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Alexis Almeida

Alexis Almeida shares a birthday with Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln and according to the Chinese horoscope was born in the year of the rat, to which she owes a few of her seriously dissonant qualities: a fondness for naturalism, an exaggerated fear of being misunderstood, and a slightly hypocritical sense of morality. But she's really working toward straightening herself out. After years of a nomadic existence, in which she's been collecting native flowers, burrowing in subterranean tunnels and shoplifting the occasional book from Barnes & Noble, she is ready for the more sedentary life. She wants to settle into the kind of community where she can walk around with her own coffee mug for most of the day and not have people shoot her looks that say get a job. She will always believe in the romance of used furniture stores and grilled cheese sandwiches. She is currently living in Madrid and translating the Argentine art-and-literary publication 2 Obras, and working on a few writing projects, which include a graphic novel called The Adventures of Pen and Lighter, and a small book of warm sentences for wintertime. "Two Sentences" is her first published work.

Carolyn Altman

Carolyn Altman's work has appeared in literary journals, newspapers, on stage, and in radio and film. She has an MFA from the University of Nebraska, leads creative writing workshops, and consults as a manuscript doctor. She is the Director of the Georgia Southern Botanical Garden where she writes about environmental issues, history, and the strange and wondrous life forms of the southeastern coastal plain. She and Peter Christopher spent seven magical years together

Lindsay Anderson

Lindsay Anderson studies creative writing at Eastern Michigan University.

Tria Andrews

Tria Andrews has published fiction, poetry, and photography in red, Eyeshot, The Strip, See You Next Tuesday, Pequin, LitnImage, Lumina, and Fiction International. Her work is forthcoming in Cellar Roots and Ginosko. She is a yoga teacher and a student in the MFA program at San Diego State.

Sven Birkerts

Sven Birkerts is the author of eight books, most recently The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again (Graywolf). He edits the journal AGNI and directs the Bennington Writing Seminars.

Danielle Blau

Danielle Blau's poems and articles have appeared or are forthcoming in The Atlantic online, Black Clock, L Magazine, multiple issues of Unsaid, among other publications. "Growth" is the first short story she's had published. Danielle has begun work on her MFA in poetry this year at NYU's Creative Writing Program. She lives in Brooklyn.

Kristina Born

Kristina Born is 21, 5'3'', 115 lbs. She lives in Toronto, Ontario and blogs at kristinaborn.blogspot.com.

Blake Butler

Blake Butleris the author of EVER(Calamari Press, 09) and Scorch Atlas (forthcoming, Featherproof Books, 09/09). His work has appeared in Ninth Letter, LIT, New York Tyrant, Action Yes, etc. He lives in AtlantGiantand No Colony, and blogs at blakebutler.blogspot.com

Jonathan Callahan

Jonathan Callahan grew up in Honolulu. These days he lives in Queens.

Anne Carson

Anne Carson was born in Canada and teaches Ancient Greek for a living. Her publications include Decreation (2005), The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos (2001), winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry; Autobiography of Red (1998), shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the T. S. Eliot Prize; Plainwater: Essays and Poetry (1995); Glass, Irony and God (1995), shortlisted for the Forward Prize. Her awards and honors include the Lannan Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Trust Award for Excellence in Poetry, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a MacArthur Fellowship.

Peter Christopher

Peter Christopher, 52, died April 15, 2008 as a result of hepatic failure due to melanoma. He was the author of three books, Campfires of the Dead (Alfred A. Knopf), Lost Dogs and Other Stories, and Feral Angels. His fiction appeared in Story, Raritan, The Antioch Review, American Literary Review, New Letters, The Quarterly, Story Quarterly, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, Chelsea, The Nebraska Review, and Hunger Mountain, as well as numerous other journals, anthologies and venues. He received his B.A. in Literature from Columbia University and his M.F.A. from University of Florida and was a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature and a Grinter Fellowship from the University of Florida. His work won the Mari Sandoz Award, First Place in Story's Short Fiction Competition, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. In addition to his work in fiction, Christopher was also an award-winning newspaper reporter and columnist. As associate professor of creative writing at Georgia Southern University from 1998 until his death, he inspired countless students to challenge themselves both as writers and people through his demanding yet encouraging approach.

Andy Devine

Andy Devine's alphabetical fiction and essays have appeared in a variety of literary magazines. In 2007, he published a chapbook, As Day Same That the the Was Year (Publishing Genius Press). He is at work on a full-length manuscript entitled Words or, maybe, Words and Stories. Andy Devine Avenue — in Flagstaff, Arizona — is named after him.

Patrick Ehlen

Patrick Ehlen is a named entity with a likelihood of extraction from contiguous segments S such that p(x|s*) = log(x/n). He wrote Frantz Fanon, some works of short fiction, and a handful of academic papers that are of little interest to most people. He lives in San Francisco.

Trent England

Trent England lives in the Boston area and is currently at work on his first novel.

Will Eno

Will Eno is a Guggenheim Fellow, a Helen Merrill Playwriting Fellow, and a Fellow of the Edward F. Albee Foundation. His play THOM PAIN(based on nothing) opened in New York in January 2005, at the DR 2 Theatre. It ran for 378 performances and was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. His work has been produced in London, Brazil, and New York. He is currently at Princeton University, as a Hodder Fellow. His plays are published by Oberon Books, in London, and by TCG, in the United States.

Cooper Esteban

Cooper Esteban's new and selected poems, Mosefolket, is now available from Ravenna Press (www.ravennapress.com).

Brian Evenson

Brian Evenson is the Director of the Literary Arts Program at Brown University. He is the author of six books of fiction, most recently The Wavering Knife (which won the IHG Award for best story collection) and The Brotherhood of Mutilation. He has translated work by Chrstian Gailly, Jean Fremon and Jacques Jouet. He has received an O. Henry Prize as well as an NEA fellowship. His work has appeared in many literary journals, including each issue of Unsaid.

M.T. Fallon

M.T. Fallon lives in Colorado. Recent fiction appears in Avatar Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, elimae, Lamination Colony, and Wigleaf.

Bianca Galvez

Bianca Galvez lives in California. "We Are A Vessel" is her first published fiction.

Scott Garson

Scott Garson has stories in or forthcoming from American Short Fiction, Avery Anthology, New York Tyrant, Keyhole, No Colony and others. A collection of shorts, Vercingetorix, is in the works at Willows Wept Press.

Rachel Glaser

Rachel B. Glaser grew up in northern New Jersey and befriended a bunch of open honest weirdos. She studied painting and animation at RISD and writing at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She has stories in 3rd Bed, New York Tyrant, American Short Fiction, and others. She likes dancing and night hikes and is reading a crazy book by William Gass right now. Email her at bassethoundfound@gmail.com. Check out miscellanea at rachelbglaser.blogspot.com.

A. Minetta Gould

A. Minetta Gould was raised in a mitten by a beautician. After transplanting herself to the West, all ambitions were swayed by trains. She edits the journal & press Lonesome Foul(lonesomefoul.com), and her most recent work can be found in LeftFacingBird, elimae, & Caketrain.

Evelyn Hampton

Evelyn Hampton lives in Seattle. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Sidebrow, Birkensnake, Spork, The New Yinzer, and elsewhere. She is co-editor of Dewclaw.

David Hollander

David Hollander is the author of the novel, L.I.E., and his fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Swink, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, The Black Warrior Review, Failbetter, The Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere. The work appearing here is excerpted from his novel-in-progress, The Life to Come. He lives in Brooklyn.

Julia Holleman

Julia Holleman is a recent Yale graduate who lives in Brooklyn. She writes plays, currently as the Resident Playwright and Head of the Rolling Collaborative Project for the Subjective Theatre Company.

Joanna Howard

Joanna Howard has stories in Conjunctions, The Chicago Review, Quarterly West, Unsaid, American Letters and Commentary, Western Humanities Review, Salt Hill, Fourteen Hills, Tarpaulin Sky, Harp & Altar, Snowvigate, and Double Room. Two recent stories were included in the anthologies P P/F F: An Anthology and New Standards: The First Decade of Fiction at Fourteen Hills. She is also the author of a chapbook, In the Colorless Round, with illustrations by the novelist and artist Rikki Ducornet, from Noemi Press. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island an teaches at Brown University.

Alyson Jane

Alyson Jane recently graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with her MFA in fiction. She works as a humane educator in the greater NYC area teaching children about issues affecting people, animals and the environment. She is currently finishing her first novel.

Shane Jones

Shane Jones lives in New York. His first novel, Light Boxes, was published earlier this year. His next book, The Failure Six (Fugue State) will be out in January.

Michael Kimball

Michael Kimball has published two novels, The Way the Family Got Away (which has been translated into six languages) and How Much of Us There Was (Fourth Estate, 2005). He has also published many pieces in many literary magazines, including, mostly recently, Open City, Prairie Schooner, and Sleeping Fish. He lives in Baltimore with his wife.

Bear Kirkpatrick

Bear Kirkpatrick lives in Maine. "June's Flowers" is from his work in progress, The Harvester.

Virginia Konchan

Virginia Konchan's poetry and reviews have recently appeared or are forthcoming in The New Republic, American Poetry Journal, The Believer, Colorado Review, and Notre Dame Review, among other places; recent honors include an honorable mention in The Atlantic Monthly's 2008 Student Writing Contest and a residency to the Wave Books Poetry Farm. She currently serves as the fiction editor for Whiskey Island Magazine.

Joshua Kornreich

Joshua Kornreich is the author of the novel The Boy Who Killed Caterpillars (Marick Press, 2007). He lives and writes in New York City. To hear more about Kornreich and his novel, go to www.joshuakornreich.com.

Brian Kubarycz

Brian Kubarycz writes and paints in Salt Lake City. He teaches literature at the University of Utah.

Benjamin Landry

Benjamin Landry grew up in New England and received his B.A. from Brown University and his M.A. from the Bread Loaf School of English. He has taught English and Creative Writing in Bogota and Beijing, and for the University of Michigan New England Literature Program. His first collection of poems, An Ocean Away(2006), arose from his international travels. His poetry has appeared in The Sow's Ear Poetry Review, Sou'wester, The Grove Review and others. In 2009, a poem by Landry was selected by Henri Cole as the Columbia Poetry Contest winner, with publication forthcoming. He and his wife currently reside in Ann Arbor.

Tom Laverty

Tom Laverty was born and raised in Saginaw, Michigan.

Megan Layton

Megan Layton lives in St. Louis, Missouri.

Robert Lopez

Robert Lopez teaches an experimental writing workshop at The New School. He lives with his wife, Heather, and has appeared in many literary journals. This is his second appearance in Unsaid.

Emily Mahan

Emily Mahan is a Seattle native. She received her MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan, and currently holds a Zell Fellowship in Ann Arbor.

Paul Maliszewski

Paul Maliszewski's writing has appeared recently in Barrelhouse and The Baffler.

Sarah Manguso

Sarah Manguso is the author of the memoir The Two Kinds of Decay, the story collection Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape, and the poetry collections Siste Viator and The Captain Lands in Paradise. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Peter Markus

Peter Markus is the author of Good, Brother, The Moon is a Lighthouse, and The Singing Fish. A novel, Bob, or Man on Boat, is coming out in 2008 from Dzanc Books.

Eugene Marten

Eugene Marten grew up in Cleveland and currently lives with his wife in New York City.

Lauren McCollum

Lauren McCollum has published poems in Poetry, New Millennium Writings, H_NGM_N, and other publications. She currently lives in New York City..

Sam Michel

Sam Michel is the author of Under the Light (Knopf, 1991), Dogs and Flyboys (Texas A&M University Press, 2007), and Lincoln Dahl Turns Five (unpublished), from which "Things Filled Me In" is excerpted.

Ottessa Moshfegh

When she was a child she believed in ghosts and aliens and thought the everyday world was full of meaning. Then for a while she forgot all about the supernatural and started using the internet, drinking, spending money, things like that. Near the end of that corrupt period she wrote the story published here. She was twenty-five years old at the time.

Ryan Murphy

Ryan Murphy is the author of Down with the Ship from Otis Books/Seismicity Editions as well as the chapbooks The Gales, Ocean Park, and On Violet Street. His second book, The Redcoats, is forthcoming from Krupskaya. He has received awards from Chelsea Magazine and The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, as well as a grant from The Fund for Poetry. He lives in New York City.

Jessica Newman

Jessica Newman can be found in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in elimae and is forthcoming in Online Writing: The Best of the First Ten Years.

Dylan T. Nice

Dylan T. Nice is from rural Pennsylvania and now lives in Iowa, where everyone makes responsible decisions. He currently has stories in NOON and Quick Fiction.

Patricia O'Connell

Patricia O'Connell lives in Concord, Massachusetts. "With Love and Stamps, From Your Neighbor in Grief" is her first published fiction.

Emilia Phillips

Emilia A. Phillips is graduating from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's undergraduate writing program and joining Virginia Commonwealth University's MFA program in Fall 2009.Her prose and poetry have appeared in Sequoya Review, Pedestal Magazine, Poetry Miscellany, and elsewhere.

Sam Pink

Sam Pink may or may not live in the American Midwest. His arrangements of language can be found at www.impersonalelectroniccommunication.com

Rick Poinsett

Rick Poinsett about "The Winning Cruelty of Ray Gish": 'Let me say that Ray's cruelty preceded this poem and will surely outlive it. But there is no 'Ray Gish,' of course. I mean, how could there be? How could we hope that there be—in Blake's terms—such an 'Animate Wither' moving among us? This world is a little thin on the substance that allows for such a man, a man of remote superiority, ponderous gifts, conflicts of every kind. . . . In this sense, maybe 'Ray Gish' is merely a pseudonym for 'David McLendon,' my Thank You, my thumbnail homage to the godhead behind this magazine."

Dawn Raffel

Dawn Raffel is the author of a novel, Carrying the Body, and a story collection, In the Year of Long Division. Dzanc Books will publish a new collection, Further Adventures in the Restless Universe, in March 2010.

M Sarki

M Sarki has written three books of poetry with the titles Zimble Zamble Zumble, Little War Machine and Mewlhouse. The books may be purchased at rogueliterarysociety.com, or where other good books are sold.

Brian Schorn

Brian Schorn is the author of Strabismus, published by Burning Deck. He received an MFA in creative writing from Brown University. His work has been widely published in books, journals and anthologies including Palm Desert, Joshua Tree, Sulfur, Conjunctions, O.blek and One Score More. He was awarded the American Academy of Poets Prize and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Schorn also received an MFA in electronic music from Mills College where he explored the intersection of poetry and music. His text-sound compositions have been released online at www.textsound.org and www.thediagram.com. Recently, his graphic musical scores and writing on music were published in Notations21: An Anthology of Innovative Musical Notation.

Richard St. Germain

Richard St. Germain lives in Providence, Rhode Island. His pages here and from the last issue of Unsaid are from a recently completed novella, Loveseat.

Michael Stewart

Michael Stewart currently teaches creative nonfiction at Brown University, where he received his MFA in Literary Arts. His work has appeared in Conjunctions, American Letters & Commentary, elimae, Denver Quarterly and other journals. His first chapbook is forthcoming by Ugly Duckling Presse.

Matthew Thompson

Matthew Thompson is a native of northern Michigan. He now resides in the south of France where he is learning to become a farmer.

Bjorn Verenson

Bjorn Verenson is both the Swedish author of, and the Swedish detective in, a series of Swedish crime stories, mystery novellas, and roman noirs. He writes in Swedish but translates his own work into English. In this country, his work has also appeared in Birkensnake magazine.

Joe Wenderoth

Joe Wenderoth was cut out of porous rock in the rain while electricity surged. The result was incredible — what wonderful eyes! Then things got worse and worse and worse.

Rudy Wilson

Rudy Wilson has published fiction in journals including The Quarterly, The Paris Review, and The Indiana Review. He is the author of The Red Truck (Knopf). Another novel, Shiny Apalaris, is making the rounds, and it is from those pages that his work in Unsaid is excerpted.

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