is the published author of three books. She is an editor for LuxEsto, the Kalamazoo College alumni magazine, and has published poetry, travel essays, stories, and articles in the United States, Latvia, England, Sweden, Germany, and Australia. Her work also appears on many e-zines, including Fiction Attic, Ghoti Fish, Saucy Vox, Ascent Aspirations Magazine, Her Circle Ezine, Ash Canyon Review, Flashquake, The Redbridge Review, River Walk Journal, Poems Neiderngasse, and many others. She publishes a monthly newsletter of marketing tips and inspiration for writers called Zeenythe Communications and is an editor for the literary e-zine, INSOLENT RUDDER.
is an Israeli writer and peace activist with Gush Shalom. He has been a leading voice in calling for the establishment of a Palestinian State in the West Bank and Gaza, and for a region-wide Arab-Israeli alliance. In 1950, he founded the highly influential news journal Haolam Hazeh, which served as a leading voice of political opposition in Israel and remained in circulation for forty years. Haoloam Hazeh later served as the basis for a political party of the same name, for which Avnery served three terms in the Israeli Knesset in the 1960's and 70's. In 1974, he was the first Israeli to establish contact with PLO leadership, and in 1982 was the first Israeli ever to meet Yassir Arafat. He founded the activist group Gush Shalom, the Peace Bloc, in 1993. Their manifesto, written by Avnery, calls for the recognition of Jerusalem as the joint capital of Israel and Palestine. He is the author of numerous books, including In the Fields of the Philistines, The War of the Seventh Day, and My Friend, The Enemy. The Gush Shalom home page can be found at http://www.gush-shalom.org/
has recently had his work published in Bewildering Stories and Sliptongue; his new novel, DUAL, is currently under representation, seeking a home. He enjoys these things, usually in this order of significance: his wife, Baltimore, the writing of John Updike, and the music of Neko Case. He's also into Garth Ennis, although Garth Ennis freaks him the hell out. He wouldn't mind being a superhero if he didn't have to work with sick people.
was born in Pennsylvania in the 80's, 'educated' there in the 90's, and decided to write professionally after the year 2000. Since then, he has re-learned how to shop for groceries. He has self-published a novel, entitled A Fitted Sheet, and his work can be found in CRIMSON HIGHWAY and THIEVES' JARGON.
NOTE: As of February 2007, for better or worse, Daniel Bachleda is an official member of the MCR EDITORIAL ARMY.
Was born 1946 in Winchester VA, USA. His recently released first book, Deer Hunting with Jesus (Random House/Crown, June 2007), has received glowing reviews by prominent names such as Howard Zinn, Studs Terkel and Jeffrey St. Clair. To read more info on Joe Bageant, please visit his weblog, JOEBAGEANT.com. You'll find more biographical info on him if you click on "About Joe."
is the Editor-in-Chief of PalestineChronicle.com. His latest book, The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle (Pluto Press), is available HERE (amazon) and also HERE (Univ. of Michigan Press).
has spent most of his adult life as a theater director and worked as an art dealer when he couldn't earn a living in the theater. He has also been a tennis pro, a ditch digger and a salvage diver. His original plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes and Sophocles have been produced Off Broadway and toured colleges and outdoor performance venues. He currently lives in New York City, where he's busy writing fiction and his short stories have recently appeared in numerous literary magazines.
is a professor of sociology and public administration at the University of the Philippines, as well as executive director of Focus on the Global South. Born in Manila, Philippines, he became a political activist following the declaration of Martial Law by then-President Ferdinand Marcos on September 21, 1972. In 2003, Bello was awarded the Right Livelihood Award, whose website describes him as "one of the leading critics of the current model of economic globalization, combining the roles of intellectual and activist." Bello is also a fellow of the Transnational Institute (based in Amsterdam), and is a columnist for Foreign Policy In Focus. In March 2008 he was named Outstanding Public Scholar for 2008 by the International Studies Association.
is a professor of philosophy at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. As a veteran recovering from his experiences as a United States Marine Corps Officer during the Vietnam War, he founded, and coordinated for five years, the "Veterans Self-Help Initiative," aka the HOOTCH Program, a therapeutic community of veterans suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Brooklyn. He is a long time activist for peace and justice, a member of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and a founding member of the Long Island Chapter of Veterans for Peace. More info at: SVAPHILOSOPHER.COM
currently lives in Mexico where she finds time to write in between the beautiful Pacific sunsets and her other more respectable job - selling chocolate brownies on the beach. She graduated with a first class degree in History, went on to study at the London School of Journalism and has been inseparable from her keyboard since. She has been awarded an Honorary Mention from Writers' Digest, was long-listed for the Fish Short Story Award and has had several publications. She is due to study a Creative Writing MA at Birkbeck College, which she has longed to do and only recently found the courage. Gabriela dreams of living in a castle and writing fairy tales.
is author of Displaced Hours, a novel; a book of poems, The Beautiful Girl Whose Wish Was Not Fulfilled; and, as editor, the anthology Wild Sweet Notes II: More Great Poetry from West Virginia. His writing has appeared in Harvard Review, Notre Dame Review, Antietam Review, Atlanta Review, Florida Review, Blue Mesa Review and many similar publications in print and on the web. Currently he is seeking publishers and an agent for his other literary novels including States of Mercy and A Song Without a Melody.
is delighted to have his first published story appear in MCR. All of Paul's writing stems from his rational, yet totally insane, fear of getting old. He has gone so far as to outline a story in which a time machine appears, but he suspects that it will never see the light of day. When he needs a break from brooding over his impending death, he does IT work for Louisiana State University.
lives in the Scottish countryside with his wife and his cat. He dreams of the day his writing has earned him enough to afford a house at the beach.
s a professor with the Chicago City Colleges, co-founder of Global Initiative Chicago, and the founder of fightingpoverty.org . He has contributed to commondreams, counterpunch, and countercurrents. Email: pbuchheit@ccc.edu
Peter Byrne is a national award-winning investigative reporter and science writer. In cyberspace, he chills at www.peterbyrne.info .
is a Northamerican human rights activist and political science student living in Merida, Venezuela. You can find out more at his website www.gringoinvenezuela.com, or email him at cmcarlson@gmail.com
is a Californian retired and transplanted to New Mexico. The life he leads is the life he used to dream about, growing chili's and garlic, roaming the hills and having time to write. Another part of the dream was being published, and Menda City Review was the first. He discovered then that the key to success in writing is re-writing... a lot. His poetry has recently been published, with more forthcoming, at WrittenWord.com.
is Scottish but now lives in England, where he works in local government. Over the years he has vacillated between playing the guitar and writing stories. Somewhat late in life he realised he was least bad at writing, and since the middle of 2005 he has been writing and submitting seriously. In the past eight months Tom Conoboy has been placed in competitions at Mad Hatter's Review, JBWB and Bright Lights Multimedia. He has also appeared in around twenty ezines and journals, including Defenestration, Reflection's Edge, Eclectica and Prose Toad.
lives in Chapelton - a small village in the West of Scotland. Colour blind in two spectrums, red/green and orange/blue, she loves the use of colour in storytelling, and has an avid interest in gemstones. As moderator/editor with an online writing site, she is a popular fictional writer with a variety of genre and writes under the name of Gomani - a character from her novel. A recording of one of her stories 'Listen to me' can be heard on the radio of www.writersdock.co.uk and is published in an anthology, called 'Nights Spent in Insanity.'
lives somewhere close to here, but not really. More often than not she can be recognized by the randomly-placed chewing gum in her hair, along with the heavenly odors of Evan Williams and regurgitated three-day-old Chinese food on her breath and bosom.
lives in the granite city of Aberdeen, Scotland where he has been writing short fiction for many years. His work has appeared in almost forty print and online publications, including Dark Tales, Buzzwords, The Writer's Post Journal, Word Riot, Noo Journal, Outsider Ink, Eclectica, TQR, and many others.
is dead. But his legacy and brilliant writing remain with us forever. More info at WIKIPEDIA.
is the author of thirteen books, including the New York Times bestseller Nickel and Dimed. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, Harpers, and The Progressive, and is a contributing writer to Time magazine. She lives in Florida.
runs the Nation Institute's TOMDISPATCH.COM, and is the co-founder of the American Empire Project. His book, The End of Victory Culture (University of Massachusetts Press), has just been thoroughly updated in a newly issued edition that deals with victory culture's crash-and-burn sequel in Iraq. An editor in publishing for the last 25 years, Tom is at present consulting editor for Metropolitan Books, a fellow of the Nation Institute, and a teaching fellow at the journalism school of the University of California, Berkeley.
is a 35 year old writer who lives in Los Angeles. During the day he is a car salesman. Originally he had hoped this job would result in extra writing material, however no serious material has ever been gained in this occupation. He was an English Major but dropped out after 7 years due largely to his inability to complete the math credits. He hasn't submitted anything for publication in over 13 years, so he has no substantial credentials at this time. He is working on a novel. He is supported in many untold ways by his fiance Megan.
was born and raised in Pennsylvania, where she earned a B.A. in English & Publishing from Penn State University. She's currently Editor-in-Chief at a BS day job and working towards her MFA in Creative Writing at Rosemont College. She has been published in the City Smells Anthology, Palimpsest Magazine and Red Pulp Underground. She is always looking for new recipes and boys that read books.
is a writer from Bowling Green, Kentucky who has had work appear in Rattle, Prairie Schooner, Cincinnati and 5 AM. He's been nominated for four Pushcarts and won honorable mention in 2007 in Boulevard's Emerging Poets contest. He's just put the finishing touches on his first manuscript of poems, Accidental Body of Knowledge.
is Executive Editor of BLACK AGENDA REPORT. He can be contacted at: Glen.Ford@BlackAgendaReport.com.
has recently completed a satirical first novel, now out of that lonely road trying to thumb a ride to Barnes & Noble. He picks up change via journalistic/publicist efforts, eschewing public-telephone coin drops, which are rapidly disappearing (and rarely productive). His three favorite stories, prior to the one here at Menda City, can be seen at ECLECTICA, THE PAUMANOK REVIEW, and THE SIDEWALK'S END. His fiction, humor and verse have appeared in literary journals in the U.S. and U.K.
lives in Townsend, Massachusetts. He has had fiction, poetry and essays published in over sixty journals and reviews. He received the Theodore Hoepfner Award given by the Southern Humanities Review for the best short fiction of 2005, was a 2006 Ontario Award Finalist and recently received a 2007 Pushcart Special Mention Award (UNDERGROUND VOICES).
A novel, Exiled to Moab, will debut in the Spring of 2007.
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is getting her BA in British and American language and literature in Plovdiv University, Bulgaria in mid July and dashing out in a passionate polishing of her writing craft in a country where writing is still considered a pure, unteachable magic. Her stories, psychological articles, and translations appear in Bulgarian magazines and newspapers. This e-mail welcomes your opinions about her work: mariyana.purple@gmail.com
is the author of the novels Walter Falls and The Weight of Nothing, both finalists for the Independent Publishers Book of the Year and ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year. Steve's third novel, Temporary People, will be published by Black Lawrence Press in 2008. A 6 time Pushcart nominee and 4 time Best Of... Notable Stories, a collection of Steve's stories - Giraffes - was published in February, 2007. Steve teaches writing at Eastern Michigan University and is the founder of DZANC BOOKS and the charitable organization 826 MICHIGAN. All proceeds from Steve's writing goes to his nonprofit programs.
lives in Richmond, British Columbia. His work has appeared in such venues as Pagitica, lichen, Snow Monkey, Southern Ocean Review, Artella, Open Wide, Gobshite, Hobart and on CBC radio. When he's not writing, he's likely working as a teacher of academic English or spending time with his family.
is dead. But her legacy and brilliant writing remain with us forever. More info at WIKIPEDIA
is a proud resident of Calgary, Alberta. Her short fiction, twice nominated for the Journey Prize and short listed in the 2005 PRISM International Short Fiction Contest, has appeared in numerous literary journals and been broadcast on CBC Radio. Work is forthcoming in Transition and appears in the anthologies Red Light: Superheroes, Saints and Sluts (Arsenal Pulp Press) and The Best of Alberta Anthology 2005 (Red Deer Press).
spent his youth in Tacoma, Washington, but these days makes his home just north of Nashville with his wife Ann and his dog Jock, a Scottish terrier who growls and cusses too much, but doesn't mean half of it. His short fiction appears from time to time in literary and genre publications.
lives with his wife in Leverett, Massachusetts and attends the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His short stories have recently appeared in XAVIER REVIEW, ELLIPSIS , CARVE MAGAZINE, and FOUR VOLTS, and various works of his are published or forthcoming in Lake Effect, Oklahoma Review, Parting Gifts, and Confluence.
has recently completed his MFA degree in creative writing from National Universty, CA. He also loves to cook, bake, draw cartoon art, and listen to anything by Neil Young and Crazy Horse. He has short stories and poems published in Night Train ("Coma"), Verb Sap ("Fish Bowl"), Rose and Thorn ("Dreaming with Your Eyes Open"), Triptych ("The Ubiquity of Death"), Amarillo Bay ("Morecombe Bay"-poem), Juked ("Yucatan"), and Insolent Rudder ("Minnesota Flats"). He has a poem ("Cream Puff Woman") upcoming in Slow Trains, and also in Smokelong Quarterly ("Musafa's Woman"), among others.
is dead. But his legacy and brilliant writing remain with us forever.
eats, breathes, sleeps and writes, though not necessarily in that order. She is the editor-in-chief of the newly redesigned zine EDIFICE WRECKED and has been published numerous times both online and in print. You can also find her at her blog STEEL KISSES.
is dead. But his legacy and brilliant writing remain with us forever. More info at WIKIPEDIA.
is a freelance writer and contributing editor to HIGH COUNTRY NEWS. Among other places, his work has been recently featured at Orion Magazine. He writes from Berkeley, California.
is the editor of a trade publication in Sacramento CA. Some of her previous work can be seen at WANDERING ARMY and JUKED. She feels that all fiction comes from a place far closer to non-fiction...
lives in London, working as an advertising copywriter. Writing fiction without jingles is his attempt at redemption. Like everyone else in advertising, Andy is working on a novel.
born 1983, raised in Detroit, has toured literary workshops, performed onstage, studied forensic photography, and published poetry and short stories in sixty plus magazines, including: Action Yes, Exquisite Corpse, Snow Monkey, Southern Gothic, Juked, Stirring, elimae, Unlikely Stories 2.0, Wandering Army, Melancholia's Tremulous Dreadlocks, 3AM Magazine, EROSHA , alice blue, Thieves Jargon, Arsenic Lobster, NOÖ Journal, andwerve, Kulture Vulture, Cellar Door, Alpha Beat Press, The 2nd Hand, The Glut, Underground Voices, Zygote in my Coffee, etc. His first book is forthcoming from Six Gallery Press.HIS BLOG is composed of author interviews. Please contact him, he's lonely: cauliflowersuitcase@hotmail.com
holds an MFA in Writing from Spalding University in Louisville. She teaches creative writing and literature at Knox College in Galesburg, IL. Her work has appeared such places as Carve, New Southerner, The Dead Mule, Minnetonka Review and Louisville Review. She has work forthcoming in Women. Period. and is busy with a book of essays titled Not My Son about her experiences as the mother of a United States Marine.
is a clinical psychologist, recently, mostly, retired. He lives in northern California with his wife, Sally, and their dog, Mali, travels frequently to Latin America, writes stories, does some volunteer work. He got to where he is by the indirect route: aspiring cleric, drug counselor, kindergarten teacher, university professor, research consultant, technical writer, software marketer, mediator, project planning consultant. You get the idea.
was a graphic designer in Buffalo NY when he decided to try the writing life. He gave up the business, sold the house, shot the dog and moved to New York City. A graduate of the Creative Writing M.F.A. Program at The City College of New York, he has been the recipient of writing awards for short fiction, essays, body of work, and a scholarship awarded by playwright Tony Kushner. Chet's stories have appeared in THE BROOKLYN RAIL, Promethean, FICTION ATTIC, Global City Review, and GUERNICA. He's completing his first novel, Kosti's Song.
has had her work published in print and online journals in the US and Europe, among them The Pedestal, Bellevue Literary Review, Hayden's Ferry Review and Flashquake. She received the Florida Review Editor's Award for a short story and the Mid-List Press First Series Award for her short fiction collection, Pleasant Drugs (Mid-List Press, 2005). She has taught writing workshops at the University of Rhode Island and Stonecoast Writer's Conference, and is an editor of Newport Review, a small journal of poetry and flash fiction. She lives in Massachusetts. You can read more of her work at www.kathrynkulpa.com.
