Jeffery Renard Allen
Jeffery Renard Allen earned his PhD in English from the University of Chicago. He has taught at Queens College and the New School. His novel Rails Under My Back was universally praised by critics and called "a tour de force" by the Chicago Tribune. Jeffery's story "Same" appears in Issue No. Two. Walk alongside a man who gets on a bus. Pone pan hands referenced. Outcome cannot be described.

Frederick Barthelme
Frederick Barthelme is the author of more than a dozen books, including Chroma and Elroy Nights. His short fiction has appeared in Esquire, The New Yorker and elsewhere. He directs the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi and edits the Mississippi Review.

Aimee Bender
Aimee Bender lives in Los Angeles and teaches creative writing at the University of Southern California. Her stories have appeared in Granta, GQ, Story, Harper's, Paris Review and many others. She is currently at work on a new novel.

Kenneth Bernard
Kenneth Bernard is the author of eleven books, including the novel From The District File, and Clown At Wall: A Kenneth Bernard Reader. Long associated with John Vaccaro's Playhouse Of The Ridiculous, he’s been producing work in three genres continuously for 40 years.

Arthur Bradford
Arthur Bradford, an O. Henry Award winner, is the author of Dogwalker, a collection of stories and the director of How's Your News?, a documentary. Arthur's story "Pete Wimble" appears in Issue No. Two. Never seen before scenes of bleeding and meat. Occasionally, cars go by. There are games.

Lewis Buzbee
Lewis Buzbee received his MFA in Fiction from Warren Wilson College. He is the author of Fliegelman's Desire and his work has appeared in Harper's, The Paris Review and elsewhere.

Lewis Buzbee
Lewis Buzbee received his MFA in Fiction from Warren Wilson College. He is the author of Fliegelman's Desire and his work has appeared in Harper's, The Paris Review and elsewhere.

Tucker Capparell
Tucker Capparell is the Catalogue Production Manager at the PaceWildenstein gallery in Manhattan and a graduate of the Philadelphia College Of Art. He’s the Land-Grant College Review’s Artistic Director and did the design and layout work for Issue No. Three.

Ron Carlson
Ron Carlson's stories have appeared in Harper's, Esquire, GQ, and many others. The New York Times Book Review called him "a master of the happy ending." He currently teaches creative writing at Arizona State University.

Alan Cheuse
Alan Cheuse is the author of three novels and two collections of short stories. He regularly reviews books for National Public Radio's All Things Considered. Alan's story "Horse Sacrifice And The Shaman's Ascent To The Sky" appears in Issue No. Two. Experience the life of a carpenter who reads. Join him and his mother for dinner. Fall with him to the floor.

Brock Clarke
Brock Clarke is the author of the novel The Ordinary White Boy and the short story collection What We Won’t Do. He is an assistant professor of English at Clemson University and is Fiction Editor of the Cincinnati Review.

Michael Cohen
Michael Harris Cohen is a recent graduate of the MFA Program at Brown University. His work is appearing currently in Web Conjunctions. He is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship and is currently researching folk tales in Bulgaria.

Dalton Conley
Dalton Conley is the author of Honky, a sociological memoir, and Being Black, Living In The Red: Race, Wealth And Social Policy in America, among other titles. He is Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at New York University and Director of NYU's Center for Advanced Social Science Research. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Times, Time Magazine, and Salon.

Jack Conway
Jack Conway is the author of American Literacy: Fifty Books That Define Our Culture and Ourselves. His newest book, Life Sentences, a collection of poems, was published in 2002.

Stephen Dixon
Stephen Dixon has published twenty-three books of fiction since 1976. His latest, I, was published by McSweeney's Books in 2002. The first chapter of the sequel to I is included in LGCR Issue No. One. Stephen Dixon lives in Towson, Maryland. He has taught in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University for 23 years.

Marc Estrin
Marc Estrin is a writer, musician and activist living in Burlington, Vermont. Insect Dreams, his first novel, was just named one of 2002's Twenty-Five Exceptional Books by the New York Public Library.

Ken Foster
Ken Foster is the author of The Kind I'm Likely to Get, and the editor of The KGB Bar Reader and Dog Culture: Writers on the Character of Canines. His nonfiction has appeared in Bomb, Salon, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Believer and elsewhere. He currently teaches creative writing at Florida State University.

Jonathan Goldstein
Jonathan Goldstein is a former producer for Public Radio International's This American Life. He's the author of the novel Lenny Bruce Is Dead. He currently lives in Montreal. Jonathan's story "Murder Journal" appears in Issue No. Two. Witness the trials and tribulations of an existential hero, all from the comfort of your chair. Hello, Marcia!

Sara Gran
Sara Gran lives in Brooklyn, New York. Her first novel, Saturn's Return to New York, was published in 2001 by Soho Press. It will be released in paperback this fall. Her next novel, Come Closer, will be out in 2003.

Robert Lane Greene
Robert Lane Greene is an editor at economist.com, The Economist's online venture. He lives in Brooklyn.

Jim Hanas
Jim Hanas' stories have appeared in McSweeney's and Bridge, and he is a contributor to Salon and Modern Humorist, among other publications. He lives in New York and is working on a novel. Jim's story "Miss Tennessee" appears in Issue No. Two. Experience, up close, the agony of romance through the eyes of a small dog. Also contains an astronaut.

Marilyn Holsing
Marilyn Holsing paintings are included in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum Of Art, the Metropolitan Museum Of Art, and the Library Of Congress. She’s a professor at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art. Examples of her work are available on her website www.marilynholsing.com.

Kathleen Hughes
Kathleen Hughes was born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana. She now lives in Rhode Island. Her first novel, Dear Mrs. Lindbergh, was published by WW Norton & Co. in October 2003. Other fiction and non-fiction pieces by Ms. Hughes have appeared in Talking River Review, Pieces: A Collection of New Voices (MTV/Pocket Books 2000), and in the Providence Phoenix.

Mikhail Iossel
Mikhail Iossel, a native of Leningrad, writes both in English and in Russian. His stories have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and he's the recipient of an NEA grant and a Guggenheim fellowship. Currently he teaches writing at Union College and is the director of the Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg and Kenya.

Roy Kesey
Roy Kesey lives in Beijing with his wife and children. His stories have recently appeared in the Iowa Review, the Mississippi Review and other journals. His first book, a novella called Nothing in the World, won the 2005 Bullfight Media Little Book Contest, and will be published in May 2006. Visit www.nothingintheworld.com for more info. Roy's story "Learning To Count In A Small Town" appears in Issue No. Two. Readers will be educated in vital matters using a 10 step process. Enjoy the stink of tarweed. Contains numbers.

Dave Koch
Dave Koch is a founding editor of the Land-Grant College Review. He's a graduate of the MFA program for creative writing at Washington University in St. Louis, where he was awarded a teaching fellowship. In 2002, he was a Bread Loaf Scholar (a "waiter") at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Last summer, he attended the Sewanee Writers Conference as a Tennessee Williams Scholar.

Joy Kolitsky
Joy Kolitsky holds a fine arts degree in illustration from California State University, Long Beach, and has studied printmaking in Florence, Italy. Her illustrations have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, New York Newsday, and the Wall Street Journal. She has done all of the artwork for the LGCR's Issues No. One and Two including the cover design, illustrations, and typesetting.

Evan Lavender-Smith
Evan Lavender-Smith is a graduate of the the M.F.A. program for creative writing at New Mexico State University. His work has recently appeared in the Denver Quarterly. Evan is an editor at Noemi Press in New Mexico.

Jeff MacGregor
Jeff MacGregor writes for Sports Illustrated magazine. His short stories have appeared in Story and elsewhere. His new book, Sunday Money, is due out in 2004. Jeff's story "Welcome to the Mystery Cabin" appears in Issue No. Two. Go inside a tourist attraction with us and live to tell. A tennis ball almost hits someone in the face. Marriage is featured.

Josh Melrod
Josh Melrod is a co-founding editor of the Land-Grant College Review. He lives in New York.

Kristen Newton
Kristen Newton studies non-fiction writing at The New School. She is working on a book of essays about a group of old women on the Upper East Side.

Thisbe Nissen
Thisbe Nissen grew up in Manhattan. She's a graduate of The University of Iowa Writer's Workshop, where she was a James Michener Fellow. Thisbe's the author of a collection of short stories, Out of the Girl's Room and into the Night, and a novel, The Good People of New York.

Josip Novakovich
Josip Novakovich came from Croatia to the United States at the age of twenty. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Paris Review, Threepenny Review, Tin House, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, an Ingram Merrill award, a Vogelstein fellowship, and the Cohen/Ploughshares award. His latest book Plum Brandy: Croatian Journeys is forthcoming from White Pine Press.

Robert Olmstead
Robert Olmstead is a recipient of Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. He teaches creative writing at Ohio Wesleyan University.

Jeff Parker
Jeff Parker has recently published fiction in The Mississippi Review, The Iowa Review, and Cutbank. His nonfiction's appeared in Spin and Billiards Digest. He is an editor and co-founder of Low Fidelity Press.

Benjamin Percy
Benjamin Percy won the 2004 Editor's Prize for The Idaho Review and he was among the winners of The Chicago Tribune's 2002 Nelson Algren Award. His work appears in The Mississippi Review, The Greensboro Review, The Crab Orchard Review, and elsewhere.

Chris Potter
Chris Potter studied writing with Robert Olmstead and is a graduate of The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. Last summer he attended the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference on a waitership. He's been published most recently in Boulevard.

Padgett Powell
Padgett Powell is the author of seven books including Aliens Of Affection and Mrs. Hollingsworth’s Men. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s and Esquire, among others. He is the Director of the MFA program for creative writing at the University of Florida.

Nelly Reifler
Nelly Reifler holds an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College, where she now teaches. She received the Henfield Prize for two of the stories in her debut collection, See Through. Nelly's story "The River And Una" appears in Issue No. Two. Join us as we confront raw adolescence within our pages. Beware all who enter. Includes a scene with a doctor.

Holiday Reinhorn
Holiday Reinhorn grew up in Oregon, Guam and Japan. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, her short stories have appeared in Gulf Coast, Other Voices, Columbia and Northwest Review, among others. She is a recipient of the Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction and a nominee for the 2004 Pushcart Prize.

Karen Rile
Karen Rile teaches fiction workshops at the University of Pennsylvania. Her novel Winter Music was published in 1983 by Little Brown & Co. Karen is a LGCR contributing editor.

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Thaddeus Rutkowski
Thaddeus Rutkowski's first novel, Roughhouse, was a finalist for the Members' Choice of the Asian American Literary Awards. His stories have appeared in Fiction, American Letters & Commentary, and Long Shot.

John Salter
John Salter is the author of the 2002 short story collection Alberta Clipper and the novel A Trout in the Sea of Cortez, forthcoming from Counterpoint Books. He lives in Glyndon, Minnesota.

David Schuman
David Schuman received an M.F.A. from Washington University where he is now a 3rd Year Fellow. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Conjunctions, Black Warrior Review, Carolina Quarterly and The Baltimore Review. He's a LGCR associate editor. Dave's story "I State Your Name" appears in Issue No. Two. A rural town is overtaken by a giant fungus. Thrill to the slightly alcoholic rhythms of the pool party at the edge of the woods. Some religion.

Joan Silber
Joan Silber is the author of five books of fiction, including Household Words, winner of a PEN/Hemingway Award, and Ideas Of Heaven: A Ring Of Stories, a Finalist for the 2004 National Book Award. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review and elsewhere.

Ed Skoog
Born in Kansas, Ed Skoog now lives in New Orleans. His fiction has appeared in Mid-American Review, Santa Monica Review, and 3rd Bed, with a story forthcoming in Sou'wester. His poetry has appeared in Slate and failbetter.com, and is forthcoming in Barrow Street.

Laurel Snyder
Laurel Snyder is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a Paul Engle fellow and she's got her own website. She has published non-fiction in BUST, Bitch and the Utne Reader, and her poetry is forthcoming in Post Road, Gulf Coast and the Beacon Street Review. An interview she conducted with her friend Thisbe Nissen appears in LGCR’s Issue No. One. Laurel's a LGCR editor at large.

Ken Sparling
Ken Sparling works at the North York Public Library in Toronto and is the former Fiction Editor of the Canadian literary journal Blood & Aphorism. His debut novel Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall was published by Random House in 1997.

Darin Strauss
Darin Strauss is the national and international best selling author of the award-winning Chang and Eng, and The Real McCoy, a New York Times Notable Book of 2002. His work has been translated into 14 languages, and he teaches creative writing at New York University.

Ira Sukrungruang
Ira Sukrungruang's work has appeared in North American Review, Witness, Another Chicago Magazine, and other literary journals. He is the co-editor of What Are You Looking At? The First Fat Fiction Anthology published by Harcourt Brace. Currently, he teaches creative writing at SUNY Oswego.

Terese Svoboda
Terese Svoboda is the author of seven books, including Trailer Girl And Other Stories and A Drink Called Paradise. She has taught creative writing at William and Mary, Williams College, Sarah Lawrence College and elsewhere.

Mary Swan
Mary Swan is the author of The Deep And Other Stories and is the winner of the 2001 O.Henry Award for short fiction. Her stories have appeared in Harper's and the Ontario Review, among others.

Jonathan Tel
Jonathan Tel is the author of the story collection Arafat's Elephant. He was educated in the United States and Britain, and studied cosmology with Stephen Hawking. He has worked as an elementary particle physicist and has lived and traveled in many countries. Currently he divides his time between New York, London, and Jerusalem, and is at work on a novel.

Val Vinokurov
Val Vinokurov is a writer, translator, and professor at the Eugene Lang College, The New School. His translation (with Rose Réjouis) of Patrick Chamoiseau's "Texaco" won the American Translator Association's Prize for Best Book in 1998. His stories, poems, and essays have appeared in a wide variety of publications -- including an essay and translation in the current issue of McSweeney's.

Peter Walpole
Peter Walpole's fiction has appeared in the Missouri Review, StoryQuarterly and elsewhere. He lives in Chicago. Peter's story "Zebra Holiday" appears in Issue No. Two. Living proof is displayed in the existence of camera-kites. Revealed within are other mysteries. Story includes end.

Diane Williams
Diane Williams is the author of many books of fiction including Excitability: Selected Stories and Romancer Erector, among others. She edits the literary journal Noon.

Kevin Wilson
Kevin Wilson, a native of Winchester, Tennessee, is a recent graduate of the MFA program at the University of Florida. His stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Carolina Quarterly, Shenandoah, Other Voices and elsewhere.

Tara Wray
Tara Wray lives in New York where she is an associate editor of the Land-Grant College Review. Her short stories have appeared in numerous small magazines. She is currently working on a documentary film called MANHATTAN, KANSAS.