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Emily Butler
As an elementary public school teacher, Emily has been teaching children to write for ten years, but this is her first published piece. Her greatest works are her two daughters and she hope to leave a legacy of stories for them. She was born and raised in Los Angeles, and plans on graduating from LMU in May of '09 with a M.A. in English, creative writing.
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 | Loretta Contreras
Loretta Contreras is a native to Los Angeles. She received her B.A. in Creative Writing from UCLA and she hates the sound that cotton makes when it rubs against cotton.
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Laurence Dumortier
Laurence Dumortier grew up in Paris and London and now lives and writes in Los Angeles. Her stories have been published in One Story, Spork, and The Kennesaw Review, among others. She is a founding editor of Cloverfield Press.
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Betzi Richardson
Betzi Richardson is published in numerous journals, including The Antioch
Review, The Truth about the Fact; graduating from LMU this
fall, MA English, Creative Writing Emphasis; and presented a paper on Jean-Michel Basquiat at the PCA/ACA Conference in
Atlanta, 2006 and will present the same paper at the Syn/Text conference LMU
2008. She published a chapbook in 2007 through a small press: Conflux Press, called
This Desert Inclination.
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Sarah Jost
Sarah Jost is a senior Theatre Arts major and English
minor at Loyola Marymount
University. Her one act play Trajectory is being performed at LMU Sunday
April 27 at 8pm. She is moving to London after graduation in search of
employment and inspiration. This is Sarah's first published work.
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 | Robert K. Smith
Robert K. Smith lives and writes in Los Angeles. His work blurs the line between fact and fiction while delivering forth the emotional force of poetry.
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Jennifer Welsh
A graduate of Purdue University, Jennifer is also the Producing Director of the Black Dahlia Theatre, named one of “a dozen young American companies you need to know” by American Theatre Magazine. Her television and film credits include production and post-production work for CBS, ABC, FOX, MTV, MGM, Fox Movie Channel, Oxygen and Paramount Pictures/MTV Films. The Twelve, her first non-fiction book proposal, is represented by the Levine Greenberg Literary Agency.
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Elizabeth Whitmore
Elizabeth Whitmore grew up in Texas, but left as soon as possible to pursue a B.A. in Creative Writing from Vermont College. She worked in publishing in New York City and Washington, DC before deciding that she missed living out west and returned to pursue graduate studies in English and Creative Writing.
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 | Rob Rabiee
Rob Rabiee was born and raised in Lexington,
KY. He has published music
criticism in The Brooklyn Rail and The Village Broadsheet, and short fiction in
Poor Mojo's Almanac(k) and on his mother's refrigerator door. He is currently
working on his first novel, tentatively titled "The Great Gatsby." He
currently resides in Los Angeles,
California.
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 | Michael Pettiti Michael Petitti was born in Phoenix, Arizona and is currently residing in Los Angeles. He has written music criticism
for the Tucson Weekly. He hopes, someday, to publish his epic novel: a 24-hour
Modernist jaunt through Dublin,
layered with classical Greek undercurrents. The preliminary title: Ulysses Wild
Dublin Hootenanny.
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 | Thomas Klepper
Thomas Klepper was born in Buellton, Ca. He has received the Padma
Sambhava Award for Literary Non-Fiction. He now lives and writes in Mar Vista, Los Angeles, California
with a cat that is not his.
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