M. Molly Backes
M. Molly Backes is the assistant director of StoryStudio Chicago and the author of the young adult novel The Princesses of Iowa, which will be published in May 2012 by Candlewick Press. In addition to writing novels, Molly is a member of the 2012 class of bloggers at The Debutante Ball, pens the “Writing Tips” column for The Prairie Wind (the newsletter for the Illinois chapter of SCBWI) and is a frequent contributor to StoryStudio’s blog Cooler by the Lake. Her story “Teacher’s Pet” appears in the anthology Good Dogs Doing Good (LaChance, 2009).
Joshua Mohr
Joshua Mohr is the author of the novels Termite Parade, which was an Editors’ Choice on The New York Times’ bestseller list, and Some Things that Meant the World to Me, one of O Magazine’s Top 10 Reads of 2009 and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. He has published numerous short stories and essays in publications such as The New York Times Book Review, 7×7, the Bay Guardian, ZYZZYVA and The Rumpus, among many others. He lives in San Francisco and teaches in the MFA program at USF. His third novel, Damascus, is out this month.
Susan Solomon
Susan Solomon is a writer and lawyer living in Chicago. Her fiction has appeared in a number of online and print publications including Polluto, Wilderness House Literary Review and Pebble Lake Review. Her story, “Smile Catchers,” was a “Commended” selection in Writelink’s 2004 Weekender Challenge (United Kingdom), and her story, “Medici, for Beginners,” was selected as an Editor’s Choice story for 2005 by Pulse Magazine.
Richard Thomas
Richard Thomas is the winner of the 2009 “Enter the World of Filaria” contest at ChiZine. He has published more than 40 stories online and in print, including the Shivers VI anthology with Stephen King and Peter Straub. His debut novel Transubstantiate was released in July of 2010.
Kate Zambreno
Kate Zambreno’s first published novel, O Fallen Angel, won Chiasmus Press’ “Undoing the Novel — First Book Contest” and was named as one of the best books of 2010 by Bookslut. Another novel, Green Girl, is out this month from Emergency Press. Heroines, a critical memoir revolving around the women of modernism, some of which was incubated on her blog Frances Farmer is My Sister, will be published by Semiotext(e)’s Active Agents series in Fall 2012. She is a prose editor at Nightboat Books, and recently curated a series called Prose Event that interrogated the intersection of fiction and …
Heather Palmer
Chicago-based Heather Palmer is the author of Complements, Of Us, out in 2011 from Spork Press; her work has been published in a variety of magazines. In 2010, THE2NDHAND serialized her novella, “Charlie’s Train” at THE2NDHAND.com, parts of which were excerpted in All Hands On. Illustration: Rob Funderburk.
Lauren Pretnar
Lauren Pretnar, who first contributed to THE2NDHAND in 2007, lives with her family in Chicago, where she remains hard at work on a book-length domestic horror. Past work in the Chicago arts community includes extensive experience in theater. Illustration: Martin Cadieux.
Michael Zapata
Michael Zapata is a writer and educator living in Chicago. He is a co-founder ofANTIBOOKCLUB. He is also a 2008 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship recipient for prose. Currently, he has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and is working on a novel entitled Children of Orleans.
Brigid Pasulka
Brigid Pasulka’s first novel, A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True, won the 2010 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and was selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover series. Her second novel, The Sun and Other Stars, will be out in early 2013. This is Brigid’s ninth year teaching in the Chicago Public Schools. She currently runs the writing center at Whitney Young High School.
Cris Mazza
Cris Mazza has authored 16 books, most recently Various Men Who Knew Us as Girls, a novel. Her other fiction titles include Waterbaby, Trickle-Down Timeline and Is It Sexual Harassment Yet? In addition to fiction, Mazza also has published a memoir, Indigenous: Growing Up Califo
rnian, and has another hybrid memoir, Something Wrong with Her, forthcoming from Jaded Ibis Press. A native of Southern California, Mazza grew up in San Diego County. She currently lives 50 miles west of Chicago and is a professor in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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