Editors

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Editor-in-Chief

FRANK HINTON hides behind beautiful things with hopes that people will look there and admire the beauty of the thing and not s/he who trembles behind it. Frank believes in the magic within the mundane and feels fiction is just right for that kind of voodoo. Frank’s first novel ACTION, FIGURE is available from Tiny Hardcore Press. Frank’s blog is here.

Email: editor.metazen@gmail.com

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Managing Editor

CHRISTOPHER ALLEN is the author of the absurdist satire Conversations with S. Teri O’Type. When he’s not writing or editing for Metazen, he’s traveling. His obsession with seeing the entire planet is grand. He blogs HERE and HERE.

Email: christopher.metazen@gmail.com

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Editorial Consultant

RILEY MICHAEL PARKER is the fella in charge of HOUSEFIRE, the Metazen sister site, and the co-head of the soon to be launched Metazen book department with MZ founder with Frank Hinton.

http://www.housefirepublishing.com/

Email: riley.michael.parker@gmail.com

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Associate Editor

CAITLIN LAURA GALWAY lives for clear, lyrical imagery, gloomy seasides, and the overindulgence of her cinephilia. Most recently, she was the winner of CBC’s Stranger than Fiction Contest and Riddle Fence’s Short Fiction Contest, and was shortlisted for Matrix Magainze’s Litpop Award. Her work has appeared in numerous journals, and her first novel is set for release in 2013 with Aqueous Books.

Email: caitlin.metazen@gmail.com

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Associate Editor

LEN KUNTZ is a young boy trapped in an adult physique. He has a list of eight things you can never get enough of, chief among them being: 1.) music 2.) books 3.) films, and, 4.) photography. He loves writers, and is always a sucker for a catchy pop hook. He is not very clever, but he is always honest when he blogs at lenkuntz.blogspot.com

Email: len.metazen@gmail.com

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Reviews Editor

DECLAN TAN was born in Barking, Essex.

Email: tan.metazen@gmail.com

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Associate Editor

DIANA KOLE spends her time thinking about whatever city she’s recently left. She enjoys translation, particularly those words that are un-translatable. On occasion, she will write about cheap wine here (dianakole.tumblr.com)

Email: kole.metazen@gmail.com

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Associate Editor

JANEY SMITH lives in San Francisco, California. She is the writer of THE SNOW POEMS (forthcoming on NAP, 2012) and ANIMALS (2011). She is contributing editor at BIG OTHER.

Email: smith.metazen@gmail.com

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Associate Editor

SIAN S. RATHORE is a conceptual writer who writes criticism for Stride Magazine, is a serial blogger and has recently started to write for the Huffington Post. Her work has most recently been published in Bad Language, Cake and UP Literature. Sian likes to spend time relentlessly repeating quotes from her favorite shows and trying to convince fellow writers that typewriters are still cool. She can be found at okfinewhateverigetit and her twitter here.

Email: rathore.metazen@gmail.com

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Metazen Emeritus: Marcus Speh, Julie Innis, Sheldon Lee Compton, DJ Berndt

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Writer’s Block by JP Reese

The unfinished screenplay blew around his bloody Brook’s Brothers; the custom-made briefcase lay sprung near his hand. He was dead long before his head split like a water balloon on the asphalt. The Valentino tie was a complete loss.

You couldn't see the color of the thoughts he left behind to haunt the air-conditioned tenth floor, though Sally said on the TV that they were typed out neatly and left on his Mac in perfect shades of gray.

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He was way too serious about it, way too depressed. Benny called him, "the king of premature articulation." But hell, if you're going to admit it, guts and blood do tend to liven up an otherwise ordinary day.

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