Åsa Maria Bradley grew up in Sweden before landing in Texas where she discovered ranch dressing and Law & Order, still two favorite indulgences a couple of decades later. She now lives in east WA. You can find her work in
Wire Harp,
eWag,
Auntie’s Notes,
Inland NW Homes & Living, the
Bylines Writers’ Calendar and the upcoming collection
Female Nomad and Friends. Find out more at
www.asamariabradley.com.
Marcus Corder grew up not far from where he is now. There have been stops on both coasts in between, as well as a wedding, a fish that traveled through twenty-seven states, and some fantastic Michigan doughnuts. You can find his writing on paper, in digital files, and scribbled on the 3×4-foot whiteboard sticky notes on the walls of his apartment. He is the former web editor for
Willow Springs. Currently he is Senior Editor at Gray Dog Press, and also editor of
SpokeWrite.
tanya debuff has nothing against capital letters, but likes the way her name looks in lowercase. She is a sleepy mother of three, a resentful housekeeper, and a nonfiction student at Eastern Washington’s MFA program. She enjoys random noun/adjective pairings and hair flowers, and has a major crush on Snoop Dogg. In spurts throughout the day she is a medical transcriptionist, as well as an assistant nonfiction editor for Willow Springs.
Sam Edmonds was born Muncie, Indiana, and lived in Oxford, England, from time to time during his formative years. He scored a job slinging English to civil servants down in Santiago, Chile, back in ’06/’07. He now lives in Browne’s Addition, Washington, where he writes essays, bites his nails, and pounds cups of English breakfast tea before the soy milk has a chance to curdle. He’s enrolled in Eastern Washington University’s MFA program in nonfiction, though he has infiltrated enemy bases and become an assistant fiction editor for Willow Springs to gather intelligence.
Laura Ender is an assistant managing editor for Willow Springs. Her work has appeared in
Iconoclast and
Tomfoolery Review.
Scott Eubanks grew up in a foster home for children with developmental disabilities in Simi Valley, California, the home of the Ronald Reagan Public Library, the destination of every school field trip for a decade. He’s published short stories in the
Whitefish Review, and the
Yellow Medicine Review, and an essay in
Memoir(and). He lives in Spokane, Washington, with his girlfriend, 200 lbs of harmless dogs, and a tank of tropical fish that just refuse to die.
TJ Fuller is finishing his MFA at Eastern Washington University and moving to Los Angeles to work retail.
Carly Greenfield was born in Colorado Springs, CO. She is a recent transplant to the Spokane area she has enjoyed working as a fiction editor for Willow Springs and pursuing literary things. Carly enjoys the outdoors, books, happy music and dogs. Carly is working on overcoming fears of spiders and submitting biographical information.
Kathryn Houghton currently works as a technical writer for Eastern Washington University, and was formerly an assistant managing editor for Willow Springs. In her spare time she likes to play soccer, read about science, and watch kids movies. And write fiction, of course. Her favorite animal is the meerkat. Find out more at
kathrynhoughton.com.
Amaris Ketcham is an honorary Kentucky Colonel. She now lives in the Inland Northwest, and is the former Managing Editor of
Willow Springs.
Steve Knezovich can be found on the back porch of the East Coast (Pittsburgh, PA), where he serves as both the associate editor and director of mentoring at CREATIVE NONFICTION; he is the only fiction writer in the office. In his spare time, god willing, he freelances (book reviews, mostly, for Pittsburgh Magazine, mostly). He was a twelve pound baby.
Greg Leunig has lived in every continental US timezone. He has also done other, less interesting things. He likes science, fiction, and science fiction. You can probably find him in Spokane, at coffee shops or bars, staring at blank Word Documents or drinking.
Samuel Ligon is the author of DRIFT AND SWERVE, a collection of stories (2009), and SAFE IN HEAVEN DEAD, a novel (2003). His stories have appeared in
The Quarterly,
Alaska Quarterly Review,
New England Review,
Noise: Fiction Inspired by Sonic Youth,
Post Road,
Keyhole,
Sleepingfish,
Gulf Coast, and elsewhere. He teaches at Eastern Washington University in Spokane, Washington, and is the editor of WILLOW SPRINGS. Learn more at
www.samuelligon.net.
Amanda Maule left the northwoods of Wisconsin to study poetry at EWU’s MFA program. She is a former Assistant Managing Editor for Willow Springs and the outside center for the Spokane women’s rugby team. She has written reviews for DIAGRAM.
Adam O’Connor Rodriguez is a writer and editor based in Portland, Oregon. A graduate of Eastern Washington University’s MFA in Creative Writing program, he now works as Senior Editor of Hawthorne Books (
www.hawthornebooks.com).
Brian O’Grady lives in Chicago, where he is an optimization and campaign-planning specialist for a search engine marketing company, which is actually not a joke. He is a former managing editor for Willow Springs and writes fiction and nonfiction.
Brett Ortler graduated in 2007 with an M.F.A. from Eastern Washington University, where he edited Willow Springs and taught. He is co-founder and co-editor of Knockout Literary Magazine (
www.knockoutlit.org). His own work appears in Rattle, The South Dakota Review, Ascent, Nimrod and online at McSweeney’s, among other places. He recently embarked on a new series, “Letters to the President” in which he writes President Obama a zany, apolitical letter every few days. You can see them at
www.brettsletters.com. He lives a tad north of the Twin Cities and lives vicariously through Nick Punto and the Minnesota Twins.
Shira Richman currently lives in Denver where she is a student of the snow rodeo. She has been published in
Third Coast,
Spoon River Poetry Review,
PopMatters, and
Knockout, among other places and was recently nominated for a Pushcart. She teaches writing at the Colorado School of Mines and Front Range Community College.
Adrian Rogers usually works at newspapers, but she retires every once in a while, most recently in December. She is weighing literature-inspired names for her upcoming baby; it’s probably going to be Dr. Huxtable or Punky Brewster. Adrian grew up in Midland, Mich., home of the silicone breast implant. An MFA graduate of Eastern Washington University’s creative writing program, Adrian has published 5 million headlines, not a single one of them, she is proud to say, containing the f-word.
Melina C. Rutter could do pretty much anything right now and so she’s going further and further places.
Jason Sommer feels very strongly about the following things: ketchup has no place on a hot dog, zombies are the only thing that could possibly make jane austen tolerable, and life is too short for sh*t fiction or crappy beer. he’s currently in a trial separation with his beloved chicago, studying in the ewu mfa program and working for the superlative “willow springs” lit mag.
Shawn Vestal is a longtime journalist and writer who lives in Spokane, Wash., with his wife and son. He graduated from Eastern Washington University’s MFA program in fiction, has published some short stories, and would love to clean up the mess that is currently his “novel.” His blogging legs are new and unsteady.
Dan J. Vice grew up in Indianapolis, and now lives in the English Department at Gonzaga University, where he teaches college kids to read and write and is also Associate Director of the Summer Writing Institute. He is extremely fond of moving pictures, has no idea who won the game last night, and usually carries around the unshakeable feeling that he has forgotten to worry about something.
Jaime R. Wood is the author of
Living Voices: Multicultural Poetry in the Middle School Classroom (NCTE 2006). Her poems have appeared in
Dislocate,
Matter, Weird Sisters, Rivets, and
Juked and are forthcoming in
Four Branches Press,
DIAGRAM, and
ZYZZYVA.
When she’s not teaching in Eastern Washington University’s English department, Jaime is writing for
Willow Springs’ new blog
Bark, editing for Willow Springs Books, or lying comatose on her couch surrounded by five cats and her fiction-writer boyfriend.
