Special edition
IN THOSE DAYS WE is an attempt to look backward into our collective past, and to make flesh of the ghosts lost within the borders of old photographs. For this reason, IN THOSE DAYS WE will concern itself primarily with fiction (though we’ll use that word loosely).
Featuring written works by:
Andrew Borgstrom is the author of Meat Is All (Nephew, 2011) and Explanations (The Cupboard, 2010). He is an associate editor with Mud Luscious Press. He lives in the desert and washes the dishes alone.
Barry Graham wrote the national virginity pledge and nothing or next to nothing. he also edits Dogzplot.
Ben Tanzer is the author of the books 99 Problems, You Can Make Him Like You and My Father’s House among others. Ben also oversees day to day operations of This Zine Will Change Your Life and can be found online at This Blog Will Change Your Life the center of his vast, albeit faux media empire.
Chad Redden is the author of Thursday (Plain Wrap, Spring 2012) and The Lesson of Furniture (Red Ceilings, 2011). He lives in Indianapolis where he edits NAP.
David Tomaloff is a writer, photographer, musician, and all around bad influence. His work has appeared in fine publications such as Mud Luscious, >kill author, PANK, Connotation Press, HOUSEFIRE, Prick of the Spindle, DOGZPLOT, elimae, and many more. He is the author of the chapbooks 13 (Artistically Declined Press), A SOFT THAT TOUCHES DOWN &REMOVES ITSELF (NAP), Olifaunt (Red Ceilings Press), EXIT STRATEGIES (Gold Wake Press) and MESCAL NON-PALINDROME CINEMA (Ten Pages Press). He resides in the form of ones and zeros at: davidtomaloff.com
J. Bradley is the author of the novella Bodies Made of Smoke (HOUSEFIRE, 2011). He is a contributing writer to Specter Magazine, the Interviews Editor of PANK Magazine and lives at iheartfailure.net.
J. A. Tyler is the author of four novels, including A Man of Glass & All
the Ways We Have Failed from Fugue State Press. His work has appeared with
Black Warrior Review, Caketrain, Diagram, New York Tyrant, and others. For
more info, visit: chokeonthesewords.com.
Kathryn Rantala’s most recent work is in Pear Noir!; Alice Blue; Upstairs at Duroc; Cake Train. Additional fiction and poetry has appeared in The Denver Quarterly, Field, Iowa Review (web), New Orleans Review, 3rd bed, elimae, Archipelago, Painted Bride Quarterly, Portland Review, Oregon Review and many other places. Her most recent books are A Partial View Toward Nazareth (poetic prose, Casa de Snapdragon Press, 2010), Traveling With the Primates (poetry and prose, 2008) and The Plant Waterer and other things in common (prose, 2006). She founded Ravenna Press (ravennapress.com), Snow Monkey and The Anemone Sidecar.
Kyle Hemmings lives and dies in New Jersey. He is the author of several chapbooks of poems/prose: Avenue C (Scars Publications), Fuzzy Logic (Punkin Press), and Amsterdam & Other Broken Love Songs (Flutter Press), Cat People (Scars) and Tokyo Girls in Science Fiction (upcoming in NAP.) He has been pubbed at Gold Wake Press, Thunderclap Press, Blue Fifth Review, Step Away, and Wigleaf. He blogs at upatberggasse19.blogspot.com.
Len Kuntz is a writer from Washington State. His work appears widely in print and online at such places as Moon Milk Review, PANK, The Literarian and Necessary Fiction. Every few days he shares his thoughts about writing and other things at lenkuntz.blogspot.com
Meg Tuite‘s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous journals including Berkeley Fiction Review, 34th Parallel, Valpairaso Literary Review, One, the Journal, Monkeybicycle, Hawaii Review and Boston Literary Magazine. She is the fiction editor of The Santa Fe Literary Review and Connotation Press. Her novel Domestic Apparition (2011) is now available through San Francisco Bay Press. She has a monthly column Exquisite Quartet up at Used Furniture Review.
Molly Gaudry is the author of We Take Me Apart, which was a finalist for the Asian American Literary Award for Poetry and shortlisted for the 2011 PEN/Joyce Osterweil. She is the founder of The Lit Pub.
Norman Lock has written novels and short fiction as well as stage, radio and screen plays. He received the Aga Kahn Prize, given by The Paris Review, fellowships from the New Jersey Council on the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and from the National Endowment for the Arts. His latest literary fiction is the novels Shadowplay (Ellipsis Press) and The King of Sweden (Ravenna Press) and the short-fiction collections Grim Tales (Mud Luscious Press) and Pieces for Small Orchestra & Other Fictions (Spuyten Duyvil). Three Plays (Noemi Press) is his most recent book. Earlier works include A History of the Imagination (FC2), Land of the Snow Men (Calamari Press), and the acclaimed Absurdist drama The House of Correction (Broadway Play Publishing Co.).
Parker Tettleton‘s work is featured in &/or forthcoming from Gargoyle, PANK, elimae, Mud Luscious & > kill author, among others. His chapbook SAME OPPOSITE is available from Thunderclap! Press. More or less is here.
Robert Kloss is the author of How the Days of Love & Diphtheria and The Alligators of Abraham (2012), both from Mud Luscious Press. He is found online at rkbirdsofprey.blogspot.com.
Robert Vaughan’s plays have been produced in N.Y.C., L.A., S.F., and Milwaukee where he resides. He leads two writing roundtables for Redbird- Redoak Studio. His prose and poetry is published in over 200 literary journals such as Elimae, Metazen, Necessary Fiction and BlazeVOX. He has short stories anthologized in Nouns of Assemblage from Housefire, and Stripped from P.S. Books. He is a fiction editor at JMWW magazine, and Thunderclap! Press. He co-hosts Flash Fiction Fridays for WUWM’s Lake Effect. His blog: rgv7735.wordpress.com.
Ryan W. Bradley has fronted a punk band, done construction in the Arctic Circle, managed an independent children’s bookstore, and now designs book covers. He is the author of three chapbooks, a story collection, PRIZE WINNERS (Artistically Declined Press, 2011), and a novel, CODE FOR FAILURE, which is due in March of 2012 from Black Coffee Press. He received his MFA from Pacific University and lives in Oregon with his wife and two sons.