is a living writer drinking coffee in Portland, Oregon. You can see a new play of hers here: www.fertilegroundpdx.org

is seven feet tall and reenacts Civil War desertions. He lives in Indianapolis but can be found by anyone anywhere at alexmattingly.com.

has work that has appeared in over thirty publications her parents have never heard of, including Crash, A Daughter’s Story Anthology, Irregular Magazine and Danse Macabre. Not that she’s counting or anything.

likes referring to himself in the third person. Andrew likes to read and write and hopes that other people like to read what he writes.

is an eleventh-generation Yankee now living and writing in Memphis, Tenn. You can read more from her at www.memphisotan.com.

devotes the bulk of her work day to looking busy. Writing helps.

is a long-suffering educator; freelance gripper. Mother of five; drunk by seven.

is a long-time freelance writer living in a large city who writes advertising copy and scripts, and who, now and then, dreams about a full-time job.

is also an award-winning creator of television and public relations commercials and campaigns.

has been using a camera since 1967. Most of his work features landscapes with big skies and big geology, but you can find shots of quirky local urban scenes as well.

has credits in Margie, Slice Magazine, New Plain Review, and is nominated for a Pushcart this year. He lives in Michigan with quite the brood.

is manager of communications and development at Second Helpings.

is an avid movie lover who resides in Indianapolis. He recently completed his first film, Digital Age Drive-in, a documentary about drive-in theaters in Indiana.

is a writer living in Indianapolis. She is prose editor for Booth Literary Journal.

Her days in the community theater circuit are long gone. Now she lives and works in Indianapolis, where, on occasion, she also writes something that doesn’t mortify the hell out of her children.

is a music fan living in Indianapolis.

lives in Indianapolis where he runs Vouched Books to promote independent literature in his city. His work has appeared in PANK, Everyday Genius, Freight Stories, and other journals. You can see what he’s reading at vouchedbooks.com and what he’s eating at putitinyourface.net.

lives in Los Angeles with her husband, daughter, and increasingly disenfranchised cat. She looks at spreadsheets for a living.

is a Boston-area writer, playwright and poet. He is the author of two novels, most recently CannaCorn, and a history of the 1978 Red Sox-Yankees pennant race, The Year of the Gerbil.

has published five novels, two full-length poetry collections, and three books of short stories. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize numerous times, and two of his poems have been chosen for Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. With his wife, he runs Burke’s Book Store in Memphis, one of the country’s oldest (1875) and best independent bookstores.

is the associate editor of The Saturday Evening Post, prose editor for Booth Literary Journal, website/newsletter editor for The Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, and the author of two blogs. Visit him at cmdalton.com.

is an Oregonian and has loved living in the Mid-Willamette Valley for over 30 years.

stay-at-home dad from Zionsville, Indiana, struggles with writing and folding fitted sheets. Follow him on Twitter @sportczar.

is the alter ego of Matt P. Jager, whose nonfiction has been published in travel guides, newspapers, and magazines around the world. His fiction is published here.

lives in Boston. Her work has recently appeared in First Stop Fiction and Apropos.

has previously written non-fiction for The Progressive Populist, patch.com, commentarista.com, and Drunk Monkeys.

recently earned his BFA in writing, literature, and publishing from Emerson College, where he edited The Emerson Review. His work has appeared in PANK, Wonderfort, and Annalemma. He is an MFA candidate in poetry at Indiana University.

is a third-year MFA candidate at Butler University and managing editor of Booth, a literary journal. His poetry has appeared in Thoughtsmith, Bruised Peach Press, Marooned, and Lux.

is in his fourth and final year of openly studying graphic design and secretly studying studio art.

is a medical writer by trade, telling readers how they can avoid diabetes and heart disease for 10 years now.

is a freelance writer who lives in Carmel, Indiana, with her ex-husband and her dog. You can contact her at dearaskahackwriter at gmail dot com.

is about six feet tall and has no hair worth mentioning. In his free time, he enjoys staring at old matchbooks.

lives in Chicago and is very short. That’s all that matters about him. (Seriously: really really short.)

has been writing poetry for more than twenty years with credits in many magazines and websites. After retiring from work as a database administrator he now spends his time writing and traveling.

George Choundas's stories have been selected for inclusion in The Best Small Fictions 2015 and featured as Longform.org and Paragraph Shorts selections. He is the winner of the New Millennium Award for Fiction (Winter 2014-2015), author of The Pirate Primer (F&W 2007), and a former FBI agent.

His third collection of poetry, Labor Day at Venice Beach, will be published in 2012. He was awarded a Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2007.

is a freelance writer living in New York City. He works full-time for a major not-for-profit organization.

is a self-employed something-or-other consultant and lives in Toronto with her husband and cat.

is a principal at Lodge Design, the vice president of the Indianapolis International Film Festival and editor of Ferocious Quarterly. He runs. Writes. Cooks. And loves to love the unknown.

is an editor and writer who lives in Indianapolis, Indiana. You can find her online at jenbingham.com and on twitter @jen_fu.

is Punchnel’s poetry editor.

lives near Indianapolis.

is a writer and artist who works in poetry, drama, journalism, collage, sound, video, photography, and art as social practice. He helps with two Indianapolis nonprofit cultural organizations: Big Car, an arts collective and gallery, and Second Story, a project for young writers.

is a stay-at-home-dad turned career man. He works for The Kinetic Project in Indianapolis and for Wyoming-based Asthmatic Kitty Records.

lives in Palm Harbor, Florida, where he rehearses G- and PG-rated swears.

teaches screenwriting at Ball State University, as well as storytelling and production at the Art Institute of Indianapolis. When he’s not doing that, he’s probably driving on an interstate, or in a record shop or a used bookstore, quietly raging against the dying of physical media. He loves doughnuts unconditionally.

taught humanities here and overseas in the People’s Republic of China for thirty-six years. He has been a full-time writer since 2007. He lives in Maryland, northwest of the District.

thinks it’s fate we have a section devoted to what people should have said, as he considers himself a person who should always say something else.

is finishing an MA in creative writing at Ball State University. He has contributed journalism to NUVO Newsweekly and SLAM online.

is an Indianapolis native that has authored more than 20 books and has edited scores more. Kate also co-wrote a feature-length screenplay (and starred in the ensuing film) and worked as the sports editor for NUVO Newsweekly.

is editor-in-chief of Punchnel’s.

graduated from Indiana University with a Bachelor of Arts in English in 2005. His obsessions include music, literature, art, pop culture and motorcycles; he has been called a “wandering poet,” traveling the country writing, playing guitar and singing in the rock’n’roll band Secrets Between Sailors since 2006.

currently lives in Muncie, Indiana and is a co-editor of Stoked Journal.

is a writer of plays, essays, memoirs, thank you notes and grocery lists. Formerly a theme park entertainment production manager and show writer, she now writes stuff for blog followers in a couple of online locales.

is a writer who resides happily in Southern California. “I have published and been published, but what matters most is what I am writing today,” she says.

is a Notre Dame alumnus, an attorney at Faegre Baker Daniels, a member of the board of Second Story, and a reader. Not necessarily in that order.

lives in self-exile, on the penumbra of Patagonia, trying to find a way to raise the funds to get inside of it, and on to Antarctica, to wait for the apocalypse of Global Warming to create a new frontier, where he will start a new life with the butterflies of tundra.

directs the Elmore Entrepreneurship Law Clinic at Indiana University, is on the board of the Bloomington’s Buskirk-Chumley Theater, and was a co-founder of Second Story.

is a poet residing and writing in Boise, Idaho.

is editor-in-chief of Talking Writing, an online literary magazine. She teaches in the journalism program at the Harvard University Extension School.

is a reviewer and contributing editor to Punchnel’s and director of business development at Well Done Marketing.

is a reviewer and contributing editor to Punchnel’s.

nonfiction has been published in travel guides, newspapers, and magazines around the world. His fictional alter ego is Deano Freeman.

is a three-time National Emmy Award winning writer, producer and director of long-form television, commercials and video. He plays a serviceable rhythm guitar and has endured a lifetime of grief from friends for being an ardent and well-studied fan of the Grateful Dead.

has been published in various magazines and anthologies, including Rock & Sling, The Science Creative Quarterly, anderbo, Gloom Cupboard, and Crucible.

works for Nicor Gas Company. He grew up in Wheaton, Illinois, and currently makes his home in Batavia, Illinois.

is the third winner of our Hard Boiled-Down Noir Fiction Contest. Mimi lives and writes in Indianapolis, and her poetry has appeared in Punchnel’s.

is an assistant professor of creative writing at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. A Cave Canem fellow and cofounder of the Affrilachian Poets, his debut collection, Cooling Board: A Long-Playing Poem (Red Hen Press, 2009) was nominated for a 2010 NAACP Image Award in the Outstanding Literary Work-Poetry category and a 2010 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. His second poetry collection \blak\ \al-fə bet\, winner of the 2011 Lexi Rudnitsky/Editor’s Choice Award, is forthcoming from Persea Books.

is a writer and a student at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. She was also our intern this summer. We miss her already.

has spent the past nine years since high school generally milling around while completing his bachelors in History at Ball State. His speciality is getting things done in record time.

is an Indy-based writer & perpetual explorer. She’s currently working on her first novel and a memoir about “The Year of Exploration,” her quarter-life-crisis-inspired adventure of twelve months, five friends, one control freak, and zero control.

writes political, social and cultural commentary with what New York public radio host and author Kurt Andersen has described as “even-keeled grace, tolerance and common sense.” She’s written two books: her latest is Hope in Small Doses, published by Humanist Press. Though she has yet to produce a novel, she has already dabbled in short stories; two of these have received regional recognition.

is the director of programs at Second Helpings by day, and slings whiskey and cheeseburgers at the smokey Red Key Tavern on weekends. She likes you–seriously.

returned to Indiana in 2004 after 34 years of teaching at Long Island University. He served as Indiana Poet Laureate 2008-2010. In 2012 Indiana Univ Press will publish his 9th collection, “Songs in Sepia and Black and White.” Currently he holds a Creative Renewal Fellowship from the Arts Council of Indianapolis to combine poetry and music with an emphasis on the bluest.

has stories published or forthcoming in the Bitter Oleander, Camera Obscura Journal, decomP, the Evergreen Review, and the Indiana Review. His collection of short stories, Watering Heaven, came out in the fall of 2012.

was the winner of the 2009 “Enter the World of Filaria” contest at ChiZine and has published over fifty stories online and in print.

has had one-act plays produced in Indiana and Michigan and public readings in New York and Chicago. In the ’80’s, he performed and wrote for the comedy group Pavlov’s Salivation Army. He lives in Indianapolis.

Robin Beery is a writer living in Indianapolis.

is a student living in Indianapolis, and spends most of his time writing, playing music, and debating where to go with his life.

Her fiction and poetry appear in Stone Canoe, Gargoyle, PANK, and elsewhere. She received Purdue University’s Paul Sidwell Memorial Award for her novel, Sleeping Woman and teaches writing at IUPUI and Marian University in Indianapolis.

is a Broad Ripple photographer, makeup artist, and other things that make her parents wish she would get a haircut and a real job. She will try anything twice and never backs down from a double-dog dare.

is a columnist for the Keene (NH) Sentinel. She and her husband of three decades live in hope of the truly empty nest.

is an undergraduate English student at Hollins University in Roanoke, VA.

wrote a book on animal intelligence, Clever as a Fox. During her incarnation as a scientist, she published dozens of scholarly papers and wrote book reviews for The New York Times and Science.

is a writer in Indianapolis and contributing editor to Punchnel’s.

is a writer living in the same city as Oprah. He has written for McSweeney’s, CollegeHumor, Splitsider, The Onion A.V. Club, and other places that are similar.

lives and writes in Franklin, Indiana.

is a student in Butler’s MFA in Creative Writing program. Susan lives in Indianapolis with her husband, three teenagers and her dog, Mischief.

has had short stories published both in the UK and the US including Daily Science Fiction, Journal of Unlikely Entomology, Boston Literary Magazine, Every Day Fiction, and True Romance Magazine.

is a photographer, project manager, and parent who can’t figure out what to make the kids for lunch.

is a poet, essayist, and novelist (Matching Wits With Venus) whose work appears in numerous print publications and online at such places as Literary Mama, The Dirty Napkin, and The 13th Warrior Review.

is a retired journalist and documentary maker now living and writing in a village on the Central California coast. Liberty’s Light was inspired by the anniversary of the Patriot Act and the OWS movement.

is a stay-at-home-dad and a writer.