The Collective

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A.K. Mayhew 
A.K. Mayhew is a Twin Cities native working on her undergraduate degree in the suburbs of Los Angeles. She loves coffee, the color pink, and scary stories. You can find her on her blog Reading Through College and on Twitter as @akmayhew.  

Ashley Bethard Ashley Bethard is a writer and editor who lives and works in Ohio. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Rumpus, Hot Metal Bridge, Used Furniture Review and Sea Giraffe Magazine, among others. She’s the editor of nonfiction at Peripheral Surveys: A Postmodern Journal of Literature, Arts and Humanism and a copyeditor for Midwestern Gothic.

  Ashley C. Ford Ashley mostly writes non-fiction. She has been published in the 2011 Spring edition of The Broken Plate and will be published in PANK 6. She is a contributor at VouchedBooks.com & ChickLitz. She loves volunteering, camping, taking pictures, and finding old things that are still good.  

Athena Dixon Athena earned an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte. Her poetry has appeared in The Penguin Review, Pluck!: The Journal of Affrilachian Arts and Culture, Blossombones, Sea Stories, Blast Furnace and The Amistad.  

Bradley Warshauer Bradley Warshauer is from New Orleans and South Mississippi and New York, where he did the MFA thing. While working as a writer for a design studio and advertising agency in Mississippi, he likes to pretend he’s Don Draper, even though he totally isn’t. His novel 11th Hour is not at all indicative of his current writing, because it was published when he was 17. His blog is Ubiquitous Americana.

Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Brett Elizabeth Jenkins currently lives and writes in Minnesota. She is the poetry editor at Stymie Magazineand a reader for PANK Magazine. Look for her poems in Beloit Poetry Journal, Potomac Review, elimae, PANK, Neon, and elsewhere.  

Court Merrigan Court Merrigan has been published widely, including PANK, Night Train, Shotgun Honey, and Evergreen Review. You can find links at courtmerrigan.wordpress.com. He lives in Wyoming’s banana belt with his family and is working on a novel and a short story collection.  

Danny Goodman Danny Goodman is the founder and editor of fwriction : review, along with its sister blog, fwriction. He is a writer, editor, teacher, and highly-skilled beard trimmer. A list of his publications can be found at www.fwriction.com/publications/. He lives in New York City and is in need of a nap, like you wouldn’t believe.  

Dirk Walker By day, Dirk Walker works an unassuming blue collar job; but at night he’s a colorful radio employee and podcast creator. When he’s not playing Minecraft or quoting The Office, he likes to flood YouTube with videos and spin some of the funkiest disco the Bible Belt has never heard. You can follow him on Twitter @dirkwalker.  

Elysia Smith Elysia Smith is the lead fiction editor for The Broken Plate. Her work has recently appeared in elimae. She has traveled many places in her life but few have affected her as much as the city of New Orleans. She loves tattoos, cats, and boys who wear hats well.  

J. Bradley J. Bradley is the Interviews Editor of PANK Magazine. His recent publications include A Patchwork of Rooms Furnished by Mistakes (Deckfight Press, 2011) and the novella Bodies Made of Smoke (HOUSEFIRE, 2011).  

Joseph Michael Owens Joseph Michael Owens has written for PANK Magazine, The Rumpus, The Houston Literary Review, and for CELJ’s Best New Literary Journal of 2010, Grey Sparrow Journal, where he is a regular contributor to its “Man on Campus” section and as well as a associate editor. Joe lives in Omaha with five dogs and one wife.  

Kameelah Rasheed Kameelah Janan Rasheed (b. 1985) is a photographer, writer, and high school history teacher born and raised in East Palo Alto, CA. She is currently based in Brooklyn, NY where she is a co-founder of the Mambu Badu Photography Collective and a Visual Arts writer from The Liberator Magazine.  

mensah demary a regular contributor for PANK Magazine’s blog, Hippocampus Magazine, ArtFaccia, and Peripheral Surveys, mensah currently writes in Camden, New Jersey.  

Mick Davidson Mick’s writing skills were earned by reading a lot, and by writing almost as much. Some of his favourite authors are Cormac McCarthy, Borges, Garcia Lorca, Micky Spillane, Ursala de la Guinn, Laurie Lee, Marvel comics and Dr Seuss. Mick currently lives in the Netherlands.  

Nidya Sarria Nidya Sarria lives and works in Miami, Florida. She is the editor-in-chief of Side B Magazine, blogs at In the Lamplight and tweets at @nidyasarria.  

Noriko Nakada Noriko Nakada writes, blogs, tweets, teaches, and continues to use the Oxford Comma in Los Angeles. She is also the author of Through Eyes Like Mine, a memoir about of growing up multiracial in Bend, Oregon.  

Rebecca Haze Rebecca Haze is a writer and college student based on Worcester, Massachusetts. She has written for Art Faccia, The Nervous Breakdown, and Gender Across Borders. Her debut collection of short stories, ‘Lolita Go Home’, is forthcoming in 2012.  

Summer McDonald Summer McDonald might be described as an explicitly queer black Daria–but with better clothes. She’s a graduate student living in Chicago.  

William Henderson William Henderson works as a freelance writer, editor, and copyeditor, and is a full-time father to his children, Avery and Aurora. He can be reached by email or on Twitter @Avesdad.