Staff Art by Marty D. Ison Senior Editor Tara Laskowski earned an MFA in Creative Writing from George Mason University. She was the 2009 Kathy Fish Fellow at SmokeLong Quarterly. Her fiction and nonfiction have been published in several places, most recently Barrelhouse, Mid-American Review, PANK Magazine, and Necessary Fiction. She was the 2010 winner of the Santa Fe Writers Project's literary awards series for her short story collection Black Diamond City. Her short story "Like Everyone Else" was a storySouth Million Writers Award notable online story in 2009. Tara lives and works in a suburb of Washington, D.C. Art Editor Ashley Inguanta earned her MFA from the University of Central Florida and has taught several Introduction to Creative Writing courses at the university level. She has also worked as a creative writing instructor at Lakeside Alternative, a mental health facility. Ashley has photography forthcoming in Redivider, Emerson's literary journal. Her photo ""Daybreak"" recently made it onto Vogue Italia’s web site. Ashley's fiction and poetry have appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly, Wigleaf, Gone Lawn, Pindeldyboz, and Sweet: A Literary Confection, among other journals. Her work is also forthcoming in Burrow Press' anthology, 15 Views of Orlando, and Nicole Monaghan's anthology, Stripped. Last year she earned an Honorable Mention in Glimmer Train for their Very Short Fiction Award. Staff Editors Gay Degani has published in journals and anthologies including three The Best of Every Day Fiction editions and her own collection, Pomegranate Stories. Nominated for a Pushcart, she has been a finalist or short listed at Glimmer Train and The Fish Anthology and won a first place at Women on Writing's Quarterly Flash Fiction contest. She edits EDF’s Flash Fiction Chronicles and blogs at Words in Place where a list of her online fiction can be found. Josh Denslow's stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Third Coast, Black Clock, Pear Noir!, Cutbank, Twelve Stories, and Wigleaf. He has written and directed five short films, and he plays the drums in the band Borrisokane. Davin Malasarn is a writer and research scientist in Paris, France. He received a PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellowship in 2008. He was a finalist in the 2008 Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Contest. Two of his stories, "A Boy In The Sky" and "I Am Waiting For My Dogs To Die" were nominated for Pushcart Prizes. Nancy Stebbins coordinates the guest editors for SmokeLong Weekly. She earned her MFA from Pacific University. Her stories have been or will soon be published in Cezanne's Carrot, decomP, St. Ann's Review, and The Los Angeles Review. She lives in College Station, Texas, with her four teenage children. She is a psychiatrist. Beth Thomas lives and writes in Las Vegas, Nevada. She works as technical writer in the aerospace/defense industry. Her fiction has recently appeared in Corium Magazine, Los Angeles Review, Wigleaf, Pank Magazine, and other places. She received the 2007 Kathy Fish Fellowship at SmokeLong Quarterly. Brandon Wicks is a freelance writer and illustrator based in Atlanta, Georgia. His fiction has appeared in such journals as Sou'wester and South Carolina Review; his poetry in The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume II: Mississippi. Cover Artist A contemporary realist, Josh George paints with oils and acrylics on wood panel and incorporates layers of collage elements to achieve a texture and richness idiosyncratic to his work. His subjects include human figures, cityscapes and scenes of everyday urbanity that capture the multifaceted nature of life in the American city. George's paintings offer narrative "snap-shots" conveyed with both a sly wit and sensitivity; tonally, George juxtaposes humor and pathos to present the complexities of the modern American experience. Josh George at once celebrates and critiques our American culture, expresses both disillusionment and exuberance and discovers beauty and disappointment in unexpected places. He has gallery representation in New York City, Scottsdale, Arizona, Aspen, Colorado, Richmond, Virginia, Kansas City, Missouri, and Milan, Italy. Founding Editor Dave Clapper lives in the Pacific Northwest and is a father of two. He created SmokeLong in 2003, and his fiction has appeared in over thirty journals. Except for production of the various pages of SmokeLong, he is largely retired from the staff, focusing more now on his work with Interrobang?! Improv. Interested in subscribing to SmokeLong's weekly newsletter? Click here. An email should be created. Send it as is, and you'll be subscribed. If the link does not work for you, send an email to imailsrv@smokelong.com with Subscribe slq-info in the body of the email (no subject is necessary). You'll receive updates detailing the release of new issues, new reading periods, contests, etc. We do not make our mail list available to anyone else.