Emma L Briant is a freelance writer and Lecturer of Journalism Studies at Sheffield University, UK, who writes both fiction and political comment. Emma is co-author of Bad News for Refugees a critique of media coverage of refugees in the UK. She is currently working on a novel, various short stories and a non-fiction book about Anglo-American war propaganda. A selection of Emma L Briant’s published work can be seen at: emma-briant.co.uk
Garrett Crowe currently lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee. His writing has appeared in a number of publications. You can follow him at twitter.com/crowegarrett
Joseph Dante is a writer from South Florida. His work has been featured in Monkeybicycle, Paste, Foxing Quarterly, and elsewhere. He is currently a reader for online literary journal Hobart. You can find his online home at josephdante.com, where he collects everything together and occasionally makes mix tapes for his friends like a teenager.
Daniel Davis is the Nonfiction Editor for The Prompt Literary Magazine. His own work has appeared in various print and online journals.
You can find him at dumpsterchickenmusic.blogspot.com, or on Facebook.
A. E. Doylle is young writer still somewhat riding on her childhood dream of writing professionally one day. She usually sticks to short stories and a bit of poetry, but has also dipped her pen into screen and stage writing and is currently trying to trap the idea bees buzzing around her head for long enough to turn out a novella.
Lisa Guidarini is a lover of literature; an eclectic reader. If it’s well-written, she is all over it. She reviews books, writes about reading and literature, interviews authors, edits… and is a librarian. You can see what she’s up to at Bluestalking.
Ira Joel Haber was born and lives in Brooklyn New York. He is a sculptor, painter, book dealer, photographer and teacher. His work has been seen in numerous group shows both in USA and Europe and he has had 9 one man shows including several retrospectives of his sculpture. His work is in the collections of The Whitney Museum Of American Art, New York University, The Guggenheim Museum, The Hirshhorn Museum & The Albright-Knox Art Gallery. His paintings, drawings and collages have been published in many on line and print magazines including Rock Heals, Otoliths, Winamop, Melancholia’s Tremulous Dreadlocks, Barfing Frog, The Raving Dove, DeComp, Foliate Oak, Siren, Prose Toad, Triplopia, Thieves Jargon, Opium, Dirt, The Centrifugal Eye, The DMQ Review, Broadsided, Hotmetalpress, Double Dare Press, Events Quarterly, Unlikely Stories, Coupremine, Cerebration,Chick Flicks, Softblow, Eclectica Magazine, Backwards City Review, Right Hand Pointing, Ascent Aspirations Magazine, Brew City Magazine, Fiction Attic, Mastodon Dentist, Blue Print Review, Ellipsis,The Indelible Kitchen, Cricket, Entelechy, So To Speak, Taj Mahal Review, The Fifteen Project, The Externalist, Why Vandalism, Mungbeing Magazine, Lamination Colony, Paradigm, Lily, Literary Fever, Glassfire Magaine,The Houston Literary Review, Lilies and Cannonballs, Wheelhouse Magazine, Terra Incognita, Qarrtsiluni, The Tusculum Review, Multidementional, 34th Parallel, Wood Coin, Sacramento Poetry, Art &Music, Anti-Poetry, Divine Dirt Quarterly, The Mom Egg, Disenthralled, Etcetera,Sea Stories , Bicycle Review, , Down In The Dirt, Psychic Meatloaf, Diverse Voices, Blue Lotus, Forge, The Front Porch Review, The Blotter, Breadcrumb Scabs, Guerilla Pamphlets, Imitation Fruit, Front Range, Convergence, Meat For Tea, Grey Sparrow Press, A Handful Of Dust, Ink Filled Page,The Journal Of Unlikely Entomology, Frequencies, Orion headless, Missive, Lit n Image, Media Virus, Spudgun, Bare Hands, Up The Staircase Quarterly, Maintenant 6 & Glass Coin. Over the years he has received three National Endowments For The Arts Fellowship and two Pollock-Krasner grants. In 2004 he received The Adolph Gottlieb Foundation grant and in 2010 he received a grant from Artists’ Fellowship Inc. Currently he teaches art at the United Federation of Teachers Retiree Program in Brooklyn.
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Hall Jameson is a writer and fine art photographer who lives in Helena, Montana. Her writing and artwork has recently appeared, or is forthcoming in, ‘The Monarch Review’, ‘Post-Experimentalism’, ‘Redivider’, and ‘Eric’s Hysterics’. When she’s not writing or taking photographs, Hall enjoys hiking, playing the piano, and cat wrangling.
Kurt is a braggart and a scoundrel of the lowest order. He has vagabonded China extensively and lived there on and off since 2008, which facilitated a strong grasp of written and spoken Mandarin. Since first starting his travels, Kurt has completed translations of contemporary Chinese short stories and Singaporean poetry. When he’s not out causing trouble, Kurt enjoys wandering through life and space aimlessly, writing about it when the mood strikes.
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William Leet recently returned to the U.S. after almost thirty years in Japan and is now living in Florida. The experiences, travel and journal notes of the years living as an expatriate in Tokyo have become fodder for a book he is currently writing. He has written and translated for the UCLA Journal of Asian Studies and his essay “Shaken” appears in the Fall 2012 issue of American Athenaeum. His story “Seed of Belief” is scheduled to appear in the December issue of The Rusty Nail and another, “The Girl with Flowers in Her Hair” in the December issue of Shadows Express.
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Growing up in a small Rhode Island town, Doriana dreamt of finding fortune in a big city. Impassioned by art and determined to explore the endlessly widening avenues and alleyways of a new life, she relocated to Chicago and studied design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Now working on the MagMIle, Doriana frequently rides her bicycle and EL Train by the lake, drawing on them for inspiration.
Though now at home in the big, second city, she remains continuously inspired by the serenity of the various suburban towns she frequents, recalling her own feelings of home.
Doriana has been working with Literary Orphans since the first issue. She is now the Art Editor for the most recent issue and shares in the collectively developing vision of the Literary Orphans staff and community.
A stranger carrying the ghost of Daniil Kharms on the train showed Joseph Patrick Pascale the limitless potential of microfiction. A New Jersey native, his short fiction has been published or is forthcoming in Instigatorzine, One Forty Fiction, The Carnage Conservatory, Trapeze Magazine, 7×20, Cuento Magazine, and other fine publications. He wrote his master’s thesis on the novels of Franz Kafka and finds that his own novels seem to remain in fragments.
You can follow his work at josephpascale.pyraliss.com
E. Martin Pedersen—worldly possessions in a rucksack, one way ticket in his pocket—left San Francisco some thirty years ago to seek his fortune. He found it in the odd town of Messina, Sicily, Italy, where he’s lived ever since. At the local university he teaches English language, composition, translation and literature. His academic writing won the EdPress award in 1997, and his unpublished novel, Heal Thyself, won the novel award at the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference 2008. Excerpts from his two finished novels were printed in American Athenaeum and North Atlantic Review. As a boy his favorite author was James Thurber, as may be evident in “A Comic Love Story”.
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Stephen V. Ramey lives in beautiful New Castle, Pennsylvania, home to not one, but two international pyrotechnics manufacturers. His fiction has appeared in various places, most recently scissors and spackle, Spilling Ink Review, and Pure Slush. He edits the annual Triangulation anthology from Parsec Ink, and the twitterzine, trapeze. He blogs about that process at stephenvramey.com
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Miriam Sagan is the author of twenty-five books, including the poetry collection MAP OF THE POST (University of New Mexico Press.) She founded and directs the creative writing program at Santa Fe Community College. Her blog is Miriam’s Well. In 2010, she won the Santa Fe Mayor’s award for Excellence in the Arts.
