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Allyson Walters

Allyson Walters is a Chicagoan and refugee of the research sciences,which she left behind two years ago to focus on the writing she always loved. Her next stop is the School of the Art Institute, where she will begin a graduate program in writing this fall. She is currently working on her first novel, as well as a collection of short stories based on Irish and British folklore.

Rahnee Patrick

Rahnee Patrick writes fictional and non-fiction essays to explore the lives of marginal folks, particularly lives of women, Asian Americans, and people with disabilities. In 1996, Rahnee won the Women's Studies Essay Contest, Creative Category for her fictional essay The Living. In that same year, her short story Virtual Reality was awarded First Place in the short story competition of the Lester M. Wolfson Award writing contest. In 2000, Am I Who?, a non-fiction essay was first published Face2Face Press, a Web forum that discussed interracial concerns. Instructors frequently use Am I Who? as one of many representations of the Asian American experience.

Steven Sacks

Steven Sacks: Since returning to Chicago from Ecuador, where he lived for 12 years and founded the country's first certified organic farm, Steven Sacks has read his short stories on Chicago Public Radio's Writer's Block Party, at the Uptown Writer's Space, and for the "Mortified" show at the Green Mill, where he was also the featured performer for the "2007 Best of Mortified."

Philip Stone

Philip Stone is a Chicago musician and writer. He currently plays drums for the nationally touring rock band, Sanawon. His short fiction has appeared in the anthology Life Sentences (Wipf and Stock, 2007) and Montage Magazine. Philip was a Splendid Magazine music critic for several years, but stopped once the threatening hate mail mentioned his family members by name. After a two year hiatus and strong encouragement from his therapist, Philip is writing again. Philip has a day job.

Lindsay Hunter

Lindsay Hunter is a writer living in Chicago. She is the co-founder and co-host of the Quickies! reading series. Her work has previously been published in McSweeney's Internet Tendency and Nerve, and is forthcoming in Featherproof as well as Make Magazine.

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Melanie Pappadis received her MFA in Creative Writing from The New School. Her fiction was recently nominated for a 2009 Pushcart Prize. Her work has received a variety of mentions including winner of The New School's Fiction Chapbook Competition, finalist in Sarabande Books' Mary McCarthy Prize in Fiction, and one of twenty-five winners in Glimmer Train's Very Short Fiction Contest. She has published a book of non-fiction, Limbu Folklore, a collection of translated oral folklore and photographs from her field research in Nepal. She currently lives with her husband and son in Chicago where she teaches creative writing and is working on a collection of stories along with her second novel. Melanie read at the September 2002 New York Salon. She started up the Chicago series in 2006.

Mike Zapata is a writer and educator living in Chicago. He is co-founder, co-publisher, and fiction editor for MAKE: A Chicago Literary Magazine. He is a graduate of the Second City Writer's Training Program, where he was co-founder of the sketch comedy troupe Grandma June's Sewing Circle. He has produced and written for revues at Second City's Donny's Skybox, The Viaduct, The Trap Door Theater, and the Apollo Theater Chicago, and is also co-creator, co-writer of a television pilot entitled Settling Up. He also writes fiction and is currently working on a collection of stories based in Chicago.