 Art by Marty D. Ison |
Tara Laskowski earned an MFA in Creative Writing from George Mason University. She was the 2009 Kathy Fish Fellow at SmokeLong Quarterly. Her fiction and nonfiction have been published in several places, most recently Barrelhouse, Mid-American Review, PANK Magazine, and Necessary Fiction. She was the 2010 winner of the Santa Fe Writers Project's literary awards series for her short story collection Black Diamond City. Her short story "Like Everyone Else" was a storySouth Million Writers Award notable online story in 2009. Tara lives and works in a suburb of Washington, D.C.
Beth Thomas lives and writes in Las Vegas, Nevada. She works as technical writer in the aerospace/defense industry. Her fiction has recently appeared in Corium Magazine, Los Angeles Review, Wigleaf, Pank Magazine, and other places. She received the 2007 Kathy Fish Fellowship at SmokeLong Quarterly.
Editors
Gay Degani is the art editor at SmokeLong. She has published in journals and anthologies including three The Best of Every Day Fiction editions and her own collection, Pomegranate Stories. Nominated for a Pushcart, she has been a finalist or short listed at Glimmer Train and The Fish Anthology and won a first place at Women on Writing's Quarterly Flash Fiction contest. She edits EDF’s Flash Fiction Chronicles and blogs at Words in Place where a list of her online fiction can be found.
Davin Malasarn is a writer and research scientist in Paris, France. He received a PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellowship in 2008. He was a finalist in the 2008 Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Contest. Two of his stories, "A Boy In The Sky" and "I Am Waiting For My Dogs To Die" were nominated for Pushcart Prizes.
Nancy Stebbins coordinates the guest editors for SmokeLong Weekly. She earned her MFA from Pacific University. Her stories have been or will soon be published in Cezanne's Carrot, decomP, St. Ann's Review, and The Los Angeles Review. She lives in College Station, Texas, with her four teenage children. She is a psychiatrist.
Brandon Wicks is a freelance writer and illustrator based in Atlanta, Georgia. His fiction has appeared in such journals as Sou'wester and South Carolina Review; his poetry in The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume II: Mississippi.
Cover Artist
A native of Ohio, M. D. Ison lives with his wife of twenty-five years transplanted in the sands of the Gulf of Mexico. He studied Fine Arts at St. Petersburg College. In addition to the visual arts, he writes poetry, short stories, and novels. His online gallery may be viewed at http://www.martyison.skyedragon.com.
Publisher
Dave Clapper lives in the Pacific Northwest and is a father of two. His fiction has appeared in over thirty journals, and is forthcoming in "Online Writing: Best of the First Ten Years." Except for production of the various pages of SmokeLong, he is largely retired from the staff, focusing more now on his work with Interrobang?! Improv.
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