Editors
Seth Fischer
Seth Fischer’s nonfiction work has been published in Guernica Magazine and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His fiction has won an honorable mention in The Glimmer Train Fiction Open. He is Sunday Editor at therumpus.net, and he’s the founding editor of this here web site. He lives in San Francisco and has a day job where he sits in a cubicle not too far from an albino alligator, a few penguins and some really cool tree frogs. He can be reached at seth.fischer (at) gmail.com.. »
Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo
Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo is a native Angelino poet with an MFA from Antioch University, Los Angeles. Recently, she volunteered to teach a creative writing class to women in the Los Angeles Detention Center, and continues to research and write on U.S. detention and immigration. She is a member of Hollywood Institute of Poetic and has been published at Glass: a Journal of Poetry, The Umbrella Journal, and forthcoming in Los Angeles Review and PALABRA. She also loves to travel the world, and recently combined two passions by writing blogs and featured articles for the online site In the Know Traveler.. »
Alan Stewart Carl
Alan Stewart Carl is a Texan writer of fiction, essays and miscellany. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Mid-American Review, Storyglossia, Monkeybicycle, PANK and other cool publications. Currently, he is pursuing an MFA from Antioch University. He can be found down in San Antonio trying to carve out a moment of sanity while raising two wild and beautiful children. Virtually, he can be tracked down at. »
Sarah Long
Sarah Long has lived in Los Angeles since 2003, where she has worked as a florist, film set gopher, nanny, and freelance editor. She co-founded the online literary journal Two Hawks Quarterly with some writing chums from the BA program at Antioch University, where she is currently completing her MFA in Fiction and Poetry. She has just begun working in earnest on her first novel, and some other bits of her writing can be found at Slant Tales.. »
Dennis Fulgoni
Biography: Dennis’s stories have appeared in Parting Gifts, Quarterly West, the Colorado Review, and New Stories from the Southwest. He is the winner of an AWP Intro Journals Award, a James Kirkwood Award for Fiction through UCLA, and a Special Mention in the 2008 Pushcart Prize. Dennis is Literacy Coach at John Marshall High School and will graduate from the MFA program at Antioch in June of 2009. . »
Khadijah Queen
Khadijah Queen was born near Detroit and raised in Southern California. A Cave Canem Fellow and three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, she holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. Her debut poetry collection, Conduit, was published in 2008 under the Black Goat imprint at Akashic Books. Individual poems appear in numerous journals and anthologies including PMS: Poemmemoirstory, The Drunken Boat, /nor and Powder: Writing by Women in the Ranks from Vietnam to Iraq (Kore Press 2008). A chapbook, No Isla Encanta (2007), is available from dancing girl press. Khadijah has performed and exhibited internationally and curates an annual multi-genre reading series, Courting Risk, at Macaulay Honors College in New York City. Currently, she is completing a second book of poetry and collaborating on a libretto incorporating video, music, dance and performance art. She is a graduate fellow in art studio with a focus on performance and installation at University of South Florida.. »
Andrew Panebianco
Andrew Panebianco holds a BA in English Literature and a MA in Writing Studies from Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, and just recently received his MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Antioch University. His work has appeared in the journals Crimson and Gray and Avenue, and he is a regular contributor to The Nervous Breakdown. He. »
Michael Berger
Michael Berger is a San Francisco-based writer, editor and blogger. A former civil rights law clerk, he nurtures the notion that art and social justice can work together, if only once in a while. He has contributed writing to The Rumpus as well as various zines, art projects and performance pieces. He now works at a bookstore in Bernal Heights, volunteers at an organic farm and is working on various unfinished novels about love, fanaticism and the apocalypse.. »
Andrew Aulino
Andrew Aulino was born in Maryland, raised in Virginia, and lives in Ohio.. »
Scott Miller
Scott Miller was born in Philadelphia, PA, in 1978, under the sign of the Lion. He holds a degree in Mathematics from MIT and remains a software developer even as he pursues a writing career, in an effort to achieve the elusive left-brain/right-brain balance (or is it to evade madness?). In 2008, he completed an MFA program in Poetry from Antioch University Los Angeles. Scott has lived in the San Fernando Valley with his wife, Michal, since 2003. He has been published in Barefoot Muse and poeticdiversity, and has featured at a number of readings in the Los Angeles. »
Features
Prayer for My Fiancé before His Bachelor Party
Poetry by LaToya Jordan
Our Father, who art in Heaven,
However he be: drunk, sober, slipping strippers dollar bills, belligerent with a large group of men who look like him, I pray the Lord his soul to. »
The Music Of Psychology And The Schizophrenic
Fiction by Shome Dasgupta
Did you know? Did you know that he and he took out my spinal chord and used it as a piano-. »
An Interview with Steve Almond About Technology, Loneliness and the Splinter Generation
The main thing I see in the writing is this strain of what I call “hysterical lyricism.” Certain younger writers are just so saturated by visual media. »