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Gordon Warnock is a founding partner at Fuse Literary, where he represents fiction and nonfiction, including EVERYTHING WE KEEP by Kerry Lonsdale, THIS IS WHAT A LIBRARIAN LOOKS LIKE by Kyle Cassidy, and THE NIGHT CHILD by Anna Quinn. You can find him at www.fuseliterary.com and on Twitter @gordonwarnock. 

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Danger Slater is the author of several books and many short stories. His last two books I Will Rot Without You and Puppet Skin are available through Fungasm Press. You can find him frolicing amongst the coniferous trees in Portland, OR.

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Jaime Boust is a writer whose work ranges from literotica to magical realist alternate histories. She is the recipient of the inaugural David Carr Prize for Emerging Writers at SXSW. Her fiction includes Book Club and Conquest, stories that stroke the zeitgeist of sex-forward female comedy tackling topics of beauty, aging, relationships, and self-worth with a feminist bent. She got her wits about her on the hills of San Francisco, the streets of London, the sewers of Paris, and the suburban wilds of Oakland. These days you'll find her dodging traffic in Los Angeles with her husband and two kids.

http://www.jaimeboust.com/

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Nathan Bransford is the author of How to Write a Novel, Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow, Jacob Wonderbar for President of the Universe, and Jacob Wonderbar and the Interstellar Time Warp. He was formerly a literary agent with Curtis Brown Ltd. and has since worked in the tech and finance industries. He writes a popular blog about the writing and publishing process at blog.nathanbransford.com and lives in New York City.

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Andrew was born in Yorkshire many years ago but now lives on Merseyside where he writes stories and works as a support worker. His stories have appeared on various websites and in print. At present Andrew is working on a novel called “A Crack in Everything” which is concerned with religion, sex, art and Leonard Cohen.

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A.S. Coomer is a writer and musician. His work has appeared in over thirty literary journals, magazines, anthologies and the like. He was nominated for the Pushcart Prize three times in 2016. His debut novel, Rush’s Deal (Hammer & Anvil Books), came out December 11th, 2016. You can find him at www.ascoomer.com. He also runs Lost, Long Gone, Forgotten Records, a “record label” exclusively for poetry.

https://ascoomer.com

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Chris Campanioni seeks to blur boundaries. He is an author, teacher, journalist, and model, and the co-editor of PANK, Tupelo Quarterly, and At Large Magazine. He gravitates toward anything that involves creative thinking, learning and teaching, writing and editing, and most importantly, connecting with people. Campanioni’s debut novel, Going Down, was released September 1, 2013 by Aignos and was selected as Best First Book at the International Latino Book Awards in 2014. It is the first in a trilogy of works about communication and the culture of media, commodities, fashion, and tourism. Tourist Trap (or: how I paid my way through grad school) (Black Rose, 2015) is the follow-up and excerpts were nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He is also the author of Once in a Lifetime, a book of poems from Berkeley Press. His poem “Transport (after ‘When Ecstasy is Inconvenient’)” was a finalist for the Zócalo Public Square Poetry Prize in 2015, awarded annually to the U.S. poet whose poem best evokes a connection to place. In 2013, he was awarded an Academy of American Poets Prize for selected poetry from his debut collection, In Conversation (Aignos, 2014).

Campanioni has lectured at various academic conferences and events, in person and via video, including the Art of Outrage, TED Talks, and the Transatlantic Poetry Series, and has served as a visiting author and speaker at universities across the United States, which are currently teaching or have taught his work. He was awarded a Graduate Assistantship and a Presidential Scholarship before completing his MA in English literature from Fordham University in the spring of 2013, graduating summa cum laude. Today, he teaches fiction writing, poetry, and English literature at Baruch College and Pace University, and lives and writes in Brooklyn.

For his books on Amazon: http://amzn.to/2miV20I

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William Taylor Jr. lives and writes in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco. The Blood of a Tourist (Sunnyoutside, 2014) is his latest collection of poetry. He is a Pushcart Prize nominee and was a recipient of the 2013 Acker Award.

For his books available on Amazon: http://amzn.to/2l4XN5R

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Josh Koehn moved south of Missouri and then west after the death of his father. His mother brought him to San Jose before the bubble burst, and he has mostly called the Bay Area home ever since. He works as an investigative reporter and editor for Metro, Silicon Valley’s alternative weekly newspaper. His wife and two old cats form alliances against him most nights. Josh studied literature and journalism at the University of California, Davis, where he graduated with an English degree after being kicked out. Twice. He gave up on being a sportswriter and sold everything he owned to travel and write. He ran out of money and lived with his evangelical Christian grandparents in Iowa. He worked at an afternoon daily newspaper and covered a one-company town that was reeling from the loss of its one company. He moved back to California and got a job writing about politics. He uncovered the biggest and dumbest case of political corruption in Silicon Valley’s history. The guy went to jail. Almost twice. Josh met a woman who brought him peace and gave her a ring passed down on his mother’s side. He continued working on the novel he started during his travels and finished it in the summer of 2016. His first novel is titled The Day God Slept.

https://josh-koehn.com/

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Terry Barr is a professor of English and Creative Writing at Presbyterian College in Clinton, S.C., and the author of Don’t Date Baptists and Other Warnings from my Alabama Mother, a collection of nonfiction essays centered on his hometown of Bessemer, Ala. His essays have been published in such journals as The Museum of Americana, Blue Lyra Review, Steel Toe Review, Belle Reve Literary Journal, and South Writ Large, amongst many others. His essay “A Big-Ass Pot of Blended Soup” was nominated by Red Truck Review for the Best of the Net Award in 2015. He lives in Greenville, S.C., with his wife, two daughters, and their beloved pets, Morgan and Max (the Carolina Wild Dog).