Karen Wunsch has published fiction, creative nonfiction and memoir in many magazines, including Harper’s Bazaar, Saveur, Epoch, the Kansas Quarterly, the North Dakota Quarterly, Confrontation, Kalliope and The Literary Review. She teaches English at Queensborough Community College in New York City.
Tim Quinlan (born 1958) is a teacher in Dublin, Ireland, and has published one book called Still Point Meditations (Veritas, Dublin, 2002) and writes poetry both in English and in Gaelic. His poetry has appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, No. 38, Summer 1993, Syllables Anthology (1993), Chapter And Verse Anthology (1995), Riposte (Broadsheet, 1995-2000), Extended Wings 4 (1998), Acorn 9 and Acorn 12, e-journal of Dublin Writers’ Workshop, Scríobh Chapbook, Sligo, 2006 and Crannóg magazine, Galway, (2006).
Miriam Gallagher, Irish playwright, novelist & screenwriter, studied drama in London (LAMDA). Her work, staged & screened in Ireland, London, Paris, USA & Canada with Irish, Dutch, Finnish and Russian translations, is included in the Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing and profiled in Irish Women Writers: An A-Z Guide (Geenwood Press,CT, USA, 2006)
Thomas McConnell’s work has appeared in the Connecticut Review, the Cortland Review, Calabash, Yemassee, the Emrys Journal, the Charleston Post & Courier, and Writing Macao, among other publications, and won prizes in the Porter Fleming Awards for Fiction and Essay, the South Carolina Fiction Project, and the Hardagree Award for Fiction.
His collection of stories, A Picture Book of Hell and Other Landscapes, was published by Texas Tech University Press in 2005 and nominated for the PEN/Bingham Award and the John Gardner Award for Short Fiction.