JARRET MIDDLETON is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of Dark Coast Press in Seattle. He is the author of An Dantomine Eerly, a surreal novel that follows the last thoughts and memories of the Irish-American poet Dallin as he passes into death. The book was released in 2010 by Dark Coast Press. Jarret began ADE on a typewriter in a house with no electricity on Monhegan Island, eighteen miles off the coast of Maine. It was written and completed over the next four years while working horrific jobs, traveling, and living in New Hampshire, New York City, and Philadelphia. ADE is available wherever books are sold, including online at: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Borders, Powell’s, Indiebound.
He is currently writing fiction while outlining a second novel. He was born in Boston, grew up in New Hampshire, and lives in Seattle.
JENNIFER NATALYA FINK is the award-winning author of the novel Burn (Suspect Thoughts), which was nominated for The National Jewish Book Award, and V (Suspect Thoughts), for which she won The Virginia Healey Award at Georgetown University and was nominated for the National Book Award, and, most recently, The Mikvah Queen (Rebel Satori Press 2010), which won the Dana Award for the Novel and finished as a semi-finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. Stories from her story collection 13 Fugues (forthcoming Dark Coast Press, 2011) won or were finalists in: the Georgetown Review Fiction Award (winner), Glimmer Train Short Fiction Award (finalist), Writer’s Digest Fiction Award (2nd place), and Story Magazine’s Naked Fiction Contest (2nd place).
Jennifer is assistant professor of English at Georgetown University, and is the founder and Gorilla-in-Chief of The Gorilla Press, an organization that promotes youth literacy through bookmaking. She lives in Washington D.C. with her partner and daughter.
DAVID MICHAEL BELCZYK is a lawyer and engineer, a graduate of George Washington University and Notre Dame. He is the author three volumes of poetry, Sometimes Form, Sometimes Vessel, Call It Perpetual and (forthcoming) The Unexpected Guest on Culturatti Ink. David’s debut story collection Elynia and Other Stories will be released on Dark Coast Press in Spring 2011. The title story, Elynia, is a lyrically-charged debut that examines four separate generations of nameless characters whose varied struggles unfold in a kaleidoscope of human need.
David has lived in Washington D.C., Chicago, and London, traveled extensively in Jamaica, France, and the Mediterranean. He currently resides in Pittsburgh.
For more information on David Belczyk and to order his books, please visit davidbelczyk.com
