MATTHEW DAVID BROZIK
uses all three of his names despite the grief his friends and
colleagues give him. A lawyer as well as a writer, and vice versa,
Matthew owns eleven suits, all single-breasted, and some ninety ties,
several of them bowties (for which he also gets unnecessary flak). His
short, quirky fiction and humor have appeared or will appear in, among
other places, the Sycamore Review,
RE:AL, the American Drivel Review, the Armchair Aesthete, and Illya’s
Honey, and at McSweeney’s
Internet Tendency. “What the Redmond Men Found” is his second
contribution to Zahir.
DANIEL BRUGIONI is a 30-year-old teacher living in Hyde Park, Chicago,
who has written more than ninety stories and is currently working on
his fourth novel. His stories have appeared in The Timber Creek Review, Spitball, Zahir,
The Sulfur River Literary Review, Words of Wisdom, Struggle, and
The Skylark.
He loves to travel as much as he loves to write, and hopes to visit all
the weird places he's imagined, especially the jungles of Equatorial
Guinea. (He also hopes you'll visit him at his website, and drop him a
line about writing: www.loner.blogspot.com)
PETER HIGGINS lives in Penarth, a small town on the south coast of
Wales. His stories have appeared in Revelation,
Zahir (9 & 11), Fantasy:
The Best of the Year 2007 (Prime Books) and Best New Fantasy 2 (Wildside
Press). He has stories forthcoming in Fantasy
Magazine and Asimov’s.
JEFF P. JONES's honors include the Pushcart Prize, the Wabash Prize in
Fiction, and the Lamar York Prize. His fiction has recently
appeared in Redivider, Sycamore
Review, and Zahir
(issue 10). He teaches writing at the University of Idaho.
JANE LAWLESS has worked as a television script writer, freelance
editor, and writer-producer of educational materials, including an
audio tour-guide program for Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History.
Her short stories have appeared in Chicago
Quarterly Review, Absolutes!, The Clothesline Review, The Chicago
Literary Review and Big Muddy. She cooks, gardens, practices
yoga and volunteers at Pikes Peak Hospice and Palliative Care in
Colorado Springs, Colorado. She is also an avid hiker. She lives with
her husband, Rick, a real estate broker, and a cat named Lily on the
edge of the Pike National Forest.
LOREEN NIEWENHUIS holds a Master of Science from Wayne State University
and a Master of Fine Arts from Spalding University. Her fiction
has appeared (or will soon) in Blood
and Thunder, Trail of Indiscretion, Words of Wisdom, and in the
anthology Women. Period. She
is currently finishing her first novel, Tumor Board. Learn more about
her at www.LoreenNiewenhuis.com
SARAH A. ODISHOO, a professor of English at Columbia College in
Chicago, most recently has had her work accepted by Gastronomica (forthcoming), and
also has had her work published in New
Letters, Confrontations, River Teeth, Laurel Review, Aura Literary Arts
Review, Berkeley Fiction Review, Florida Review, Fugue, Georgetown
Review, Jeopardy Magazine, Laurel Review, Left Curve, Libido,
Limestone, Lynx Eye, Pikeville Review, Portland Review,
and RiverSedge. She was also
nominated for the Pushcart Prize in Short Stories (1997).
ROB PRITCHARD lives in San Diego. “Aristeia” is his second story for Zahir.
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