Contributors

Morrigan Benton-Floyd's publishing credits include ByLine Magazine, Lunarosity, Quercus Review, honorable mention in Anthology's 2003 contest and an upcoming issue of Hazmat Review, and an anthology entitled The Company We Keep. He was nominated for a 2003 Pushcart Prize. He lives in Northern California. (read A Cold Truth)

Noreen Braman, a Special Media Editor for Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, is from Jamesburg, New Jersey and has published poetry, fiction, humor, non-fiction and horror in both large and small presses. She is the single mother of three, Rosemarie - 22, Annemarie - 20 and Roy Michael - 18. More information is available at www.noreensdigitaldreams.com. (read My Mother's Table)

Eliza Dashwood has a degree in Creative Writing from San Francisco State and a Master's degree in Multimedia from London Guildhall University. Her work has appeared in Writer's Digest and on retrozine.com and ululation.com. She currently lives in Edinburgh. (read Waiting)

Paul Alan Fahey is a learning disabilities specialist at Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria, California.  He is also the editor of Mindprints, A Literary Journal, for writers and artists with disabilities or for those with an interest in the field (www.imindprints.com).  His short fiction has appeared online and in print in several small literary journals such as Orchard Press Mysteries, Flashquake, Pebble Lake Review and Harvest. (read LaVerne Daniels)

Alexandra Fox lives in a village in England and is a mother and grandmother. She began writing short stories in January 2004, and has won several prizes in Peninsular, Cadenza, Northern Echo/Orange, Scribble and BBC competitions, as well as having publications in Ink Pot and various ezines. Lexie writes with Alex Keegan’s Boot Camp, finding it hard work but highly enjoyable. (read Almost a Love Letter)

Jack Goodstein's stories have appeared on the web in Eclectica, The Asylum, Ken*again and many others; in print his work has been published in Theatre Journal, College English and The Pittsburgh Post Gazette. His one act plays have been staged at the Pulse Ensemble Theatre, The Gallery Players of Park Slope, and Collaboraction. His play Momma will be produced as part of the Silver Springs Stage 2004 One Act Festival. (read Mandelbaum Descending)

Mark Hughes is a native Californian and father of three who currently lives in Jakarta, Indonesia. He works as a kindergaten school teacher at an international school. (read From a Park Bench)

Duane Locke lives in Lakeland, Florida.  He has had 5,301 poems published. (read It Is What Did Not Happen That Appears Most Real)

Mercedes Lawry has been publishing poetry for thirty-years in such journals as Poetry, Rhino, Fine Madness, Nimrod, Hawaii Pacific Review, Crab Creek Review and others. She has also published fiction, and stories and poems for children. She has received awards from the Seattle Arts Commission & Artist Trust. Originally from Pittsburgh, PA, she has lived in Seattle for twenty-five years. (read Creating Ruin in the Blink of an Eye and Invisibly)

Ruth Mark is Irish but she currently lives in The Netherlands.  Her work has been published in diverse print and web venues including Electric Acorn, The Moonwort Review, and Poetry Superhighway.  She also reviews for the Blue Iris Review and Tamafyhr Mountain Poetry.  Visit her at www.remark.be. (read I Don't Want To Be Anyone Else)

Cynthia A. Roby is a freelance writer and editor with published fiction in magazines and chapbooks including ACE Dialogue, Voices of Brooklyn, and Brothers and Others. She is the author of my heart cries tears of black: a collection of poetry and shorts. She currently resides in Brooklyn. (read Mississippi Albatross)

Lori Romero served as Artistic Director of Friends & Artists Theatre Ensemble in Los Angeles. She currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her short story, Strange Saints, was a semifinalist in the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award. Her poetry and short stories have been published in journals which include the Onset Review, Mystic River Review, Moxie Magazine, T-Zero Xpandizine, Poetry Motel, Mobius, Manzanita Quarterly, Branches, Lotus Blooms Journal and Zillah: A Poetry Journal. (read Down the Rabbit Hole)

Mark Salzman is the author of Iron & Silk, an account of his two years in China; Lost in Place, a memoir; and the novels The Laughing Sutra, The Soloist, and Lying Awake. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the filmmaker Jessica Yu, and their daughter, Ava. (read Mother's Day)

Julia Schaffer is delighted to be featured in the inaugural issue of Plum Biscuit, especially since a New York Writers Coalition workshop prompted the writing of Nowhere to Be Found.   Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Cargoes, Hanging Loose, Melic Review, and Poetry Motel. (read Nowhere To Be Found and Couplets)

After teaching writing and literature in college for twenty-five years, Wayne Scheer retired to follow his own advice and write. He's published a number of stories in both electronic and print publications, such as Thought Magazine, Southern Scribe and Slow Trains. In 2002, he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. (read Nothing Is Real)

R L Swihart currently resides in Long Beach, California with his lopsidedly feminine family: his wife Ania, and his two girls Katia (9) and Nadja (5). He teaches high school math to pay the mortgage; writes poetry just because; travels whenever he can. A few of his recent poetry credits include: Stirring, Poet's Canvas, Snow Monkey, Three Candles, Urban Spaghetti, and Niederngasse. (read Chekhov)

A native New Yorker, Gene Tashoff has been a writer (of advertising, short stories and poems) for all the years of his adult life, and a member of NYWC for the past three. When he's not doing that, he's hiking, biking, being a husband and father--and constant seeker of new insghts about that complex thing called "a relationship." (read One Act and Predator Visions)

Deidre Woollard is a fiction writer whose stories have appeared in literary magazines such as Sojourn, Pebble Lake Review, Rhapsoidia, Words and Images, and on the SNReview.org and StoryGlossia.com websites. Her novel, Contemporary Art, is being serialized on the Keep It Coming website. A story of hers was recently made into a short film. She has written freelance articles for a variety of publications, is the astrologer for www.askapril.com, and blogs daily on her website, TheFictive.com. (read Sally Gets a Haircut)