Contributors

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Nico Vreeland

Nico Vreeland recently graduated from the MFA program in Creative Writing at Emerson College. Along with Sean and Eric, he’s a co-founder of Chamber Four. He can be reached at nico@chamberfour.com.

Sean Clark

Sean holds a BA in English from Skidmore College and an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College. He lives and works in Boston. He is a site co-founder along with Nico and Eric, and can be contacted at sean@chamberfour.com.

Eric Markowsky

Eric Markowsky is a recent graduate of the Emerson College MFA Program in Creative Writing. He was the recipient of an Artist’s Grant for residency at the Vermont Studio Center this past winter. Along with Sean and Nico, he is a co-founder of Chamber Four.

David Duhr

David Duhr is Fiction Editor at Fringe Magazine, and co-owner & instructor at WriteByNight in Austin, Texas. He reviews books and literary magazines for a variety of publications. C4 is his favorite.

Mike Beeman

Mike Beeman is a recent graduate of the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing. His fiction and reviews appear infrequently in both online and print publications. He lives in Cambridge, MA, where he is currently writing the Great American Short Story.

Al Vreeland

Al Vreeland works as a therapist in Dallas. He is a practitioner of Tibetan Dzogchen, and he conducts workshops on shamanism and psychology.

Sara LeHoullier

Sara LeHoullier has a BA in English from Carleton College and is now getting a Masters in Sustainable Development from SIT Graduate Institute in Vermont. She has no permanent address and loves beets. She blogs at www.spotlightmadagascar.org, a site dedicated to news, stories and ranting about Madagascar, where she taught English in the Peace Corps for two years.

Heidi Suke

Heidi Suke is a Carleton alum now living in Seattle and working as an in-house rep for Costco. She busies herself with Bikram yoga and musing on the intricacies of her relatively banal life. She likes horror movies, red wine, and fashion.

Aaron Block

Aaron Block teaches in the First Year Writing Program at Emerson College, where he recently earned an MFA in Creative Writing. He enjoys jazz, comics, online jigsaw puzzles, and root beer.

Michael Hastings

(It’s a secret)

Adam Bloch

(It’s a secret.)

Marcos Velasquez

Marcos Velasquez clawed his way from the barrio using only one hand as the other was busy holding a picture of the Guadalupe.  He received his MFA in Creative Writing by the grace of his grandmother’s prayers. He is currently writing a book about his experience teaching in Belize’s only prison. The preceding sentence is actually true.

Joseph Croscup

Joseph Croscup holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College.  A former subsidiary rights coordinator at The Perseus Books Group and project engineer for a specialty foundation contractor, he currently resides with his wife and three children in Dedham, Massachusetts.

Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich is mildly annoyed that her left arm will make it into a book (The Word Made Flesh, Harper Perennial) before the rest of her. She is nonetheless plugging away at a memoir about a Louisiana death penalty case, which she began as an MFA student at Emerson College. Portions are forthcoming in Bellingham Review and Fourth Genre. Links to other work are available at www.alexandria-marzano-lesnevich.com

Paul Kirsch

Paul Kirsch is working toward his MFA with an emphasis in Popular Fiction through the Stonecoast MFA program. He spends his days mapping out conspiracies and battle tactics in a steampunk-fantasy realm that will one day see print.

Chase Hautau

Chase holds BAs in sociology and philosophy, which he earned at Wake Forest University.  He is currently living and working in New York, NY.

C. S. Clark

Christian Samuel Clark juggles two names adroitly, maddening his friends and confusing CD clubs when he was younger. He only has one BA (History) and no MFA, but does possess an MA in the highly practical field of Irish Studies. He eats the same thing for lunch every day and is awful at karaoke.

Alexander Reicherter

(It’s a secret.)

Kathleen Dacey

(It’s a secret.)

Shannon C. Walsh

Shannon C. Walsh writes poems and begins novels that she later turns into poems. Thankfully, her blogs stay blogs.

Kat Setzer

Kat Setzer received her MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College. After realizing that this degree isn’t terribly lucrative, she took up selling memberships at an all-ladies’ gym in Brookline.