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Kenneth Burke

Kenneth Burke (1897-1993) is considered one of the most brilliant theorists of rhetoric. His works include The Philosophy of Literary Form, Permanence and Change: An Anatomy of Purpose, A Grammar of Motives, and Language as Symbolic Action. His only novel, Towards a Better Life, which received critical acclaim as a Modernist text, has been out of print for over twenty years. The excerpt included in these pages is the first chapter of that book. Here & Elsewhere, forthcoming from David R. Godine Publishers, collects for the first time all of Burke's fiction.

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.

Kira Henehan

Kira Henehan is the author of two chapbooks: The Investigations (A Rest Press) and Seven Palms (Fungo Monographs). Her work has appeared in journals such as Fence, Chelsea, jubilat, and Denver Quarterly, and has been awarded a Pushcart Prize. She lives in New York.

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.

Michael Ives

Michael Ives is a musician and writer newly transplanted to the Hudson Valley where he will begin teaching at Bard College this coming autumn. His work with the performance trio, F'loom, was featured on NPR, the CBC, and in the international sound poetry anthology, Homo Sonorus. His poetry and prose have appeared in numerous periodicals, both here and abroad.

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.

Brian Kubarycz

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

Ian Lirenman

Ian Lirenman lives in New York.

Norman Lock

Norman Lock is the author of A History of the Imagination (FC2), 'The Book of Supplemental Diagrams' for Marco Knauff's Universe (Ravenna Press), Land of the Snow Men (Calamari Press), Trio (Triple Press), Two Plays for Radio (Triple Press), The Long Rowing Unto Morning (Ravenna Press), Cirque du Calder (Rogue Literary Society). Stage plays include Water Music, Favorite Sports of the Martyrs, Mounting Panic, The Sinking Houses, The Contract, and The House of Correction (Broadway Play Publishing). Women in Hiding, The Shining Man, The Primate House, and Money, Power & Greed were broadcast by WDR, Germany. The Body Shop was produced by the American Film Institute. He received the Aga Kahn Prize for fiction, given by The Paris Review, in 1979.

Gary Lutz

Gary Lutz is the author of Stories in the Worst Way (available in paperback at www.3rdbed.com) and a new collection, I Looked Alive.

Paul Maliszewski

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

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.

Joshua Mehigan

Joshua Mehigan's poems are recent or forthcoming in such journals as Parnassus: Poetry in Review, Poetry, Verse, and Ploughshares, and in the anthology Rising Phoenix (Word Press, November 2003). The Optimist, his first full-length collection of poems, was selected by poet James Cummins as the winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, and will be published in December 2004 by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. He recently spoke at UCLA's Edgard Bowers conference and exhibition, How Shall A Generation Know Its Story, as part of a panel on the late poet's life and work.

Jaime Morelli

Jaime Morelli lives and works in New York City. She received her B.A. from Colgate University and is finishing an M.F.A. in creative writing at Queens College.

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.

Jason Nelson

Jason Nelson's work has appeared in or will appear in Plazmmagazine, Speakmagazine, Paragraph, Verse, Washington Review, Cross-Cultural Poetics, Phoebeand others. His hypermedia can be seen and heard at www.heliozoa.com/concuss.html and at www.3rdbed.com, where "Eleven (16) occurrences of the number four" first appeared.

Padgett Powell

Padgett Powell is the author of four novels and two story collections.He has won the Prix de Rome, a Whiting Foundation Writers Award, a Pushcart Prize, and The Paris Review John Train Humor Prize. He lives in Gainesville, where he was born, and teaches at the University of Florida.

Pamela Ryder

Pamela Ryder's stories have appeared in many literary journals. "Wanderlust" is part of a collection about the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby.

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.

Christine Schutt

Christine Schutt is the author of a collection Nightwork, and a novel, Florida. She lives in New York City.

Jason Schwartz

Jason Schwartz is the author of A German Picturesque. He directs the MFA program at Florida Atlantic University. His work in this and previous issues of Unsaid is from a highly anticipated work in progress.

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.

Jane Unrue

Jane Unrue is the author of The House. She lives and teaches in Boston.

Lee Upton

Lee Upton is the author of several collections, including No Mercy, Approximate Darling, and Civilian Histories.

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