Amber Sparks is the author of the just-released short story collection
The Unfinished World and Other Stories, out from Liveright. She’s also the author of a previous short story collection,
May We Shed These Human Bodies, and co-author of a hybrid novel,
the Desert Places, with Robert Kloss and illustrator Matt Kish. She blogs sporadically and posts stuff sometimes on her website, ambernoellesparks.com, and wastes time generally on Twitter @ambernoelle. She currently lives in Washington, DC, with her husband, infant daughter, and two cats, though she originally hails from the upper Midwest.
Tracy Dimond co-curates Ink Press Productions. Her latest chapbook,
I Want Your Tan, was released in May by Ink Press. She is also the author of
Grind My Bones Into Glitter, Then Swim Through The Shimmer (NAP 2014) and
Sorry I Wrote So Many Sad Poems Today (Ink Press 2013), winner of Baltimore City Paper’s Best Chapbook. Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in The Nervous Breakdown, Fact-Simile, Barrelhouse, Pinwheel, Sink Review, and other places. She holds her MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts from the University of Baltimore. She teaches composition and works in library event programming.
Melissa Gerr uses words, audio, and visuals to make stories. She is a senior reporter and managing editor at the
Baltimore Jewish Times and her stories also appear in
Style Magazine and the
Baltimore City Paper. She’s written and produced for WYPR, PBS, Oregon Public Broadcasting, Annenberg Foundation, and a bunch of universities through the Laureate Education empire. She met Jen when she tried her hand at fiction and thought the instruction was fabulous, it’s still the telling-true-to-life stuff that she has the most fun at creating. She most recently published an article in the Baltimore City Paper called "Sugar Mountain: The Night Shift at Domino Sugar." She most recently published an article in the
Baltimore City Paper called "Sugar Mountain: The Night Shift at Domino Sugar."
