Authors
Kevin Gonzalez is arguably the 5th or 6th best Puerto Rican fiction writer living in Iowa City right now. His interests include boxing, rum, Ali G, and dreaming about Brady Quinn’s love muscle. He’s also featured in Best New American Voices 2007, and you can hear some of his poetry here.
Mike Ingram lives in Philly and teaches at Temple University. He’s a real country mouse, struggling to adapt to the big city life after growing up in the swamps of Florida and rooting for his beloved Seminoles. Having just turned 30 last month, he’s struggling to come to terms with his own mortality, and he finds that excess amounts of bourbon help him to deal with the pain of the rheumatism. He’s been published in the Baltimore Review and really, really hates that robot Fox dsiplays during NFL broadcasts.
Of all the writers attached to this site, Steve Kistulentz looks the most like blue collar comedian Ron White. The oldest contributor to the site, he once played against Rich Gannon in the Division I-AA playoffs. Steve and his William & Mary teammates lost 51-17. He now lives in Florida and runs something of a halfway house for transient graudates of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop.
Lee Klein is the best wiffle ball player on the staff. Rumor has it that he also edits his own online literary journal. He’s the one who took the picture of the crazy guy in our banner picture, and his love for Allen Iverson knows no bounds.
Jason Lewis is one of two Yankees fans who are somehow on this contributor’s list. He’s from West Fuckin’ Virginia, and has no qualms about befouling your seat if you’re dumb enough to leave it unattended.
He lives in Iowa City, and when he’s not writing, he plays music.
Chris Manley was booed at his own graduation from grad school. He likes Irish whiskey, Irish music, Notre Dame, and, presumably, beating up Protestants. He also teaches at Notre Dame and would bear Joseph Heller’s children if only he could. Also, don’t ever let his brother talk your girlfriend, or you’ll be sorry.
Tom McAllister is the guy who started this website. He was once rejected by THE Ohio State University because his application to their graduate fiction program was “not competitive.” He was promptly accepted by a signifcantly better program, where he earned an MFA. The fact that he holds a grudge about this is probably all you need to know about the kind of guy he is. He teaches in the English Department at THE Temple University in Philly, and, sadly has not seen Bill Cosby yet. Someday, he believes, the Eagles will stop making him hate himself.
Kevin McAllister is in charge of all technical aspects of the site and, without him, the website wouldn’t exist. Either that or it would be one of those awful looking angelfire or geocities sites. He owns a Corey Simon jersey, but, oddly has actually lost a significant amount of weight since receiving it; meanwhile, Corey Simon has eaten himself out of the league.
Daniel McQuade has not yet entered any author information. Someday, he will.
Aaron Pease hails from Steubenville, Ohio, home of Dean Martin, Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder, select scenes from The Deer Hunter, and the 2005 and 2006 Division III Ohio State Football Champions, the Steubenville High School “Big Red” Stallions. A Steelers fan, Pease is a co-editor at www.barrelhousemag.com and has a sports blog that seemed like a good idea at the time: www.steelskins.blogspot.com. The most expensive tennis shoes he ever had were given to him as a gift by a local mobster’s son. And this is how he repays him.
Other Contributors is the generic listing assigned to other people who have been kind enough to contribute to the site. Although we currently don’t actively solicit submissions, we will occasionally publish a piece by a non-affiliated friend or writer we know and respect. Biographical notes on these authors can be found at the end of each individual story.
