Ozzie the Burro

Featured in One Dog Happy, Iowa Book Award Winner. This was from the Indiepalooza reading given at Powell’s Books on March 16, 2009.

Featured in Best New American Voices, 2008. Visit Elizabeth’s
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Also check out Cory’s material, via his website, craphound. Don’t let the name fool you! Cory is one of the leading innovators in new media and science fiction. You can also find his books in the Lit-Cast Amazon store, Overclocked, Down and Out in the Magical Kindgom, and others.

Scott Carpenter teaches French literature at Carleton College (Minnesota). Most of his creative work takes the form of short stories, but he is now completing a first novel called An Empire of Dust. In addition to fiction, he writes extensively on nineteenth-century literature and on approaches to reading, and he is finishing a book on frauds and hoaxes in French literature.

Diane Lockward’s second collection, What Feeds Us (Wind Publications), received the 2006 Quentin R. Howard Poetry Prize. Her poems appear in Garrison Keillor’s Good Poems for Hard Times and in such journals as The Beloit Poetry Journal, Seattle Review, and Prairie Schooner. A former high school English teacher, Diane now works as a poet-in-the-schools.

Bio:

Brian Oliu is originally from New Jersey and is currently receiving his MFA from the University of Alabama. His work has been featured in Swink and is forthcoming in the New Ohio Review.

From the Author:

Being a non-fiction writer, I struggle with the idea of memory in my writing, therefore I choose to frame the majority of his work in various computer viruses. I tend to envision the brain and the self as a machine, and feel as if memory is susceptible to the temptation of computer viruses (who wouldn’t want to click on something that promises to show Jennifer Lopez naked, or a surprising love-letter from a long-time friend?) The choice to have the computer “read” the piece came after having some difficulty reading my work in a public space as a lot of the works are highly visual. By having the computer read the work for me, I am able to portray the idea behind the piece as a whole (e.g. the use of repetition, jargon that would sound absurd if I read it) and have people hear it as it was intended.

Valerie Vogrin, is author of the novel, Shebang, (University Press of Mississippi, 2004). Her short stories have appeared or will soon appear in, The Florida Review, The Carolina Quarterly, Black Warrior Review, New Orleans Review, and elsewhere. Currently assistant professor of English at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, she is also prose editor of the highly-regarded literary journal, Sou’wester.

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