J. A. Tyler is a new American author who has been publishing his short fiction for the last two years. His writing can be found in numerous literary journals including The Green Muse, The Furnace Review, Antimuse, PBW, The Writer's Post Journal, and Slow Trains Literary Journal. His short story "The Stand-Up" recently won 1st place Fiction in the premiere issue of Big Pond Rumours, and his first novella Nobody is completed and in search of agency and publication. He lives with his wife and newborn son in Colorado, USA.
Steven Mayoff is a writer living on Prince Edward Island, Canada. His work has appeared in various literary journals, the most recent being the Dublin Quarterly, Parchment and the Windsor Review. "Cherbourg 1923" is an excerpt from his novel-in-progress, "Mariasse".
Born in Belfast, 1965. Paul Murphy studied at the University of Warwick, gaining a BA in Film and Literature. From there he went to Queen's University Belfast to study for an MA on T.S.Eliot and the French philosopher Jacques Lacan. He is presently living in Munich, Germany. His poetry, literary criticism, book reviews and travel writings have been published in English, Irish, Australian, New Zealand, Indian, American and European journals. He has published two pamphlets and one previous book of poetry (Ín the Luxembourg Gardens´, University of Salzburg Press, Austria), as well as a book on T.S.Eliot and Dr Jacques Lacan (´T.S.Eliot´s Post-Modernist Complaint´, Postpressed, Australia) and has read from his work in Paris, Cambridge, Galway, London, Brighton and Belfast. He is at the moment authoring new travel writngs on Germany and new poems and reviews.
Jeremy Voigt has an MFA in Literature and Creative Writing from Bennington College. His poems have appeared in or are forthcoming in Poet Lore, Rhino, Poets West, and the Canadian Bulletin of Medicine.