzzy Bunny Films. Her latest production, Fast Food Nation, directed
by Richard Linklater, was nominated for the 2006 Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’
Or award. Her fiction has appeared in Pearl and Gentle Strength Quarterly.

TYLER DEMOGENES is a photographer who lives and works in the Los Angeles
area. His work has appeared in TV Guide, Maxim, People, Forbes, and More
(UK) magazines. Please check out his website at www.tylerdemogenes.com.

CHARLES DUNHAM lives, works, and writes in Phoenix, AZ. He is a non-
traditional student at Phoenix College who is currently at work on a coming-of-age
novel, Boyd Mann. He has fiction forthcoming in In Posse Review.

RANI GUITAR is a freelance photographer living in Valencia, CA.

DIANE GURMAN is a graduate of the NYU Writing Program. She has had stories
published in Quarterly West, ACM (Another Chicago Magazine) and Santa
Monica Review. She is currently working on a short story collection.

TOM HOLMES is a co-founding, co-editor of Redactions: Poetry & Poetics. He is
author of After Malagueña (FootHills Publishing, 2005) and Poetry Assignments
(Sage Hill Press, 2007).

KAREN LEGG lives in Phoenix, AZ. She writes poetry and essays. Her poetry
has appeared in South Ash Press and Newsletter Inago. Her essays are pending
publication. She is a member of the Phoenix College library staff.

ALBERT MAAS is an administrator who lives in Tempe, AZ. His first published
poems appeared in Gentle Strength Quarterly’s Autumn 2006 issue.

LOU MATHEWS Novelist, short-story writer, journalist and playwright. He has
published more than forty short stories in magazines including Tin House, Black
Clock, Nimrod, Crazyhorse and The Portland Review. His work appears in the
anthologies The Pushcart Prize, Love Stories for the Rest of Us / The Best-of-the
Pushcart Prize, L.A. Shorts, and Valley Light, as well as in two textbook series,
Portales (Houghton Mifflin) and Fiction Gallery / The Gotham Writers’ Workshop.
In addition to a Pushcart Prize, he has won a Katherine Anne Porter Prize, fiction
fellowships from the NEA and the California Arts Commission, and a Los Angeles
Times Best Book award in '99 (L.A. Breakdown). He teaches various writing and
literature courses in the UCLA Extension Writers Program, where he was Teacher
of the Year in 1991-92.

SUSIE OH This emerging Brooklyn artist’s work can be viewed at:
http://susieoh.net

DANIEL POST Raised in Tampa, FL, he earned his BA from the University of
Florida, where he received the Condon Smith undergraduate prize for fiction, and
his MFA from USC. He has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His stories
are published or forthcoming in The Howard Review, Seneca and Big Moon. Now
living in Los Angeles, he was the featured author in the Short Fiction Series at the
Beverly Hills Library.

STEPHANIE RIOUX graduated from California Institute of the Arts with an MFA in
Writing in Spring 2005. Her writings have appeared in the literary journal
nocturnes (re)view, are forthcoming in the journals Trepan, Black Clock, and
Primary Writing. Stephanie teaches middle school English and writing in Diamond
Bar, CA, and co-curates L.A. Lit with Mathew Timmons.

RANDY MICHAEL SIGNOR once co-owned Intellectuals & Liars, a literary
bookstore in Santa Monica. He has published his fiction widely, most recently in
Black Clock and the anthology Meeting Across the River. He has worked as an
editor (LA Reader, among others) and he paints; he had a one-man show in
Chicago. He presently lives in Seattle with his wife Jane Levine.

LEILANI SQUIRE is an artist and poet currently living in North Hollywood, CA.

INGRID SUNDBERG lives in North Hollywood, CA. Her artwork has been
exhibited in many arenas throughout America, including the NoHo Gallery LA and
The Foundry Art Center. She has been published in a wide variety of magazines
and books, including The Mountain Astrologer, Sage Woman, and Half Price
Books. Much more information on Ingrid and her life and work can be found at:
www.sundbergstudio.com

JULIÁN ESTEBAN TORRES was born in Medellin, Columbia, and is now pursuing
his Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia.

ALISON TURNER lives in Hollywood, CA. Her poems have appeared in various
publications, among them, Mid-American Review (Editor’s Choice, 2004 Fineline
Competition), Hudson Review, Nimrod, Margie/The American Journal of Poetry,
Santa Monica Review, and Jacaranda.