Southern Summer Comfort Book Tour

Chloe Caldwell is the author of the essay collection, Legs Get Led Astray (Future Tense Books, April 2012). Her non-fiction has appeared in The Rumpus, Nylon Magazine, The Nervous Breakdown, The Frisky, The Sun Magazine, SMITH Magazine, Jewcy, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, Vol 1. Brooklyn, Freerange Nonfiction and ,The Faster Times. She lives in upstate New York and Portland, Oregon. Visit her at www.chloecaldwell.com.

Elizabeth Ellen's stories have appeared in numerous online and print journals over the last ten years, including elimae, Quick Fiction, Hobart, Lamination Colony, Mud Luscious, Sleepingfish, kill author, American Short Fiction, and many others. She is the author of Before You She Was a Pit Bull (Future Tense), Sixteen Miles Outside of Phoenix (Rose Metal Press) and most recently, Fast Machine (Short Flight/Long Drive books). She lives in Ann Arbor where she co-edits Hobart: Another Literary Journal.

Mary Miller is the author of a story collection, Big World (Short Flight/Long Drive, 2009). Her fiction has appeared in McSweeney's Quarterly, Ninth Letter, American Short Fiction, New Stories from the South 2008, Oxford American, Mississippi Review, and others. She is currently a Michener Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, where she serves as Editor-in-chief of Bat City Review.

Donora Hillard is the author of the poetry collections Theology of the Body and Covenant (with Zachary C. Bush), both from Gold Wake Press. Her work appears in Pedagogy, Monkeybicycle, Hint Fiction (W.W. Norton), FRiGG, diode, Best of the Web (Dzanc Books), and elsewhere. She lives in Detroit while completing a PhD emphasizing poetics and postpedagogy at Wayne State University.

Kevin Sampsell is the publisher of Future Tense Books, whose authors include Elizabeth Ellen and Chloe Caldwell. He is also the author of the short story collection, Creamy Bullets, and the memoir, A Common Pornography. He lives in Portland, Oregon and also works as an events coordinator for Powell's Books.

Gene Morgan is one of the founders of HTMLGIANT, a blog and literary community. His writing has appeared in the print journals No Colony, NANO Fiction, and The Agriculture Reader, as well as online at ,McSweeneys.net and elimae.com. He owns/operates the store Settlement Goods & Design, and lives with his wife and children in Houston, TX.