INDEX OF CONTRIBUTORS SINCE 2006

Jennifer Armentrout studied Comparative Literature and Ancient Greek at the College of William and Mary in Virginia. She lives in Seattle, Washington, and is a Lotus Notes Developer and Administrator for IBM. She has published poetry in The Adirondack Review and Orbis. Pieces in Gambara: Apoptosis and Postcards to Myself.

Davis Banta is a world-renowned drunkard and pugilist. His work has previously appeared in the Porter Gulch Review. He is currently acting in the 2006 season of the Eight Tens @ Eight festival at the Actor's Theater in Santa Cruz, California. If things go according to plan, he will have a successful career in film without having to sleep with producers. He can be reached at Kiwisniffer@aol.com, but prefers that you keep a respectable distance, if only for the sake of appearances. Pieces in Gambara: Immovable Feast.

Debra Brenegan is an English / Creative Writing doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has received a Ragdale residency, & the Ellen Hunnicutt Fiction Award. She has been published in Milwaukee Magazine, The Healing Woman, Cotyledon, and Phoebe. Pieces in Gambara: Tracy and Collapse.

Benjamin Buchholz's fiction and poetry has appeared in Chiaroscuro, Drunken Boat, Harness, Dislocate, Antimuse, and many others. He has recently been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Tryst, and last summer he was the featured essayist at Surface Online. His first gallery in Gambara was his first published photography: Images of Iraq.

Kim Chinquee's work has appeared in NOON, Denver Quarterly, Conjunctions, elimae, and more thanfifty other journals. She lives in Michigan, where she teaches creative writing. Pieces in Gambara: We Got Reservations and Pole.

O'neil De Noux, a trained U.S. Army combat photographer, is a novelist and short story writer whose photographs have adorned the covers of many magazines, including Pulphouse: A Fiction Magazine and New Orleans Stories Magazine, as well as the covers of three of his books. His website is located here. A native New Orleanian, De Noux was run out of town by Hurricane Katrina and is presently staying in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Galleries at Gambara: Ozark, Alabama.

Paul Alan Fahey will be retiring in May 2007 as a learning disabilities specialist at Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria, California, after a forty-year teaching career. He is the editor of Mindprints, A Literary Journal, a forum for writers and artists with disabilities. His work has appeared recently in the Skive Magazine 2006 Short Fiction Prize, Flashshot, Harvest and Coyote Wild. He welcomes comment on his pieces, and you may write him at pafahey (at) sbceo (dot) org. Pieces in Gambara: Send Your Camel to Bed.

Carol Frith, co-editor of Ekphrasis, has had work in Willow Review, Measure, Quarter After Eight, Chariton, Lake Effect, Cutbank, Redivider, Asheville, 150 Contemporary Sonnets, etc., and chapbooks from Bacchae Press, Medicinal Purposes, and Palanquin Press. A poem of hers received Special Mention in the 2003 Pushcart Anthology. Pieces in Gambara: Too Much Light, Vacancies, Window Glass, & Charcot, who Died in Morvan.

Avital Gad-Cykman's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Glimmer Train, McSweeney's #17, Prism International, Other Voices, Happy, The Binnacle, Descant, and others. It has also appeared online in Salon, Zoetrope: All-story Extra, Salt Hill Review, 3am, In-Posse Review, and elsewhere. Her story collection "Light Reflection over Blues" was one of the six finalists for the Iowa Fiction award. Pieces in Gambara: Drawing Light.

Ily Goldfinger is a commercial photographer and Interior Design Consultant by day; writer, poet and art photographer after hours. She still braves the 100-degree-plus summers of Dubai — seven years into her 'visit.' But memories of the Windy City tug at her heartstrings more than ever — she remembers the lake-in-winter muse fondly, and wouldn't really mind hearing the crunch of snow under her boots, along the shore. Galleries in Gambara: Quiet Moments in Dubai.

Jeremy Hatch, the closest thing to a staff reviewer that Gambara has, lives in San Francisco with his wife and two cats, and he is working on a novel. His work recently appeared in elimae. His blog about the writing life, Ynpossybull!, is updated daily. He can be reached directly by email. Pieces in Gambara: No Future, Literary Machines, Discovering a New World, Against Oblivion.

Martin Heavisides has published flash fiction in Flash Forward, Block and Main, Jeremiad, Black Cat Review, Studies in Contemporary Satire, and Mad Hatter's Review. He has work forthcoming in the anthology Twisted Twins Daily Chills Calendar. He has published a book of poems, moments of truth and other conventions, and is finalizing a short story collection, Schemes for the Renovation of Hell. Pieces in Gambara: Courtly Love.

Mollie Hicok currently leads an exciting life as a substitute teacher in North Monterey, California. She finds scraps of time to feverishly write a few lines inspired by her ever-changing, crazy, unexpected life as a college graduate living back with her parents, two sisters, three nephews, and multiple domesticated animals. She hopes to move out as soon as she possibly can — and finally face the real world of writing and teaching. Pieces in Gambara: Measurements.

Carrie Hoffman is an Associate Editor at Pindeldyboz, and her fiction has appeared in McSweeney's, Opium Magazine, Beloit Fiction Journal, Gulf Stream, Georgetown Review, Center, Black Warrior Review, Nightsun, and others. Her website may be found here. Pieces in Gambara: Let's Talk.

Niranjana Iyer has lived in India, Britain, and the United States, and currently works as a writer out of Ottawa, Canada. Her non-fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in a variety of publications, including The Christian Science Monitor, Rain Taxi Review of Books, Eclectica, and Asian Review of Books. Pieces in Gambara: Re-imagining the Mundane.

Helene Simkin Jara is an actor, director and writer. She has been published in the Porter Gulch Review, La Revista and Mindprints. In 2003, she was awarded "best prose" by the Porter Gulch Review for her short story "Josefina." In August of 2006, her play "The Tongue" will be part of a festival at the African American Shakespeare Company in San Francisco. She wrote her first book in the third grade and stupidly gave it to her teacher, whom she despised. That is her only regret in life so far. Pieces in Gambara: Unruly.

Roy Kesey was born in California, and currently lives in Beijing with his wife and children. His fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in more than forty magazines, including The Georgia Review, Other Voices, Quarterly West and Maisonneuve. His novella "Nothing in the World" recently won the 2005 Bullfight Review Little Book Prize, and was published in June 2006. His dispatches from China appear regularly on McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and his "Little-known Corners" meta-column appears monthly in That's Beijing. Pieces in Gambara: Cheese.

Kuzhali Manickavel lives in a small temple town on the coast of South India. Her work can be found at Caketrain, Smokelong Quarterly, Ghoti and Opium. Pieces in Gambara: Miraculous.

Tracie McBride is a mother of three from New Zealand. She has a diploma in creative writing and is a member of the Wellington-based Phoenix Science Fiction Writers' Group. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in over 30 print and electronic publications, including Pulp.Net, Electric Velocipede, Bound Off, Rose and Thorn, Coyote Wild and Fictitious Force. Pieces in Gambara: Nine Ways of Looking at a Spoon.

Terese "Rivana" Mörtvik is a communications major from Sweden. When she's not haunting the streets and mountains looking for the next great shot, you may find her working on that old novel in the making. Otherwise her work, studies, and preparations for a move down south keep her pretty busy. Her homepage is located here; she may be contacted at terese.mortvik (at) gmail (dot) com. Galleries at Gambara: Nordic Solitude.

Joshua Pastor began writing at the age of five, through dictation. Since then, he has published poems and short stories in various online and print journals, most recently in the Monterey Poetry Review. Pieces in Gambara: Florence, Old Photograph.

Aleida Rodríguez is a poet, essayist, and artist born on a kitchen table in the rural town of Güines, Cuba. Her first book of poems, Garden of Exile, won both the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry and the PEN Center USA 2000 Literary Award. Garden of Exile was also chosen as a Best Book of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle. Her poetry and prose have been published in literary magazines, textbooks, and anthologies nationwide since 1974, and, more recently, in England, Wales, and The Netherlands. She has been the recipient of an NEA fellowship in poetry, the inaugural Greg Grummer Award in Poetry from George Mason University, a poetry fellowship from the California Arts Council, and the Brody Arts Fund literature fellowship from the California Community Foundation. She was a founding editor and publisher of rara avis magazine and Books of a Feather (1978–84). She lives in a historic house with a dancing dog and a singing parrot on one of the oldest and steepest streets in Los Angeles, where she freelances as an editor and translator, and teaches the occasional poetry workshop. Pieces in Gambara: Feeling in the Dark: Revelations by Available Light and Messages from the Elysian Garden.

JP Rodriguez has just moved back to Canada after years abroad. He does wonder if he'll survive the winter. He's had short stories published in various journals and most of his time is spent writing, but he also makes music, paints, and captures life on film. At the moment he's polishing up his first novel — which he hopes will someday see the light of your bed-side table. Pieces in Gambara: A Long Road Trip Indeed.

Ginger Roettger bought her first camera in 2002 and hasn't looked back since. She's currently enrolled at Carleton University, Ottawa, where she continues to question the sanity in chasing a Mathematics degree. Her art gallery, IMG SRC, can be found here. When not taking pictures or wrestling with calculus, Ginger enjoys talking about herself in the third person. Galleries at Gambara: Six Images .

Bruce Holland Rogers lives in London, England, and teaches fiction writing in the Whidbey Writers Workshop MFA program in Washington state. His most recent story collection, The Keyhole Opera, won a World Fantasy Award. His website is www.shortshortshort.com. Pieces in Gambara: They'll Be Happy to Hear That.

Brian G. Ross is thirty-one and lives in Scotland. He has over sixty publications to his name — from humour (Defenestration) to horror (Shadowed Realms), mystery (Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine) to mainstream (Southern Ocean Review). In 2006 he appeared in the paperback anthology Read By Dawn (alongside horror luminary Ramsey Campbell), and in 2007 he returns in Read By Dawn Volume II. He is married, both to his wife and his words, and runs a blog of his literary wanderings at briangrantross.blogspot.com. Pieces in Gambara: Father, Brother, Nephew, Son.

Charles Schubert currently lives in Salinas, California, where he teaches high school biology. He has an MFA from Vermont College, and for no particular reason is currently learning French. He may be reached directly by email. His work has previously appeared in the Porter Gulch Review. Pieces in Gambara: Migration Pattern, Allergic to Sleep, and What's Left to Say?

Jason W. Selby's work has appeared or is forthcoming in War, Literature and the Arts, Poetry Midwest, Cider Press Review, The Midwest Quarterly, The Oklahoma Review, The Houston Literary Review, and Lyrical Iowa. He is a graduate student in the Master of Arts program at the University of Northern Iowa. He is in the midst of writing and editing four novels and a book of poetry. Jason is also a painter, and several of his paintings are on display at local art galleries in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Pieces in Gambara: Orion Flees to Canada & A Harvest Before the Revolution.

Jackie Shannon-Hollis lives in Portland, Oregon; she has completed a collection of short stories and begun work on a novel. Her work has appeared in MARY, Rosebud, The South Dakota Review, The Oregon Literary Review, Fiction Attic, flashquake, and Inkwell. Recently she was pleased to hear that she has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Pieces in Gambara: Swim.

F. John Sharp lives and works on the North Coast of America. His work has appeared in Pindeldyboz, Paumanok Review, Salt River Review, Lunarosity, Prose Ax, and Quantum Muse, among others. He has edited the journals Story Garden, Right Hand Pointing, and Night Train. Pieces in Gambara: High Fidelity.

Gail Louise Siegel's work can be found on-line in FRiGG, 3:AM, Juked, Post Road, Pindeldyboz, Ink Pot, Zoetrope ASE, Brevity, Flashquake, Outsider Ink, The Salt River Review, Tattoo Highway, Night Train and in many print journals and anthologies, including the upcoming issue of Quay. Pieces in Gambara: Letters to the Ethicist.

Michael Stutz has been online since well before the Web, and has recently completed a novel about the net age. His photographs of lost America have appeared in several magazines and publications, including the book Tiki Road Trip. Galleries at Gambara: Shoreline Farms.

Davide Trame was born in Venice, Italy, where he lives and teaches English. Since 1993 he has been writing poetry exclusively in English; his poems have been published in more than 200 journals, most recently in Poetry New Zealand, New Contrast (South Africa), and Nimrod. Pieces in Gambara: Signpost, Just Before.

Girija Tropp, winner of the 2006 Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize, has been published in Agni, The Boston Review, Best Australian Stories 2005, Visible Ink, Sleepers Almanac 2006, sleeping fish, Southword (New writing from Ireland), and has pieces forthcoming in Fiction International, Mississippi Review, Wild Strawberries and Cranky. Her microfiction has appeared in Smokealong Quarterly, Mad Hatters Review, elimae, Margin, Café Ireal and Pineldyboz. She was winner of The Josephine Ulrich Award 2006 in fiction. Pieces in Gambara: And Stroke It, Feet of Clay, Scenic Journey, Where I'm Going, Trip.

Shubha Venugopal is completing an MFA in fiction from Bennington College. She holds a PhD in English and teaches at California State University, Northridge. She has two beautiful children: a preschool daughter and toddler son. Her works have appeared in Post Road, Storyglossia, The Scruffy Dog Review, Word Riot, VerbSap, Flashquake, Literary Mama, Antithesis Common, The Angler, Elimae, Eclectica, Mslexia, Kalliope, Boston Literary Magazine, and Women Writers: A Zine. She also has a story upcoming in the OV (Other Voices) books anthology, "A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross Cultural Collision and Connection" that will be published next year. Pieces in Gambara: Shame.

Debra Wierenga has published in recent issues of Measure, Nimrod, Poet Lore, and The Literary Review, where her poem "Deep Field" received a 2005-2006 Charles Angoff Award for outstanding contributions for the volume year. Her chapbook, Marriage and Other Infidelities, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. Pieces in Gambara: Barbie's Story.


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	INDEX OF CONTRIBUTORS SINCE 2006 Jennifer Armentrout studied Comparative Literature and Ancient Greek at the College of William and Mary in Virginia. She lives in Seattle, Washington, and is a Lotus Notes Developer and Administrator for IBM. She has published poetry in The Adirondack Review and Orbis. Pieces in Gambara: Apoptosis and Postcards to Myself. Davis Banta is a world-renowned drunkard and pugilist. His work has previously appeared in the Porter Gulch Review. He is currently acting in the 2006 season of the Eight Tens @ Eight festival at the Actor's Theater in Santa Cruz, California. If things go according to plan, he will have a successful career in film without having to sleep with producers. He can be reached at Kiwisniffer@aol.com, but prefers that you keep a respectable distance, if only for the sake of appearances. Pieces in Gambara: Immovable Feast. Debra Brenegan is an English / Creative Writing doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has received a Ragdale residency, & the Ellen Hunnicutt Fiction Award. She has been published in Milwaukee Magazine, The Healing Woman, Cotyledon, and Phoebe. Pieces in Gambara: Tracy and Collapse. Benjamin Buchholz's fiction and poetry has appeared in Chiaroscuro, Drunken Boat, Harness, Dislocate, Antimuse, and many others. He has recently been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Tryst, and last summer he was the featured essayist at Surface Online. His first gallery in Gambara was his first published photography: Images of Iraq. Kim Chinquee's work has appeared in NOON, Denver Quarterly, Conjunctions, elimae, and more thanfifty other journals. She lives in Michigan, where she teaches creative writing. Pieces in Gambara: We Got Reservations and Pole. O'neil De Noux, a trained U.S. Army combat photographer, is a novelist and short story writer whose photographs have adorned the covers of many magazines, including Pulphouse: A Fiction Magazine and New Orleans Stories Magazine, as well as the covers of three of his books. His website is located here. A native New Orleanian, De Noux was run out of town by Hurricane Katrina and is presently staying in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Galleries at Gambara: Ozark, Alabama. Paul Alan Fahey will be retiring in May 2007 as a learning disabilities specialist at Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria, California, after a forty-year teaching career. He is the editor of Mindprints, A Literary Journal, a forum for writers and artists with disabilities. His work has appeared recently in the Skive Magazine 2006 Short Fiction Prize, Flashshot, Harvest and Coyote Wild. He welcomes comment on his pieces, and you may write him at pafahey (at) sbceo (dot) org. Pieces in Gambara: Send Your Camel to Bed. Carol Frith, co-editor of Ekphrasis, has had work in Willow Review, Measure, Quarter After Eight, Chariton, Lake Effect, Cutbank, Redivider, Asheville, 150 Contemporary Sonnets, etc., and chapbooks from Bacchae Press, Medicinal Purposes, and Palanquin Press. A poem of hers received Special Mention in the 2003 Pushcart Anthology. Pieces in Gambara: Too Much Light, Vacancies, Window Glass, & Charcot, who Died in Morvan. Avital Gad-Cykman's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Glimmer Train, McSweeney's #17, Prism International, Other Voices, Happy, The Binnacle, Descant, and others. It has also appeared online in Salon, Zoetrope: All-story Extra, Salt Hill Review, 3am, In-Posse Review, and elsewhere. Her story collection "Light Reflection over Blues" was one of the six finalists for the Iowa Fiction award. Pieces in Gambara: Drawing Light. Ily Goldfinger is a commercial photographer and Interior Design Consultant by day; writer, poet and art photographer after hours. She still braves the 100-degree-plus summers of Dubai — seven years into her 'visit.' But memories of the Windy City tug at her heartstrings more than ever — she remembers the lake-in-winter muse fondly, and wouldn't really mind hearing the crunch of snow under her boots, along the shore. Galleries in Gambara: Quiet Moments in Dubai. Jeremy Hatch, the closest thing to a staff reviewer that Gambara has, lives in San Francisco with his wife and two cats, and he is working on a novel. His work recently appeared in elimae. His blog about the writing life, Ynpossybull!, is updated daily. He can be reached directly by email. Pieces in Gambara: No Future, Literary Machines, Discovering a New World, Against Oblivion. Martin Heavisides has published flash fiction in Flash Forward, Block and Main, Jeremiad, Black Cat Review, Studies in Contemporary Satire, and Mad Hatter's Review. He has work forthcoming in the anthology Twisted Twins Daily Chills Calendar. He has published a book of poems, moments of truth and other conventions, and is finalizing a short story collection, Schemes for the Renovation of Hell. Pieces in Gambara: Courtly Love. Mollie Hicok currently leads an exciting life as a substitute teacher in North Monterey, California. She finds scraps of time to feverishly write a few lines inspired by her ever-changing, crazy, unexpected life as a college graduate living back with her parents, two sisters, three nephews, and multiple domesticated animals. She hopes to move out as soon as she possibly can — and finally face the real world of writing and teaching. Pieces in Gambara: Measurements. Carrie Hoffman is an Associate Editor at Pindeldyboz, and her fiction has appeared in McSweeney's, Opium Magazine, Beloit Fiction Journal, Gulf Stream, Georgetown Review, Center, Black Warrior Review, Nightsun, and others. Her website may be found here. Pieces in Gambara: Let's Talk. Niranjana Iyer has lived in India, Britain, and the United States, and currently works as a writer out of Ottawa, Canada. Her non-fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in a variety of publications, including The Christian Science Monitor, Rain Taxi Review of Books, Eclectica, and Asian Review of Books. Pieces in Gambara: Re-imagining the Mundane. Helene Simkin Jara is an actor, director and writer. She has been published in the Porter Gulch Review, La Revista and Mindprints. In 2003, she was awarded "best prose" by the Porter Gulch Review for her short story "Josefina." In August of 2006, her play "The Tongue" will be part of a festival at the African American Shakespeare Company in San Francisco. She wrote her first book in the third grade and stupidly gave it to her teacher, whom she despised. That is her only regret in life so far. Pieces in Gambara: Unruly. Roy Kesey was born in California, and currently lives in Beijing with his wife and children. His fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in more than forty magazines, including The Georgia Review, Other Voices, Quarterly West and Maisonneuve. His novella "Nothing in the World" recently won the 2005 Bullfight Review Little Book Prize, and was published in June 2006. His dispatches from China appear regularly on McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and his "Little-known Corners" meta-column appears monthly in That's Beijing. Pieces in Gambara: Cheese. Kuzhali Manickavel lives in a small temple town on the coast of South India. Her work can be found at Caketrain, Smokelong Quarterly, Ghoti and Opium. Pieces in Gambara: Miraculous. Tracie McBride is a mother of three from New Zealand. She has a diploma in creative writing and is a member of the Wellington-based Phoenix Science Fiction Writers' Group. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in over 30 print and electronic publications, including Pulp.Net, Electric Velocipede, Bound Off, Rose and Thorn, Coyote Wild and Fictitious Force. Pieces in Gambara: Nine Ways of Looking at a Spoon. Terese "Rivana" Mörtvik is a communications major from Sweden. When she's not haunting the streets and mountains looking for the next great shot, you may find her working on that old novel in the making. Otherwise her work, studies, and preparations for a move down south keep her pretty busy. Her homepage is located here; she may be contacted at terese.mortvik (at) gmail (dot) com. Galleries at Gambara: Nordic Solitude. Joshua Pastor began writing at the age of five, through dictation. Since then, he has published poems and short stories in various online and print journals, most recently in the Monterey Poetry Review. Pieces in Gambara: Florence, Old Photograph. Aleida Rodríguez is a poet, essayist, and artist born on a kitchen table in the rural town of Güines, Cuba. Her first book of poems, Garden of Exile, won both the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry and the PEN Center USA 2000 Literary Award. Garden of Exile was also chosen as a Best Book of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle. Her poetry and prose have been published in literary magazines, textbooks, and anthologies nationwide since 1974, and, more recently, in England, Wales, and The Netherlands. She has been the recipient of an NEA fellowship in poetry, the inaugural Greg Grummer Award in Poetry from George Mason University, a poetry fellowship from the California Arts Council, and the Brody Arts Fund literature fellowship from the California Community Foundation. She was a founding editor and publisher of rara avis magazine and Books of a Feather (1978–84). She lives in a historic house with a dancing dog and a singing parrot on one of the oldest and steepest streets in Los Angeles, where she freelances as an editor and translator, and teaches the occasional poetry workshop. Pieces in Gambara: Feeling in the Dark: Revelations by Available Light and Messages from the Elysian Garden. JP Rodriguez has just moved back to Canada after years abroad. He does wonder if he'll survive the winter. He's had short stories published in various journals and most of his time is spent writing, but he also makes music, paints, and captures life on film. At the moment he's polishing up his first novel — which he hopes will someday see the light of your bed-side table. Pieces in Gambara: A Long Road Trip Indeed. Ginger Roettger bought her first camera in 2002 and hasn't looked back since. She's currently enrolled at Carleton University, Ottawa, where she continues to question the sanity in chasing a Mathematics degree. Her art gallery, IMG SRC, can be found here. When not taking pictures or wrestling with calculus, Ginger enjoys talking about herself in the third person. Galleries at Gambara: Six Images . Bruce Holland Rogers lives in London, England, and teaches fiction writing in the Whidbey Writers Workshop MFA program in Washington state. His most recent story collection, The Keyhole Opera, won a World Fantasy Award. His website is www.shortshortshort.com. Pieces in Gambara: They'll Be Happy to Hear That. Brian G. Ross is thirty-one and lives in Scotland. He has over sixty publications to his name — from humour (Defenestration) to horror (Shadowed Realms), mystery (Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine) to mainstream (Southern Ocean Review). In 2006 he appeared in the paperback anthology Read By Dawn (alongside horror luminary Ramsey Campbell), and in 2007 he returns in Read By Dawn Volume II. He is married, both to his wife and his words, and runs a blog of his literary wanderings at briangrantross.blogspot.com. Pieces in Gambara: Father, Brother, Nephew, Son. Charles Schubert currently lives in Salinas, California, where he teaches high school biology. He has an MFA from Vermont College, and for no particular reason is currently learning French. He may be reached directly by email. His work has previously appeared in the Porter Gulch Review. Pieces in Gambara: Migration Pattern, Allergic to Sleep, and What's Left to Say? Jason W. Selby's work has appeared or is forthcoming in War, Literature and the Arts, Poetry Midwest, Cider Press Review, The Midwest Quarterly, The Oklahoma Review, The Houston Literary Review, and Lyrical Iowa. He is a graduate student in the Master of Arts program at the University of Northern Iowa. He is in the midst of writing and editing four novels and a book of poetry. Jason is also a painter, and several of his paintings are on display at local art galleries in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Pieces in Gambara: Orion Flees to Canada & A Harvest Before the Revolution. Jackie Shannon-Hollis lives in Portland, Oregon; she has completed a collection of short stories and begun work on a novel. Her work has appeared in MARY, Rosebud, The South Dakota Review, The Oregon Literary Review, Fiction Attic, flashquake, and Inkwell. Recently she was pleased to hear that she has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Pieces in Gambara: Swim. F. John Sharp lives and works on the North Coast of America. His work has appeared in Pindeldyboz, Paumanok Review, Salt River Review, Lunarosity, Prose Ax, and Quantum Muse, among others. He has edited the journals Story Garden, Right Hand Pointing, and Night Train. Pieces in Gambara: High Fidelity. Gail Louise Siegel's work can be found on-line in FRiGG, 3:AM, Juked, Post Road, Pindeldyboz, Ink Pot, Zoetrope ASE, Brevity, Flashquake, Outsider Ink, The Salt River Review, Tattoo Highway, Night Train and in many print journals and anthologies, including the upcoming issue of Quay. Pieces in Gambara: Letters to the Ethicist. Michael Stutz has been online since well before the Web, and has recently completed a novel about the net age. His photographs of lost America have appeared in several magazines and publications, including the book Tiki Road Trip. Galleries at Gambara: Shoreline Farms. Davide Trame was born in Venice, Italy, where he lives and teaches English. Since 1993 he has been writing poetry exclusively in English; his poems have been published in more than 200 journals, most recently in Poetry New Zealand, New Contrast (South Africa), and Nimrod. Pieces in Gambara: Signpost, Just Before. Girija Tropp, winner of the 2006 Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize, has been published in Agni, The Boston Review, Best Australian Stories 2005, Visible Ink, Sleepers Almanac 2006, sleeping fish, Southword (New writing from Ireland), and has pieces forthcoming in Fiction International, Mississippi Review, Wild Strawberries and Cranky. Her microfiction has appeared in Smokealong Quarterly, Mad Hatters Review, elimae, Margin, Café Ireal and Pineldyboz. She was winner of The Josephine Ulrich Award 2006 in fiction. Pieces in Gambara: And Stroke It, Feet of Clay, Scenic Journey, Where I'm Going, Trip. Shubha Venugopal is completing an MFA in fiction from Bennington College. She holds a PhD in English and teaches at California State University, Northridge. She has two beautiful children: a preschool daughter and toddler son. Her works have appeared in Post Road, Storyglossia, The Scruffy Dog Review, Word Riot, VerbSap, Flashquake, Literary Mama, Antithesis Common, The Angler, Elimae, Eclectica, Mslexia, Kalliope, Boston Literary Magazine, and Women Writers: A Zine. She also has a story upcoming in the OV (Other Voices) books anthology, "A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross Cultural Collision and Connection" that will be published next year. Pieces in Gambara: Shame. Debra Wierenga has published in recent issues of Measure, Nimrod, Poet Lore, and The Literary Review, where her poem "Deep Field" received a 2005-2006 Charles Angoff Award for outstanding contributions for the volume year. Her chapbook, Marriage and Other Infidelities, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. Pieces in Gambara: Barbie's Story.

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