eFiction Vol. 06 No. 02

Arpita Pramanick is a final-year student of engineering and an occasional author. Her writings touch on history, memoir, social problems, and everyday life. She is set to self-publish her first book of short stories, Bound by Life, in June on Amazon Kindle. She blogs at arpitaapramanick.wordpress.com and also maintains a Facebook page, Fictionally Yours (www.facebook.com/authorarpita), to reach out to her readers.

Charles Hayes is an American who lives part-time in the Philippines and part-time in Seattle with his wife. Born and raised in the Appalachians, his writing interests center on the stripped-down stories of those recognized as being on the fringe of their culture.

William Masters is a local San Francisco writer. His stories have appeared in London, Paris, and America in Blank Fiction, West Marin Review, The Los Angeles Review of Los Angeles, Praxis, The North American Review, and Writing Tomorrow, and in War Stories, an anthology of stories by veterans. “Wash and Dry” is part of the unpublished anthology Portraiture: A San Francisco Story Cycle.

Jasbir Chatterjee began writing poems at the age of 15. A few of these poems are on her webpage at poemhunter.com (http://www.poemhunter.com/jasbir-chatterjee/). Her poem “The Delhi Metro” was published in 2012 in an Oxford University Press, UK, textbook. Another poem, “Cloud of Rain,” is going to be published this year by the Global Fraternity of Poets in an anthology of the Poetry Society of India. In 2010, she realized that all emotions could not be expressed as poems. This gave birth to a series of short stories, which she has posted on her blog at https://jasbirchatterjee.wordpress.com/10-2/. She works in Delhi in the automobile industry as a manager. She lives in Delhi with her husband, a theater artist, and an 18-year-old daughter.

Pushcart Prize nominee Frank Scozzari resides in Nipomo, a small town on the California central coast. His award-winning short stories have appeared in numerous literary magazines, including The Worcester Review, The Emerson Review, Berkeley Fiction Review, Tampa Review, War Literature & the Arts (U.S. Air Force Academy), Pacific Review, Eleven Eleven, The Bitter Oleander, South Dakota Review, Minetta Review (NYU), Hawaii Pacific Review, Reed Magazine, The Broken Plate, Roanoke Review, and Short Story America, and have been featured in literary theater.