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Susan Taylor Chehak, ZinkZine Executive Editor,  is a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers Workshop and the author of five novels, including Smithereens (a Hammett Award nominee), The Truth About Annie D. (an Edgar Award nominee and New York Times Notable Book), and Harmony (a Literary Guild Editor's Choice), as well as a book of nonfiction, Don Quixote Meets the Mob: The Craft of Fiction and the Art of Life.  Her short stories have appeared in The Chariton Review,  Sisters in Crime 5, and L.A. Under The Influence.  She teaches fiction writing in The UCLA Extension Writers' Program, as well as in the low residency MFA program at  Antioch University, Los Angeles and the Summer Writing Festival at the University of Iowa.  Susan grew up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, lived for many years in Los Angeles, spends as much time as possible in Colorado, and is now residing in Toronto.

Tom Chehak, ZinkVille Executive Producer, has been a television writer and producer in Los Angeles since 1978, when he took his first staff job as a story editor on WKRP in Cincinnati during its first year run. A vested member of the Writers' Guild of America, West, he has written, produced, and directed both half-hour comedies and hour dramas, including The Tony Randall Show, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Hunter, Crazy Like a Fox, Alien Nation, The Oldest Rookie, Key West, The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., and Diagnosis Murder.  He is Executive Producer of ReGenesis, with Shaftesbury Films, Inc., in Toronto.

Marilyn L. Taylor, ZinkZine Poetry Editor, teaches poetry at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, both in the English Department and for the university’s Honors Program.  She also leads poetry workshops at the Woodland Pattern Book Center on a regular basis.  Marilyn is the author of two full-length poetry collections and two chapbooks.  Her work has appeared in a number of magazines and  journals, including Poetry, (where one of her poems from the August issue was recently featured on their website), The American Scholar, Iris, Smartish Pace, and The Formalist—as well as several anthologies, including most recently the Academy of American Poets’ latest one, called “New Voices” — and Poetry Magazine’s brand new 90^th Anniversary Anthology.  Her work will be featured in  two European collections next year, for which her poems are being translated into both German and Russian. Marilyn’s awards include a Wisconsin Arts Board fellowship, an “Intro” Award from AWP, an Arthur Dakin Fellowship to the 1999 Sewanee Writers Conference, and an Outstanding Achievement Award from the Wisconsin Library Association.  Her chapbook, Exit Only, was the winner of the Anamnesis Press Chapbook Competition in 2000, and she also took First Place recently in national poetry competitions sponsored by Passager, The Ledge, and GSU Review magazines.  Her new full-length manuscript, Subject to Change, was named a Finalist in four national competitions during 2002.  Marilyn has  also been busy as a Board Member for Woodland Pattern, and the Council of Wisconsin Writers.  She was recently named Poet Laureate of the city of Milwaukee, 2004-2005.

Tara Ison, ZinkZine Contributing Editor and ZinkFest Artistic Director, received her MFA in Fiction & Literature from Bennington College. She has taught Fiction and Screenwriting at Washington University in St. Louis, Ohio State University, Goddard College, the UCLA Extension Writers' Program, and serves as a member of the core faculty at Antioch University's MFA Program in Creative Writing.  Her short fiction, essays, and book reviews have appeared in Tin House, The Kenyon Review, The Mississippi Review, LA Weekly, Another City (City Lights Books), Bestial Noise (Bloomsbury Press), the Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Jose Mercury News, and ZinkZine. She is the recipient of Pushcart Prize nominations, a Rotary Foundation Scholarship for International Study, a Brandeis National Women's Committee Award, a Thurber House Fiction Writer-in-Residence Fellowship, and two Yaddo Fellowships. A Child Out of Alcatraz was a CINCH Librarian's Choice Award winner and a Finalist for the 1997 Los Angeles Times Book Awards, "Best First Fiction."  Her second novel, The List, will be published by Scribner in March, 2007.